The first four-day weekend of the 2020 holiday season is ending, and we're heading into another three-day workweek before the next long weekend kicks in. We cats have a few thoughts.
Benedict Donald apparently has signed the COVID relief-slash-stimulus bill into law tonight, but only after needlessly inflicting anxiety and suffering on millions of Americans over Christmas. This whole episode has been a searing reminder of how deeply mentally ill Donald Trump is. If he really cared about giving his desperate constituents $2,000 instead of $600, he could exert his mighty influence over the Republican Party and urge Congress to pass another bill. But of course he won't.
Bernie Sanders has been whining about Joe Biden's Cabinet appointments. They're not lefty enough, he thinks. We rarely weigh in on Bernie's nonsense, but this time we have to say something. Well, two somethings: First, Biden's appointees have to be competent fixers of everything that the Trumpsters have broken. Second, the Cabinet should represent America, not the Democratic Party. Buzz off, Bernard.
The Nashville Christmas Day bomber has been identified, and it seems he's a sixtysomething white guy who was on a suicide mission. But it's unclear why. You have to have your suspicions, though, since Trump has said absolutely nothing about the event — kind of like when he says nothing about stuff Vladimir Putin does. Still, after we saw Petula Clark trending, we're glad that it's because the bomber was playing "Downtown" from his RV before he blew up and that Clark isn't dead.
Finally, as we enter the final three and a half weeks of the nightmare that is Trump — hoping to get through with our democracy only battered and not shattered — let's all resolve that we won't relax and disengage after the Georgia Senate runoffs and after Inauguration Day 2021. In fact, we can't ever relax again. As our incoming Vice President has said, "Democracy is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. Keep fighting for it each and every day." We cats PURR.
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