As this is written, the Congress has just finished certifying the presidential election results.  Vice President Que Mala Harris presided over the proceeding, during which she was obliged to report that she had lost the election to Donald Trump, 312 electoral votes to 226.  To her credit, Que Mala got through it.

I was glad to see that the American electorate took Que Mala’s advice in November.  She ran what she called a campaign of joy, and kept exhorting voters, complete with sign language-like gesticulations, to “Turn the page.”  And turn the page they did.

The voters gleefully turned the page, turning away from the senility, inflation, illegal alien invasion, violent crime in the streets, DEI, transgender travesties, lawfare, ruinous energy policies, suppression of free speech, and incompetence which was the Biden Administration.

And for the first time since 1989, Democrats did not attempt to challenge the result of a presidential election in which a Republican was victorious.  I’m sure their neglect to raise a challenge wasn’t because they learned their lesson, and have finally accepted the fact that their eight year campaign to destroy Donald Trump has failed.  Nor was it because they truly have accepted the result of the 2024 election.  To paraphrase Winston Churchill, everything Democrat is a ploy, wrapped in a distraction, inside a trap.

The Democrat resistance hasn’t gone away.  Much like the Japanese troops on Iwo Jima, they are hiding in caves, waiting for the Trump Administration to come ashore, and they will attack when they think they can do the most damage.

As for Election Certification Day, the Left contented itself with the fact that it occurred on January 6, giving them another opportunity to try to gin up their phony “insurrection” meme once again.  I say “try” to gin up because CNN’s own polling this week revealed that only 5% of voters consider January 6, 2021 to be the number one memory of Trump 45.  This group is comprised of mental patients, elected Democrats (that’s redundant), Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, and most of the population of Manhattan.

According to CNN, only 37% of voters blame Trump for the January 6th protests.  This group voted for Que Mala Harris, and you saw what that got them.  But regardless of its own polling, CNN commentators tried to stir the January 6th pot once more.

CNN’s Jim Acosta (remember him?) got into it with Republican strategist Brad Todd.  Todd conceded that January 6th was a stain on Trump’s legacy, but dared to criticize Democrat attempts, legal and extra-legal, to defame, incarcerate, and remove Trump from election ballots, as well as the phony House January 6th Committee.

When Todd said Republicans were prohibited from choosing the Republican members of the Committee, Acosta bristled.  As you may recall, Nancy Pelosi rejected the Republican appointees, unilaterally replacing them with, now former, members Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney.  The argument devolved into Acosta repeatedly chanting, “Liz Cheney, good Republican” “Liz Cheney, good Republican,” much as he was talking to a pet, “Good dog.”  As with all Leftist ideologues, Acosta believes the only “good Republican” is a traitor.

As it turned out, the Jim Acosta January 6th reaction was rather tame.  Proving that Trump Derangement Syndrome still exists, and that disorders of the mind remain rampant in the Democrat Party, we must once again consider the ravings of one of the denizens of ABC’s morning contribution to mental illness, The Herd, no wait, I think they renamed it The View.

On January 6 2025, a person who I’m sad to say is considered to be an ABC “legal analyst,” one Sunny Hostin,  declared that January 6th is never to be forgotten, because it was “an atrocity,” which she compared to “World War II, the Holocaust, and chattel slavery.”  She’s sure got her priorities right.  After all, World War II killed some 50 million people, the Holocaust killed over 10 million, millions of Africans were enslaved for hundreds of years, and on January 6 2021, one fat lazy cop shot and killed an unarmed Air Force veteran, the only fatality in the incident.

All of which is just more proof that the gargoyles of The View are misnamed.  They have a Whoopi, a Sunny and a Joy.  Given their dispositions, they should be named Crazy, Dopey and Bitchy.

But January 6th aside, the expectation is building for the January 20 inauguration, and there are speculations as to Trump’s Day One agenda.  Breitbart’s Nick Gilbertson suggests that Day One will feature many pardons for January 6, 2021 defendants, some of whom continue to languish in the D.C. Jail Hellhole.

Trump has indicated that he’s not anticipating blanket pardons for all defendants, which is a good thing.  He should deny relief to anyone who caused damage, stole something, or put his hands on a cop.  All the rest were trespassers at worst.  They deserve relief.

Another Day One action will be the closing of the border, and the start of deportations.  Democrats can bitch and moan all they want, but there is no excuse for failing to deport the 500,000 convicted criminals Biden stupidly admitted.  Nor is there any legitimate reason to try to prevent the deportation of the 1.5 million or so supposed asylum seekers who had their court hearings and have been ordered removed by a federal judge.

Trump also has pledged that he will unleash U.S. energy production, vowing to “drill baby, drill.”  He will issue Executive Orders and rescind Biden Administration actions that prevented oil and gas production.  Saboteur to the very end, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden this week invoked a 1953 law to unilaterally ban all oil production off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.  Trump will have to find a way around this roadblock.

Whatever happens on January 20, there is no doubt that Americans are itching to “Turn the page,” and the incoming Trump Administration is itching to get it’s chief officers confirmed so it can get to work.  It turns out Que Mala was right after all.  That feeling of joy can’t be denied.