In the aftermath of the presidential election craziness, but once it was clear to THE MAJORITY OF US SANE PEOPLE that Biden had won, I shifted my sense of foreboding to how trump was going to behave during his lame duck period. And everything I worried about is coming to fruition, times a thousand or so. I knew he wouldn’t concede, I knew he would try to cheat, I knew that he would behave as a tin pot despot to try to cling to power. And now there are twelve republican senators and over 100 republican house members who are going to contest tomorrow’s ceremonial/mundane congressional formality of accepting the state-certified electoral votes, and trump actually believes that they will succeed in overturning the vote to keep him in office. [Note: They won’t.] It will be nothing more than performance art (I got an A+ in high school Civics, apparently unlike these seditious clowns), but the very idea that elected members of congress would do something so egregiously anti-American and anti- democratic-republic as subverting the will of the voters—the fundamental foundation of this country—just makes me…stare into the middle distance. (Also, incandescent with thermonuclear fury).
There had best be accountability for trump’s gobsmacking extortion of the Georgia Secretary of State, where he lost to Biden by 11,700 votes and he was recorded on a phone call for over an hour pressuring, pleading, groveling, intimidating, and threatening him to “recalculate” the vote and give it to him. Yet another “perfect call,” very similar to what got trump impeached with his “perfect call” (his term) with the Ukraine president to manufacture and publicize dirt on Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, again to cheat in the election. Can you say corruption soup? Can you say garbage human?
Get here already, January 20th!
Christmas is put to bed. (Always an unpleasant task). I appreciate having everything back to normal, though, except I do miss the extra light emanating from the tree and garlands!
I’ve had this Christmas tree skirt for several years now—I’m thinking about ten! And I’d never washed it because 1) I figured it wasn’t washable because it has various fabric types plus the big stuffed Santa face, and 2) I always hurriedly put it away in its bin in time for John to haul the bins to storage. This year, I realized that I HAD to at least try to wash it. So I did! I washed and dried it on Delicate and it turned out beautifully! The colors pop! (After ten years (!) it had to be pretty damned dirty!)
I also wanted to show you a couple of things I got for Christmas! After watching Netflix’s “The Octopus Teacher” and falling in love with it, John gave me these octopus bookends. Yes, they’re kind of creepy (octopuses are scary looking), but I love them!
And then these cool vases and silk flowers that I think enhance the fireplace mantel:
And then there’s this! It’s a birdfeeder from Nate and Sandra! I’ve never seen anything like it before. The whole inside is open (like a tire?):
It’s been so wet and rainy and often windy lately, that I’ll wait to hang it.
Ugh…nail-biting election run-off in Georgia tonight to determine who will have control of the Senate. It’s Georgia. And even though Biden won, it’s still a very red state. (Can’t believe anyone would vote for the corrupt incumbent republican candidates who both made a killing in the stock market after getting intel briefings before the public did that the pandemic was imminent).
