That little growl

 I was up until past 2, finally got to bed and woke up at 9:30 I think, then nodded off again until noon. 

But when I got up I turned on the radio and the inauguration is going on without a hitch and the orange shitbird has slunk off, saying of course that he'll be back, the South will rise again, ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Fuehrer, etc. Those last two may be fictions on my part but his followers know what he means. 

So I've got a 4-year reprieve. We're still in what we call a democracy. I hope this doesn't take a lot of "air" out of the Left because we we've said to Joe Biden, "We'll vote you in, and then we'll fight you". We need to get Medicare for all as Eisenhower originally intended, to make student debt dischargeable again, etc. 

I don't have to make panicked plans to leave within a year. I have a glimmer of a hope of having access to health care again (although simply returning to Hawaii would take care of that). 

I hope they continue to round up insurrectionists and start sending them to Guantanamo or other places, maybe some internment camp out in the desert. I had a theory that the insurrection was a trial run; to send in "expendable" members of the Dump's base, who cares if some of them get killed in probing the defenses. Then the real attack would be today. But instead all it did was activate the country's "immune system". The insurrection of boobs was the fascists' one chance. It's like that scene in nature shows where some big cat is stalking a prey animal and just before leaping, the cat makes this growl, which of course alerts the prey animal and the cat is not successful. 

If the fascists had been more capable, they'd have sent more capable members in a quick, first, hard strike and maybe succeeded. But instead they had the My Pillow Guy and Foghorn Leghorn impressionist and radio ranter Alex Jones. And "Bunker Don" who said he'd march with him and then promptly ducked into a limousine and bugged out of there. 

If they'd won the insurrection their "victory" may have been short-lived though. As I've said to as many as I could, the Dump and his followers represent an existential threat to anyone who isn't just the right kind of white with just the right kind of political stance. We on the left may have come up with cute little apps like "Find-A-Fasc" and hunted down fascists in our own towns. The military would have on the people's side too because the US military has a severe allergy to dictators. 

I'm still not happy with Biden's "healing" nonsense. You don't win a Nazi's soul, you shoot him center-mass right in the heart. 

I spent hours packing four large boxes, two of them heavy too, while wondering if I'd get them all onto the bike trailer. I left at 6 with all of them on there all right. I rode very carefully and walked some tricky places, but I got them to FedEx without them shifting at all. 

I picked up packing stuff on the way back and put that all away, picked up a large box from a place in the complex here that's big enough to go under my futon, and by that time realized it was just about 8 so I cooked up a nice bowl of pork and cabbage miso soup. Then I listed the things I'd prepared last night and just as I was finishing up the last item Ken came by. 

Ken had tons of boxes and some interesting things to list. We talked about the usual things and when the conversation slowed I got out my Umarex BB gun Glock replica, and I said "This is the bonus money you gave me" but really, the gun and BBs and CO2 cartridges came to $140. I didn't want to open it up "because knowing us there will be BB holes somewhere" but I realized there will be reviews on YouTube. 

And it turns out I made a good choice - one reviewer showed how accurate it is but nothing on how to load it etc. but one reviewer, Andy's Airguns, did a very good review showing all the details. When Ken was ready to leave, I asked him to let me know if this one instrument in the warehouse is ready to list and showed him how I'd put all the Motorola stuff with the motors in this one area, and at one point said, "I have to be a model prisoner if I'm going to make it through four more years of this" and Ken just said, "I know". He knows that while I know a fair amount about tech, I don't love it the way he does.