Memories that cost you sanity points every time they resurface.

I remember Donald trump going to a McDonalds in east Palestine, Ohio and announcing that he'd buy a big macs for everyone in the McDonalds to applause, then buying a big Mac for himself and no one else and leaving

"FOOD FOR EVERYONE!" (leaves immediately)
Oh damn that was only last year, basically everything involving trump doing a trump thing feels like it happened in 2018 ngl
- I remember Ivana Trump died so Trump buried her in one of his golf courses to exploit a tax loophole

I remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiating the wedding of two major DNC donors who basically hit the "you donated X amount so you can force a Supreme Court Justice to sing and dance for you" threshold.

They wanted to show the whole world how special they were, having The Notorious RBG officiate their wedding. That's how official a wedding it was.

And then she contracted a virus at the wedding and died of it.

the notorious RBG
Not Ready to Die
- Pro-Life After Death :kelly:
Rotting Below Ground
Ah but do you remember RBG's personal trainer doing push-ups at her funeral in her honor?

I remember Katie Couric quietly admitting she had to cut out a lot of her interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, because RBG was being shockingly racist and Katie "didn't want to tarnish the idea of her."

Shit, have a link on that one?
- I didn't know about this one either
  Yet the public had no clue about the liberal icon’s even more inflammatory words. The protests, she argued, demonstrated “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life … Which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from … as they became older they realize that this was youthful folly. And that’s why education is important.”
  I don't know, that's a boilerplate liberal line of thought. "You just hate liberal government because you're naive and uneducated sweety"
  It is really funny and and admittedly somewhat surprising to me that someone as long steeped in this schlock as Couric was stunned that RBG, who was older than dinosaur fossils, who was besties with Scalia, was actually a racist dickhead and NOT the 'promoter of equality and justice'. I wonder if it was genuine surprise on her account, or if the 'surprise' was just a means of trying to deflect liberal ire herself.
  Related to the thread title, I also remember RBG defending that she was friends with Scalia, saying something to the effect of 'we can put politics aside and acknowledge that we are both trying to better the country', and liberals ate it up because they believe that. So many of them don't believe that your politics are a core part of who you are, they just think it means you vote one way or the other every few years. Which I suppose makes sense if you have to defend voting for people like Joe Biden, you probably don't want to believe that's who you are.

I remember Kevin Spacey getting fired from House of Cards after getting outed as a rapist, and then he released a video of him, in character as Frank Underwood, vaguely threatening the House of Windsor if his demands weren't met.

I remember thinking it was the most "only happens in Bojack Horseman" level of crazy I've ever seen in an actor.

And then Jeffrey Epstein was killed.

And then all of Kevin Spacey's accusers were killed.

What on earth? How did I miss this one
I remember him coming out of the closet at the same time as if it absolves his crimes.

I remember Michelle Obama and George W Bush being close buddies at John McCain's funeral, giving each other candies and hugging each other fondly. "Oh yes," says Michelle, "I'm his partner in crime." Her husband ran his first presidential campaign promising to charge Bush with war crimes.

I remember Rachael Maddow insisting in no uncertain terms that Trump was America's Hitler, and then she wished him a speedy recovery when he caught Covid.

I remember Trump shitting himself on Marine One as they airlifted his pestilent ass to Walter Reed.
- I remember every single lib saying we can't wish death on him in that moment because of civility™
I remember Maddow boasting on having trumps tax returns and she had that big, prime time slot to reveal them, and it was nothing. As if his accountants would write "a bunch of crimes" as a line item
- I mean we basically know now that he did. Which is hilarious.

I remember Kamala Harris making an impassioned argument that Bidens history of racism and support of segregationists made him unfit to be president. I also remember when she later pivoted to support him she said that it was just a debate.

IT WAS A DEBATE! 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 IT WAS A DEBATE!🤣🤣🤣😂 IT WAS A DEBATE, THE WHOLE REASON- LITERALLY IT WAS A DEBATE 😂😂😂😂 IT WAS CALLED A DEBATE, 😂 AND WE WOULD TRAVEL TO THE DEBATE, 😂 AND THERE WERE JOURNALISTS THERE COVERING THE DEBATE, 🤣 WHERE THERE WOULD BE A DEBATE 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
this is verbatim.
that laugh. That "hahahaha, why would it matter what I said?" laugh.
- It was a debate!
I remember Kamala Harris being the only DNC candidate to say she found Tara Reid's story credible and worthy of investigation...
- Hey remember when Tara Reade was called a Russian agent for saying Biden committed sexual assault

I remember Ghislaine Maxwell going missing after a warrant was put out for her, and then a photo of her at an In-n-Out was posted on Twitter, where she's holding a book called "The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives". The same day, the entire nationwide system that monitors flight risks for air travel was down - the system that would have flagged Ghislaine as having a warrant out for her arrest, the same system that her twin sisters own and contract to the US government...

I spent so long assuming she either fled the country or would turn up in an oil drum somewhere. But it turns out she was just laying low at some friend's fishing retreat in Maine.

If I recall correctly the book cover was a photoshop, but everything else is correct she was at the cafe etc.
- the movie poster was also shopped (to Good Boys I think?), and the outdoor advertising company said they had never had a poster for that film at that location. so maybe they did it to obscure the real date that the photo was taken rather than trying to find out what poster should have been there. and/or to send a message with the film title
Maine
New Hampshire

I remember the biggest mass shooting that's ever happened in the US, the Vegas shooting, having a baffling number of suspicious details ... the Saudi prince, the shooter's private plane having once been owned by the CIA, the reports of gunfire on the tarmac as if the shooter (or someone) was trying to stop someone from leaving by plane, the really inconsistent reports from the Vegas Police and the hotel security guards ... and then one of the security guards was brought onto Ellen, where they had a full sized 3D replica of the hotel floor so they could walk through the official story one more time for the audience, and Ellen was really insistent on clarifying the official story that definitely proves it was just one guy and nothing nefarious happened in a casino with Ellen-brand slot machines.

That security guard moved to Mexico shortly after that Ellen episode was filmed.

That whole event got memory holed so fast...

Ellen-brand slot machines
- https://youtu.be/yNtv7-9S3Mw?si=ZTRx3Y1C14mpcitf
  True Anon episode 146, Mandalay ft. Felix
  It's all quite the rabbit hole.
To this day there's still no conclusion as to why he did it
It's truly one of the wildest mass shootings in the US. A man just literally raining fire down on a concert blocks away from his hotel. And the best guess the investigators could come up with is "dunno maybe he just snapped"
WAITWAITWAIT HE HAD A PRIVATE PLANE?

I remember Sean Spicer literally hiding behind some shrubs to avoid taking questions from the press, even though they were only asking questions like "Isn't the President using the Lincoln Ballroom for a Daughters of the Confederacy reunion a bit uncouth???"

I remember him being the White House Easter Bunny under Obama.

I remember Scaramucci missing the birth of his first-born child so he could take an unpaid internship at the White House, which he'd be fired from a week later.

I remember the 9/11 episode of Well There's Your Problem where Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in the middle of their mid-recording break, and when Justin is the last one to hear the news he just starts cackling maniacally, like actual instant jokerfication in real time. Still my favorite episode.

my friend had the same reaction when i told him, and i couldn't help but join in

I remember Elizabeth Warren taking Trump up on his challenge to take a 23-And-Me test, to prove whether or not she was part Native American as she had been insisting for decades. The test results showed she actually had less of the blood quanta that signifies North American indigenous ancestors than the average population would in general.

She has a published cookbook called "Pow Wow Chow."

She didn't publish the cookbook; it's even dumber than that. She had a "family recipe" for "Mexican oatmeal" published in the cookbook. The recipe was lifted from a foodie column in the New York Times.
She has a published cookbook called "Pow Wow Chow."
She only submitted recipes to that book, however they weren't even remotely Native American lol
The past that gets memory holed is that it took the Dem messaging machine as a whole a day or two to realize, oh, this is not good, in response to social media backlash from individual progressives and especially Native Americans.
It was very much SHE SHOWED HIM for two days to an avalanche of this ain't it comments before they realized how badly they fucked up.

They didn't get it on video, but there is photos of this:

Pete Butt tried to do a photo op with Al Sharpton. Pete's team picked the most stereotypical black soul food restaurant they could find. They sit down and Pete orders fried chicken, collared greens, and mac. Al ordered tea and toast.

Nathan for You

I remember Hillary Clinton pulling out a tiny bottle of hot sauce from her purse to prove her street cred.

She never actually produced the hot sauce iirc
She just claimed to have it
- It was so dumb.
  She was asked what she always has in her bag. Her every day carry so to speak. And she said hot sauce. Later after the media had done a bunch of stories about how this was embarrassing pandering or it was totally real guys she's always been down with the hot sauce, her campaign came out with an official message specifying the type and brand of the hot sauce she normally carries and stated that they also always keep chili flakes and jalapeños on hand
Honestly the subsequent news stories about her always having been in to hot sauce we just all assumed it was fake were what got me.

I remember Hillary Clinton being so enraged after the election was called that she refused to come out and speak to her $50,000-a-pop victory party attendees, and had Rob Emmanuel come out to say she's very sad and angry and can't talk right now.

I think it's safe to assume she was literally vomiting with rage.

Literally shidding and farding
I remember the next time she was seen in public was on a walking trail like a week or so later. Cause that's what you do when you lose to Donald fucking trump
it was John Podesta who told them to go home
Clinton Campaign Chairman: 'She's Not Done Yet' | Election 2016

I remember everyone in Hawaii being told they were about to be nuked.

I remember Hillary Clinton's campaign website having more to say about Pepe the Frog than healthcare.

I remember Stephen Colbert on election night 2016, after it was called, and he's basically consoling his audience that the nightmare times are upon us but everything is going to fine because America always prevails, and then he gets his mortified band leader to play My Country Tis Of Thee as they fade to commercial.

I remember Samantha Bee pretending to be super horny for Robert Mueller and singing a horrible burlesque number about him locking up Trump while kind of swinging around a stripper pole.

I remember that time she came out as against desegregstion and we just all moved on.
- I remember her calling for the extinction of panda bears because China bad but not this one
Has she ever not been terrible? I remember when she tried to rip off Colbert's "fake conservative" schtick
Also her saying that she doesn't care if the Ukrainian army is full of nazis because Russians are worse than nazis
And her making friends with Glenn Beck for like 1 month before he pivoted to be pro-Trump

Reading the comments in the voice of

I feel like I've forgotten thousands of things that happened only one administration ago. I remember thinking "how will I explain the ridiculousness of this era to our children?" And now it's all flittering away...

Remember that time Hillary Clinton deleted all her communications during an investigation of her, and this was judged acceptable because the judge ruled that as an old she can't be expected to know how technology works, and all the libs turned "But her enails" into a meme in response?

I remember when during a campaign event Yang sprayed whipped cream into the open mouths of kneeling supporters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3UfIPyRlrE

This whole thraed is the stuff of nightmares

Covfefe
- I still don't know what this means

I remember thousands and thousands of libs unironically believing that Alec Baldwin playing Trump on SNL would get him to resign, hand himself into prison, and apologize to Hillary on the way.

I remember John Cena playing Trump on SNL and the sketch being a dream sequence from Trump's POV, and in the dream he had Hulk hands
I remember millions of libs suddenly not caring about the rules of gun safety after Baldwin killed someone with a gun.
Personal responsibility ends when you can pay someone to be responsible for you, and to go on Ellen to cry about killing someone I guess.
I hope that piece of shit never has another moment of peace
- Trump: I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not go to prison
  liberals all freak out
  Alec Baldwin: watch this [bang]
  liberals: "this is not a time for blame and recrimination"

The Mayor Pete High High Hopes Dancers, with a giant cardboard cutout of Pete's face.

Big Structural Bailey, too
- I still don't know what that was about and I don't want to learn. I know it had something to do with 🐍's dog
https://www.wired.com/story/pete-buttigieg-interview-god-beer-electric-mustang/
THE CURIOUS MIND of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve. Even as he discusses railroads and airlines, down to the pointillist data that is his current stock-in-trade, the US secretary of transportation comes off like a Mensa black card holder who might have a secret Go habit or a three-second Rubik’s Cube solution or a knack for supplying, off the top of his head, the day of the week for a random date in 1404, along with a non-condescending history of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
If you haven’t read this article drooling over Pete’s “voluminous mind” I highly recommend it. It’s not satire.
- "I can imagine Pete as being really, really smart. He's not. But I can imagine it!"
I went so long without hearing that stupid song for the first time. Curse my co workers shitty music taste. I made it almost a whole year without hearing that Oliver Anthony/Anthony Oliver song too. Thanks Michelle. Get a fucking brain.
This doesn't fit into this thread (because it was awesome) but one of my most memorable events of 2020 was the fake Bloomberg high high hands parody by comedians Brad Evans and Nick Ciarelli. The entire subreddit and ytwitter thought it was real.

Here's one from TERF island.

During the rollout of COVID furlough, the BBC decided to run a propaganda piece for the Tories that depicted then Chancellor of the Exchequer (and soon to be deposed Prime minister) Rishi Sunak as Superman.

More on Rishi Sunak during the pandemic.
His big scheme to revitalise the economy was called "eat out to help out". It involved encouraging people to go to restaurants during an ongoing pandemic. But most people just remember it for the crappy photoshopping on the signs advertising it.
- eat out to help out
- program called "Eat Out To Help Out"
  gives a discount when you eat in
- Does that mean the same thing in the UK as it does in the US?
Reminds me of Joan Cornella
Rishi Sunak is about 5'5" / 165 cm so I assume these are formally dressed kindergarteners
I remember a load of pubs that were grateful for the eat out to help out scheme and all the furloughs and stuff ran deals called like the Sunak Special and stuff

SNL has become the thing SNL was created to make fun of

Renegade Cut - Saturday Neoliberalism
https://youtu.be/7gQFvf19Jec?si=QtAb6OvNzfSbsmS5

I hope someone comes in with a big glass bong at my funeral

im gonna boooooom
- Do not boom.

I remember the Biden 2020 campaign offices in California were chained closed a week before super Tuesday. I remember Biden not winning a single county in Nevada, but still taking 25% of the state's delegates. I remember "Iowa you have shocked the nation" and a full day of news pretending Mayonnaise Peter didn't lose to Bernie.

BIG 👏 STRUCTURAL 👏 BAILEY 👏

The cold opening where Kate McKinnon dressed up as Hillary and sung Hallelujah was worse.

All of these memories are like I got hit in the head with a hammer but then everyone else had the same brain injury hallucinations as me

Taking a knee for George Floyd

I remember Four Seasons Total Landscaping, and Giuliani (is he dead yet? I forget) dripping some kind of black oil from his head

Rudy dripping the goo from his face

THIS IS MY FIGHT SONG

her playing the original at events was bad enough but then there was the DNC convention version THIS IS OUR FIGHT SONG and since it's a capella they're singing "dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb dumb dumb"
I have to highlight this lyric:
and I don't really care if nobody else believes
really? in an election? maybe you should have

Remember that time Hillary did a whole press event where she came out with a big fucking novelty button that was supposed to symbolize resetting relations with Russia?

Remember that time the amazing sexual prowess of Beta O'Dork (a man who was running a senate campaign in Twxas based on banning guns and pretending to be Latino) was a topic of discussion for twitter libs.

Just watched part of the clip. I'll bet that's literally all it took. The crowd was told how to think, the word went out on Twitter, and just like that consent manufactured.. or whatever. I still can't tell if libs like or hate comey
- They themselves don't really know

It was like a week ago but Skibidi Biden definitely goes up here with the greats

Somehow I had already reppressed it, oh god

MEEEEMMMOOOORRRIIIEEESSS

AAAALLLLL AALLLLOOOOONNNNEEE IN THE MOOOOOOONLIIIIIIIGGGGHHTTT

I can't wait for the crappy "That 70's Show" style tv show or movie about this era
It will be a second chance to rewrite history and make all the Mueller's look like they weren't feckless and impotent

I remember the anti trump Joe Biden + Squad cancan dance in the simpsons

I haven't seen this and I'm actually really upset that you've even told me about it.
- https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/West_Wing_Story

Remember the travelling Trump Baby balloon?

All this "I remember" reminds me a lot of the "what I heard about Iraq" Eliot Weinberger poem that starts every line with 'I heard that' followed by a contradictory statement about Iraq.