Pete Orrall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@flexghost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>flexghost</span></a></span> All <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> need to be disgusted by this. The blatant <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> which saturates our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>system</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> has been on full display the moment <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DirtbagDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirtbagDon</span></a> stepped into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a>. </p><p>Unfortunately, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/damage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>damage</span></a> has been done, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/confidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confidence</span></a> has been lost, and there's no undo. Once this raging <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asshole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asshole</span></a> is sworn in, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unhinged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unhinged</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/insanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insanity</span></a> will <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reign</span></a> again.</p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unitedstates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unitedstates</span></a> used to be the beacon of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hope</span></a> for many people. Now it's just the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/punchline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punchline</span></a> to any number of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jokes</span></a>.</p>