Warning: Political Rant Ahead
Jun. 16th, 2004 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saoneOkay, Reagan's dead. Can the whole country just get over it already?! Why, oh why, are so many people trying to canonize one of the crappiest presidents in our nation's history?!
I didn't complain when last week was dedicated to him. I didn't mourn, either, but I understood the process. Flags at half mast, body laying in state, blah, blah, funeralcakes. Whatever.
But, now, the flags are still at half mast, and I open up my Time to read that some people in the GOP want Ronnie's face on the $10 bill. And they want to rename the Pentagon after him. And they want to carve his fucking face into Mt. Rushmore.
Goddammit!
"Let's get this straight. Ronnie Reagan allowed AIDS to flourish for years after it was discovered and did next to nothing to stem its virulent, lethal tide, and wouldn't even utter the word until the end of his term, when it was too late.
Ronnie Reagan denied the existence of the nation's homeless problem that he largely created, and then blamed the problem on not enough people caring to get out there and get a job as he meanwhile slashed civil services and assistance for the poor.
Ronald Reagan pillaged the U.S. Treasury and ballooned the deficit over 100 percent during his term, he gave the wealthy enormous tax breaks and gouged the living crap out health care and social services and increased defense spending so much you'd think America was on the verge of being attacked by giant marauding alien centipedes.
Get that man's face on the dime!...."
So, Canada's too cold... Australia's full of bugs that can kill you... I hear England's lovely... *wavery smile*
/rant
I didn't complain when last week was dedicated to him. I didn't mourn, either, but I understood the process. Flags at half mast, body laying in state, blah, blah, funeralcakes. Whatever.
But, now, the flags are still at half mast, and I open up my Time to read that some people in the GOP want Ronnie's face on the $10 bill. And they want to rename the Pentagon after him. And they want to carve his fucking face into Mt. Rushmore.
Goddammit!
"Let's get this straight. Ronnie Reagan allowed AIDS to flourish for years after it was discovered and did next to nothing to stem its virulent, lethal tide, and wouldn't even utter the word until the end of his term, when it was too late.
Ronnie Reagan denied the existence of the nation's homeless problem that he largely created, and then blamed the problem on not enough people caring to get out there and get a job as he meanwhile slashed civil services and assistance for the poor.
Ronald Reagan pillaged the U.S. Treasury and ballooned the deficit over 100 percent during his term, he gave the wealthy enormous tax breaks and gouged the living crap out health care and social services and increased defense spending so much you'd think America was on the verge of being attacked by giant marauding alien centipedes.
Get that man's face on the dime!...."
So, Canada's too cold... Australia's full of bugs that can kill you... I hear England's lovely... *wavery smile*
/rant
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Date: 2004-06-16 11:07 pm (UTC)Hey,
And they want to carve his fucking face into Mt. Rushmore.
-what?! Well, at least it wouldn't take as long as the others, as the head wuld, of course, be hollow!
What's next? Clinton's face on Rushmore, only facing inward and carved between an enormous pair of stone breasts?!
Australia's full of bugs that can kill you...
-nah, I'd have a word with them on your behalf and grant you safe passage!
I hear England's lovely... *wavery smile*
-yeah, but it's got Tony Blair, aka Bush Lite... Stick with Canada. Lots of cute boyz there, who seem constitutionally obliged to be Queer!
xxx,
Gav!