They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, ch.9

Substitute “George and Dick” and you’re pretty much there, no?

Fitzgerald, of course, also said “There are no second acts in American life.” A world nervously hopes that he’s proven right in this case.