Friday, January 8th, 2020
Most of the world today is still very much pre-occupied with the aftermath of the riots in the Capitol. Staff of the current administration is resigning in droves. Agent orange and his family have been remarkably silent and the MAGA crowd is now terrified. Of course, more and more facts come out. Police in DC and the FBI are clamping down on the domestic terrorists who tried to stop the electoral protest; less so because of election integrity concerns, but more so because one of theirs died. The executive order ordering a ten-year jail sentence for anyone who violates federal property, meant to punish BLM supporters, will now almost certainly applied to those who can be identified by their selfies posted to social media. Also, some of the racketeers are finding themselves terminated as their employers see their faces on TV and elsewhere. I am not sorry for any of these idiots.
Likewise, senators and potentially congress representatives who rejected certified votes might find it difficult to raise campaign funding going forward as big businesses cannot distance themselves fast enough from what happened at the Capitol January 6th / 7th.
At the top of the hypocrisy pyramid is the GoP with Senators who have univocally back the orange agent now claiming they were never supportive of him and have always been concerned. That 24 hours after they supported his election fraud claims. How stupid do they thin their electorate is?
The worst of it, sadly many of their supporters really are that stupid! Most of them are now very confused and scared Fox News reports. They actually believe their chosen one may have lied to them. Imagine. This all will take the USA A while to digest and a lot of soul searching and investigation will be needed. I do believe this offers the opportunity for a truth and reconciliation commission, which should investigate, punish but also hopefully return unity to the country.
The riots or acts of domestic terror or coup as the events are referred to have left no room for any other news; not even COVID-19 on a day when more than 4.000 Americans have died of the disease. The USA saw 288k new cases over the past 24 hours, totaling 21.1 million infected with 13.7 million recovered to date. Because of Christmas travel and the latest superspreader even experts at the CDC, especially Dr Fauci, expect both new infections and deaths to increase through February. I wonder if the vaccine can even still help in this setting? At least MoCo county has received 4.000 doses last week and will receive another 8.000 next week. So far all doses received have also found their way to recipients, so maybe we shall be of that number at some point in time.
I have not left the house at all today; focusing on backing up data and doing back-ups of the back-ups, which is incredibly time consuming; especially with the computer forever crashing. The other challenge has been mum’s printer. It needed two of four cartridges replaced and I spent hours trying to get that done, but the stupid machine refuses to recognize the cartridges, or if it does, claims there is not enough ink in either of them. I was so pissed off that I ordered a new printer today!