Let's talk about contrasts.
As last week's holiday dawned, the Bidens took to video to reassure Americans that "better days are coming," comforted those who would spend their holidays with empty seats at the table and urged us all to stay safe.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump pardoned two turkeys. One was a real turkey and the other was Michael Flynn, Trump's first and former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to and was convicted of lying to investigators about his conversations with Russia's ambassador. Trump pardoned Flynn after Attorney General William Barr, at the urging of Trump, moved last spring to withdraw the charge against him but the judge in the case held up the request, questioning its legitimacy.
Of course other shoes can fall.
Flynn admitted to lying about his lobbying for Turkey - the country, not the bird - but was not charged with that crime. Who knows - perhaps the Justice Department in the Biden administration may have more questions for him.
Speaking of other shoes falling
Also on Thanksgiving, Trump answered questions from reporters for the first time since Election Day. He said he would leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes president-elect Joe Biden's victory, but he added: "It's going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud."
No there wasn't.
But that didn't keep Trump from spending most of 25 minutes talking about the allegations his lawyers have been making in court cases - cases that have been and continue to be tossed out of court because they are baseless. When reporters pressed that point, Trump replied, "You're just a lightweight. Don't talk to me that - don't talk to - I'm the president of the United States. Don't ever talk to the president that way."
Trump also hedged his leave-the-White-House answer with this cagey statement: "Certainly I will ... But I think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of January - a lot of things."
He didn't detail all those "things," but one of his intentions is to continue campaigning in Georgia to undermine Biden by helping to preserve a Republican Senate.
And of course he'll keep complaining.
"If the media were honest and big tech was fair, it wouldn't even be a contest," Trump told reporters. "And I would have won by a tremendous amount." He quickly caught his slip and added: "And I did win by a tremendous amount."
No, he didn't. He lost bigly - by more than 6.1 million votes - no matter how many times he says otherwise.
What's down is up
Then there's the stock market.
Remember Trump repeatedly warning us that the stock market would plummet if he lost the election?
Whoops. On the heels of Trump's Monday announcement that his administration would cooperate with Biden's transition team (after blocking them for more than two weeks), as well as Biden's announcement of his first Cabinet picks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to a record 30,000 points.
Naturally, Trump took credit. In a one-minute White House news conference Tuesday, he praised his administration for getting to the "sacred" 30,000 number, citing the vaccine progress.
The Wall Street Journal took the middle - and more likely - approach. It reported that the winding up of election uncertainty, coupled with promising potential coronavirus vaccines, appeared to boost investor confidence in an economic recovery.
One more contrast
General Motors - on the same day Joe Biden named John Kerry as climate czar - dropped its support for the Trump climate rollbacks and aligned with Biden, who has promised swift action to reduce climate-warming emissions in the auto sector.
Simply put, even corporate America is signaling that Trump no longer has any clout and it's time to adapt to an incoming Democratic administration.
Specifically GM abandoned Trump's lawsuit seeking to strip California of the power to set fuel economy standards and give us vehicles that run on little or no fossil fuels.
Mary Barra, the General Motors chief executive, wrote in a letter to leaders of some of the nation's largest environmental groups: "President-elect Biden recently said, 'I believe that we can own the 21st century car market again by moving to electric vehicles.' We at General Motors couldn't agree more."
She added that GM, one of the largest automakers in the world, was withdrawing its support for Trump administration litigation, and she urged Toyota and Fiat Chrysler to do the same.
It was 180-degree turn for Barra and GM, who were among the firsts to push Trump to loosen Obama-era standards on fuel economy and climate-warming emissions. Then last year, after the administration went even further, revoking the legal authority of California and other states to set tighter state restrictions - GM, Toyota and Fiat Chrysler intervened on the side of the administration in support of that move.
Contrast that with Barra's new statement: "We believe the ambitious electrification goals of the President-elect, California, and General Motors are aligned to address climate change by drastically reducing automobile emissions. ... We are confident that the Biden Administration, California, and the U.S. auto industry, which supports 10.3 million jobs, can collaboratively find the pathway that will deliver an all-electric future."
As Bob Dylan taught us, "For the times, they are a-changin'..."