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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRonald Reagan dispensed horrid cruelty with a big, rosy-cheeked smile
and avuncular charm.
Todays GOP is keeping the cruelty, but they dispensed with the charm.
At best, theyll offer a smug, self-satisfied Evangelical smirk.
Clouds Passing
(2,722 posts)Aristus
(68,639 posts)Its exactly what theyre seeking to impose over here.
COL Mustard
(6,989 posts)More concerned than they should be about what's going on in your pants!
GiqueCee
(1,520 posts)I am SOOO stealing that!
Clouds Passing
(2,722 posts)The man who destroyed the middle class.
Aristus
(68,639 posts)Ill enjoy reading it if I ever get the opportunity to piss on his grave.
Clouds Passing
(2,722 posts)lonely bird
(1,972 posts)Is too weak a sentiment.
He was brainless and an empty suit that spoke the words he was given.
LuckyLib
(6,911 posts)feed him his lines. He could not function.
MadameButterfly
(1,953 posts)thus saving it.
These new guys are on a whole other level.
liberal N proud
(60,976 posts)Aristus
(68,639 posts)Christianity requires personal sacrifices for the good of others.
Thoughts and prayers require no effort of any kind.
dchill
(40,768 posts)...on their jar of iniquities.
I like that.
It helps to have the decades of disgust to work with.
Aristus
(68,639 posts)I thought I had a way with words.
But I defer to a master.
dchill
(40,768 posts)😎
Clouds Passing
(2,722 posts)This is the speakers religion with the 7 mountains of society to take over. The False Religion.
Martin68
(24,735 posts)bmichaelh
(644 posts)That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain
Mr.Bee
(427 posts)Celebrities and Actors are blank canvases, they are a blank slate awaiting a script.
What do young actors do starting out? The beg for someone, Please! Please! Give me a role to play!
I can prove I can do it! I alone can fix it!
The GOP learned this very quickly from the 1960 JFK/Nixon debate, and ever since the Nixon administration, they've been working on their pet project with Roger Ailes; GOP TV!
Teach your children well, right now they are immersed in pay-TV, pay Streaming, pay social media.
Before the next president comes along, Elon or Bezos, Hannity or Carlson.
The best person for the job is not a blank slate. It is one with Congressional experience!
GiqueCee
(1,520 posts)... he just played one on TV. He was one of the Devil's demons posing as a third-rate actor. "Bedtime for Ronzo" didn't come soon enough.
Nancy was the only reason he wasn't still the host of "Death Valley Days" until Satan called him home.
His list of transgressions is jaw-dropping, but worse is the list of those who let him get away with it.
La Coliniere
(1,070 posts)on Showtime spells it all out loud and clear. He used racist dog whistles and the desires of the ultra rich to guide his destructive presidency as effectively as the orange felon. Middle class America has never recovered from what he began.
electric_blue68
(18,724 posts)where the 3 Civil Rights workers were dragged away, and assasinated by white supremacists, where Ray-gun talked about "States Rights". 😑 🤬
That wasn't a dog whistle; that was a Foghorn!
I didn't know back then, I found out years later.
A hideous man with a "smile".
GiqueCee
(1,520 posts)... was a racist piece of shit.
wolfie001
(3,848 posts)I LOVED!!!! his takedowns of rayguns
malthaussen
(17,788 posts)-- Mal
wolfie001
(3,848 posts)GiqueCee
(1,520 posts)... Heron was the first rapper. Although, the talkin' blues was probably the progenitor of it all.
wolfie001
(3,848 posts)Piece of shit repuke voters attached themselves to that pile of horse crap. Gullible fools gave up pensions and started the decline of the US Middle Class. 1981 to be exact.
malthaussen
(17,788 posts)Their attitudes have "evolved" over the years, and what was once only radical fringe thinking is now the party line.
-- Mal
Kid Berwyn
(18,357 posts)Pruneface laid a wreath in a cemetery where NAZI Waffen SS are buried.
Historical Context -- what Elie Wiesel said: I cannot believe the President, whom I have seen crying at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony, would visit a German military cemetery and refuse to visit Dachau or any other concentration camp. (New York Times, April 13, 1985)
Source: https://israeled.org/ronald-reagan-visits-bergen-belsen-bitburg-cemetery/
eppur_se_muova
(37,666 posts)suffice to say it was about what might really lie below a pleasant outer surface ...
Skittles
(160,331 posts)he was SICKENING
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Dem4life1234
(2,006 posts)Because he had a level of charisma, class, and always smiled, say what you want about him, you couldn't deny his likeability.
Now HE won on a landslide his second term, not this orange lard ass. This man has no mandate.
That said, I agree, he brought a level of destruction to this country.
hunter
(39,061 posts)Reagan always set off my stranger danger alarms, which I'd acquired by hard experience in my largely feral childhood and young adulthood.