[–] SarMegahhikkitha ago (edited ago)
That's exactly what I was thinking. During a replay of the 1980 election year, run ads saying it's morally imperative to stop fascism, whip people up into a frenzy, and then release actual assassins (from the same election!) from jail...
[–] Gorillion 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Reminds me of this - Greatest American Hero TV Series' main character's last name was Hinkley at the time this happened:
Ralph's surname was changed near the end of the first season from Hinkley to Hanley because of the name's negative connection with John Hinckley (the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in an assassination attempt on March 30, 1981). Ralph's last name was changed back to Hinkley in the first episode of Season 2 ("The Two Hundred Mile an Hour Fastball"), after the furor over his name subsided.
I remember him suddenly introducing himself as Ralph Hanley and thought WTF?
[–] dontforget 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
He served 35 years. I don't care either way but it hardly out of line with other attempted murders sentences.
no one on voat has posted this? im very surprized.
What was also rarely if ever reported was that Hinckley Sr. was a major financial contributor to the failed 1980 Presidential campaign of the Vice President, George H. W. Bush, the man who would have become President sooner had Reagan been killed in the assassination attempt.
But the Bush-Hinckley family ties don’t end there. Oh no, not by a long shot...
Hinckley’s older brother, Scott, had a dinner date scheduled at the home of Neil Bush, the Vice President’s son, the day after the assassination attempt on Reagan. A March 31, 1981 news headline by Associated Press confirmed this: Bush Son Had Dinner Plans With Hinckley Brother Before Shooting.
George H.W. Bush’s other son, George W. Bush, also admitted to journalists that he may have had dealings with Scott Hinckley who was Vice-President of Vanderbilt Energy, but could not remember either way.
Obviously this is all very circumstantial, but then again...What are the odds that the family of the convicted shooter of the President were intimately tied to the Vice President’s family and were also Texas oil tycoons who part-financed the Vice President’s unsuccessful presidential campaign against the President?
And why were so few of these facts ever reported by the mainstream media?
[–] 8_billion_eaters ago
You'll know the Democrats are behind it as soon as you start hearing the rumors of an affair between Trump and Jodie Foster.
[–] DalesDead-Bug 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Anybody else trying to do a quick calculation to figure when you could get out too?