• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      News breaks when he and the media are on the tarmac waiting to get on Air Force One.

      “Wha?” He cones his ear with his hand. “The Boeing Spaceship blew up and the astronauts died? That’s too bad. But it happens. Rocket fuel is dangerous. Very dangerous…” And then he tells a bizarre two minute story about “my uncle at MIT - the physicist who made airliner planes”. For a few days lib media fulminates that he didn’t give proper respect to the deceased astronauts who Lawrence O’Donnell calls “explorer heroes for humankind”.

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        “They just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time. They led an amazing life. What else can you say. Whether you agreed or not, they were amazing astronauts who led amazing lives. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that.”