this moment

“Is there *any­one* left in the ad­min­is­tra­tion who shakes their head when they hear [Trump] ram­bling in the Rose Gar­den like this?”
—An­der­son Coop­er, ear­li­er today

“No, An­der­son, we are down to Kool-Aid drinkers and next of kin.”
—Jim Acos­ta, responding

“Hear me out: A gov­ern­ment, but one that’s not filled with im­be­ciles who be­lieve pre­pos­ter­ous rubbish.”
—My friend Julie

 

Every­thing is right in my world but my heart is still break­ing be­cause noth­ing is right in the rest of the world, and this just kills me.

I am so ex­treme­ly grate­ful for every­thing I have but this is noth­ing like how I thought things would be when I was all grown up.

 

 

I say this with the ut­most sincerity:

The ab­solute best thing that could pos­si­bly hap­pen to the Unit­ed States right now is for Trump to drop dead.

Right now. Like, today.

Even if Biden wins in No­vem­ber, and we get Trump out of the White House by any means pos­si­ble, we have al­most SEV­EN full months left of that stu­pid fuck­ing ass­hole in of­fice, mess­ing up as much as he pos­si­bly can.

 

 

The past sev­en months have been one of the worst times in our country’s mod­ern his­to­ry and have felt like SEV­EN years.

I have no idea what the next sev­en are go­ing to be like but I know they won’t be good.

 

 

I just saw some­one say, in fa­vor of send­ing kids back to school in Sep­tem­ber, “Kids need ed­u­ca­tion and par­ents need daycare.”

And that sec­ond part speaks vol­umes about what we sub­con­scious­ly think of teach­ers in this coun­try and the qual­i­ty of ed­u­ca­tion our kids are getting.

 

 

In con­trast tho – also to­day – at the store:

Adorable, pre­co­cious lit­tle girl who couldn’t be more than sev­en, wear­ing a tiny mask just right for her.

Stares in­tent­ly at the mark­ing on the floor that says ‘this is a one way aisle’ and then goes run­ning down the oth­er one and around the corner.

Kids > adults.

 

—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. Top foto by mehallo.

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