If A Guy/Gal Can't Define A Woman.....

 ....then he/she probably can't define a honky tonk.

....then he/she probably can't define liberty.

....then he/she probably can't define risky behavior.

....then he/she probably can't define 'hustle'.

....then he/she probably can't define weird.

....then he/she probably can't define a 'ball' and 'strike'.

.....then he/she probably can't define illegal alien.

.....then he/she probably can't define 'doom'.

.....then he/she probably can't define 'vagueness'.

....then he/she probably can't define the term 'capitalist'.

....then he/she probably can't define kinky.

....then he/she probably can't define the term 'courage'.  

This is a person you need to relieve of responsibility....just let them sweep the storeroom....bag groceries....run the waffle-machine....or haul gravel for a living.  

Why People Were Consumed For Trump?

 I could make this a 500-page book, but I'll leave this to four key issues:

1.  I think a quarter of the nation (left, right and independents) were fed up with fakeness.  Maybe they just woke up from the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years.....to realize what both parties offered....was a fake agenda, tied to a fake reality, that asked you to believe in some fake 'Jesus-President'.  

2.  That fire-that-guy ability.  It may have been a joke for Trump to do the reality shows and just stand there....saying 'you're fired', but I think a fair sum of Americans wanted people in the judicial system, the FBI, the Pentagon, Congress, the Senate....to be fired.  

3.  This 'Trump-door' that opened....was always reserved for Governors, House members or Senators.  A  lot of people just wanted to see the door broken down.  Maybe in some weird way.....they wouldn't mind having some retired NFL quarterback, or some PhD mad-scientist guy, or Dr Phil, or even some tobacco-chewing rodeo guy become President.

4.  Finally, some people got pure glee out of turning on CNN (for four years) and getting a minimum of twelve hours a day of anti-Trump chatter....literally destroying the brand and image of CNN in the process.  It was like running a 18-hour commercial daily, for 1460 days....about cysts.  People eventually turned the network off.  

How Time Changes Your Perception

 Back in the 1980s....I traveled around the US a good bit.  I came to some point where I considered five US cities as great places where I'd like to go and live.  Lately, I've been thinking about the five.

1.  Seattle, WA.  Downtown, based on how various locals now describe it....it's become a no-go area.  Between petty crime, homelessness, and drugs....it's bad.

Odds of me ever wanting to return/live in the Seattle area....zero.

2.  Portland, OR.  Basically, same story, with Antifa operations, nutcases, and lack of police.  

Odds of me even stopping off I-5 to fuel-up or spend a night in the city?  Zero.

3.  Monterey, CA. I had this image of Steinbeck-country when I visited.  Today?  Between taxes, ridiculous state leadership, cost-of-living....it's a zero.

4.  Aberdeen, WA.  If you review the crime statistics....even for a small town....Aberdeen is one of the highest crime locations now in the US.  People will tell you that locals know someone that has been robbed in the past two years.  

5.  Coeur d'Alene, ID.  Probably the only one that has survived on without a lot of negativity, but it's in the middle nowhere.