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Aristus

(68,639 posts)
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 10:11 AM Dec 6

Ronald Reagan dispensed horrid cruelty with a big, rosy-cheeked smile

and avuncular charm.

Today’s GOP is keeping the cruelty, but they dispensed with the charm.

At best, they’ll offer a smug, self-satisfied Evangelical smirk.

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Ronald Reagan dispensed horrid cruelty with a big, rosy-cheeked smile (Original Post) Aristus Dec 6 OP
Talibangelicals Clouds Passing Dec 6 #1
I never understood their open-mouthed shocked outrage over Sharia Law. Aristus Dec 6 #4
Evangenitals. COL Mustard Dec 7 #32
Evangenitals! GiqueCee Dec 7 #35
LFOL Clouds Passing Dec 7 #38
Reagan Henry203 Dec 6 #2
I hope they put that on his tombstone. Aristus Dec 6 #6
GHWB was scalp deep in that mess too. I suggest he ran the US while ronnie looked pretty. Clouds Passing Dec 6 #10
To say I hated that fucker lonely bird Dec 6 #18
And in his later years Nancy stood behind him to LuckyLib Dec 6 #25
Yet Reagan partnered with Tip Oneill to raise the cap on SS MadameButterfly Dec 7 #31
They will issue the obligatory thoughts and prayers statements liberal N proud Dec 6 #3
Another example of their complete departure from anything resembling Christianity. Aristus Dec 6 #7
That's why they deified him! He was the fancy label... dchill Dec 6 #5
Well put. Aristus Dec 6 #8
Thank you. dchill Dec 6 #9
"Decades of disgust." Aristus Dec 6 #11
Oh, you have a way! dchill Dec 6 #13
Good thread on Assembly of God cult Clouds Passing Dec 6 #12
Yes, Reagan did indeed smile as he killed, lied, and profited. Martin68 Dec 6 #14
Shakespeare's Hamlet bmichaelh Dec 6 #15
When People Learn to Stop Electing These Celebrities and Actors Mr.Bee Dec 6 #16
Reagan wasn't a real boy... GiqueCee Dec 6 #17
The documentary The Reagans La Coliniere Dec 6 #19
And very obvious to those who knew - his first campaign stop for The Presidency was Philadelphia, MISSISSIPPI, near.... electric_blue68 Dec 6 #30
Yeah, "The Great Communicator"... GiqueCee Dec 7 #34
Reads like a Bill Hicks monologue wolfie001 Dec 6 #21
Then Gil Scot Heron is your man. malthaussen Dec 6 #23
He's amazing! Reminds me of Howard Zinn wolfie001 Dec 6 #26
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised... GiqueCee Dec 7 #33
He spoke out against Medicare when it was working its way through Congress in the 1960s wolfie001 Dec 6 #20
True enough. But I think even Uncle Ron would think today's GOP has gone too far. malthaussen Dec 6 #22
Bonzo went to Bitburg Kid Berwyn Dec 6 #24
Oh oh oh ... how I wish I could find a certain Gahan Wilson cartoon to post here ... eppur_se_muova Dec 6 #27
look how many people fell for Reagan's bullshit Skittles Dec 6 #28
This message was self-deleted by its author PufPuf23 Dec 6 #29
That's why people don't hate him so much Dem4life1234 Dec 7 #36
I never understood this "likability." hunter Dec 7 #37

Aristus

(68,639 posts)
4. I never understood their open-mouthed shocked outrage over Sharia Law.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 10:14 AM
Dec 6

It’s exactly what they’re seeking to impose over here.

Aristus

(68,639 posts)
6. I hope they put that on his tombstone.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 10:15 AM
Dec 6

I’ll enjoy reading it if I ever get the opportunity to piss on his grave.

lonely bird

(1,972 posts)
18. To say I hated that fucker
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 12:31 PM
Dec 6

Is too weak a sentiment.

He was brainless and an empty suit that spoke the words he was given.

MadameButterfly

(1,953 posts)
31. Yet Reagan partnered with Tip Oneill to raise the cap on SS
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 09:03 AM
Dec 7

thus saving it.

These new guys are on a whole other level.

Aristus

(68,639 posts)
7. Another example of their complete departure from anything resembling Christianity.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 10:17 AM
Dec 6

Christianity requires personal sacrifices for the good of others.

Thoughts and prayers require no effort of any kind.

Mr.Bee

(427 posts)
16. When People Learn to Stop Electing These Celebrities and Actors
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 11:29 AM
Dec 6

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)
17. Reagan wasn't a real boy...
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 11:44 AM
Dec 6

... 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)
19. The documentary The Reagans
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 12:41 PM
Dec 6

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)
30. And very obvious to those who knew - his first campaign stop for The Presidency was Philadelphia, MISSISSIPPI, near....
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 09:48 PM
Dec 6

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)
33. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 11:17 AM
Dec 7

... Heron was the first rapper. Although, the talkin' blues was probably the progenitor of it all.

wolfie001

(3,848 posts)
20. He spoke out against Medicare when it was working its way through Congress in the 1960s
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 12:49 PM
Dec 6

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)
22. True enough. But I think even Uncle Ron would think today's GOP has gone too far.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 12:56 PM
Dec 6

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)
24. Bonzo went to Bitburg
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 01:05 PM
Dec 6

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)
27. Oh oh oh ... how I wish I could find a certain Gahan Wilson cartoon to post here ...
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:01 PM
Dec 6

suffice to say it was about what might really lie below a pleasant outer surface ...

Response to Aristus (Original post)

Dem4life1234

(2,006 posts)
36. That's why people don't hate him so much
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 11:31 AM
Dec 7

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)
37. I never understood this "likability."
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 01:16 PM
Dec 7

Reagan always set off my stranger danger alarms, which I'd acquired by hard experience in my largely feral childhood and young adulthood.




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