Ronald Reagan would be foaming at the mouth if he saw the GOP kowtowing to a Russian who wanted to destroy NATO.
The Overton window fell from the second story and crashed to the ground.
The Party of Lincoln is destroying DEI
The dixiecrat switch made it the party of Jim Crow.
They stopped being the party of Lincoln, around the time the Bull Moose party was formed. T Roosevelt stripped all the progressives from the party and left them listless.
Defenestration is from the Russian playbook after all
The only bright spot in American politics is imagining Satan strapping Reagan in like Robot Chicken to watch it.
Pretty sure that actor can play any role.
True story. I am a movie fan, but somehow I never got around to watching any of Reagan’s movies. Not even a political thing, there was just always something I wanted to see more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killers_(1964_film)
Then I hear about this movie. I like Lee Marvin and John Cassavetes and it’s directed by Don Seigel, who did Dirty Harry.
I watched the movie and I can say that without question, Ronald Reagan was the worst actor in the entire movie. He was nowhere near as good as the guy who played the fuzzy General in the Planet of the Apes, or the dirty landlord from Three’s Company.
If anyone ever wondered what “made America great”, it was the government provided social services in the 40’s and 50’s that silent generation set up for their children which led to the economic growth that the boomers enjoyed which they then turned around killed so their children and children’s children could not have the same advantages.
Don’t forget his Chance for Peace speech.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat.I mean, don’t forget these people were homophobic and racist AF among many other issues, but socially regarding labor and actually giving a fuck about the middle class they are pretty much the peak of it as far as the republican party goes.
Great speech, for sure.
Check out our local podcast “A Peoples History of Kansas City” it is done by KCUR’s Suzanne Hogan. (I’m a big NPR fan and love my city!) One of the most recent episodes explains how this happened at the 1976 Republican Convention.
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They figured out that about 25% of the US population are literally idiots that would vote to get a hot poker shoved up their own ass if there was half a chance of it happening to a liberal as well.
They figured out that about 25% of the US population are literally idiots that would vote to get a hot poker shoved up their own ass if there was half a chance of it happening to a Black person as well.
About 20% of people are in both categories. The combination explains the 30% of Trump voters.
Asylum For thousands of refugees, expellees and displaces person
Correct if I’m wrong but didn’t Operation Wetback (actual name, no joke) happen under the Eisenhower administration?
You’re correct.
Yeah but that dude made a career killing Nazis and mic dropping his presidency with warnings about the Military Industrial Complex. That Republican Party died with Reagan.
They had turntables and tableturns!
…and then came Reagan
Make America Great Again?
There were old voters who called themselves Eisenhower Democrats who had moved over as the Republicans changed their goals to what we find now.
