Im so old.....

[Garion_55]

Im starting to realize how old im getting.


im so old that i can remember a time when if a president cheated with a porn star and paid her off that president would be done. his base would turn on him. he'd be run out of the presidency.


im so old that i can remember a time when it was the gop who hated the russians and it was the dems accused of being communist sympathizers

im so old that i can remember a time when the gop wouldnt even think about supporting a president with children from different women from three different marriages.

im so old that i can remember a time when people working in the white house would last longer than 6-8 months.

im so old that i can remember a time when the gop pretended not to be the party of white supremacy

im so old that i can remember a time when the gop claimed to care about the deficit and debt

im so old that i can remember a time when one major party wasnt colluding with foreign powers to steal an election.

im so old that i can remember a time when you might not even hear a word from the president for weeks on end.

im so old that i can remember a time when people actually respected United States Presidents.




man. it all seems like a year and a half ago.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. I am so old,

thank you still has meaning. Thank you President and Mrs. Obama, thank you Mr. Holder, thank you Mrs. Clinton and thanks to all of US who prefer to remain anonymous.

[Garion_55]

2. remember the saying that you dont know what you have till its gone?

man talk about feeling this 1000%

8-(

[triron]

21. appropriate song lyric!

[samplegirl]

3. Well said

Your not old...but the GOPs bullshit is! They have become increasingly hateful over the years!

[kimbutgar]

4. Im so old that people would be outraged if the president tried to profit off his presidency while

President.

[rzemanfl]

22. I am so old I can remember Eisenhower being criticised for saying "Coke"-

the beverage, not the drug. It was considered awful that he uttered a brand name.

[CrispyQ]

43. I'd never heard that before.

Thanks!

[rzemanfl]

44. I definitely remember him saying it and people being upset by the remark.

It was something like "relax (calm down?) and have a Coke."

[CrispyQ]

45. And now the current occupant of the WH is using the presidential seal as a golf accessory.

His vulgarity alone disqualifies him for any public office. I can't believe almost half the voting population thought this man was qualified to run the country. We have lowered our standards so far, I feel like I drew the short straw of alternate realities.

[rzemanfl]

46. What I don't understand is this. I am a year younger than Drumpf.

I eat better than he does and get a lot more exercise. I have a normal BMI and a stable marriage, yet he is wearing ME out.

[KT2000]

5. what you said shows

how effective RW brainwashing has been. I would love to hear all the repubs explain each line.

[Nitram]

6. So you're saying you are more than two years old?

[lapfog_1]

28. yup. my thought exactly

[world wide wally]

7. I remember when Presidents didn't get Mulligans for cheating on their wife with a newborn baby

Not so sure about the wording, but you know what I mean.

[Atticus]

8. Uh----WUT? nt

[anarch]

9. he had an affair with a BABY!!?!? I knew he like'd 'em young, but jeez... n/t

[True Blue American]

10. I understood what

You are saying!

[former9thward]

30. I guess you may not remember the Kennedy adminstration.

He had newborns in the White House. The media at that time ignored that stuff.

[raccoon]

36. THANK YOU. Some people tend to regard Kennedy as a saint, would've gotten

us out of Vietnam if he'd lived, etc.

And that "Camelot" stuff, just because a journalist called the Kennedy administration/White House "Camelot." Well, it was like Camelot in that there was a lot of infidelity going on.

Yep,

The media at that time ignored that stuff.

[Nitram]

37. I am so old I still am nostalgic for JFK. He was inspiring, inclusive, and a great speaker.

[raccoon]

41. Yeah, he was all those things. nt

[DownriverDem]

42. No they didn't

We got to see very cute photos of Caroline and John John.

[cloudbase]

11. I'm so old,

when I first went to sea, Noah was a mere ordinary seaman.

[packman]

12. I remember a time

when foreign nations actually looked up to and respected the U.S.
When, even though a die-hard Democrat, you could vote for a GOP president and not feel guilty

[syringis]

20. Hello Packman

We still respect the US, its history and its achievements.

What is a laughing stock , is the ignorant buffon who pretends to be president... What we don't respect is those who still support him, despite the numerous scandals.

[randr]

13. I remember when the Office of the President was what we esteemed

Not the temp help we hire to fill the position.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. And the GOP STILL says the Democrats are communist sympathisers

Even though they are the ones taking Russian money and giving them favors.

[OMGWTF]

15. Rethuglicans Hated the Russians when They were Communists

But now that they're an Oligarchy, they are looked upon as role models.

[dhol82]

24. Thanks for that explanation

I was having serious cognitive dissonance trying to figure out how they now held Russia in such esteem.

[relogic]

39. Evilgelicals married to Repugs

Literally and their political worldview are often in agreement. I recall not long ago the effusive praises and adoration given Putin because of his homophobic policies. Despicably, the torture-all-enemies-of-god-crowd could not contain their glee.

Between the love of money and false morality of these Christofascist types have made getting in bed with oligarchs and bigots the paradigm of what Repugs are now.

Yeah-my OLD standards are beginning to show their age too.

[nolabear]

16. Im so old I remember when there were no alternate facts.

[world wide wally]

17. In my neighborhood, when I was growing up, we called them lies

[Nitram]

38. There have always been alternative facts. Check out the presidential election where

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ran against each other:

"Jefferson's camp accused President Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."

In return, Adams' men called Vice President Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/22/mf.campaign.slurs.slogans/

[LiberalArkie]

18. Being from Arkansas, I am so old that I remember the Republicans being liberal

and the Democrats were the racist conservatives.

[SCVDem]

19. I'm so old, 63

That I look forward to death.

Seeing what has happened to my country is killing me.

Future insecurity for me and millions like me.

Anyone for one last hoorah for our Constitution and our military oath?

[BigmanPigman]

34. You're not alone.

I have met a lot of people and I know a lot of people who have been saying the same thing. I am going to die fairly soon and I just want to be able to see this entire party disappear and the Moron and all his crooked pals rot in prison and have all of their assets seized since they sold our country for personal greed. TRAITORS!

[LakeArenal]

23. Im so old, I remember when..

... what the majority of Americans want mattered.

[paleotn]

25. I'm old enough to remember

when a certain Donna Rice, and the boat named "Monkey Business" sank a promising political career....in the primaries no less. We have sunk so low.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Some alleged liberals, but they arent really are they, still whine about Obama.

[onecent]

27. AMEN to him.......he should be cherished....

especially because of what we have now.

[malaise]

29. Great post

Rec

[kskiska]

31. I'm 73 and I remember when a divorced man wouldn't even think of running for President.

Adlai Stevenson was the first.

Rockefeller was thought to be the leading Republican candidate for President in 1964, but when he divorced his first wife and married his second wife, his chances for the nomination evaporated very quickly.

Only Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, had been a nominee and been divorced before Rockefeller’s situation came along a decade later.

[d_r]

32. I'm so old

my car key was on Ben Franklin's kite

[MFM008]

33. Haha

Me to. I'm olddddd.

[sprinkleeninow]

35. Ahm so old....

what're we talking about? 😴

[McCamy Taylor]

40. New technology means new ways for capitalists to cheat at politics.

Politics is a favorite way that capitalists cheat. Capitalists don't just make money by bartering goods and services. They find sneaky ways to accumulate capital by manipulating the rules of law. I.e. they steal from other people. That is why they are called "vampires." And greedy capitalist vampires keep up on all the latest technology.

So, as IT comes up with new and more amusing gadgets, expect politics to get wilder and crazier.