45’d

Imag­ine wak­ing up and no longer won­der­ing “What did he do now?”

— Jer­ry Saltz (@jerrysaltz) Au­gust 3, 2020

There’s noth­ing that can be said about this sit­u­a­tion that hasn’t al­ready been said be­fore, but god­damnit I’m so tired of it.

I think peo­ple re­al­ly took for grant­ed not liv­ing in a coun­try run by some­one who is in the news every sec­ond of every day, and nev­er for any­thing good.

There were en­tire weeks that went by un­der Oba­ma that I didn’t hear his name. I could ac­tu­al­ly find peo­ple who didn’t al­ways have huge bags un­der their eyes. A cough or a snif­fle meant al­ler­gies or, at worst, a cold, and didn’t throw me into a pan­ic that I’d per­haps caught a dead­ly virus.

It’s easy to dunk on him in hind­sight. Hell, it’s even fash­ion­able. I don’t have some undy­ing love for the guy. He wasn’t per­fect, he was far from it. And we didn’t make as much progress un­der his ad­min­is­tra­tion as most of us would have liked.

But holy shit.

Dumb lib­er­als re­al­ly did
1)  take for grant­ed how good they ac­tu­al­ly had it, and
2)  un­der­es­ti­mate the un­tamed, im­mea­sur­able wrath of racist conservatives.

I saw a tweet the oth­er day that said, “So we all have to suf­fer and die now be­cause we had a black pres­i­dent?” and that just about sums it up.

Also, “Hur­rrrr de fuckin dur­rrr he used drones” lol okay Aster, don’t pre­tend like your in­ter­mit­tent paci­fist ass gave half a shit about that un­til .2 sec­onds ago. Go en­joy a craft IPA and talk about how Ben Gib­bard was bet­ter when he took drugs.

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2020 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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