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My America: A Check-in Before Hell Starts Tomorrow

The matchstick strikes at 11:00am ET 1/20/25

Anne Kruse, M.S.
5 min readJan 20, 2025
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As my day breaks tomorrow in California, my TV will be tuned to anything other than the inauguration of the beastly felon elected by a gaslit group of tweaked thinkers. The event will time stamp the start of people realizing the error of their agency. It will also start the countdown to 2026 when congress will hopefully flip this guy off.

Let’s remember, the only wall the felon was able to build since 2016 has been the one in the minds of followers between reality and their belligerent and angry refusal to hear even an utterance of truth. It’s truly astonishing how effective it has been!

Look, I didn’t like politics at all, but in 2016 we who care were forced to pay attention. This pissed me off to no end.

Rachel Maddow became a beacon of historical teachings and served as a touchstone for so many. The pressure gave her gray hair and a need to limit her on-air time to Monday nights. Now she’s being forced to drop her fishing pole and set aside her awesome future projects to man the ship five days a week.

I feel so bad for her, but I’m glad she’ll be there to synthesize the firehose of sewage blasting at every American. I started watching her after I saw a poster in the subway in…

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Anne Kruse, M.S.
Anne Kruse, M.S.

Written by Anne Kruse, M.S.

Writer, Career Psychology, Conveyor of humor, insightful absurdities, and some stuff we really should talk about. annekrusethewriter.com.

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