Tag Archives: Joe Biden
Somewhen in 2020 I decided, for my own peace of mind, to eliminate news and especially politics from my life. The former has become utterly vapid and useless (extra especially any form of TV news), and the latter has become disgustingly polarized and pointless. I genuinely haven’t missed either, not one iota.
But two things combined to make me seek out a stream of President Biden’s State of the Union address this past Tuesday. Firstly, this post of mine from 2016, about President Obama’s last SOTU address, got a bunch of hits. Secondly, there were accounts that it was pretty awesome.
And, in more ways than one, indeed it was.
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6 Comments | tags: Joe Biden, President Biden, State of the Union | posted in Politics, Rant
Today the sun simultaneously set and rose. We had our own democratic version of: “The King is dead! Long live the King!” (An old phrase apt given the deposed would-be kinglet.)
I imagine many of us will go to sleep happier tonight than we have in years.
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17 Comments | tags: Amanda Gorman, Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, President Biden, Presidential Inauguration, Vice-President Harris | posted in Politics, Wednesday Wow
At long last we can be proud to have humans leading our nation again.
At long last we can finally breath again.
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15 Comments | tags: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, President Biden, Presidential Inauguration | posted in Politics
I keep thinking about the 71+ million Americans who voted against nearly everything American has stood for until the last few years. Our Continental Divide may be beautiful to behold, but our National Divide is an ugly disgrace to normative values.
At least they have been our values until now.
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22 Comments | tags: conservative, Democrat, Democratic Party, election 2020, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Never Trump, progressive, Republican, Republican Party | posted in Politics, Society
And congrats to the First Dogs (elect), Very Good Boys Champ and Major.
How great to have four-legged furry friends back in the White House! (I’ve long thought a love of dogs and a good character are correlated. Guess which POTUS hates dogs.)
Stay with dogs, my friends! Go forth and spread beauty and light.
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3 Comments | tags: dogs, Joe Biden | posted in Politics
Fell asleep reading a Nero Wolfe novel and woke up to a new world. Pennsylvania and Nevada called, Arizona still breaking for Biden/Harris…
Pretty nice thing to wake up to!
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40 Comments | tags: election 2020, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris | posted in Politics
Well, we kinda knew this was going to happen, but it’s still a pretty damn dark day for Our Democracy.
There seems reason for optimism, but in these crazy times, who knows how this all shakes out.
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8 Comments | tags: election 2020, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Never Trump | posted in Politics
It’s official: Based on available data, the resolution to the Fermi Paradox is simply that intelligent life does not exist in the universe at this time.
Life that thinks it’s intelligent does, though. But based on our observations, it has a long way to go. The universe can relax; Earthlings aren’t likely to be a problem to anyone but themselves.
13 Comments | tags: election 2020, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Never Trump | posted in Life, Politics
Well, I did my civic duty and privilege as a democratic citizen.
And it was a pretty easy vote in two regards.
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12 Comments | tags: Amy Klobuchar, election 2020, election day, I voted, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Twitler, vote | posted in Politics
For those who value character and honesty, politics has become increasingly depressing. To put it mildly. There never really was any hope the enthralled and craven Republican members of Congress would defy their cult leader. It’s a pity the Democrats didn’t play their hand better, but at least we got the asterisk in the history book.
And then we get kicked in the nuts by Iowa in what, make no mistake, was a stunning case of incompetence and stupidity. This was an unforced double (or triple) error I’ll rant about more when I learn more details.
One thing is clear: This is going to be a very strange — and no doubt very ugly — 2020 political season.
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53 Comments | tags: Amy Klobuchar, Anyone But Trump, Bernie Sanders, democracy, Democratic Party, democratic society, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg | posted in Politics, Society
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