Heading to Washington, DC to celebrate two zero hours

I am on my way to Washington, DC for zero hour, which as I write is a scant twenty-four hours away.  

In fact, I am going to celebrate two zero hours. Naturally, the first cause for celebration is the second inauguration of Donald Trump, an event that by my reckoning (and not mine alone) will mark the beginning of a new golden age for America.

At the same moment, however, we have a second zero hour in which to rejoice: zero hour for the country’s principal zero, the departure of Joe Biden from the White House, power and anything resembling a public platform.   

Having proved that a mental incompetent, so long as he is fired by a rancid woke malice, can occupy the office of President of the United States, Biden will, as of noon tomorrow, find his power cables unplugged. 

It’s been a grim couple of months with Biden. His peevish animosity, fired first by being pushed out of his presidential campaign in July, and then by Kamala Harris’s resounding loss in November, has been ranging far and wide. His incontinent spate of presidential pardons of criminals and lowlifes, beginning with his extraordinary get-of-jail-free-now-and-forever card for his cokehead son and bagman Hunter, made the world purse its lips. Really, pardoned back to 2014 for anything he did or may have done? 

That was only the beginning of the president’s pardon parade. And let’s not forget his besmirching of official honors, something he did for the ages by honoring criminals like George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Liz Cheney with the nation’s highest civilian honor. Then early Friday morning, Biden (or whoever works his X account) announced he was pardoning or commuting the sentences of a bushel and a peck of hardened criminals. Dwayne Appling, for example. Andrea Peyser, writing in the New York Post, shares his résumé. “He’s just one of the thousands of soon-to-be-freed drug traffickers, an armed and dangerous career criminal and gang banger,” Peyser writes. Her column is appropriately titled “Biden burns it all down on his way out the door.”

Also on Friday, someone posting on the official POTUS X account took a step into surreal territory that was both alarming and amusing. “Today,” Biden’s avatar said, the Equal Rights Amendment has been added to the Constitution. “The 28th Amendment is the law of the land,” we read, “guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.” This announcement instantly attracted some portion of the contempt and obloquy it deserved, but not before the American Bar Association beclowned itself by hailing its declaration as fact, not fantasy. 

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson tartly dispatched Biden’s play acting. “President Biden is trying to force radical gender ideology into our Constitution on his way out the door,” Johnson noted. “This is as delusional as it is illegal. Just saying something doesn’t make it so. . . . So, no, the ERA is most certainly NOT the law of the land and nothing Biden says can change it.”

The megalomania evident in this apparently earnest trial balloon to tinker with the Constitution of the United States is alarming. But what makes such desperate, eleventh-hour flailing amusing is the rhetorical precedents they open up. As one wag noted, “‘I can change the Constitution on Twitter’ is a fun precedent to set right before Trump takes office.” 

Tomorrow we’ll be done with America’s first certifiably senile president. What will happen to his army of malignant enablers is another question. For the answer, stay tuned. The mists will begin to clear and sanity will start to return tomorrow at 12:01 on the clock.