267. Bring it on Mr. PRESIDENT TRUMP ....

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The following is a well-written comment by a PBS NEWSHOUR respondent, commenting on Donald Trump's election. 

Penny Agbayani

So, to re-cap: the "silent majority" staking out the moral high ground here decided to make itself heard -- by electing a twice-divorced semi-literate; a pathological liar; a silver-spoon serial bankrupt who consistently leaves working-class Americans holding the bag when his half-baked business ventures fail; a guy who once lost $1 billion in a single year but who is too gutless to release his taxes and so cowardly that he kept repeating the sad little "audit" lie even after all of us knew he was simply too much of a punk to man up and show us the returns (the way that every other prez candidate has done for 40 years); an admirer of Russia's autocratic thug and No. 1 enemy of America, Putin; a hero to white supremacists and other spittle-flecked racists everywhere; a man who routinely calls women "pigs" and worse in public; a thin-skinned con man with his panties forever in a twist about those nasty mainstream journalists who insist on reporting on his self-aggrandizing fabrications and his countless lawsuits; and a man caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women in a way that perfectly articulates the basic tenets of "rape culture": namely, if you're a man, and especially if you're famous, women are to be used, abused, and discarded.

I guess all of that is behavior that passes for admirable and worthy of celebration among right-wing Americans these days. Good to know. I feel better knowing the sort of opponents that I -- and tens of millions of other REAL Americans -- will gladly be fighting against for the next four years.

(The following is my rebuttal ): 

Jan ...          

Though beautifully voiced, it may be more about dealing with the devil you know, than the hidden factors of the angel you don't. What is most grotesque here is to have endured these two, as the ultimate representation of a purportedly 'developed' and free society. Bottom line shows we may be technologically advanced, but as a species, we have morally gained zero since the old Greek and Roman days. We continue to fight lions in an emporium. Hail Caesar! Et tu Brute? 

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So .....time ....will continue to unfold, as it does - with - or - without us.

'Shit' will be flying. 

As a President, like many before him, he will likely find out that everything is not just a quick business deal. He is no longer just the one and only decision maker, and may well become hugely frustrated with all of those who continue to run the systems they have so comfortably created.

But, guess what? He will be a catalyst for change. 

I actually feel that the possibilities for a whole new order, with or without his directives, will manage to set out its roots. Younger generations, no longer held back by the former stifling status quo, will build their new, and more enlightened formats in more trustworthy, caring and sharing systems.  

Part of that, I feel, will include the need to look more seriously at our foundations. 

And that will HAVE to include our seriously self-serving, and corrupt legal system.