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By Garrison Keillor Special To The Washington Post
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So here we are, bilious and consternated, and in three weeks, it all comes to an end. Apparently, Mr. Trump will not call up Hillary on election night and offer her congratulations. He may file a lawsuit instead. His followers will be encouraged to believe that the election was rigged by Wall Street hedge fund managers in cahoots with the vaccine industry, followers of Saul Alinsky, and aliens living in Roswell, New Mexico, but whatever it will be over. The shouting will die down. The "Lock her up" T-shirts will go into the bottom drawer. Families will gather for Thanksgiving and bite their tongues and avoid eye contact. There will be Christmas. The inauguration will take place, and Barack and Michelle and the girls will go to their new home and get out the Scrabble board and pop a kettle of popcorn. And next spring the 2020 campaign will begin.
I worry about Donald Trump. What is he going to do? He has damaged his brand. The steaks, ties, home furnishings, fragrances, whiskey, resorts, condos, golf club memberships when you associate yourself with white supremacy, male chauvinism and invincible ignorance, this is not smart marketing. He can't go back to the Tower. Manhattan is about 83 percent Democratic. Why live among people who don't appreciate you and ride around in a black limo with smoked-glass windows through crowds of pedestrians giving you the finger? It's no way to live.
Does the man have friends? Or only associates? This is the big question. Is Sean really and truly his friend? Or Howard? Or Rudy? Do they go out for lunch and tell jokes about the two blondes who went to the drive-in theater in February to see "Closed For The Season"? I doubt this.
He should pick up his traps and move to Nebraska. He is leading in Nebraska, about 2-to-1. There are wonderful warmhearted people there who love and admire him, so he would fit right in. Look at Broken Bow, a town of 4,000 on Highway 2 in Custer County. He could get a nice 3BR there for $150K. There's a municipal airport, a hospital. The restaurants are good if you like beef. You can play golf from May through September and after that you can use a fluorescent orange ball and play in the snow. He'd be far away from The New York Times. He could make Broken Bow great, put marble floors and walls in the public school, put up a marble statue of George Armstrong Custer. He could attend a good evangelical church every Sunday and go to Bible reading Wednesday night where maybe he can learn more about those two Corinthians. He'd need to be careful about touching women suddenly without permission though because many of them are armed. If he grabbed one down there, she might cut him a new buttonhole. Even if she were a Christian.
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4480618-155/garrison-keillor-when-its-over-maybe
riversedge
(70,221 posts)Borchkins
(724 posts)My oldest son's high school team lost, my younger son's 7th grade team lost. There there was the Badger's heart-breaking loss and whatever it was the Packers were doing.
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slumcamper
(1,606 posts)in Kinnick Stadium, home of the HAWKEYES!
But seriously, you'll probably beat us down big time.
Speaking of winning, when Dems win back the state legislature and depose Walker, I'd like to suggest that, by executive order, "UW-Madison athletic uniforms hereafter be BLUE."
Borchkins
(724 posts)Doesn't have the same ring. But I'll bet Bucky would look nice in Blue!
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)"learn more about those two Corinthians."
OMG!!!!
Classic!!!
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)microphone but he's even better, I think, as a writer.
Here, he doesn't so much criticize Trump as bulldoze him into the earth.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)Seems its a fade I would like to get back into, What a great American writer.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Tis delicious.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)want trump here!
I want Garrison Keillor to move here instead!
hibbing
(10,098 posts)Me too, I don't want that jerkwad anywhere near my state.
Peace
Ernesto
(5,077 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)He said they were nice people and Trump would enjoy it!
Man, getting mowed down by someone who is that remarkably nice about it is devastating!
I hope trump reads this and goes off on a furious twitter rant about how Garrison Keillor is "Un-American"...
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)I snorted tea and nearly died at "barring a bombshell backstage video in which Hillary is heard talking about how she loves to stroll into a men's room and let out a whoop and yank the waistbands of men at the urinals and yell "Snuggies!"...
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)Nebraska be like
Roland99
(53,342 posts)NickB79
(19,243 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)hated him. Now it has to be close to 100%. He has never fit in there and he never will. He would be better off anyplace else BUT New York. He's always been a laughingstock there and it's only going to be worse once he loses this election. I think he should probably move to Moscow.