mental health break, once again

but also some stuff about Donny Dumbfuck

friends,

it has now been six weeks since the passing of my wife Claudia.

continuing to write these daily posts has been for me an essential part of my grieving process. but every now and then, the profound sadness of it all becomes just too overwhelming — and so today I must give myself another day off.

let me once again take a moment to say thank you to the thousands of people who have posted, commented, private messaged, texted, and phoned to offer condolences. I love you all. I am blessed to be surrounded by an amazing, caring community.

thank you for hanging in there with me. see you tomorrow.

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but wait, before I take off — this wouldn’t be a real post unless it had some serious Donnyloathing in it, so here we go.

there are two items in today’s news that are so fucked up that I can’t let them pass without comment.

here’s the first, and it stars the limpest dick ever to wield the House Speaker’s gavel, Holy Mike Johnson.

“the president has done so much for the American people, and we want to honor him in some small way — some token of our appreciation for his leadership. and so tonight we have created a new award. we are going to do something we’ve never done before. we’re going to honor him with a new award. he is the suitable and fitting recipient of the first ever America First Award. that’s this beautiful golden statue here, appropriate for the new golden era.”

what the in the hallowed name of Performative-Dumbfuckery Jesus is going on here? give me one good reason for Mad King Donny to be given another phony award.

look at this stupid shit.

I know it’s supposed to be an eagle, but the nightmarish monstrosity looks like a winged godzilla. what in the actual fuck?

this is what Congressional Republicans are wasting their time on: another useless participation trophy for Dear Leader. instead of doing anything that would improve the lives of We the People, they’re ginning up useless trinkets for an infantile man-baby to proudly display in his vulgar Oval Bordello.

look, Donny — you want a prize? here’s the only one you truly deserve.

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here’s the other item, and I need warn you in advance — it fucking sucks.

check out this atrocity, and I really wish I were making it up: Preznit Fuckwit’s daily briefing on the don’t-you-dare-call-it-a-war in Iran is a two-minute video of ‘stuff blowing up.’

Each day since the start of the war in Iran, U.S. military officials compile a video update for President Donald Trump that shows video of the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours, three current U.S. officials and a former U.S. official said.

The daily montage typically runs for about two minutes, sometimes longer, the officials said. One described each daily video as a series of clips of “stuff blowing up.”

how fucking disgusting is this? Donny’s handlers have taken an unprovoked, unnecessary and illegal war in which innocent people are being killed, and turned it into content for our sadistic, television-addicted president to consume.

Donny’s a psychopath with the attention span of a coked-up squirrel. don’t try to get him to listen to your stupid facts about what’s happening in Iran — and for god’s sake, don’t expect him to read anything. he just wants to be shown his fucked-up highlight reel of shit that done blowed up real good.

it’s abominable. it’s disgraceful — and it’s all so eternally embarrassing. can you imagine any other world leader being so fundamentally broken inside that they need to be fed on a constant diet of other people’s misery?

lucky us. we live in the shittiest possible timeline, with the shittiest possible president.

shame on Donny’s flunkies for turning death and destruction into entertainment — and shame on Donny for getting off on it.

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that’s it for today, I’m outta here. thanks again for hanging in there with me. I promise you that I am taking my own advice: practicing self-care and doing everything I need to do to keep sane. see you tomorrow.

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here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.