OK, OK, "You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop," the Watergate, Washington DC.
Imagine if you have almost unlimited power and the ability and access to money and skilled operatives for nearly anything you want to do, and you decide to truncate any attempt to unseat your regime by, figuratively, burying your opposition.
Seem familiar? Didn't you do this before or was it warm up? Why is this like Deja Vu all over again? See Ellsberg, Daniel
Your staff develops a plan; you stay in the shadows and approve the project. Your highly trained staff initiates the project and puts Squidward, Mr. Crabs, Larry the Lobster, King Neptune, and Gary in charge of this "'black bag," or is it "black Opp"? So, the team uses five of the Anchovies to execute the opp. They break into Watergate and open a door; Sponge Bob, the security guard, sees the open door, peels the tape off it and closes it. One of the anchovies sees it, opens the door again and tapes the lock again. Sponge Bob sees it again and this time, the curtain starts to irreparably fall on your third act with no way to truncate or mitigate its outcome. Still, it leads to a cool helicopter ride and undying gratitude for a former University of Michigan football player. That was the end of the story; that is, this type of activity ends with you, the chief and never happens again.
But wait, there's more.
This hypothetical is not a Twilight Zone episode, and the characters don't belong to the Sponge Bob Square Pants cast; you are not stupid either, but it happened.
Once upon a time, the great leader of this the United States of America, acting in some twilight, enabled the precursors, with the IQs of the Sponge Bob characters, to try and rearrange the election of the upcoming presidential race in one of the most inept attempts at political malfeasance in the history of politics in the history of the world. "White House Plumbers portrays this with hilarity."
The fable ends here with; Please watch "White House Plumbers" (Max - the story of the White House Plumbers and the massacre that followed. You will come to worship Justin Theroux - G. Gordon Liddy and Woody Harrelson E. Howard Hunt and you will wonder in awe about how anyone can make up a story like this (for the most part, they didn't). You will thank Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck - writers and producers, director David Mandel, and especially Egil Krogh (played by Rich Sommer in the series) and Matthew Krogh, who wrote "Integrity," the 2007 book on which the show is based.
Watch it on Max or whatever the hell HBO is now.
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