Nothing Left To Lose

 

From the "Not Enough Eye Bleach In The World..." category.

This is the current banana republic, in all its splendor.

(For those who haven't been paying attention, that Thing above looking like a walking rectal  abscess is Samuel Brinton, the transfruitcake recently nominated to an under secretary-level position in the Department of Energy, in charge of nuclear waste. Apparently due to his experience in drinking it. Yes, it's gotten that bad in D.C., and we're only a year into the Banana Republic. I can hardly wait to see how bad it gets to be in three more years.)

If you haven't read Gibbon's Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire in awhile, you'd best brush it off and bone up. It's a rough road from here to the Visigoths.