{"id":89083,"date":"2025-01-20T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89083"},"modified":"2025-01-20T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:25:15","slug":"89083","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89083","title":{"rendered":"Day 1, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last time I watched a Presidential inauguration live on TV was when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated.\u00a0 I was in junior high, and they wheeled a TV into our history classroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I missed Reagan&#8217;s (twice), Bush I, Clinton (twice), Dubya (twice), Trump&#8217;s first, and Obama (all three times).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I may break my streak today.\u00a0\u00a0 Partly to see history.\u00a0 Partly because I&#8217;ve become an accidental, skeptical Trump supporter.\u00a0 Partly because, let&#8217;s be honest, I suspect some lefty is going to try something stupid.<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t mean just this guy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re in trouble boys. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l1wruWjXj6\">pic.twitter.com\/l1wruWjXj6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 9mmSMG (@9mm_smg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9mm_smg\/status\/1881080700360921412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of danger:\u00a0 remember when George W Bush took office?\u00a0\u00a0 And the departing Clinton staffers, in a fit of juvenility, pried the &#8220;W&#8221; keys off of all the computer keyboards in the west wing? <\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s pardons, and some of his other efforts to stymie Trump from the great political beyond, are like that &#8211; only actually damaging, as opposed to juvenile and spiteful.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So much so that even the elder statesman of &#8220;Never-Trump&#8221; is sounding off:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden is leaving office dropping one lawless, norm-defying, justly impeachable un-democratic transgression after another. That\u2019d be bad enough. But these are all precedents for the successor he thinks is a threat to democracy. It\u2019s reckless, spiteful, and incandescently stupid.<\/p>&mdash; Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonahDispatch\/status\/1881337965852688789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Side note:\u00a0 &#8220;Incandescently stupid&#8221; is going into my quick-reference lexicon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I watched a Presidential inauguration live on TV was when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated.\u00a0 I was in junior high, and they wheeled a TV into our history classroom.\u00a0 I missed Reagan&#8217;s (twice), Bush I, Clinton (twice), Dubya (twice), Trump&#8217;s first, and Obama (all three times).\u00a0 I may break my streak today.\u00a0\u00a0 Partly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,367,470,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-trump","category-trump-assassination-attempt","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89097,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89083\/revisions\/89097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}