January 25, 2021 Falling asleep last night, feeling the hopelessness of our entire political system and corrupt players; this piece I read earlier today is a needed reminder to hold steady. Hope-full. #36 The propagandist is out. Thought about this everyday. -dayle
Washington Post
50 things that are better already
Opinion by Jennifer Rubin
5. There are no presidential relatives in government
6. The tenor of hearings is sober and serious
7. Qualified and knowledgeable nominees have been selected for senior spots
9. We have not heard a word from presidential children
11. We get normal readouts of sane conversations between the president and foreign leaders
13. Manners are in, bullying is out
14. You feel calmer after hearing the president
16. Quality entertainers want to perform for the White House
18. The president is able to articulate policy details, coherently even
20. We have a White House staff that looks like America
21. We have a national covid-19 plan
22. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony S. Fauci is liberated, sounds happy and even looks younger
24. Masks and social distancing in the White House
25. The White House has policy initiatives and proposals, not merely leaving it all to Congress
26. The administration is committed to releasing information, not covering it up, on the slaughter of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
28. It is the Republicans not the Democrats who are in disarray
30. No Soviet-style fawning over the president by his subordinates
31. The president takes daily, in-person intelligence briefings
33. We have a president familiar with the Constitution
37. We get memes about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), not crowd size
39. Instead of running it like a business, the new administration will try running government competently
40. We have a president who doesn’t think military service is for “suckers” and who doesn’t send his “love” to people assaulting law enforcement
44. No more work-free “executive time” in the presidential living quarters
45. We have a churchgoing president “who has spent a lifetime steeped in Christian rituals and practices.”
48. The White House takes the Hatch Act seriously
49. The administration wants as many people as possible to vote
50. The president will talk more to our allies than to Russian President Vladimir Putin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/fifty-things-that-are-better-already/