Althouse: Today's the big day.

January 20, 2025

Today's the big day.

Trump inauguration

Let me take your temperature:

35 comments:

rehajm said...: Today is a day for celebration that some of the evil will be out of power at noon, some will be stricken before lunch and all of it will be cowed before sunset. I reject the notion of revenge and celebrate the possibility that rule of law and nobody is above it makes a return to our civilization.; 1/20/25, 6:03 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I am more than a bit concerned about his declaring the release of all the assassination files though. He could have said SURPRISE!; 1/20/25, 6:04 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: But, yeah, too much bullshit(D). Time to slip into glide.; 1/20/25, 6:06 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: I don’t regard prosecuting the perps of the sabotage of the 2020 election, the Russia collusion hoax, the lawfare, and the attempted assassination of Trump as acts of “revenge.” I regard same as attempts to enforce the rule of law.; 1/20/25, 6:06 AM
Two-eyed Jack said...: I look forward to the nation being once again ruled by Hawaiian judges.; 1/20/25, 6:12 AM
wendybar said...: I agree with you. It isn't payback, it is following the laws of the land.; 1/20/25, 6:20 AM
Breezy said...: The 51 do need to be put out to pasture, along with people like Mary McCord and Marc Elias, who engineer all the insurrection-y lawfare crap. Never want to hear or see their names again.; 1/20/25, 6:22 AM
Another old lawyer said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/20/25, 6:22 AM
rehajm said...: This morning the Biden administration continues to identify which high profile figures of previous leadership committed crimes worthy of being pardoned. Trump doesn’t have to lift a finger…; 1/20/25, 6:22 AM
Another old lawyer said...: Need one or two more options: "Expecting ultimately to be disappointed" and maybe "Worst fears about Nation's survivability confirmed".; 1/20/25, 6:24 AM
Dan from Madison said...: Outstanding; 1/20/25, 6:25 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: I'm on the wrong side of 60 but there's a fair chance (what with the Information Age, Artificial Intelligence, and the unassailable consolidation of power) I might live long enough to see the revelation of who or what is really in charge of this country. I'm hoping for Reptilians but it'll probably be something completely banal like a formerly secret international military cabal resembling SPECTRE or SMERSH or something like that. It would be too much to hope for KAOS.; 1/20/25, 6:29 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Watching Reddit, I get the feeling the "second coming" doesn't mean what it used to mean. It now means 'Trump is coming back to rule for a thousand years.'

Given that prospect, I don't blame AOC for not going to the inaugural. Bless her heart.; 1/20/25, 6:33 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Good news is Bad news, again

👆🏽 "AOC pointing out that all major social media is now controlled by the right wing"; 1/20/25, 6:40 AM
rehajm said...: It isn’t revenge, it is reducing the incentives to engage in illegal activity and abuse of the legal system for political gain. When there are no consequences for illegal activity and abuse of the legal system for political gain you get more illegal activity and abuse of the legal system for political gain…; 1/20/25, 6:42 AM
Political Junkie said...: I voted happy and hopeful, but there is a bit of wariness. My wife, the D, is going bonkers.; 1/20/25, 6:45 AM
Leland said...: Happy and Hopeful that we will get answers about how Biden was installed as President, and who has been running his Administration while he was in a diminished mental state.; 1/20/25, 6:50 AM
Tim said...: If I were in the Senate and House, I would use the fact that Biden pardoned them to remove them from the House and Senate. After what we have see for the past 4 years, I would nuke the filibuster, and pass voter registration and identification laws that insured that the elections were fair and free in all states. I would punish the Democrats by denying them any say whatsoever in the Legislative or Executive branch. I would salt the earth in response to these lawless actions. I would go after EVERY federal employee who enabled the leaders of the Democratic party to get away with this. And I would go after Biden, because his puppet masters obviously do not care what happens to him, they didn't even have him pardon himself. Make them pay.; 1/20/25, 6:50 AM
Iman said...: Why just one? I’m wary, happy and hopeful, and ravenous for revenge.; 1/20/25, 7:03 AM
Iman said...: The revenge and delivery of justice will be real. And they’ll be spectacular.; 1/20/25, 7:08 AM
Meade said...: I’m hungry for peaceful patriotic revenge. Extremely hungry.; 1/20/25, 7:23 AM
Iman said...: I’ll take mine “well done”, thank you berry much!; 1/20/25, 7:24 AM
boatbuilder said...: I still want revenge, but I don't think that's going to happen. At least not at the purposeful, Trump-directed level.

Cosmic justice does seem to have a way of working out, sometimes.

I am happy and hopeful that lots of other good stuff will proceed.

And it will undoubtedly be interesting!; 1/20/25, 7:26 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: I vacillate between Happy and Hopeful that a recovery and repair of the Country will begin. And then Wary...OMG please don't let anything awful happen today. Too many internal enemies (CIA FBI)

If the worst (assassination) should happen, all Hell will break loose. I want Happy and Hopeful to win.; 1/20/25, 8:04 AM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: Whatever it is, it's being served cold.
Very cold.; 1/20/25, 8:09 AM
rhhardin said...: Like weddings, guys are not interested. Attempt to draw meaning out of what has no meaning.; 1/20/25, 8:26 AM
wendybar said...: Me too. It's going to be glorious watching the meltdowns .; 1/20/25, 8:32 AM
planetgeo said...: I suspect AOC isn't going because she couldn't get the alterations on her gown done in time to say, "Tax My Fat Ass" from its previous "Tax the Rich" because she's rich now too.; 1/20/25, 8:39 AM
Hassayamper said...: Game theory makes it clear that "tit for tat" is the optimal strategy. So let's have a nice heaping helping of revenge, then get on with the business of MAGA.; 1/20/25, 9:16 AM
Hassayamper said...: She doesn't have a fat ass. She has a remarkably nice ass, to go with her spectacular rack and pretty face. If she were a conservative Latina like Anna Paulina Luna, she'd be wildly popular with middle-aged right-wing men like me.; 1/20/25, 9:24 AM
Hassayamper said...: Cosmic justice does seem to have a way of working out, sometimes.

Isn't that the truth. Just the fact that all the lawfare didn't keep Trump out of a second term, but probably contributed to his success, has got to be a hugely bitter pill for the leftist heaps of filth to swallow.; 1/20/25, 9:26 AM
Rocco said...: Eric the Fruit Bat said...
“I'm on the wrong side of 60…”

Which side is that?

Boomers then: Don’t trust anyone over 30.
Boomers now: Don’t trust anyone under 60.; 1/20/25, 10:21 AM
Rusty said...: C'mom. Man! You know? The thing?; 1/20/25, 10:56 AM
Rusty said...: The best revenge is Trump in the White House. Illegal aliens are already starting to leave. Fouchi, Cheney and Milely are felons that needeed to be pardoned. The revenge is going to be the process of this country becoming more and more proserous and free.; 1/20/25, 11:00 AM
Rusty said...: He's in. Now the work starts.; 1/20/25, 11:16 AM