Too Early* – Photo: L. Weikel

Yikes

I’ll admit it. I’d planned to write about a completely different topic this evening. In fact, I was all ready to tee it up and write my piece, when I became distracted by the Iowa Caucus results – or rather, lack of results.

As I sit here, the witching hour for hitting <send> on my post is racing toward me much more rapidly than I expected. And the post I want to write will need some reflection, some TLC. I don’t want to rush it.

The possibility is high that I may be overcome by some powerful emotion or another tomorrow night as a result of the State of the Union address. It’s weird to think, but I have no idea how DT will behave tomorrow night as he addresses the joint houses of Congress. And just that thought – that realization that he could let rip in any number of inappropriate and dangerous ways – is enough to tell me that I probably shouldn’t make any plans.

As a result, I just may have to write about what I’m feeling tomorrow night – or else risk losing that in-the-moment reaction thread. And threads – those urges to spend it all – are essential to follow.

Iowa’s Results

Dragging myself back to tonight’s ‘news,’ it is distressing that it is right around midnight and nary a caucus result has been reported. How incredibly frustrating this must be to the candidates – especially the ones who have been tethered to the impeachment trial (using that term exceedingly lightly) – since they’re supposed to already be on their way to New Hampshire now to pave the way for next week’s primary.

And let’s face it, glitches in election results are a touchy subject. Who among us isn’t just a tad worried about the potential for election interference in our upcoming primaries? And even worse is the thought of shenanigans taking place in the general election next November.

So this sudden and unexpected glitch in receiving the results of the Iowa Caucus is in a weird way sort of traumatizing us. Even if we hadn’t been feeling vote-insecure, we much more likely to be feeling that now. It’s hard not to allow our minds to race to next November, when so very much will be at stake.

The Rest of This Week

Obviously, this is a momentous week. The Iowa Caucus today, the SOTU tomorrow, and then the final vote on DT’s removal from office on Wednesday. Even if everyone thinks it’s a foregone conclusion, a girl can hope.

Yikes. Who knows what else could spring up this week, simply…because. Because we’re in the midst of the Chaos Presidency.

* I took this photo on our walk today. It’s important to realize that today is only the 3rd day of February. These are coming up entirely too early. Yet another reason to say, “Yikes.”

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