This Is Gonna' Be Ugly

One thing is certain after the impeachment inquiry hearings in the House: the presidential campaign is going to be ugly in 2020 and will likely filter to down-ballot elections.

Which is a shame. Remember when we were one country, indivisible?

An angry Donald Trump, having to be the first president to run for reelection as an impeached president (OK, Andrew Johnson was, but he failed to get the party's nomination), will be even angrier than he normally is.

This is what you will hear on the campaign trail: open borders ... MS-13 ... coming for your guns. I'm still looking for MS-13 down the street from my Phoenix home. Maybe I should go get a gun that the government won't confiscate to protect myself against them.

Next thing you know, he'll be attacking Colin Kaepernick for being ... Colin Kaeparnick. If it wasn't for Colin Kaepernick, four talented quarterbacks who have never won a playoff game - Matthew Stafford, Derek Carr, Kirk Cousins and Jimmy Garoppolo - might not be among the four most highly paid players in the league, surpassed only by quarterbacks who have won or at least been to Super Bowls (Aaron Rodgers, Matt Ryan, et. al., and here comes Dak Prescott), because Kaepernick would likely have one of their jobs.

Well, at least the president found a sporting event at which he finally got cheered - had to go to Alabama to do it (shocker).

For Thanksgiving, I wish we weren't a divided nation. I wish Colin Kaepernick wasn't being blackballed. I wish Trump had not committed the impeachable acts of bribery, obstruction and abuse of power.

But Kaepernick was and still is and Trump did, respectively (see Hill, Fiona; and Sondland, Gordon; and dare I say Giuliani, Rudy).

It pains me to write this. Pains me that our nation is at this point. Pains me to watch our country's representatives have to go to the pains they have to debate and debunk openly on TV. Pains me that the president, aside from impeachment, who said he would obliterate the nation's debt, has actually increased it at record levels.

This broken promise, more than any impeachment process, will hurt us all going forward. If we all managed our household budgets the way the government manages out nation's budget we'd all be broke and homeless, our houses foreclosed upon, living out of our cars or in tent villages on the streets.

But the economy is great, right, greatest ever, right? Here comes the recession, brace yourselves.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving, avoid political discussion around the table, lest it really becomes "Knives Out" and be prudent in your Christmas shopping.

I mean, you don't want it to become ugly, right?

Good night, Mrs. Calabash