I'm not going to even pretend, man.

  I suppose I should put something down. I plumb forgot Thursday and didn't think about it until around 3 a.m., and by the time I got good and woken up, I just wasn't feeling it. Nobody cares, though, we all know that. I regularly get a "like" at the WordPress site from one guy, but I'm pretty sure that's a bot. There's no way he could read all that as quickly as it says.

 Speaking of which, we should get that out of the way. Monday was about Joe Biden's attempts to raise taxes on the wealthy; meaning, probably not you so calm down. We looked into the recall attempt against California governor Gavin Newsom Wednesday and why it was a waste of time. Friday was a run-down of the "Justice for J6" rally that was supposed to go down in Washington, D.C., today yet turned out to be a humorous bust.

 I haven't heard of anything similar happening anywhere in the rest of the country but the D.C. to-do drew something like 400 people, more or less. The running gag is the protestors were outnumbered by the press and police, and that probably wasn't far from the truth. I imagine there are a couple of reasons for this. For one, this didn't have the money behind it the Great American Temper Tantrum had. Lots of folks spent lots of money to get people to Washington on that day and that was nowhere to be seen today.

 Plus, I imagine the increased police presence had something to do with it. There was no fooling around by the fuzz today. They were thick on the ground and loaded for bear. In any event, this whole thing had deflated in on itself by the time this week came around, with so-called organizers trying to keep protestors from raising too much hell or from showing up at all.

 Running commentary on Twitter from the wingnuts was that the thing was a joke because it was mostly press and/or fuzz instead of Real Americans, which really isn't a ringing endorsement for that bunch. But that whole scene has been screwy from day one. Some are trying to say that this represents a dwindling of Trump's influence on the GOP. I don't know if that's so. By the time the election came around, he'd pissed away most of his support among the non-faithful.

 I really think the vast bulk of never-Trump GOP had no problem with his actual policies so much as the vulgar way he went about them. For the most part, they were ranch standard Republican policies. Fewer taxes on the rich, less oversight for corporations, more restrictions on women's bodily autonomy, more emphasis given to religious extremism, none of that is all that weird. What were his babies - like the disaster economic dealings with China and him getting rooked by North Korea - weren't really enough to make them lose hope but they certainly didn't help after he salted the Earth.

 He still has the true blue and I doubt anything will shake them too much. That's sort of the definition of a fanatic, a lack of clear thinking when it comes to their precious. How is this going to play out for 2022 or 2024? I don't know and anyone who says they do is full of shit as a Christmas goose.

 So there's that there then. If something comes up, I'll come back but don't count on it. It's just one of those days.

Not going to waste a good lyric on this, either.

  Yeah, I put this off again. It's just past 11 p.m. However, this time I made a conscious decision to not worry with it until after the evening nap. I don't know if that's better or worse. Actually, I really can't tell if it matters one way or another.

 Still in the grip of the blues, for what that's worth. Things are still tasteless and boring, and there's nothing I want to do but sleep. I go see the Therapist Tuesday, and she's going to suggest traveling, but honestly, I'm not interested in that. I'm half tempted to cancel the session. Once again, I'm just not particularly interested in talking to anyone, much less someone who's going to make me think about the state of things.

 The PowerDraw is still out in the aether and I'm still waiting on the Paul Butterfield book. I am in a weird mood about Butterfield here lately. He really didn't make too many worthwhile records under his name, but he made for a great sideman. I listened to Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars this evening and that proves it.

 Which, for the most part, your better harmonica players make for better sidemen than band leaders. Sonny Boy Williamson (both) and Junior Wells aside, there aren't many who make better records on their own. Little Walter might be the one who was great on both sides. For sure, Big Walter and James Cotton are better as sidemen, due disposition for the former and the latter's scratchy voice. And I really can't think of a white harp man who, well, doesn't sound like a white guy singing the blues. Charlie Musslewhite's an incredible player, but he sounds like a dentist who plays on weekends with a bunch of other dentists when he sings.

 Okay, what else. I'm still not reading anything or really paying attention to much of anything. I'll probably save this for tomorrow's News, but it seems more likely than not the GOP in the Senate will trash any hope of a commission to investigate what went down on January 6. What's more likely is Mitch McConnell is worried about which Republican congress critters have direct ties to the Great American Temper Tantrum.

 If I had to bet, I'd say we're not going to see a commission or any in-depth investigation into what, if any, responsibility Congressional Republicans or, for that matter, Trump has with the GATT. I'm not exactly sure why McConnell, especially, is so against anything coming up. The GOP is owned by Trumpism and, frankly, they're all down with the idea of "overthrowing the government" A good three-fourths of Republican voters - as in the whole party - refuse to accept the reality of a Trump electoral loss.

 And I don't think that's going to change anytime soon. Trump will be cold and in the ground, and that bunch of weirdos will still be screaming about the election being stolen. They just can't accept that most of the country couldn't stand him. There was a poll concerning QAnon the other day, and it said 25% of Republicans think violence is required to put the country on what they consider the right track.

 Frankly, I'm not worried. If the GATT proved anything beyond a shadow of a doubt, it's that hardcore conservatives don't have the spine to go against any real resistance. They only wish they had half the sand of BLM or Antifa, and when the rubber meets the road, they'll buckle again and try to claim it was everyone's fault but theirs.

 Bank on it.