It’s sunny today, crisply cool, and it’s one of those days where I didn’t sleep well last night, so today, my brain is not cooperative.

Can’t imagine why I couldn’t sleep, everything in the world is going so well.

It’s not a day I feel like getting into specifics, it’s not a day I want to pick them up and examine them, one by one, these disgusting globs of fascist recklessness, these fetid acts of cultivated inhumanity.

I am repulsed by other people who welcomed this into the world; I am disgusted by the ones who blithely watched it float by them, as though they had nothing to do with it, as though they have nothing to do with it still.

This didn’t just happen.

Millions of people made choices.

Millions of people are making choices still, every single moment of every single day. They could make different choices starting from any single second.

And they don’t.

We are here because republicans, and REPUBLICANS ALONE are cranking the machinery. We are here because REPUBLICANS and REPUBLICANS ALONE have strived for decades for this destruction and dehumanization and artificial elevation of themselves.

For this power grab that is the exact opposite of everything they’ve ever claimed to believe in.

Because republicans are liars.

They lie so frequently, so easily, so constantly you might wonder if they understand that there is such a thing called truth.

But now they want the government to regulate the smallest act of speech; they want the federal government to eradicate the rights of states; they want the courts to strike off the rights of the Constitution, bit by bit and swoop by swoop; they have quickly shucked off their sandwich boards calling for “freedom” for the fascism they were wearing underneath all this time.

Republicans could end the shutdown. They haven’t because they want to take your health insurance away.

We know that because they’ve tried over and over and over and over again.

Republicans could end this fascism in two swift votes.

But they won’t.

It’s all been a cover, it’s all been a lie and frankly if you’ve ever believed it, that’s on you for wanting to believe it. It hasn’t been covert.

It’s a simple stroll of logic from Point R to Point F.

Those people who tried to gaslight us out of what we knew to be true, what we could see and those people who tried and try still to normalize and minimize that which should never be either, you can try to tell yourself you carry no responsibility.

But your soul knows.

Republicans, your souls know.

They know.

And you have stained them in a way that will not come clean.

And with that, I wish you a Thursday filled with productive, righteous anger.

Have a great day.

Buy me a cup of coffee!