gosh yeah too bad huh? absolutely nobody warned us

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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