Discussion: Ronald Reagan's Son: Trump Is Nothing Like My Dad!

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Our Dad said ‘well’ a lot more!

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When those two agree on something it is a sign of the Apocalypse.

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“Ronald Reagan would never take 11 million people or three million people or a million people and throw them out of the United States of America.”

There goes the GOP base’s support for the Gipper….

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OTOH, there’s no evidence that Trump sold arms to Iran.

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not a big reagan fan. his trickle down theory was horribly wrong. but it was a mistake, he did not do it to hurt people. he was basically a decent human being. trump can not claim the same.

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I’m sure if President Reagan were present at the debate tonight, he wouldn’t recognize himself for the way he’s been re-engineered by his own party. Sad for him and for his legacy, whether I agree with it or not. I also am sad for his boys (now men, of course), who have to watch as their dad’s character is adjusted to fit the needs of some very sociopathic people.

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Reagan was as bad as any GOP candidate running today, including Trump. He willfully help bankrupt the country because he didn’t like taxes. How’s that for hate?

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I see Ron on Hardball a lot and he comes as across as very sharp, very insightful and correct on the issues. Not like his old man. I’ve seen Michael on various things and he comes across as a fucking moron, and, unlike his dad, a nasty piece of work.

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And yet they are in agreement that Trump is nothing like their dad, even though Donald would like to think he was loved and admired by the Gipper.

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Actually, that’s not true.

It worked exactly as it was designed to work-----it redistributed all the money upwards to the top 0.01%, exactly where Laffer, Reagan , and the rest of the voodoo economics team wanted it to go.

They lied to the public about what supply-side would do—knowing all the while that they’d get away with their monumental grift.

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That’s okay! The Ronald Reagan people “remember” today is nothing like Ronald Reagan when he was alive.

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Sorry. Don’t agree. Reagan was a Keynesian. He ran big deficits, which brought the country out of the Carter (Arab oil boycott) recession. It’s true that the deficits he ran were basically for a big military buildup, but those guns were made in the US and employed millions of Americans. In fact, while he did more Keynesian pump priming than Carter, he didn’t do enough, as unemployment rates never got as low as they are now. And with regard to taxes, the Reagan- Bill Bradley tax deal was the last tax reform we have had. It closed a lot of loopholes and reduced tax rates generally. There are a lot of things to criticize Reagan for, but not for this.

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You have to love Michael Reagan, a man who can talk about murdering babies by rectal grenade in gleeful tones.

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I dunno. Its like saying that fuckhole is nothing at all like my fuckhole. We’re still talking about a a couple of fuckholes.

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Or that Raygun remembers when he was alive, for that matter.

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the real point of my comment was that reagan was not a bad person and that trump is a bad person.

trickle down is now the gop default tax mantra. it is wrong-headed.

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I would HOPE that Donald Trump wasn’t guilty of at least two counts of Treason. So, yes, Trump is probably nothing like your dad.

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that’s because ‘well’ and ‘mommy’ were the only words he could remember without a written script…

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Well…There was one glaring difference. Didn’t ol’ Bonzo Ronnie Raygun’ say something about tearing down a wall?? Hmmmm??

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