On President Biden’s First Week

I have not posted since Joe Biden was inaugurated last Wednesday, so maybe I will now.  I thought President Biden’s inaugural address was pretty decent.  It did not get into details, but it hit a lot of things I believe in.¹  Whether he is going to be able to do those things, who knows.  It depends on him, his team, and the other team(s)².

I don’t agree with some (a lot-?) of the executive orders, etc., that President Biden has issued/signed, but I have not commented because, well, it is early.  Also, the way Donald Trump left the presidency, especially since the Electoral College met in December, has bothered me so much that it is hard to criticize what President Biden is doing.  I don’t know if President Trump “incited an insurrection” on January 6 in the legal meaning of those words, but what he said was not, in my opinion, acceptable.³

Also, it is hard to complain about things President Biden is starting to do when President Trump did so many things that I disagreed with.  I got to the point that I was tired about complaining about President Trump.  It was useless and thinking about what he was doing only got me upset.  I didn’t see how it helped.

So, my present plan is to take the same approach with President Biden.  I will comment occasionally, but posting every time he or his administration does something with which I disagree isn’t going to accomplish much other than getting me upset.  And, as I said, I don’t see how that helps.

Plus, as I have finally figured out (it took too long), most of the things that presidents, or other politicians do (or don’t do), at least in the United States, don’t make that much difference.  Maybe it moves things a little to one side or the other.  But politics isn’t the most important thing.  There is so much more to life than politics and politicians.  It’s about the people you know.  What you can do to help them.  And what you can do to be happy in your own life.  Very little of which comes from politics. 

And so, my posting may be down.  And snarky posting, hopefully, will be down even more.  Besides, with luck, pitchers and catchers report next month.⁴
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¹ I am putting this comment in a footnote because it might be too snarky.  Some of the comments by those on the left and the mainstream media about how wonderful President Biden’s inaugural address was (see, for example, Susan Glasser in The New Yorker) made me wonder: How would they have reacted if Donald Trump said those same things?  Or another Republican, like Mitt Romney?  They sort of like Senator Romney now, but in 2012, when he was running against Barack Obama, they thought he was horrible.
² I’m not sure how many teams there are on the non-Democratic side right now, even in Congress.  Consider that, in the 2012 campaign, which is less than nine years ago, the Republican presidential and vice-presidential nominees were Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
³ Whether he should be convicted by the Senate or just forgotten, I don’t know.
⁴ Even if the Cubs don’t seem to be trying.

UPDATE (1/26/21 1:10 pm): I corrected a grammatical error in the fourth paragraph.  Also, there are reports that governmental officials in Arizona are suggesting the start of spring training be pushed back a month.