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I just realized I haven't seen the American president say or do anything in months. It's been so nice

:very-smart:

So it's come to this, an edit: Sigh. I really didnt't want to have to walk y'all through this but it seems people are pretty stoked on getting this twisted and jumping to all kinds of conclusions. My original statement was simple, if a bit hyperbolic. I was trying to express the very tangible sense of relief I feel both physically and mentally at being spared a constant, daily or sometimes more frequently, deluge of hateful and regressive rhetoric and actions that subtextually and often enough openly threatened the wellbeing of people like myself and people I love. I feel noticably better having not been subjected to that spectacle since January.

:wall-talk:

However, people seem to think because I feel this relief I'm either willfully politically ignorant and ready for brunch, unaware of the lack of action or continuation of abhorrent domestic and foreign policy on behalf of the Biden campaign, or haven't managed to stay informed without the media circus that surrounded Trump. I find it shameful that the media doesn't use the time, space, and resources it had steadily dedicated to the personality antics of Trump for the interrogation and criticism of actual policy and action/inaction of the Biden administration. We are all well aware how dependant on spectacle the press has become. It's a tragic thing that the bombs in Syria or the hundreds of children in captivity are not constantly, and loudly, being discussed. I am not a Biden fan. I am not happy about what he both is and fails to be doing. It's just a matter of the alleviation of the very visceral stress that last bigot so regularly provoked in myself and others. What I was celebrating in my original post was the absence of the sound bites and face-pulling and performance that dominated so many aspects of daily life for so long, not that the Biden administration seems to be evading the sort of press and scrutiny they and any other political party should be accorded.

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But I also get the sense that some of y'all knew that and just wanted to be heard, so by all means, carry on I suppose.