~a column by Colleen O’Brien
It is Thanksgiving week. We are thankful that the election is over, and things seem kind of quiet . . . if we’re not watching, listening to or reading the dailies out of the Big House in DC – from which we are over-informed about distasteful appointees, hidden investigations of them, leaks about them, purposeful disinformation and smoke screen from the new, old new guy showing us his genius in picking other geniuses of his caliber.
If we remember from 2017, he is best at lying from behind a screen of fast-talking, blaming, suing nonsense while doing dastardly things opposed to well-thought-out, double-checking arrangements written into our Constitution to keep elected men and women honest.
What’s he doing back there behind the trash-talk? Already sleazing his way into a well-exercised and litigated way of making money on the sly? Selling signed winter coats to pay for his daily cost of living? He is paying people travel and lodging to come to his inauguration. As far as I know from the various media, this has not been mentioned, but I know because I received a personal invite.
That makes me idly wonder if once again he will nobly refuse to take his Presidential salary.
Who cares as long as he gets away with it because we’re watching the circus out front? Well, we care, but we do need a prying Press to inform us minutely, seeing as how most of us have jobs, and this is their job.
Perhaps the Press this time will inform us of their diligent investigations into our latest government – what’s being done behind the scenes, not what’s being blasted to us over the accommodating mics of the world simply because he said something.
A 1.6 percentage win is not a “mandated” win as the winner keeps repeating and which should never be repeated by a reputable press unless with the word “allegedly” connected to it. He did win, but only by 1.6 percent of the popular vote, according to the counters of election results – Harris 48.3 percent to his 49.9 percent.
Back to Thanksgiving – turkey and all that goes with it, if we’re lucky; eating a lot until we fall asleep in front of the football games on TV. Or, as many do now, Chinese take-out and a good movie at the theater. Anything that can occupy us as if the world we’ve tripped into is merely a nightmare we can awake from.
As long as this guy keeps hanging around, we have our work cut out for us. We have representatives in Congress and in our state legislatures that we can talk to, write to every day with our worries and complaints. I like the idea of their being overwhelmed by us, we who are leery about the future.
Happy Thanksgiving. We still live in a democracy OF, BY and FOR . . . .
