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But it seems every hieroglyph gets whitewashed eventually
Overnight the weather has gone subtropical: I fell asleep after it was light out and even then we lay sweating on top of the covers while the air came in like heat-shimmer through the window fan and the cats tried to melt themselves into the hardwood. I have the blinds drawn; I'm drinking cold water even though it makes my teeth hurt. We need to get our air conditioner out of the storage unit and fast.
The twenty-four-hour news cycle has become more like twenty-four frames per second. Yesterday 45 claimed that "no politician in history has been treated more unfairly" (to which I found myself responding on Facebook, "Definitely not any of the asssassinated Presidents of the United States") while today he invokes witch hunts, of which again there has never been a greater victim than himself. I saw a macro of Joan of Arc last night: "Bitch, please." [edit] Points to the representative from Salem.
Here's what I hope: that Robert Mueller is honest, and good at his job, and has security who are the same.
The twenty-four-hour news cycle has become more like twenty-four frames per second. Yesterday 45 claimed that "no politician in history has been treated more unfairly" (to which I found myself responding on Facebook, "Definitely not any of the asssassinated Presidents of the United States") while today he invokes witch hunts, of which again there has never been a greater victim than himself. I saw a macro of Joan of Arc last night: "Bitch, please." [edit] Points to the representative from Salem.
Here's what I hope: that Robert Mueller is honest, and good at his job, and has security who are the same.
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I managed to get a replacement patch on in the accessible loo at my regular lunch place, not helped by the manufacturer of the new generic patches I'd been given being so cheap they don't even nick the side of the foil envelope to help you tear it open - I ended up having to saw it open with my car keys!
I've made that same leaving it late mistake often enough to know I'd be okay in an hour, but that meant my temperature regulation didn't start working again until after I got home, and not even driving with the windows open was enough to cool me down. I got into the house, changed into shorts, and collapsed in a puddle on the couch for four hours. At which point the heavens opened again, and it's still pouring 24 hours later. Hope that wasn't our entire summer!
As for 45, there's something very disturbing about watching a grown adult, never mind one in his position, throwing more tantrums than a 2yo spoilt brat!
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In today's failure to approximate spring, we had blasting, smothering heat that actually drove me out of the apartment and into air conditioning until after dark (we got our window unit out of storage tonight and it is clunking away as we speak, thank God) which then imploded into a thunderstorm shortly after midnight. I'm hoping it makes a difference to tomorrow's heat and humidity, but I'm not willing to put money on it.
I hope your thermoregulation has come back online!
As for 45, there's something very disturbing about watching a grown adult, never mind one in his position, throwing more tantrums than a 2yo spoilt brat!
People keep comparing him to a child, which I find unfair to children. Children don't know yet. Children can learn. A seventy-year-old man who has spent his life in the public eye has no excuse.
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After the brief flirtation with summer the weather here has settled on cold, grey and wet - more March than May. I'm not sure whether I envy you the heat or pity you the humidity.
And it is unfair to compare 45 to children, most of them are far better behaved than he is!
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The twenty-four-hour news cycle has become more like twenty-four frames per second.
HAH!
I bet at this point there's a contest between aides keeping his Twitter away from him and aides pushing the phone into his hands. Like a weird kind of volleyball.
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You know, there's a lot of jobs I wouldn't want, but "Official Trump Handler" has to rank quite near the bottom of the list. I hope it's giving all of them tsuris.
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The Salem representative made me giggle. Fingers crossed for Mueller.
(Unrelated: I've read so many good things about Kate Tempest. Time to take a listen!)
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Rain would be lovely. Last night it was so humid that I thought it might, but it was just suffocating instead.
[edit] It just started raining tonight! Thank you,
The Salem representative made me giggle. Fingers crossed for Mueller.
Thank you.
(Unrelated: I've read so many good things about Kate Tempest. Time to take a listen!)
I think you'd like her! I actually discovered her a few years ago with Brand New Ancients (2013), which I have read but not heard. Let Them Eat Chaos (2016) right now is the other way around.
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I just have my fingers crossed it carries the right people off.
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Your icon is perfect.
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FORTY-FIVE: "No politician in history—and I say this with great surety—has been treated worse or more unfairly."
GABBY GIFFORDS: "Okay, player."
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Nice/ow.
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He never wanted this job. He never, ever wanted this job.
If it weren't for the people suffering and dying because of his decisions and influence, I'd be laughing.
What the hell, I will still laugh. But in a bitter kind of way.
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Protip: never collude with foreign interests and domestic terrorists in pursuit of a job you don't want! Even if you want something that looks like it at the time! It never works out for anyone, except maybe the foreign interests and the domestic terrorists and I am not interested in their satisfaction!
What the hell, I will still laugh. But in a bitter kind of way.
Seems reasonable to me.