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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 01:00 PM Jun 2022

Let's play a game: "I'm old enough to remember..." (Political Edition)

I'm old enough to remember when the Republicans tried to cancel France by pouring french wine into the gutter.

I'm old enough to remember when the Republicans tried to cancel the Dixie Chicks for their anti-war stance.

I'm old enough to remember when the Republicans tried to cancel the word "french fries" and to replace them with "freedom fries".



I'm old enough to remember the pure white-hot outrage Republicans had during the GWB-adminstration against "activist judges" who dictate policies from the bench.



I'm old enough to remember when SCOTUS wasn't a partisan branch of whatever political party has more power at the time.



I'm old enough to remember the SCOTUS-ruling Bush-v-Gore, declaring George W. Bush the winner and stopping the ballot-recount, with the argument that all this second-guessing of the election-outcome is damaging to the authority of the office of POTUS.



I'm old enough to remember the Brooks Brother Riot, a fake "non-partisan" protest by republican campaign-activists to stop the ballot-count in Florida and to post-hoc alter the outcome of the Electoral College result of the 2000 election.



I'm old enough to remember how GWB won in 2004 likely by manipulating the voting-machines and how the Republicans argued that those machines are safe and reliable and that we should trust their results.

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MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
2. I'm old enough to remember working as a 15-year-old volunteer
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 01:06 PM
Jun 2022

on JFK's presidential campaign in my own local area. We won. Then, we lost JFK.

Torchlight

(3,233 posts)
3. Freedom Fries was the catalyst of my final realization
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 01:11 PM
Jun 2022

that the GOP had jumped the shark. Prior to that, I was pretty out-of-touch and paid attention to so very few things in my life.

But that freedom fries thing, it really hit me the wrong way, and since then, I can't help but view the republican party as little more than Philly's Bruno-Scarfo family.

Precious salt for the wound that Bobby Ney was eventually convicted to 30 months in jail.

PXR-5

(522 posts)
4. I'm old enough to remember
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 01:12 PM
Jun 2022

when Jimmy Carter didn't balance the budget one year out of four, and that we must vote for Ronnie.

Who never balanced it in 8 years!!!!!!

Darwins_Retriever

(846 posts)
6. Sitting in my 3rd Grade class
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 01:17 PM
Jun 2022

When the Principal announced that President Kennedy had been assassinated a girl in class yelled out, "Yeah, no more fitness tests."

Going to a McGovern rally in KC.

Watching President Kennedy's funeral procession. (on TV)

Freddie

(9,231 posts)
9. When the hostages were finally released *coincidentally" on St. Ronnie's Inauguration Day
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 02:00 PM
Jun 2022

I was in the chair at the oral surgeon’s office about to get my wisdom teeth out (I was 23). The nurse was putting the needle in my vein and I heard it on the news and said “oh yeah, that’s a real coincidence”…and woke up 2 hours later with a mouthful of cotton.

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