It seems crazy to think of things like the George W. Bush era as the good old days, but in a sense, Randy Rainbow is absolutely correct. There has never been a news cycle quite like the one that we’re living through now, and as god awful fucking terrible as those years were, if nothing else at least the outrage of the day really was the outrage of the *day*. Remember when you could be mad about the same thing when you went to bed that you were mad about when you woke up? Those were some good, long gone times. I miss them.
And of course, here’s the original for reference.
And Weird Al, because it’s near impossible to hear anything about good old days without thinking about him.
Now all I can think of is “I wanna go back to Dixie”
And that would be why Tom Lehrer was bouncing around in my brain.
Yup. “poll tax, how I love ya, how I love ya, ma dear ol’ Poll tax.”
I’ll just leave this here.