Today in Birthday Schadenfreude:

Well, my birthday wish would be to switch over to the timeline where voter apathy and rabid-foam madness didn't condemn the country to the caprices of a deranged toddler and the wrecking ball of a privileged nepo-baby, but I mean, here we are.

Pictured: The President fewer than half of all Americans voted for, seen here
with a guy literally nobody voted for yet, somehow runs the country now.
Not pictured: anybody doing anything about this.

"It turns out he's really bad at negotiating.
Like, how is he even in business?"

-President Sheinbaum

It seems there's no amount of candles I can blow out that's going to alter the space-time continuum or even help break the hate-driven spell noted felon and winner of the 2024 Grover Cleveland Award for Non-Consecutive Presidential Terms has cast over the rubes of the red states. I can however enjoy some schadenfreude. Like Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rolling her eyes at Trump demanding the deployment of troops she deployed years ago and then pretending that he outmaneuvered her, or the Premier of BC banning liquor from red states only.

Above: Hillary Clinton giving a concession
speech after getting more votes than Trump.

While this shameless shameful joy is all I have to get by on, it's not really helping. Like, my trans friends are still being systematically erased. Anyone who isn't white is under threat of harassment and possible deportation, and an unelected tech bro and some sycophantic teens are accessing Americans' private data while cutting vital government services through an agency he just made up. Oh, and the Republican party is just sort of shrugging and going yeah, it's illegal, but something something mandate.*

Anyway, I know you know and I'm shrieking to the choir here, but I just wanted to say these things aloud...or type them aloud? Doesn't matter. I'm sure it'll be evidence at my trial someday before the House Un-Elon Activities Committee. 

"Have you no sense of decency...oh...or,
sorry, right. I forgot who I was talking to."

-the ghost of Joseph Welch

*it's not a mandate, it was never a mandate, and they clearly, literally don't know the meaning of the word "mandate."