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GregStevens,Publisher Chip Thompson, Editor EDITORIALBOARD How to have your say: Letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and no more than two double-spaced pages or 500words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section will be published. Email: editor@ redbluffdailynews.com Fax: 530-527-9251 Mail to: P.O. Box 220, 728Main St., Red Bluff, CA 96080 Facebook: Leave comments at FACEBOOK.COM/ RBDAILYNEWS Twitter: Follow and send tweets to @REDBLUFFNEWS Cartoonist's take FredsangtoGingerthis 1936 Jerome Kern and Doro- thy Fields song: "Now noth- ing's impossi- ble, I've found for when my chin is on the ground, "I pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again. "Don't lose your confidence if you slip, be grateful for a pleasant trip, "And pick yourself up, dust off, start over again." Although performed 80 years ago, it seems particu- larly instructive today. As Trump's remarks have been reclassified as only "locker room talk," shall we celebrate the death knell of political correctness? If Trump is correct that be- ing a celebrity allows prom- inent men to have their way with women, he should have no trouble getting laid now that he is the ultimate celebrity. Teacher: "What surprising thing did our first President do?" Little kid: "Before he was President, he grabbed an axe and chopped down a cherry tree." Teacher: Very good, and what surprising thing did our 45th and current President do?" Little kid: "He grabbed a cat, but I don't know what he did with it." Teacher: "Well, not exactly, but let's move on." Can a sitting President be sued? It seems Trump is fac- ing a few suits that are await- ing resolution. The Tuesday columnist is entitled to gloat, but his line explaining the popular vote going to Clinton as coming from "… felons, illegal immi- grants, dead and fraudulent voters" did not include the fa- miliar Trump grouping which added "rapists" to the list. In any case the charge does seem a bit much even for our home- grown Donald. Some Clinton voters may have merely been dissatisfied with Trump's re- marks and deportment. Sources say President Harry Truman lamented that his successor, General Eisen- hower, who was used to order- ing people to do what he com- manded, would soon find out that the presidency did not work that way. Truman's biog- rapher, Joshua Engel, writes, "You don't order people as the President, you have to per- suade them as President. I think that's perhaps analogous to Donald Trump, who as a business person could just fire someone he didn't like. He has no idea how to work with peo- ple he can't fire." However, if you thought the discourse between can- didates was coarse and un- becoming, there is precedent for even worse. TIME mag- azine reports George H. W. Bush proclaimed, "My dog Millie knows more about for- eign affairs than those two bo- zos (Bill Clinton and Al Gore)." John Adams called Andrew Jackson "A cockfighter, drunk- ard, thief, liar and husband of a very fat wife." And Lyndon Johnson's aides put out a kid's coloring book in which Gold- water was dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes. Tsk, tsk. I am truly amazed that so many people did not perceive Trump as the ultimate con man. The history and docu- mentation of his business ac- tivity alone should have con- vinced the majority of vot- ers that he should never be allowed anywhere near the White House. He is, as Ste- phen Hawking, the renowned English theoretical physicist, early on proclaimed, "A dema- gogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denomina- tor." Later he simplified his re- marks and proclaimed Trump was just a "Bad man." That said, that written, many people have decided that whereas Trump is about as honest as his hair, he has touched a real nerve out there in the hinterlands. TIME's Joe Klein puts it this way: "He is the avatar of easy answers, a leader for those fearful of the unfamiliar. He embodies the notion that engaged citizen- ship is just too hard for aver- age folks, that compromise is just too complex. ••• Speaking of TIME, it alerts us to the fact that the Social Security trust fund will appar- ently run out of funds in 2034, and that the average monthly amount Social Security now pays out to retired Americans is $1,300. So advised. ••• Moving on, in a previous column I recounted a prank 70 years ago in which a group of us high school juniors cel- ebrated Halloween by pulling over street signs via Jeep and chain. However, a letter to the editor writer L. Brown wrote that our "prank" was actually vandalism, and he had hoped that I had made restitution of cost to the city to restore the signs to their original upright condition. He was correct that our ac- tion was more vandalism than prank. I had intended to ex- plore our actions more thor- oughly, but comments on the coming election had taken up too much of my allotted space. What I had omitted was that as deplorable my adoles- cent action, I had apparently, over time, matured, and there- fore perhaps my subsequent civic activities might have partially compensated the city — modest list available on re- quest — and yet, "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones," or is that a little over the top? ••• After a modest number of requests, I have ordered an- other reprinting of my book "The Knocking Pen" first pub- lished in 2011. I have retained a list of those who made such requests and will notify them when the Copy Center gives me a call to pick them up. The re-printing costs $25 per copy. If new readers find the text unrewarding in regard to the life and death of our old meat plant two miles west of town, they might at least enjoy the photos showing former em- ployees, many of whom have now gone to their reward. ••• When NASA started send- ing astronauts into space, they quickly discovered that ball- point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from be- low freezing to over 300° C. The Russians used a pencil. Heh,heh. RobertMinchisalifelong resident of Red Bluff, former columnist for the Corning Daily Observer and Meat Industry magazine and author of the "The Knocking Pen." He can be reached at rminchandmurray@ hotmail.com. I say Randomthoughtsabout the presidential election Greg Stevens, Publisher Chip Thompson, Editor EDITORIAL BOARD How to have your say: Letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and no more than two double-spaced pages or 500words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section will be published. Email: editor@ redbluffdailynews.com Fax: 530-527-9251 Mail to: P.O. Box 220, 728Main St., Red Bluff, CA 96080 Facebook: Leave comments at FACEBOOK.COM/ RBDAILYNEWS Twitter: Follow and send tweets to @REDBLUFFNEWS It'sallover. So why are people still arguing about something Donald Trump said three weeks ago? Why are protestors milling around the streets of our cities holding up misspelled signs and promising revolution? The argument ended early Wednesday morning when the votes were counted. Trump won. It was shocking, amaz- ing, impressive, historic — all that and more. The billionaire with no ide- ology except egoism, the ex- Democrat no one thought had a chance, turned everything upside down and made fools, losers or incompetents out of both major political parties, the liberal media, the pundits, the pollsters, the financial markets, the weathermen... You hear suicidal talking heads in the liberal media say- ing that Trump tapped into something they didn't see. Of course they didn't see it. They're liberals. The reality is that Trump tapped into the kinds of is- sues that talk radio has been talking about for 25 years. Every issue he brought up in the campaign — from the border wall and the bad trade deals to tax cuts, ObamaCare and Islamic Mus- lim terrorism — has been talked to death on talk radio. Trump won because he in- ternalized talk radio. Its au- dience became his base, which is different from the GOP's base, and he won be- cause his rural rust-belt peo- ple showed up on Election Day to smoke Hillary. So live with it, all you lib- eral media people, broken- hearted Hillary followers and angry Bernie children. No matter how much you hated or feared Donald Trump three days ago, he's going to be your president in January. I know it won't happen, but I hope all sad people will get a grip and say, "Hey, now that he'll be the president, what can we do to help him make America great again?" Otherwise, what's their po- sition going to be for the next four years? Join protest marches? Sit back and expect Trump to do everything on his own? Or is it to be helpful? If it's to be helpful, the first thing you have to do is stop arguing about the issues of the campaign 48 hours af- ter it ended. Your guy lost. Live with it. Four years ago, and eight years ago, our guy lost. We lived with it. Now the Republicans are in charge — of everything. All the things they've been saying they wanted to ac- complish in Washington but couldn't because of Harry Reed, Nancy Pelosi and Pres- ident Obama's executive or- ders are soon going to be possible. Republicans in Washing- ton — including the ones who hated Trump — now have at least four years to put into place all those things they believe will make America great again. It's going to be kind of hard to get things done if even the people on our side keep screaming and com- plaining about Trump. So get a grip. No matter what we Repub- licans thought about Trump's racist statements, or his crude locker-room talk on the bus, or his narcissism, the bottom line was we thought less of Hillary Clinton. Even at his worse, Donald was more likable than Hill- ary could ever be. That's why she lost. Finally, to all those Dem- ocrats and Republicans who don't want to live in Amer- ica anymore because Trump won, I have some advice: Get out of the streets. Go back to work if you have a job. Go back to school if you want to learn something. Cut with your rioting. Cut with your foot stomping. Cut with your bad language. Cut with your whining. And, really, grow up. This is how it works every four years. Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the author of "The New Reagan Revolution" (St. Martin's Press). Send comments to Reagan@ caglecartoons.com. Follow @ reaganworld on Twitter. Michael Reagan Get a grip, losers Trump won because he internalized talk radio. Its audience became his base, which is different from the GOP's base, and he won because his rural rust- belt people showed up on Election Day to smoke Hillary. 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