have been since at least the days of Vietnam. As vets of that era used to say, payback is a motherfucker.

You know what, though? While people stupid enough to vote for Trump, or WORSE, those who did not vote, can be said to be getting 'the government they deserve,' what about us?

I don't deserve a Trump government. Nor does my wife, nor my children, nor my grandchildren. Nor do I or my family deserve a civil war to burn over this land.

The serious asskicking comment makes me uncomfortable because I know it is happening or will happen, but I'd hoped that it wouldn't in my lifetime.

Damn.

claim after Vietnam and Iraq that the U.S. doesn't deserve what's coming? You have to wear a pair of seriously rose-colored glasses to maintain that posture.

I'm hoping a Mandela-type figure emerges who can negotiate the transition bloodlessly, but I'm not holding my breath.

It looks like we'll have Empire wrested away from us by the rest of the world instead of slowly giving it up to concentrate on fixing things at home. Funny how that works in all Empires through history.

We're not going to win the next one, folks. We don't even make our own shoes any more.

appeasement. They all opposed and exposed him in the primaries, then jumped on his crazy train.

80% of Evangelist voted for him, now they are the Pharisees.

the hypocrisy is blinding.