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.

Special Elections

Wow!  We're at 11 (F) and the day's supposed to get warmer.  We should have a Town Crier ringing his bell and crying Here Yee, Here Yee the temps are rising!  I do suspect, however, that good news would end up pissing people off this early in the morning.  Our temps are predicted to climb into the upper 20s (F) today, and above freezing tomorrow.  The long range forecast has us getting cold again, but again, that's the long range forecast and we know how inaccurate they tend to be.

Yesterday I worked.  One of my customers and came in a purchased an installation.   They'd bought a house that had been built in the 1970s and had vinyl sheet in the family room.  Unfortunately, that vinyl had asbestos in it.  In the 70s, before they realized that asbestos can cause lung cancer, they put it everywhere.  Remediation is expensive and can cost several thousand dollars.  For a while, I didn't think they'd purchase, but they did.

My new bread maker arrived yesterday.  It's a Cuisinart, the same stile I had for years, though this was has been update.  Sadly, because of my work schedule, I won't be able to bake a loaf until Tuesday.

As expected, yesterday social media was rife with comments about the most recent Epstein file drop.  While some of the files are stomach churning and a lot of unredacted information about the survivors was released. there was also some humor.  Elonia Musk desperately wanted to get an invite to the wild orgies and was, to put it bluntly, snubbed.  He's claiming most of the embarrassing emails between himself and Maxwell are fake.  As proof that his children don't like him, his daughter chimed in saying yes, those emails are his. How's that for disrespecting your father?

There were 2 special elections in Texas.  The one for Congress stayed Democrat.  However the special election in a deeply red, Republican district flipped in a landslide victory for the Democrat.  Alarm bells are going off.  I do believe there is a distinct possibility that Orangie and his team of sycophants will try to cheat.  They simply do not understand, or believe, that so many Americans can not stomach the Orange Anus.  Any interference with the elections will cause America to rise up and stomp the shit out of them.