the wise monkey character in The Lion King tells Simba that the past hurts, and your options are either to run from it or learn from it and like MAYBE SOME MEMBERS OF CONGRESS COULD STAND TO WATCH A CHILDREN’S MOVIE

I truly don’t want to put a lot of pressure on “let’s look to the simplistic morality of children’s fiction to save us from this moment” because more often than not, that shit is also a mess, and reality is complicated in ways that should not be reduced to the damn lion king

but also my god this impulse to just close your eyes and cross your fingers and charge ahead to a magical fresh start of normalcy, I just cannot come to grips with how misguided it is

is it unfortunate that the new administration will have to spend so much energy dealing with the mountains of disaster caused by the last administration? yes! but that is the job!!

if you’re so worried about impeachment snarling up the early days of the biden administration one option might be to *deal with impeachment ASAP*