“If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way.” Edward A. Murphy, Jr., Aerospace Engineer, Known for “Murphy’s Law”
September 14, 2022, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
Some people are just bad news.
Like Joe and Charles.
All you have to do is scratch the surface.
It wasn’t more than a week after Queen Elizabeth II passed away, before King Charles III couldn’t help showing his petulant side.
Faced with a cluttered desk and pens for a public signing of documents, Charles angrily waved away the pens that were in his way, refusing to be seated until they were removed, his face a study in pampered displeasure.
On the other side of the pond, Lunchbucket Joe has been channeling his unhappy life, with increasingly public, angry rants for a very long time.
Then, stupidly on Tuesday, he held an unearned, inappropriate Victory Lap, in celebration of his Inflation Reduction Act. With current inflation at 8 percent. (Joe says it's zero.)
Both men have made a career out of doing it wrong.
And both have big shoes to fill. Joe has already proven he can’t, and Charles won’t be able to, either.
Trump and the Queen are hard acts to follow. And in the past, when it came to Joe and Chuck doing their jobs, they just couldn’t be bothered.
In Joe’s case, he can stay in office by courting the illegal immigrants that he has made welcome, and the Harvard graduates whose college loans he has arranged for us to pay off.
It will be harder for Charles. He and the Royals are expensive dates. And the Brits loved Elizabeth and her marmalade-sandwich-sense of humor. Charles? not so much.
Elizabeth was a remarkable woman, who, at an early age, was given a difficult job to do. But she did it, because of her strength of character.
The young Elizabeth probably would have preferred to have led a quiet life, with the new husband she adored.
But her life was to be one of public service to England, a job which she performed, with style, for 70 years.
It’s not clear that Charles can.
The new king had all the time and money to do something beside grow organic vegetables and battle Climate Change. But he chose not to.
With the exception of Edward, three of Queen Elizabeth’s children made her life “daunting,” causing her to call 1992’s year of royal scandals an “Annus Horribilis,” a horrible year.
This week, as Charles walked behind his mother’s funeral cortege, people doubtlessly were remembering, thinking he could have handled his affection for Camilla Parker Bowles better.
Andrew, conspicuous in a business suit, was a testimony to his own Epstein disgrace, walking with his brothers and sister, who wore decorated Royal uniforms.
And yet, it was announced that Andrew will be allowed to wear his uniform at the Queen’s funeral, and Harry won’t.
It’s clear his father is “not amused” at Harry’s life choices.
So, Charles will receive the pomp and circumstance of a coronation, despite any past transgressions.
And in America, Democrats will do what they’ve always done: Give themselves an Unearned Pat on the Back.
After her shameful failure as Secretary of State in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, who has failed in almost every job she’s had, was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
Åfter she lied to the public about Benghazi, Susan Rice received the Cyrus A. Ansary Medal for leadership and service.
Former FBI Director James Comey was welcomed at the College of William and Mary to teach “ethical leadership” after he was fired from the FBI.
And the portly, recently fired CNN mouthpiece, Brian Stelter landed a fellowship at Harvard, to “convene a series of discussions about threats to democracy.”
I think that’s the stuff he was fired for doing at CNN.
Sometimes it’s better not to know the Back Story, like with John Lennon’s sweet song “Strawberry Fields Forever," (look it up.) But sometimes it can’t be helped.
Joe and King Charles III have lived their lives in public for all to see.
And what we see is: “You can’t make a silk purse out of these pig’s ears.”
Hold the line, America.
Do you miss him yet?
Stay strong, Patriots.