My history escapes me somewhat but these clowns remind me of the Bismarckian Prussians who reveled in their uniforms and status as modern warfare swept them over and out of power.
Get with the program, dudes. We’d had enough.
This is the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave!
Lo, now the opulent Titanic sinks, and they have no clue as to what is going on, as they stuff themselves again with steak and lobster and fine wine. Or some prescient ones, maybe set to rush to the too few lifeboats while the steerage class drowns.
Our leadership has blithely run us into an iceberg, voting for every inconceivable impossible and occult heading at once, smiling at their smartness, "We'll see what it will be!"
Perhaps it will be "behead" you creeps.