Very underrated movie. Most people don't even know it exists. Should be required watching for AH.com members.Thanks - was wondering if anyone would pick up on that.
Very underrated movie. Most people don't even know it exists. Should be required watching for AH.com members.Thanks - was wondering if anyone would pick up on that.
Repeat after me.
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Repeat after me.
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank god Reagan was president instead!
Thank God Reagan was President Period!
I love how this TL is taking the same approach as Icarus Falls, Forward One and All, and my own No W:
- Take a controversial historical figure
- Remove him from the picture
- Watch the world burn
And FLaG.
That doesn't exactly follow the same model, but the end game is the same.
“Senator Dole, Mr. Chief Justice, President Carter, Vice President Brock, and my fellow citizens.
Today as we step forth into a new decade so we begin a new era in our country. For the best part of the last ten years our nation has been troubled by economic woes and uncertainty about our future. Today that stops. Today we renew the call to move America ahead as a leader of the world in economic prosperity and in the cause of global freedom. The nineteen seventies are done and with them we cast aside the gloom which has hung over them.
We all know too well the failures of the decade now closed; scandals, economic woes, a lack of clear direction at the head of our nation and a sense that the future was slipping through our fingers. These are the bad things. But let me remind you also of the good things of the decade now past, the things which speak to America’s resilience as a free and prosperous nation.
One of my predecessors once said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, and this is as true now as then. Only our own fear will stop us, for as a nation and as a people, we are unstoppable in the face of opposition or adversity. America is at its best when the odds are against us and the fight is righteous. So it has been throughout our past, and so it shall be again.
As I swear the time-honoured oath to assume this great office, I cannot help but be aware that these United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained recessions in our national history, unseen since the 1930’s. Some cry like Henny Penny that the sky has fallen and that this recession – or depression as they would have it – proves that capitalism has failed, and that free enterprise is dead.
To this negativism and Socialist babble I say – No!”
-Excerpt from the inauguration of President Evan Mecham in January 1981
The Inaugural Address of President Donald Rumsfeld
Senator Tower, Mr. Chief Justice, President Wallace, Vice President Edwards, President Truong and my fellow citizens.
Today as we step forth into a new decade so we begin a new era in our country. For the best part of the last ten years our nation has been troubled by economic woes and uncertainty about our future. Today that stops. Today we renew the call to move America ahead as a leader of the world in economic prosperity and in the cause of global freedom. The nineteen seventies are done and with them we cast aside the gloom which has hung over them.
We all know too well the failures of the decade now closed; scandals, economic woes, a lack of clear direction at the head of our nation and a sense that the future was slipping through our fingers. These are the bad things. But let me remind you also of the good things of the decade now past, the things which speak to America’s resilience as a free and prosperous nation.
We won the war in Vietnam. For too long many naysayers said the cause of freedom in Vietnam was impossible and our struggle for it unwinnable. Yet today the Republic of Vietnam is a free nation and we are joined here by the democratically elected President of that nation. The way was hard and the struggle long, but America’s fighting men perceived through the darkness and the turmoil to win for the righteous cause. This we accomplished in the so-called lost decade of the nineteen seventies.
Through the resolve of our leaders, and through the commitment of our people, we kept the Middle East free of Communist tyranny. Ordinary Americans, like New Jersey National Guard corporal Walter B. Willis – who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in Syria and for whom our joint services base there is now named – stepped forward to carry the struggle for freedom as their fathers and grandfathers had before them. Throughout the so-called lost decade, over-and-over again, ordinary, patriotic Americans showed the world of what stern and solid stuff this nation is made.
One of my predecessors once said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, and this is as true now as then. Only our own fear will stop us, for as a nation and as a people, we are unstoppable in the face of opposition or adversity. America is at its best when the odds are against us and the fight is righteous. So it has been throughout our past, and so it shall be again.
As I swear the time-honored oath to assume this great office, I cannot help but be aware that these United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained recessions in our national history, unseen since the 1930’s. Some cry like Henny Penny that the sky has fallen and that this recession – or depression as they would have it – proves that capitalism has failed, and that free enterprise is dead.
To this negativism and Socialist babble I say – No!
That doesn't exactly follow the same model, but the end game is the same.
Hell, the closing line from Mecham's first inaugural address is ripped directly from Rummy's first inaugural address in Rumsfeldia.
*beat*
And now I've been ninja'd by Kung Fucious.
Plagiarism is utterly unacceptable here. You did a direct lift from another member's work and didn't even bother giving a nod in their direction.“Senator Dole, Mr. Chief Justice, President Carter, Vice President Brock, and my fellow citizens.
Today as we step forth into a new decade so we begin a new era in our country. For the best part of the last ten years our nation has been troubled by economic woes and uncertainty about our future. Today that stops. Today we renew the call to move America ahead as a leader of the world in economic prosperity and in the cause of global freedom. The nineteen seventies are done and with them we cast aside the gloom which has hung over them.
We all know too well the failures of the decade now closed; scandals, economic woes, a lack of clear direction at the head of our nation and a sense that the future was slipping through our fingers. These are the bad things. But let me remind you also of the good things of the decade now past, the things which speak to America’s resilience as a free and prosperous nation.
One of my predecessors once said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, and this is as true now as then. Only our own fear will stop us, for as a nation and as a people, we are unstoppable in the face of opposition or adversity. America is at its best when the odds are against us and the fight is righteous. So it has been throughout our past, and so it shall be again.
As I swear the time-honoured oath to assume this great office, I cannot help but be aware that these United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained recessions in our national history, unseen since the 1930’s. Some cry like Henny Penny that the sky has fallen and that this recession – or depression as they would have it – proves that capitalism has failed, and that free enterprise is dead.
To this negativism and Socialist babble I say – No!”
-Excerpt from the inauguration of President Evan Mecham in January 1981
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