The Great Wake 32: The Son Also Rises

 

Now comes the blackmail, inexplicable decisions are proof.  The bribes, we know.  Stupidity is the ultimate cover, brain decay sympathy gives a measure of grace, initially.  The dumb president strategy.  Brilliant in a way.

Only a person with no dignity and low class would go for it, to be known for being an idiot.  To have "Fuck" added to the beginning of your name, to get in trouble, to stink out the Pope and Queen Elizabeth.  The blackmailers are putting it in the face, rubbing and rubbing, smashing the nose.  The bribed have no way out, they are stuck in the shit, up to the eye balls, they can't even smell it anymore.  They become it.

But the heat keeps coming and eventually burns the scheme.  The son also rises, crack pipe in hand, surrounded by prostitutes and razor blades.  Then, spotted on front row at the White House honors ceremony.  Touching people.  Whispering into his father's ear.