Saturday January 16, 2021 ( Electoral College Certification Day -11,
Insurrection Day -11,
Georgia Senate Election -12 )
Election Day -75
4 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
Okay, it’s actually Sunday, but I wanted to do a screed with yesterday’s date on it so I could save some room for extra bitching.
I saw a Facebook post that quoted The Great Gatsby. It’s the passage near the end that talks about Tom and Daisy’s wealth and casual cruelty. How they break things and leave it to others to clean up. There was a picture of Ivanka and Jared at the top of the post. I always think of Mia Farrow when I think of Daisy. She played the part so well. Fitzgerald described Tom as a powerful yet ignorant man. Jared is different but the same. He’s casually cruel, or perhaps it’s intentional? Actually, it’s neither. Cruelty suggests to me a conscious decision. I don’t think Jared’s is conscious. Not like his father-in-law or Stephen Miller. One goes out of his way to out a cruel twist into whatever he does. The other actually believes in some weird meanness. In all three cases it doesn’t matter to the people who suffer and die because of their actions or lack thereof. When you dead, you dead.
Apparently, Satan has told his aides not to pay Rudy. Who couldn’t see that coming? Roll in the mud, humiliate yourself, commit crimes for the boss and on last roll of humiliation? No Judas shekels for you!
There are a few days left and what cruelties can he still inflict? What little meanness? What pettiness? What humiliations? Stay tuned.
There is speculation that he has started a movement. One that will live on after he has departed the stage. I think that is correct. Authoritarians like to appropriate the symbols of patriotism for their own ends. The folks that wave the Trump flags have made their choice.
What to do? Well, I would like to see a mass incarceration of all those who stormed the Capital – ten years minimum. Twenty if you carried out violent acts. However, I’d be amenable to giving anyone who came forward and turned themselves in five and ten respectively. I’m not a forgiving guy, but I am practical.
As Joe Biden’s administration gets ramped up, I and many others are thankfully not surprised but relieved. Imagine – taking responsibility. Imagine – properly identifying problems. Imagine – proposing solutions. Imagine – picking competent people.
And in the final days of the great flame out Alex Azar quits. Why? He says because of the storming of the capital. Clueless to the end. It’s not because you gave the order to release the remaining stocks of vaccine only to discover there were none? (Imagine, Liam Neeson yelling, “Release the Kraken!” and some little puke (picture Stephen Miller) saying quietly to him, “You know that’s all Bull, don’t you?” Then I picture Charlton Heston as Moses arms outstretched in front of the Red Sea attempting to part the waters and nothing happens. ( “Aw sh*t.” ) He turns with that wonderful Heston glare and looks back on the band of extras assembled for the shot, long white beard flowing, and turns once again to the sea. Nothing. Then the Egyptians ride in with their chariots and slaughter them. Bummer.
Unfortunately, we have seen the president for who he is over and over again. The question is will he wiggle out once again, or will he get what he deserves?
As far as the vaccine goes I remember reading that Pfizer offered Trump a good amount of vaccine but Trump decided to take only half of it so Pfizer sold the rest to someone else. That could be because Moderna was in the background waiting to get approved. But hey look at all those flags representing the COVID-19 dead. Well done President-elect Biden!
I’m still holding my breath that there is enough vaccine to go around for us over 70. And I’m holding mr breath for a safe inauguration.