it is even colder today, facecracking, heartstopping cold.
i was afraid, i thought i read, there would be no more chomsky interviews, so i was heartened to read him in truthout today.
that trump lost the popular vote and won on the electoral college vote shows the game is still run by the elite. the elite choose their henchman. and the people be damned. anyway the elite is not a renegade capitalist trump, it's a bi-partisan, anti-democratic beast of the business of power and the power of business. it may have two heads, and one may shrink while the other grows, slathering and baring it's fangs, but they share the same dark twisted heart. that's america, childerns. most of ya'll is unrepresented. 
what is saddest is the democrats abandoned the workers who in their befuddled despair vote for their class enemy. must've been like hitler, they thought he was an ubermensch of the people, alas. work shall set you free, hahaha, tee he.
the disappearance of hope, the lack of change, the desultory exit of obomba. 
chomsky notes, mortality has increased, mainly traceable to the "diseases of despair" (opioids, alcohol, suicide, etc.) 

der spiegel made a cover illustration, trump as a meteor hurtling toward earth, mouth gaping open ready to swallow, with caption, Das Ende Der Welte. 

i'm fungry.