Epstein: Files in the Ointment

[PATRICK]

60. Strongly Recommended

All fairly well known facts that would have demanded accountability and investigation had we not been what we were for a very long time. I also said long, using JFK's tragically ironic term of historical "trajectory" that the perpetual minority party of the GOP, bound to the roots of its soul to the wealthy super minority MUST get worse to even survive. The combo of lies, media praise for the empty "new" conservatism, and an encyclopedia of dirty election fixing would still need a nut wing branching out through anger and dissatisfaction and end up with a dictatorship. And what crap did they end up trusting to placehold that glory?

One irony, likely in the Bush Sr. biography is that he himself tried to insert himself into the presidential succession with Ford(Nixon too?) with his CIA director job experience. Interesting that ending the Cold War had both the US and Russia looking in that direction and Russia still has it. All the Republicans and their owners were never going to go down like the Whigs. They would become the Know Nothings, the populists, the rubber stamp for the new Nero. To get what the very few want.

(BTW, if I had kept my old pushmower it would have been sharpened down to the axle by now. But I pay some service who does it in five minutes without me sneezing my head off. I still rake it though with that ubiquitous Covid mask.)