I just sent this to the News-Press. They may well print it since the new editors, who had been ignoring me, now love me. They told me, in canvassing for a debater, that it was interesting that people were willing to express themselves openly when they could do it under cover, so to speak. But being in the room was another story. So, basically, I bailed them out in accepting the debate offer.

I feel like Snoopy in the tall grass, nowhere to turn. We are in for a bad ride and the market is already tanking. The uninformed have elected the fascist, an event that I think will be marked as one of the darkest in our history. To the world: don’t laugh, you will feel the impact of our decision.

How did this happen? I thought Trump said the system was rigged. Could he possibly have been wrong? Trump, wrong? You do know he only said that as an excuse for a possible loss? He was willing to characterize our total democracy as corrupt to excuse himself from the responsibility of losing. How statesman like. How graceful. There will be many of these moments as we endure the next four years. Be careful what you wish for.

I do not need to be right. I hope I have misread every indication that Trump is the wrong man for this job. I hope to eat every negative word I said about him if he succeeds in anything he has promised. I am willing to be laughed at if I am wrong. Only a person who is not a patriot would wish otherwise.

Still, I think buyer’s remorse is in our future. I just hope we can get through the next four years without nuking another country because Trump feels dissed. We now have, if Trump puts Gingrich in as secretary of state, and Giuliani becomes attorney general, as was recently suggested, three serial cheaters in the driver's seat. Let's hear it for family values.

Let’s see how he handles “president” instead of “dictator,” which is what he thinks he is getting.

xx, Teal