And Your Point Is?

 

Just to show you that yesterday was a normal occurrence every four years, here is a drawing of Martin Van Buren being inaugurated to be US President.  This is an event that happens by Constitutional law every January 20. (Or January 21 if the 20th is on a Sunday.)   Nothing new here and yesterday was just the norm.  And quoting one more time my dad, the thing about a crooked politician is that there's always another one right after that is even more crooked.

These days, your vote for President is either loved or hated and both are at their very worst degrees.  Friendships are formed and sometimes ended depending upon who you vote for.  Yesterday was no different.  Trump is loved.  Trump is hated. And, often, your Facebook status as somebody's friend can be at issue as a result.

Now I'm one who doesn't revolve my life around the White House. But I have friends who do.   And those who hate Trump are trying to figure out how to get around what is for them a horrific week.  And I am absolutely flummoxed by some of the things they are posting on social media.   So here's how some people I know are going to "celebrate" this week.

Wear black all week.

Fly the American flag upside down.

Stay off all social media.

Turn off all news shows.

Stay in bed.

Seriously.

Every day and in every way, the reactions of some allegedly rational people stun me.   Do people think this makes that much of a difference?

Again, I think of my dad.  And what he might have said when he heard that outgoing President Biden pardoned all his family in the last 15 minutes of his Presidency.

"If they're innocent, why are they being pardoned?'

And, from Heaven, I hear a mike drop.

Dinner last night:  Leftover Swiss steak.