Cut it out — right now. Just stop being an asshole. You’re far too young.
We already have to deal with Donald Trump sullying the Oval Office.
We already see our rights, our civil liberties, our healthcare, Medicare, Social Security, all flushed down the toilet. [No. I’m not going to illustrate a flushing toilet. What do you take me for?]
But you’re off to a bad start otherwise, too.
Stop taking people. Or stop taking good people.You need to take someone? I have some suggestions. Call me, 2017, so the U.S. Secret Service doesn’t.
But Mary? You took Mary? You left Trump and took Mary?
OK, so I’m quoting Rick Perry here. I don’t often do that.
But I need to set the record straight. I made a mistake. I screwed up. I led you astray.
Of course you read my last post. That’s a given.
You did read it, didn’t you?
Well, in that post that you read but forgot, I suggested that during Putin’s President’s inauguration, that you deny Trump TV ratings by tuning your TV to another channel.
Ummmmm. Well, perhaps I might have done some more checking. Because I learned that I am wrong. It’s not true. It’s an urban legend. It doesn’t pass the snopes test:
So apparently we don’t have to worry about where our TVs are tuned during Putin’s President’s moment in the sun. Errr rain... That means, of course, that tomorrow we can all Tune Out.
Let’s make stuff stick! Google image
Thanks to Jana of Stop Me If I Told You Thiswho let me know that I had a Rick Perry moment. As much as I dislike being wrong, I really appreciate being set straight!
Tomorrow will be a day of mourning for many of us, as we head into who knows what is to come.
It is time for the peaceful opposition to start in earnest.
There will be protests and marches to join, petitions to sign, letters to write and calls to make. We must keep it up.
But here is one of my favorite tactics —
Deny Putin’s President the ratings he so desires!
It’s not enough to not watch the inauguration.
You must actively turn on your TV to something else.*
Me, I plan to turn mine on to Comedy Central, home of oh so many left wing folks.
[You can also set your DVR to another channel, but the way ratings work, you must watch the recording the same day or the ratings are shown for the day you watch, rather than the day you record. ]
Of course, this is not all I plan to do as one member of the Loyal Opposition. It isn’t all I will suggest/bug/pester you into doing over the years, either.
But it is going to be hard to do anything else on January 20, 2017 through the tears we’ll all be shedding.
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For those of you planning to attend the Women’s March in Washington, DC on Saturday, January 21, here is some important information for you:
For those of you who want some ideas of how to help, or need to get some comfort from the fact that there ARE and WILL BE things to do, here’s some ideas.
It’s that time again. I’m gonna make you listen to this song:
Yeah, you guessed it. It’s my birthday. I am, not surprisingly since I have been blogging under the stupid blog name FiftyFourAndAHalf for 5 and a half years, well, I’m older today.
Old. Probably older than you; probably shorter than you, too. Life just ain’t fair. I’m older and shorter than people I can’t even see…
Today is my 60th birthday. I’m not a big fan of my birthday, for reasons you can find here: Still, it’s a day. A decade. Something to celebrate with my husband and son and good food and cake. Gotta have cake.
And it’s something that is way better than the alternative. Yup. Way better.
To the handful who have been along with me since I was, actually 54-1/2, thanks for all the times we’ve laughed and cried together. To my new blogging buddies, welcome again. Thank you for stopping by; I hope you stick around.
Blogging has been a wonderfully fun way to spend time over these last 5-1/2 years, and counting, cause I’m not planning to stop. I see no reason to stop.
Because people my age are getting gross. So what else can we do?
FiftyFourandAHalf 