2024: Good Days And Bad Days

Here we are at the end of 2024.

2024 felt like it was twelve months long. Then, on the other hand, it felt like it was 365 days.

It was a year like President Biden. It had its good days, and it had its bad days.

You remember President Biden.  They said he was sharp as a tack, depending upon you definition of "sharp" and "tack".

I had several favorite President Biden moments.  One was when he called a news conference to dispute the Hur report that the President was really a nice old man but still thinks he can play "flanker" for the Delaware Blue Hens.  He yelled at the White House Press Corp and referred to Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the "president of Mexico."

Then Biden agreed to debate Donald Trump in June and taunted Trump before the debate. Then the debate started, and Biden looked like Floyd R. Turbo.  It was so bad it made Trump look good. Think about that. 

This caused the Democratic Party to panic because Trump is an existential threat to democracy, the earth, sun, moon and all things bright and beautiful so the big boys in the Democratic Party pushed Biden out and put Vice President Harris in as the nominee because she was A) so brat, B) born in a middle-class family and C) joyful.

Donald Trump had good days and bad days, too.

He was indicted on several major felonies, the main one being a "big poopy head." This caused Trump's poll numbers to fall.

Ha, ha. Wrong. As Dana Carvey once said, Trump is like a Batman villain.

BATMAN: "I have you now, Trump!"

TRUMP: "I don't think so, Batman."  (A rope ladder from a helicopter drops  down, and Trump grabs it and flies away.)

If I may toot my own horn, I noted at the time Trump was a parking ticket away from winning the election in a landslide. I was close to being right. All of the lawfare had the opposite effect, making Trump more popular.

Trump had a very bad day in Pennsylvania was he was shot at by a young man who did not have the wits to be rich and handsome.  Trump survived.

After Kamala Harris wowed everyone with her brattiness, she picked (check notes) Tim Walz to be her running mate because he was what some people (snotty young college graduates) think a white man should look like.

This caused a chain reaction of Zoom calls:  "White Men For Harris," "Older White Men For Harris," and "White Men Who Mow Their Yards For Harris."  

The national news media, coming off of their hard-hitting, dogged reporting of President Biden's cognitive abilities ("He looks fine to me"), tried for most of the summer to get an interview with Vice President Harris to ask her out her middle-class background.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump picked a new running mate, JD ("JD") Vance of Ohio, who once wrote a book called "Hillbilly Elegy". Somebody posted on Twitter that Vance wrote about his sexual attraction to couches in his book.  Of course, the book did not mention couches, but several people noted that he didn't mention he wasn't sexually attracted to any other type of furniture. Which meant Vance was"weird".  Then, the country met Tim Walz, and soon learned what weird looked like. 

A big issue in the campaign was if Haitian refugees were eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio.  Finally, our American news media jumped at the opportunity to make Trump look like a goob, which he happily provided to them.  It turns out the refugees were not eating dogs or cats or couches, for that matter. 

The election finally came, and as a citizen of a "battleground state," I was glad it was over. I expected a close, tight election result. The opposite happened. Trump won around 2:00 in the morning and began to make America Great Again by selecting Matt Gaetz as Attorney General and annexing Greenland. 

Robert F Kennedy, Jr. had good days and bad days, too.  He announced that doctors had found a dead worm in his brain.  He also announced he had "hit" a bear and decided to drop it off in Central Park. (Of course, why not?)  But then, Trump nominated Kennedy as the Health and Human Services secretary.  So, in a short span of four years, we've gone from "you're fired if you don't get the vaccine" to "Hurray for Polio" because Kennedy, a lawyer, knows all about vaccines.

Some had bad days, like the Boeing Corporation, which apparently has no quality control manager because every plane that suddenly fell out of the sky was made by Boeing.

Other people had good days, like the actors who won Academy Awards, whose names I have forgotten.

The Atlanta Braves had mainly bad days because all of their good players were injured with season-ending injuries, which never happens to the Los Angeles Dodgers. 

Bill Belichick had good days. He has a new job as the Head Coach of The University of North Carolina and a new girlfriend who is way too young for him.

I had good days, too.  I retired from my paying job on September 1st. I highly recommend it.

There were some bad days, too. My brother-in-law died after a two-year battle with cancer.  He was a good guy.