As posted at the legacy site last night…

That he was always going to be a pathetically bad president was never in doubt. A real President was giving us clues way back in 1987. By 2020 it was clear to all willing to see that it was going to be worse than that. Still, there were times when it was fun to laugh at any misplaced optimism:

But, as the administration that operated in his name – more precisely, that was allowed to openly operate in his name without the slightest bit of curiosity/scrutiny from our corporate media regarding the legitimacy of an obvious (and very bad) puppet show presented on a daily basis as an authentic American President and American Presidency – is sunsetting, the long ranging impacts of four years of FJB are not at all humorous:

It Isn’t Funny

… We haven’t had a real president for a long time–maybe four years. In the Constitution, the executive function of government is embodied in the president. The Executive Branch reports to him. That is what the Constitution says, but it isn’t how our government has functioned since 2021. Someone has been making executive decisions, but it wasn’t the President.

Democrats don’t really mind the absence of a chief executive. They are happy with government by an anonymous, and unaccountable, committee of leftists, along with the federal bureaucracy, the extra-constitutional fourth branch of government that is overwhelmingly staffed by Democrats.

The Office of the President of the United States has never been smaller than it is today. (That changes for the better in one magic instant less than forty hours from now.) The fact that one of our two major political parties intentionally installed a hollow vessel happy to have the title but without an ounce of pride in the authority that goes with it and the uses of it done in his name by others…nameless, faceless others should stain the Democrat brand forever. If only they were capable of the shame associated with their very damaging un-American games. 

The one optimistic point I can add here is this: I suspect there are more than a few of the puppeteers who will not be able to keep their mouths shut about their exploits. They will brag in interviews with fawning media. They will write books. More details will come out…all of it should be added prominently to the putrid history of the FJB administration. (Jill, Hunter, and the whole gang may enjoy the ill-gotten riches for decades to come but I hope every moment of it includes that persistent little annoying sting of constant mockery of American History’s Greatest Buffoon.)