[{"_1":2,"_30":-5,"_31":-5},"loaderData",{"_3":4},"routes/__layout/tag.$name",{"_5":6,"_7":8},"tagName","scandal","posts",[9],{"_10":11,"_12":13,"_14":15,"_16":17,"_18":19,"_20":21,"_22":23,"_24":25,"_26":27,"_28":29},"id",103,"title","The Vice President Of The United States Shot Someone This Weekend","excerpt","Cheney shot a guy and tried to cover it up, and it's barely news here. In the UK this would end a career instantly. The United States is fucking crazy.","body","\r\n\r\n

Actually shot someone, and then just hoped nobody would find out.\r\n\r\n

Apparently, this was only 2nd-page news in the US today. Hello! Your second-in-command seriously injured someone with a rifle? Is this the kind of wacko you want running your country? Can you imagine if a UK politician did this, how quickly he would be gone? But in the US it's barely even a scandal that he tried to cover it up, far less that he shot someone in the first place.\r\n\r\n

The United States is fucking crazy. \r\n\r\n

Update: And if ignoring it doesn't work, why not joke about it? Because it's not like the guy may die from his wounds right? Oh? Oh. [via Ed]","updated",["D",1139855922000],"created",["D",1139855922000],"codename","the_vice_president_of_the_united_states_shot_someone_this_weekend","legacy_id","3426","published",["D",1139855922000],"draft",false,"actionData","errors"]

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