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"When I recently showed him Reagan was the single largest spending president post FDR his brain short circuited while he tried to figure out how to justify it."
"This is the exact same trap Democrats have been falling into for years, exemplified by them trotting out the Cheneys last election and by Slotkin's rhetoric in this response i.e. the belief that they can win over neoconservative voters by shouting out Reagan and talking about strong national securit"
"Communist sympathizer yet supported Reagan"
"For one there was Gaza which Trump at least stopped for a little while (I know it's an optics thing like what Reagan did with the Iran hostages but I don't care since people aren't dying in droves anymore)"
"The right-wing political project for the entirety of the post-war period in the United States was devoted to overturning the New Deal, which they finally got with Ronald Reagan, an overturning that was so total and successful that the nominally oppositional Democrats were forced to abandon the New D"
"I think about JFK, Reagan, Bush and even fucking Carter regularly. But Obama is completely memory holed for me?"
"Democrats never pushed back on Republican talking points about getting government so small you can drown it in the bathtub, that the private sector can do everything better, or Reagan saying 'The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help'."
"be outwardly republican and into reagan ironically enough that it can't be dismissed as being completely ironic"
"Idk man, Reagan is kinda based. Didn't vote for him though."
"You really woke up one day and decided to be reagan and pretend you were always like this?"
"The great follow-up to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, HH the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking"
"Reagan gutted STEM programs/industries and replaced them with business management degrees and logistics companies. He made America the logistical center and began early efforts to import STEM professionals rather than honing them locally."
"This is a pretty long piece and probably half-fiction, but it's still pretty insane. I personally subscribe to the belief that Reagan was having raunchy gay sex in rural California."
"Reagan, Clinton, Greenspan, all the neoliberal hawks that took over in the 80's. What they did is not functionally different from murder. If you structure the economy in such a way that it takes away a large portion of working class jobs while at the same time stripping away the New Deal social safe"
"I yearn to be born in the 1910s, migrate to California in the 30s, become a movie star then move on to television in the 50's while it's still black and white. Try to recapture my early success but it's blundered by my age in the industry. Then die in my sleep in the mid 1980s knowing my old buddy R"
"ayatollah kept hostages longer on Reagan's request"
"Reagan, Carter and Ford all leave. Reagan pretends to stay, actor at heart."
"Not because of any policy issue, but because they didn't help Rock Hudson more when he was dying of AIDS in France."
"A gift basket consisting of Trump and Regan Memorabilia and collectables was being auctioned off."
"Then we had the Reagan/Thatcher era and the fall of the Soviet Union, so a significant rollback of pro-worker policies was to be expected."
"Was it Reagan that began the hollowing out of the the working class? Was there ever a time in the US when they didn't look so wretched as they do today?"
"Anytime there's some kind of discourse about homeless people, someone will be say as smugly as possible 'the only reason this is an issue at all is because the Reagan administration cut gutted the mental health funding.'"
"2. Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan (1987)"
"They aren't pmc or neoliberals…they're yuppie fucking scum. The same scum that loved Reagan and voted him in 2 landslides voted Obama twice is now woke."
"My Dad is what I call a 'Hank Hill Republican'- he's an mild mannered old school Reaganite. He hates Trump though because he grew up in New York and knows first hand that's he's a cunt, and the pussy grabbing incident, though quaint now, was the last straw for him."
"We're not like Regan fans or something, but we're also not DNC bots who think he and Trump are the devil in every way. What I'm saying is we went in with an open, maybe even moreso open since we wanted to shit on the retarded critics who can't help but be biased."
"he died the day after killdozer. There must be some connection."
"I am proposing perhaps that people just didn't litter as much and cities were much better taken care of by local governments and citizens alike before Reagan and his economic policies and the rise in homelessness that began in his second term?"
"This was spread in the 1980 Republican National Convention, as a prank, and the political delegates accepted it as real!"
"Yet it seems since Reagan, every president has been not just a child of privilege, but a child of privilege who has spent their entire life behind a desk (with the possible exception of HW, who was a WWII combat vet)."
"They hid it from everyone and the deep state and cabinet ran the US. Which is what is usually happening anyway."
"A gift basket consisting of Trump and Regan Memorabilia and collectables was being auctioned off."