So first he wants to back out of Syria

[conuly]

Which, okay, our presence there has hardly helped matters, but leaving without an exit plan isn't going to be an improvement.

And then once he was told he couldn't do that, he decided to bomb the hell out of Syria.

There's some sort of logic here, I suppose, but it only makes sense on Bizarro-Earth.

A great man said something about this situation once. What was it? Oh, yes: “The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not!”

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[alwaysbeenasmiler]

You know, when 45 rose to power; I suffered this massive bouts of anxiety-- and now almost a year later-- I'm used to it? It's like my mind has convinced itself that it's just gonna get worse and worse, no matter what, so there's no use in being anxious.

And people are still delusional about a great many things, and I'm just shaking my head because it's what they have to tell themselves to convince themselves that they are still good people, when everyone and their neighbor knows they aren't.

Arrrgh.

[isis]

What kind of weird time zone are you in - your post is dated April 16th! Are you journaling from the future?

[conuly]

Yup!

I used to go back and edit my entries if I skipped a day, but on the whole, posting from the future has turned out to be a lot less work.

[dewline]

Distraction, yes?

[conuly]

It is amazing what we can get used to. I'm not sure if this is the indomitable human spirit, or just survival-level ennui.

[conuly]

But who's the dog here?

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

I think it's a combination of both-- the need to survive as well as the little inkling of hope that's buried deep inside.

[alexseanchai]

I keep having massive doublethink. Like. Front brain carries on going to work and doing chores and creating art like nothing's wrong. Back brain has no mouth and must eternally scream.

[sabotabby]

It's almost as if Very Smart People can't solve the problem and the walking Dunner-Kruger Effect somehow thinks he's more capable than that.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

That is like the perfect explaination for it.

It's like the voice that is fated to be silent but yet is the loudest voice in one's head.

[mab_browne]

On a lesser but related note, once upon a time the Trans Pacific Partnership was a terrible, terrible thing, very bad, but now he wants into the clubhouse to spite China. I'm no great fan of the TPP but I'm still rolling my eyes at the idea that he thinks he can rejoin a complicated trade deal just like that.

[conuly]

Little known fact: That story gave me nightmares. So please let's never ever bring it up again!

*shudder*

But you know how it is. You can't be miserable and stressed and worried all the time. You'd absolutely snap!

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Rules are for lesser people.

(I'll be over here with Steve Rogers. Either the shield will cause a pocket or I'll take a direct hit.)

[conuly]

Well. I mean. That's what the Dunning-Kruger effect does to people.

[conuly]

I'm still hoping that once the strongmen are ousted worldwide the grown-ups will look around and agree on a do-over for the past few years.

[alexseanchai]

same tbh which is why it's such an appropriate reference

sympathy. *hugs?*

not sure I haven't snapped tbh

[conuly]

But sanity?

[conuly]

I just try not to think of that story, nor yet the world in which we seem to be living. When I find out who stepped on that butterfly, I'm gonna step on them.

[conuly]

I suppose it's marginally better than being paralyzed with fear at all times.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

_{Bruce! BAY!}

I'm still boggling that people believe he's great at business. Well, at snake oil. Totes tops. Very biggly.

How did comics not make hay of his appearance(s?) on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous?

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Sanity in a crazy world is no strategy. Pretty sure that's MASH. Might be someone else first.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

That's probably going to be GenZ, or how one of them has said, Generation Scapegoat. (As a GenXer, no one's going to make us grown-ups we're just standing around with keys and obscure knowledge like unplugging drains.)

[robby]

Wasn't it a response by three nations to a Syrian chemical gas attack on civilians? No casualties, but reportedly, Assad's chemical weapons capability has been crippled.

[rhoda_rants]

That's like the equivalent of licking all your toys after being told you have to 'share' them. That's the level of petty and childish we're talking here. Jesus fuck, we are all doomed.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Offers cordial cherries, stickers or um, sugar plum chibi Avengers.