Re-Elected in a Landslide

Reagan was one of the worst things to happen to the US. Maybe we should just stop electing shitty actors to do a difficult job.

Reagan (or more specifically Michael Deaver) taught us that propaganda works incredibly well, almost every time.
Most of us didn’t learn it though. And here we are.
- Reagan (or more specifically Michael Deaver) taught us that propaganda works incredibly well, almost every time.
  Hitler (and many mfers before him) already taught that lesson, people fall for it every, single, time.
That’d require learning a lesson. And we’re collectively far too stupid to do that.
Reagan was a shitty actor with a good persona and voice. He was simply hired to act as POTUS, reading the script written by American billionaires.
- And that's been the president's role ever since
Worst thing so far.
I genuinely wish we were in the timeline where the worst thing he ever did was Bedtime for Bonzo. The fact that people worship this ass clown... it tears the heart...

The continued idolization of Reaganomics is a huge reason why the US continues to enshittify.

Maybe there shouldn't be such a focus on cults of personality and electing celebrities. Imagine qualified people being in office.

I did. I was told I was transphobic and pro-genocide by some totally not russian trolls.
And if we have to have a cult of personality dictator, why is it they always have such shitty policies?

Infographic is correct, though it left out how he destroyed labor unions and a bunch of other stuff, but you can only fit so much in there. Reagan and his despicable cohorts like Gingrich were the beginning of the end for not just the ability to reach the middle class, but indeed for the middle class itself in this country (as his contemporary partner in crime, Thatcher was for the UK).

It was an absolute tragedy. If Trump wasn't coming back in, Reagan would still hold the top rank in amount of devastation caused, but I'm pretty sure Trump will manage to surpass him on that front in his second term.

The good news is Trump will be the architect of his own downfall, just like Hitler and Nero
- The bad news is Ronnie was also senile and the people surrounding him still managed to cause generational harm.

This man is responsible for the nightmare that is my life.

Fuck going back in time to kill Hitler, if I ever get into a DeLorean or a phone booth, I'm coming for that ass Reagan! THIS ONE'S GONNA BE FOR FREDDIE MERCURY!

Edit: Just got back, I think I got the wrong year or something, missed my shot too. Feds tried to stop me from getting back to the car, I got them to go bother some dickhead who wouldn't shut up about some Crazy Taxi movie or whatever the hell he was talking about. Can't try again for awhile, DeLorean's out of plutonium.

If I could go back in time and kill three people from history, I'd kill Reagan three times.
- Hey, get rid of Ayn Rand and Nixon too
- Come on. You wouldn't use one of those tokens to stop by east Germany and wax Putin in the KGB? You wouldn't even need to change years to get Reagan and Putin in the same trip
- Also kill Nancy Reagan. Pretty sure that succubus would have had a negative impact on people with HIV even if she wasn’t First Lady. The blowjob queen probably would have used her influence on Hollywood elites to create a hate campaign against the people with HIV

There was this one time a painter couldn't hack it

I know he was really bad, but Trump promised he will do everything in his power to be worse.

No offense, but mental institutions were/are horror farms. Could have been better, should have been better, never was.

Among the highest, if not the foremost rate of undeclared abuse. Dumping grounds for the unwanted, unrestricted experimentations for sadistic monsters, no-man's-land for the so-called human rights.

Whatever other evil might have been done, putting an end to those mental institutions can only be a kindness.

the caption of a political cartoon i remember from back then:

"ronald reagan did for this country what pantyhose did for finger-fucking"

If you ever happen to visit Berlin in Germany, make sure to spit on his memorial plaque, as he is worshiped as a freedom fighter in Germany.

I (german) know of nobody that does that
- https://withberlinlove.com/2012/10/01/ronald-reagan-memorials-in-berlin/
  https://apnews.com/article/mikhail-gorbachev-soviet-union-international-news-berlin-mike-pompeo-153ab316c9d14a868d8acd4eff9fa3e0
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_honorary_citizens_of_Berlin
  https://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2024/pressemitteilung.1452879.php
  https://www.parlament-berlin.de/Das-Haus/Berliner-Ehrenbuerger/ronald-w-reagan
  Maybe nobody of the normal people, but in the political elites they love to praise Reagan.
Same shit in Poland. What’s crazy is that we are suffering from his incompetence here as well.

The working class and thus the creation of the middle class was subsidized by our government from FDR up until Reagan. The 1950s wealth and family focus BOOM was a result of this subsidization that began with FDR. It is why everyone (white and male) owned a house, a car, and had a job.

We are living the end result of the Reagan experiment, the flip from subsidizing the working class and thus subsidizing the creation of a middle class, which does not happen organically in capitalism, to the subsidization of corporate and the top 1% instead. The claim was it would be more efficient to subsidize corporate and simply have the wealth trickle down through the rest of the economy.

This, right now, is how trickle down pans out after the 40yr experiment. We’ve equalized woman and non white people under the law, great, but did it in a time without subsidy. So now we are all equally shit upon, barring some holdover family accumulations dating back to the 50s.

And now, drum roll, we’ve elected President Musk, the grand winner of said 40yr subsidization experiment, the ultimate welfare queen, to decide our working class government efficiency going forward.

I wonder how that will work for working class going forward?

Fascists don't actually care about anything other than attacking the poor, minorities, women, etc.

Reagan was "great" for that.

The number of people that died of AIDS each year under his watch was in the millions. Not 90k.

He was re-elected in a landslide because America is and has been--for at least my entire lifetime--all about aesthetics.

And it's a damn good looking Guici belt.

And even after 25 years, the Democrats have done shit to undo the damage Reagan started, they are either complicit or impotent.

Republicans have controlled the budget through the house of representatives for 18 of the last 25 years. Can't pass any kind of programs if the branch in charge of funding anything doesn't fund the programs.
- I know, but.... remember last month how basically the entire country agreed that the health industry was terrible and needed to be reformed? And remember how the Democrats did absolutely nothing, despite still controlling the presidency and the senate?
  Even if they couldn't pass a program, they still could have controlled the narrative and set expectations and made demands for the start of the upcoming Trump presidency. Instead they just let the opportunity pass.
- Both things can be true. Democrats did themselves no favors by abandoning unions for this long.
And the only party in politics!

If this next administration isn't the actual downfall of democracy and just another blip in history I wonder if trump will have the same sort of vibe to his legacy that Regan has.

First president I ever became aware of. Fuck him and everything to do with him.

As non American I was ready to just move on and let them suffer in their own cycle of nonsense. But we can't even do that. Since jokes about invasions are increasing at an alarming rate. Jokes about countries sovereignty became completely unfunny after Feb 2022.

and now he is burning in hell with Tatcher and Pinochet ❤

Yes, ofc, it's not like we remember him for his acting career.

He’s the shining poster child of the GOP!

Thanks Obama.

Reelected in 1984 when the national unemployment rate was 10%

Ronnie was a senile racist POS and he pushed the deregulation for the financial sector.

I'd rather be homeless than in a government run mental institution.

Who should pay and regulate psychiatric and psychotherapist help?
- No idea. It's not something I would know enough about. Maybe something that is highly subsidized on a sliding scale so that everyone has access but government can't start controlling the customer too much.

He didn’t let those 90000 people die all by himself. He appointed Anthony Fauci to help him.

Oh my, the same Fauci with enough conflict of interest in regards to COVID to fill a conspiracy thriller?? What an ... interesting person!
- Conflicts of interest are like his specialty. Here’s a long letter written by a person who survived his AiDS tenure laying out his various money making ventures with private drug manufacturers to produce worthless, expensive AIDS drugs. Nobody will read it though because the same media that insisted Biden’s brain worked fine and then paid out bribes to Trump’s inaugural fund also insists Fauci is some kind of hero

President is an unnecessary position and draws the eye of narcissists and fascists. Give veto power to the Senate President & drop the VP title, move civilian oversight of the military to a bipartisan court, and pick someone from the majority party house or senate to be your figurehead.

This seems like an awful lot of work to get to a system that is only slightly less shitty than before. At that rate, America should become a parliamentary system, with RCV.

He was only acting!