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solarbirdCan't believe I didn't think of this a couple of days ago.
Remember when Vice President Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face?
And they made the guy apologise?
For having been shot by VP Dick Cheney?
In the face?
They tried to cover it up, but, well, Vice President Dick Cheney had shot someone in the _face_, so that's kind of
difficult
to keep too far under wraps.
I didn't think of this when that over-30 Twitter hashtag was trending. I wish I had, because that would've been good.
That was the same administration when you had a Republican publication publish an editorial calling for George W. Bush to bring "his" army back from Iraq, overthrow Congress, and install his own, more compliant Congress in its place.
Back then, they got condemned for that.
But the whole Cheney thing, goddamn.
That "I could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue" and that whole "let's storm Congress and overturn the election" business came from somewhere.
It just wasn't as far along then.
At least, not in public.
And more importantly, not yet culturally. Fundamentalist culture had mostly taken over, but not completely. Dubya was a torturer and a war criminal, but still culturally attached to rotating into _and out of_ the presidency.
Still too much old New England Republican in him.
Mind you, some of us pointed out that his "Decider" philosophy of governance was literally the same as the theoretical Nazi approach. (Leader/"Decider," occasional referenda to make sure the Decider didn't stray from the Racial/Popular Will as the only check, all that.)
And they were already talking about how they made their own realities now, and how we were always going to be behind because we would attempt to deal with facts and disprove the lies, by which time they would've already gone on to a new "reality" of their own making.
Sound familiar?
Dick "If the President does it, that makes it legal" Cheney and George W. "Yeah, I tortured him" Bush.
The VP who literally shot someone in the face and got an apology from the guy he shot for having been shot. The POTUS who created a torture state.
How we got here, kids.
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Date: 2021-01-12 08:10 pm (UTC)Straight line.
ARGH.
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Date: 2021-01-14 04:35 am (UTC)