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Cicero
Thinking back to the 2016 presidential campaign, yes, like many (most, in fact) other people, I expected Hillary Clinton to win that election and to become the first female President of the United States but I never discounted the possibility that Donald Trump could win.
Mostly because for every racial advancement in this country’s history...emancipation, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the election of Barack Obama as the first Black POTUS...there’s always a white backlash of some shape or form.
And then The Damn Fool won. The election. For President of the United States.
And not a day went by during the course of his presidency without a scandal...multiple scandals most days.
After a year, of watching his poll numbers remaining stable, more or less, I figured that Trump would probably squat in the position for all four year and he did...through child separations, the Russia investigation, Ukraine, COVID.
I didn’t think that The Damn Fool was unbeatable in 2020 but I did not expect Joe Biden to beat him yet the election polls, for that matchup, were pretty steady as well, with Biden leading.
Well…
Joe Biden did beat Donald Trump on November 3, 2020.
And, of course, knowing Our Damn Fool, he couldn’t STFU about it; whining, complaining, bitching, and moaning about it being a “rigged election”...and he kept grifting and crime-ing and Twittering (well, at least until he was Twitter-banned) all the way up to inciting an insurrection on January 6; an act for which he was impeached...again... and now...there’s yet another Senate impeachment trial.
We’re now 23 days into the presidency of Joe Biden and yet with this second impeachment trial now and the airwaves are full of pretty much the same bullshit; all Our Damn Fool all the fu*king time!
Without Twitter!
Silly, dangerous, dumb sh*t!
Like today’s impeachment defense of his actions on January 6, 2021 and before that.
Yes, I want Donald John Trump to be convicted of the article of impeachment, I want him disqualified from ever holding public office, and to be prosecuted to the fullest extent that the law allows.
And then there is a part of me, today, that needs none of that: I would simply like for Our Damn Fool to go away and for himself, his family, and his supporters to STFU and go away. Anywhere. And that’s it.
Right now.
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