Trump Leaves Under The Cloud Of The U.S. Capitol Attack

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Trump Leaves Under The Cloud Of The U.S. Capitol Attack

Trump touted many of what he sees as his main accomplishments during his four years in office in a farewell video he released Tuesday. He named conservative judges to fill federal court vacancies, cut taxes and regulations, negotiated the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, slapped tariffs on imports of Chinese goods, built more than 400 miles of border wall, invested in the military, and sped up development of vaccines for the coronavirus.

But in the end, says presidential historian Michael Beschloss, Trump's legacy is likely to be eclipsed by what he did after he lost to Biden, culminating in the insurrection. Can The Senate Try An Ex-President? Law Can The Senate Try An Ex-President? Republicans Wonder How, And If, They Can Pull The Party Back Together Politics Republicans Wonder How, And If, They Can Pull The Party Back Together

"[It's] hard to think of any good he might have done that would outshine that damning verdict," Beschloss said.

After Trump lost the election, some of his allies had sought to try to help him find a way to continue his "America irst" movement by focusing on a new role as Republican kingmaker.

Instead, he dove deeply down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud, shook U.S. confidence in free and fair elections that underpin American democracy, pushed scores of half-baked court challenges, and badgered Republicans — from local officials to Pence — to overturn results.

From the Department of Seems Like a Good Idea

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From the Department of Seems Like a Good Idea …. 🏕

I decided to upload the Scenic Vistas and Firetowers data from NYSDEC and OpenStreetMap into the Campsite Interactive map. While it works fine now, at first there was a typo in the KML that temporarily broke things, and because the way it was sideloaded into the system, it got cached and broke things. Now it’s fixed, although this may prove to a mistake, crashing slower computer browsers with all the points. But it still is pretty neat.

January 20, 2021 Morning

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Good morning! Happy Inauguration Day 👴 ! Unless of course you supported the other guy. But it’s Biden this Time, and if you don’t like that just wait 4 to 8 years. Maybe he’ll legalize pot, so we can be one toke over the line legally. 🚬 Four weeks to 5:30 PM Sunset 🌇 . Snow flurries and 25 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ Calm wind. There is a fresh dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 2 pm as it’s going to be cold and breezy especially by the afternoon. 🌡️

With the sun ☀ breaking through the clouds and snow flurries and not super cold it’s hard to complain about the morning walk 🚶🏻. I got milk 🥛 yesterday and I had a good breakfast of eggs 🍳 with ham and peppers. 🚙 Traffic is very light today, I wonder if even more people are working from home today to avoid protest delays. Air kind of has the taste of barnyard as I walk past the Sunnyside Farm. 🐄

Yesterday wasn’t too bad day, I ended up working down at the library 📚 for a good part of the day because it wasn’t that cold and there was enough sun for the solar. 💻 I finally got all the system updates installed on M$ Winders 10, and got my request form in for the VPN. 📡📶 That should make people happy, and it will mean fewer trips on the bus 🚌 or asking colleagues to get files off the server. 🗄It took forever to load those updates. Linux is so much faster at upgrading, although granted it can be a pain too if you have to upgrade through multiple versions that break the C library requiring reboots to keep programs from acting really odd when symbol tables don’t match up. 🔡 I’m sure that is what some of those delays were, but it also seems like Windows updates are particularly slow. 🐢 You know, I prefer to Linux. 🐧 But I should have a secure, reliable Winders box when I need that for work. ⏹ I also watched the Gubernators’ State of Budget Address, 🎙 worked on some 3D maps for the blog 🗺 and a few tweaks to the campsite map that I made up.🏕 Did my evening walk 🚶🏻

Today will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before noon. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 31 degrees at 12pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around January 23rd. Light southwest wind becoming northwest 12 to 17 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 22 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 2006. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄

I haven’t decided if I will listen 👂🏻 to the new president’s speech today, although I listened to the BBC and Morning Edition 📻 for a while so I have an idea of what the political class is talking about today. Honestly, I think following politics too closely is unhealthy for your mental health. 🤪 I’d rather operate on a need to know basis and catch the recap on NPR.org or the hourly news bulletin on the radio. Session is at the same time so I might be too busy.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 27.3° from the due south horizon (-43.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:11 pm with the sun in the southwest (236°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (243°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:54 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 16 seconds with dusk around 5:24 pm, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southeast (166°) at an altitude of 55° from the horizon, 252,091 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:59 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 26 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 13. ☃️ Breezy, 17 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 30mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 58 seconds over today.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 12 degrees at 12am. Two degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 8 at 8pm; Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light and variable. Honestly, not that bad all things considered. In 2020, we had clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1994.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 9 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 22. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 22. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees. It seems like some of the winter weather, which so far has been retarded, it going to started to push into the area. Cool but not that unusually cold for January. I certainly remember much cold January days and certainly February might be colder. But let’s hope not, I don’t like paying a shit ton for heat, ♨ especially while working from home.

🌹🌻🌼Only 59 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 That’s one less then sixty. One day closer. Countdown in process. It seems like 4 years of the Trumpster came and went in the blink of the eye, 👁 so maybe it means that summer and the black flies will be with us, at least after all the mud, muck and slop everywhere. I can already smell pungent Madison County 🐮 and doing some good ol’ trout fishing 🎣 come April 1st. Which is a Thursday this year.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 when the sun will be setting at 5:21 pm with dusk at 5:50 pm. On that day in 2020, we had snow showers, cloudy, mild and temperatures between 41 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1955.

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