remember last week when biden interupted all public air waves for the purpose of personally letting you know that israel totally did not just blow up a hospital in gaza

makima-think

  • fuckiforgotmypasswor [comrade/them,any]
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    1 year ago

    huh maybe, im trying to find all the places it was broadcast and its pretty hard to track down

    ABC called it a "primetime address" or something and that it's only happened like 7 times in american history, but maybe not a literal federal override thing

    • edge [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      ABC called it a "primetime address" or something and that it's only happened like 7 times in history

      That doesn't sound right, Biden alone has given 30 addresses to the nation like that. Unless they mean very particular circumstances.

      Even of the more major addresses I can think of there are more than 7

      (in no particular order)

      • Bush on 9/11
      • Obama on the killing of Osama bin Laden
      • Trump on the killing of al-Baghdadi
      • Reagan firing all ATC workers
      • Bush on invading Afghanistan
      • Bush on Hurricane Katrina
      • Carter on the hostages in Iran
      • Nixon's resignation
      • Ford's pardoning of Nixon
      • LBJ on Kennedy's assassination