On this day in 1981 America is nearly saved from disaster when John Hinckley Jr. shoots Ronald Reagan in the chest. Unfortunately Reagan lived and has went on to create the maligned War on Drugs, overthrew the Sandinistas, of course there's the Iran Contra affair, his supposed success at "ending" the Cold War (the wall was comin' down anyway people), the ridiculous budget deficit he created, probably underselling crack to inner city youths, and of course reinventing and more or less installing what we recognize today as the modern Republican Party. I went to his funeral to gloat, so does this make me a bad person? NO! Because reinventing the dead because they're dead is a farce. He was not a great man, he did not set this country up for success, the 80's were a miserable misanthropic time and him and the Iron Lady across the pond were responsible. So you know what, if you don't like what I have to say, when i die you can come and gloat, and maybe I'll get a bunch of followers who will try to live out their lives according to my guiding principles.
And in 2006 the Terrorism Act of Great Britain is enacted, one of the larger bricks in the wall keeping Air Strip One safe from the 'terrists'.
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