Is it too pretentious to launch this piece with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche? The German philosopher and cultural critic has been dead since 1900, but he’s totally in tune with the America of 2025:

“When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

I’ve been pondering that warning ever since Trump used an AI video to pilot a fighter plane and dump diarrhea on pro-democratic protestors. Permit me to update Nietzsche:

“If you choose to live in a sewer, the sewer will gift you its stink.”

How we devolved to the point where a president of the United States can basically crap on dissenting Americans is something future historians will study for eons (assuming they’re free to do so). The poop video is way down on the latest list of Trump perfidies — starting with the East Win

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