Oh and while I am at it,

 "LIZ DON'T INHALE!!"

The Boston Globe must feel Biden's inauguration is a sure thing come January, because they ran their usual speculative piece on which local democrats are gonna go to work for the incoming democratic admin. They did it for Clinton, Obama and now Biden, you can set your watch to it, IF the democrats happen to win a presidential election.

And as usual they've picked out a heroic sinecure for our redoubtable Senior Senator, Elizabeth Warren, Secretary of the Treasury, among other beguiling portfolios. All I can advise is, Liz don't do it!!  If you grab off a plum job with the admin, that means Charlie Baker appoints your temporary successor and we then have to fight a Special Senate Election, you will recall, we lost in 2010 catapulting your onetime rival Scott Brown to the US Senate.

I'll be blunt, I don't wanna fight that election, we botched it once, and it could get botched again, easily. Chuck Schumer can't be sanguine about the idea of even a temporary GOP US Senator MA, even with all his own prospects riding on two Senatorial Run Offs, In Georgia...

If Schumer is smart he's already asked that Biden not upset the senatorial equilibrium in any way, that doesn't favor the democrats...

Anyway, my message today is, "Liz Don't Listen", the people blowing smoke in your face here all wanna sell newspapers, get themselves a soft touch in DC, burnish their credentials or boost their ratings. They don't give a rat's ass about the great challenges of our times, challenges best met by Elizabeth Warren fighting it out in the US Senate!

CNN calls Georgia for Biden...

 this is an astonishing turn of events, Joe Biden is the FIRST White Liberal Democrat from the Northeast to carry The Peach State, since....My Landsman, John F. Kennedy. Funny, they are both Roman Catholics too...

But of course, as I've said before, Biden carried Georgia and cracked the Solid South thanks to Stacy Abrams, whatever she wants please give it to her, I only wish that what she wants to win both the Senatorial Run Offs down there come January.

Four Years Ago, at the dawn of a new dark age, Trump hailed his 306 Electoral Votes as "A Landslide", who am I to deny that Biden has touched off his own landslide??

Congrats to President Elect Biden & VP Elect, Kamala Harris...

 who finally kicked Donald Trump's fat @ss this week with a four million and climbing Mandate...Today, for the first time in four long terrible years, I woke in a good mood and sustained it, all day long.

And I have Joe Biden to thank for that.

Amazingly our current good fortune goes back to the South Carolina Primary, where an entire democratic electorate, woke up too one look at the still considerable slate of presidential aspirants and turned to Joe Biden, as one, and cried out "Joseph, Veep of Barack, Lead Us Out of the Wilderness, Lest We Perish!!"

Thats when the Walls of Jericho came tumbling down and a scant two week later, Biden had a lock on the nomination...because Ghod Knows Prior to that Biden sure as hell looked like a punch drunk plug with more bruises than sense.

But I will say this about Joe Biden, he can get up off that canvass like nobody's business and go right back into his stance, any other politician who got hit like Kamala Harris hit him last fall would have literally disintegrated on camera.

Now today, He is President Elect, and that Champion Pugilist Kamala Harris his Running Mate...Kudos to Biden for doing the right thing and graciously elevating a former competitor, he "transcends"...

I'm not gonna split hairs at the moment about his margins in the Electoral College (newsflash, they were always a little thin), or the House or the Senate, our paramount goal in this election was to separate Donald Trump from the nuclear codes, we took a giant step on that this week, we should be proud and breath easier.

From this day forward

 during an election cycle, if someone comes to me, with data, insisting with hushed yet astonished tones that "Texas and Florida are In Play..." My response will be loud and emphatic "BULLSHIT!"

But...if...Stacy Abrams sez "Texas and Florida are in Play", THEN I will believe and send money and do my part. That woman is a sorceress, she reversed engineered a voter suppression statute and drove 800,000 new voters to the polls. Whatever she wants, President Elect Biden should give it to her and please God, put her in charge of the two pending Senatorial Run Offs in Georgia!!

I mean it, Abrams should get her pick of a Cabinet slot, Ambassadorships, if she wants another Go at the Governorship in Georgia, whatever it is, I'm fine with it.

"Whats the Worst Thing That Could Happen?"

 If you are nervous, uncertain, wracked with anxiety, just remember this one very steadying thing, you've already been thru this once before, and in 2016 it came as a surprise and a shock as well. So whatever happens tomorrow and in the days or weeks to come, you've been there.  You can take some strength and even comfort from that grim memory.

To quote Churchill (always our refuge in testing times),"Let Us Brace Ourselves to Our Duties", to which I must add "We Must be Equal to Our Times". Our progeny are counting on us to right these manifold wrongs wrought by Trump's Cabal in DC and to not pass along to them the dire necessity of hard decision.

History and Democracy Itself, Are Counting on Us, Our Challenges are Great, Therefore Our Determination Must be Greater.

Good Luck to All of You, God Bless.

The USA has never lost a war

 quite like the war we are currently losing against Covid_19.  Mark Meadows, the White House Chief of Staff du jour, did however finally tip the Admin's coronavirus strategy this week quote: "We are not going to control the Pandemic" unquote.

Well, we are certainly not going to "control" anything unless we make an effort, dedicate resources, counsel patience & listen to the scientists...but who has time for that in the Trump Admin eh?

But I digress, as my white haired old mother used to say "Not to Decide, is to Decide", and the callous lack of decision by the White House re Covid_19 seems to indicate they are back hoping that "herd immunity" is somehow magically triggered and it all "goes away".  That is akin to feeding more and more Covid-Fodder to the Pathogen, until it gets sick of killing us!

That is what Meadows' means when he says we aren't gonna control the pandemic...and when fatalities have reached 200,000 + its time to call "herd immunity" what it is, genocide.  Someone somewhere doesn't want to do the hard work of a continental Covid_19 policy and simply prefers to feed the pandemic additional victims...that is what this comes down to....

A Legit Tweet....

 Posted on Twitter by the RNC (otherwise known as a synod of zombies and the undead with unmatched fundraising skills):

"Pres. Trump is fighting for YOU! Here are some of his priorities for a 2nd term:

*Establish Permanent Manned Presence on The Moon *Send the 1st Manned Mission to Mars *Build World’s Greatest Infrastructure System *Establish National High-Speed Wireless Internet Network"

This is a laugh and half, no mention of covid_19 (I suppose it triggers cringeworthy presidential tantrums at this point, who knows?), or jobs or really anything. It is no more than two items on NASA's wishlist, a broken promise from campaign 2016 and a patently mendacious pledge for free internet that AT &T etc WILL NEVER countenance.

Or put it another way it's the GOP's version of California Governor Jerry Brown's 1980 pledge to "Protect the Earth, Serve the People & Explore the Universe."

But lets face it, these days, with enough money, a person, especially one of influence can enter their own personally tailored fantasy world live there, and govern from there for extended periods of time sans consequence.

Thats our real problem today, the Overclass has become completely detached from reality/consequence. In a democracy, under the rule of law, normally this can be corrected via free & fair elections...I say normally but these aren't normal times and and democratic mores and habits have degraded dangerously.

Thus metaphorically speaking, if there is a healthful change in government next month, the new admin's topmost priority is the restoration and strengthening of democratic norms as a means to firmly reattach the overclass to the empire of consequence in which the rest of us live.

Like I said, If....