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[theweaselking]

Quoth John Rogers, the original Kung-Fu Monkey:

Maybe it's just, I cast my eyes back on the last century ...

FDR: Oh, I'm sorry, was wiping out our entire Pacific fleet supposed to intimidate us? We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and right now we're coming to kick your ass with brand new destroyers riveted by waitresses. How's that going to feel?

CHURCHILL: Yeah, you keep bombing us. We'll be in the pub, flipping you off. I'm slapping Rolls-Royce engines into untested flying coffins to knock you out of the skies, and then I'm sending angry Welshmen to burn your country from the Rhine to the Polish border.

US. NOW: BE AFRAID!! Oh God, the Brown Bad people could strike any moment! They could strike ... NOW!! AHHHH. Okay, how about .. NOW!! AAGAGAHAHAHHAG! Quick, do whatever we tell you, and believe whatever we tell you, or YOU WILL BE KILLED BY BROWN PEOPLE!! PUT DOWN THAT SIPPY CUP!!

... and I'm just a little tired of being on the wrong side of that historical arc.

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

...*brainmelt*

But a *good* brainmelt.

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Dude, that whole blog is awesome! I am so totally bookmarking that.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

... you didn't know about John Rogers' blog?

Everyone needs to.

[toku666.livejournal.com]

I'm still having trouble reconciling having nothing to fear but fear itself and Japanese internment camps. In that light, the phrase almost sounds Rumsfeldian.

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Odd that so many people always manage to forget that little gem about FDR's 4 term presidency....

[winterkoninkje.livejournal.com]

It's disturbing how accurate that is. It's nice to see some other folks pointing out the absurdity of all this, er, not just the absurdity but trying to put it in perspective for others. I'm not generally one to yearn for the "good ol' days" but it does a disservice to those who lived or fought in those important times to become such a sniveling batch of pansies. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm all about being touchy feely, but there comes a time to just STFU and deal with life. It's not going away. Well, unless you really want it to I suppose.