Only A Year?

 Someone posted online a regret: "If things had gone differently, we could have been reading about Uncle Tim's stuffing recipe right now."

This would be a reference to Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz, who makes a fine hot dish and ran for Vice President. 

A year ago. 

How could this be? Not the hot dish, since that's a matter of scientific fact. Instead I would like to focus on the otherworldly way in which time has passes since the 2024 election. Who among us had "The Chief Executive will call out a reporter during a press briefing by screeching, 'Quiet, Piggy!'" on their Presidential Bingo card?  Or the pending invasion of Venezuela? How about the installation of Home Depot bric-a-brac in the Oval Office while an entire wing of the White House is reduced to rubble?

It might be worth noting that the guy who regularly referred to his predecessor as "Sleepy Joe" has been photographed numerous times over the past ten months sleeping on the job. Keeping in mind, of course, that when he's asleep he might be less dangerous. 

The biggest military operation of all over the past year has not taken place in Greenland, as suggested early on, but in the streets of America. Land of the Free. Home of the Brave. Americans being snatched up off the streets without any sort of due process, without any sort of Constitutionally guaranteed rights. 

Oh, which reminds me: Remember how a year ago the United States Constitution wasn't just a set of suggestions or best practices? We had that a year ago. We had a choice between a former prosecutor and a convicted felon to run our country and when the votes came in, well, you know how this story ends. 

Or do we? 

Even though we have traveled decades, even centuries into the past with the current administration, my guess and fervent hope that we will all remember where the reset button is once this storm has passed. What sort of devastation could take place in the next three years. 

I shudder to imagine.