Made Up Stuff

 Can you give me a brief account of the Teapot Dome Scandal? I won't trouble you for it right now, but about a year ago, I suggested that former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had evidence connecting Barack Obama to this bit of malfiesence that took place more than one hundred years ago. It was until recently the other big presidential outrage in our history books aside from Watrgate. 

Oh. Right. History books. Those were bound volumes of writing collected to inform future generations about our past. These "books" were used to keep track of the stuff that we might otherwise have forgotten. Things like wars, slavery, more wars and genocide. After years of attempting to coalesce our experience as a nation, lately there has been a movement to ignore what took place in the past and focus instead on the made up virtues of the scoundrels of who made our country exactly what it is now: "Great."

But if there was going to be an account of the past decade for our sons and daughters to read as they try and piece together how we got to this place and who we can blame for the mess that we left them, I wonder how the Reflecting Pool Saga will unfold. If you were to believe the convicted felon who was elected to a second term after being impeached not once but twice, Barack Obama is to blame for the ugly condition of the pool which was supposed to be painted American Flag Blue to commemorate our country's two hundred fiftieth birthday. Instead there were vast chunks of blue sealant floating in a sea of bright green "water" infused with green algae that had replaced the blue-green algae after dumping hydrogen peroxide into the pool to get rid of the blue-green algae. 

That and the vandals that the convicted felon insists were out cutting seams in the coating put there only weeks before at the cost of fourteen million dollars to a company run by one of his Florida campaign donators. Confusing? Sure it is. Because it's all made up. Like the war in Iran. Or the immigration crisis. Or Somalian residents of Springfield eating the cats and dogs. All of which can be traced, he's certain, back to Barack Obama. 

I would not want the job of being a presidential scholar in the next decade. On the other hand, maybe it would be quite easy: just make stuff up.