So About Last Night....

 

This likely and succinctly summed up most viewers perspective.  Someone on twitter had stated earlier in the day that debating Trump was going to be like "trying to play Carnegie Hall while someone in the front row was blasting an air horn". So it was. Most of us ended up with this feeling...

An actual United States sitting president is called a clown and asked to "just shut up man" by his opponent and it gets practically lost in the cacophony.  This is not normal but it is embarrassing for our country.

And from the Japanese news channel this morning: 

But net net, Trump is behind.  He needed a win which he did not attain.

Ultimately Republican candidates woke up left between a rock (the Trump base) and a hard place this guy...

Actually we all know folks like Trump in some form or another and they really are not attractive.  So while I do believe the possibility outlined here is real...

I still hope the ultimate voting will leave little room for any craziness on the part of Trump and his most devoted adherents.  As I told a friend, I woke this morning sadder for my country than I was 24 hours ago but more confident than I was 24 hours ago that Biden was going to win.  After all he did not drool, he did not appear addled, he did not commit a gaffe and at times despite the constant heckling he actually looked into the camera at the American people and said in short "it does not have to be this way, let's get back to a normal presidency".  

A Trumpkin on FB wrote a while back he was pained by the notion that- "Many people I know and love are ashamed of AMERICA". He is wrong, we are not ashamed of America. Neither he nor Trump are America. We will not cede "America" to Trump. We are all part of the beautiful American tapestry and seek to integrate constructively many more people regardless of race, creed, tribe etc. It is a messy process and has been for over 200 years. Our history is portrayed more hagiographically than most understand, this too shall pass.

We need to get back closer to the U.S.A not some form of a D.S.A. (divided states of America) which some appear to seek.  That the question below needed to be asked is sad, the answer even more so.  

The Proud Boys and several of their adherents are not constructive for our beautiful tapestry.  Biden condemns violence without equivocation, for whatever reason Trump will not.  Let there be no doubt who he refuses to condemn.

So again let's make this happen and get the good ole US of A back on a proper path else well I guess there is always this...

ps just kidding I would never leave but would stay and fight 😀