Day 1426 – Reality – A Strange Place

Tuesday December 15, 2020 (10 days til Christmas)

Election Day -42

37 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Yesterday, we had a trifecta of boring news coverage. Not that the actual news wasn’t interesting and exciting in and of itself, but rather the video coverage was boring. How could it not be? 

One) the Pfizer vaccine started to roll out. What to show? A truck leaving a warehouse. A delivery man with his wheelie cart and some boxes on it. The climax? The money shot? A woman sitting in a big chair getting a needle in the arm. “How did it feel?”,”What did you think?” The denouement – let’s show lots of people in a room getting needles in the arm.

Two) The Electoral College representatives met in the states to cast their ballots. Cut to the shot of the black woman with a mask on, huddled over, speaking into a microphone. She was part of the California delegation that put Joe Biden over the top of 270 electoral votes. Not real spine tingling drama. The funniest thing about that was that it happened during Nicole Wallace’s show on MSNBC and she was interviewing Robert Costa when the actual vote and announcement happened. I got to hear the cheering in the background while Robert was talking. They missed the shot! 

More dramatic was the fact that several of the state delegations had to meet in undisclosed locations due to threats of violence. The Michigan State House was closed due to that. Which left some Trump supporters wandering around in front to the capital with their “Trump 2020” flags, yelling at the camera crews and trying to get in the shot of a TV reporter.  Talk about fake news. 

Also, a bunch of Republicans tried to go into the Michigan State House to cast ballots for Satan and were refused entry. This happened at several state houses. Also someone phonied up some document that claimed Trump won and sent it to the National Archives. It’s fun to remind these sore losers that if Biden is a loser as Trump suggests and he lost to Biden then what does that make him? (A double loser?) Also, Trump won Michigan in 2016 by 10,000 votes. He lost it by 154,000 this time. Again, what does that make him? (A ten time loser?) Then there is the “landslide” victory of 306 Electoral College votes for Trump in 2016. But what about 2020? Oh Biden won by 306 and by a ton more votes, so I guess it’s a landslide and a tsunami? 

Three) It’s been reported that Bill Barr is resigning. Well, he’s not. He’s “departing.” WTF? He can’t even write a proper resignation letter? “On December 23^rd I will depart.”

Depart where? This Earth? The room where it happened? 

Okay, in fairness to Billy-Boy maybe he didn’t write the letter. He wandered up to the White House spent some time yakking with Satan, left, and now he’s gone. I suspect that Trump did a Comey style ambush. Satan called Barr up. Barr showed up and Trump told him to do a bunch of illegal unconstitutional shit, which was even too much for his most loyal lapdog and so Trump said, “You’re Fired.” Satan probably had the letter all written because from what I understand the letter talks about the marvelous job Trump has done and throws in a last line saying “I will depart.”

I don’t know. I did have the opening to “Under The Boardwalk” in my head (“When this old world starts getting you down…” but now I’m more in the “I will survive” theme song mode.

I fully expect Barr to reappear at Justice in early January saying something like, “What? I didn’t resign. I just departed. I wanted to spend some time with my family. But I’m Back!”

He did mention in his letter that he had a few projects to finish up. Yeah? Like what? Inquiring minds want to know. Are you going to release the Hunter Biden notes? Oh that’s right, that’s what Donnie wanted you to do before the election. You idiot. That’s why he lost. If you had only released the October Surprise like he wanted.

Now, Satan will have to steal the election. This will of course bring our democracy to its knees. Will our institutions hold? Blah blah blah. 

It seems that the level of thievery and blatant attacks on our constitution, laws, and institutions is even too much for some of the Republicans. Not all mind you, I listened to an elected official saying that Joe Biden was not the president elect because the Electoral College has not met in Washington DC and said so. 

I hope – HOPE – that the representatives that signed on to that seditious court case brought by the Texas AG in hopes of getting a pardon will not be seated. The reason? Treason. Simple. Ask yourself “What would Newt do?”

In other news The White House says that The prez has decided not to have everyone in the White House jump the line and get vaccinated. Why? Bad optics. Apparently, the outrage was enough to invoke “shame”. Really? I find it hard to believe. I think it’s more a case of “Wouldn’t look good.” Not shame. (Correction. “Not most of the staff.”)

Mike Pence may get the shot publicly to show something. Maybe, for Mommy. “See, I’m a brave boy!” I don’t know. Oh to show support for the thing they’ve been denying? To show that “he’s a celebrity” and can skip ahead of millions? I hope that when he gets injected that the health care worker leans over and says, “They think you are getting the vaccine. Actually, it’s sodium pentathol. You will notice a tingling in your extremities as your internal organs begin to shut down.” 

When he jumps up wild eyed I hope the health care worker gives him a big smile and says outloud, “See you in 19 days for your second shot.”

Maybe a little eyebrow raise? Not like “Yo, what’s up?” More like, “Yaah, Chicken Little. Let’s see you step up.”

PS “Say What?” Figurative head in the Museum at Palenque. Probably Pakal.

PPS It is rumored the Melania wants to go home. Where home is is unclear. Having built that tennis pavilion I guess her work here is done. I wonder if the Donald will drag his morbidly obese ass out there to whack a few balls? Maybe Baron. My money is on Baron.