Things, They Are A-Changin’

Yesterday I wrote an article in which I took almost sadistic glee in the fact that while the skeleton White House staff that remains is trying to give Trump a Nuremberg Rally style send off from Joint Base Andrews tomorrow. And then I realized that if I lived anywhere near DC, and could cadge a ticket, I’d want to be there. Not to wish him well, I’d be flipping him double barrel birds, like The Mooch, but to make sure that the sneaky little fucker actually trundled up the air stairs, and the plane got off of the ground.

As I watched Joe Biden basically assume the Presidency 18 hours early this afternoon, leading a ceremony of national mourning and healing in front of the Reflecting Pool in the National Mall, it suddenly hit me. Tomorrow was going to be the end of more than just the Trump atrocity, it was going to be personal.

Four short years ago, Ursula and I were already friends, as well as diarists on the mothership, Daily Kos, when she reached out to me. A friend of hers wanted me to join her in writing for a new blog site he had just created. Almost prophetically, the name of the new site was The Trump Impeachment. And while the impeachment of El Pendejo Presidente was our most avid wish, I don’t think that any of us could have foreseen a circumstance in which we’d be able to write about two of them!

A year or so later, realizing that the era of Trump would eventually end, one way or another, and the website name had a limited shelf life, Chris renamed it Politizoom, to give it relevance in a post Trump world.

Which is what led me to the realization that the swearing in of Joe Biden at noon tomorrow sounds more than just the death knell of the Trump crime family, it also signals the end of the founding era of Politizoom, since it was from its origin Trump centric. For instance;

• Starting at 12 noon tomorrow, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr will become only the second sitting President that Ursula and I will have written about on the site. Trump has been the only one since the sites inception
• Y’all are going to have to go through a culture shock. Starting Thursday, you’re actually going to have to scroll down the main page looking for an article with Trump’s name in the title, and bearing his picture, instead of having to scroll down looking for an article about anybody else!
• At noon Eastern tomorrow, at least a solid 50% of our image library, the images we use for our articles, can be bundled up, wired, and taken down to the curb with the rest of the trash. Because for 3 years, it’s been ATATT. All Trump All The Time
• Starting at noon tomorrow, I have a thesaurus thick book of sarcastic nicknames for Trump and his disgusting Trumplets that I’m going to have to strain my back putting up on a high shelf, since I won’t need them anymore
• And worst of all, starting at noon tomorrow, I’m actually going to go back to work for a living! For myself, as well for comics and late night talk show hosts, for the last 4 years Trump has been the gift that just keeps on giving. Now I’m actually going to have to start to look for shit to write about again. I’m getting too old for this shit

So as you can see, noon tomorrow Eastern doesn’t just mean the end of the Trump Era in Washington, it also means the end of the creationist Trump Era of our beloved website. For the first time, Mopshell, Max, Ursula and I will begin looking for something other than Trump to write about. It’s going to take a bit for us to get our sea legs under us, so I beg your indulgence. But it’s going to be as exciting as hell, and I can’t wait, especially since it means not having to look at his fat face when I look for an image. I will leave you tonight with the words of James Taylor, which just seem apropos somehow;

I’ve been walking my mind through an easy time, my back turned to the sun. Lord knows, when the cold wind blows, it’ll turn your head around. There’ll be hours of time on the telephone line, to talk about things to come. Sweet dreams and flying machines, in pieces on the ground.

Peace

If you enjoyed this article, you might also like to check out President Evil, and the sequel, President Evil II, A Clodwork Orange . They comprise a pretty much daily report from the front of the 2016 GOP primaries, as well as the general election

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