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Throughout the course of our history, Americans have rallied behind more than a few Presidents who were extremely flawed. But to call Donald Trump flawed would be like calling Mount Everest a nice sized hill--the fact is, republicans who last weekend refused to hold Donald Trump accountable for his failed coup voted to unrestrain a degenerate the likes of which the White House has never seen.
Donald Trump is not a good man. He has cheated on all three of his wives (famously paying off a porn star so as not to kill his election chances in 2016). He has said he wished his daughter Ivanka wasn't his daughter so he could have sex with her (what kind of man says something like that--I mean fucking seriously?). His adherence to any religion or its doctrines is nonexistent--my guess is if he was splashed with holy water his skin would burn like Regan in The Exorcist. And his claim that white nationalists were good people is akin to saying Charles Manson would have been a fine religious leader if it weren't for the Tate and LoBianca killings. He lies like most people take breaths.
Donald Trump isn't a good businessman. He has gone through bankruptcies like I go through M & M's when I've got the munchies (not to mention he bankrupted a casino, which is the equivalent of running out of drinking water when you live on the shores of Lake Superior). He was sued for his fake University and paid a considerable sum in damages. He was sued for his fake non-profit (keeping money for his family that was donated for charitable purposes--again, what kind of human does that?) and paid a considerable sum in damages as well as being prohibited from setting up another one. His name has become so toxic that his properties are plummeting in value--which is quite the neat trick considering that the post-Presidencies of most men have literally been cash cows.
Donald Trump was the worst (and laziest and dumbest) President in our history. He used the office to grift for his own family businesses (expressly forbidden by the emoluments clause in the Constitution). He gave aid and comfort to Russia, a nation which has been a sworn enemy of the United States since the end of World War II. His only accomplishment was a tax cut that so benefited the wealthy at the expense of regular Americans that it was hated by everyone except billionaires. His epic mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic has thus far led to a half a million dead Americans and an economy on the brink of being in tatters. In four years he led republicans to a loss of the House, the Senate, and the White House, one of only a handful of Presidents to accomplish that ignominious feat. He literally cheered on an insurrection that nearly toppled two hundred and fifty years of one of the greatest democracies in the history of mankind.
All of the above just touches the surface--thousand page tomes will be written about the incompetence of Donald Trump's four years in the White House. And still--still!--forty-three republican senators were more than happy to give him a pass. What could they possibly have to gain?
Their future is bleak--eventually there will be more people of color than white Americans, and the GQP is losing their votes by anywhere from 65% to 90% per racial group. They're losing young people by 60% to 40%. Worried about a primary challenge from the radical right? Too late--if Ivanka Trump decides to run against Marco Rubio in 2022 Rubio is toast regardless of his ass kissing vote. Their votes will do nothing to stop a Kristi Noem or a Marjorie Taylor Greene to say they are Trumpier than the rest and will more than likely defeat anyone they run against in a republican primary. For those with Presidential ambitions, if Trump runs and wins in 2024, there will probably be many years before someone not named Trump is President. And if health or legal problems or another loss prevent him from becoming President again, exactly one of them will have a chance to be the republican standard bearer in future Presidential elections--the rest will be also rans who will never be President. And the winner? Does anyone seriously think if Biden gets the pandemic under control and the economy back on track that enough people of the eight-one million who voted for him are going to a) stay home (thanks to Trump, that option has been permanently destroyed--take a chance on another Trump? No thanks!), or b) think that what America really needs is the guy or gal who thinks disastrous Donald did a good job? Fucking seriously? And then it's off to Presidential Loserville, population Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and their buddy Donald Trump--not a one of which has two shits of a say in running our country. Bon voyage!
They had a chance to vote their consciences and chose instead to sell their souls for a man who is not a good human being, is not a good leader, and was not a good President. Good call.
I've read a lot recently that history will not be kind to the forty-three Senators who lacked the courage to do the right thing. My guess is that their Senatorial careers, much like those of most Senators in our history, will be--unlike the seven who will always be mentioned as having the courage to vote to impeach the only President in our history who tried to actively overthrow our government--forgotten.
That is, if they're lucky. If not, names such as Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Rick Scott, Lindsay Graham, and Ron Johnson will very likely carry the same connotation as America's foremost traitor: Benedict Arnold.
505,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence
Peace,
emaycee
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