Albatross

Do none of you have a sense of decency?

The wing nuts in America are mad because the Resistance jumped on the Celebrity Apprentice president from Day One. And then, I am proud to say, never let up.

He’d earned it.

You’d have to have been in a coma, under a rock in the middle of the Mojave Desert and deaf, not-very-smart and blind to have believed the failed casino mogul to be America’s savior in 2016.

To have anointed him as the second coming of Christ.

To have worshipped him as the Chosen One.

To have choked down an ounce of his bullshit.

To have rejoiced believing he and his quarterdeck of charlatans, hare-brained revolutionaries and bigoted, bilious blowhards were going to lift one finger toward sump pumping the political marshland of the District of Columbia. People whose first thought is money, as it is associated with power, will never - in a million years - kill the goose that laid the golden egg. A monkey at a keyboard is more likely to write the next great American novel than political creatures who know that short of founding their own religion bilking governments is the second fastest route to becoming a millionaire.

And, for four very long years, that I swear were longer than 365 days, a rock solid forty per cent of the population adored this guy like he was John Wayne reincarnated - and still do.

But pundits, political scholars and liberal election pontificators are wringing their hands over the number of people who voted - again - for the carnival barker. Yes - Joe Biden won by more than 7 million votes. Yes - Joe Biden “trounced” him in Electoral College votes.

But they’re furrowing their brows over the sheer number of votes it took to defeat the man who personifies the ‘terrible twos’ in septuagenarian form. They are saying that rural white voters - you know the ones we’ve been trying desperately to understand what motivates them, what will placate them for the past four years masquerading as decades? - who never or rarely vote got off their arses to cast their vote to prolong the liberal agony.

And that may be true.

It’s not their votes that piss me off.

It’s the educated folks who have no excuse. They’ve watched as he’s riven the country. They’ve observed the cavalcade of felons, the bumbling diplomacy, the ham-handed foreign relations. They’ve winced at the gaffes, the goofs, the grifts, the self-aggrandizement. They know him for what he is, they know what he is capable of doing, they know upon his removal he and his family will become national security risks and, still, they voted for him.

Not only did they vote for him, they poured more money into re-electing this fool than has poured into any previous presidential candidacy. They wittingly chose lunacy and filthy lucre over country, even though the opposition offered them a sane centrist who plans on ‘reaching across the aisle’.

Filthy lucre room.

Those are the people - in my book - who are unpardonable.

They were willing to sacrifice another four years to an inept and negligent government - particularly as it pertains to the pandemic - so that they could continue to enrich themselves, consolidate their power and ‘own’ the liberals.

I hope he becomes the conservative party’s albatross. I hope he hangs around long enough to shank them all.

He could start by rage-tweeting that Georgians should boycott the January 5th run-off election or write-in his name as a protest.

That would be priceless.

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Listened to a fantastic podcast this morning called United States of Anxiety. Today’s podcast was titled One Family’s Land of Opportunity and it was a fascinating story about a Black family in the Mississippi Delta who believed they were recipients of the government program euphemistically referred to as “40 acres and a mule”. Highly recommend it.

Also, AAR Charley McCabe sent me The Roches’ - three sisters, three folk singers - Christmas album. Good stuff. This a great rendition of The Roches live in concert. Their Christmas album can be found on all of your streaming devices - the title is We Three Kings.