For years, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been a beloved star of internet memes. He did not disappoint on Inauguration Day, rocking a look that has been gracing our social media feeds in a constant torrent ever since. 

Sanders wore his famous (and previously memed) grayish-beige (or is it more of a beige-y gray?) winter coat and an absolutely mammoth pair of woolen mittens to watch the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. A photo of the former presidential candidate in all his curmudgeonly glory didn't just become ameme, it became the meme of the Inauguration. 

Photoshops of Sanders in a wide variety of geographic locations and pop culture moments quickly went viral. Lion Brand Yarn even posted their own version, showing Sanders in the yarn aisle of a craft store and offering a pattern to knit your own mittens. 

The backstory behind the mittens made it all even better: they were knitted by a Vermont schoolteacher out of repurposed wool sweaters and lined with fleece from recycled plastic bottles. And, no, she doesn't have time to knit any for you. Sanders, on brand as ever, told late night host Seth Meyers that he "was just sitting there trying to keep warm."

Biden's inauguration remarks focused on a message of unity. Seeing how Sanders and his mittens have been joyfully embraced all across the political spectrum, maybe there's hope after all. 

Fox News' Sean Hannity hosts an opinion show, and he is entitled to his opinion. He's been a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, and a vocal critic of newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden, for years.

That's all well and good, but your humble newsletter correspondents are entitled to our opinions too, and when Hannity goes off the deep end, we're gonna call him out.

On Thursday's episode of his eponymous show, he declared “the Biden administration is off to a very rocky start,” claiming the new president was having a "disastrous first week" -- despite the fact that barely one day of that week had even passed.

Hannity then claimed Biden was “struggling” to “answer simple questions,” alluding to the president sniping back at an AP reporter with one of his exasperated folksy comebacks: “C’mon, give me a break, man,” when challenged on whether his vaccine rollout plan was ambitious enough. He followed that up with a wild exaggeration of the number of jobs that will be eliminated by the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. 

Oh, and more vague but unsubstantiated promises that the Hunter Biden laptop story is "about to break wide open." Sure it is. 

Hannity is entitled to loud criticize every single Biden policy, heck, every single word the man utters for the next four years, if he so wishes. But declaring his first week to be a disaster when 80 percent of that week hasn't even occurred yet is just plain hackery.