Six Things That Are Worse than Trump Winning the Election.

Hello.

1. The extinction of the dinosaurs. It was really bad. A comet happened, and then all vertebrate life died for the next million years, and then there was Trump.

2. The bubonic plague, which involved people being bitten by fleas and then dying in agony in their own poop, followed by the dreaded existence of Donald Trump.

3. Okay, if you were an employee of Erszebet Bathory (pictured, above), the 16th century Hungarian noblewomen who is said to have murdered her beautiful maids and bathed in their blood to remain forever youthful. Then, Trump.

4. Hitler.

5. Trump.

6. The great daddy longlegs invasion of 1957, which I remember with terror from my youth, when I was six. They were as big as my head.

I will be back tomorrow. I am not having a good week. I love and respect you all of you, and fear none of you, except one of you, and you know who you are.

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