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(25,505 posts)Oh, he still was...
Never mind
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 3, 2013, 01:07 PM - Edit history (1)
And the Republicans have Ronald Reagan, who acted like a governor of California for eight years and now wants to act like a president.
From April 1971, MAD Magazine. "The Rats are destroying Disneyland. We've got to make Governor Reagan act! Hollywood couldn't, how can we?"
Wolf
ROBROX
(392 posts)He was the Governor of California and I did not vote for the jack ass before I knew the GOP was evil. Today the GOP can not even find someone who can ACT half as good as the stupid and evil regan. I am so happy when the GOP fart die and one less codger is left for them to worship.
Warpy
(111,327 posts)they got from the corporate pitchman telling them everything was going just fine, all you had to do was trust him.
Only those of us who were immune to his polished, corporate charisma remember who he really was and what he did to us and others.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Virgin starlet claims Ronald Reagan was a 'show-off' in bed after seducing her on set of 1950s film in which he played her father
But instead of doing so he took her to his home where he made hamburgers for them both.
Things went downhill from there and when they moved into the bedroom where Reagan turned into a 'show-off' who had sex 'without grace'.
Laurie, 79, writes: 'He made sure I was aware of the length of time he had been "ardent". It was 40 minutes.'
Laurie adds that when she complained she was not satisfied, she got rather short shrift indeed.
Reagan told her: 'Theres something wrong with you. You should have had many orgasms by now - after all this time. Youve got to see a doctor.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061105/Piper-Laurie-claims-Ronald-Reagan-bed.html
And there's this sentence:
On top of that, the man who went on to become Leader of the Free World also disclosed the amount he had paid for the condom, in a crass attempt to prove his point.
Class act...
progressoid
(49,993 posts)Now I need to wash my brain.
Lasher
(27,632 posts)Probably should have mentioned what an inspiring Commander in Chief he was, until he cut and ran from Lebanon.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Rec
hunter
(38,323 posts)Ronald Reagan is a poster boy for the banality of evil.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)....but he once did a mike check threatening to bomb Russia....HO HO HO you joker, Ronnie!
indepat
(20,899 posts)Security Disability rolls without due process, but he did these with such a sunny disposition if not a smirk.
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Yeah - he did so in 1984, and the ruskies was NOT AMUSED about it all.. In fact they was rather crossed by it, and heightened the security all over, included the strategic nuclear arsenal - to be sure to be able to hit back if anything was showing up.... ,and the State dept had it hand full to at least solve some of the fire the dear President did....
Diclotican
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)Triple the national debt and make your doners wealthy.
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)xtraxritical
Pure nuts - to spend that mutch money on defence - when the other side have enough nuclear weapons to blow you out of the water... Or to destroy civilization as we know it then...
Diclotican
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)I was a little kid and we were all freaked out about nuclear war at the time. The last thing we needed was the President making "jokes" like that. Of course, at the time Rethugs said "no big deal" and now they look back at it fondly. Fuck Dead Zombie Ronnie and fuck them too.
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
I think I maybe was in 2 or 3th grade then - but I do rembember my foster parents was not amused by the whole thing... And I bet the russians was not excactly dancing on the celings about it...
Diclotican
bulloney
(4,113 posts)Philadelphia was where 3 civil rights activists were murdered by KKK members. The murders became a symbol of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. Now, why would Reagan kick off his presidential campaign there? Was he sending a dog whistle to establish his southern base?
But Reagan was such a nice, fatherly person.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Another bright idea brought to you by the guys who ran his White House Communications Office. But, he looked good in a raincoat.
Godot51
(239 posts)King of the Reagasm!
RedstDem
(1,239 posts)so he could win over president Carter..
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)but he was once in a movie with a chimp!
Initech
(100,097 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)But, um...
I can't think of anything good to say about him.
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SHRED
(28,136 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)About the nicest thing I can say about him was that he was very ignorant.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Tikki
(14,559 posts)and peacefully protest.
Never went to war but played something or other in a movie.
Tikki
Honest_Abe
(155 posts)unblock
(52,288 posts)and trained taught them how to be a thorn in the side of a superpower.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)He supported the Mujahidin in Afghanistan against the invading Russians, apparent that's where Osama got his start as a minor commander.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)And the fuckers still dead, thank God.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Ronald Wilson Reagan - 666
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)nt
green for victory
(591 posts)Nancy sent her servants down to the City of LA to change it to 668
you can see the driveway as clear as a bell on google earth street view.
Imagine that, of the hundreds of thousands of residences in and around LA he chooses
666 St. Cloud Rd.
Saint Cloud? Really?
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)lexw
(804 posts)liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)This could be a series of strips.
chazunit
(25 posts)what a different world it would be had Hinkley stalked Lennon and Chapman stalked Reagan......
Furthermore, I don't care if you ignore me anymore. I'm still here anyway.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Your comment, wishing for Reagan's assassination, I think, is not long with us.
Reagon and with Lennon we could have given peace a much better chance, not to mention all of the atrocities of Ronald Raygun raining down, trickling down on us all, ever since. What a better world we would live in now!
benld74
(9,909 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,136 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)And for some reason the area around his grave stinks of urine.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order, and banned them from federal service for life. In the wake of the strike and mass firings, the FAA was faced with the task of hiring and training enough controllers to replace those that had been fired, a hard problem to fix as, at the time, it took three years in normal conditions to train a new controller. They were replaced initially with nonparticipating controllers, supervisors, staff personnel, some nonrated personnel, and in some cases by controllers transferred temporarily from other facilities. Some military controllers were also used until replacements could be trained. The FAA had initially claimed that staffing levels would be restored within two years; however, it would take closer to ten years before the overall staffing levels returned to normal. PATCO was decertified from its right to represent workers by the Federal Labor Relations Authority on October 22, 1981. The decision was appealed.
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Michael Moore said that Reagan's firing of the PATCO strikers was the beginning of "America's downward slide", and the end of comfortable union jobs, with a middle-class salary, raises, and pensions. Wages have remained stagnant for 30 years. Moore also blamed the AFL-CIO for telling their members to cross the PATCO picket lines.
President Reagan's director of the United States Office of Personnel Management at the time, Donald J. Devine, argued that "when the president said no...American business leaders were given a lesson in managerial leadership that they could not and did not ignore. Many private sector executives have told me that they were able to cut the fat from their organizations and adopt more competitive work practices because of what the government did in those days. I would not be surprised if these unseen effects of this private sector shakeout under the inspiration of the president were as profound in influencing the recovery that occurred as the formal economic and fiscal programs."
"Best President in the last 50 years" . . .. ball bag.
icarusxat
(403 posts)As a pilot, I kept losing friends to his union busting...what a jerk
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)And I'm glad he's dead. Too bad it didn't happen much sooner.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)I learned that Reagan had died.
I was pissed that I missed it...
tavalon
(27,985 posts)He was pretty much dead long before his body sent the message to stop breathing. Long before.
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)My third grader son said when they got the news in class, he said "my mom will be happy." The teacher was not pleased, of course, and neither was I. So I explained to my son that, while I agreed with almost nothing Reagan said or did, I did not want him assasinated. After that, I was careful about what I said around the kids, and watched in horror as Ronnie, the acting president screwed the country.
Boomerproud
(7,963 posts)Brilliant strip. Thank you for sharing-I wish I could email this to FAUX or any of his most ardent worshippers. They wouldn't have one rebuke to any of the points made.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)for a devastatingly incisive account of the Reagan years.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)But always helpful to throw in the faces of Reaganites in mid-Reagan-orgasm
certainot
(9,090 posts)the trillion dollar star wars fantasy, and died in a plane crash in 85.
see the movie "amazing grace and chuck", with gregory peck, which was a disguised suggestion that it was not an accident.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)[font color="white"]Ever notice that it's NEVER Republican politicians, aides, whistleblowers, etc. that die in fiery plane crashes, assassinations, "suicides" or other assorted "accidents"?? Funny how that works and funny if you make that suggestion regarding this incredibly coincidental and lottery-odds phenomenon, you're labeled a "conspiracy loon" . . . . . [/font]
Yeah. It's like that.
Raster
(20,998 posts)BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)Reagan was the devil.
Don
burrowowl
(17,644 posts)Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)(rest in worms)
I can only hope to live to see the time when that man is recognized for what he was, the last of the truly hateful/fearful "real" white man's, real white man President.
He reassured old white dudes that America could still be that old Norman Rockwell painting that never was. Brilliantly.
Liberal1975
(87 posts)The architect of everything that has gone wrong with America. The worst President ever if you gage the damage he single handedly inflicted upon our society it's not even close.
That being said, let's not forget that it the American people's fault as well. In 1980 we had a choice. To buckle down and work for a better nation or to be taken in by a fantasy where the solution was to borrow our way into a false prosperity. We, as a nation chose the latter. We chose irresponsibility over hard work, and promises over accountability.
He was "tough" even though he spent World War II in a movie studio. (a path much better actors like The "wimpy" liberal Henry Fonda failed to take advantage of) Jimmy Carter was another "wimp" even though he enlisted in the Navy right after high school, you know, like almost every American male of his generation.
Except, of course the heroic right wing tough guys like Ronnie and the Duke. That's another evil legacy he left behind. Reagan proved that image over substance and perception over reality were not just tools you might need in addition to statesmanship and accomplishment, but the only things necessary for the achievement of political success.
He destroyed labor, bankrupted the nation, shred the safety net and divided the country and weakened it on purpose to benefit the wealthy. Every major problem we face as Americans today can be traced back to his policies, it's too bad nobody ever used the debt ceiling as leverage on his ass. Wonder how speaker O'Neil would be remembered if he had.
Raster
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tavalon
(27,985 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
Skittles
(153,174 posts)ugh
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)And I especially like that it's as much about the fawning, unthinking worship the guy generated as it is about the vile old bastard and his real legacy of lies and high crimes .
andym
(5,445 posts)And his associated phrases: "The federal government is the problem, not the solution." and ""The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
He also worked hard to associate the federal government with "welfare queens" possessing diamonds and Cadillacs to make taxpayers feel they were being taken advantage.
The thoughts behind these phrases and images, continue to be used to drum up support for the GOP today and threaten the American way of life, because it threatens the safety net and all the good that the federal government does through research and regulation.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)I entered adulthood during the Reagan era, and it sure as hell wasn't the utopia that conservatives get misty-eyed over, at least not for a kid in a Rust Belt city whose dad was a diesel mechanic and union steward.
All the faux-patriotism/flag-waving/playing Charlie Daniels' "In America" full blast actually made me a hell of a lot more cynical about the subject of "patriotism."
The "Morning In America" adverts were a good substitute for a strong cocktail of syrup of Ipecac with chocolate Ex-Lax garnish.
What has been really silly is the far right's zealousness to name everything they can after him. In Indianapolis there's a glorified Interstate exit named the "Ronald Reagan Parkway"...and with his claimed disdain for all things "gubmint," that flies in the face of everything he claimed to stand for!
SunSeeker
(51,649 posts)rivegauche
(601 posts)I remember Reagan vividly, I was pretty young but appalled by him & his gang of bigoted, stupid chickenhawks on a daily basis. It seems to me the culture of American aggression reached its zentih under Reagan. Those 12 (Reagan plus Bush Daddy) years are a huge reason the rest of the world held us in a very low opinion. And Dubya was the final expelled turd of that era.
Permanut
(5,621 posts)About the evils of communism, and how we had to be on our guard at all times, here and around the world. We were just a bunch of high school kids, didn't quite have a handle on what he was saying - and had no idea he would go on to such unbelievable evil himself.
caledesi
(11,903 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)That prediction came to pass.
Wolf