There was no political news yesterday, so I shall ramble briefly about Trump's love of fisting

 Um... that came out wrong.  Perhaps I shall rephrase.  Nevertheless, nothing happened yesterday.  Regardless of your news feed, regardless of your watching/listening/reading habits, there is no news.  Nothing happened.  There were no events yesterday, so nothing could happen.  There are, and have been for many years, some boring, square-ish states in the middle of the country, where nothing ever happens, and every four years, the country pays disproportionate attention to one of them.  It never really matters.  Just ask Mike Huckabee, and all of the others who got nothing out of the nothing that happens there, but yesterday, really, nothing happened.  Remember, Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in either November of 2020, or January of 2021, depending on how we assess such things.  There is no race going on right now.  None at all.  There is nothing happening.  I haven't been watching polls, or anything.  Journalists ask me questions, and my response is that there is a 100% chance that Trump will win unless he dies, so stop it.

Now.  Trump and his fist.  I cannot be the first person to comment on the forward facing, raised fist.  Am I the only one who sees that and thinks about the black power image?  Trump cannot think that way because, well, Trump, but the image is exactly the same.  Why?  It is an image intended to convey some combination of douchey "strength" and a threat of violence.  A fist is a threat.  Yes, that's the point.  It's always the point.  It's the point for Trump, it's the point for racial power, it's always the point.  It's also just immature and douchey.  You can imagine Trump looking in the mirror at the gesture and saying to himself, "yes, I look strong!"  It is fundamentally no different from the douche who spends two hours using "product" to place every hair, while looking in the mirror, before heading to the clubs to figure out how to get laid, practicing facial gestures, listening to himself run lines, and then you realize that that douche probably does find some mark.  Is that the word?  It is for cons, and it's a con, so whatever.

Regardless, how do you not laugh at that gesture?  Who looks at that gesture and takes it seriously?  As opposed to seeing a guy who says, "I like fisting?"

Obviously, I'm going with Tool, "Stinkfist."  Live.  The studio version was on Aenima.