Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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Any lawyer who says there's no such thing as rape should be hauled out to a public place by three large perverts and buggered at high noon, with all of his clients watching. But wow! This goofy child president we have on our hands now. He is demonstrably a fool and a failure, and this is only the summer of '03. By the summer of 2004, he might not even be living in the White House. Gone, gone, like the snows of yesteryear. Conditioned to Accept Horror: In an interview with a witness to the destruction of the Capitol Building, he muses that the people the United States should have risen up, but after the horrific realities of Rumsfeld's terms in office, most were simply too jaded and desensitized to care anymore. Only in the libertarian west and northeast did the rebellions take place. There was a time, about ten years ago, when I could write like Grantland Rice. Not necessarily because I believed all that sporty bullshit, but because sportswriting was the only thing I could do that anybody was willing to pay for. And none of the people I wrote about seemed to give a hoot in hell what kind of lunatic gibberish I wrote about them, just as long as it moved. They wanted Action, Color, Speed, Violence... All in the Family has a different arc focused on the increased poverty in the United States, with Archie losing his job and watching the America he knew erode away, while Mike is forced to work one or two jobs well below his skill level just to support his family. This leads to fewer social justice disputes between the two.

There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism. It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Our Barbie-doll president, with his Barbie-doll wife and his boxful of Barbie-doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us; the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts on nights when the moon comes too close… After the Christian Value's party takes power, Alaska, Texas, Oregon, and Washington all secede as well. The United Nations also seize control of America's overseas territories as Trusteeships. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.Kiang Liu: You may threaten a man all you want, but when he begins to eat grass and sees his children dying, he has not much to lose in act of rebellion. The utter collapse of this Profoundly criminal Bush conspiracy will come none too soon for people like me... The massive plundering of the U.S. Treasury and all its resources has been almost on a scale that is criminally insane, and has literally destroyed the lives of millions of American people and American families. Exactly. You and me, sport — we are the ones who are going to suffer, and suffer massively. This is going to be just like the Book of Revelation said it was going to be — the end of the world as we knew it. Different World, Different Movies and Shows: The Academy Awards are periodically referred to, with movies gradually becoming more and more different as the years go by, often reflective of the political climate at the time. Especially since a good portion of the movies being churned out by Hollywood are simply propaganda pieces created by the Rumsfeld administration. By the time we got to the street, I could see the first rays of the sun, a cool pink glow in the eastern sky. The fact that I’d spent all night in a cell and a courtroom made that morning one of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. There was a peace and brightness about it, a chilly Caribbean dawn after a night in a filthy jail. I looked out at the ships and the sea beyond them, and I felt crazy to be free with a whole day ahead of me. Scarily enough, despite almost being a Card-Carrying Villain far past the Moral Event Horizon, even President Rumsfeld is creeped out by the far right Christian fanatic he has employed in his administration Tim LaHaye, the author of the Left Behind series. But eventually he warms up to LaHaye and has him replace Cheney as Chief of Staff.

Deconstructed in the late 80's, when Rumsfeld has more-or-less abolished every legal standard for private businesses. TRW ends up having to deal with all the tin tyrants and outright criminals that run rampant in the newly "free" market, hurting both their efficacy and their international reputation. This becomes such a problem they end up trying to sway Rumsfeld towards a more (if minimally) regulated economy. I sat there for a long time, and thought about a lot of things. Foremost among them was the suspicion that my strange and ungovernable instincts might do me in before I had a chance to get rich. No matter how much I wanted those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction — toward anarchy, poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas goat. A Nazi by Any Other Name: South Africa under the dictatorship of General Malan is rapidly sliding into this, practically becoming The Draka. Not only is it using weapons of mass destruction, up to and including dirty bombs, against its enemies in the rest of southern Africa, but under the influence of Afrikaner nationalists like Eugene Terre'Blanche, it's starting to discriminate against non-Afrikaner whites (particularly the Rhodesian refugees) on top of the existing apartheid system. It's been stated, in updates written from the perspective of the future, that they will break out the nukes before it's all over.

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Passive incompetence is one thing, but aggressive Nazi hostility on the corporate level is something else again. The coup attempt against Rumsfeld is proceeding smoothly to execution, only for Sarah Heath to betray them all at the last moment, having been a devoted Christian Values mole from the beginning. President Rumsfeld. If there was any doubt, by the late 1980's he's started organizing "Liberty Battalions", which are basically an American SS/SA - up to staging book burnings of "anti-American"/" anti-free market" material.

Is it possible that he has already abandoned all hope of getting re-elected? Or does he plan to cancel the Election altogether by declaring a national military emergency with terrorists closing in from all sides, leaving him with no choice but to launch a huge bomb immediately?. . . Desperate men do desperate things, and stupid men do stupid things. We are in for a desperately stupid summer. Chekhov's Gun: Briefly mentioned in the timeline and recently brought up in the discussion was a piece of legislation introduced with the intent to criminalise homosexuality. The author has suggested that it might be important in the future. The killer of Kelsey Grammer's sister is killed in a police shoot-out, instead of being arrested and brought to trial. In frustration at justice denied, Grammer abandons acting and studies law, eventually becoming a junior District Attorney. Considering that, in the U.S. at least, the DA's office is often a first step to higher political office... Foregone Conclusion: When the CV takes power, Alabama under Wallace refuses to follow their policies, causing the federal government to place the state under siege. The flash-forward map in "Rummyhorror" shows Alabama firmly under the control of the Christian States of America, so it's safe to say that Wallace lost.McGovern had wrapped it up just before dawn on Friday, accepting the bloody nomination with an elegant, finely crafted speech that might have had quite an impact on the nation TV audience...(Time correspondent Hugh Sidey called it "perhaps as pure an expression as George McGovern has ever given of his particular moralistic sense of the nation")...but the main, middle-American bulk of the national TV audience tends to wither away around midnight, and anybody still glued to the tube at 3:30 A.M. Miami time is probably too stoned or twisted to recognize McGovern anyway.