Storms Never Last...

 Hi.

If you take a snapshot of pretty much any time in history, you'll find storms, both literally and figuratively. 

But they never last, no matter how horrible, how damaging, how devastating, how figurative, how literal.

They never last. 

Never.

As Putin and his thugs continue to vomit their heinous, criminal, venomous, putrid hate all over Ukraine, we need to keep reminding ourselves that evil may win a battle or two, but it very rarely wins the war. The people of Ukraine are not defeated. They will never stop fighting to keep their independence. They will never surrender, they are incapable of giving up. We, those not living in their nightmare, can't either. It's easy to tire of hearing of the death and devastation. It's okay to be tired, but they still need us. Our support. Our help. We can't let them become a dropped news story. Ever. 

Surrounded by devastation and loss, this young Ukrainian woman epitomizes what it means to forbid Putin. Forbid him from robbing her of embracing her achievements. She is not alone. Her high school graduation will be one for the history books... in so many unwanted ways, impossible ways, in ways that will create lifelong scars.

Then, there was the first round of primetime hearings coming to us courtesy of the absolute dumpster fire that was the Donald Trump presidency.

This storm is wrought with slime, driven by both willful ignorance and flagrant corruption. From the outside looking in, it's truly mindboggling how close Trump and his gun-loving clowns came to pulling off a coupe! If they had had a functioning brain cell in the bunch, they very well may have made it happen. As it sits, they broadcasted their insurrection on live feeds, there are literal hours of footage from multiple sources, and there are emails, texts, and phone calls going back and forth among key players. Some, well, a lot of which are actually employed by the United States taxpayers. They were on the clock while they were committing treason. 

The fact that this whole situation needs hearings, and there are people STILL denying, and/or defending the deadly craziness that was Jan6/21, makes the rest of us shake our heads. How do you watch all of the video proof, read the texts, emails, phone call transcripts, and Twitter feeds, and somehow pretend that it wasn't exactly what it was? This, my friends, qualifies as a category 5 shitstorm, with downpours of delusion. 

This storm won't last either. There is just too much evidence. More than the minions need consequences. Every single person that owns a modicum of responsibility for this attempted overthrow of the government should be hit with at least a bit of the shit created by this storm, and then just to add some poetic justice, be wrapped in a rainbow flag on their walk of shame to comeupance prison. We have to believe that there are enough intelligent Americans left, that there are enough with a functioning moral compass, that there are enough who care enough to escort all those deserving delusionists, and master manipulators of smoke and mirrors, to the wonderful land of accountability. 

Then there is the storm of inflation. This is something that has hit the entire world. Gas, groceries, pretty much everything is climbing in price almost daily. For people already running out of money before they run out of month, it is becoming exponentially more difficult. It's no longer about tightening the belt, giving up the little extras, cutting the proverbial fat. No, more and more, the choices are between groceries and power. Gas and water. But this won't last either.

It's hard, especially after the last couple of years we, as humanity, have endured. It's a lot. It's finally safe to go to most places and do most fun things, but now we can't afford to do any of the fun things. 

It won't last.

Soon, these storms will pass. Yes, there will be others, but, seriously, I feel like with what we've collectively walked through in the last while... we got this. 

Nothing but rainbows on the horizon. Gorgeous. 

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May we all get through these storms. Period. 

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