The supreme court seats alone make this a tragedy, not as bad as if Pence were directly picking the seats, if only because I literally have no clue where Trump will go on them, so there is a chance he actually puts in something besides the most rootin-tootin-shit-kickinest abortion-hatingest stompin-on-anything-but-white-males-ingest hyperconservative justice possible, but that's small comfort.
The house and senate seats aren't going anywhere in 2018 or even 2020, if we start working on it now we might be able to get redistricting in after the census so 2022 goes back to something more representative of the demographics as a whole, here's hoping.
No, those are shitpiles we're just gonna have to stomp our way through no matter what now.
What sucks is, well, the President is supposed to be something you look up to, someone to act as our face to the world, and our face to the future.
For all the fake-cowboy derpism Dubya oozed, he was still a Bush, sure he wasn't his dad, and his dad wasn't Reagan, but they stood in the same rooms together. It was embarrassing watching him chew on lines and spit them out in fascinatingly jumbled up fashions, and it would be nice if he was respected for more than swagger and a trigger happy demeanor, but he, and by extension us, still had to be taken seriously.
Then Obama, he's charming, funny, a nice guy, who got Bin Laden capped in the head. That was nice.
Trump?
We're reduced to the meme-candidate?
That is our new face on the world stage?
He is what little kids are going to remember as their first president?
Fuck.