Your Bag of Nothing for Friday, November 8, 2024

  • Well, at least I still have a shot at becoming the first half-Asian President of the United States.
  • My ears were so looking forward to not having to listen to RFK Jr. speak so often.
  • My kids have never experienced a “normal” presidential election.
  • I continue to beg God to take Jimmy Carter before inauguration day because I fear how the new administration will honor his life of service.
  • When Obama was the president-elect, I recall much discussion about wanting him to say something during the transition period because of the economic chaos. His answer was to say that the United States only has one president at a time. Researching that yesterday, I learned Nixon and Clinton both used that line, and I was reminded how, as President-Elect in late 2015, Trump was having trouble waiting on the sidelines. You may remember Trump taking credit for how well the stock market was performing as president-elect, claiming businesses and investors’ optimism of his upcoming presidency. He also dangerously crossed that line on foreign policy. Trump isn’t the type to sit back and wait, and I guarantee there will be a repeat in history with President-Elect Trump stepping on the heels of his successor before he is inaugurated.
  • If you are interested in the presidential transition process, I encourage you to check out the organization in charge of it all, the Center for Presidential Transition – The premier nonpartisan source of information and expertise for presidential candidates and their teams. They even have some short videos that are pretty informative. I got a kick out of the image they used for a recent blog entry.
  • Of course, I have the post-election blues, but I’m not at the point where I can say “this” and “that” is what went wrong for the Harris campaign. I’m in the “I wonder what if” and “I wonder what’s to come” stage.
    • I hate this and everything to come, like pardons for Jan 6. Would it have been better for him to have won in 2020, and we would have been rid of him? Or would he have worked things out to stay in power for a third term?
    • I started this thread saying I’m not at the “this” and “that” is what went wrong stage of the post-election blues. Ultimately, rightly or wrongly, it will fall on Biden for choosing to run for reelection.
  • I still have a sense of humor. No matter how much my political views differ from this, I can see things from the other’s perspective and appreciate humor.
  • This speaks volumes and is a bitter pill for my fellow liberals to swallow.
  • For the longest time, I wondered about the emotional pain my mother experienced watching her home country slowly die and accepting how things will never be the same. Arrogantly, I thought I was lucky because I would never be in the same situation. I hope those in charge prove me wrong.
  • I’m guessing Biden pardons Hunter. What is there to lose?
  • Relevant.

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