Friday, March 1, 2013

A Tour of the Washington Ruins

Perhaps a suitable objective for the day would be to ride the scooter to Washington for a tour of the ruins and to do a video walking through there in silence in the same way as I did one at Olympia.  There's not much left of the U.S. Capitol building except the stones but they have been left where they fell.  Without a guide it may not be possible to find the one that landed on John Boehner but we do know the history.  Just as during his political career, when it fell he did nothing to get out of the way except scream insults.

We also know from the history that Mitch McConnell ran like a dog but a stone fell on him anyway.  That one made one of the ugliest blots among the ruins due to the number of times people have urinated on the rock but I know there is still high interest in seeing it because so many people want to know he really is dead.

Of course America didn't last much longer after Congress fell.  There was a tremendous amount of whining on the U.S. broadcast media, much of which was on a theme of how they didn't want to be like Greece.  The reaction of the rest of the world was consistently one of shut up and learn how to fish.  They cried back and said, no, we can't.  We already ate them all.  And that was when the response shifted to shut up and eat your big-screen TV.

The collapse came quickly as the U.S. had relatively few viable export products.  The defense industry collapsed quickly as the government was acting as the agent in selling those products to foreign governments and there was no-one left to do that.

Rather than repeating the history, I believe it will be best to do the tour in silence just as with the tour of Olympia.  We all know the years of chaos that followed, all with a consistent whining theme from the country in which they cried that they deserved better and a consistent response from everywhere else of just why is that, honey.

So, on with the day!

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