President Awol
One could actually make the case that we're in for a world of shit because Dim Son has left the building. That would mean that the same perps who pulled off 9/11 while he was out of the way and sat reading "My Pet Goat" are about to do it again, writ large.
With only a few months left in his presidency and an economy in freefall, George Bush has decided to check out early
"People joke, or say quite seriously, that we're all better off the less involved Bush is — to which there is certainly some truth, but it masks a reality that really shouldn't go unremarked upon: The people who are filling the void of leadership he's left are people he appointed. Our nation is being run by people we haven't elected because the guy we did choose doesn't seem to be interested in the job anymore.
This fact has been patently obvious for at least a year. He's all but put an "I'd Rather Be Brushclearin'!" bumper sticker on Air Force One. It's no surprise he didn't have the decency to step down and let someone else do the job he can't be bothered doing (and for which he was always manifestly unqualified, anyway). It's no surprise that his own party didn't have the integrity to prioritise the good of the country over the good of their party and force out the idiot king. And it's no surprise that the Democrats didn't have the collective spine to put impeachment back on the table. No, none of these things are surprising.
But they are infuriating nonetheless.
And they are remorselessly galling, these various derelictions of duty, having happened as they have under the red, white and blue shadow of an enormous star-spangled banner, to rousing shouts of "My patriotism is better than yours!" and spontaneous renditions of "God Bless America" — a bunch of self-proclaimed patriots with their Team Patriot lapel pins and their futile fists clamped around the staffs of the Made-in-China mini-flags they wave.
Everyone in Washington is a patriot these days, but no one cared enough about America to effectively address that its leader long ago abandoned the scene."
With only a few months left in his presidency and an economy in freefall, George Bush has decided to check out early
"People joke, or say quite seriously, that we're all better off the less involved Bush is — to which there is certainly some truth, but it masks a reality that really shouldn't go unremarked upon: The people who are filling the void of leadership he's left are people he appointed. Our nation is being run by people we haven't elected because the guy we did choose doesn't seem to be interested in the job anymore.
This fact has been patently obvious for at least a year. He's all but put an "I'd Rather Be Brushclearin'!" bumper sticker on Air Force One. It's no surprise he didn't have the decency to step down and let someone else do the job he can't be bothered doing (and for which he was always manifestly unqualified, anyway). It's no surprise that his own party didn't have the integrity to prioritise the good of the country over the good of their party and force out the idiot king. And it's no surprise that the Democrats didn't have the collective spine to put impeachment back on the table. No, none of these things are surprising.
But they are infuriating nonetheless.
And they are remorselessly galling, these various derelictions of duty, having happened as they have under the red, white and blue shadow of an enormous star-spangled banner, to rousing shouts of "My patriotism is better than yours!" and spontaneous renditions of "God Bless America" — a bunch of self-proclaimed patriots with their Team Patriot lapel pins and their futile fists clamped around the staffs of the Made-in-China mini-flags they wave.
Everyone in Washington is a patriot these days, but no one cared enough about America to effectively address that its leader long ago abandoned the scene."
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