Last night …

12:00 PM January 20, 2017.  Sitting at my desk, sobbing heavily and quietly into a napkin. I had no idea that was going to happen. It just welled up in the midst of a bite of lunch.

I had to watch – I feel it’s my duty in order to resist to study The Enemy. It’s on my phone via huffpost right now.

Here are the lowlights to a brief, (it ended at 12:19PM) catch-phrase-filled address: (transcribed in real time so apologies for any inaccuracies)

“…an education system flush with cash…” that’s news

“…the crime and the gangs and the drugs…American Carnage” new movie?  Or the theme of your admin?

“…Oath of office = Oath of Allegiance to all Americans…” I don’t like that word

“…refusing to defend our borders…” who did?

“…wealth of the middle class ripped from their homes and reDIStributed (misprounounced) across the world…”

he’s stealing from Kennedy then says “from this day forward, America First.”

more hypocrisy over foreign products yadda yadda

“winning” yadda yadda

“…bring back our borders (?)…” where did they go?

a list of infrastructure

“…people off welfare and back to work across our country with American hands and American labor…” but not with with American Labor

“…we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone…” ha!

“…unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism which we will eradicate from the face of the earth…” here comes the boom! Plus “eradicate” sounds very Final Solution-y

“…total allegiance to the United States of America…” that word again

“…when America is United, America is totally unstoppable…” TOTES dude

Now he’s singing “can do, can do, this guy says America can do” not really but he may as well

“…black, or brown or white, we all bleed the same red…” there’s some colors missing, and bleeding sounds ominous

“…you will never be ignored again…” can’t say the same for “ignorant”

“We will make America [list: Strong wealthy proud safe great]”

God yadda yadda, the end

A very short speech full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, except this

He wants total allegiance to the United States, which he thinks is now him. The disturbing meaning of the speech is that a shroud of muscular authoritarianism has fallen over our bright land, and people who belong in the penitentiary now control every lever of power we have.

12:30 and it’s all over. Get ready to resist.

Right into the District of Columbia which, fittingly, was built on a swamp.  Thanks, low-info voters!  Happy Inaugural.

by Primo Encarnación – use freely

It’s late and my computer has already gone to bed, but the New York Times is breaking a damn big story.

Have fun!

The alleged President Elect, Donald Trump, had a doozy last night while speaking at the Pence dinner. Has anybody noticed that he’s starting to speak in Twitter phrases?

First of all, his speech was a series of stabs at everyone he thinks doesn’t give him proper respect, including Pence.

Mr. Trump lauded Mr. Pence in a roughly 25-minute speech, but poked at him for declining to endorse his candidacy in the primary in Indiana, where he was governor, instead backing Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. “The fact that every donor he had was in favor of” Mr. Cruz played no role in the decision, Mr. Trump said sarcastically, according to a recording provided by a guest.

But my personal favorite was his contention that he’s head of a “movement.”

“There hasn’t been anything like this since Andrew Jackson,” Mr. Trump quoted his admirers saying. “Andrew Jackson? What year was Andrew Jackson? That was a long time ago.”

Yes, he finally remembered the date but what I think he forgot is that Jackson gets the blame for the Panic of 1837, which lead to a four year recession.

He also forgot that Jackson is considered the founder of the Democratic Party.

Private school education, what can I say?