Yes we can, again (Part Two.)

We’re all footnotes at best in the annals of history. But in the most powerful nation on earth, the nation conceived in liberty and justice, that is distinction enough for any citizen. ~Mitt Romney

Yesterday, Clint Eastwood endorsed Mike Bloomberg.

Clint Eastwood, Action movie actor, Army veteran, film director, former mayor of Carmel-By-The-Sea, Hollywood Republican, That guy.

He endorsed Trump in 2020, though he went quiet a very short time later, and as regards the results, none too pleased is he, apparently.

Welcome to the party, pal.

If you're a Republican and you've lost a guy like Clint Eastwood, it's basically time to hang it up and go the fuck home.

But it's not Clint's or Mitt's or Ronnie's or George's party anymore, is it? Speaking as a former Republican myself I think that's pretty damn sad.

That the Republican Party has, for all intents and purposes been taken over by the drooling, howling mob of Y'all Qaeda dipshits is even more so.

Either Republicans have abandoned everything they ever claimed to believe in, set it on fire and left it to burn, or it was all a lie in the first place.

Neither option is great for a person like me, and all I did was vote for the sons of bitches up until 2004. By 2006 they'd lost me, and in 2008 I voted for Obama and never looked back. I voted for Clinton in 2016 and I'll vote for whoever they put up this time.

Because that's where the line marked "Decent people" is now.

Imagine how it must be for Clint Eastwood, who essentially set his reputation on fire with a rambling 12-minute speech, haranguing an empty chair that was a supposed stand-in for Barack Obama.

Dirty Harry, That Guy...reduced to sounding like a silly old doddering fool arguing with an empty chair and both promptly and deservedly getting blasted on social media for it...all for Republican dogma that basically boils down to "Fuck You" and "More money for me."

His reputation never quite seemed to recover, and aside from American Sniper...not much of what old Clint has done since has even managed to get my attention, until this.

And of course, people like Kevin Sorbo and other Hollywood Trump Supporters will probably try to use Clint's exit to boost their own profiles.

The only thing this Republican bullshit ever gets is worse.

I've hit the point where I feel like not just now, but for a long time, conservatism as it's slowly morphed into its present state has been becoming something that's no good for anything but taking people in, chewing them up and spitting them out the second they're no longer useful.

As I've said before, the reactions of these fucking people to the deaths of George H.W. Bush and John McCain proved to be instructive to me. Republicanism has become a cult.

And if we don't all take a stand against all this crazy fanatical Trump crap, it's going to devour America...and all of us.

I don't know about you, but that's not the epitaph I want.

If Clint Eastwood can stand up and endorse one of the other party's candidates I think that needs to be a wake-up call for a lot of people.

If we want a better country, we have to be better citizens.

Yes, we can.

It is the tragedy of Republicanism that all they can say is "No, we can't."

This is our moment. This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.
~Barack Obama

Part 1