"I Need To Address Trumps Frequent Visits To Mar-a-Lago"

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32. Welcome to DU, Lone Star!

I find that fitting. Didn't Florida go for trump?

And this, even while his lavish lifestyle and his throw-caution-to-the-wind business deals and many bankruptcies have all been WELL-KNOWN for HOW MANY years now? I was covering his very public foibles with his SECOND wife, Marla Maples, while I was still working at the AP - from which I retired more than two decades ago.

We all knew this guy. We knew what he was. Certain segments of the population CHOSE to disregard those warning signs and red flags. They CHOSE to do so. It could be traced back to any number of dumb-ass/dingbat "reasons" and rationales - either because they were too young to remember all that long-ago backwash, or wanted to embrace the fantasy, or didn't mind the lies that some of them actually recognized - but it just sounded so good or they just hate Democrats that much, or were so damn desperate to get the White House back that they would have voted for Lucifer himself if they thought he could deliver, and - um - to Hell with the consequences.

The one thing I came to appreciate about Bernie was when he questioned a trump voter in a town hall program well after the election, and he buttonholed her about trump's congenital and pathological lying. She conceded she knew he was lying. And Bernie then followed "so you were okay voting for someone you KNEW was lying to you?" She didn't care. Confronted with that fact, live and on-camera, and she didn't care. They don't care. They really DON'T care. They're either so dumbed-down or so damn Machiavellian that they're okay with that.

So okay then, Florida. Go "right" ahead (haha). Get yourselves stiffed month after month, while this world-class CONman picks your pocket and lives the high life at Mar-a-Lago on YOUR dime. And he's been doing it to you almost every freakin' weekend since he took office! Don't expect any sympathy from me. Because I, too, will be getting stuck paying for his high life now and later. And I resent the fucking HELL out of that, AND out of YOU, too, Florida. Gotta hand it to him. He figured out a right-FINE way to have YOU pay for all of his champagne tastes for awhile. This is an even better scam than trump University.