"House Speaker Mike Johnson Sure Is A Scary Little Freak – SOME MORE NEWS"

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"Hi. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is not just a weirdo – he's also a scary little freak pushing an anti-democratic, Christian nationalist agenda."

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I didn't need to watch a Some More News video to come to that same conclusion (though I used the phrase "nightmare trashfire shitweasel" instead of "scary little freak"), but it's nice that there is a Some More News video that says that stuff (and much more), too.

Will be going down to Duke in the morning...

Just got a call from my brother about this, saying that he and my third sister (I have three sisters total, just to be clear, and the second one is already there) would be going to Durham tomorrow morning, just to be there to "make sure she gets through the surgery all right" (with the semi-spoken implication being that we'd be there in case she... you know... doesn't [for the fuck-all good that would do, even though I fully understand the reasoning behind it]), and he wanted to know if I wanted to go, too.

Here's the thing, my sister (the one actually getting the surgery) expressly told me yesterday before she left that she didn't want a whole lot of people down there when she got out of the surgery. On the one hand, I wanted to respect that. My brother said "yeah... she told me the same thing, too, but... you know..." and such. On the other hand, I'd feel like a real asshole if I was the only one of my siblings that didn't go. And, of course, I'd feel immeasurably fucking worse if I didn't go and the worst indeed came to pass (even though, again, me or anyone else being there in that case wouldn't help/change things at all).

So... I said I'd go.

Only mild-to-moderate quibble is that he said that they'll be here around 5:00am tomorrow to pick me up. Meaning I'd have to get up around 4:00am or so in order to be ready and awake(-ish) by the time they got here. To get a full eight hours of sleep by 4:00am tomorrow (which I almost certainly won't, no matter what time I go to bed) would require me to go to bed by 8:00pm today at the latest, i.e. a little over 5 hours from now. Well... it's just that "around 4:00am" is usually around when I'm going to bed, not getting up from bed (and last night was even later than that). So... just going to say, the rest of today and tomorrow is going to suck some hardcore ass for me from a purely physical perspective, even ignoring any mental aspects, just in general, regardless of any other considerations. Oh well, it's not the first time I've had to unexpectedly get up super early one morning after having been up super late during the prior 24-hour period. *shrug + resigned sigh*

If it sounds like I'm grumbling... yeah, I guess I am a little... but... this will hopefully just be a one time thing (heavens forbid it's not), and it is indeed a pretty huge fucking thing, so I guess I'll manage to muddle through it all, somehow...