He also demonized the federal government, and Republicans have been pounding that message ever since. "Waste, fraud, and abuse! So Trump first step is to fire the Inspectors General who monitor waste, fraud, and abuse.
It's been the republican way since Nixon decided it would be better to be the Party of Jefferson Davis rather than the Party of Lincoln. They've been rooting for the confederacy ever since.
And yet this guy is the benchmark for the republicans, and we wonder why the republicans are what they are today, it all started to decline after yet another actor
The ACLU wanted the horrible conditions of mental hospitals stopped. Reagan wasn't going to reform. Instead, he threw out all the vulnerable, traumatized patients to live on the streets.
He also stopped USPS and other federal retirees from receiving social security and their pensions. He called it double-dopping. They simply lost what they paid into SS. AND, never forget the air traffic controller mess. Here we go again.
I learned the other day that, as President, Reagan returned from a trip to Latin America expressing surprise at finding out it wasn't one country, it was many countries ... this after being Governor of California for two terms.
He also privatized hospitals, which until then, were not for profit. He had friends that wanted to make some money there. It was the start of Health Care being all for profit, and the start of millions of people being bankrupted by illnesses.
Not a fan. Privileged/wealthy. The GOP has been that way forever. However - I’d take him back in a split second over dumpy the fascist.No comparison. The constitution was preserved under his watch can’t say the same for the insurrectionist.Never questioned the election integrity under his leadership
Democrats have for far too long went along with this tax cut BULLSHIT! They have allowed themselves to be pulled to the right instead of defending the middle class!
I think it's hilarious when Republicans salivate over him and hold him up as their savior. The guy was a bag of dicks. Like maybe pick Eisenhower instead? But they probably would consider him a woke infiltrator of the deep state these days.
Reagan didn’t just close mental health institutions with no plan, (in fairness a lot of those institutions were wicked warehouses that needed intervention, not just closing) Reagan defunded most of the mental healthcare systems altogether.
back when
A) wasnt sure iran was yet that big bad terrorist bunch they are today
B) ramped up military so YOU could protect free world
NOT that im a fan of his trickle down however
YOUR making talking points however for trump
to gut your entire military
and its fucking dangerous
I watched his criminal administration rewarding greed from afar, fearing it would bring an end to western prosperity, as did much of the world. Alas there was some pushback during Dem admins, but now it seems greed and ignorance will finally destroy the USA. Sad.
Yeah he was the start of true fascism in America as he also made it almost impossible to sue the police after Rodney King was able to from almost being beaten to death by police
After it was repealed it gave outlets like Fox more freedom to be partisan in their programming. No, they don’t use the public airwaves but there was “some” adherence to norms but once it was gone that went out the window
Again: never in the history of capitalism has any company followed regulations that did not apply to them.
I’ve read that article before. The author is incorrect on numerous things starting with his misconception that the Fairness Doctrine required equal time for the diverse viewpoints.
I always heard that the deal to release the iranian hostages was negotiated under President Carter but reagan's people had it delayed til he took office so he could take credit ??? Imagine having hostages held longer for a photo op ????
As a foreigner I remember I had to sign a paper to get in your country to swear I didn’t have aids and later had my luggage’s checked to make sure I didn’t have medecine proving I had aids treatment 😬 no other country had that
To say nothing about deregulating the Savings & Loan industry leading to massive fraud and the crisis, the RTC Corp., and costing taxpayers $160 billion. All while crashing the economy - again.
Reagan was the start of the corruption & demise of the GOP & the Federalist Society. It’s been 40 yrs & they now have all their pawns in place to overtake our government. VOTE BLUE DOWN BALLOT! That is if we even get the chance once more for a legitimate election.
Oh I will never forget anything that man did. My father lost his job because of his policies. Also it's because of him that Evangelicals became such a big part of the GOP along with the Abortion issue.
He also got rid of the Fairness Doctrine which allowed shitstains such as limbaugh, jones, fox propaganda, newsmax, oan etc to exist. Regardless of all of that he would be drummed out of the modern republikkkunt party as a rino, not enough of a kunt to appeal to the deplorable base of miscreants.
Yes. Let’s not forget that everything that’s happening right now, including nazism, is directly related to Ronald Reagan! Do your research! Hear that Joe Scarborough!!
He also put US Marines at the Beirut airport—against the advice of his SecDef, SecState and NatSec adviser, that led to their massacre by a terrorist attack.
He also ignored the Solarz Amendment that cut aid to any country developing a nuc bomb, allowing Pakistan to create “the Islamic bomb”.
Krasnov is doing the same he wants to give a bigger tax break to the billionaires soon we will have a tillionaire, which his businesses get government funding, Musk has been cutting government, then let's cut funding to billionaires, let them use their own money, they don't pay taxes F..K them
Yes, it's a much better movie star than ever a president. How did that trickle down affect work now? Hmm, the rich pay little or nothing. The working class pays it all ! Wonder why people can't get by ? No Brainer ! Thus us why schools should press economics classes with all A only passing grade!
Let's not forget ended the Fairness Doctrine that gave rise to right wing radio and fast tracked Murdoch's citizenship so he could own an American media company. Oh and welcomed the radical Evangelicals with wide open arms.
Him and Thatcher did irreparable damage to US and UK and sold the "Special Relationship" cr*p to their electorate. CONservatives looking after the rich
Americans have showcased the mental health crisis that has swept the USA by electing the most fucked up people you possibly could and letting them appoint even more fucked up people!
People don’t realize how consequential Reagan’s presidency was, and I don’t mean that in a good way. His ushered in the misinformation era, The Fox News of the world, aligning with the NRA and changing the whole mentality of gun ownership and so much more. Nothing to be proud of.
only thing reagon did bad was trickle down
had he been a lil less at that even a halfsies
YOU all would be far richer
butgutting military is what keeps all hell from breaking loose and thats coming
better stalk up
and be ready
If not earlier still.
Thinking of Nixon, Joe McCarthy, J Edgar Hoover, Palmer Red Scare, could go on & on.
US never had a golden age of liberty & democracy.
We've been getting better & better, & worse & worse, all along at the same time.
Reagan not only killed AIDS victims, he promoted false information about transmission, turning the already dying into pariahs, left to die alone. I hope he is in hell.
Republicans always create fiscal issues, then always solve them by weakening the social safety net that FDR created.
They told us this in the 90's PNAC plan
Project for a new american century.
This is the drowning the baby in the bathtub part.
Terminology they actually used.
Pure Evil
He also served to prepare Republicans for future cults of personality. The number of people who fashion themselves as "self-sufficient" but whose self-identities are inextricably linked to Reagan and require him to complete their id, is utterly disgusting
One of the worst Presidents ever. But he wasn’t rude or vindictive. He was a pleasant white old man so he got away with it. Even historians seem to give him a pass.
Bush Sr. was a master of CIA dirty tricks. The party used Reagan's declining mental health to take full control of the country and enact the teardown in secret. Best part for them was plausible deniability.
I'm 56, so I lived through all this and have watched as things have devolved from the time Reagan took office until now. Things didn't have to be this way.
Seems history is inconvenient to the rich and ignorant. Just ban the record books and rewrite. Too bad facts are facts! I remember those changes- fresh out of school, they cost me dearly.
FORCED BIRTH
Wealth transfer to the rich
Inequality
Authoritarianism
Voter Suppression
CUT MEDICARE
Terrorism
Insurrection
GUN VIOLENCE
END SOCIAL SECURITY
Dirty Air and Water
Destroying Planet
Pandemics
RACISM
Misogyny
War
Theocracy
NO PLATFORM
..DEAD PARTY...#GOPDead
The problem is is that we did forget. And then they treated Ronald Reagan just like they treat Jesus now. As an idol, but none of his ideals, then would pass muster with them now.
“Let people die of AIDS”? How would you have wanted him to have saved them? Gay lockdowns perhaps? Forcibly close the San Francisco bathhouses? What would you have had him do?
Before him, Nixon sabotaged VN peace talks and extended the war 4 years. The 2 Bushes involved the country in unending wars against the wrong country, without paying for either war. Then this rerun of a creature with uncounted Covid deaths and untenable tax policies.
& he made a deal with the Iranians (the enemies ) to hold the hostages through the election so he could be elected. & asked the Iranians to tell hostages that Carter did nothing for them. So when they came back to America and Carter was waiting to welcome them, the hostages snubbed him. #ReaganSucks
This is when the hollowing out of the US started. The grim bargain of increasing inequality so long as the bottom 95% gets a few scraps and can be made to believe all their problems can be blamed “others”, ditching compassion for blame and fear.
Nixon said he was going to flip this country so far right we would not recognize it. Nixon set the groundwork. Reagan took it up to a slow burn and letting bush II steal the election was the final nail in the coffin.
Ahhh yes when Bush stole the election from gore The 2000 election showed me democracy could be rigged. Bush v. Gore proved power, not votes, decide outcomes. The cracks worsened there—voter suppression, gerrymandering, and democracy’s slow collapse. And here we are!
And they kept getting tax cuts under every Republican President who then complained that there wasn't enough money so they have to cut the government. Which is just bullshit speak for "fuck over the 99%".
I didn't know this.
Regan and Thatcher were quite close so I'm assuming he also encouraged her to set up the UK for the current Privatisation nightmare, that it is in 🤔
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The massive evictions all at once were catastrophic.
Still waiting for that “trickle down”.
It doesn't get any more ignorant than that
Hell I’d take George Bush over dumpy. This is unchartered waters
Tax cuts are for the rich!
Democrats need to remember the working class.
UNIONS are key to their success going forward.
(he warned us)
reagan sucked!!
Limbaugh, Fox News, and Jones neither had/have nor need broadcast licenses. The Fairness Doctrine was irrelevant to them.
And it never prevented propaganda.
They have opposed all social opportunities for all their citizens.
"Trickle-down Economics" signaled an overt dedication to serving the wealthy by way of lying to the general public.
Class Wars are different than L/R.
While we've all been corralled into being a Hatfield or a McCoy, the rich just keep robbing us ALL blind.
A) wasnt sure iran was yet that big bad terrorist bunch they are today
B) ramped up military so YOU could protect free world
NOT that im a fan of his trickle down however
YOUR making talking points however for trump
to gut your entire military
and its fucking dangerous
Never in the history of capitalism has a company followed rules that don’t apply to it.
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol42/iss1/4/
I’ve read that article before. The author is incorrect on numerous things starting with his misconception that the Fairness Doctrine required equal time for the diverse viewpoints.
Philadelphia, MS
Home to lynchings and civil rights worker murders
Coulda gone anywhere
Sacramento, Chicago, Dallas, NYC, Portland
This was a deliberate shout out to racist America
So many of them on this app lately…
He also ignored the Solarz Amendment that cut aid to any country developing a nuc bomb, allowing Pakistan to create “the Islamic bomb”.
They can rot in hell as far as I’m concerned.
And hopefully, Trump joins them sooner than later.
#LGBTQIA
6. 6. 6.
#GOPBetrayedAmerica #GOPHypocrisy and #GOPLiesAboutEverything
How does no one realize our greatest time of prosperity was when corporate taxes were way, way higher.
SIGH!
The result is the biggest shit government EVER!!!
https://adammurphy.bandcamp.com/track/patriot
had he been a lil less at that even a halfsies
YOU all would be far richer
butgutting military is what keeps all hell from breaking loose and thats coming
better stalk up
and be ready
Thinking of Nixon, Joe McCarthy, J Edgar Hoover, Palmer Red Scare, could go on & on.
US never had a golden age of liberty & democracy.
We've been getting better & better, & worse & worse, all along at the same time.
I feel sorry for Americans
#IamCanadian
And Nancy was pulling thoughs
Puppet stings
He was the start
Of the not qualified
Hollywood
Hire though
“He who acts to save his country from tyranny, terrorism, and radical right wing criminals, violates no laws.”
They told us this in the 90's PNAC plan
Project for a new american century.
This is the drowning the baby in the bathtub part.
Terminology they actually used.
Pure Evil
The beginning of the end for the respect of the working class.
Wealth transfer to the rich
Inequality
Authoritarianism
Voter Suppression
CUT MEDICARE
Terrorism
Insurrection
GUN VIOLENCE
END SOCIAL SECURITY
Dirty Air and Water
Destroying Planet
Pandemics
RACISM
Misogyny
War
Theocracy
NO PLATFORM
..DEAD PARTY...#GOPDead
he got his education through socialist programs. that and the fact that he was a white male opened a great many doors to him.
then he pulled the ladder up after him.
don't get me started on that cunt nancy.
I hate when people say how great he was, because he was the complete opposite of that.
Regan and Thatcher were quite close so I'm assuming he also encouraged her to set up the UK for the current Privatisation nightmare, that it is in 🤔