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IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) President Trump's inaugural schedule has been released, and yes, on January 20, there is time scheduled to sign a ton of executive orders. Rutabaga will be a dim memory before midnight, and we don't even have dementia.

2) Rutabaga, on his way out, and thinking he was Ike, warned of a "tech-industrial complex" four years after said complex installed him illegally as president. We'll take it under advisement, spoogemitten. Meanwhile, the reviews are in and the Atlantic says Rutabaga had a "tarnished" legacy. No, he had an evil feces-ladled legacy. "He seemed to fade into the background almost from the beginning, seldom using his bully pulpit to rally public support or explain his vision for the country." Actually, he overused the bully pulpit, not to rally, but to demonize and attack. His Fourth Reich Speech will go down as the most terrifying in American history, and the most evil. Oh, and he commuted the sentences of over 2,400 drug violators.

3) Denmark says it's up to the Greenies if they want to join the USA. Greenie PM says "Da" (or whatever they say there), people say "Da" but some in their parliament so "Nyet" cuz they'd lose their power.

4) Whereas in 2017 no corporate CEOs would get anywhere near President Trump, now they are creating commemorative products for his inauguration, such as this Diet Coke.

5) Seth Keshel has a good analysis of why red states have safer voting, for the most part. Most have laws that limit mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, and other fraud-engendering policies. He has a similar look at how the blue states almost uniformly have the weakest election integrity laws.

6) Governor Ron DeSantis appointed his own AG, Ashley Moody as U.S. Senator to replace Marco Rubio. She has supported some suits in favor of Trump and sued FEMA for discriminating against Trump supporters getting hurricane relief. Not clear yet what this means for DeSantis runni