{"id":103847,"date":"2016-04-25T12:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/25\/shit-people-have-forgotten-about-the-bush-era\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T12:21:05","slug":"shit-people-have-forgotten-about-the-bush-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/25\/shit-people-have-forgotten-about-the-bush-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Shit people have forgotten about the Bush Era:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/oak23.tumblr.com\/post\/143111205875\" target=\"_blank\">oak23<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/newwavenova.tumblr.com\/post\/142529572543\" target=\"_blank\">newwavenova<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tiffanarchy.tumblr.com\/post\/142520546261\" target=\"_blank\">tiffanarchy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lady--liberty.tumblr.com\/post\/142520484862\" target=\"_blank\">lady\u2013liberty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/steviemcfly.tumblr.com\/post\/139783968468\" target=\"_blank\">steviemcfly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/comedownstairsandsayhello.tumblr.com\/post\/139734934722\" target=\"_blank\">comedownstairsandsayhello<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lord-kitschener.tumblr.com\/post\/139734614108\" target=\"_blank\">lord-kitschener<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sidneyia.tumblr.com\/post\/139734485874\" target=\"_blank\">sidneyia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/asgardreid.tumblr.com\/post\/139717136718\" target=\"_blank\">asgardreid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jean-luc-gohard.tumblr.com\/post\/139711659493\" target=\"_blank\">jean-luc-gohard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/catsallthewaydown.tumblr.com\/post\/139697579571\" target=\"_blank\">catsallthewaydown<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lizdexia.tumblr.com\/post\/139695762247\" target=\"_blank\">lizdexia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jean-luc-gohard.tumblr.com\/post\/139695443158\" target=\"_blank\">jean-luc-gohard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Free Speech Zones, which were a real thing and not a plot element in a particularly ham-handed dystopian novel.<\/li>\n<li>The phrase\u00a0\u201chidey hole.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Watching a budget surplus become a massive deficit that was bigger than it even looked because the White House was just like,\u00a0\u201cOkay, we\u2019ll just not put the wars on the books and just ask for more money for those every few months.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The sheer number of times Alberto Gonzalez said,\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t recall,\u201d to Congress regarding war crimes and human rights violations.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2026now watch this drive.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mission Accomplished.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence,\u201d\u00a0\u201cyellowcake uranium,\u201d Condoleeza\u2019s\u00a0\u201cmushroom clouds\u201d fearmongering, and all the other bullshit we were fed to get into Iraq.<\/li>\n<li>The President of the United States said so many stupid things that there were one-a-day calendars consisting of an individual quote for each day of the year. <i>They didn\u2019t all have the exact same quotes.<\/i>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns \u2013 the ones we don\u2019t know we don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then we went to war.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms; creating or implanting embryos for experiments; <b>creating human-animal hybrids<\/b>; and buying, selling or patenting human embryos.\u201d &#8211; George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, that\u2019s the best one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush watched that Batman Beyond splicing episode and had nightmares for a week<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>was it hidey-hole? i thought it was spider-hole. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, it was spider-hole<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think my favorite was how we un-ironically referred to a whole set of countries as the\u00a0\u201cAxis of Evil\u201d as if that phrase gives us some kind of meaningful understanding of their geopolitical role and isn\u2019t borrowed straight out of a mediocre made-for-TV superhero movie.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And then there was:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/076c4a6487293540f1b671e5c4701e98\/tumblr_inline_o2y5fhcf2M1swaavj_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>We literally got a terrorism forecast on the news every morning like it was pollen. So many of the things that happened, if they were in a dystopian novel, people would be like,\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s way too goofy and ridiculous to actually happen in real life,\u201d and yet they did.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>THE LAST ONE\u2019S REAL?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only was the terror threat system real, but it was often raised and lowered based entirely on how panicked they wanted us to be. Famously they raised the level for no reason during the 2004 election.<\/p>\n<p>Also, \u201cFree Speech Zones\u201d looked something like this:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/1310819d770fe3ba510ffb02e1a8f188\/tumblr_inline_o5du68PFir1swf7bh_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>It was literally a cage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I genuinely forget that people, even within my own age group, has forgotten the Bush era since they were teenagers and below the voting age at the time, and so forgot how fucking horrifying it was.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>oak23: newwavenova: tiffanarchy: lady\u2013liberty: steviemcfly: comedownstairsandsayhello: lord-kitschener: sidneyia: asgardreid: jean-luc-gohard: catsallthewaydown: lizdexia: jean-luc-gohard: Free Speech Zones, which were a real thing and not a plot element in a particularly ham-handed dystopian novel. The phrase\u00a0\u201chidey hole.\u201d Watching a budget surplus become a massive deficit that was bigger than it even looked because the White House was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/25\/shit-people-have-forgotten-about-the-bush-era\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shit people have forgotten about the Bush Era:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[98,12840,1140,261,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}