The excitement of Trump finally being excised from the White House is a marvelous day indeed.
But it strikes me as premature to claim complete victory. This is game 3 or 4 of a 7 game series. The last games won, there remains a violent, virulent, minority who are willing to kill.
There is a GOP Senate who are still enthrall to the general project of Trumpism. There are the specific Congress members who specifically remain at their post. Faithfully being unfaithful to their oath and the country. There are the threats of violence properly being responded to
but in the necessary response demonstrate that this "series" is not over. Games are won. But the anti American Trumpies have not been defeated.

Citing an analogy from Basketball, it doesn’t seem possible, but it happened that a team has come from 3-1 and won the series.
Rejoice.
Honor the troops that have and will make the day a success. And in the meantime don't forget that the malignant force will morph into a new shape to fight under the new conditions.
They will go darker.
Do not expect Trump to go quietly. He will be plotting his revenge.
Unless he, and his capos, are held accountable, this victory will be seen historically as a win of the battle, but ultimately a loss of the war.

It is good Trump is going away, in shame and in dishonor. As always, it is what happens next that will determine what can happen in
terms of recovering the country. Biden has an aggressive public plan which is excellent. I hope there is an equally aggressive plan to search out and deal with the underlying causes of Trump & Trumpism.
I suppose my concern is knowing that Trump remains a malignant force. He has acted like all dark-souled sociopaths do when they are defeated, Like Saddam Hussain retreating from Kuwait, he has set as many fires and bombs in the system as he can, causing as much damage as he can.
Game 5 begins tomorrow.

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20 Jan
It is moving seeing this display. I suppose there is a sense of coming around the last mile after a long and arduous journey, fraught with perils...and now that is over. Wounded but alive, and growing in strength just for making it home.
A promise that it will be different now. ImageImageImageImage
It is a sense of dodging a deadly bullet. A sense that we might in fact find some of those better angels Lincoln talked about.
A realization that an egoist at the center is a drain on the country, & a wound that consumes all the attn & resources, leaving the citizens adrift.
A sense, not even a hope, but a certainty that the Citizens will be restored to their proper place, not as bit players in someone else's fantasies, but as the reason for the grand experiment in democracy in the first place.
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19 Jan
The detachment from reality is escalating. As if that even seemed possible.
Wisconsin stand on its own?
Not likely.

The important part of this story is the reflection of the mindset of this tribe. Now to be denominated as Trumpers, its underlying philosophy Trumpism.
Trumpism is a philosophy that is rooted in a severe detachment from reality.
From its founder, and his megalomaniacal, solipsistic understanding of the world as his servant, and his own magnificence as the standard of excellence.
Whether Generals who did not understand the Middle Eastern issues; Scientists who did not understand how to drink lysol to combat COVID, or the boggling incompetence at organizing the medical and logistical support and system required to combat COVID. And Etc....
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18 Jan
Trump is shunned in every quarter, except his most rabid and, in his own words “uneducated”, supporters. Those are the ones he loves. The ones he is willing to use, as fodder for his own, selfish cannon, for his own arrogant “wars”.
Increasingly no one else will have him.
Go now.
This article is a fine expression of the military angle on this momement. Recounting the history of the military with past presidents, and how they used their relationship and their farewells to honor the troops; Tr, of course, used his relationship to gild his own crummy image.
As all prior have honored the military for their dedications and work in their own way, according to the times and events, the article concludes that Trump will not have the opportunity to “thank the troops”. Having highlighted that the leaders of the military felt obligated
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16 Jan
Soon this will be in the past...

I think it is likely the only ones laughing are the cynical smirks of those who benefit from our Trumpian pratfall.

The rest of the world appears to be on edge waiting for the day this Trump era is over. Image
Related, however, is the fact that "the way things were" is inadequate. It is not only insufficient to have as a goal "return things to the way they were", but it is in its own way regressive and provocative all over again. Sweeping the problem away for another day.
What is called for is to return to a better, deeper set of values, Ones that are espoused & articulated in our founding documents but not fully realized. Make the necessary changes now. Not someday. Now.
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16 Jan
The assertion & question of unity, unifying the country, wondering what the hell the problem is, and why is all this happening is taking center stage. Dramatically.
As is the corollary question being tossed about, "How to heal the Nation?".

There is a #systems principle
that is a powerful insight into these, & related, questions.

"You cannot solve a problem at the same level it was created."

If the problem we were solving for were some detail, 'where to place a road; what $ to allocate to this or that project' sort of thing, then the way to
think about the problem, the impasse, is to appeal first to the functions of prior planning, history - meaning what did we do the last time, maybe pragmatics...Eventually, if the organization (whether business, community, or governance) may make a decision and that becomes the
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@tommy_pane @bethesdabeth You know what is most observable about your obsessions?

You have made no comment, that I can find, taking a stand about the Jan6 insurrection.
My suspicion is you think it is perfectly fine. That it was exactly what was needed, and Trump was just the fellow to finally do the
@tommy_pane @bethesdabeth 2/ work he was called to do, and that he "promised" to do.

What he said was "drain the swamp" that you so appreciate about Trump, has turned out to be just filling the swamp with his creatures. And in the meantime denigrating any chance of addressing any of the many challenges
@tommy_pane @bethesdabeth 3/ that beset the country. Many of them Trump's own making. Including, most vividly, his unconscionable incompetence regarding his handling of COVID from the beginning. (or was it intentional? There's a theory for you).

More could & will be said about this incompetence.
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