(Boiling pot on a stove, colorful background) It’s another gray one, though it looks less like rain, just general gloom, and I’m highly irritated today. Not over anything specific, but over everything.
Pretty much everything.
So proceed with caution, as appropriate, patience is thin. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
I feel as though the Harris campaign has awakened something in me, not just the excitement and joy to have Vice President Harris as our presidential candidate, but also a flood of other emotions, not the least of which is anger.
Not at VP Harris or Pres. Biden or even at the Democrats who turned on Pres. Biden in such a public way. At this point I don’t know how that all went down, when the plan was made or how, so I suppose they deserve some benefit of the doubt. We had no idea they were prepared to unify quickly; most of our concern centered around what happened if they didn’t.
And I understand why it couldn’t be made clearer, because if it was clearer to us, it would be clearer to republicans to plan for it. As it is, they were caught completely unprepared.
Which I do like.
But my anger is aimed at how normal it feels to have a campaign like Harris’. Which underscores how bizarre and irrational and nonsensical things have gotten. The level of normalizing of things and people who are not remotely normal.
A few weeks ago, if trump gave an interview like he did at the NABJ, the only thing the news would cover would be Pres. Biden’s age. As it is, if you google the topic, you’ll see headlines softening the beyond blatant racism and unhinged ranting he did.
There are also headlines about the journalists facing backlash for interviewing him, but very little about how he proved, in 35 minutes, the idea of him being in power is ridiculous. Media is worse than failing us; media is marching us to the gestapo.
To not present all of trump in that horrifying exchange is to try to make him more palatable than he is, and he is poison.
All the people who pretend he doesn’t mean what he clearly means; all the people who act like the things he says aren’t, each on their own, flooring and built of the most brazen bigotry, all of them have engendered in me a simmering rage that has only had the opportunity to rise to the top now that we can see a finish line, now that we can see what should be so tantalizingly close.
Now that we can actually hear the words of a real candidate not obscured by a media trying to play a shell game with the real problems.
Anyway, that’s it for me today, have a great Thursday.
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