SINCE 2009, THE GOP HAVEN'T CHANGED... EXCEPT AN ATTEMPTED OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMENT

PERICLES21 very recently reviewed some early posts, from 2009 on, to see how the GOP reacted to the election of President Obama - to try to see any changes or shifts...or improvements in GOP attitudes. This kind of distanced self-assessment is often helpful if not sobering as opinions, perspectives and mental edges can soften. 

But, lo and behold, doesn't this April, 2009 post title and lead-in read uncannily like it was written today? (The only change seems to be the 2009 Tea Party graduates actually tried to overthrow the  American government on January 6, 2021): The GOP Ship of Fools' sails on, forever seeking. Eventually, they might realize they are dead in the water because they forgot to raise the anchor. Until ten, the GOP rows furiously only pausing their Sysiphian effort to pat themselves as the GOP vessel sits deadin the water.

"---- April 12, 2009 PERCHEDEYE----

SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2009

The GOP Today - Resigned, Near-Dead, But Still Tea Bagging...So, It Isn't all Bad, Right?

"Right now, the only GOP action [to nullify Obama's election to POTUS] is a half-hearted call to insurrection, [Hmmm, they're consistent] aka the New Tea Party movement. But as usual with the GOP these days, their knack for stepping ankle deep in nasty stuff and then ...g leefully, as if they are doing something terribly witty, shoving said foot into mouth, ... .."                                                                                                             AND                                                                                                                                            "the GOP is lost in a kind of political 'mannerism' where they remember the postures but have lost any idea of the meanings and contexts of their awkaward and jerky mimicry of conservativeness. The result is the derangement of Limbaugh, the Innanity of Hannity, the Dreck of Beck, and Michelle Bachmann's stupid utterances accompanied with her really strange, vapid and pat-on-back-expecting-look-at-me-daddy false smiles. The GOP sputterings are not down-to-earth, nurturing oatmeal but dry sawdust and dull nails.)                                                                                                                                        AND FINALLY                                                                                                                                                      The GOP Ship of Fools sails on, forever seeking ... something. Eventually, they might realize they are dead in the water because they forgot to raise the anchor. Until then, the GOP rows furiously only pausing their Sysiphian effort to pat themselves as the GOP vessel sits dead in the water.                  

Pericles21's 2009 post  seems prescient about the GOP's Tea Party new clothes, it 'struck gold,' nay platinum, because then and especially now, the Republican Party's eagerness to win (willy-nilly anything, it seems) resulted in bastardizing itself into a Tea Party-ing cult of  imperfect face-actors and fascist ideologues. In 2009, the GOP set future frames for its ineffectual faux-ness by attacking the newly installed President Obama through violating standards of decency, ethics and journalistic professionalism. 

2009's Republican 'messaging', if it can be called that, was delivered by a core of right wing Fox News faces featuring Michelle Bachman ( ), Russ Limbaugh (Fox News uber-idol, recently deceased), Sean Hannity (Limbaugh's apparent successor, Trump pal) and others, notably Fox News' upstart face-man, Tucker Carlson. They still constitute the peanut gallery of American right wing shouters.

Now, twelve years later in April, 2021, we have the familiar Fox News crew from 2009, with some added accolytes and less a few attritioned members (essentially the same clown-faced, right wing actors) doing their 'same-old', now stridently attacking Obama's vice President, Joseph Biden, America's newly elected President (much to the relief of 75-83% of Americans). 

The Fox News gang have evolved their craziness with often 'off-planet-sounding' conspiracy scenarios that one would think can only come out of twisted and nearly ruined minds.

While 2021's Fox News gang yell out their conspiracy fantasies more stridently they are less believable because America has heard it before, and fell for the hype and elected the Tea Party poseur, Donald Trump. 

Trump's White House shift could be summarized as, 'What's in it for me, personally, money-wise, get that cash.... America was supposed to be my big ticket out of debt and be really, real rich ... I was supposed to lose the 'f..ing' election and make BANK ... somebody owes me! Chomp, chomp, good burger.'And, ' 'Pandemic? Who cares how many die, how can that be cash-converted... for me?'

Trump's deeply imprinted grift mentality and incompetencies while tinkering with reality (as POTUS) nearly caused America to have a truly big Fall but we were saved just in time by JOE  BIDEN'S SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE AND ETHICS AND TEAM AND ... A  LOT MORE.