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dnuohxof-1 t1_j9ogia1 wrote

Reply to comment by spacepeenuts in 5 die in small airplane crash in Little Rock by QJnWo4Life

I thought you were making a clever assassination joke, but no you weren’t kidding that’s the name of the actual airport they flew out of.

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noworries_13 t1_j9oifha wrote

Yeah.. Lots of airports are named after people..

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Tersphinct t1_j9osv1c wrote

Never heard of one named after a living couple.

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hotsliceofjesus t1_j9p75qm wrote

Houston’s George Bush airport was named for George H W Bush in 1997 when he was still alive. Anchorage, Alaska’s Ted Steven’s was still alive when it was renamed after him in 2000.

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Tersphinct t1_j9p7psd wrote

I specifically said “living couple”, not just a living individual. The latter I understand. The former seems strange, especially since they’re both accomplished public servants individually.

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jeremytheninja t1_j9pvn8a wrote

Both came up politically in the Little Rock area and are the most identifiable political couple probably in American history. It’s not out of the blue.

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Tersphinct t1_j9pygje wrote

I'm not sure what's with the downvotes. At no point did I suggest they don't deserve it. I just find it highly unusual, and I don't think I've ever heard of this thing happening before.

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jeremytheninja t1_j9q34q4 wrote

Yeah no idea why people are angry you don’t know, lol. It’s a fair question.

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widget_fucker t1_j9q1inb wrote

Yeah, we get it. It still rings a bit ficticious for some reason.

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jeremytheninja t1_j9q3azd wrote

Well yeah, there’s been 30 years of ridiculous anti Clinton propaganda. Just saying “the Clintons” makes like a third of white men over the age of 40 irrationally angry.

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widget_fucker t1_j9qkhmz wrote

A lot of women also despised hillary- even if they werent familiar with the “kill list”. She was seen as uppity, judgemental, a b-word. With her flexing her intelligence and confidence- spearheading healthcare reform in 94 and dissing the tammy wynette archetype, she was a clear threat to the traditional values that millions of women cherish.

Trump and clinton nearly split the white woman vote in 2016.

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widget_fucker t1_j9q1ere wrote

The downvotes are funny- On your comment above. I agree The name sounds made up. Who are these people in real life that would weigh in and downvote?

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kalpol t1_j9otlkj wrote

I used to drive to the airport from downtown Little Rock through this area. The airport is like, right there next to downtown, maybe 5 miles away? It's weirdly close. In between are a lot of scrapyards/metal recycling and industrial stuff. I remember one always had this mountainous pile of metal shavings, 30 feet high, like a mountain of tinsel.

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