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Dec 4, 2020Liked by Amee Vanderpool

I will long be dead before the investigations into this criminal presidency* have even cracked the surface of the transgressions, illegal activities, scamming, grifting, and, yes, murder of Americans it has committed.

We - the large we of the voting-age public - did this. We stopped paying attention to politics. We stopped believing we matttered, that our votes mattered until 2020, until four years of ceaseless corruption, sedition, and treason slapped us in the face. It's too late now, IMO, to stop the momentum of the Trump cabal, even though he will not be president. Biden and Harris will be assaulted ceaselessly with lies and obstruction by the now Trumpist Party.

I'm 73 so I've seen venality and corruption and greed and self-dealing in Congress and politics generally but nothing I've seen rises to more than a collection of misdemeanors compared to what's happened - what we still don't know happened - with this damaged human in power.

Today, this moment, I feel despair about the next four years and the future past that. We don't have the tools to diagnose the disease Trump, the Trump pandemic of evil because that is what this has been, and we have 70M+ diseased cells in the body politic who may never be cured of their devotion to him.

I do appreciate your dogged pursuit of this coward, Amee.

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I could not finish the article, I became so upset I started to shake. I received no help when COVID shut me down, I did not qualify for anything. Because I'm a small business. I'm sorry, I don't like to wish ill on people, but.....I hope they are tried, convicted, go to jail, then rot in hell!

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christ...

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