Shit people have forgotten about the Bush Era:
- Free Speech Zones, which were a real thing and not a plot element in a particularly ham-handed dystopian novel.
- The phrase “hidey hole.”
- Watching a budget surplus become a massive deficit that was bigger than it even looked because the White House was just like, “Okay, we’ll just not put the wars on the books and just ask for more money for those every few months.”
- The sheer number of times Alberto Gonzalez said, “I don’t recall,” to Congress regarding war crimes and human rights violations.
- “…now watch this drive.”
- Mission Accomplished.
- “The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence,” “yellowcake uranium,” Condoleeza’s “mushroom clouds” fearmongering, and all the other bullshit we were fed to get into Iraq.
- 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. They didn’t all have the exact same quotes.
“There 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 – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
And then we went to war.
#rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?
Sophomore year of high school we had an assignment to make a poster highlighting and discussing a presidential quote and I picked the one above ^^^
My teacher didn’t think it was funny and I got in trouble but it was worth it.