I’m shocked that I haven’t seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren’t any, why?

  • @ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    818 days ago

    I’m not a historian, but my guess is that we have lived too many generations without major political incident; the kind you’re supposed to make heads roll over.

    Really though? Just off the top of my head:

    Eisenhower to Nixon

    • Vietnam

    JFK

    • Rigged elections in Illinois with aid of the mafia.
    • Bay of Pigs

    Nixon

    • Watergate
    • Being Richard Nixon

    Reagan

    • Illegal invasion of Grenada
    • Iran-Contra

    Clinton

    • Executing a developmentally-challenged man as a campaign stunt.
    • Lewinsky Affair
    • Many rape allegations over decades
    • Whitewater

    Bush II

    • Illegal invasion of Iraq

    Obama

    • Bugging of Merkel’s phone

    Trump

    • Everything

    Biden

    • Medical incapacity
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        118 days ago

        There’s that old thought experiment on who someone would take out of time travel existed. I used to think that Hitler would be a good target. However, seeing how many of the current issues started because of something Reagan gutted, reduced, or schemed to disrupt or remove makes him my new target. So much of our current shituation can be directly tied back to Reagan.