WCJ Holidays 2024, Part I

[kilroy]

This morning I was having breakfast and chatting with my dad. He's very much one of the "it's not going to be that bad" people. We survived the last Trump presidency and the world didn't collapse. There are still some people willing to do the right thing in government. The opposition aren't stupid. Good outcomes can still come from the ultra-rich and corporations as long as it's profitable for them. You know the type: smart enough to recognize the problems, but staying forcibly optimistic out of chosen ignorance.

My responses must have sounded a little shrill, but my dad probably doesn't realize that what he heard was me moderating my tone down from "internally screaming." When I hear any person-- Republican or Democrat-- say anything like "There's no way they'd do that," I have a visceral reaction. My gut clenches, my gorge rises, my blood pressure spikes. I want to physically shake them because of how wrong they are. I want to cry because that exact attitude is how we got to this point. I'm terrified of what happens when the enemy they actually does the horrific that. 

I wasn't expecting that first thing in the morning. Welcome home, me.

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[cereta]

I spent most of last night waiting to hear if Elon Musk had FUBAR'd by trip to see my 88-year-old mother (when the government shuts down, all government employee leave is cancelled). Trump isn't even in office yet, and he's trying to shut the government down. P has expressed just what you said here, except he says that when it does happen, he's going to turn to the people who voted for him and say, "This is your fault. You did this."

[kilroy]

I've been on basically a total news fast for the past six weeks, so I didn't even known about the imminent shutdown until dad brought it up. The whole idea of Elon being more intimately involved in government just gives me six kinds of shivers, but apparently that's the world we live in now.

And give Peter a solidarity fistbump for me. I support speaking truth to assholes.