RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
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Reagan lived in subsidized/free housing since his GE days, his second wife took gifts/bribes non-stop from donors. He fired thousands of air traffic controllers and introduced us to the Laffer curve, cut mental health care and ran a covert war while trading with terrorists.
Rot in hell.
Where are the Dems? They need to get out and yell about his. Hold rallies, do press conferences, whatever will get attention. They aren’t going to win back the majority with politics as usual.
Yeah, fuck him. He’s what lead to Trump and Maga. He was the first one to divert money from the middle and lower class to the upper class with its trickle down economics bullshit, ending the fairness doctrine, firing air traffic controllers. Again, fuck him
Like it or not Ronald Reagan's FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine which has led to the rampant sophistry in the USA. There’s an oligarchy forming and Tariffs on Can/Mex is just a distraction.
On the campaign trail, the clown king was singing the praises of tariffs. How wonderful they are.
The "left" were all lying about how they would bring inflation to our doors.
Now, his story has flipped. The obvious truth had to be acknowledged eventually.
He lied! No surprise. We're in trouble
It started with Reagan.
Crack for Contras
Search and seizure no rights.
Unregulated intelligence.
School cutbacks.
etc.
And this is from a Canucks’s POV
Monetarism was an idea back then and became the gospel of centre-right and centre-left. Now, as trickle-down took a generation required to be exposed for what it was, we're left with "blame those over there" populist politics to deflect from the real winners. Aim your pitchforks correctly.
Well, really, it started with the Southern Strategy (and Nixon), the men who carried it on, then Reagan, Newt Gingrich, followers and believers. And here we are.
Reagan was the first politician to play ball with the Heritage Foundation. They got Jimmy Carter in, but he had a backbone and moral code. Reagan did everything he could for them, including the Satanic Panic.
Just put that on my tombstone & obituary. I wanted to be embalmed with middle fingers up and his official portrait above me in the coffin. Now it’s gonna be the whole GOP family portrait.
I’m not a Ronald Reagan Stan, but that’s where we clearly are, but we have the advantage. The 36% that we need in this fight don’t trust either party. The Democratic Party has AOC, Jasmine Crockett and others, their consistency is their power. It’s earned the trust of voters. Use them effectively!
If most of the Kamala voters keep fighting, and some of the trump voters get fed up and start fighting, and some of the rest of the people join us, we have a large majority!
It's probably a good time to remind Americans that the Heritage Foundation gave the first edition of Mandate for Leadership (Project 2025) to Ronald Reagan in 1981, and Reagan implemented 60% into "Reaganomics" This edition Trump is rolling out is the 9th edition.
I grew up with Reganomics. That 💩 didn’t definitely won’t now. Btw, everything I ever heard/read my entire about the Heritage Foundation is bad. But, I forgot Americans don’t read or do research 🧐 for themselves 🙄.
Yup. This time, they have Leonard Leo's domestic terrorist cell, the Federalist Society with the SCOTUS 6, the FBI with Christopher Wray, the Treasury with Jerome Powell, the VP with JD Vance, and the DOJ with Merrick Garland. I know there's oodles more, but this is a good start.
It’s global though and I think that is what will make the difference. I know it gives me courage to see the collective masses protest on our behalf. The stage is so much bigger than right here, right now.
They can try but there are so many of us. They want to cut all the ‘woke’ from the military? That just creates an opposing military force, trained, pissed off and suddenly with time on their hands. We start the rebuild as he breaks the current. We stay calm and counter every move we can.
Thank you for speaking the TRUTH. THANK YOU.
I fear too few are aware of what's actually occurring to our nation and its people.
A COUP IS TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW by those you've you've listed and more. THEY'VE BOLDLY AND OPENLY STATED AS SUCH.
This is why I scream at democratic lawmakers who are saying we need to focus on the big picture and not sweat the small stuff. It's all this incremental "small' stuff that has snowballed into this fn mess we're in now. It ALL needs to be blocked, fought , obstructed. All of it, every tiny detail.
And the DOJ will have Pam Bondi soon. Scott Bessent is already Treasury Secretary, he's the one who gave Musk and his little incel MuskRats access to the Treasury payment system. Trump is supposedly not allowed to fire Powell, but rules don't really apply now.
This Bessent guy is a real tool, lives in a lala land with awful ideas, granting access to the system to an unelected, katemine addicted nazi is borderline treasonous.
That's the point. Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership manifesto, is a 180-day plan. Trump is bastardizing these departments so he can either shut it all down, fold it into another department, or privatize it and sell it to the highest bidder.
Living in lala land DC with a bunch of power-hungry bro-chodes and the overt approval of every single R = some pretty real longterm consequences for the rest of us. Gah...
They operate in hypocrisy. Regan started it. I also think Regan felt he must warn us because P2025 scared the 💩 out of him in its entirety. Regan probably thought it wouldn’t get this far, we are to blame for that. We gave up to much control. We took our eyes off the ball.
There's page numbers, citations, that guide you to where I extracted the information. It's a hard read because over 30 authors penned it, and they didn't confer.
The orange moron puppet is NOT in charge of the government.
It is now COMPLETELY run by the heritage foundation.
The orange moron just follows the script. We ALL know there is no way in hell he came up with all this shit himself. Give me a break. Project 2025 is in full swing.
Deep state is here.
Here, what Reagan is talking about is actually not the part of his policy that messed up the middle class - that would be trickle down and what happened with incentivizing businesses to manufactor abroad that wasn't what free trade was intended for
Oh my, their original god of politics, Ronald Dementia Regan, he was the third worst recent president behind the orange squat cock and the world terrorist george the shrub. But at least his handlers knew tariffs would fuk everyone.
Yeah...the grandfather of the MagaQ GQP facist movement said something good...he was lying...grandpa happy speeches while doing the opposite...great at espousing American values while undercutting them behind the scenes...
In a world of maga republicans, if Reagan ran today, it would be as a democrat and I would still vote for him like I did twice before. Why? Because of speeches like this.
Isn't he the guy that told Iran to put off the release of hostage U.S. citizens until after the 1980 election? (rhetorical question) On the other hand, no one understood demagoguery better than the corrupt demagogue Reagan.
Then along comes Bush family who are FOSSIL FUEL pushers & they corralled radical religious weirdos who think Bible is literal. People who explain away 12,000 PLUS years of Native American culture who were murdered because they weren’t RELIGIOUS & their beliefs didn’t jive w MAN MADE religion
Reagan, also fired all the air traffic controllers over 11,000 which we have never fully recovered from. Then he also started the right winged attack on the gov. , unions, and social programs, it’s why we are at where we are today .
In case you didn't notice, there is an active coup going on.
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:
"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
I read about this yesterday & I'm outraged, yet don't hear very much talk about this. He is throwing so much out there at once so things like this get overlooked. How can this be allowed to stand?? OMG has it only been 14 days?!
Meanwhile we are silently watching America being torn apart from within using threats of violence and fear instead of weapons. Are there any heroes to this horror story?
I am not a fan, to say the least, of Reagan. He paved the way for demonizing our government. But it is wild how much Republicans hold him up today despite their party bearing no resemblance to some of the common sense attitudes that he had on trade and immigration.
He pressured the Israeli government to stop the 1982 war in Lebanon because it was a "Holocaust". He's literally more progressive on that then not only the entire GOP, but also Joe Biden.
And he did 2 tax scams for the rich! 'Let's Make America Great Again' Reagan was the face of fascism. His veto of the fairness doctrine led to RW media like Fox & Clear Channel used as propaganda tools,the building blocks of fascism. 📌
Reagan did a lot of 💩 . I participated in #HandsAcrossAmerica a human chain that stretched from LA to NYC protesting homelessness & hunger created by fascist 'Let's MAGA' Reagan. It's my banner on X.
St Raygun and the Heritage Foundation got this bullshit started. This guy was a criminal with Alzheimer's. He literally said I don't remember 400 times when it came to the Contra scam. He also doubled the debt and added 1.4 trillion to the deficit
Yes one of the was removing the fairness doctrine. Without it at the time Fox News became possible at the time. But of course now any dumb ask can say anything they want now.
Real history --> *Ronald Reagan* originally proposed, campaigned on, and promoted NAFTA; George Bush Sr. who continued pushing it; and finally Clinton who beefed up (still insufficiently) worker and environmental protections before passing it.
I initially did too, I was surprised when I found out that he had made improvements before passing it, but still those protections were insufficient. They could have built it to benefit the people, it would have put us in a different economic reality right now.
Because at the time the Republicans were all for the moving of manufacturing over seas.
I believe Dems at the time proposed tariffs to help American manufacturing. Which is also when it actually works. When we have manufacturing to defend.
See Reagan and the Fairness Doctrine and learn what really got us here. We never would have had Newt and the contract with America without right wing media Rush and Fox started this fire
Reagan was a revector from American progress toward a more perfect Union & strong multi-cultural democracy challenging history to advance social & economic justice into a corporatist trickle down voodoo economy that led to massive wealth gap & significant degradation of civil rights and freedom.
To be fair Reagan drove home the point about not trusting the government, eliminated free education in California, and said "fucking die" to the LGBTQ community. He wasn't much different. I hope Reagan is burning in hell if there is one... which there isn't, cause fucking god isn't real
Damn right! Citizens United! FAUX NEWS, Etc Etc Etc! His trickled down left me as a single mom, eating half a can of soup a day so I could feed my kids🖕🏽
Between the fairness doctrine being reversed during his administration and then the Citizens United case this country is fucked, Citizens United is beyond the point of needing to be reversed.
But remember how John Wayne, Charlton Heston were huge right wing. Heston went from great Dem to president of the NRA. John Wayne was a huge supporter of Joe McCarthy! Would fight in WWII HYPOCRITE!
And your kids probably have an infinite amount more sense and humility than someone like trump ever could develop. He didn't understand that struggle and he never will.
One thing racist Reagan he did right. His tax cuts for the rich created the wealth gap we see today. He declared govt the enemy & defunded it & community mental health services which put sick people on the streets. He was anti union & then there was Iran Contra that he should have been impeached 4.
Please note, any stray members of the GOP who might be listening, this is what a relatively sane President & member of your party believed.
Does that tell you something?
Ronald Reagan’s message of promise to immigrants coming to America…Watching this makes me so angry (how differently immigrant groups coming are viewed/treated). Besides the native people originally here, we ARE ALL from families of immigrants.
Let's not get it twisted.. Reagan was also a homophobic evil piece of shit, rich and unqualified television star who ignored the AIDS crisis in the 80's resulting in MANY deaths. He is the architect for much of the policy the oligarchs of today salivate over... 💁
He has the script Joan, he is doing this on purpose so he can get bail out money for he and his friends - definition of FAFO, thats what the educated people who voted for this clown did.
Was never a general fan of Reagan at the time but who would have thought the Republican ‘Party’ of today would make him sound a sensible moderate politician. Well said Sir and we could have used some of your wisdom in this era.
Sadly we had 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama and 4 years of Biden and each controlled the House and Senate for 2 years each and never reversed Supply Side rape and pillage economics. Yes, Biden made inroads but never addressed the Nazi danger.
Just with Biden, DINO's like Manchin and Sinema torpedoed so much that would of helped the working poor and middle class. Now Dem's have Fetterman of PA siding with MAGA. Democratic support for the new Treasury secretary or any Trump appointee is a crime.
Had THREE opportunities to codify Roe vs Wade but didn't. Obama and Biden with House and Senate Democrat's could of raised the minimum wage to $15 hour and didn't. Could of protected free speech and the post office and didn't. That is a few there is tax policy, housing, labor and environmental...
Oh fuck him and his ghost too. He started the rise of the oligarchs. Decimated unions, pensions, the myth of "trickle down". He was disastrous for the middle class.
i guess it's all relative and he may sound more sane than the current administration, but never forget, his tipping the scales in favor of the wealthy (taxes, deregulation etc) created a lot of the mess we are in now.
Fantastic metaphor of what America has always been. Big speeches about freedom and prosperity whilst stabbing everyone in the back for the sake of a few billionaires’ bank accounts.
I didn’t say it made it untrue or that it wasn’t him. I said fuck Reagan. I was pretty clear. I’m not sure what you’re getting at or what your goal is, here.
Reagan is long dead and gone. Your reflexive hate fest on Reagan is irrelevant for the problem at hand. Nobody gives a shit about that.
The problem at hand is the government takeover by those guys that Reagan spoke about. What are we doing about that?
Whining about what an asshole Reagan was?
Of course a speech writer wrote those words, but Reagan wouldn't be reading them if he didn't agree with them. Speech writers craft eloquent words, but they don't make policy.
and BTW, I am a big fan of skillful speech writers...
Reagan was a tool. I agree with James Garner who was head of the Screen Actors Guild after Reagan: lazy, not too bright, didn’t advocate for actors but loved preening in the glow of attention. Knew his speechwriter in college.
He gave amnesty to Latinos living here illegally. I taught ESL to the Vietnamese folks when I was in college (Reagan era) paid by the federal government. We are so far over the cliff.
As a republican, we value immigrants. We do NOT condone illegal immigration. We support people wanting to come here for a better life but you need to do it legally.
My friend from Syria was able to do it for gods sake and if he could, then most can. Be better
We just got a letter approving the sponsorship of our aunt. My mother applied for her 40+ years ago. So, don’t give me the BS about doing things legally because I know your ancestors who likely never finished high school in the old country didn’t have to wait that long.
Those who pick our crops and process our meat products are largely illegal immigrants. Simply because it takes YEARS to be legally processed, and we need the workers NOW because regular Americans won't DO that kind of painstaking, crushing work.
There are temporary work visas for those doing the work you mentioned. Not all of those workers are illegal. And it’s my understanding it doesn’t take years.
Hypocrite felon turnip hired these workers for vineyards – both legal & illegal.
Latino immigrants are just used for cheap labor. Always been that way. Even tRump uses them. When they started deporting, did they start with his employees???
While in the US Navy in the 80's sailing past Vietnam, we encountered 2 separate boats full of refugees. 157 total. We took them onboard, fed, clothed and did medical screening on men, women, and children. We took them to Subic Bay naval station for processing. Many became us citizens.
A lot of Hmong allies were left high and dry. The Vietnamese hunted them down. Many escaped to Cambodia and Laos but were persecuted and faced ethnic cleansing by the Pol Pot regime. Watch the movie "The Killing Fields"
I know when the US left, it was despicable to leave them there. I've seen the movie several times. Vietnam did go in and took out the Khmer Rouge when the rest of the world turned a blind eye.
Sparky, I watched my beloved uncle and his friends die from this horrific disease;his friends that became family because they had been alienated from their birth families as a result of the hate our political and religious leaders were spewing. I won’t name the Big Orange Turd either!!!
This piece of garbage was the official creator of war on the middle class, unions, POC. He committed treason conspiring with a foreign power to win an election. He should have died in jail under a treason conviction, but got away free. THAT'S WHY THE US IS WHERE IT IS NOW. Decades ignoring crimes.
Reagan: 100% tariff on Japan in 1987 for electronics for alleged violation of a trade agreement. So...Trump has reneged on the trade deal *he* agreed to so maybe countries should retaliate with 100% tariffs? Reagan was not the staunch free trader he portrayed https://shorturl.at/PK1M0
If you ever wondered how Hitler and his Nazi party overtook Germany...wonder no more
America has been gaslighted & brainwashed for years. The GOP has destabilized the media, government institutions & even the Constitution.They've created a fertile ground for willing acceptance of authoritarian rule
Leon and his minions have illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories !!!!
Stop voting on nominations ffs!
Take your own security and get in there PLEASE OR ITS TOO LATE!
Yeah…Idk! Whn it comes to Jordan/Republicans in general, I don’t trust a shittin’thing tht comes out their mouths! DenyDeflectDistract! That’s their game! & yes, the IRS probably has had addresses phone#’s but bank accts? IF you’re under Audit? WhoKnows? I’m a good girl &’ve paid taxes evry yr!
IDK why you're not worried about them having your bank account.Elmo is who knows what he'll do with that they could just take all our money out of there for no reason. I don't think you are looking at it the whole picture. Doesn't matter if he's rich or not he wants more money.
I am 100% not a fan of his and he is where this started this Mess we are IMO.
But take some comfort because the MAGA folks don’t like him since Dear Leader doesn’t like him.
No. Reagan committed TREASON - he conspired with Iran to hold our Hostages *longer*, in return for US weapons.
No. Nixon also committed TREASON against the US, getting many more soldiers killed in Vietnam, when he plotted with the Vietcong to refuse LBJ's peace-talk offers.
I apologize for not qualifying my obviously bad joke. I meant it to be a sarcastic way of saying that our current state is so surreal and destructive, terrible things in the past are starting to seem normal or preferable. You are right to remind me facts matter.
I am truly doing a bad job mixing humor into the grim darkness at this point. Skipping over facts to point out how low my bar is some days. Yoy are right o remind me to hold onto standards.
How in the hell can Congress go on vacation, just after returning from a long winter vacation? They "worked" very little and passed a stupid mass control bill. That's it. The House did nothing after a few days at work. WTF is wrong with our government? Things need to change, sooner than later!
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Rot in hell.
https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/
The "left" were all lying about how they would bring inflation to our doors.
Now, his story has flipped. The obvious truth had to be acknowledged eventually.
He lied! No surprise. We're in trouble
Crack for Contras
Search and seizure no rights.
Unregulated intelligence.
School cutbacks.
etc.
And this is from a Canucks’s POV
“Peaceful and patriotic” (but for realzies - we’re not them).
(all other Reagan policies are still catastrophic)
He was opposed to trade wars with our allies, and famously supported immigration as a singular driver to the ongoing greatness of America.
Trumplicans in congress would disown him.
Where has the education system fallen short?
https://medium.com/the-left-is-right/project-2025-for-dummies-65105e420ea8
The conservative path to tyranny began with Reagan
I fear too few are aware of what's actually occurring to our nation and its people.
A COUP IS TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW by those you've you've listed and more. THEY'VE BOLDLY AND OPENLY STATED AS SUCH.
My organization, Protect America, Vote! was non-partisan because this isn't a blue thing or a red thing, IT'S AN AMERICAN THING!
Did you see Russian media calling Kash Patel "our boy"
Spain or Italy’s economies are larger, and their GDP’s don’t depend on fossil fuels as Russias does (50%).
They are also much nicer countries with much nicer people.
It is now COMPLETELY run by the heritage foundation.
The orange moron just follows the script. We ALL know there is no way in hell he came up with all this shit himself. Give me a break. Project 2025 is in full swing.
Deep state is here.
It seems that Dimwit DonOld is going all in right now.
Will it be premature fizzer or not is in the balance - imo it's 80/20 that the Republic 1.0 is toast after 40 years of corrosive GOP sniping.
I fear posting his good words detracts from his bad deeds
trickle down
Facts are meaningless if not spoon-fed to them by the cult leader.
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:
"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
-m.
I see what you did there.
Because at the time the Republicans were all for the moving of manufacturing over seas.
I believe Dems at the time proposed tariffs to help American manufacturing. Which is also when it actually works. When we have manufacturing to defend.
Anyway.
https://www.cato.org/blog/when-conservatives-forget-history-fairness-doctrine
need to realize the 🍊 is not worried about the free world!😏
Does that tell you something?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8QxCD6ir8&feature=youtu.be
Glad your nothing but a bag of bones today, asshole. To me, you always were.
...and don't get me started on your whacky wife.
That bastard deserved worse than trump by atleast 10 exploding trucks
He started all this. Him and nixon.
The above message is the point.
Truth can very well stand on it's own. It doesn't need Reagan.
But it was him who said it, whether you like it or not.
And that also is the truth.
The problem at hand is the government takeover by those guys that Reagan spoke about. What are we doing about that?
Whining about what an asshole Reagan was?
You showed me.
This is exactly my point.
Read Project 2025
#DictatorFatigue
and BTW, I am a big fan of skillful speech writers...
My friend from Syria was able to do it for gods sake and if he could, then most can. Be better
Also, as a Republican, you literally support a party that said nothing about multiple nazi salutes at your inauguration.
So kindly FO with pretending your request is reasonable and just.
Hypocrite felon turnip hired these workers for vineyards – both legal & illegal.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2023/01/24/trump-winery-seeks-to-hire-35-foreign-workers-this-year/
https://youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok?si=3dkWnCetUHEJBjhI
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”
Illiterate - Moron - Incompetent - Felon
#felon47
#FOTUS
#republicangoons
#cultlikeculture
@missmouse.bsky.social
Hi all, We’re still here at OPM.
We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.
Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back
America has been gaslighted & brainwashed for years. The GOP has destabilized the media, government institutions & even the Constitution.They've created a fertile ground for willing acceptance of authoritarian rule
It's easy to get into fascism, and hard to get out.
I would be VERY surprised if elmo allowed a MAGA defeat in the next election.
Stop voting on nominations ffs!
Take your own security and get in there PLEASE OR ITS TOO LATE!
Is this Real or some doctored up video?
I’m Jus’sayin!
https://bsky.app/profile/aquaryte.bsky.social/post/3lhg6gv3mjk2t
What a joke this account is.
No matter what he said, he fucked this country every way to Sunday.
But take some comfort because the MAGA folks don’t like him since Dear Leader doesn’t like him.
No. Nixon also committed TREASON against the US, getting many more soldiers killed in Vietnam, when he plotted with the Vietcong to refuse LBJ's peace-talk offers.
What's wrong with you?
Bit of a stretch in some cases, but close.
Nixon is objectively better than every president who came after him, and I agree. He sucked. Just tells you how bad the last 7 were.
Clements,Schlesinger,brown,Haig, Cheney,Nixon,Kennedy,Bruce, Harlow, Moynihan, Finch, Harding, Carlucci, Church, Crane, HHHHHOOOOOOOOLLLLYYYSHHHHIIITTT!!!!