• Domille@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      And having boring politics again! Remember the times when it wasn’t terrifying to look at the news?

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        3 months ago

        I politically matured during the Bush II years. I don’t ever remember being relaxed about politics.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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          I was relaxed about politics through the '90s because we had a Democrat president, a budget that was not just balanced but had an actual fucking surplus (there were actual debates about what to spend the surplus on), and a vice president that looked like a sure shot to continue control of the white house and who actually understood technology and was concerned about the environment. And then I woke up the morning after the 2000 election and realized what a complete shit show our country had become.

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        3 months ago

        Someone near me taped over Pence and just wrote in Vance on their yard sign when they announced the nomination. I assume he spent too much on MAGA hats and stickers to afford a new sign.

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      I’m afraid this won’t happen anytime soon. The media will flock to him over and over again like flies on a pile of shit. The only way for this to stop…well, let’s say we missed our chance by two inches.

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        3 months ago

        He seemed mostly out of the news cycle the past four years, no? Apart from the occasional update from one of his trials.

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          Yes, it was so nice those few years that the media didn’t pretend that what he said mattered.