After decades of working for the good of the country, like his friend Jimmy did, Joe will continue to do good works post-presidency.
Attribution: Biden farewell address by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com
Online dictionary: The idiom “last hurrah” is a common expression used in English to describe a final effort or activity before retirement, departure, or the end of something. It signifies a last chance to make an impression or leave one’s mark on a situation.
Stephen with other news
Mrs. Obama has declined to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration, where Speaker Johnson pledged to fly flags at full mast. Elsewhere in Washington, the Coca-Cola company gifted Trump a special commemorative bottle, and two of his cabinet nominees faced scrutiny in Congressional confirmation hearings.
Not sure what Michelle’s plans are Monday, but they have to be more important than attending FF’s 2nd inauguration. I’ve got other things to do as well. Maybe go have lunch or something.
pogo, why the big tsk tsk about her not showing up/? it isn’t the history making thing media accuses her of since neither the outgoing flotus nor even the outgoing potus showed up last time.
oh yeah, forgot it’s always worse if the dems flout the norms. goopers can get away with mudering people on 5th ave and letting a million die of covid.
for a change, here’s some happy moments of sheer joy:
A man reunites with his dog.. missing for five days following the Palisades fire in California.
another happy story in the midst of sadness — The L.A. fires skipped over this historic avenue. Neighbors credit ‘trees of God’ ALTADENA, Los Angeles County — A towering river of green flows through Altadena and marks where the Eaton firestorm inexplicably blew by and left rows of homes untouched. Over 100 cedars native to the Himalayan mountains line Santa Rosa Avenue, which is known by locals and on historical markers as Christmas Tree Lane. The mile-long avenue is lit up in December with thousands of colorful holiday lights strung up in the trees. “These trees protected our little pocket,” said Kevin Van Vreede, 58, whose home still stands on nearby Sacramento Street. The Eaton Fire turned block after block of Altadena into ashen ruins. But these shaggy Dr. Seuss cedars still stand where they have grown since their 19th century planting. Embers didn’t take hold in their needles — even with about 20,000 lights,… Read more »
I’ve got such mixed feelings about Joe. His hubris might well be why we are here. What-ifs are useless, but can’t get out of my head what might have been if he had not run for reelection.
Now here’s a fundraising text that gets my attention. Fund A Porta Potty for Saturday’s March on Washington.. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/peoplesmarch?refcode=smswide01152025
Craig, imho, maggers like hubris, they voted for hubris, in fact, they went for the bigger hubris. I’m not sure there was any Democrat who could’ve out-hubered the First Felon.
I still believe we need to get rid of re-elections. One six year term for presidents. Get it done and get out.
Porta-potties, lol, we can get behind that.
Sure sounds familiar. Nixon scuttled LBJ’s Paris peace talks, Reagan got Iran to postpone hostage release, Netanyahu delays Gaza ceasefire deal.. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-01-16-2024-dc0ef64dd52db395c5a54328518e8efd
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/16/headlines/mike_turner_ousted_as_house_intelligence_committee_chair_following_concerns_from_mar_a_lago
“Mike Turner Ousted as House Intelligence Committee Chair Following “Concerns from Mar-a-Lago”
“Turner is an outspoken military hawk and has advocated for continued U.S. military support to Ukraine. In January of 2021, he broke with his party and voted to certify Joe Biden’s presidential victory.”
tRUMPsky is cleaning house. Can’t have any pesky, bipartisan Republicans. The dictator with the fragile-ego will have his retribution.
Wonder if the crowd will be smaller at this inauguration? Most MAGAts can’t afford to travel. Who paid for the domestic terrorists to be in DC on J6 of 2021? Maybe they’ll chip in for attending the installation of a fascist regime.
bId – The weather report for Monday is a high of 26F, probably at midnight, and dropping during the day to the teens. The wind will be windy. It should be one of the colder inauguration days since Ronnie (tax social security) put his hand on the book. The snowflakes will probably stay home this time, again.
today’s meme…
We gotta hope Jim Acosta stays in the 10am weekday chair on CNN. He’s one of the good ones. This morning Jim Acosta on fears the “free press is crumbling”:
Bob Uecker has died at age 90. A funny guy.
I hope Joe is already at work on his Presidential Library. I hope it will be at Archmere. “Joe Biden was 26 then, fresh out of law school with the Delaware bar exam behind him, and a Michel Legrand song began playing on the radio of his Corvette Stingray roadster. It was called “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” and even for a young man with a capacious ambition, he couldn’t have imagined the course his life would take.There were, as the 1969 song projected, tomorrows waiting deep in his eyes: summer (marriages to two remarkable women), winter (three tragic family deaths), spring (election to the Senate and, eventually, to the White House), and fall (the disastrous June debate that led to his withdrawal from the 2024 campaign). It is a lovely ballad, particularly appropriate for a country that has seen all the seasons and the times… Read more »
The most idiotic thing (of many btw) Merrick Garland has done is refuse to release the Smith report on the secret documents case because it might interfere with the investigation of the small fry criminals.
If Biden had a hair on his ass, he would issue a pardon to the idiots that helped Trump shuffle those secret documents around. Stating that while they are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt they are small fish and in fairness if we are not going to prosecuted Trump for his crimes then we should not prosecute minor actors. Then release the report.
But he doesn’t so he won’t.
And there is his failure. It has been consistent now for 4 years. Some people raise to the occasion, some just shuffle through.
Jack
Signaling, perhaps, God’s change of heart. He’s been known to do that.
Fresh out of law school driving a corvette.
Ha!
Yeah, that is working class all right.
That may explain the recent election better than anything else.
Jack
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15124510/what-id-do-differently-vice-president-joe-biden-interview/
yeah i don’t think Dems had a viable pro-wrestling-type candidate, the people wanted stupid, they’re getting stupid 🇺🇸
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-us-treasury-pick-bessent-says-extending-tax-cuts-top-priority-2025-01-16/
“Scott Bessent, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the Treasury Department, on Thursday said that extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of this year is “the single most important economic issue of the day.”
“If we do not renew and extend, then we will be facing an economic calamity,” Bessent told the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. “We will see a gigantic middle class tax increase.”
*BS. This is NOT about sparing the middle class.