I keep reminding myself that her stubbornness will likely serve her well later in life.

That's how it worked with Emmett!

But there's a reason there's a ten year gap between kids because that shit is exhausting.

Things I said outloud at work today (once all the Trump voters were gone) - this is why I can't have guns, because I am really tempted to just go kill some people right now.

Y'all we are seeing some real evil right now. I'm gonna need some stringer meds, because I can feel the spiral starting. This is a crisis, like how am I supposed to work right now? I feel like I should maybe smuggle some people into my home and hide them out. Also? maybe move to Scandinavia.

Today, I hit my I-can't-even point with the Trump administration literally putting kids in cages.

I can't believe I even typed that sentence.

If other countries got together behind our back and decided to invade us over this shit, I would fly their goddamn flags on my porch. Because fuck the United States. We are monsters. And I mean "we", because I voted for Clinton but I can't keep babies out of cages. Canada should bomb the hell out of us, and more power to them.

Yeah, if a platoon came by my house flying the Maple Leaf, I'd breathe a "Oh, thank god. God save the Queen."

I have some close friends whose parents are ardent Trump supporters.

So I've spent the last half hour imagining punching septugenarians in the face, and ripping out their oxygen cannulas. Die you horrible old racist fucks.

My enemy lives under my flag.

Canada needs to sack the White House again.

It's unexpectedly hitting one of my triggers (which I mean in the clinical sense, not "oh, that makes me sad"), so I'm admittedly not rational about it. But then I also think there is no possible rational reaction to kids in cages.

I have some close friends whose parents are ardent Trump supporters.

Tim's dad has found himself a girlfriend at his assisted living facility, which would otherwise be fucking adorable, because she is a sharp-tongued, extremely intelligent, suffers-no-fools lady from Boston. But she seems to be the only Republican from Boston I've ever met, because I had to sit at dinner one night and listen to Jack and Millie talk about how much they love Trump. (One of the other ladies at the table, Edith, who had also seemed like she might be sweet on Jack, started rolling her eyes at the Trump talk and looked like she was going to stab him with a fork, so *that* romance never got off the ground. Edith is now my BFF there.)

It feels like Fox News has ruined a good chunk of a whole generation.

I just get ideological whiplash with it all. One minute Republicans are all "family values, think of the children" and the next they're "kids in cages is a perfectly reasonable response to people fleeing persecution." (They use to have reservations about Russia, too, but that's another issue.) I guess children only count with Republicans if they're white.