Today in existential dread:

Above: The guy impeached Bill Clinton over
an affair while at the same time cheating on his
wife. Who was dying of cancer. Because morals.

Can I just...I'm having feelings. Specifically a feeling of existential dread. Sure, unity and moving forward and whatever, that's all great but goddamn, we really did get the short end of that stick, didn't we? Huh? We who? We us. The we that are the reasonable people that have just watched from the outside as the Republican Party deteriorated from an already unbearable assemblage of heartless fiscal conservatives and social regressives who loved bludgeoning the rest of us with how morally superior they are (but weren't at all), to whatever it is they are now. Which, I think is some kind of weird Trump worshipping cult. 

These are the kind of people who thought
Thanos had a point. Which, I mean, just use
the Guantlet to make more resources, asshole.

And I mean, what exactly did he do for them? Conservatives, I mean. Other then cost them the White House, the Senate, whatever respect they may have had left, and, of course, America's credulity on the world stage? Is it some kind of weird Malthusian philosophy and maybe they see the catastrophic death toll from his handling of the COVID pandemic as some kind of shrewd maneuver to make it easier to park? Was it his dumb border wall? Do they maybe derive sexual pleasure seeing children separated from their families and locked in cages?

Who can say? Well, you know what? I can, because why not? Yes, Republicans are incapable of reaching orgasm without first drinking the tears of children who have been forcibly separated from their parents. 

Pictured: Mitch McConnell responding to reporters questions about
whether or not he derives sexual pleasure from human suffering.

Pictured: Dumbs. Dumbs so dumb that
they can't even see how they're being played like
the stupidest fiddles in the ignorance orchestra. 

Don't believe me? Well there are plenty of reputable studies out there that prove that what I'm saying is true. What's that? Can you see them? I'm not the one on trial here. I think a better question is why do you want to see America fail? Yeah, you see what I'm doing here? I'm constructing a super subtle analogy for how it feels when the political right makes up some transparent bullshit and then repeats it until the dumbs take up the cause and say, storm the Capitol building. Some of them go to jail sure, but the guy most responsible gets acquitted by the Senate. 

What I'm getting at is that thanks to the former president, we now live in a country with millions of radical nationalists willing to die for the former host of the Apprentice. I mean, did you see the statue (below) from the Conservative Political Action Conference that kicked off yesterday? I think it's kind of telling that the Republican Party's response to their electoral defeats last November is a two-fold strategy that involves building a golden statue of the shitty conman who led them to said defeats and then trying to pass legislation to make it harder for people of color to vote.

Um...is...is this how he looks to them? All broad shoulders and flat stomach?
Because to the rest of us he's a punchy, slouching, septuagenarian who incited a coup.