We cats aren't in the habit of quoting Ernest Hemingway (we much prefer F. Scott Fitzgerald), but with rainstorms, floods, heat domes, sea temperatures, and other phenomena hitting us like slaps upside the head, we're reminded of this passage from The Sun Also Rises:
"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
It feels like climate change has been creeping up on us, until, in the last few months, it's abruptly here.
This week alone, in addition to the inundation we've seen in Vermont, New York State has had serious rainstorms and floods. And Montreal had a twister yesterday. You don't usually think of Quebec as Tornado Alley, do you?
It's easy to read about stuff like this and get freaked out and depressed. So let's accentuate the positive this Friday night, shall we? Here are things we're grateful for right now.
The planet's on fire, but Trump is not in office. Eighty-one million of us fired him in November 2020.
NATO has been strengthened, and Putin is just getting weaker. And oh, goodness — didn't Joe Biden prove during the whole summit that he could wear a tailored suit well?
Biden-Harris raised $72 million last quarter. That's twice as much as Benedict Donald raised (and most of his $35 million will go toward his legal fees). Rhonda Santis only raised $20 million, followed by Nikki Haley ($7.3 million) and Tim Scott ($6.1 million). Peanuts.
Finally, Mike Pence got hit in the head by a water balloon today. Let the rainbows begin. We cats PURR.
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