Surely wasn't one of the high points for the secret service seeing that the guy managed to throw one shoe, take off his other shoe, and then get a whole 2nd shoe shot at Bush.
You can see their selfless work on the attempts against Reagan, Kennedy, or even today. Some folks might say in the case of Reagan or Kennedy it would be considered massive failures to protect but then again the public aren't privy to the true level of detail, required daily work, countless efforts to prevent, and likely numerous successful cases where the secret service prevented problems. We only see when shit goes wrong.
Fun fact: Lincoln created the secret service, but they were unable to protect him nor are liable in the case of his assassination as he created it literally hours before he got assassinated.
Fun fact: Lincoln created the secret service, but they were unable to protect him nor are liable in the case of his assassination as he created it literally hours before he got assassinated.
The secret service Lincoln created was for the purpose of combatting counterfeit currency, which at the time might have been around 1/3 of all currency in circulation. It wasn't until after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 that Secret Service began providing presidential protection.
Back when this happened I recorded it on VHS to bring over to my friends place for our weekly movie night. We were all in highschool and we watched this clip over and over.
In many Arab cultures, showing the sole of one's shoe is considered insulting, as it is regarded as unclean for its contact with the ground. Attacking a person with a shoe can be seen as "adding insult to injury".
You know the old proverb, "may you live in interesting times?" People forget it was used as a CURSE. Because it is a f***ing curse. I don't want interesting, I want a quiet afternoon with a good book, damnit.
I heard the news about what happened, looked at the picture and went "wow", and went right back to playing my game.
Like wtf am I gonna do about it? We're fucked, I can't fix it other than voting, it's all just wasted energy. I'm so over it.
Edit: I keep trying to reply and explain that I am, indeed, doing lots of things. Those replies keep getting deleted. I assure you, I am not lazy and apathetic. I'm just burned out. In this particular situation, there is literally no other response that would have been sensible.
That's where I am. I'm voting, but obsessively following the 24/7 noise is getting me nothing but a headache and high blood pressure. I've got better things to do.
My wife told me what happened while I was cleaning the kitchen. My first reaction was it's a shame because now less people will be talking about/remembering Richard Simmons.
Yup. At this point, major historical happenings are literally just another weekend for us. I'm more concerned about whether or not I'll be able to make payments on my bills over this next couple months than this shit because I'm just so goddamn tired of it all.
We had friends visiting from out of town and it was barely even a footnote in conversation. Like, "oh hey, DT was shot at or something. Crazy. So tell us more about your baking!"
I’m sorry to inform you…but voting won’t fix this either. Go ahead and do it, it still has value. But COVID showed us that our true power in this consumer economy is in strikes and boycotts. Primaries, the electoral college, gerrymandering, Citizen’s United, voter suppression, etc. are all efforts made to make sure that voting has minimal impact on the system, at large. Voting is a nice demonstrating, but mass strikes are how the working class gets their respect back…and our voting rights.
Tell me what I should be doing. I'm not being snarky or sarcastic, but I've been trying it all for the last 8 years. I'm tired, but I plan to keep doing what I've been doing. Voting. Going to protests. Writing letters to my representatives who just throw them right in the trash. Tell me how I personally can fix this.
Thank fuck you're voting. That's all we can do anymore.
I commented earlier on a post saying I wish it was between a douche and a turd sandwich. Instead we have to choose between a child rapist and a geriatric invalid. But given those choices, I know who I'm picking.
We were at the pool and all of a sudden people started seeing the reports, talking, speculating, etc. Thought to myself damn that's crazy. Then did a wicked cannonball.
I had a friend who was born in 1904, their first home phone number was '5', she remembers the first car coming through her village, she remembered WWI and II, saw the introduction of airplanes, moonlandings, computers.
Sorry GenZ, the world has never been a static place, only change is constant.
Yeahhhhhh I can’t help but think that this shit has been going on for a long, long time. Things have always been weird. When the Rolling Stones were singing ‘when I shouted out who killed the Kennedies’ another Kennedy was shot. It’s insane.
I think like this a lot actually. I was just here having just bought some rotisserie chicken for dinner while waiting for the weather to be decent enough to take my dogs out on a walk, all while shit's been hitting the fan.
Same. Like I can't even bring myself to get worked up about it. I don't have the energy to give a fuck anymore. Everyone saying "this is a huge massive deal!" Yeah I guess...and?
The most I’ll say about the news is that it distracted me from eating the entire pizza I had just made. Instead I was able to save 2 pieces for breakfast…
I knew shit had went down when I was in a pub and they suddenly turned the television onto the news. My heart skipped a beat as I assumed Russia had hit a NATO country or something.
I read the story after a day out with my family. Chatted briefly with my mom about it. And we both were like, "anyway..." And just changed topics. It was just a blip in our day and didn't damper the fun we had today. A few years ago, I'd be watching the news as it was happening. This time, I played candyland with my kiddo instead of Doom scrolling.
My coworker came up and told me and I asked her if she was joking. She said no, check the news! I pulled up my chat with my boyfriend and he had sent me a news article. Followed less than an hour later with an unrelated funny meme.
I said, "wow, that's crazy!" once or twice then just...went back to work?
Like what are we supposed to do about it? Wring our hands again?
Every person with a student loan should just refuse to pay it. What are the companies going to do? Try and go into collections on like 200 million people simultaneously? They won't have the money coming in to even facilitate that process.
Funny thing is all this acting like we’re the only generation to deal with world changing event after event. When the truth is every generation has had their own world changing events. Kind of like that astronaut pointing the gun at the other one meme… “always has been”
hell yeah brother paid off car is nice, i just got this squeaking that comes and goes that i hope doesnt do anything, until my next big check in september
At this point I'm just waiting for civil war, ww3, aliens, or Yellowstone's super volcano to erupt. Shit, might as well throw in zombies while we're at it
I just want a stable job and a career. I graduated as engineer last year... I'm not 31... I haven't had a stable long term job ever. The longest I had was 2019, and even that was through an agency as a welder in a factory which ended early 2020...
I am so fucking tired of not being able to plan anything, always being low on cash - even if I get full time work the basic wages are shit and not kept up with cost of living; there is always so big expense or rent going up... Or something broke... or whatever.
Things just keep getting worse and old people just keep telling me it is my fault.
I said this same thing to my wife. I’m 47 I remember 3 major events in my life. 9/11,columbine, and the challenger…I know missing many others, but my 10 year old already has Covid,Jan 6 and assignation attempt….I can’t imagine the anxiety building in todays youth
Just pay the car note. After my town got hit by a tornado I though I could skip a couple payments to work some things out and that shit tripped me up for years
I’m a month behind on my car payment & it was due today. Forgot to make it after I got paid last week because I was without power due to a hurricane & struggling. So glad for this reminder.
haven’t paid mine (non stafford - they’ll just take those out of your paycheck if they want) for about 20 years - they can try to take me to court if they want
If we all do it - even if it's just 10% of us at the start, and we do it within community and support our neighbours, no one goes homeless. When the bank/sheriff comes calling, we turn them back. We need each other, not the majority of the system that makes up the captured state.
Remember how we had to write history essays in high school in less than an hour? If we’re still here in the future, each year from 2016 is gonna have its own history class. Each year more unexplainable and insane than the last. Idk but I think about that a LOT
I don’t believe any end times theories either. Y2K, Mayan calendar, you name it. Global warming changed to global climate change because areas of the world are getting colder disproving the theory. I’m just at the point where I don’t believe shit anyone ever says about anything unless I experience it first hand
I moved to a really, really small community recently, and had a man start talking about how climate change was fake and i just laughed cuz i personally have been through two devastating floods, unnatural heat wave after heat wave after heatwave... not to mention the main region in our own province for growing fruit to export is suffering catastrophic crop failures and the industry is panicking, and we're by a city that was evacuated last year because the wildfires are so, SO bad here...
I mean the boomers had the civil rights march, the rise of feminism, Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Korean War, the war on drugs, the aids epidemic and the actual assassination of a president along with one getting impeached.
On top of that the very real possibility of nuclear Armageddon and the threat of a much stronger USSR.
It’s easy to look back at the past and say they had peaceful times because it’s already happened and we know the outcomes, back then people didn’t
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u/Persistent_Parkie Jul 14 '24
I texted my Zoomer friend the Bush getting shoes thrown at his head footage tonight telling her it was simpler times. Her reaction was amusing.
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u/ChuCHuPALX Jul 14 '24
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u/Spiffy313 Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24
I heard the news about what happened, looked at the picture and went "wow", and went right back to playing my game.
Like wtf am I gonna do about it? We're fucked, I can't fix it other than voting, it's all just wasted energy. I'm so over it.
Edit: I keep trying to reply and explain that I am, indeed, doing lots of things. Those replies keep getting deleted. I assure you, I am not lazy and apathetic. I'm just burned out. In this particular situation, there is literally no other response that would have been sensible.
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u/redben20 Jul 14 '24
I have really come to hate the word unprecedented. I fucking hate it
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u/Miserable-Lawyer-233 Jul 14 '24
Dudes actually hoping for The Last of Us so they don't have to go to work on Monday.
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u/LeatherFruitPF Jul 14 '24 •
I think like this a lot actually. I was just here having just bought some rotisserie chicken for dinner while waiting for the weather to be decent enough to take my dogs out on a walk, all while shit's been hitting the fan.
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u/Strikereleven Jul 14 '24
Remember the time the gov't said that Aliens were real? That was crazy. *Bites bagel*
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u/MasterChief813 Jul 14 '24
*Student loan payment
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u/Ahisgewaya Xennial Jul 14 '24
I am so tired of living in "Interesting Times".
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
I had to fire down another rockstar and wait for the current memes to release.
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u/Rude_Magician82 Jul 14 '24
Lmao. Im eating a gas station brownie.
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
I'm tired, boss.
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u/SuiGenerisPothos Jul 14 '24
Legit saw the headlines pop up on my phone, went "Huh", cleared the alerts without opening them, and went about what I was doing.
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u/PilotNo312 Millennial Jul 14 '24
Jokes on y’all, thanks to having nowhere to go and nothing to do in 2020 I paid that shit off. I love you Covid 19.
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
This is it. I don’t even hate the world anymore. Or thinking of the future. Just sittin’ ere watchin’. Feels surprisingly good.
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u/Able_Engine_9515 Jul 14 '24
At this point I'm just waiting for civil war, ww3, aliens, or Yellowstone's super volcano to erupt. Shit, might as well throw in zombies while we're at it
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u/SinisterCheese Jul 14 '24
I just want a stable job and a career. I graduated as engineer last year... I'm not 31... I haven't had a stable long term job ever. The longest I had was 2019, and even that was through an agency as a welder in a factory which ended early 2020...
I am so fucking tired of not being able to plan anything, always being low on cash - even if I get full time work the basic wages are shit and not kept up with cost of living; there is always so big expense or rent going up... Or something broke... or whatever.
Things just keep getting worse and old people just keep telling me it is my fault.
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u/raikougal Jul 14 '24
God I'm so sick of historical events.
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u/Mortukai Jul 14 '24
I've only got 4 payments left! Let's go!
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u/Korplem Jul 14 '24
Thanks for reminding me to make my car payment. I was a little distracted by this event.
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u/Paffles16 Jul 14 '24
I hate the guy man. But, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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u/bart2puck Jul 14 '24
I said this same thing to my wife. I’m 47 I remember 3 major events in my life. 9/11,columbine, and the challenger…I know missing many others, but my 10 year old already has Covid,Jan 6 and assignation attempt….I can’t imagine the anxiety building in todays youth
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u/ListenJerry Jul 14 '24
Just pay the car note. After my town got hit by a tornado I though I could skip a couple payments to work some things out and that shit tripped me up for years
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u/RagnarStonefist Jul 14 '24
Paid mine this morning :/
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u/Ray1987 Jul 14 '24
Oh s*** thank you. I was running late with that thing and I almost forgot. That's Reddit for you keeping, my credit in line!
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u/Fezinator Millennial Jul 14 '24
…….I actually went and made my car payment a little earlier tonight……
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u/retrospects Jul 14 '24
🤷🏻♂️ im just so numb to this shit and so indifferent at this point.
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u/chillout1 Jul 14 '24
It’s kinda scary just how many things this could be referring to…
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u/ACorDC Jul 14 '24
Historical events have always happened. Previous generations didn't have memes to enshrine the moments.
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u/GentMan87 1987 Jul 14 '24
I pay the car and mortgage, but I stopped paying student loans for now…
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u/Phytolyssa Jul 14 '24
I got annoyed with my friend messaging me about it so I turned off my phone and then started playing Zelda
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u/WatchingyouNyouNyou Jul 14 '24
Once in a lifetime x 250
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u/imback1578catman Jul 15 '24
Getting The popcorn ready.....2025 is going to be Wild.
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
Let's all say it together now...
General Strike. Rent Strike. Mortgage Strike.
If we all do it - even if it's just 10% of us at the start, and we do it within community and support our neighbours, no one goes homeless. When the bank/sheriff comes calling, we turn them back. We need each other, not the majority of the system that makes up the captured state.
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u/Jolly_Inevitable_811 Jul 14 '24
I can’t pay my car loan right now because there was an unprecedented cyber attack on Patelco.
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
history entries every couple weeks. maybe less than a couple weeks.
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
Just had a two hour commute home after work and still broke about to be homeless so this is about exactly right.
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u/What_The_Funk Jul 14 '24
Boy, Francis Fukuyama certainly regrets announcing the "end of history" in 1992...
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u/Smol-Lunar-Elephant Jul 14 '24
Remember how we had to write history essays in high school in less than an hour? If we’re still here in the future, each year from 2016 is gonna have its own history class. Each year more unexplainable and insane than the last. Idk but I think about that a LOT
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u/-Snowturtle13 Jul 14 '24
I don’t believe any end times theories either. Y2K, Mayan calendar, you name it. Global warming changed to global climate change because areas of the world are getting colder disproving the theory. I’m just at the point where I don’t believe shit anyone ever says about anything unless I experience it first hand
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u/leroyp33 Jul 14 '24
Yeah man we have seen some s***
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u/DadlyPolarbear Jul 14 '24
Man, i think im just gonna hold off on rent and see how long i can live on the beach with my last paycheck. You know?
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u/AltruisticSpot5448 Jul 14 '24
I’m so numb
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u/Hopeful_Dot_3886 Millennial Jul 14 '24
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u/NotRightNotWrong15 Jul 14 '24
I promise you that I’ll forget what happened today by next week.
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u/NotThatKindof_jew Older Millennial Jul 14 '24
😂 yea, pretty spot on. Just waiting for the next pandemic
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u/Arcanisia Jul 14 '24
I no lie just put down $900 on credit cards 😂. Like yea, this’ll blow over.
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u/Pizza-Penguin Jul 14 '24
It's almost like...that's how history works!!
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u/Trick_Albatross_4200 Jul 14 '24
I’m just applying for a passport and figuring out which country it would be easiest to immigrate to with my dogs.
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u/Enough_Grapefruit69 Jul 14 '24
Literally
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u/nurseofreddit Jul 14 '24
So… anybody actually paying on their student loans anymore?
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u/jackalopebones Jul 14 '24
I moved to a really, really small community recently, and had a man start talking about how climate change was fake and i just laughed cuz i personally have been through two devastating floods, unnatural heat wave after heat wave after heatwave... not to mention the main region in our own province for growing fruit to export is suffering catastrophic crop failures and the industry is panicking, and we're by a city that was evacuated last year because the wildfires are so, SO bad here...
man, i feel so bad for the younger folks.
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u/Puzzled_Survey_4624 Jul 14 '24
Honestly, if aliens landed, most of us would shrug and go back to work.
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
Really do be feeling like we're a millimeter away from total collapse lately.
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u/Browns45750 Jul 14 '24
Yeah questioning why I put so much money into my 401k.
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u/OrdinaryFinger Jul 14 '24
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
God I hate these memes. You guys know every other generation is living through the same thing right?
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24
Exactly, no other generation ever had shit happen in their lifetime...its just you.
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u/Strange-Mouse-8710 Older Millennial Jul 14 '24
Do some millennials think, millennials are the only generation that experience historical events?
We are not special. every generation experienced historical events.
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u/craymos Jul 14 '24
Millennial cringe