Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for November 13, 2023

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A politician creates a fake external threat to society, then convinces everyone he is the only person who can save them. Donald Trump or Senator Palpitane?

Historical correction: The Sandanistas were were Socialists who who were democratically elected to displace the brutal, Fascist, US-backed regime of Anastasio Somoza in 1979 (named after Augusto César Sandino, who led the opposition to the US occupation of Nicaruagua in the 1930s – some things never change).

Because the US is (rolling his eyes) always supportive of democracy, Ronnie Raygun spent is whole Presidency spouting the lies Steve repeats above, and illegally funding the “Contra” terrorists trying to overthrow said elected government, with the proceeds from illegally selling weapons to Iranian terrorists to pay them back for holding the US hostages until after the 1980 election.

I’d hear the word “Contraband” and would wonder what kind of music they played…

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

—Mark Twain, apocryphally.

Great album by The Clash

Looking at how old this is, it gives you an idea of when they are going to take us back to when they make America great again

Ah, yes; Sandinistas, the terror du jour back in….some time. I remember back when Hussein was making listening to the world news a vomitous affair how NICE it would be when he would finally be gone. Got a history lesson, going back to, oh, the Assyrians, maybe? To wit: Getting rid of madmen/terrorists/governmental ghouls is nothing more nor less than playing whack-a-mole.

Only the names change. The fake panics go on forever.

You’re one to talk, Milo Bloom, hack “journalist”!

So weird to read this when we now know what was really going on.