That’s the name of my avatar, actually a detail from a larger imported paper collage by my lovely and super-talented artist wife Sharon, done in response to Bush’s response to 9/11 and dedicated to the immigrants that have made America great. It’s also what I’m doing a lot of these days. I’m an hourly dkos reader, rare poster and commenter (probably like most of us here), but I’ve just about had enough, and I’ve got to get some of this off my chest because I’m about ready to SCREAM. How about you?
First off, though, I must give heartfelt thanks to Hunter, Annieli, Aldous, my local MSP meet-uppers, all you other wonderful contributors (even showercap, a guilty pleasure), the amazing Charlie Pierce and Digby, the Guardian, theresistorscompanion and NPR for finding and publishing the truth, as hard as it is to hear. I can’t tell you how much your efforts mean to me and my wife and family! And Thank you, Kos, for this incredible forum!
Now this, and forgive me, it’s a bit of a rant, but a call to arms as well, and I really need to share this, my almost unbearable angst, with my beloved koz community, and if you don’t appreciate it or relate I will be off the front page in a few hours, but it will mean a lot to me. And there will be some swear words (not too many), so you have been warned.
I’m a pretty calm guy, very level-headed, but I am told my empathy level is off the charts, and I just don’t know how much more of this I can take; it’s getting really hard to go to work and pretend like what I do is important, and not talk about our national nightmare with everyone I see, and then come home and make dinner and get a couple of chores done and bills paid and watch an episode or two of Breaking Bad or whatever other good or mediocre streaming shows I haven’t seen before, and try to get to sleep and re-energize for another day of bad bad horrible fucking news.
Can you fucking believe this? I never imagined how destructive Trump and the republicans could be. It’s bad enough they are assaulting everything that makes America great in the name of making it great again - abortion rights, minority and women's rights, immigrant's rights. Giving away the store to the rich. Ignoring climate change, tearing up treaties, wrecking the stock market (and my retirement) with tariffs, threatening our social security, Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA, plotting the downfall of democracy with our enemies and obstructing our efforts to expose them? Ruining our great national parks, ignoring the cries of Puerto Rico and Native Americans. the list goes on and on. Lies, distortion, subterfuge.
How on earth did we give so much power to the president? How do we get it back?
Now they have the power to just lower the poverty line and boot millions off our safety net? Can you imagine the impact of this?
So if it’s like this for me, what can it be like for those of you whose work is to find the truth report it, and those who are in the party trenches and leadership? I can’t imagine what this must be like for Jimmy and Roselyn, Bill and Hillary, Barack and Michelle, and all of their good people. Horrifying. Do you really trust our constitution to save us? I’m starting to have my doubts. Do you really trust Chief Justice Roberts to think about his legacy? I don’t.
And where are you, Anonymous? We need you!
It’s now very clearly time to start impeachment hearings, Nancy; the electorate put you back in charge to root this evil out. It’s time to grab the pitchforks and descend on Washington in the millions! I was thrilled to read last week of the joining of BLM and several women’s groups, and I look forward to the impact of this, but we are in a crisis today and we need to be in the streets every month and I and my family are ready to get out there. Are you ready to join us?
We need to pound these horrible people with everything we’ve got every day until the election. We need to expose them and put them in jail and hang that millstone around their party’s neck.
Nancy, it’s time for you to smack the ground with your gavel/hammer and open it up like Thor for these criminals to fall into. You and the House have a constitution to protect!
One other small thing, and I haven’t seen this here yet but may have missed it, but as catchy as #fatnixon is, let’s not be fat shaming, ok? May I suggest #somuchworsethannixon?
OK I’m done. Thanks for listening/reading. This is so exhausting.