POLITICS

Daylight Saving Time Leaves Me Stuck in the Dark

Here’s how Donald Trump can show me the light

When told the reason for daylight saving time, a wise Indian tribal leader said, “Only the Government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.” (Shutterstock photo 39952951 by Katrina Brown)

I often write about the need for the Federal Government to address issues of real importance like whose n the next bathroom stall at the Capitol. But lately, I’ve become intrigued by all the decrees and executive orders Donald Trump has promised to implement on day one of his presidency.

In case you’ve missed it, he’s going to deport 12 million people, appoint a whole slew of new experts to run our government, use the Justice Department to go after his enemies, settle the war between Russia and Ukraine, root out most of the deep state workers, and release the January 6th attackers.

And, all of this by lunchtime.

I am not as frightened as many people are of Trump’s clown car of appointments. His cabinet is going to have the collective brain power of a 1970s TRS-80 Tandy computer, so I don’t expect them to actually accomplish anything.

The most likely things that will happen on day two are that it’ll be a lot harder to get a decent taco, those nasty progressive journalists will be silenced so we can go back to having only a couple of news sources to choose from just like it was when America was great, and the Republican mantra that the government…