The Daily Dose/January 21, 2025
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
HERE WE GO AGAIN: President Donald Trump’s inaugural address was 2,996 words long, longer than his 2017 address (1,433 words), a bit longer than the historical average (2,340), and well shorter than William Henry Harrison’s 1841 record (8,445). Some of it was decent rhetoric. Most of it was blather, the kind America nine years ago decided it was willing to tolerate.
Leading Off: This one is rich, coming as it does from a man with blood on his hands for presiding over an incompetent COVID response, though it should be noted we all have some blood on our hands for tolerating it:
We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home while, at the same time, stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad.
At Least Fact Checkers Will Have Steady Work: This is false. No country is sending us their criminals and mentally ill.
It fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions, that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.
Go In Peace, Serve The Lord: The following two excerpts come from a man of no known religious convictions and who we strongly suspect cannot name the first five books of the Bible.
I was saved by God to make America great again.
We will not forget our country, we will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God.
USA! USA!: Good luck with this. Trump will need to deport over 7,500 illegals a day every day for the next four years to make this happen. That people actually believe this says a lot about America in the third decade of the 21st century.
…we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.
Econ 101: This is ignorance personified because foreign countries do not pay tariffs, they are paid by the importing company, who will pass the cost along to us.
Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.
If Ignorance Is Inevitable: Anybody who believes this is as ignorant as Trump:
A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America…
Dry, Technical, Matter: This is just a sampling; there were also claims about China operating the Panama Canal and the US stopping all wars. This would go against millennia of human nature because war has been man’s calling card since time immemorial, not to mention America’s calling card since before the Revolution.
The Bottom Line: Donald Trump will surround himself with people who should know better than to fall for his nonsense, but it can be said America should’ve known better, too. And there was a time when Trump would’ve been dismissed out of hand. But America is now as ignorant as its president, and a hundred years from now people – including Americans, if there are any left – will wonder why America decided to embrace ignorance and lies.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Due to time constraints, today’s entries first appeared in 2021.
In 1954 – The world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), is launched in Groton, Connecticut. Nautilus would be commissioned in September and served until 1980 and is now a museum in New London, Connecticut. The ship was named after the fictional submarine in the Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.
In 1945 – The Boston Bruins establish a new NHL record for the fastest four goals scored in a 14-3 win over the New York Rangers. The Bruins got four goals in a 1 minute and 20-second span in the second period, between the 6:34 and the 7:54 marks. The Bruins broke the record of 1 minute, 25 seconds they had established on January 11, 1927, and the record still stands.
In 1995 – On Bended Knee by Boyz II Men is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the sixth and final non-consecutive week. The song also peaked at #20 in Great Britain and at #2 in Billboard’s soul chart, was Billboard’s fifth-biggest song of the year and its 14th biggest of the 1990s. The song had first gone to #1 on December 3, replacing their single I’ll Make Love to You at the top, making them the first act to replace themselves at #1 on the Hot 100 since the Beatles in 1964.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today…There is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.
Franklin Roosevelt
First Inaugural Address
3/4/33
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Billboard’s #1 song of 1973 was Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando. It spent four weeks at #1.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What act which replaced themselves at #1 on the Hot 100 spent the most weeks at the top? – Answer next time!
