Thursday, February 17, 2022

Those Were The Days

Abu Ghraib and CIA “black sites” and all that torture didn’t do it? Valerie Plame and the gross breach of national security, not a problem?  Poppy pardoning everybody to save his own ass as he walked out the door? No big? Whitewater, the Starr kangaroo court, the Clinton impeachment? All fine? Benghazi, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI!!!!? No problem? All just good, clean American politics? And I won’t even try to argue about the invention of “originalism” that Scalia sold to the boobs as legitimate jurisprudence (please tell me you know better).

Trump bothers you? Not Gingrich, not the “Tea Party” or the “Freedom Caucus” or Shelby and the evisceration of the VRA? Not the GOP House ever since Gingrich? Or going back further, to the reaction against our fellow Texan, LBJ? Nixon’s Southern strategy? (I know you were young then. So was I. We were in the same high school. But still, what lessons did you learn?) Trump just burst full grown from the brow of Louie Gohmert?

Sure. That’s what happened.

Maybe if you’d “brought it” at the beginning, or noticed a few decades ago where this was going, it would be admirable. Now? Frankly, you just sound like a snob who doesn’t like the new crowd at the country club. You know, like the judge in “Caddyshack” appalled by Rodney Dangerfield crashing the party.

You had your chance. It passed a long time ago.

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