Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes

As it has been nearly a year since I last posted this here, and we have a lot of updates, I’ve decided to post this list again for those who are having a difficult time keeping track. Especially since the US has now started a war without even an AUMF before the editors have even had time to put up December’s update, I think it prudent to keep this at the forefront of our minds.

Edit: note that this is only for his second term. There is a link to the ORIGINAL “Lest We Forget The Horrors” at the top of the unending catalogue here, and that includes trump’s first term. I personally recommend downloading both as PDFs, since then they still exist if some fascist decides that this satire website is too zealously exercising first amendment rights and needs to be shut down.

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It was worth it to prove a point that Harris had to pass a purity test, but failed when she didn’t say something strong enough about Palestine. So worth it.

Yep. We didn’t get a perfect magic pony, so a lot of America just stamped their feet and threw a temper tantrum, because they had “send a message to the neoliberals and the shitlibs” or whatever the fuck and now we have Donvict invading Venezuela.

Nothing like getting government decided by a bunch of adult brats with oppositional defiant disorder.

So I was talking to my psychiatrist and I mentioned that I thought a third of adults display traits of oppositional defiance. She told me that it was only diagnosed in children. That’s pretty silly in my opinion.

Honestly, I think a lot of the field could use a reappraisal or more policing. Mind you, I’m a layperson, but it seems to me - from entire anecdotal evidence - that some people are not necessarily getting the help they need and seem to be entirely broken adults. They seem to instead seek out - and get - a permission structure to be their worst selves. In particular, people that are almost textbook cases of narcissists.

By this I mean that adults seem to shop around until they find someone that will do this for them. Not that the whole field is like that…but I don’t know that there is any mechanism in the field to counter this.

Anyway, I find it wild that it would be the case that adults are ruled out from having ODD? Does every child with ODD grow out of it, or do they get lumped in with some other set of behaviors?

Again, I’m a layperson, and of course labeling everyone that has a severe case of being an annoying contrarian on virtually every topic as having ODD is probably not accurate.

However: I think the people that think it’s a serious adult take to want the entire system burned to the ground and that all of America “deserves” awful outcomes if their single issue is not treated in the exact way they want or if they don’t get a perfect little pony for a candidate most likely have deeper issues. In no way should that take be considered the response of a healthy and well-adjusted adult.



Not american but if ‘lets not aid genocide’ is a magic pony level ask then you guys are already fucked beyond help.

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Genocide is now too far of a bar to clear for these people. If you’re anti-genocide you’re just an idealist.

Good to know that these people would be touting how moral they are in 1945 during the Holocaust.




I mean, the lesson is probably that it’s a good idea to have a primary instead of just letting a senile old man pick his successor.

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No no, they’re perfect and anyone who says otherwise who wants them to win is actually a trump supporter. They don’t like to win elections by having popular policies or candiates, you just vote for them without a second thought or an opinion.

This is such a lame attempt at a straw man. Fuck off, nobody thinks she was perfect.

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Yep, every time someone said she was going to lose for failing to be popular in a national popularity totally wasn’t mocked or banned on several .world communities. You got it.

1) I don’t know anything about what happens on .world communities, and don’t really care. 2) how does this mean people thought she was perfect?





Yeah. Biden fucked up by running again.

Voters sealed the deal though.


pretty funny the bootlickers are downvoting this, they don’t want real elections i guess

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The DNC has told them they don’t like primaries because the poors get a say in it. They’ll say show up in the primaries while they ignore results and tilt the scales.



It takes 6 months to run a primary, they had 107 days.

Now, we could argue Biden should have bowed out sooner, which he absolutely should have, but it wasn’t obvious to everyone until that shit show of a debate.

Even then, the debate was June 27, 2024 and he didn’t quit the race until July 21, 25 days later.

It was obvious to Biden himself during his first run. One of the promises he made in 2020 was that he wouldn’t run for a second term. He should have held to his word, and had a primary.

If Trump hadn’t run, Biden wouldn’t have either. He said multiple times he was the only one who could beat Trump, in fact, he was saying that as recently as after the election.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-interview-trump-harris-presidential-election-rcna186876



They had four years to figure out what to do with Biden.

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No no, planning ahead is bad. Especially when you promise to be a one term president and then turn your back on it. Like with codifying Roe v Wade. Or student loans. Or monthly payments to help with COVID. Or…


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@UnspecificGravity Maybe you all could've just voted against the Nazis even if you weren't super-duper happy with the alternative, huh?

The people who voted for Trump wanted Nazis and would have voted for him no matter who was opposing the ballot. If the Democrats cared to beat him they would have run a candidate that made people want to show up.

The Democrats made the same stupid mistake that you are making. They thought the trick was to get a candidate so bad that it might trick Republicans into voting for them.

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@UnspecificGravity Having to "want" to show up to vote against Nazis is the most pathetic narcissistic consumer-brained crap. You know that, right?

This is not a good look for you. To say that you have to be sufficiently bribed to stop Hitler: The Sequel.

And if you try to sputter that actually you voted for Harris, I won't believe you.

Yes, pointing out that the Democrats did a shitty job of fighting Trump must mean I didn’t vote. You are a fucking moron.

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@UnspecificGravity "the Democrats did a shitty job of fighting Trump"

Ever notice how it's only white people who ever say this? The same voters who failed the world's easiest open book test, because they were pissed about the cost of burrito taxis, or Liz Cheney, or Biden not ending the war in Afghanistan when he was vice president under Obama, or whatever other horseshit the Internet convinced them was so much more important than stopping Nazis?

I have!

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And now he’s moved onto me, how wonderful.


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Why be logical and sane when you can repeat talking points by the rich in blue flavor?

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@hatorade Why be decent allies against fascism when you can make unhappy noises about fictitious Democrats you've made up in your head?

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Because the people who I voted to stop fascism didn’t actually stop trump.

I voted for Biden to arrest Trump, he didn’t. He slow rolled his arrest and look where that got us.

I voted for Harris and she sadly lost because she didn’t want to have popular policies and said everything was fine while people were having issues with groceries bills (that have only gone up with Trump).

And every time I advocated for Harris to adopt things to help her win I was told we didn’t need to worry, they didn’t need to support the people who vote for Democrats, and cater to the mythical “non-Trump Republican”. By standing with the war criminal Dick fucking Chaney.

If the lesser evil is willing to work with the architect of the war on terror that killed hundreds of thousands and caused nothing but strife for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan (instead of the Suadis who funded Bin Laden, who just happened to help with oil for Dubya and are good buddies with Trump), they are the evil of 2004.

It’s better, but I have every right to demand better in the primaries (that they argued in court they don’t have to be fair) and use my 1st amendment rights before Trump removes them.

I know this is difficult to understand, but I can critique the people who say they are going to stop Trump’s fascism and failed to do so, without supporting Trump’s fascism ruining the lives of my friends and family. Criticism is how we get better ideas. Maybe we try some that aren’t from 2008’s politics.

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@hatorade It's actually incredible you're allowed to vote, since everything you just said shows a child's grasp of Biden's and Harris's platforms and how anything in our government works.

You're why our side is fucked.

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So no argument. Got it.

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@hatorade See how it's like talking to an empty toilet, hoping it'll vote?







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@UnspecificGravity It's okay. I wasn't expecting real, substantial ideas from one of you folks who only seem to exist to make unhappy noises about Democrats. The past five years have shown you all to be as two-dimensional as your Trump-supporting parents.











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The /s is definitely implied.

Poe’s law always applies in the modern internet. Everyone close your sarcasm tags!

Trump is such a stable genius

Aren’t you forgetting about Cole’s Law though?



It wasn’t 100% clear.

I’m the op, sarcasm was definitely intended. Thanks for the reminder that it’s not always so obvious on the internet







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