Worst joke EVER

[Dirty Socialist]

“The nine worst words in the English dictionary are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
- Ronald Reagan

I don’t think Reagan got enough push back from this fucking ignorant statement.

[overleft]

1. Reagan was a disgusting enabler of what we have now.

[Dirty Socialist]

5. True

He opened the Pandora’s box of right wing extremism

[Walleye]

2. And the problem is they went to work right away making it happen.

[Dirty Socialist]

3. Indeed

They went about and made the statement true by their own incmpetence and sabotage

[Walleye]

4. They're still at it, in their minds they're successful. Having the time of their lives

[Shermann]

6. A politician says...don't trust politicians!

If you take his advice, you are not taking his advice.

If you don't take his advice, you are taking his advice.

It's a paradox!

[dchill]

7. Politicians give liars a bad name.

[unblock]

8. We the people created our government to help. Specifically, to:

establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity

[Dirty Socialist]

9. An irony of this is

Whenever a celebrity says something political, connies say “they should stick with (whatever) and keep their mouths shut”. Yet they worship a second rate actor(and intellectual light weight) as a political God. Go figure

[kairos12]

10. Raygun was disgusting, vile person who opened the door for Shrub and Chump.

[unblock]

11. Before Reagan, people took pride in paying taxes

People saw it as a civic and patriotic duty and felt proud to be able to earn enough to pay taxes to contribute to society, help pay for the armed forces that protect us, and so on.

Between the anti-government crap and the "it's your money" b.s., he made it fashionable to want to drain government in a bathtub.

Because all the best countries have ineffectual governments...

[multigraincracker]

12. My dad went to OCS with him in the Horse Cavalry.

Dad went to the Battle of the Bulge, Reagan stayed home and made commercials for the Government.

Dad hated the guy.

[Irish_Dem]

13. When have become desensitized to the vile, ugly, hateful, lying GOP propaganda.

It is relentless and ruthless. We just accept it as normal now.

[Hotler]

14. Wall St. didn't say that in 2007 when the real estate world melted.

They were on their knees begging for a handout.

[world wide wally]

15. It's so much more comforting to hear these 9 words

‘I’m from a corporation and I’m here to help.”

[Blue Owl]

16. Too bad he was too feeble-minded to grasp that dictionaries only deal in single words, not phrases

[Baked Potato]

17. Reagan was Roger Stoned, all in with the rat fux. Nt

[bif]

18. Saint Fucking Ronnie!

[lame54]

19. It's amazing how al these anti-government people...

Will do and say anything to keep their government jobs

[jmowreader]

20. If I am reincarnated...

I am going to become a firefighter. I am going to work very hard to become the leader of a big city department with hundreds of trucks, and my first act after taking office will be to change the department’s motto to “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.”

It does make one wonder why a guy who thought the government was useless wanted to run it.

[Xoan]

21. the protofacists of the time thought it was brilliant.