Some poor, foolish people out there might still wonder why I have become the blogger version of a Sasquatch. Like my mythical hairy counterpart I still lurk Blogger reading posts and maybe commenting from time to time. Its just hard to find the energy to give a damn.
Way back in the long ago 2000s and 2010s I was filled with rage over the disastrous Bush/Cheney Administration and their wars. Looking just at the surface of the situation the war in Afghanistan was justified in the sense that a legitimate terrorist organization was using the country as a sanctuary and training ground.
But George W. and Dick Cheney weren’t satisfied just to eliminate the Al-Qaeda threat. No, ever since Daddy Bush refused to overthrow Hussein for his oil buddies, those big boys were looking for any reason to force the US Government to drive up to Baghdad and take over all that black liquid gold.
I might be out of practice with my clever allegory, so let me say it plainly. The Iraq War was pure corporate imperialism. The best figures I can dig up say at least SIX TRILLION dollars disappeared into the Iraqi desert. At least One-hundred thousand Iraqis died in Bush and Cheney’s attempt to control that country’s oil.
One of the many reasons Obama would the 2008 election was to remove US forces from that country. One of the others being to clean up the banking mess. But strangely enough I admit Bush/Cheney didn’t directly cause that clusterfuck. That mess can be traced back for at least a couple of decades.
But I’m once again getting off point.
For years George W. Bush held the title of worst president of the United States. But history and the stupidity of the American people are never to be out done.
In 2016 a whole host of stupid decisions resulted in Donald Trump winning the electoral vote and becoming president. He was a criminal incompetent deviant back then but he had mistakenly pick several members of his cabinet who did their best to try and keep him in check. Of course, he lost the 2020 election and as his first term ended Trump attempted to overthrow the newly seated House of Representatives preventing them from confirming Biden won the electoral vote.
The result was four years of him buzzing around like an enraged horse fly while the Biden’s Attorney General twiddled his thumbs. Now throw in Biden’s failing mental acuity and the natural ability of Democrats to fuck up and we get Trump back into the White House.
We’re not even halfway through Trump’s second term and the national and global situation now makes the Bush/Cheney years look like a triumph of enlighten statesmanship. Oh dear God in Heaven, I’d love to jump back in time to the last couple of years of the Bush Administration and go inform my self-righteous younger self that no matter how badly Bush fucked up Iraq, the handling of the banking crisis, and the Hurricane Katrina response it was going to get so much worse.
I can objectively state that the Republican Party had been losing its mooring to reality as far back as 1996. It during that election that the late General Colin Powell was considering a run for the White House. At that moment in time he was held in high honor by the majority of Americans for his handling of the First Gulf War. Given the prevailing zeitgeist dominating the country with every semi-sane individual it was believed Powell could have beat Clinton for the presidency.
But no, I clearly remember all manner or conservatives nutjobs foaming at the mouth protesting the idea that Powell should run for president. Conservative monster Rush Limbaugh entertained callers on his radio show who said Powell was a traitor.
Powell’s supposed crimes ran all over the legal spectrum. Long story short, the bullshit reached a point that Powell’s wife told him no. And to be completely honest the lives of the Powell family was threatened by America’s usual collection of racists to the point the Secret Service knew what to prepare for when Obama became POTUS.
Looking back during the Republican primary for the 2008 presidential run I clearly remember thinking that the assorted space aliens in the Mos Eisley cantina scene in A New Hope looked more intelligent than the hopelessly distorted individuals running for the nomination. Every election cycle since then the Republicans have drifted further towards authoritarianism while pointing a bony finger at Democrats exclaiming we were all nasty commies.
But Trump’s one success can be compared to a body fighting a viral infection. He, his family, and the various little parasites that follow him have corrupted the country like a virus in such a way I don’t believe there is a real way back to “normal.”
Yeah, I get a chuckle reading my old posts from the Bush years. I’m a fairly well read guy when it comes to history and while I probably would have accepted the possibility that the US could do something as suicidal as electing someone worse than Bush, I wouldn’t have believed it for a minute.
I had an ugly, naive belief back then that while we Americans could make evil choices, we weren’t an inherently evil people. I’m not just faulting Trump voters. They’re an ignorant, hateful, fear-filled people ready to jump and kill the most current Fox News scapegoat.
But a full accounting for this mess has to include those folks who couldn’t vote for Hillary back in 2016. It doesn’t matter whether they voted third-party or stayed home. The result was Trump getting elected. Dying for your principles is fine, except when your sacrifice results in Trump picking three Supreme Court justices.
How many women and girls are going to die because Roe v. Wade was overturned? I honestly didn’t like Hillary but even my dumbass knew she would be better than Trump.
So, if your were wondering why I just can’t find the energy to cruise the blogosphere like I once did there it is. It’s late and my Sasquatch butt is going to bed.
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