Friday Rant

     Yesterday was six weeks since Thanksgiving, the unofficial holiday season which came with black Friday shopping, family gatherings,  colder weather that made outside gatherings difficult, and generally people that just defied recommendations. Yesterday the US topped 4.000 deaths in a single day and Dr. Gupa on the television is sharing that it is not  out of the question that by the end of January the daily total could be over 5,000. And if anyone wants to argue with me that's its inflated, I'm not in the mood. I worried that the roll out of the vaccine was going to create false sense of security, while still bringing hope. We need national leadership on this; we've needed national leadership. We need a leader who can be a partner with the rest of the world, not  fight with  leaders of places like Canada, Germany, and France,  like a school yard bully trying to get their lunch money. All the misgivings and fears that Bush 43 was over his head in his eight years in office, he's in hindsight, a great president compared to Trump, and despite all the errors his administration made post 9/11, Katrina, and other national tragedies, he would never have put his ego over humanity. 

     I've cried with you all on my blog during the unrest and riots over the summer, railing against the violence while supporting the efforts to shed light on an unfair and  systemically racist legal system. Never once did I condone violence, riot's and looting. Even on Wednesday when I saw all the  Trump sycophants gathering to hear their want to be dictator spew his conspiracy theories, and shameful rhetoric, did I not think they didn't have the right to do so. Never mind that they accepted the same ballot results when republicans down the ticket won. Never mind that  claims of thousands of illegal votes when investigated, found as many that went in Trumps favor as Biden's (and still was at a small scale to make any difference), and other  lies were disputed time and time again to the point the Supreme Court told him basically to sit down and shut up. 

     The violence on Wednesday was incited by Trump, his son, and the former respectable Giuliani who is as insane as Trump. Now, left and right, his  unqualified yes men and women ae resigning, after four years of not using any bit of clout and expertise to stop his idiocy! Now, they've had too much? Give me a break. And Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnenell can go suck lemons. Don't think I'm any too happy with the Democrats either. How Pelosi was voted in again as Speaker of the House is beyond me. She too played  stupid games with Trump, knowing this  maniac, she only tried to  rail against anything out of the administration, even when Trump allowed those with  qualified brains to develop policies. No, she dug in to her dogma, and poured fuel, but without any plan for bringing real negotiation and compromise to get the nation to a better place. Principles are great, but creating havoc doesn't help any of us. They all need to grow up and remember that being elected to office isn't just about being given a a leadership title, it is a dire responsibility that has dire consequences when you get it wrong. TERM LIMITS!!!! The whole Democratic primary process was a joke and the DNC better remember that  people will not put up with the games the next round. It made no sense that Biden was the top of the candidate pool, though him at his worst state is better than Trump at his supposed best. He's at least putting people with skills, knowledge, and qualifications into his cabinet. 

     My opinion is worth nothing more than a penny-not even two cents. I wrote this more for myself, a release, before I even try and blog about things I want to blog about. If you read this far, thank you. If you didn't, you won't see this, but I understand. If you have been a Trump supporter, that was your right. All humans, all politicians are flawed and no one would believe there to be a politician with all scruples beyond reproach. I just won't ever understand how anyone thought a con man, grifter, who failed at business venture after venture, with a history of using other peoples money to feed his greedy lifestyle, who bragged about cheating business partners and contractors out of their money, who bragged about his treatment and lack of respect for women, including his own wives, sister, and nieces, and his claim to celebrity is through tabloids and a reality television show,  thought  "hmmm, he'd make a good president."