Sometimes I don't know if I should take Ed literally or seriously (that was a Trump joke there). He said my mood has been a bit like the chart below. But instead of days, think hours.
I would love to say that isn't true at all. But, of course it's true!
In the last few days (which have moved at glacial speed), we have had armed insurrectionists storm our Capital and chant to kill our legislators. We have a President who cheered them on and refused to release the national guard, military or police*. We have Trump leaving in disgrace, but throwing a childish fit in between moments of whining.
Over 150 different Representatives and Senators claim on the floor of Congress that the election was rife with cheating, even though their party leaders, Attorney General and 61 courts - many with Trump appointees - say it was fair. The giant Orange fur-ball is the first President since the Civil War to boycott his successor's inauguration. And he still hasn't conceded the election. He concedes Biden will be inaugurated, but not that Biden won the election.
AND 61% of Republicans think storming the Capital to overturn a fair election was (and still is) the right thing to do.
Trump wants a BIG ASS good-bye party at the Presidential Helicopter BEFORE Biden is sworn in (leaving the question about how he will hand off the nuclear football in doubt). It's all very President Nixon sneaking out, but he has threatened any of his aids that mention Nixon will be horse-whipped. Trump wanted a red white and blue "red carpet" and a full military band with a 21 gun salute for his departure and sent tickets to various pardoned crooks and sycophants and their plus ones (and lawyers). The military is trying to talk him down off that one.
On the positive side, Biden is building a welcoming coalition and a Cabinet of competent appointees that will focus on getting the country vaccinated, back to work, and restoring normalcy. The question is, can we go back to normal?
Can I - forget about everyone else for a moment, can I go back to feeling safe in this country where 71 million of my fellow country-men hate Democracy and me. And not just me, because I'm gay. That is small time hate next to their hate for my being from a blue state (TWO blue states now!), for my going to a liberal University (all Universities are liberal distortion factories according to them) and for my watching any news that doesn't parrot the hateful rhetoric of Trump 24/7.
This new country where 71 Million Americans believe that 400,000 dead in their own country was a reasonable cost not wearing a fucking mask outside. This country where a pillow salesman is welcomed into the Oval Office with the President in order to plot an overthrow and martial law. Of course my mood is wack. To quote Halt and Catch Fire, my mood is so wack, it's first name should be knick-knack-patty.
*Although there were quite a few off-duty police, sheriffs and retired veterans doing the storming. They don't count.
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