Election Day, Year of the Plague

 

As you probably already know, there's an election going on today in the United States.  Nobody, and I mean nobody, knows what's going to happen.  There are way too many freak factors and rogue variables in this equation to venture anything other than a wild guess.

Here's one scenario: the Democrats hold onto the House and take control of the Senate, but by one means or another, Trump retains the presidency.  If that were to happen, Congress should immediately just impeach him again, but this time the Senate could do what they failed to do last time and go ahead and elect to remove him from office.  We'd then have a President Pence, which would be a different sort of evil. But "Evil is evil," so the House should impeach him too - doesn't matter what the charges are, this isn't about justice or fairness or anything but is just an exercise in raw power, just like the Republicans would do if given the chance and like Moscow Mitch and the rotund Billy Barr have been doing for the past several years.  The Democratic-controlled Senate then votes to oust Pence and presto, change-o, Nancy Pelosi is our new President.  You're welcome, America.

But in all serious, for the soul of our nation, I sincerely hope that an awakened America votes the orange clown out of office by a landslide of historical proportions, and he's last seen on a private jet high-tailing it out of the country to Russia.  Imagine how much better this nation, the world, would be without his pompous ass in it.