Inauguration!

           I've watched Presidential inaugurations since Regan I think, I'm not sure how, was I supposed to be in school? I don't know but in the old days we somehow still saw everything just with regular TV. The only one I skipped was Trump's, I watched some of the painful meet and greet at the White House but retreated to the basement for the next 4 years after that! It's maybe a little odd how a Canadian loves this American tradition but we don't have anything like it and I just love them! I love seeing the politicians interact, what they will wear, who will perform etc, it's so wonderful! This year Trump slunk off at dawn, hoping for a big military sendoff, which I don't know even happened, and flew to Florida before noon. Good riddance you son of a bitch! Hope your future is filled with jailtime and the entire Trump family has to live in exile! That morning I had to drive Gord across town so was listening to Bidens speech on the radio on a beautiful clear morning with almost no traffic, coasting down Crowchild to Memorial letting the words fill a brand new era, it's quite nice, I recommend it, like an extended car commercial or offbeat movie. Of course I taped 4 hours of it too, it's worth it to see flawless Michelle Obama and Lady Gaga who was not only walking the red carpet but wearing one too! You know she said no to Trump 4 years earlier! Ha ha. We also had J.Lo in all white like the latina angel of unity singing This Land. The poem by 16 year old Amanda Gorman was the most beautiful thing you have ever heard, as if she will take the reins of Maya Angelou herself at this young age! I kept thinking throughout the different moments and scenes of the day the now very famous images of the Capitol riots, where everyone enters the balcony is where police were assaulted with American flags, we could see many interior shots where only days before nazi riff-raff were acting out and you could even see a shattered window on one of the doors into Congress, this is still very fresh in all our minds right now! But democracy has prevailed, although I think it was pretty close and pretty easy to overthrow if you ask me! Later we had the 3 ex Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton make statements, to me they seemed like superheroes, like normalcy has returned after 4 years of insanity from that old supervillain! There was no parade because of covid and fear of nuts I guess but Biden did walk a block or so up to the White House, it was all very beautiful and the world feels normal again!

     One thing I love right now is that QAnon believers are adrift! They believed that Trump would succeed in the end, all the military would turn on the inauguration and the rightful king Trump would ascend to power, so that didn't happen. I saw a reporter talking to a QAnon guy who isn't sure what to believe right now but is pretty sure the election was a hoax anyway, sheesh, your stupid social media stories are all made up lies you dumb fucks! This is exactly like so many kooky Protestant religions especially in the 19th Century that preached the end of the world at a certain date and when that passed and nothing happened they would usually change the date, you do lose some followers though. Think of the Jehovah Witness cult who used to believe a certain number of people would be allowed in heaven and then they had to change it as history progressed and numbers of believers increased, ooops! Experts say the bad part is that they, QAnoners may glom on to neo nazi groups and other extremists. A nuts part of all this is how some experts liken the Trump nuts to radicals in the Middle East or Afghanistan and how you would have to infiltrate their society to get people to believe facts, to deradicalize them. Yes we are talking about your nutty relatives on facebook as if they were the Taliban and that is not far from the truth right now! It is a refreshing new world however with trump banned from most media, the witch is melting, what a world, what a world!

     One thing I am glad Trump did not do is pardon the Capital rioters, I wonder if they will feel betrayed? they should! He did pardon something like 150 people including Steve Bannon who can go back to sleeping in cars instead of going to jail and Jeannine Pirro's husband for I don't know what but she bellows about the greatness of Trump on FOX and he loved that! I hope the pardons are all overturned, it's all just obstruction of justice and this power should be removed from presidents all together! Trump has an impeachment trial looming and there is reason to hope for the best, McConnell has signaled his support for impeachment and really all that needs to happen is for Republicans to not even show up and it's done! A vote of 2/3 of the Senate doesn't mean all of them, it means of the ones present, so it could be done. I think the more Trump talks of things like a "3rd party" the more Republicans will want to put the preverbal pillow over this guys head! A 3rd party would make democrats in charge for decades! I still think Trumps best plan is exile but he needs so much attention I don't know how that would work, but jail on the other hand? This guy has never faced consequences so it is going to be a thrilling time for Trump haters out there!

     The world just seems so much nicer now, the first foreign phone call will be to Justin Trudeau because Biden seems to love Canada and had a great relationship with Trudeau in the very short time the two admins overlapped. So guess who is down in the dumps over the new President? Kenney of course! Turns out he invested $1.5 billion in the Keystone Pipeline and Biden just cancelled it yesterday! So now our local media is all gloom and doom over this, can't we be happy for 5 minutes? Geeze! Democracy was just saved from the grips of a lunatic and the world can return to some sort of normalcy but we should all hate this because we put all our eggs in the Keystone basket!?!? God damn you Albertans! They act like my middle sister, if anything good happens make sure you make it about yourself and shit all over the good news! We don't have to worry about Trumps mercurial nature anymore, I'm sure the softwood lumber tariffs will end and that's good news for some! I hope they rescind the new NAFTA thing Trump worked out, all of his stupid legacy should be wiped out! I also think it's funny Obamacare survived, after all his efforts to destroy it, ha, screw you loser!