(and the fact that it is USAToday, not exactly a fan of Donals Trump)

Is your vote safe?

Of course, those of us that doubt the current “President” is legitimate must be delusional…right? 

And that does not take into account all those magical Mail-In ballots that appeared so suddenly….or the late ones, or the ones without a signature, or the ones with no postmark…..

(and any DNC-type reading this…you can deny, but unless you are stupid as a bunch of carrots, you know as well as we do that Joe wasn’t legitimately elected)

 I mean purchased in 2013? 

Expect Joe to be gone by May. Auguse at the outside.

 (I couldn’t listen, because no matter which channel I tuned to, the oozing effusiveness of the announcers was stomach turning..but I watched and listened to the speech)

And, last night, as I was falling into slumber, I was struck by the …..cheapness…the emptiness, the hollowness of this inauguration comapared to others…Barry Soetoro had a decent inauguration…George W. Bush had a solemn and well recieved ceremony. Donald Trump had one that was well orchestrated with a great deal of adulation and class…

This time in 2021 rang hollow. There was no smoothness, no real “Ceremony”…they went through the motions, and Biden and Kamala did the requisite things…made speeches, visited the appropriate memorials and cemeteries, did the parade, and in all respects did what other Presidents did. 

Yet it all had a feeling of wrongness, of cheapness, of something missing….almost as if everyone involved, everyone there, knew that this was an inauguration that was just wrong….and they were determined to go though with it anyway….Like a forced wedding, it looked and felt….Incorrect. False. Illegitimate. Cheapened. 

It was somewhat appropriate that there could be no crowds for this inauguration due to overblown precautions for a disease with a 99+% survival rate….

And what one would expect for an illegitmately elected President. Fitting.

As it should be, really. 

 Legitimate or not, Joe Biden is now the (current) President of the United States.

So  all of you who are full of hate, anger, and remorse….

Let it go. We can’t do anything about it without starting a war….and a Civil war might well be worse than 4 years of Harris/Biden. I see no way to unscrew this. There is, effectively, nothing to be done. 

Hate burns us up inside….look at what it has done to the folks with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Let it go. Don’t waste time with what might have or should have been…..Go forward with what we have. Deal with it. Don’t let it take up residence in your head. 

Go forward. Live. Live Well. Deal with what comes. Prepare, yes. But above all, let it go and Go Forward. Expect the worst, prepare for it, but don’t let hate blind you to the act of Living. We may have lemons, let us make lemonade. We may have gotten screwed. Deal.With.It and go forward. 

I fear there are Dark Days ahead for many of us. So be it. We shall survive.  Don’t live in the past. Live. 

To live in the past is to fail. Succeed going forward. Don’t forget, but Let It Go. 

I intend to. 

 So Joe is gonna get inaugurated……As the First Illegitimate President. 

Having said that, I wonder how much of what he says in his speech we can count on? How much will be lies and hollow, empty words? 

So far, in my lifetime (And that is over a half-century) we haven’t been able to count on anything that the Democratic Presidents have promised in their Inauguration speech….Legitmate or not. 

We shall see. 

Anyone want to start a pool to see how long Joe lasts in the office before the Dems find a way to edge him out for Kamala? 

I’ll take a square for somewhere between 3 and 6 months.