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Dog day doldrums

I am just so everlastingly sick of hearing Trump's odious, blustering voice. Of seeing his "Joey Tribiani School of Smell-The-Fart Acting" face, which I guess is his attempt at looking superior and statesmanlike. It's only marginally less intolerable than his "petulant hamster" face. Anger has its uses. We *should* be angry when we see injustice. We *should* be disgusted and outraged when those injustices are perpetrated in our names, in our nation's name, and called righteousness or patriotism. But when we've done what we can do, what we have the time or power or energy to do, and we still wake up every day to more and more proofs of his corruptness, his vulgarity, his incapacity to act like a grown-up human being, and we still wake up every day to more and more proofs of how sheltered we have been, as white people, as straight, as cis, as able-bodied, as citizens by birthright, as however many more axes of privilege we hold, unaware...it's mor...