Nancy Pelosi taking the oath with all those kids. Nancy Pelosi hurrying along with her grandkids. Nancy Pelosi rapping that magic gavel for the kids. (One of her grandkids said, “Do what we've been waiting for.”) Nancy Pelosi claiming the day “for the children.”
Dang, there was such a warm and hopeful flood of humanity in those old House chambers that someone compared it to church. It was the Church of America if anything, a full-on display of the reality of this country, not the tricked-up, paranoid, hate-based version that Trump has been peddling to the dark side.
I haven't felt this good about America since the night Obama was elected. The House of Representatives of the United States of America is now cause for celebration, what will be a fully-functioning legislative body representing the many and varied multitudes that make up this broad and vast land. It is young, strong, and the quick study needed to both legislate and get about the serious business of bringing to true oversight the egregious corruption and dereliction of duties that have been the hallmark of Trump's time.
There is a concentrated easiness about Nancy Pelosi, the mark of a leader who knows her way and is confident in her ability to follow it. That loving and smiling grandmother at the podium with all those happy kids is also a down and dirty politician her daughter says can cut your head off without you noticing any blood. I don't think Donald Trump has ever been up against an iron fist in a velvet glove.
Oh, yeah, Trump. He gets the Jerkoff of the Day award for trying to upstage the joy and pageantry of Pelosi's day with a quickie press conference that featured him coming into the White House briefing room for the first time ever – big fucking deal – at least wearing a striped tie for a change at the head of a posse of pallbearers led by the late Sarah – I Can't Get a Gig – Sanders who looked a little dazed at not having to do the heavy-duty lying that would follow. Trump peddled his rotten fish backed up by three baldie mugs who looked like he got them from a “Soldier of Fortune” personal.
The long and the short of it was that everybody in America wants the wall and has been sending all kinds of messages to Trump that he and the wall and the baldies are America's only hope against the teeming hordes of evil-doers storming our southern borders day and night and in between. Yo.
And the cherry on the sundae was that some asshole thought he or she was going to wreck new Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's day by posting a video of her dancing during her college days. It was one of the happiest, danciest videos ever – a class project actually – and if you didn't end up loving Alexandria you don't have much love in you.
Like Trump.
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