Isaac Laquedem

Exodus 32 finds a modern analogue

And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.  Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.  And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.  Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. 

And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/politics/trump-gold-statue-cpac-2021/index.html

Ted Cruz would eat his words, if he had electricity to cook them with

Except now it's Texas that can't perform even basic functions of civilization as millions of Texans are without power because the state elected to go it alone with its electric grid.  Ted Cruz took off for a vacation in Cancun, where the state government is able to provide power and water.

Schrödinger's senator gives us our first quantum-state president

To explain one aspect of quantum mechanics, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger imagined his eponymous cat as a feline shut into a box with a timed mechanism that releases poison and kills the cat at some unknown time in the next six hours.  He argued that until you opened the box, the cat was neither alive nor dead, or possibly both alive and dead.  Only when observed could we say which of the two possible states of being the cat in fact occupied.

Schrödinger's cat has had many more than nine lives, in and out of physics, popular culture, and more recently Facebook memes.  Senator Mitch McConnell today contributed to the uses of Schrödinger's cat when he first voted to acquit Donald Trump of inciting the January 6 riot and attempted looting of Congress, and then roundly condemned Mr. Trump for his actions, calling Mr. Trump "practically and morally responsible for the events of the day" - the riot and insurrection.  Why, then, did he not vote to convict Mr. Trump?  Because, Senator McConnell reasoned, the Senate has "no power to convict a former officeholder who is now a private citizen."  He could have voted to convict Donald Trump and debar him from future office until noon on January 20, but not afterward.

That makes Mitch McConnell Schrödinger's senator: able to acquit and convict nearly simultaneously.  But his achievement in becoming our first quantum senator pales in comparison to what Senator McConnell has made of Donald Trump: our first quantum president, in Mr. McConnell's view able to be guilty and not guilty on the same day, or in Mr. McConnell's more elaborate reasoning, able to be convicted on January 19 but not on January 21.