That’s not the full quote. She said “I’m happy Ronald Reagan was in office and not Trump. Trump would have lost us the Cold War.” - ThreadSky

janecoaston.bsky.social • 10 days ago

That’s not the full quote. She said “I’m happy Ronald Reagan was in office and not Trump. Trump would have lost us the Cold War.”

Reposted from Matt Binder

"as a cold war kid, i'm happy that Ronald Reagan was in office" - Elissa Slotkin, the official Democratic response to Trump

oh hell yeah baby that's the winning message!!!

my god we are cooked

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chris-brennan.bsky.social•10 days ago

Democrats need lead an alliance against a wannabe king and his nazi cronies who are destroying our constitutional system.

I haven't the first clue how invoking Reagan in 2025 helps.

It's going to demoralize the base, won't register with "low info" voters, and won't move a single Trump voter.

realwaynekerr.bsky.social•10 days ago

Reagan was a monster who empowered and funded murderous fascist juntas. You don’t ever have to hand it to him in any context.

owenpick.bsky.social•10 days ago

It's genuinely a problem that a lot of people who have "left" branding personally benefit from nonsense like this. An entire economy for cooking consumers brains.

geauxblue.bsky.social•10 days ago

The ratfucking industrial complex.

annaj.bsky.social•10 days ago

big difference Matt, please do better. much too much mis, mal, and dis information being consumed. thanks.

krogerfoot.bsky.social•10 days ago

I have literally never seen a post from this guy that wasn’t deliberately misleading ragebait

ijspurcell.bsky.social•10 days ago

Society has evolved past the need for Matts

endmetothemoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

Good

The wrong side won the cold war.

Fuck America

zackkopplin.bsky.social•10 days ago

I mean the line still sucks?

annaj.bsky.social•10 days ago

I heard it as : even Reagan was better than tRump.
I do not believe Slotkin was posthumously endorsing Reagan.

ijspurcell.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah but that doesn’t get you those sweet sweet anti-lib likes

whiskeyblackout.bsky.social•10 days ago

That doesn’t make it much better. Seriously, you absolutely do not get it.

ijspurcell.bsky.social•10 days ago

It does if you’re appealing to average Americans and drawing contrast, and not pandering to the minority that doesn’t retrospectively approve of Reagan’s presidency.

Like I also think he sucked but that is very much a minority opinion.

ule-leon.bsky.social•10 days ago

Maybe add a hope the juntas would’ve killed more Indians to the line … it would’ve brought slotkin’s point together

whiskeyblackout.bsky.social•10 days ago

You are just so out of touch it’s hard to believe you follow politics at all. Do you know what year it is? How long ago Reagan was president?

penslifer.bsky.social•10 days ago

I try not to amplify the bad faith actors. They are the ones who got us into this mess to begin with. The sad truth is that an entire generation of people just like that dude can’t get 2 brain synapses to fire enough to make a coherent, critical thought, so we are pretty much screwed.

djsd.bsky.social•10 days ago

Ready, fire, aim...

mysticlawyer.bsky.social•10 days ago

Even with the full quote, do you believe that pulls in any meaningful number of supporters. Truman (paraphrased): “if you give people a choice between a real republican and a fake one, they’ll choose the real one every time.”

gobluethomas.bsky.social•10 days ago

Get the point, but better messaging would be just to say glad Trump wasn’t president during Cold War - best not to say that Reagan in office was a good thing

Seems messaging is alway just off

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