STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THREE MONTHS

Lately, when I talk to other members of my Indivisible Group in Sherman Oaks, California, Ill hear them say something like: Geez, Im so exhausted from being enraged every day by the latest Trumpian outrage, I feel like I have to take a break.

Oh, wait, that was me. But a lot of them said things like that too.

It seems to me that most of us in the Resistance movement have reached a point wherein our new czar, Ivan the Terrible Haircut, and his rogues gallery of Rasputins have settled into a pattern: their madness has become tedious. Our current condition of nonstop political crises may never be the New Normal, but its certainly the New Normally Id Want To March On Washington About This But Ive Got To Actually Work Sometimes. I suspect were all asking ourselves things like:

How do I stay mad without burning out?

I cant focus my rage on ALL their transgressions of the past three months, can I?

Wait, didnt I just give money to the DNC and the ACLU? Or was that the DWP and UCLA? Shit

Well, heres my idea for a 2017 Progressives Mental Health Program. And Im a TV writer who hasnt yet flung himself out a development executives fifth story window, so clearly I know a thing or two about maintaining ones sanity. Its a four-step program (what isnt?):

1. Focus your anger on one outrage at a time.

2. Do something about it, no matter how simple or small.

3. Laugh occasionally (preferably in the direction of a Republican).

4. Get mad about something new.

So today, Im going to be outraged at

TRUMPS TAXES!

Yeah, that ones in danger of getting lost in the shuffle, isnt it? I mean, what with little things like conspiring with a hostile foreign power to usurp the democratic electoral process, actively destroying entire Cabinet departments, and denying the existence of science, its tough to remember that YOU PAID YOUR TAXES BUT YOUR PRESIDENT BRAGGED THAT HE DIDNT, PROBABLY CHEATED ON THEM, AND TOOK MONEY FROM RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS!!!

Sorry about the capital letters. And the exclamation points. You should see my keyboard. By the way, if your Caps Lock button is worn down to C ock its a sign you need to look into therapists.

Anyway, this would be a good time to move on to Number 2 of my Mental Health Program. Doing something. For example, per your Indivisible Guide, call your MoCs to remind them you havent forgotten that the American People have a right to know whether the most powerful humanoid in the world has committed a crime. There now, dont you feel better? Oh, and incidentally, So whats he hiding on his tax returns? and Oh, really? Then why wont he release them? make excellent Stump The Trumper questions when you want to end a conversation with your Uncle Dick.

And then theres Number 3. Laughing at a Republicans expense and at one in particulars expense account. For help with this, fellow Sherman Oaks Indivisibles member Ellis Weiner and Steve Radlauer have uncovered Donald Trump s 2016 tax returns. To discover whats on them, simply go here:

http://www.trumptaxes2016.com/index.html

Okay, maybe they made up some of it. But then again, in this bizarrest of all possible worlds, they couldve made up stuff and it might still turn out to be true. The main thing is, its funny and if President Resident Evil ever has it read to him hell stomp his widdle feet and shake his wee hands in fury.

So to recap our Mental Health Program:

1. One rage at a time.

2. Do something.

3. Laugh.

4. Get mad again.

Rinse. Repeat. Take back country.