Celebrating six years of cussin’ and resistin’

Thank you for helping us get through terrible days like yesterday and probably today

Well yesterday sure blew!

We couldn’t be more ashamed to be Americans if Trump was wearing the American flag as a fucking diaper. A gutless, cowardly, draft-dodging punk, sitting in the Oval Office with his gang of kiss-asses, attacking an actual champion of freedom and destroying 80 years of hard-won alliances. It’s enough to make you wanna hurl and then hurl your goddamn tv out the window.

And that’s what we were about to do — dry-heaving and all — when we remembered you. That’s not a pick-up line, we swear. What we mean is we remembered that there were about 200,000 American badasses in our newsletter community out there feeling the same anger and shame that we were. And while that didn’t make Trump any less of a miserable piece of Putin shit, it did provide a great deal of comfort.

And this email is to thank you for that.

Six years ago this month (we think), Today’s Big Stuff, our filthy, cussing, big-hearted newsletter, was born to two dudes who needed to make themselves and a few friends laugh to keep from crying during the first Trump administration. Word started to get around, and this crazy thing started to grow. We started to hear from people who said the newsletter was helping them get through a really scary, sad and infuriating time. We brought people together, raised money, raised spirits, mocked Giuliani endlessly, won elections and eventually beat Trump.

Then for four years we tried to hold the line on what was important and true, banding together to bring positive change while also warning that a certain orange asshead was still very much a threat to the country. Together, we did all that we could to repel this fucking nightmare. And we all know how that shit went. Still, there is nobody we would rather fight with than you. Win or lose, y’all remind us what real American spirit looks like. You remind us of the good that is worth fighting for.

But here we are. Fucked, frazzled, fearful and… together.

This newsletter does a lot of things you wouldn’t expect it to, and yeah, it cusses sometimes more than it ought to and we’ll never get over that time we tried to convince people that Mike Pence’s real name was Mouth Penis just because the initials are the same. But more than anything, Today’s Big Stuff and AltMedia are here to remind us all that none of us are alone in this orange shit-stained freakshow. And neither of them exist without you. You are the gas that makes this cussing car go. (Don’t worry. It’s actually electric.)

Thank you for keeping us kinda sane. Thank you for reminding us we’re not alone. And thank you for making clear that America is a helluva lot more than shit-eating rectum-heads in red hats.

We have no idea what is gonna happen. This first month has been pretty fucked up, to say the least. But we do know that we are gonna continue to do this newsletter with y’all until they lock us up. And even then we might scratch it out on toilet paper and send it by way of carrier rat.

So here’s to another six years of cussing and fighting. Y’all are the fucking best, and we will never be able to express how grateful we are to you for joining us. You are the reason we still have hope. Keep resisting. Keep cussing. Keep being sexy.

Love y’all!

Adam and Sam

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