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I Leave The Country For Ten Days And Now You Impeach Him?
If I’d known that would do it, I would have left sooner.
I, as many of us, have waited impatiently or patiently, depending on our personality types, for impeachment proceedings to begin. We started waiting the day the ridiculous, out-dated Electoral College system put a dangerous guy in the White House.
At first, there was slim hope. After all, the guy had gotten away with bragging he grabbed women he didn’t know by the pussy. He had declared bankruptcy four times in efforts to avoid paying workers, and his supporters still thought he was a great business person. Most damning, we heard him ask on live camera for Russia to release Hillary’s emails. And still, he wouldn’t go away.
Eventually, some of us gave up. Especially after the Mueller report, which seems so damning, but apparently no one gave an actual damn. So we vowed to slog through until 2020 and try to do better next time. I went from following the news obsessively, to reading recaps at the end of the week. To hardly reading anything at all. Although I do continue to make calls and send emails to my congressmen on a regular basis.
Ten days in Italy gave me complete respite from the daily embarrassing news flashes about this malignant man and his tantrums. I didn’t look at the news on my phone or IPad, and the…
