A week like no other

Happy Monday, friends.  I hope you were able to enjoy a good weekend.

I don't think there's much doubt that this will be a significant week that we've started today.  We'll have the spectacle of the inauguration of a new president, a ceremony which was already significantly altered by the coronavirus pandemic but now with revised optics due to the unprecedented attack on the United States Capitol on January 6.  Per television news reports, Washington, DC looks like an armed camp right now, with some 25,000 National Guard troops and other personnel on site to provide protection and security.

We also have the end of the presidency of the first and only President who's been impeached twice, and who still has not publicly acknowledged his loss in the election in November or even the name of the man who'll replace him at noon on Wednesday.  From all reports he is ensconced in the White House, preparing a third list of pardons he plans to issue (many of whom were presented to the White House by paid lobbyists, another first), executing a number of last minute personnel changes and policy initiatives designed to hamstring his successor, and continuing to claim that he actually won the election.

Life somehow goes on for the rest of us, of course, and I don't know about you, but I really look forward to a time when things seem even a little bit normal.  That time is coming, but it will come in degrees.  Let's get through the Presidential transition Wednesday and we'll talk more after that's completed successfully.

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