When I logged off Twitter on January 1, and declared this year a #Twitterless2020, my actual goal was that I would ultimately tweet exactly once all year: a long-imagined tweet, or brief series of tweets, on November 3 or 4, if things go as I hope. (Knock on wood.)
But this evening, as I processed the news of Mitt Romney’s stunning, principled vote to remove President Trump from office, I decided that I can live with tweeting exactly twice all year, instead.
I made the decision to interrupt #Twitterless2020 with that tweet to Romney because, reflecting on everything I’ve written since 2016 about the abject cowardice of GOP “leaders” in the face of Trump — beseeching them to stand up, at long last, for what is right, instead of failing (yet again!) this stark test of moral and patriotic values — the tweet felt necessary.
I mean it: this felt like, in some strange and previously unrecognized way, the moment my Twitter account has been building to, and longing for, and awaiting an opportunity to honor, for the last 3 or 4 years.
I realize that may sound stupid and overwrought. But I felt it to such an extent that my resolution to go Twitterless all year — which I’m *really* committed to, and which is going extremely well! — didn’t feel like a good enough reason not to tweet this.
So, I tweeted it.
This was my real-time explanation in my Discord server‘s #living-room:
We now return to our previously scheduled #Twitterless2020, already in progress. 🙂
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
P.S. I also posted this bit of adorableness on Instagram: