What a narcissistic lunatic we are dealing with. He is still obsessed with the crowd size. He is still raging about the baseless voting fraud even though he had won. He is still insisting on building the wall that we—not Mexico—are going to pay for. At this point, this out-of-control, self-centered fascist could come up with any crazy shit and the top Republican leaders will go along because they are nothing but a bunch of cowards.

Dear Hiring Manager,

I would like to apply for the position of Alternative Fact Checker in the Fact-Checking Organization. The job descriptions and responsibilities seem to fit with my expertise and career interest.

I have over twenty years of experience in Googling shit. I am proficient in detecting latest alternative facts. Furthermore, I have deep passion for calling out bullshit. My online portfolio provides more details on my qualifications. For additional information such as educational and professional background, check out my resume.

Please consider my request for a personal interview to discuss further qualifications and learn more about this opportunity.

Thank you for your consideration. Look forward to hearing from you.

Mary Norris:

“Alternate facts” would refer to two facts in rotation with each other. They would still be facts. “Alternative facts” do not share that quality. They do not have actual existence. Alternative facts are delusions.

The world stands with us to fight fascism. Power to the people all over the globe.

John Cassidy:

On just his second day in office, the new President was dealt an unprecedented and massive popular rebuke. No longer can he claim that he draws bigger crowds than anybody else—or not in the way that he would like to make that boast. For years and decades to come, the sight of countless women (and men) walking, laughing, shouting, and singing in their pussycat hats will remain fresh in the memory. Indeed, it will go down in the history books as Trump’s first achievement. After just twenty-four hours in office, he turned many of America’s public spaces pink.

Amy Davidson:

As a candidate, he seized on the darker moments of the American past to turn voters’ discontent into disdain, their doubts into conspiratorial suspicions. His speech was a warning of how deeply he might be willing to divide the country in order to deflect attention from his own policy failures, and how dangerous the resentments he blithely plays upon could be.

Yesterday was a shitty day for America. Today her spirit has been uplifted. Thank you to everyone who has participated in the Women’s March. You have reinvigorated America to fight against an authoritarian populist. Even in the time of divisiveness, you have demonstrated that we are stronger together.

Tupac Shakur:

And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it’s time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies that make the babies
And since a man can’t make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
So will the real men get up
I know you’re fed up ladies, but keep your head up.

The Economist:

All populists are at heart conspiracy theorists, who pretend that easy solutions exist to society’s woes and have only not been tried to date because elites are wicked and deaf to the sturdy common-sense of decent, ordinary folk.…

This new vision for popular government, with its patriotism tests and demands for total allegiance, is not tolerant of dissent or even of those expressing qualms.

John Cassidy:

We’ve never had a President who has adopted the public persona of a professional wrestler, baring his teeth, railing at his opponents, and trying to fling to the canvas anyone he deems to have crossed him, even members of his own party. We’ve never had a President with a far-flung business empire that he has refused to give up, placing him, according to many ethics experts, in contravention of the Constitution. We’ve never had a President who seems to spend most of his time watching cable news and firing off salvos on social media. We’ve never had a President who openly expresses admiration for an authoritarian Russian leader while simultaneously pouring scorn on U.S. intelligence agencies.

Finally, it’s hard to recall a President who had such little interest, or expertise, in the details of governing.

Never my President.