[SCENE: The United States of America, every New Year’s Eve since 2016.]
PERSON #1: “Well, that was an awful year. Good riddance.”
PERSON #2: “Yeah. I sure hope the new year is better.”
[Clock strikes midnight.]
THE NEW YEAR: “Hold my beer.”
Because I’m not on Twitter, I’m not automatically creating a sort of personal record for posterity of the past week’s events (and my reactions thereto). But, news-junkie weirdo that I (still) am, I like having that sort of thing. So here’s a quick summary, via some of my actual sources of information in recent days.
(Several of the screenshots are from the Living Room Discord, which you can join at this invite link.)
(Not that Trump threatening war crimes should be a surprise to anyone. He did so, openly, during the campaign, yet his opponents, Republicans and Democrats alike, barely, and ineffectively, called him out on it. Those war-crime threats were easily one of the most under-reported and under-discussed facts of the 2016 election, as I may have mentioned once or twice or thrice … or, like, a hundred times. And yet he became President. So here we are.)
More after the jump.
(NOTE: Those are different Colbert clips, even though they’re from the same YouTube video. Each embed has a different start & end time.)
(Again: that’s a different Colbert sub-clip than the previous ones.)
And finally, the one that sorta inspired this blog post:
just a test to see if comments are working
(yup!)