The Looming Republican Failure

The outside temp was 16 (F) when I got up this morning.  We're not up to 17 (F).  Today is the first of three days in which our temps will climb above the freezing mark.  Snow and ice will melt.  That's a good thing.  Forecasters are saying we have another dip in the temperatures heading our way at the beginning of next week.  Rather than 5 days with daily highs only in the teens, there's only going to be one day.  We are almost halfway through winter, so things are bound to start warming up sooner rather than later.

Yesterday I worked a full shift.  Things were slow in my department, but people were buying.  The store will have made plan last week.  That's a good thing.  But, I can also tell you that corporate has adjusted our plan way, way down. Even though we are hitting our goal, it's not the goal that had originally been planned.  

The first draft of The Body in 4:4 Time will be finished this week.  This one is taking a lot longer than the others.  I honestly believe this is because we are living in the worst American shit show ever.  This is the greatest distraction of normalcy this country has ever known.  There is nothing even remotely sane about our day to day news cycle.  Slowly, but surely, even Fox Entertainment is beginning to understand.

I have friends who have been Republican all of their lives. They don't put a lot of thought into who they're voting for, they simply pull automatically pull the Republican lever when they vote.  They have believed that the Republican party was going to do the best for the American people.  They are now seriously questioning those beliefs.  They thought a Republican government would maintain the status quo.  Now, that is not even close to happening.  Many of them are realizing that the choice Republicans are giving them isn't really a choice, but an order.  Being that they are Americans, this does not sit well with them.  Having a wannabe oligarch dictating how they live their lives was not on their bingo cards, and as a result, many of them are simply not going to play that game.  Their duly elected leaders are stunned to find out that their constituents are objecting to the Republican mantra of "shut up! we're in charge."  This is what happens when you delude yourself into believing fantasies, like a silent majority of conservatives.  This map shows just how badly the Republican part has overstepped their grounds.

Even Republicans are refusing to have an authoritarian government.