When John McCain refers to himself as having been a “foot soldier” during the Regan Revolution, does anyone else automatically picture him stomping around in a Stormtrooper uniform?
You are currently reading “Is it just me?,” from the hand of Kate
No, you’d more or less have to say, “Stormtrooper” to bring up that image. Of course, thanks to my 70s childhood, whenever I hear the word stormtrooper, even in the context of Nazi history, I still imagine white plastic uniforms.
Foot soldier makes me think fat Italian guys in ill-fitting seventies suits, or else ragged looking guys with AK-47s.
I go two ways on it. More often than not, “storm trooper” to me brings to mind Nazis. Sometimes white plastic uniforms and blasters, but usually Nazis.
A third possibility is Ted Nugent, if I’ve listened to Double Live Gonzo at any time in the prior three months. Ditto for the words “buffalo”, “crank”, “hibernation”, “strangle”, and “poontang”.
To be fair I don’t really listen to Nugent lyrics very closely, so there may well be a reference to John McCain in there somewhere.
Now I’m imagining a guy in a plastic suit sneaking through the forest with a compound bow, muttering “this isn’t the poontang we’re looking for” on his tinny speaker.
I hadn’t but I probably will now.
No, what I wonder about is McCain discussing politics using the tap code in prison.
Now … I acknowledge that they had a lot of time and patience and years and years for this but … I’m hard pressed to see prisoners talking about a right-wing governor putting the smackdown on a bunch of hippies. In tap code.
What the deuce?
The Ministry of Minor Perfidy
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