• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    As though US politics wasn’t a clown-car full of bigots, sex-pests, and greedy fuckwits under Bush or Reagan or Nixon.

    At least they had the decency to pretend to be better people.

    These days that clown car also has flashing lights and loud noises.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      At least they had the decency to pretend to be better people

      When AIDS Was Funny

      The audio recordings are from several of the Reagan administration’s press conferences in the 1980s. The audio is juxtaposed with images of AIDS patients at Seattle’s Bailey-Boushay House in the 1990s.

      George Bush Jokes about WMD’s at White House Dinner

      A clip showing a White House Dinner event in which George Bush laughs and jokes about the US not finding weapons of mass destruction (WMD’s) in Iraq.

      The “Nixon Jew count” of July 1971 is the name given to then-President of the United States Richard Nixon’s attempts to demote and remove Jews from the Bureau of Labor Statistics