Yes I do distinctly recall November 4, 2024.

No, sorry, I understand it was clear it could happen in the late XVIII century. Hence some definite effort to avoid bad turns. Hence engineering with care, hence maintenance.

Signals had been there. And the dangers were "known knowns".

I was thinking 2016 plus a few no-personal-repercussions scandals.

If USA can fund and support genocide just fine, is not letting some people into the country based on some frivolous reasons really that crazy a thing?

I'm not defending the position, but for a lot of Americans I think the emphasis is "it can't happen here."

Not sure what you mean by "here" and where you see the distinction. It's still in the "Americans doing bad things to foreigners" category. There's no distinction. It's just that rejecting some French on the border is just relatively minor bad thing, compared to materially supporting genocide.

I posted this previously as it's own thread but it got no uptake, but the sentiment is so appropriate here:

https://boingboing.net/2025/03/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-news-o...

Well, what do you expect for disrespecting America's monarch?