I've gone cold turkey after decades as a news junkie. Being well informed doesn't do me any good. So I'm taking a page out of the MAGA playbook: Ignorance is bliss, and I could certainly use a little bliss right now.

TV news and late night comedy are off the table for me. I just don't want to hear his whiny voice. But I also don't want to see his orange face.

Does anyone know if Google News has an option of filtering out any article that contains the word "Trump"? That should protect me.

@ArtSmart Short answer is "yes" but like you I've gone cold turkey... and my stomach is finally unclenching... so I don't even want to chance checking how I filtered such things.

I do know there used to be a browser extension called "Make Trump Kittens Again" which would replace most of his visage with random cute kitteh's... that might still be around in some form.

I've survived Nixon, Reagan, both Bush's and Trump... we'll survive this for very surprising reasons, but we'll survive.

🙏🏼

@yohannon You say we'll survive, so I assume you're sure there will not be another pandemic. With RFK Jr in the picture, you can forget vaccines.

Russia has less reason now to attack us militarily because they've already conquered us with their number 1 secret agent in the oval office.

But if things really get bad, we in Houston would be a likely target for a Chinese nuclear sub attack. It would cripple the entire country's energy supply.

I'm hoping for a military coup d'etat at some point