MOST people have accepted that Joe Biden is the US President-Elect, from the majority of citizens, political representatives, courts, TV commentators and finally a source of true authority, Twitter.
On Jan 20, 2021, President- Elect Joe Biden loses the “Elect” word. He gets the keys to the White House, which are unnecessary as someone opens every door for him.
He gets the red phone except that it doesn’t really exist.
He gets the nuclear button except that it’s actually really just a set of codes.
But he does get the highly regarded @POTUS Twitter account. Twitter had declared that they will save all the Trump messages and then reset the count to zero.
Will there be much difference when the new President uses the account, apart from the frequency, the misspellings, the incorrect grammar, the fake news, the complaints about fake news and the overuse of the word “Great”? We hope and assume so.
What will future historians make of the Trump Twitter messages?
Hopefully, they can just use the delete button by then.
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You’re fired
President Trump has fired Christopher Krebs who was the head of the agency that oversaw the voting technology.
The reason he was fired was that he did his job properly and said so despite the President saying the opposite.
Basically, the President has said the election was rigged which effectively means he considers Krebs to have rigged the results. This would lead to lawsuits if there was any credibility to the accusation or the accuser.
Most people are honest, do their jobs properly and the better their job performance is, the more secure their job is except in the “You’re Fired!” Trump reality TV world.
Keep your head up Chris, you did the right thing. Well done.
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Bring back the funny cats
When the Four Seasons Landscaping press conference folly occurred, a check for memes on the topic showed there were quite a few and they were funny.
How could so many show such disrespect for the President’s representative? Very easily and very frequently it seems.
It does raise the question about what we find funny. Slapstick, where someone is hurt, sports mishaps and stupid animals, usually raise a laugh. Perhaps their time is done and people want more sophisticated humor. And yet it is the ridiculous, the weird tweets, the inability to accept reality and the general high farce of the US presidency that provide most of the best laughs.
What is needed is a political leadership that provides confidence and reliability and then people can return to watching cat videos. This time is almost upon us. (dfitzger@melbpc.org.au/PN)
