Nature Returns to Chernobyl

For those of you who had your memory degaussed by four years of Il Douche, this is what "normal" used to look like and why it is a place back to which no one in their right mind would want to return.

For example, here we find Mrs. The Federalist blaming us Libtards for the existence of Marjoe Gortner Green

Meghan McCain reaffirms that Republicans refuse to take ownership of their shit.

— Mik "America is Back" Young🦋 (@WWomenL) February 1, 2021

Just as Andrew Sullivan, America's Most Ubiquitous Gay Tory Catholic Libertarian Conservative  Phrenologist Public Intellectual, blamed us Libtards for the existence of Trump's very own malformed H.R. Haldeman homunculus, Stephen Miller

Here is Politico insisting that "bipartisanship" = capitulating to the demands of Marjoe Gortner Green's party.

How serious is Biden about bipartisanship? We’re about to find out. Today, 10 Senate Republicans will make a counteroffer to Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan and meet with the president to discuss their idea. https://t.co/ffJLNh4njX

— POLITICO (@politico) February 1, 2021

And if you've forgotten what this dynamic was like back in "the good old days", just Google, "Why won't Obama lead?" on the Twitter machine.

Here we have a "respectable" Republican using all of his weasel words to evade an obvious question about one of his psychotic fellow Republicans.

ABC: Marjorie Taylor Greene has voiced support for executing Nancy Pelosi. Is she fit to serve?

GOV. ASA HUTCHINSON: I'm not gonna answer that question as to whether she's fit to serve, because she believes in something that everybody else does not accept. pic.twitter.com/B58nACFMai

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 31, 2021

Back in the Olden Times we had several media outlets devoted to letting Republicans off the hook, the most prominent and successful of which was called "Meet the Press".  

Meet the Press was a real innovator in the field of Republican exoneration-by-avoidance by not only inviting "respectable" Republicans on to lie about whatever atrocity their party had committed that week, but cutting out the middle man and inviting the most malignant Republican sociopaths themselves onto the show, then not asking them any substantive questions:

Most frequent ‘Meet the Press’ guest in 2009: Newt Gingrich.

The net result of which was effectively laundering the reputations of the most malignant Republican sociopaths over and over and over again.  

The Gingrich Rules: Privilege Has Its Memberships 

And then, of course, there is the matter of Mr. David Fucking Brooks returning to his pre-Trump default settings.

The GOP and the mainstream press want 2015 back so badly you can taste their desperation in the air.  

Whether they'll get it or not is still very much an open question.

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