As usual, what I started to write for my blog today grew much longer than I anticipated. It is overwhelming to realize how many things I’m sick and tired of. You’ll be glad to know that before publishing this post, I deleted several items.

I love my country, but it has gone off the rails in a myriad of ways. I’m old enough at 72 years old to remember the 1950s and 1960s. We’ve been through some contentious times in my lifetime, but the 2020s have a different feel.

We are in a whole different era of vicious name-calling and a whole different era of too many people thinking the only way to settle a disagreement is by using a gun.

Things are coming to a head on many fronts, and it is impossible to know what the future holds.

Here are a few of the things I’m sick of.

I am sick and tired and beyond disgusted at what the Trump Administration is doing to our country and the world. I’m sick of waking up every morning and dreading to turn on the TV or the computer and hear what he and his minions have done under the cover of darkness.

I am sick of seeing his orange face and hearing his word salad speeches that make no sense. I’m sick of him calling people names. I’m sick of his stupid red MAGA caps. I’m sick of seeing how he has defaced the Oval Office with gold doo-dads and gaudy picture frames. I’m sick of seeing the orange and white striped picnic table umbrellas and concrete he had installed to deface the White House Rose Garden.

I’m sick of all the misguided people who appear on news shows and defend Trump. I’m sick of the hate they spew. I’m sick of the smirks on their faces as they talk about immigrants as if they aren’t human. I’m sick of them saying it’s okay that there are more guns than people in the United States now.

I’m sick of all three of the men who “represent” me in Washington, D.C. going along with everything Trump wants, which makes them complicit.

I’m sick of the majority of Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court not standing up against Trump’s power reach.

I’m sick of the rewriting of history to fit Trump’s agenda and narrow views.

I’m sick of politicians like J.D. Vance blaming North Carolina Governor Josh Stein for the August 23 murder of Iryna Zarutska by Decarlos Brown, Jr. on a light rail train in Charlotte after Gov. Stein said we needed more law enforcement officers. Gov. Stein does not control how many security officers the private company that operates the light rail hires, so let’s not blame him for Iryna Zarutska’s murder just because he is a Democrat.

I’m sick of the Trump Administration taking advantage of Iryna Zarutska’s murder to take attention off the Epstein Files. The President of the United States is calling for Decarlos Brown, Jr. to get the death penalty. Since when is having Schizophrenia a capital offense?

I’m sick of Trump’s followers claiming that every Democrat is rejoicing in Wednesday’s assassination of Charlie Kirk and that they “should all burn in hell forever.” (Yes, that’s a quote from a Facebook post by a Christian I know.) Some of the loudest conservative talking heads were quick on Wednesday afternoon to proclaim that “we are now at war.”

I’m sick of the liberals who said Charlie Kirk got what he deserved. No one deserves to be murdered for their beliefs!

I’m sick of Trump only being concerned about “beautiful” women. He put his condolences to Charlie Kirk’s “beautiful wife” on social media, which tells me that he wouldn’t have felt bad for her if she were not beautiful. I’m sick of the demeaning language that Trump and his ilk think is the only way to refer to a woman because what else could give her value as a human being except her looks? Erica Kirk had just lost her husband and the father of their two young children. Was that tragedy made worse by the fact that she is “beautiful?” I don’t think her looks will ease her grief or magnify it. Few of us can imagine the depths of her grief.

I’m sick of him saying crime only happens in cities that have a Democratic mayor.

I’m sick of him saying the American consumer is not paying for the tariffs he has placed on every country in the world except the country he loves best: Russia.

I’m sick of him saying the abuse of teenage girls by Jeffrey Epstein and his friends is a “Democrat hoax.”

I’m sick of women not being believed.

I’m sick of people only getting upset when white children are kidnapped, especially if they have blonde hair.

I’m sick of white men, who have had privileges they don’t even recognize, much less acknowledge, saying that every woman of color who is educated and serving in a position of power is there only because DEI gave them a free pass. It is those white men who often got free passes into whatever career they wanted solely because they were white males.

I’m sick of politicians offering nothing but thoughts and prayers after every school shooting.

I’m sick of people saying, “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” It seems to me that guns certainly make it easier for people to kill people, and it is far too easy for people in the United States to obtain guns.

I’m sick of them saying Joe Biden was unfit physically or mentally to be President while Trump is in the background speaking unintelligently about who knows what and is unable to say a complete sentence or walk in a straight line.

I’m sick of them saying there is nothing wrong or alarming when the President of the United States says and then demonstrates daily that he wants to be a dictator.

I’m sick of them saying it doesn’t bother them at all that Trump pardoned the insurrectionists and cop killers who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

I’m sick of them saying it doesn’t bother them at all that Trump tried to get the State of Georgia to “find” him 11,780 votes.

I’m sick of them saying they think it is wonderful for Trump to militarily take over the country one city at a time in the name of saving us from crime.

I’m sick of the attacks on medical and scientific research.

I’m sick of the attacks on vaccines.

I’m sick of the attacks on public education.

I’m sick of the attacks on universities.

I’m sick of the attacks on the Smithsonian Institution.

I’m sick and tired of being lied to.

I’m sick of one hundred different curve balls being thrown at us every single day to the point that we cannot keep up with what is happening, which of our rights are being trampled, and which government program has been dismantled. It is exhausting.

After reading the above list, I hope you understand why I continue to blog about the Trump Administration and societal issues in America. I don’t enjoy doing it. Life is short, and there are many things I’d rather be writing about or doing.

I cannot see injustice, the failing of societal norms, and governmental wrongdoing and say nothing.

Janet