I wanna share some stuff,

that my buddy Dave wrote to me this weekend. Dave's a sharp, articulate guy who just retired from corporate America, and is enjoying his retirement, while having the same attitude toward FOX and the Pubs (one and the same) as I do. Will make an effort to 'pass on' some of his wisdom, before he's snapped up by some national media chain.

In short, sometimes people accidentally say the right things for all the wrong reasons. 

 And yes, we are all immensely entertained (the Fox Gong Show got 24 million viewers – more than four times what any other presidential debate in history has garnered).  And this “debate” was just a “practice round” - sixteen months before the election!  Trump (for once) was telling the unvarnished truth when he bragged that 20 million of those viewers tuned in just to watch him say outrageous shit (sort of like Warren Beatty’s  Bulworth, only an ideological mirror image).

Like you, I still have some cautious faith that Trump’s one-note, chest-thumping shtick will wear thin with even most of his deluded fans.  Or that one day he will spontaneously combust in full view of the public (call some heckler a m____rf____r or punch out a pestering reporter.  But I still recall a picnic lunch with my parents on Flagstaff Mountain in the summer of 1980, when my Dad (a life-long Democrat and a fairly sophisticated political junkie himself) loudly declared that there was absolute zero chance that the American people would ever be so stupid as to elect that transparently unqualified former B-grade movie actor to be our next president.  And We the People elected him twice – both times in landslides.

Then after Dubya’s consigliere Jim Baker pulled the family levers inside the Supreme Court to steal his first term in 2000, the world watched as Dubya stuttered, mumbled and boorishly stumbled across the world stage – taking America from the post 9/11 “beacon of hope” after 9/11 to the world’s most despised and feared nation in less than three years.  At home he castrated the EPA, SEC, Justice Dept. and anyone else who dared stand in the way of his pals at Enron and on Wall Street.  And when he had to steal his re-election in 2004 (remember Ohio?) – the headline the next day in Great Britain’s The Guardian screamed, “How can 51,823,516 People Be So Wrong?!”

Yeah, I remember that stuff.  So while I find it mind-boggling that Trump could survive (much less thrive electorally) this 2016 presidential campaign, I’ve seen what unlimited money combined with gullible, ignorant and selfish voters can do to my country.  It ain’t pretty.