Do you ever feel like we're living in the most fucked-up episode of The West Wing imaginable? It's like every time there would usually be a beautiful Aaron Sorkin monologue that reminds you of the promise of this great nation, it's been replaced with someone kicking you really hard in the balls.
This week has been a veritable buffet of ball kicks.
Whether you're looking at the ongoing investigation into the possible treasonous acts of members of the Trump campaign, or the House's (sputtering, but still alive) attempt to take health care from millions of Americans, or the Senate's ongoing hearings on Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, as though Merrick Garland never existed... The point is there's a lot of terrible shit that's "ongoing." And yesterday Senate Republicans pushed through a bill that will allow your Internet provider to sell your browser history.
You know how you sometimes have thought to yourself that you like the Internet, you just wish there were a way that Time Warner Cable could make money by selling your porn-viewing habits to the highest bidder? What's that? You've never wanted that? Who would've thought? There is just absolutely no way that the porn habits of many of the 50 Senate Republicans who voted for this aren't disgusting and carry some dark secrets that they would love to keep private forever. But that's the rub here. Just like we saw during the fight over net neutrality, many of these senators have no idea what using the Internet actually entails. So rather than actually learning about the implications of their votes, they simply vote the pro-business side and call it a day.
