Wake Me Up When They Go-Go

So Tired Of All The Chumpian Bullshit

DON THE CON + TODD THE FRAUD

I woke up to the news that overnight the cowardly GOP senators in Washington, D.C., had confirmed Todd Blanche, Chump’s personal attorney and henchman, as the Attorney General of the United States of America.

Gross.

Apparently, the Senate held its vote quietly, late on a Friday night. Because why not? If you’re going to do something shameful, you might as well do it when most of the country is asleep and blissfully oblivious to the impending political shitstorm.

I’m sure worse things will happen by Monday, right?

I was so disgusted by the news that I threw my phone across the room, rolled over, and went back to sleep. Honestly? It felt like the healthiest response available.

I don’t know about you, but I am beyond tired. Tired of con men and women winning so often. Tired of grifters, opportunists, bootlickers, hypocrites, liars, and professional bullshitters turning public service into a vehicle for personal power and enrichment.

I’m tired of watching people who are supposed to represent the American people instead represent whoever has the deepest pockets, the loudest microphone, or the most power.

And I’m tired of pretending this is normal.

For all their faults, at least previous administrations and generations had the decency to pretend they weren’t selling us out to the highest bidder.

Now the grift seems to be the point. And the spectacle never ends.

When the so-called “Leader of the Free World” seems more interested in building an illegal ballroom, settling personal vendettas, or pointing fingers over a botched, rushed reflecting-pool restoration, you know we’re in trouble.

Deep trouble.

I try not to pay too much attention to what’s happening in the world. Not because I don’t care. Quite the opposite. I care too deeply. And my blood pressure is high enough without adding all of this bullshit to the mix.

There’s a limit to how much political stupidity one human nervous system can process before it finally says, “Nope. Game over.”

So I try to remain mostly ignorant. I try to remain relatively positive. I try to focus on the things I can actually control: my little corner of the world, my creative work, the people I love, the art I make, the stories I tell, and the occasional good thing happening somewhere beyond the political circus.

But sometimes the bullshit comes knocking anyway. Sometimes it kicks the door in. Sometimes it wakes me up before breakfast, makes me throw my phone across the room, and sends me crawling back under the covers.

And honestly?

I’m exhausted by the gerontocracy of grievance, greed, ego, and entitlement that seems determined to keep running this country into the ground.

I don’t need these old bastards to die. (Though I won’t mourn when they do.) I just need them to go the fuck away and shut the fuck up. I need them to go home already. To retire already. To get the fuck out of the way of progress already.

It’s time to make room for some people who still believe government is supposed to be about something bigger than themselves. Because I’m tired of waking up to this kind of shit. I’m tired of being angry. I’m tired of being disappointed. I’m tired of wondering what fresh indignity is waiting for us tomorrow. And the next day.

So, for now, I’m going back to bed. Please wake me up when they go-go.

Keep calm and protest on!
Clint 🌈✌️

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