What happened to doing the right thing? What do we tell our children when they ask us why we bother planning for the future? What can I tell my son when he says the world looks dark? "Don't worry, there are lights out there, but the people holding them are cowards"?

Do they not see the pain that the GOP policies are causing voters on both sides of the aisle? Are they just afraid of losing their job if they don't break their constituents? Do they just not care about suffering? Are the halls of power simply that toxic?

When will Senate and House Dems hold these assholes accountable? What galactic realignment is needed to get y'all to recognize that the stove that has burned you every time before is going to burn you this time too?

Seriously! I have family members and loved ones across the country, not just here in Maryland, who had their health, their literal existence, given up for a promise from a group who lie so much the only thing we can trust about them is they're. going. to. lie. to. us.

Oh, this will likely be months in resolving, if it ever does to one definite end or other

They have proven repeatedly that they cannot or will not. Nearly 25 years now they've immediately folded or actively gone to the right.

Fuck the lot of them. Fuck every coward who voted for this. And fuck whoever in the DNC keeps giving them money.

See, this? This would be an amazing first step to convincing me that Dems in power are at least getting spines on layaway, even if they don't fully own them yet.

Pull their funding. They clearly only care about money so make them hurt. And then primary the cowards.

Honest question: How can we ever trust Dems to push back? To work for a better world? Fuck, just to preserve what good we still have?

So far all I've learned in 25 years is y'all are Repubs wearing rainbow pins to distract from your missing spines.

Yeah, but what will you actually *do*? Dems have disappointed me my whole life with failure on top of failure. And now my trans friends and I are seen as something to give up to the Repubs.

Why shouldn't I vote Ind for the rest of my life after this Casey At Bat level diaappointment?

But what will you actually *do* now that the Dems once again shat on the national stage? How can we ever trust the party? Why shouldn't i forever vote Ind after two decades of egregious failures?

What actions will you show us? Not words. What will you actually do? Or will you fail us too?

But what will you *do*? What actions will you take? Why should i ever vote Dem again instead of Ind after two decades of non-stop failures? Your words no longer mean anything. Your actions are all we can trust.

What. Will. You. Do?

That's legit terrific, but why should i vote Dem next year instead of Ind? The party once again was called to stand up for the bare minimum and instead shat itself. Like it has for all twenty years of my voting life. Why should i trust the party ever again?

So basically non-stop anxiety has taken the place of my ideation-laced depression.

"Other than that, Ms Kennedy, how was Dallas?"

Oh, and i don't know how many teammates i can actually trust, plus a woman I've fallen desperately in love with has me in near permanent limbo because if her now trans and newly poly marriage falls through she wants to move to MD, but we both hope the marriage holds.

Wifey might have a brain bleed, work is forcing me to burn leave rather than allow WFH, kiddo is showing signs of depression, girlfriend is boarding a plane back to FL in a few hours, and I'm on night two of just a couple hours sleep

Fuck yeah, home baking!

Who, me?

Fuck off and never come back. You failed us by boosting that shitgibbon in the first place. You're out of chances. You and all of your colleagues.

I'm going to be trying to just survive the next four years. Paying for an antagonistic newspaper is laughable. I'd rather just set my money on fire.