The Daily Dose/January 20, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
USA! USA! Whew. We made it.
After four years of ignorance and incompetence, four years of lies and insults, four years of being led by a man who believes the moon is part of Mars and that the securing of British airports won the Revolution – things a bright 5th-grader knows are false – Donald Trump leaves the White House today.
Could You Repeat That?: That we are even saying “Donald Trump leaves the White House today” is almost beyond belief. A man of zero substance, we’ve always felt he never wanted to be president and ran merely to drum up interest in his personal brand. A real media would have had him out of the race by the weekend but, enamored with the ratings and clicks he generated, they ushered him straight into the primaries, the nomination and the White House.
Dry, Technical Matter: The presidency is less for his having occupied it and our country is the lesser for it, too, and the blood on his hands from a non-existent coronavirus response will never be washed off.
Fly In The Ointment: Trump leaves with two attainments. First, his tax cut was nice. We paid less tax on more income and perhaps you did, too. This is good because the government takes too much of our money already.
We also appreciated the fact he didn’t retaliate when Iran shot down one of our drones over the Strait of Hormuz in 2019. His restraint was admirable.
But that’s it. Otherwise, it was a lousy human being producing the worst presidential administration any of us have ever seen.
Did We Call It Or What?: We hate to say we told you so, but we did. Before he was even elected we dutifully pointed out Trump’s only real talent is drawing attention to himself and that he lacked a long-term plan for both himself and the country. Nobody listened to us and a fractured, us-versus-them we the people elected him anyway.
The Bottom Line: We’ve overcome a lot in this country and we’ll overcome you, Donald. It will take years, and perhaps even decades, but your legacy of falsehoods being truths and it being acceptable to disregard facts that do not conform to your beliefs will eventually be conquered. The damage you caused is deep but not irreparable.
Good riddance. If we thought you’d use it, we’d offer some Boraxo to help wash the blood off your hands, but you don’t care about anything but yourself.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow puts some creamer in his coffee. Today’s Diary.
I did accept Tammy’s earlier invitation to try her new vanilla/cinnamon coffee creamer, tho…To quote an old Navy joke trotted out here before, I generally take my coffee like I take my women, strong and black but some creamer sounded good and I enjoyed two cups with it…I think if I had one more cup of creamered coffee left in my life I’d probably choose hazelnut, but this certainly had merit.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1941 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the only president of the United States inaugurated for a third term. Roosevelt had won the November 1940 election handily, carrying 38 states to ten for Republican Wendell Wilkie and won the Electoral College vote by a 449-82 margin. FDR would win a fourth term in 1944, though he died in 1945, succeeded by Harry S Truman.
In 1967 – Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors establishes a new NBA record for most field goals made in a game without a miss in a 119-108 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Chamberlain went 15-for-15 from the field breaking the record of 14 established by Bailey Howell of the Baltimore Bullets in January 1965. Chamberlain would break the record on February 24, when he went 18-for-18 against Baltimore, a mark that still stands.
In 1968- Merle Haggard is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Singles chart – for the first of two consecutive weeks with Sing Me Back Home. It was the eighth of 93 Top 40 country hits for Haggard, his sixth of 71 Top 10 hits and the third of 38 #1s. The song is about a prisoner walking to his execution and draws on Haggard’s experience doing time in California and knowing a couple of inmates who were executed.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The past does not cease because you ignore it.
Gore Vidal
Julian
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton was Billboard’s #1 song of 1959, spending six weeks at #1 over the summer.
Today’s Stumper
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