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This will be an incredibly dated reference, but back in the '80s there was a comic who would ask the crowd who the black girl in The Facts of Life (TV show) was and there'd be a chorus of people yelling "Tudy! Tudy! Tudy!" Then he'd ask who the secretary of defense was.
*Tootie
OK. Now who's the secretary of defense?
Not a damn clue. And I would argue that it's not a terribly important thing for your average American to know, either. Just because I'm curious, I'll look it up...
Lloyd Austin. Never heard of him.
When I enlisted in the US Army they made us memorize our chain of command all the way up to the Commander in Chief (POTAS). I still remember who was in charge back then, but I didn't know who the current Secretary of Defense was until you told me just now. It's weird, because that used to be something most of us citizens knew, but over the last 6 years everything has gone so fucky that we can't seem to keep track of everything any more. I blame it on the very intentional firehose of falsehood that is aimed directly at each of us every single day now.
I looked at the list of past Secretaries of Defense and aside from Caspar Weinberger, who I mentioned in another comment, I only recognize Robert McNamara (from the infamy of Vietnam), Donald Rumsfeld (from the infamy of Dubya), and Dick Cheney - surprisingly, I remember his name from before he was VP.
I didn't know either lol. I've also never heard of Lloyd Austin. For that matter, I'm not sure who was secretary of defense during Facts of Life's run - "Casper Weinberger" comes to mind for some reason.
Very good, he was '81 to '87! And I've actually heard of him, although only because his name was in Bloom County. The others that it could conceivably have been are Harold Brown and Frank Carlucci, but it was probably Weinberger when this question was asked.
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Bloom County was so good. I can only hope that Berkeley Breathed hasn't become a rightwing crackpot cunt like so many of the other cartoonists from his era. I'm genuinely afraid to look it up.
He hasn't. In fact, he brought the strip back for a while so he could mock Trump some more.
Faith in humanity: restored. Breathed's humanity, anyways.
Robert Macnamara
Do I care that was forever ago and he's dead?
No