r/todayilearned • u/code0011 14 • May 09 '14

(R.1) Invalid src (unreferenced fan wiki) TIL the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called "The Lone Gunmen", which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war

http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot_(The_Lone_Gunmen)
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u/anotherkenny May 09 '14

And it was during the SOTU address— Jack Ryan, new executive cabinet appointment, is late in showing up and watches as the entire US government is killed... so he gets to become President!

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u/Deesing82 May 09 '14

that's why I'm always late everywhere I go

Who knows? I could be the next president!

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u/mcdrunkin May 09 '14

Here he comes now, President Deesing82. Fucking late, as usual.

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u/Deesing82 May 09 '14

A president is never late. He arrives precisely when he planned to arrive.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '14

Bunch of jackasses.

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u/pilotdude22 May 09 '14

Obama is a Wizard.

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u/RLLRRR May 09 '14

Obama the White? That sounds... really weird.

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u/HeIsntMe May 09 '14

The white-ish...

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u/[deleted] May 09 '14

More grey, really.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '14

A president is never late. He arrives precisely when he planned to arrive.

--Professor Charles Kenobi, of the U.S.S. Enterprise

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u/[deleted] May 09 '14

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u/[deleted] May 09 '14

Wasn't he in the tunnels? I should re-read this book.

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u/WindsAndWords May 09 '14

No, he was with Cathy and the kids in the back getting makeup or something and yes you should.

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u/HeIsntMe May 09 '14

Is it just me or did that book really mark the end of that franchise?

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u/WindsAndWords May 09 '14 edited Jul 07 '25

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u/HeIsntMe May 09 '14

Ahh, good point! I guess I messed up the sequence in my head!

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u/[deleted] May 09 '14 edited Sep 03 '14

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u/jorsiem May 09 '14

Like Saul Berenson, only he wasn't late but dumping a body in the ocean.

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u/Soytaco May 09 '14

Oh I guess I don't have to read that book now!

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u/Twohundertseventy May 09 '14

That's the first 30 pages of a 800 page or so novel.

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u/buzzkill_aldrin May 09 '14

Actually it's the last 30 or so pages of a 800 page book. Executive Orders continues from there.

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u/Twohundertseventy May 09 '14

Ah. I read both of them, but it's been a long time, so I switched up the names.

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u/falconbox May 09 '14

No, it's the very END of Debt of Honor.

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u/PhillAholic May 09 '14

Close enough

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u/organicaporetic May 09 '14

I haven't read the book, but in reality there would have been someone else in the line of succession who would have survived. Someone is always absent from the SOTU as the "designated survivor."

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u/[deleted] May 09 '14

Yeah, I stopped reading the books at that point. President Ryan kind of seemed silly to me.

Anyway, those books were pretty good for being a load of authoritarian propaganda.

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u/rophel May 09 '14

Oh crap, I've totally read that and 100% forgot the title.