Just how f*cking dumb do they think we are?

During my lifetime, I have seen and heard some amazing things. I have seen a president resign in disgrace. I have seen a president lose his shot at a second term because he was too honest. I have seen a president who likely had dementia act his way through two terms, and set the stage for the nation we have today. I have seen a so-so president lead us into war, and his successor impeached for lying about getting a blowjob. Then we had a president elected by the slimmest of margins in an election decided by the Supreme Court, then eight years of war and incompetence. That was followed by eight years of an intelligent, wise president who was dogged by a hostile opposition party that stole a Supreme Court seat from him.

I thought I had seen it all—but then along came Trump. Now, I have said this before, but it bears repeating: If Trump ran as a Democrat and agreed with me on every position, I would not have voted for him. He is a vile man who cheats on his spouses and has gone bankrupt running a casino, a business that is literally a license to print money. 

He has the personality of a man who sits on the corner stool in a darkened bar, hunched over a glass of tepid, flat beer, boasting to anyone in earshot about how great he is and all the things he has done in his life. In reality he is just lonely old man with no one in his life, desperately crying out for attention because he lost everything that really mattered as a result of being a lying, cheating backstabber. 

The powers that be in the Republican Party knew Trump was a liar and a conman when he announced he was running for president. Yet they still supported him, as it meant furthering the “conservative,” i.e. billionaires’ agenda. They knew Trump would be the Republican majority's rubber stamp. 

We’ve seen collusion, financial crimes, constant lying, the destruction of the United States’ standing among our allies, and Trump’s embracing of strong men and dictators, yet the Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress abdicated their responsibility to the republic. They failed in their oversight of the executive branch and did everything they could to derail, stymie, and obstruct investigations. They put party over country.

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