Tag: trump
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: dear mr. trump :
It’s already been 97± days. Please, don’t forget to build your wall. Build it high and build it mighty. But don’t stop at the southern border, keep going. Surround America with cement and barbed wire, electrify every centimeter, add guard stations and land mines, spend trillions and zillions of dollars. Cost is no object. Put up a…
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: surviving a weaponized Liberace :
The constant drama and bomb-throwing; the tastelessness and ostentation; the hair-proud flamboyance; the glittery distractions. It’s too much stress for me. So I’m in a self-imposed exile from the Internet and television and DJT. I’m simply worn out. The fuming over foolishness I can’t stop and can’t possibly fathom is too exhausting. If the last…
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: don’t bother with long term plans :
We won’t be here long. In less than one week, a single unstable, self-absorbed individual has shoved civilization closer to annihilation. One person. Thanks to Donald Trump, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists today moved the Doomsday Clock ahead by thirty seconds. It now stands at 2½ minutes to midnight. The Republican Party, meanwhile, does nothing. They…
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a reminder: life’s still worth living
Dear Reader: Please bear with me, I had to get this off my chest. Now, I’ll pack up my rancor and move on, think about something besides the train wreck in Washington. I‘ll try, anyway. I promise. Right after I thumb my nose this one last time. Thank you for your patience. The Management And…
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: oh, crap, the year is ending :
Mayday, mayday, abort the landing. Turn around, I want a do over. As harrowing as 2016 has been, and it was a stark, raving disaster, I’m scared to see it end. Right here is a good place, cocooned in a harmless limbo. The campaigning is over and the upheaval hasn’t begun, so this is a…
the whirly girl 