Up To Date With Ethan Callender

  Up To Date With Ethan Callender Entry 14: There’s Something About Donald President Trump will leave an enormous impact as he leaves office in less than a week. Unfortunately, I cannot in good conscience call his impact anything close to anything remotely positive. From his sad excuses for bravado to his inciting an insurrection at the Capitol building, it is clear that he utterly did not care about his job as President. He let his own self-interest cloud what miniscule shreds of a sense of decency he had, as he has done for nearly half a century before in the private sector. Our 45th President is, for lack of a better term, a monster, and this is reflected in his being impeached twice. That has never happened before. But first, it is necessary to explain how impeachment works, because it is a complicated process. First, the House of Representatives drafts and votes on articles of impeachment. These are essentially criminal charges. That has already happened, as Trump got impe...

  Up To Date With Ethan Callender Entry 13: Capitol Offense Remember, remember, the 6th of the first, the rioters’ treason and plot. I see no reason why America’s worst should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes references aside, that day was one for the history books. However, before we delve into the unpleasantness of that evening, it is worth mentioning that the day actually started off quite well. In Georgia, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, both Democrats, won their races to become Georgia next US Senators. Their wins gave the Democrats a Senate majority by the skin of their teeth, and only because the Vice President-elect is Kamala Harris, the soon-to-be tiebreaking vote. Of course, like almost any day since the start of last year, something had to go wrong. On this particular day, that was almost more true than ever before. The day began with an extremely large gathering in DC called the ‘Save America’ rally, where many Trumps, their associates, and other supporters spoke. Th...

  Up To Date With Ethan Callender Entry 12: 2020 Vision 2020… What a crapshoot of a year this was. I know this is a tired joke by now, and has been for months; however, what if I said that this year could have been even worse? I mean, there was a pandemic, a racial reckoning, and the continued existence of the Trump administration. We should all be lucky the year didn’t cause any further instability beyond what already happened. Unfortunately, what did happen was bad enough for a lot of people, and there’s still a lot to cover. It is time for a year-end review of 2020. January began with a drone strike that killed a top Iranian general, and that was speculated to be capable of leading to World War III at the time. Thank God that didn’t come to pass, especially given the current world order’s already-frail state in 2020. In retrospect, it’s nice to see that something went right in 2020, but only in the very beginning. After that, Trump got impeached because of likely obstruction...