Shorts and stops: Appointments or pardons, drones, Hallmark

By Elaine Kolodziej

Appointments or pardons?

There is no shortage of headlines as President-elect Donald J. Trump continues to make appointments for members of his cabinet. With each one comes consternation from the left as they spew misinformation and sometimes outright lies about the qualifications.

It happened with his nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services director, and they celebrated when his choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, prematurely pulled out. But then they were handed Pam Bondi.

Kash Patel’s nomination for director of the FBI prompted the current FBI director Christopher Wray to resign before Trump takes office. Then there is Pete Hegseth for defense secretary.

It’s true that Trump’s choices for his cabinet are as unorthodox as Trump himself.

But never forget, Trump won the election, both electorally and by popular vote. A president usually is allowed to choose his own cabinet. But for as unorthodox as some of Trump’s choices may seem, they are tame when compared to the “diversity” of Biden’s cabinet.

So, after the headlines about Trump’s cabinet, come headlines about President Joe Biden’s pardons. Stories began with the infamous pardon of Hunter Biden on Dec. 2 — after the president said for months that he would not give his son a pardon.

Biden has received criticism from all sides, including from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar, for his wide-ranging pardons.

From MSN.com: Klobuchar said she “… thinks pardons and commutations should have to go past a board of outside advisors instead of people in the White House ‘just doing it in the middle of the night.’”

Good point.

Now the speculation is who would be next? There were other family members mentioned, of course, and those still are expected to happen before time runs out.

This has not stopped name dropping! Would it be Anthony Fauci, the former medical advisor to the president, or RINO Rep. Liz Cheney?

Of course, being pardoned implies they have done something wrong. This gets interestinger (sic) and interestinger as we get closer to Jan. 20.

Sen.-elect Adam Schiff was on television over the weekend saying that he doesn’t want a preemptive pardon. Schiff worked on the Jan. 6 committee as did Cheney. Being pardoned, he said, would imply wrongdoing on his part, and Schiff maintains the work they did on the committee was vital. Schiff is not alone in feeling that Biden’s preemptive blanket pardons will set a dangerous precedent.

Drones

It would be difficult to ignore the bizarre stories about UFOs, meaning of course, the reports of hundreds of drones mysteriously seen in certain areas.

Perhaps it should not be the drones themselves that are so concerning, but the fact that no one, especially our own Defense Department, has any explanation. That leaves two possibilities. Either our government knows what is going on but doesn’t want the people to know, or it actually does not know — and that is even scarier.

Hallmark movies

When the tensions and political strife of today’s political chaos are too overwhelming, try a Hallmark movie. There is something about Hallmark movies.

These romantic sitcoms allow the viewer just to veg and not think about anything.

The plots are the same. The main character returns from the city to help with a family crisis where they inevitably meet up with a long-lost friend; in the end, they get back together.

You know the plot after the first couple of scenes. That makes them good therapy. No one gets murdered, no one goes to trial, and they live happily ever after.

When you have had all the stress you can handle, that’s when you turn to some escapism with a Hallmark movie. All will be well if you understand that Hallmark Christmas movies are not about the reason for the season, which is the birth of Christ, our savior.

For the best therapy, accept them for what they are: escapism.

That’s my opinion.

What’s yours?