A silly joke until being on the right side of it becomes a loyalty test, like election fraud, Trump’s intellect, height and weight, etc.

The point of something stupid like this is the power he gains by making you agree to say it.

It shocks me that people don’t understand who he is. Ignorant yes, vile, bigoted, cruel, illiterate, all those things. But he is not domain-generally stupid: he is a terrible genius at humiliation, at breaking people, at hollowing them out.

It may not be work, finally. But he is better at it than any other living person.