The best thing about Trump being out of office and blocked from Twitter and Facebook is I suddenly have all this time.
I didn’t realize it, but for four years, I didn’t go 15 minutes without checking the news. That’s not an exaggeration. Most of my discussions with my wife and friends began with “What’d he do now?” Debating his minute-by-minute lies and outrages with readers and friends on Facebook became my primary pastime. Which is kind of sad. But that’s how deeply I felt about the norms he attacked and the damage he was doing. I couldn’t look away for fear of what would happen. You know how when you’re in a plane during a thunderstorm you find yourself using all of your energy to will that sucker to stay in the air? That’s what I did for four years with the Tangerine Monstrosity. You’re welcome.
But now, all of a sudden, with a grown-up once again in charge, I’m free. Biden, I will admit, has surprised me. I wasn’t a huge fan. He was probably my fifth favorite Democrat. In him, I thought we were hiring a caretaker, someone who would just do no more harm.
But a couple of months in, he’s done far more than just “not be Trump.” He’s done a really, really good job, in fact. To my surprise, he has moved swiftly to sweep up the broken glass and replace the holes punched in the drywall of democracy by the former Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief.
As a result, I feel like I can finally stand down. I don’t have to pay attention every second. The plane doesn’t need my willpower anymore. It’s going to land safely.
It feels great.
I find myself avoiding the sound of Wolf Blitzer’s voice on CNN.
I suddenly can’t bear the nattering panels on MSNBC.
I don’t find myself switching to Fox News to see if I can handle more than 15 seconds of it. (A masochistic habit I adopted.)
I’ve started to read books again. (Those things with words on paper.)
I’m working out more.
I relearned the dog’s name. (It’s Bob, I think.)
I might try to learn guitar for the 20th time in my life.
Spring is coming.
Life, in general, is looking up.
Thanks for that, Biden voters.
Didn’t mean to publish my full name, use Dorothy please!
The Biden era is a breath of fresh air. compared to the past four years under the fibber in chief.
During the past four years, I also found myself tuning into Fox News to see how they were covering the day’s events.
The coverage on Fox always seemed to be a huge positive spin on what trump was doing or saying.
The coverage on ABC or CNN of the same topic always seemed to be more of a negative spin on the trump antics.
It is nice to get back to other things in life rather than following the daily soap of the trump era.
I am awaiting the next major topic on trump on TV, the myriad of stories of unending court cases where he and his minions were offered ample time to defend themselves against the charges levied.
Hopefully, the trials result in guilty verdicts and trump and his minions end up paying hefty fines and serving time in the clink.
I feel the same it is like a breath of fresh air. I don’t have to keep checking Twitter to see what stupid thing Trump just said.
Me too! I’m not angry anymore. I’m not yelling or swearing at the TV. Life is good again. Thank you President Biden and thank you to all the voters that voted that scumbag out of office!
What I’m enjoying is the shifting of reality back into fact based causality now that the gravitational singularity of We Gotta Support Trump Because He’s President is no longer warping clear, objective truths into “alternative facts”
Witness Sidney Powell, previously a very distinguished attorney, cashing in decades of hard earned legitimacy by going all in on the Voting Machines Stole The Election From Trump ™ conspiracy to cash in on gullible Trump voters chained to right wing media (complete with “Donate here to Stop the Steal:…”) and possibly positioning herself in case this whole coup thing actually worked.
Esquire Powell, recently sued for quite a bit of money by Dominion whom she, on copious amounts of recorded video on said right wing media accuses of switching votes in the 2020 election from Trump to Biden, thereby stealing the election for Biden, to which, she asserted that she had incontrovertible evidence.
More recently, post-insurrection, Ms. Powell has asserted in court that “no reasonable person” would accept her statements as fact, and the lawsuit against her by Dominion should thereby be dismissed.
Make no mistake, what is happening here is she is confirming that any Trump supporter that actually believed her, and no doubt repeated her assertions that Dominion machines surreptitiously switched vote tallies, are unreasonably… uh, gullible, shall we say?
A less charitable, but historically accurate description might be useful idiots.
Hey Beret Boy, on January 10, 2021 you said that Trump supporters used a fire extinguisher to beat and kill a Capitol police officer. Oops, the medical examiner has just ruled the officer died of natural causes dues to multiple strokes. I realize that in January of this year, you were a forensic pathologist of the highest order, yet it seems one of your colleagues disagrees with Dr. Heller’s medical conclusions. I suspect you lied (again) for partisan political reasons, therefore I wonder if you have the necessary integrity to admit your lie. Well……….
No, it appears Andy reflected the initial widely reported accounts of law enforcement themselves that Officer Brian Sicknick was struck in the head with a fire extinguisher by the pro-Trump rioters that violently overtook the capitol on January 06th.
As you say, the forensic examiner found that Officer Sickneck actually succumbed to two strokes, approximately eight hours after criminally charged pro-Trump rioters Julian Khater and George Tanios allegedly sprayed him with a chemical irritant, possibly fricken bear-spray, during the mass assault on the capitol.
Its curious, and perhaps unfortunate that your attention is drawn to challenging Andy’s contemporarly accurate relaying of law enforcement’s initial findings rather than the significant and real world actions of people that used actual violent force against sworn law enforcement officers in an attempt to forcibly overthrow a constitutionally sanctioned legitimate transition of power.
But, I guess we all have our priorities.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/jan-6-rioter-maced-capitol-police-officer-brian/story?id=96728623
Yeah, I didn’t think you would. Hardly surprising. I guess it’s painful hitching your political wagon to a partisan notion of violence and death, only to watch it evaporate in the sunlight of truth. Heller, you should be used to that by now. On the bright side, you had several gleeful weeks of dime dancing on Capitol PD officer Brian Sicknick’s grave, celebrating the acquisition of more leftist points (temporarily) for your personal, prejudiced, preordained scoreboard. So there’s that. The next time someone dies, maybe it will be in a manner that suits your fancy. Best of luck.