What Now?! - 11/8/2020
Yesterday was Liberation Day. The entire country and planet exploded out onto the streets to scream, shout, dance, bang pots and pans, launch fireworks and cheer in the greatest spontaneous mass celebration of an event not seen since 1945. Bells tolled in Paris. Fireworks launched in London. It was simply amazing to see. It was as if a giant weight of anxiety was lifted. Anxiety over the prolonged vote count and anxiety over having a fascist racist monster, literally the worst human being to ever hold office, as our President, a President who actively sought to harm those he hated, and he hated everyone but himself.
President-elect Joe Biden’s speech last night echoed his standard call for unity and healing, but it was so damn refreshing to have a normal and decent human being at the helm just trying to do the right thing. That seems like a fairly low bar, but it’s sure is refreshing.
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So the first song to play during the fireworks at the Biden Victory speech was Coldplay’s Sky Full of Stars. I don’t think a lot of people know the backstory to that. It was one Beau’s favorite songs, and it was played by Chris Martin at his funeral. When it starts playing, you see Beau’s daughter hug Joe in the video below. Hearing the song played tonight, seeing the Biden family, listening to the song, it got a little dusty in here.
“President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, immediately forecasting that the country’s politics have shifted and that his presidency will be guided by radically different priorities,” the Washington Post reports.
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