Shelter in Place Part 2

Here we are again...

I’m not sure there is anything more to be said about the most recent school shooting other than,
It’s the guns
It’s the guns
it’s the guns

(I haven’t seen the news today, so for all I know there’s been another one.)

I don’t have kids in school, but I have friends that do, and friends who are teachers. I wake up with the anxiety that something has happened since I went to sleep, and the possibility that someone I care about has been killed.

Because once that has happened to you or someone you know, you can’t ever stop thinking about it.

I really hoped that once TFG was no longer in office, that he would go away, and everyone would calm down to levels resembling normality. I would still find Republican policy ideas reprehensible, but I wouldn’t feel like my hair would spontaneously burst into flames every time I looked at my phone.

This has not happened. (TFG going away, as opposed to my hair combusting) Instead, as the potential indictments loom ever closer, he has thrown subtlety to the winds (ha ha! was he ever subtle?) and gone full on Kristallnacht.

I’m still here, still trying to shelter in place.

I was listening to Mary Trump’s podcast this morning and Jen Taub said something that made me sit up up and go, “Yeah that! Exactly!” She related how through all of the TFG’s years, her sleep was disturbed by the constant anxiety produced by never knowing what outrage was coming out of the White House next. (I’m definitely paraphrasing here. It’s not like I take notes when I listen to stuff) But after Biden took office, she was able to get some sleep. For a short while, a sense of sanity prevailed. But now, as he ramps up his campaign and becomes more unhinged every day she mentioned that she was once again having trouble sleeping because of the increasing threat of violence he inspires.

I’m glad on the one hand, that I am not imagining things, on the other hand, I would rather imagine tables of cuppycakes and some toddler pandas to play with.

The House of Representatives is now populated by cruel people, people who will lie to your face (or at least the news cameras) about what President Biden is doing and what they will do in opposition.

How can they say the revere the sanctity of life (in the form of abortion restrictions) and then make it easier for people to have guns to kill children in schools? How can they say they want to decrease the deficit and inflation, and then propose laws to make things more expensive for you and I, while giving the wealthy and corporations a pass on paying their fair share?

I swore to myself I would stop writing these depressing posts, but…oopsie?

Here’s a little Panda humor to make up for it:

Here’s what I’m reading and listening to:

(On Substack)
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters From an American
Joyce Vance: Civil Discourse
Jeff Tiedrich: Everyone is Entitled to My Own Opinion
Hoarse Whisperings
Bess Kalb: The Grudge Report
Jen Taub: Follow the Money

(On the Pods)
#SistersInLaw
Pod Save America
The Mary Trump Show
Booked Up (Jen Taub)
Now and Then (Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman)
The Randy Rainbow Podcast (Because fun!)

Oh yeah! Don’t forget to buy my book! The most fun book about TFG’s reign of terror and the only one with pandas!

Till next time!