Everything is crumbling away
Her: You were a nerdy kid when you were younger? I don’t believe that.
Me: Do you remember the kids that never got picked for any sports games?
Her: (laughing) Yeah. That was you?
Me: No. I was the kid that those kids beat up.
Years ago, I told you about a legal saying that really changed how I looked at the world: Sine qua non.
It’s Latin for, “But for…”
Meaning, But for John losing his job, he never would have started drinking, which lead to his suicide.
Or, But for the girls’ bullying, Annie never would have changed schools.
Thought of that and Ruth Bader Ginsburg the other night when Trump won the election.
Ruth was asked – begged, really – to step down while Obama was president so that he could appoint a liberal judge that would protect Roe. And yet she refused.
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- But for that refusal, Trump never would have been able to appoint three justices to the bench.
- But for that appointment, the Supreme Court never would have been able to overturn Roe.
- But for that appointment, the Supreme Court never would have been able to expand the power the presidency for Trump.
- But for that expansion, Trump would probably have done his last few weeks of campaigning at the height of a trial for keeping classified documents.
- But for that trial being dismissed, Trump may not have won the presidency.
Couple her arrogance with that of Biden’s – who should have stepped down years ago to allow a successor that could actually be likeable enough to win – and here we are.
In the end, it wasn’t that the country voted for a complete pig of a human being…
…it’s that the Democrats were so arrogant they couldn’t even beat a complete pig of a human being.
And now – Ruth, Joe – how sad it is that everything you spent your life trying to help and protect is crumbling away by your own self-importance and arrogance.
There’s a lot to be said for accepting the world as it, not as you wish it to be.
And this is why I drink.
Location: the kid’s schoolyard, talking to his teacher, hoping they’ll all be ok with a gunman on the loose
Mood: carb-eating, rum-swilling, machine
Music: this song is about you, playa (Spotify)
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2 replies on “Oh, Ruth, Joe…what have you done?”
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I hate to read it, but I think you nailed it on the head. And objectively as the voting statistics roll in, it is becoming clear that voter turnout was much less this election than last. Meaning that it wasn’t so much a straight Republican win as it was a Democrat failure to show up and thus handing the victory over. Well consistent with voters being dissatisfied with their choice of candidate.
It’s annoying that it’s true but I do think it’s true.