So, hi.

Gopher, huh? Go figure.

Anyway, I feel a need to write something, and don't want to do it in the usual
spots, for whatever reason.

It's July 17th, 2018. The President(*) of the United States has just returned
from Helsinki, where he gave the worst press conference in a long string of
very terrible press conferences. You would have to be willfully stupid to
believe his... they're not even denials, they're deflections, blatantly
obvious efforts to distract. Some of the most powerful, or at least
influential, people in this country (and a lot of the least) are evidently
just that stupid, though. Ryan, Rohrbacher, all the other completely
predictable co-conspirators.

The hell with democracy, because liberals are triggered. Lol, salty liberal tears.

Fuck that shit.

It is difficult to be simultaneously terrified and outraged. Well, no, it's
actually really easy. Read the news and don't be a self-absorved asshole with
a sub-par intellect. Bam, outrage and terror.

The problem is that it's fucking tiring. It's been over a year and a half of
growing misery, every moment of it exhausting.

I genuinely don't know what to do about it. "Stop caring" isn't an option. But
I'm one powerless person, and I can't do anything meaningful.

I don't know what the future holds. It's not going to be another Euromaidan,
some sort of Orange Revolution. This country is too docile, too demoralized. I
don't see any plausible, rational path forward to a near future that isn't a
dystopian authoritarian nightmare. 

Then, too, there's the question of... supposing the traitor-in-chief is
removed, by one means or another, and some sort of freedom restored to
America. What do you about all the red caps? About all the fascists? All the
racists, and xenophobes? The people who are fine with treason? The actual
collaborators? The Russian puppets?

I honestly don't know. But I can say this, the last year and a half have,
unfortunately, really helped me understand the ill blood between the sunni and
shia in Iraq. 

And that is perhaps the most terrifying part of the whole business. :(