The Fool

FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war -- founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting -- such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.

Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

And the fools who follow him:

This is not a chicken-or-egg conundrum.  This is not some arcane, unknowable fact lost to history.  Donald Trump is nothing more or less than the latest public manifestation of the Republican party's soul.

And anyone who denies this axiomatic truth, or defects it, or otherwise tries to lead you to believe otherwise is lying to you to serve their own agenda.

Behold, A Tip Jar