Is That All There Is To A Country?
Apparently so.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Happiness … is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.” Even that cynical definition of happiness seems far off right now.
I’d already planned to take the rest of the week off for a quick vacation, but I’d hoped to leave you with something upbeat that I’d written while drinking something bubbly. Alas, that’s not to be, but I will have more to say next week.
It's definitely a good time to take a week off. Unfortunately a positive, inclusive message cannot combat racist scapegoating, it seems.
We left it all out on the road and I'm proud of you all. I said this election would reveal the fundamental character of American, and once it is fully over it shall.
Donald Trump is a decades-long, money-laundering, tax-dodging criminal and Russian asset that never should have been allowed anywhere near the White House, let alone the presidency. And would have already been in jail but for the failure of our national security agencies to hold him accountable. And that was before he sullied the office, continued criming, and then incited a violent insurrection in an attempt to overturn the election and overthrow the government when the country said, ‘You’re fired!’ He belongs in prison.