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No surprise. After Reagan got the nomination in 1980, his first campaign appearance was in Philadelphia Mississippi - site of the murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner. Reagan’s topic? States Rights
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Well, Gipper, history shows that there was no one more destructive to the American Dream than you.
You were instrumental in morphing the brutality of outright slavery into a softer, more palatable, less physically brutal and slightly more racially inclusive indentured servitude, laying the foundation for the enormous and growing wealth gap that’s certain to destroy the nation altogether.
So, a hail and hearty “fuck you, Ronnie” to you and all your supporters.
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Reagan once acted in a movie about John Brown’s revolt where he played one of the soldiers under Robert E. Lee who recaptured Harper’s Ferry. The movie went out of its way to romanticize slavery and the lifestyle of the antebellum South and cast as jerks anyone who would interfere with in— it would never be made today. As Reagan had a history of conflating his movie roles with life experience, this is not surprising.
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Yes there is no surprise. His decision to announce his candidacy in Philadelphia, Mississippi was the one of the most despicable things he did. Scumbag
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I second that “Fuck You”
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He also laid a wreath at a Nazi cemetery, Bitburg back in 1985. I guess he had trouble figuring out the difference between the victims and the perpetrators of genocide.
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You give him too much credit.
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Reagan also used to say that ketchup was a vegetable…what’s his point?
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He also said that he was there when the death camps were liberated when in fact he was in Hollywood making movies. More of his conflating his acting career and real life.
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Obviously, his point is that his head is filled with ketchup.
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His life was a movie to him. I saw an interview with Edmund Morris (the genius biographer of Theodore Rex), who was invited to spend countless hours getting to know Reagan. Essentially he said, “He was good on camera, but there was no one home.” That’s coming from the guy who was invited into their home, who had lunch with Nancy on a weekly basis, who had better access to him than anyone. I haven’t read his biography of Reagan, but It’s supposed to be scathing.
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Reagan represents the triumph of packaging over content.
He looked and sounded great—but he was intellectually stunted, morally vacant, and ethically bankrupt.
He also had Alzheimer’s for the entirety of his misbegotten presidency.
Worse yet, he set the stage for Bush the Lesser—and they will remain the two worst and most damaging presidents in US history.
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Reagan is wearing a brown suit in the Oval Office! Alert Peter King (R-IRA)
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One of my all-time favorite Doonesbury books:
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In an ideal and just world, the only thing that would bear Reagan’s name today would be his tombstone.
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How appropriate that the Republican saint was a fucking sock puppet with a fatal brain disease.
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Has the name of the editorials’ author been revealed?
The Alzheimers condition was probably accelerated after his recovery from the assassination attempt. Prior to that he was just an actor performing his lines.
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Who’s got the time or stomach to dredge up what the Economist felt about Reagan’s mythical welfare queen driving the Cadillac?
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