Inevitable Collapse

 I tried to remember how things looked and felt during those Final Days of the Nixon Administration. As the Watergate hearings continued to cave in the protective web of lies surrounding his administration, Richard Nixon continued to isolate himself as the walls came tumbling down.

Metaphorically speaking. the ruins of the White House became solidly less metaphorical some fifty years later when a failed businessman tried to run much of the same playbook on a country that naively believed that they had seen the worst. It speaks volumes to me that the antics of George W. Bush and his crew seem petty and cute when placed beside the crimes of the Second Trumpreich. It was George W., whom I routinely referred to in this space as "President Pinhead," that suggested, "I don't want s, me mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf." 

A pretty sad state of affairs when you could stand to take an optics lesson from the lesser of two Bushes. 

And yet, here we are. The firings have begun just ahead of the criminal charges. KristICE Barbie Noem left her position as head of the Department of Homeland Security so she could spend more time being embarrassed at home. Pam "It's Bondage With An I" Bondi cleared out her desk at the Attorney General's Office with what we can only assume is a box full of overlooked Epstein Files. These two may be the lucky ones, as their boss continues to insist that, “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

Well, that and erect a monstrosity of a ballroom designed to cover up a super secret underground military base. So secret, in fact, that he shared pictures of it with the press. 

If this show lasts all the way until the scheduled Ultimate Fighting Championship scheduled for the South Lawn on our nation's 250th birthday, it will be a miracle. 

A painful, bitter and all but unbearable miracle.