This time of year, with the short days, can be kind of depressing regardless of what is going on in the world, but I’m finding it hard to take the combination of evil stupidity we’re being subjected to. When the response to 20 schoolchildren being butchered with a semiautomatic rifle is for people to run out and buy up all the available ammunition in the country and most of the guns, I basically feel like I’m living in a Funhouse full of sociopaths. The Republicans’ position on guns is merely an accurate reflection of that Funhouse.
I’m still mourning the Jersey Shore I have known all my life, and the Republicans won’t even vote for disaster relief. It’s unbelievable.
We’re about to throw two million people off of unemployment insurance in the middle of winter because the Republicans won’t lift a finger to help them or make a single concession or compromise on anything, despite getting drubbed in the last election.
I need cheering up.