And now, as Paul Harvey used to say, for the rest of the story.
MAGA Max and Liberal Leo have become my parable for a nation struggling to figure out how to live together these days.
Neither one really understands the other, and even though we first met Max and Leo at their couple's therapy session, at least one of them is not making much of an effort in that direction. Max has been rubbing the results of last year's election in Leo's face, and Leo has mostly been gritting his teeth and developing ulcers.
Surely something brought them together sometime in the past, but their interests have diverged in vastly different directions since then. They may speak the same language, yet the words don't mean the same thing to each other. It's now as if they come from different planets — they laugh at different comics; they root for different teams.
How long before one washes the other right out of his hair?
Never mind, for the sake of a musical reference, that Leo's pate is as bald as a cue ball.
And now Max has his very own presidential pardon for the Felon-in-Chief's Stop The Peaceful Transfer Of Power Rally, just ahead of the Justice system finally catching up with him.
He might even have been the guy charging up the Capitol steps with the rainbow flag.
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Why, there he is! |
Mind you, I have no intention of having Max get caught with kiddie porn on his computer, or get shot in a traffic stop, as a few (so far) of Trump's J6 so-called heroes have been.
Now that he has his own presidential Get Out Of Jail Free card, we may never know what Max's role was on January 6, 2021. I suspect that Leo has already heard more than he wants to. Leo is likely, however, to want to come along with Max's mother's medical appointments from now on.
In any event, if you're wondering how these two can continue to share a home, so am I.
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