So, for the record, I am very displeased that a bunch of people decided the first thing they'd do after Trump won was to go to this thread and try to start infighting. I kept to my word and I've banned everyone for a week who decide to shit up the thread before I locked it. If you don't see what I'm talking about, it's because I deleted those posts as well.
I am going to have to think about what we should do with this thread. All lolcow threads are inherently a place of criticism and we have rules against whiteknighting. That's just how the site works and that is how the site has always worked. We have a Culture of Critique and people on the forum have to respect that even if they like the threads's topic. The United States protects critical speech above all else and I try to provide for that.
A lot of what Trump did in and after 2020 was disorganized and foolish and merited discussion. There is genuinely a lot of things he did, from not pardoning January 6th protesters to rotting on Truth Social to trying to launch a fucking NFT, that is real retard behavior and that is why I've always tried to protect this thread from the mob of dumbfucks from A&H that have no concept of live-and-let-live.
However, he is now the President-Elect of the United States, and it's hard to see where this thread's place in the forum is at this point. Does executive privilege extend to the Kiwi Farms? Probably. While he's the President-Elect or President, anything he does is politics, and any discussion about him is good ol' fashion politisperging, which is not what the on-topic category is for.
I am leaning towards lock until he is out of office, but I will give it more thought. This thread would be a shitshow if I don't lock it now and I don't feel like moderating it and banning a hundred people, so until I make my decision at least it stays locked.