From: Hermit Philosopher
To: Year 2020
Subj: You Suck!
Dear 2020:
First of all,
please note that I’m typing this with just my middle fingers, because that’s
how I feel about you.
You began okay,
I guess, but in March you started to turn sour and now you’re a total shit show.
We have wildfires throughout the West, flooding in the South, a pandemic of
historic proportions, protests in the streets over social justice, school and
business closures, high unemployment, and an economic recession – all of which
is exacerbated by there being a mendacious fool in the White House whose only aim
is to get himself reelected and thus feed his galactic ego. Until two days ago I
didn’t think things could get much worse.
Then Justice
Ginsberg died.
Her death threatens
to make a shambles of an already contentious national election. The Orange
Genius – who is not doing real well in the polls – is pushing to have a nominee
confirmed quickly, and his toady, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, agrees
with him. So does another toady, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who pledged his support
for Trump in “any effort to move forward regarding the [Supreme Court] vacancy.”
Oh the hypocrisy! This is the same Mitch McConnell who blocked President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland a full eight months before the 2016 election. And it’s the same Lindsey Graham who wanted to allow a vote on that nomination. He said at the time, “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.”
[Fact check: CSPAN, March 10, 2016,
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1307172635298725888?s=20.]
So, 2020, see
how screwed up you are? Fires. Flooding. Pestilence. Mendacity. Hypocrisy. What’s
next, locusts? I can hardly wait for you to be over. I’m going to stay up until
midnight on New Year’s Eve not so much to ring in the new year but to make sure
you leave!
