The time has come again for me to provide the laziest — but perhaps most entertaining — form of journalism, namely, a list of the “best worst” takes on a given event. Today, it’s the inauguration edition. (For those interested, you can also read “The Best Worst Takes on the Debate” and “The Best Worst Election Takes.”) Naturally, all of the most unhinged opinions come from Bluesky, a platform where insufficiently progressive speech is censored. I hereby invite you to engage with a range of different perspectives, although I cannot promise that you’ll gain any valuable insights:

1. “It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.”
2. “These f***ers really confusing Asperger’s and Auschwitz today, huh?”
3. “There are only two types of political science professor right now: (1) those with a haunted look in their eyes, their voices sounding like they should really be speaking to a therapist instead of a classroom full of students right now. (2) absolute psychopaths.”
4. “When you were growing up, what did you imagine you would do if nazis invaded your country? That is probably still your best guide for what you ought to do now.”
5. “Textbooks are gonna get real weird about how they cover WWII now, huh”
6. “F*** this, f*** the news, f*** everything, I’m gonna draw sexy art and eat chicken nuggies.”
7. “Welcome to the class of Gaslighting 101. Take notes, it’s a four-year course.”
8. “In case you missed Carrie Underhood, er, Underwood’s performance. It was pitchy and uninspired. Consider yourself lucky.”
9. “Oh god, the Germans can see this, can’t they? Many of us are very very sorry.”
10. “As a reminder, it is always ethically correct to punch a n*zi”
11. “The purpose of yesterday was to frighten us to submitting in advance. I have my freedom of speech and I will use it here and everywhere else I exist online to make my voice heard. No oligarch, no president will silence me. So, be prepared for more Latinx books just as soon as my mourning ends, okay?”
12. “The next time a democrat politician asks me for money i’m delivering it attached to a brick through their bedroom window”
13. “We really can fight for Black rights and liberation, for trans rights and liberation, for immigrant rights and liberation, for Palestinian rights and liberation, for Indigenous rights and liberation, for disability rights and liberation, all at the same time.”
14. “We all need to introduce the words ‘segregation’ and ‘segregationist’ into our daily vocabularies.”
15. “All Republicans, Yes, Are Nazis.”
16. “Black Capitalism and Black Elitism will not save us. Black Capitalism and Black Elitism will not save us. Black Capitalism and Black Elitism will not save us. Black Capitalism and Black Elitism will not save us. Black Capitalism and Black Elitism will not save us.”
17. “If anybody ever had the reason to deem an election rigged, it’s the Democrats. Rigged by the Supreme Court who kept Trump from facing trial. Rigged by the oligarchs who own the mass and social media. But instead they went out and crowed about what a free and fair election it was.”
18. “Oh, I forgot one thing! As an Indian American, let me say this with my whole chest: f*** Usha Vance and her aspirational whiteness.”
19. “What kind of wine goes with the end of democracy?”
20. “if you voted for trump i hope that you die“