Interregnum Housekeeping

(Why are blogs houses?) Some notes on confirmation hearings, Inauguration, etc.

I have not had the pleasure of listening to Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearings.

Nor Marco Rubio’s.

Nor Scott Bessent’s.

Nor Doug Burgum’s.

Nor dog-killer Kristi Noem’s:

I intend to do so. This is a significant commitment of hours and it is only occasionally entertaining. I think it is important to attentively watch our potential Cabinet secretaries interview for their jobs from start to finish, not in some Twitch live stream with a silly commentator and a lively chat, and not sliced up into clips, arranged, and served by media personalities. Watching how each Senator chooses to spend their seven minutes to question is instructive to their character, and inside the Capitol when the nominees ask for Congressional consent to their appointment, you might see something miraculous: metamorphosis. Emergence. Sometimes true, miserable hacks will finally learn to resemble reasonable persons. Sometimes once-normies, as a consequence of their new commitments, arrive with bizarre new personalities.

From what I have read and seen so far, though, each of these people is a combination of crazy, evil, and stupid, and they are all liars and sycophants. That could probably sum it up and save me some effort.

I expect there to be a similar delay with the Inaugural address. I have a bottle of champagne sitting in a bucket of snow to celebrate the death of that Tick Tok, and I hope to be very drunk again on Inauguration Day. I simply do not care for that web application. Besides the classified-but-serious-sounding national security concerns that have pundits dusting off the portmanteau “Chicoms,” or that ByteDance has already been caught using the software to spy on Americans, I never enjoyed short-form video content. Dancing to only a few moments of a song does not impress me. I accept nothing less than the whole jig. I suppose I am too “old school.” But I digress.

I will be diving deep into this bullshit, but I must ask my hungry readers’ patience during this timeframe where there is a bulk of unpleasant video content to consume. I expect to have a more comfortable pace once things fall into the rhythm of the daily news cycle.

A caveat: If, with his hand on the Bible, Mr. Trump announces he will be deploying his stormtroopers, not toward the reported mass deportation in Chicago, but against the nation’s snarkiest bloggers (the vanguard of the #resistance!), well, I will be going on the lam.