OMG Notorious D.O.G. is awesome! Would be an excellent sibling for Doggy McDoggerson

I probably should not be allowed to have pets

yay for good surgery and also for hugs

Yes, this.

Y'all, I just did a work thing that was a bigger challenge than I expected but explaining what it was and why it was hard to anyone outside my department might be a bigger challenge. I am trying to content myself with basking in the glow of a job well done but I would like an appreciative audience for my accomplishment maybe more...

Today has not been a great mental health day. Did not wake up with alarm. Did not get out of bed when snooze went off - draggged which set the tone.

Emails from boss about doing something I thought someone else should take the lead on since I have to ask a million questions to do it.

Email from big boss asking for update on doc. Last one I did was 7/14 and I had gotten no feedback on it, so I say that. She needs update of doc in her email by Monday. There are emails that may or not affect it that I have no addressed in another email box. An email box that 4 of us were told to address and it has become only me and again, involves answering questions I very often do not have answers to and do not know where to get them - so another million questions.

Feeling very much I know nothing, am being asked to do things I cannot do. Also annoyed that I had asked someone people in other departments for assistance and GOT NO RESPONSE which I tried to explain to big boss.

ugh wah wah.

Work over I watched Frontline on Alex Jones. JESUS H CHRIST y'all, I mean I already knew, but to see it just so succinct. We are a giant shitshow right now and I think we are going to get it for 4 more years.

I think we are going to get it for 4 more years.

The Princeton Election Consortium gives him basically a zero percent chance of winning, based on current polling.

Ugh on the work stuff, msbelle.

I am so afraid of the 4 more years, msbelle. And I don't know how to turn it into useful prep or prevention or whatever. I mean, here it is about 5 pm and I am ready to go to bed, so my ability to change anything seems pretty low

Princeton Election Commission gave him a less than 1% chance of winning in 2016 too, the day before the election. Their lead guy was the one who said he would eat his hat if Trump won, then actually did it.

538 on the other hand had Trump a 35% chance. They are who I will have some mild confidence in. But I would be shocked if we ever drop below a 20% Trump chance, which is still a solid 1/5, and the asshole is lucky a lot.

The Princeton Election Consortium gives him basically a zero percent chance of winning, based on current polling.

I worry what he will do if he figures out he isn't going to win. We have more than 3 months before the election for him to cause damage, then we have to deal with him until January no matter what. I've stopped thinking things can't get any worse, because I keep being proven wrong.

It would be great if he fled the country to somewhere without an extradition treaty. I'd be sorry not to see his ass marched to jail, but if it meant that he was gone and we never had to hear about him again, I'd take it.

I still think Trump has a very good chance of winning. There's still a lot of time before the election and if the COVID numbers start to get better, and the economic numbers sound like they are improving, then things could look very different by then.

Trump is going to have a ton of dark money on his side, Biden will pick a VP that can be targeted in ways Biden can't. Factor is voter suppression effects and I think he could easily get a slim margin in the handful of states that will actually factor in.

I keep thinking that, should there be a blue wave in November, it might be worth having all but a couple of the Dem senators, like, relocate to Honolulu to deny a quorum in the senate, so that they can deny a quorum, so that they can't do a big push of confirming 25 year old judges and bullshit like that.

But that's, like, 5 "what if"s down the road.

And RBG is back in the hospital. I do not like this at all.