Drinking at Home Might Not Be As Fun But You Don't Have To Tip or Worry About Something Much Worse Driving Home

The next time I get on an airplane, my first question of the pilot or crew won't be his party registration.

Last night I came across a face book post that listed a whole slew of aggressions  that democrats, people who used to be republicans, independents, moderates, and liberals might have committed during the last four years of a failed presidency.  Or maybe they just voted for Joe Biden because the alternative left them at home, struggling with a failed COVID 19 policy, possibly job loss and a more than a little trepidation going to grocery shop, a bar, restaurant, a store, or visiting family, tired and were again looking for a change.

It started out like this: "We tolerated 44 (Obama) and kept our mouths shut".

Nothing was said about how thrilled they were as the Senate Majority Leader did his best to make (Obama) a one term president.

None of grievances voiced them remotely resembled the riot that took place on January 6, 2021, and nothing about the votes in the Electoral College were mentioned.

Just imagine women marching in Washington, impeachment hearings, "people saying not my president".  Imagine, reporters fact checking lies that came out of the White House for four years, Sarah Huckabee being harassed, for repeating misinformation at a restaurant...She was paid with tax dollars, suspicions about pardons for people that pled guilty for lying to Congress or the FBI.

The last election in Georgia will result in the the Senate Chamber being split equally.  The mid term  election and  left the the House with Democrats in charge.

 








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  1. John AsgeirsonJanuary 20, 2021 at 3:31 AM

    I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. From Lincoln's First Inaugural Address.

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