Everything is awful.

THANK YOU. I get the same feeling when people defend Trump’s insane activities as “well, he promised to do this in his campaign!” Yes. It was a bad idea then. It’s still a bad idea. Like doing something insane to keep a campaign promise somehow makes it not insane. This defense is not only perfectly circular, it…

They probably wish it would only affect women’s libidos, and just to prevent abortions. The sad thing is that this would be the ONLY thing ever, though indirectly, that they’ve attempted for abortion prevention. Baby steps (pun intended)!

Except in dreams we’re never really free, Ollie.

I’m with the VA and the dread here is palpable. Between Trump’s rhetoric about privatization plus his plans to dismantle the ACA (a lot of veterans receive healthcare through that now rather than the VA, so we’re bracing ourselves for a massive influx of patients we lack the funding to effectively treat) and his…

Well if it’s any consolation, I’m on Wellbutrin xl which apparently doesn’t affect your libido a whole lot but then again everyone’s body/chemistry is different.

The people over at Full Frontal were kind enough to leak the White House’s entire itinerary for the month:

“And Uncle Ben. Terrific guy, with some of the best rice you’ve ever had, tremendous rice. Shame what happened to him. We’re going to have to do something about Spiderman.”

God, I miss that show! So ahead of its time!

And apparently nothing to be gained from protest either. Basically this was Republicans saying “Oh, you’re going to block our nominees? That’s cute, we’ll just do away with the rules!”

There is literally nothing to be gained from any amount of cooperation.

Duckman, the cartoon that ran on USA in the mid-90s, had an episode with the premise that the cure for cancer had been discovered long ago, but the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies were suppressing it because cancer makes them so much money.

“We took some unprecedented actions today due to the unprecedented obstruction on the part of our colleagues,” Sen. Hatch said in a statement. What does unprecedented mean again?

“...and is being recognized more and more, I noticed.”

Also: he talks about Fredrick Fucking Douglass the way you would talk about the teenaged manager at the Quik-E-Mart. “Oh yea, Jonathan is doing an amazing job. Really great. Always makes sure the Slurpee machine gets refilled. Really excellent.”

Mine is pretty shot. My husband started taking viagra and a mood stabilizer, and I just got put on 2 antidepressants and anxiety medication.

Me too to both of your topics. My agency was pretty OK under Bush, but we’re kind of all shitting our pants at the moment (and we’ve historically had bipartisan support for our mission, but now that we do climate change research too... we’re probably fucked).

And YEP to the libido tanking. I think I’ve masturbated…

I’m thankful for being single right now, I can only get off once a week now due to this stress.

I am not sure what it says about me or the current state of affairs that I just kinda looked at this and went yup, violence, arrests, maybe deaths. I think I’m getting numb.