[ethagnawl]

Fucking Hell. I need to stop thinking these things are exaggerations or hyperbole. In the past few days, I thought "MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW" and (now) "immigrant fight club" were the stuff of political cartoonists juicing the zeitgeist.

[roughly]

This is the other problem with this election cycle: Trump is saying truly deranged things, but they’re so far outside of what people think would be reasonable for a person to say that he’s not getting the kind of blowback for them he should be because nobody believes he’s actually saying them.

(A contributing factor is that he actually Has been misrepresented a few times by the media - the “bloodbath” comment was very clearly about the auto industry in context, so the right feels rightly aggrieved and the left & media lose credibility.)

[johnnyanmac]

Nothing new, sadly. Comedians during Trump's presidency were saying how they can't top the absurdness that was Trump's reality. Welcome to a slice of the madness they needed to parody somehow.

[aweiland]

John Mulaney's "There's a horse in the hospital" bit was probably the best take.

Warning, explicit language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZMxgPxXU