• @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    57 months ago

    Hardly the first time we’ve heard a politician lie on national television. I’m old enough to remember “We can’t let the smoking gun become a mushroom cloud”, “I did not have sex with that woman”, and (my personal favorite) “A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that’s true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.”

    Its just so fucking funny to see people line up like a bunch of dime store marks to taste the latest batch of snake oil panacea.

    Americans are the most propagandized people on the fucking Earth.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      47 months ago

      Oh I was a bit young to remember Reagan, but the other two… Fuck me I remember seeing “Mission Accomplished” on the one TV we had. Right after conducting a combat mission. And we didn’t go home the next day either.