I swear, looking at my Twitter feed tonight, the night before The Inauguration Of Donald Trump, is like staring at alcoholics chugging down mixed drinks. This is probably the closest I will ever come to understanding what it must be like to be a parent to a stubborn teenaged child. It’s soooooo haaaaaard not to intervene and point out factual mistakes, or philosophical mistakes, or logical mistakes, or historical mistakes, or cognitive-behavioral mistakes. (Closing your eyes and pretending that reality doesn’t exist is not a healthy attitude!!) I’m reminded again and again of “dancing mania” and the phenomenon of mass hysteria. It’s fascinating and scary and sickening and discouraging all at the same time.
Personally, I think the next four years will be very unusual and extremely embarrassing, but that’s about it. At the end of Trump’s term, we non-partisans will be looking at some good things Trump did, and some bad things Trump did. (Like we are currently looking at some good things Obama did, and some bad things Obama did.)
Attention Virginians!
This might be an appropriate time to remind Virginians that we are electing a governor this year, 2017. Primaries are on June 13, and the general election is November 7. If you are at all affected by the 2016 presidential election, you want to get involved in this. Republican candidates that I know of currently are Ed Gillespie (the “RINO”) and Cory Stewart (the Trump surrogate). On the Democratic side we have Ralph Northam and Tom Perriello, neither of which I know much about. I’m guessing one of them is more progressive than the other. (Though here in Virginia, we only get but so progressive… nobody is giving up gun rights around here anytime soon.)
Comedy Relief
Here are some hilarious tweets I thought of today that I was terrified to publish in the current climate of political fear.
Triumpant Rs to scared Ds: “Now you’ll know how we felt for 8 yrs!” Not many people know America was founded on the principal of scaring half the people to death. #satire
A morning show interviewed Americans about new president. Pro and con to show both sides. Still getting it wrong. Unfair! #satire #centrism
I won’t be watching the inauguration. I didn’t watch Obama’s either. Or Bush’s. Or anyone’s. I protest boringness. #satire #centrism
This R-D-R-D-R cycle in American politics reminds me of that theory that the Earth’s magnetic poles flip periodically. #satire
The left thinks Democrats are weak and ineffectual, while the right thinks Republicans are weak and ineffectual. #centrism
I really don’t understand why a “bullet journal” isn’t called “a notebook with colorful writing and drawing in it.” #satire [That had nothing to do with politics, but I’ve read a lot about bullet journals lately. They are neat and all, but it’s just a notebook that you write in.]
I don’t share things, Facebook, but yes, I found all the things and solved all the puzzles and passed all the tests in that picture. #satire
