So, the lead up to today has felt, to me, like waiting on the results of a tumor biopsy

literally

this is a thing I have some experience in but that is neither here nor there atm

will the tumor be benign or is it already stage 4?

it's a coin flip what it could be!

and it reminds me of when my dad died of cancer

(don't feel bad, he was an abusive sexual predator and the world is better with him gone)

But anyway, my dad refused chemotherapy

Because both chemotherapy and cancer are bad

So he thought it was a stupid choice

Instead, he opted to blow about $100k USD on this shit called "Phoenix Tears"

which is marijuana extract that is put into suppositories

I'm not 100% opposed to phoenix tears as it does lessen the pain of dying from cancer, but the problem is that the phoenix tears fan club tells people that the butt drugs actually literally cure cancer

and so instead of getting chemo, my dad 100% committed to the butt drugs

and it felt great and he was convinced it was working

and then he died

and the whole thing just now struck me as weirdly analogous to modern US elections

where Dems are the chemo, Repubs are the cancer, and the current crop of third party candidates are butt drugs peddled by grifters on to people desperate for an alternative

... yeah that's. that's it

yup that's it