I'm about to become wildly unpopular ...

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155. ".....adjust their expectations to reflect reality in a more objective light", said the executioner.

It works like this. When one gets bad news, one can adjust expectations, or they can face facts.

Access the news, it's source and delve into its meaning in the near and far terms. Integrate all one's experience and memory into analysis, categorization and conclusions drawable. There should be no tolerance for equivocations based on the desperations of "hope" or declarations pasted together in fits of trauma. The process is endless and self-perpetuating, a source of limitless interest. Fun for all.

At this point its this:
A. Two , count 'em, two! Impeachment trials. Both of which, despite plentiful evidence and in the face of their gravity which threatens the longevity of our government and its/our prestige on the world's stage, were tossed aside by those persons, divorced from reality, revealing obvious political motives and a shamelessness unrivaled since 1930's Germany.
B. A 6/3 USSC is cobbled from a gobbledygook of Mitch's own rationale, making no attempt to bespeak the will of the people or the intent of the constitution in any way but as a macabre interpretation of some fevered dream. And these guys and gals are "termiteing" the main beams of civil and voting rights guarantees, leaving a pretension of legal malevolence not seen since the CSA.
C. Through the criminal denial, by TFG, of public health through a cohesive strategy, the nation, instead of leading the world on the edges of scientific innovation, is itself, nearly crippled in body and spirit, damn near into economic collapse by an especially vindictive and cruel campaign to confuse, divide and demoralize the citizenry of these US. Not even getting into the, goddammit I can't believe I'm even saying the words, DEATH TOLL.
D. Not least nor necessarily lastly, we have the unfettered and unrepentant bedlam of "conservative" double speak broadcast stirring up the "voting rubes" 24/7 on our "publicly" owned air waves and all we can do about that is kid ourselves that we're "just this close" to turning all this shit around.

And now somebody has their panties all twisted because we're not unanimously hell bent on fabricating some "understanding" of why a congressional committee charged with unwrapping a plot to overthrow the government has failed, even 13 months after a nationally televised (complete with high-lights, in-depth interviews and on-the-spot reporting) revolution, to jail a single ringleader. The time for prosecution is nigh. If the 1/6 committee is playing out the clock, waiting for the eve of the midterms to play its hand, then what truths will be said about the curious coincidence? If they wait until after the midterms, I KNOW what history might say. If we get to have a history. I'm all for cohesion. It's what makes election days so special, really. Meanwhile, let's leave the cry for a more sincere and spirited cheering squad on the sidelines of the courts and fields where children play their games.