Day
84 of 1456 in trump's America.
I'll
be honest: when you take a week off from this shit, it feels really
hard to jump back on the wagon. I was barely staying on top of it
from a week to week basis. Now that there's twice as much as usual,
it's overwhelming. Add that to the fact that I don't even know what
these blog post are doing or what they're for, it can be tough to
keep your bearings. It's hard keeping your eyes on the prize when you
don't even know what the prize is.
And
you try to remind yourself that this is one of their tricks: throwing
everything at you all the time so you eventually get burned out and
let them roll over you.
But
I know the solution is simpler than I make it out to be. The initial
fault is with my method when I write these. I try to bash in
everything that's happened in the last 7 days down to one three hour
crash session, without any forethought, notes, or planned structure.
In one week – 7 days – that's 168 hours. At the rate this
presidency is going, that's somewhere around an average of 336 mind
bending developments of a deeper moral horror than most of us would
imagine we'd see in our lifetime.
So
as far as what to talk about this week, I'm not sure. I've had many
thoughts. Impeachment vs. Mike Pence. The Women's March, which was
quite possibly the largest coordinated protest in recorded human
history. The Muslim travel ban and it's respective record breaking
fund raising weekend for the ACLU (6 years worth of fundraising achieved in one weekend). More Russian developments, Godzilla movies,
as well as a comparison between Mad Max movies and jihadist suicide
bombers that's been itching my head for months even before I started
this blog.
So
this is my promise to you and me. I'm going to start writing these
things sooner than 9:30 pm on a Tuesday night. There's more going on
than I can siphon down into one shape in that small of an amount of
time, and it's not fair to me to give myself a stroke forcing it, or
you to put up with my panic attack ADD topic jumping. These will have
shapes and points now. It's been 70 days of practice. Now the wolf is
in the building. Getting our shit together starts at home.
