I feel really sad right now for all my friends who have kids.
Just imagine how this country this will look in a few decades, shaped by all the disgusting individuals lingering on the Supreme Court long after Donald Trump begins rotting away in the ground.
I hope I’m wrong. But, I’m probably not.
Were it possible for a human being to literally come unglued, I would have on the night of 8 November 2016. It seemed (at least to me) that a lot of people in my life were a bit taken back by how I reacted.
Because it’ll be okay, right?
I didn’t know HOW bad it would get, but I did know it WOULD be bad. I couldn’t have guessed all the specifics – that we’d be separating families at the border and putting kids in cages, or trying to deny transgender servicemen and women from serving, or that we’d put a man accused of sexual assault on the Supreme Court – I just knew it would be really fucking bad. And it has been.
So here we are: Brett Kavanaugh is now a Justice of the Supreme Court. Donald Trump is, unfortunately, still president. And we’re all hinging our hopes on a “blue wave” that may very well not happen.
Maybe people will be upset and angry enough to go vote this November, but then I look at that idiot Joe Manchin and I honestly wouldn’t blame anyone if they were drowned in apathy right now.
I don’t have any grand overall point to make or clever remark for this. It’s all just very sad and disappointing and gross.
Oh.
Lindsey Graham always looks like he’s trying to get kids to try cigarettes.
—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 © 2018 Emily Duchaine.
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