THE DEATH OF PINOCCHIO

Lindsey Graham was much like Pinocchio, a smiley little guy who just wanted to be with the boys. A cute little fella who was always running scared from his own mistakes with a comical expression of fright. An eternal boy who just wanted to have fun, but for him fun meant collecting millions and letting millions suffer and die while he skipped along through town.

Pinocchio‘s first murder victim was his conscience, which he smashed with a hammer. Lindsey Graham‘s first murder victim was probably in a South Carolina back alley or on Epstein Island, but he also murdered his conscience with a hammer. John McCain was Lindsey Graham's Geppetto, and he died in the whale. Without his Gepetto, Lindsey Graham panicked and sold himself to Stromboli. He had already been to Donkey Island, after all. There were plenty of strings on him.

Lindsey Graham had to be his own blue fairy and absolve himself of all of his own lies anew and afresh every day. And every night, he would get on the Fox News stage and do his song and dance. The audience for that theater comes back every night.

Well, Pinocchio is dead now. The spell that animated him has faded away. He’s a pile of wood. They’ll throw him into the fireplace and that will be the end of it. Stromboli does not care. He has plenty more puppets.

Image from ESMA, France