Mt wife and I had many, um, exciting discussions prior to last years elections. She favored Clinton, and I think everyone here understands how much I loathed Clinton. Her fall back argument ( my wife's ) was that she was a woman and it was time for a female President. I agreed that a female could do the job, just - not Clinton, the crown prince of the DNC. Still, when the elections were over, I was left without any representation anywhere - but that would have been the case no matter WHO won. That got me to wondering just who WAS going to be represented.

Establishment Republicans have a lock on the Congress, with establishment Democrats hanging on by their fingernails. How many establishment dems/repubs are there in the country? About 42% of Americans identify as repub or dem, leaving 58% unaffiliated. Who will represent them? Some of them voted for Trump, as well as some Bernie fans and establishment repubs and he may or may not represent them. So far, Trump seems to be representing his 20,000,000 twitter fans, leaving 350,000,000 people drifting in the currents. Who knows what he'll do when he actually takes office, or who he'll represent while there, but his cabinet picks leave a scary feeling that it won't be - us, the little people. That's ok though, we've gotten used to being left out and ignored, by both democrats and republicans and everybody in between, so it won't be a shock.

I keep hearing statements " the American people want... ", from both sides of the aisle, under the aisle, over the aisle and 1000 miles from the aisle, and my question is; how do they know what the American people want? With a 100 different versions of that statement around, which American people are they each referring to? We all agree that our Congressional delegates don't listen to us, Trumps cabinet folk never talked to any of us and Trump only talks TO his fans - so - where are they getting their intelligence about what the American people want? Maybe it's dreams, or drug induced visions - or maybe they just assume we're too stupid to WHAT we want, so they'll decide for us. In any case, I have no confidence in any of them to really know what we want, or care a lick either way, because - they sure aren't listening to anything I have to say and I don't know anyone personally that have listened to. My democratic, republican and unaffiliated friends all agree, we're at the mercy of people far smarter than we are, that know what we want and need, because we're just too dumb to be making those kinds of decisions ourselves. We just have to hope that these superior humans come close to what we REALLY want.

An opinion written by Ron, a frequent poster to a blog I often visit

Obama is sticking around DC, unlike the precedent set by other ex-presidents, so he can make a nuisance of himself and try to protect his “legacy”. I think he’s making a mistake since it will give Trump plenty of opportunities to ridicule him and make him look petty and stupid. In this case, he will do all the work. Trump will just point it out. Already, Trump is a better president and has accomplished more and he hasn’t even taken office yet. Here’s Ron.

Soetoro never really wanted to be a politician, but he DID want the attention, the influence, the money, and the spotlight it could provide. He didn’t really want the JOB of PotUS, just the perks, mostly the power trip and monetary benefits it offered along with the doors it opened.

What he dislikes most is people who disagree with him. He just can’t stand hearing ideas or solutions which don’t dovetail neatly with his socialist, racist, anti-American take on the world, especially if they are in any way critical of black people or Islam. His foreign policy has been based on the belief that the US is the source of all conflict and terror in the world; his domestic policy is that white people, especially angry white men, and particularly white male cops, are the source of all trouble in the country.

What happened was that he had barely got his seat in the US Senate warm when Oprah nominated him and he got mistakenly installed in as CinC. His legislative record is as barren as his academic record is transparent. A white man with his credentials wouldn’t have even been conSIDered by the DNC, but he was elected with no credentials of any kind other than not being one of the good ol’ rich white dudes.

Once in office he got the full briefings on all the really heavy, nasty stuff both at home and abroad. He was shown the “Big Picture” and it completely blinded him to reality. In the 8 years since, he has demonstrated what most of us suspected from the start, he couldn’t successfully direct traffic on a one-way street in Mayberry. I’m not sure that without somebody’s help he could find his way out of a gazebo.

Both Netanyahu and Putin said and did things which made him look indecisive, weak, ignorant, and foolish. So now he’s settling scores. That’s what the UN Security Council non-veto was all about with Israel, and it’s what the expulsion of Russian “diplomats” is all about with Putin.

His latest EOs got nothin at all to do with the election and HRC’s loss, but it IS all a childish tantrum by a snotty little weasel who, just like Hitler and Sodom Insane, wants to burn the place down if he can’t be in charge any more. He’s planting IEDs in a hissy fit to make his successor look as ineffective as he’s been himself. Actually, what bothers him MOST is that he feels that he’s being “forced out” of office and that without that pesky two-term Constitutional amendment limit, he’d have won the election easily and continued to eat, golf, and fly around the world for free.

What irks me the most about him, other than the fact that he was and still is the perfect example of a post turtle, is that he genuinely thinks he is one of the best presidents this nation has ever had, ranking himself right up there with Lincoln and FDR. He just never got it, any of it.

I pity DJT . . . coming in under the cloud of suspicion, doubt, and opposition he’s alREADY getting from the media, the coastal megalopolises, and the blacks, all of whom have been fed the balloon juice and vacuous hype about the “popular vote” and “inexperience.”

Hell, I’ve been across both big ponds several times, wandered around in a dozen and a half foreign countries, watched bullfights and dog-and-pony shows and circuses and various types of goat ropes, but I’ve never seen anyone as unready for the job or learn so little in it as DingleBarry. Being hip, cool, racist, and thin-skinned are not the key assets for leadership.

My original assessment was that his resume was fraudulent, his credentials were nonexistent, his loyalties were not with mainstream America, and he was as in touch with the heartland as I am with Ulan Bator. Nothing has happened to change that in the past 8 years except to add to it the fact that he is arrogant, profligate, and narrow-minded.

Instead of going back home to the Murder Capitol of the US and keeping his nose out of his successor’s business (a la Dubya), he is “fired up and ready to go” in a campaign to distract, detract, and delegitimize the Trump presidency. He has no intention of allowing ANYbody to scuttle his environmental, immigration, foreign policy, and health-care “achievements” if he can do anything to stop it.

“I promise you that next year Michelle and I are going to be right there with you, and the clouds are going to start parting and the sun is going to come back out, and we’re going to be busy, involved in the amazing stuff that we’ve been doing all these years before,” Obama told his political group Organizing For America last week.

And what pisses me off about THAT is that millions of blacks and liberal whiners will urge him on and applaud anything he does to sidetrack or derail Trump’s efforts to clean out the Augean Stables he has left on the banks of the Potomac.