Say it ain't so, Joe.

Whoa, wake me up. I am having this horrible very realistic nightmare. Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States.

What in the crying in the fuck just happened? How could 60,371,182 people be so incredibly heads-up-their-asses fucking gullible? Why the mass disaffection with and from reality? The economic numbers (GDP growing / unemployment down) with things way better than what Romney promised in the heat of the 2012 campaign. Inflation is non-existent. Stock market is up. The real estate market has recovered. The US economy is doing way better than Europe's or Japan's. In fact the US is a rare bright spot globally. But I guess these 60,371,182 stupid shits don't care for facts they prefer the Trumpian/GOP faux dystopia. The pat answer is that the white working class is pissed and are not taking it anymore. They want their semi-skilled decent paying (but boring) factory jobs back and did see not it coming by way of a continuation of Obamanomics. And those are the ones that swung the election.. But what about the rest of the Trumpians who are doing OK, thank you, and making well over $60k a year? The answer is they are all plugged into the three Big Lie machines: Fox News, right wing talk radio and the Briebart/ Drudge conspiracy bullshit spewing blogosphere. Tell me again how the Internet was going to be a force for progressive change. 

The trouble with the First Amendment and the (necessary) free press that it supports is that the free speech also allows the freedom to spew out boldface lies and un-provable assertions, and go as far from reality as gullible followers will tolerate – and that's a long ways, just look at organized religion. We are way beyond the quaint old printed word of our Constitutional architect's day. Now with electronic media lip readers and functional illiterates can be fed lies, fact-spun propaganda and hate speech - almost instantly. Our new President knows this well with his perchance for Twittering out provocative crap to roil (or placate) his 60 million dupes.

I had hoped once the full gravity of President-elect Trumps situation sunk in and the byzantine complexity of the nuts and bolts of implementing his wide array of wild promises, that a new sober presidential Donald Trump would start to emerge.That has not happened yet. On 60 Minutes last night it was same old orange haired ogre. Without a hapless opponent to demean and vilify  he had nothing significant to say other than repeat his usual overused superlatives and hackneys adjectives- such as “terrific” and say former vilified foes (like Barack Obama) have now suddenly become “nice people”. His limited vocabulary and lack of intellectual depth makes George W. Bush look like Winston Churchill. How did sixty million people who see such a lightweight as their political messiah?

On 60 Minutes and in his meeting with Obama, Trump seemed seemed stressed and uncomfortable. He didn't seem that happy for a guy who just won the election for “president of the world”. He knows he is out of his depth. I think he loved the rock star limelight and the fun of egging on his adoring fans by promising them the sun, moon and stars. Now that the brutal complexity of each and every issue that he hammered the ineptness of the establishment on is dawning on him, he is saying whoa, wait a minute. He must be realizing  after his Herculean effort and masses of money spent that he has stepped into some real heavy shit.  As others have said he does not seem to have the temperament for the job. Will he grow into it? My feeling is the radical right in the Republican Party (which is all of 'em) will take over. If he has any integrity and tries to stick with all his contradictory but difficult if not impossible to fulfill promises he will have to confront key GOP ultra neoliberal ideologues like Paul Ryan, if he doesn't his base will turn on him.

In all honesty I don't have a clue as to what is going to happen. No one does. Hold on to your hats, folks, it will be quite a ride.