Today is Tuesday, January 21, 2025, the first day of “the dictator for a day” in his second term in office and considering just a few of his cruel actions which he instituted in just one day, it definitely seems as if he is living up to that avowed promise of being essentially one on that first fucking day. The very first action that this loathsome creature carried out on his initial day in office was to pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers, just hours after the commander in “grief” entered office yesterday. This detestable act is examined in an online CNN article by Lauren Fox entitled “Republicans struggle to answer for Trump’s pardon of January 6 defendants just hours into his presidency.”

Dump’s executive action, which many GOP senators had hoped would be directed at only nonviolent offenders who entered and broke into the Capitol that day, thrust those spineless repugnicans once again into a familiar posture of navigating how and when to distance themselves from the current president and leader of their cult party. Most repugnicans largely attempted to sidestep direct questions about whether they personally agreed with their cult leader’s action, arguing it was up to the liar in chief to use his pardon powers at his direction. Not a good answer, in my opinion. Again, these lawmakers are foreshadowing their response to Dump for the duration of his second term by their spinelessness evidenced today at this juncture.

Thus Dump pardoned more than 1,000 people who were charged in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He also commuted the sentences of 14 people in the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers who were charged with seditious conspiracy, not a fucking misdemeanor, folks. If this doesn’t make your blood boil, I don’t know what will. Think of all of those Capitol Police officers who were injured or the officers who either succumbed to suicide or died as a result of these peoples’ actions and now the president has pardoned them and has made a mockery of the principle of law and order and the justice system altogether. But we seem to forget that this president is a convicted felon himself.

The only repugnicans who objected to the president’s blanket pardons were Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who were the only senators who voted to convict Dump after his second impeachment trial in 2021. Cassidy, who is up for reelection and facing a primary, told CNN: “I’m a big ‘back-the-blue’ guy. I think people who assault police officers – if they do the crime, they should do the time.” Murkowski said she’s concerned about the message the pardons send to the U.S. Capitol Police officers who protect the lawmakers every day. This, to me, is a commonsense notion, and it’s shockingly absurd that no other repugnican could defy the president’s order today.

Even the odious partner in crime of the president, Vice President JD Vance himself said before he took office that those who committed violence that day “obviously” shouldn’t be pardoned. Also a rational notion, in my opinion. But he probably regrets saying the obvious now that the press has a record of him saying so.

When asked for his reaction to the pardons, one stupid senator, Steve Daines, a repugnican from Montana, had only this to say, “I’m grateful President Trump is the president of the United States,” which is the worst non sequitur you can think of as a response to a direct question like this.

That’s all I’m going to write about this disaster foisted upon the American people known as Donald J. Drumpf. Everything else is just so unsettling. And I’m still not watching broadcast news as of yet. I don’t know when I’ll start viewing it again.

I can report on a story that is connected to the new president’s term in office: my anti-Trump patriots group formed sometime last week. As of just yesterday, I had no members coming to my anti-inauguration event. But now, surprisingly, I have six people who expressed interest in the group. I believe I had reported that I had two persons interested in the group as of yesterday’s blog. I now have four more. Maybe it will be incumbent upon me to again schedule an event. I’ll check the group’s page tomorrow to check for more names and then I’ll decide to plan another meeting at the same site. I’ll probably schedule it for next Monday, again in the afternoon. It seems exciting. Or is it?

Tomorrow Elliot and I will be meeting my cousins for dinner in Manhattan. So for now, unless they cancel because of the extreme cold, I won’t be here until Thursday.

And so it went!