Party Like It's 1995 (Fiery The Angels Fell 2022, Part Two.)

Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great. ~William F. Buckley, Jr.

I saw this earlier.

*Glares Bumboclaatically* 

What the...?

Are you...?

Goddamn it, are you fucking serious?

The fuck is even wrong with you?

Son, lay off the drugs.

Fox News thinks Hillary Clinton is going to run for President in 2024. You know, Hillary Clinton, whose name I have not so much as heard since the day the Electoral College put in its votes after Trump lost the election. And she was one of the Electors for New York. Okay cool, whatever. I don't care. At the time I was just glad to be seeing Trump get the boot. Haven't heard a thing about or from Hillary since. you know what?

I'm just fine with that. 

And I find it immensely funny that it's Fox News bringing her up.

I never cared much for Hillary. I voted for her because she wasn't Trump. That's about it. In fact, to be honest, given a chance to craft her own platform, I thought Hillary was closer to the more moderate conservatism of my younger years than any of the Republicans who were running. 

I was pleasantly surprised by her in that way. I was not happy with the Republicans on that level, either.

All in all, it was an uncomfortable feeling, that only got worse as the whole Trump thing progressed.

I was a Republican in the 1990's. Frankly I always was a little put off by the anti-Clinton, and especially anti-Hillary mania of some of my fellows. Yes, I understood that Bill was shady as fuck, hell, I thought the same of Hillary...but this is America and until you can prove something, people should be considered innocent until proven guilty.

And then, when they had something, you know, the Lewinsky scandal, Republicans failed to make their case. Not only that, but then Newt Gingrich (who I didn't like much, either) was outed as an adulterer, forced out of the speakership and Congress and his political career and personal reputation effectively torched.

Now, we're talking like 25 years later, and I see Newt Gingrich in the news every couple weeks or so, ain't heard shit about Hillary Clinton until today, and I'll note again it's Fox that brought her up.

Seriously, guys, the Hillary Obsession is getting creepy.

She's a private citizen, basically retired, and appears to be fine with that.

Move on, please. It's not 1995 anymore.

And I'd just like to add, here, that nothing says "It's not 1995 anymore" like what the Republican Party has made of itself.

This is not the same stodgy old WASP-y shits who impeached Bill Clinton anymore. You people aren't even the Trump Party anymore, you're the Party of Marge Fucking Greene.

At best, Trump, along with Newt Gingrich, is reduced to a leering face on the totem pole while Blowbert and Cawthorn and Greene pick up the torch those guys dropped and run with that fucker.

Trumpism is a hologram. What this really is, is late-stage Gingrichism. Or, to put it more bluntly, shitty old Republicans gonna Shitty Old Republican. Greene just puts a prettier face on it, that's all.

And Marge takes Gingrich's 1980's showboating and pissing off Tip O' Neal on the House Floor...not to mention his mid-1990's declaration as Speaker that all others were to be treated as enemies...and updates it for the post-Trump era.

With an added dose of Social Media and grifting off of anything and everything.

Greene doesn't want to be a Congresswoman, she wants to be a famous-for-being-famous vapid celebrity. Christ, I have to wonder how long it's gonna be before she starts hawking NFT's.

And I wonder what these fucking Republicans would say if some Democratic congresswoman was making herself into a national figure, including giving away expensive shit to people not even in her own state, much less district, while ignoring her own job?

Seriously, Republicans, you guys set even your old 1990's brand on fire in 2015 and capered away laughing.

It's time to move the fuck on, Hillary Clinton is not going to run for President again.

And likely, neither is Trump.

(But of course these motherfuckers will be beating off to 2016 until the day they die, anyway.)

The truth is, the base wants somebody worse than Trump, on every level. These fuckers didn't like Trump, the person. They sure as hell didn't like Trump, the President. They all fell for Trump, The Meme. You know, the big muscular orange Roid Freak carrying the goddamn thousand pound minigun.

And he wasn't that guy. He wasn't even close, and under cover of all the meme bullshit and stupid shit Trump did, the fucking corporations and the Federalist society made most of the relevant decisions.

I can't help but note that Greg Abbott is still flailing, despite all his culture war showboating and racism. Ron DeSantis does not seem much loved outside of Florida. Deprived of his social media, Trump too seems to be fading. I'll stand by what I said. At the rate things are going, he doesn't have a shot in 2024.

But hell, Newt Gingrich just might, if his pickled old ass is still alive.

Because the truth is these fuckers still haven't got over shit that happened almost 30 years ago now, and they still want somebody worse than Trump.

Think about that for a second.

Bill Buckley described Conservatism as "Standing athwart the flow of History, yelling Stop."

I'm not sure he'd think too much of these idiots trying to rewind the tape to 2016 continually, if only because that's the part they "like."

We need to move on, and move forward, and that ain't what this is.

Part One.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die. ~Roy Batty, Blade Runner.