Morning Du community, Im in a Reagan was pos shit mood.

[Duncanpup]

I just woke up made coffee and and that ass Reagan just popped into my head.

My bitches this morning is reganomics is still screwing us. And then ignoring the AID’s apocalypse and Union busting.

[Chipper Chat]

1. In the 80s I can remember the Talking Heads on Meet the Press

Splaining how trickle down would work and that we would be so rich and happy. I didnt believe a word of it.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I hear you. I vividly remember pre-Reagan.

A different country, a different world back then. Never imagined it would degenerate into this.

[livetohike]

3. I'll add: the Welfare Queen myth, trees cause pollution,

and ketchup is a vegetable (school lunch fiasco). He was horrid.

[Skittles]

4. he was a vile POS

it was ridiculous how many people fell for his act

[certainot]

22. team limbaugh sold and excused and deified him the way it later did trump.

reagan would have gone down with iran contra and faded but an unchallenged and ignored radio monopoly propaganda operation of 1500 coordinated radio stations turned him into a god.

[multigraincracker]

5. He changed evangelical Christianity forever.

Before him, divorce was the greatest sin. He was divorced and remarried and also signed no-fault divorce into law in California.

and that is the rest of the story.

[YoshidaYui]

6. I was awake at 3 AM

Link to tweet

?s=21

[Duncanpup]

8. I was up 02:00

Luckily got back to sleep till 06:00

[YoshidaYui]

9. Oh, I was sleeping peacefully till about 2 AM

When some nurse came into my room to turn the lights and left. Woke me up and here I am.

[Duncanpup]

10. Get well

[YoshidaYui]

11. I should be home soon

Guessing Monday maybe.

[Historic NY]

15. Rule #1 if nurses are awake you will be too..

Rule #2 see rule#1
Rule #3 you never get much rest in a hospital 6am the poking starts.

Most important get well and go home and rest.

[YoshidaYui]

17. Thank you, I didn't intend to be here in the first place

But stuff happens… Bleh!

[japple]

16. It always amazes me why anyone thinks you can recover in the hospital. You can't get

any sleep because there are weird noises, people in and out of your room, those plastic pillows that don't support your head and neck, those crackly plastic covered mattresses, and so on and so on. I hope you get outta there soon so you can get a decent night's sleep and some good food!

[YoshidaYui]

19. You forgot to mention

Those damn beds that shift every time you seem to move and keep you up all night because of that whirling sound. It is certainly not fun being here.I have to admit the food is semi edible.

Did I mention the lousy Wi-Fi? The one that keeps dropping off every 10 seconds when you’re trying to type things on your phone?

“We are sorry. You are no longer connected to the Internet. Please try again.”

[japple]

26. At the last hospital where I was forced to stay following surgery,

the chaplain kept coming in and asking to pray with me and the pain medication they gave me made me itch so bad (which put me in a foul mood) but it didn't relieve my pain. I finally asked my brother to bring me some tylenol which worked just fine. Fortunately, I only had to stay one night!

Get better SOON!!!!

[Sherman A1]

7. Yup,

Even his own budget director came to the conclusion early on that trickle down was BS.

[Lonestarblue]

12. Reaganomics was a scam that Republicans have gotten away with for decades.

The media, from newspapers to television to cable, treats almost everything dealing with the effects of economic policy as business news that most people never see and thus they do not connect Republican with the fact that they’re earning very little more than they did two decades ago. It should be on the front page and every broadcast, reporting why for example Milton Friedman’s economic policies were the rationale for Republicans to assist in the transfer of much of the nation’s wealth to the 1%.

The mainstream media mostly reports when a budget bill is proposed and passed or an infrastructure bill, but they rarely report on its effects months or years later. Reagan’s policies threw millions into poverty, but his Cold War and his war on government grabbed most of the headlines. He was a miserable president given far too much credit by historians.

[jaxexpat]

13. All sound points. Good job.

And reasonable people would exhume the cretin and eviscerate the remains in a public square.

[WardOne]

14. Solar Panels

I hate Reagan every time I think of the progress we could have made if repugs cared about the earth.

Solar panels were installed in the late '70s during President Jimmy Carter's administration, but removed after Reagan's election in 1986.

[Martin Eden]

18. Reagan's "Morning in America" sunny disposition

Fooled a lot of people, as did his faux patriotism.

Little Ronnie was nothing but a prop for reactionary conservatism and the unfettered greed of the moneyed elite, while pretending to be an "aw, shucks" champion for Joe Sixpack.

He managed to con folks into feeling good about themselves and their country while their pockets were being picked and our democracy was being turned into an oligarchy.

[KS Toronado]

24. Did MF45 hone his craft by studying Reagan?

They were a lot alike.

[Martin Eden]

25. Reagan's slogan in his 1980 campaign:

Make America Great Again

[KS Toronado]

30. WOW, that's interesting and telling if true.

Is MAGA going to always be their slogan in the future? Maybe we need something similar like......
Make America Human Again? or Make America Loving Again?

[Martin Eden]

33. Google it. MAGA was used by Reagan

Perhaps not as prominently as TFG, but he pushed many of the same buttons.

I have a Sierra Club Make America Green Again bumper sticker on my car, though my favorite MAGA acronym is...

Manipulate
America's
Gullible
Assholes

[former9thward]

34. I googled it and it has been used by both parties.

Origanally used in 1940 and then picked up by Goldwater in 1964. Reagan used a version in 1980. Bill Clinton used it in 1992. Hiliary Clinton used it in the 2008 campaign. And then Trump in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again

[KS Toronado]

35. I like the sound of that....Make America Green Again

Will look for their bumper sticker

Mexicans
Always
Get
Across

Local Spanish speaking fellow told me this one about the border wall.

[Beatlelvr]

39. Trump...study?

Not in his limited vocabulary. But I get your point.

[localroger]

20. Reagan was a trained actor hired to play a role

He had already proven himself in the role of Governor of California, and he stepped naturally into the role of President. He was never actually running anything, which is why it didn't make much difference when the Alzheimer's started to affect him; he still had his acting skills. Even when he was just a front man for General Electric he was always a spokestool for powerful interests that paid him to be their public face.

He destroyed the country because rich short-sighted fools wanted it destroyed in that way in furtherance of their short-term business interests and they didn't see that it was a strong middle class that made their businesses successful in the first place. He differed from the Republican presidents that followed him because while GWB was among the group pulling Reagan's levers he wasn't an actor and couldn't carry off the public relations part of the job. Dubya was under the mistaken impression that he was actually running things and surrounded himself with advisors who were far more foolish than those who ran Reagan's show. And of course TFG wouldn't listen to anybody except the puppetmasters who held his debt.

I graduated from high school in 1981 and the change in the world from my adolescence to my adulthood was clear and stark. Triumph had turned into humiliation and hope turned to grim despair. We had booted Nixon and replaced him with possibly the most honest man to ever hold the office, only to replace him with a figurehead who wouldn't even know whether the words he was saying were true or not and, in his professional capacity, was trained not to care.

Reagan's true status was always visible to anyone who wanted to see, but he was the beginning of our national dalliance with everything Orwell had predicted in 1984. The important parts came in right on schedule, and the torture centers and machines that track you everywhere you go while entertaining you eventually followed.

[catbyte]

21. Amen, my friend.

That's the point in time that this country really started swirling down the crapper. Reagan also had the brilliant idea to give real political clout to the nutball Religious Right. Before him, they were just a reliable voting bloc for the GOP that they could pander to every 4 years then forget about them after the election. Now, after 40 years, they embrace willful ignorance and the Talibubbas want to turn us into their own twisted version of Iran.

Have a good day and give the pup crew a scritch under the chin for me!

[The Jungle 1]

23. I also remember Reagan.

His campaign promise was to balance the budget, cut taxes and increase defense spending. I said no way would America believe that lie. Now that was an eye opener and a campaign method trump reproved. We are a stupid people.
What he did do when in power was destroy unions and the middle class. Also most Americans forget that he TRIPLED the deficit.
There was that secret war thing.
I do not think he was running the country in his second term. He was sick.

[2Gingersnaps]

27. Funny you should mention that,

Babylon Sister posted a lovely story this morning about getting reamed by a Karen for buying a homeless man a water in Florida. Made me misty. Reagan destroyed the mental health system, he threw the mentally ill into the streets, the violent ended up in prison and the non violent remained in the streets. "Christians." I just had a Bezos fangirl ream me for not being sufficiently impressed on FB. I had a fantastic Sunday School Teacher when I was a kid, a cross between that English teacher every kid but me hated and Jimmy Carter. Which made my struggle with faith extremely difficult. I hate letting Mr. Ark down. I never dropped the F bomb until I was in my mid thirties, my running joke now is "hey, I don't have ulcers!" So fuck Reagan, and fuck Bezos bootlicker, and fuck "let the excess population die of dehydration" Karen. And now for my second cup of coffee.

Oh and might I mention, Nancy, as a D list actress decried "pretentiousness" before she went into the White House and suddenly every suburban matron was landed gentry, as their first Golden Calf killed their hubby's secure middle class job. Kind of like Melanoma's "Be Best" campaign. Who buys that bullshit?

[2Gingersnaps]

29. Oh, and some people are offended by profanity.

Um, might I suggest George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say On TV." I am offended by man's inhumanity to man. Words are just descriptive. Actions have the power to be profane. Sorry Mr. Ark, you taught me too well.

[alphafemale]

28. Reagan was just an empty headed puppet

Cheney, Rumsfeld and the other usual suspects were the puppet masters.

Reagan was just a reasonably talented actor given his lines and hitting his marks.

You really think that smiling buffoon came up with the Iran/Contra/Cocaine smuggling thing all on his own?

[Bettie]

31. Yeah, I get that mood some days too

Well, every day, but he's not always at the top of my mind!

[ananda]

32. Been that way since 1980.

He was always a pos.

[katmondoo]

36. I remember his assault on women's rights. I hated him for that and this became the GOP's mantra.

Reagan opened that pandora's box that still exists today in the Republican party. They fund raise on it.

[Aristus]

37. Reagan gave the American people permission to be disempathetic.

We have been an uglier, meaner, nastier, greedier, and more selfish nation ever since.

[KentuckyWoman]

38. He's dead.

Get an exorcist and get that jerk out of your head. You deserve better. I don't know ... go to the You Tube and watch jumping goats.

Good luck.

[Beatlelvr]

40. This is my pet peeve about Ronnie

Some of my Repub friends are convinced he freed the hostages. He got the credit because he announced it at his inaugural address. Not once did he give credit to Warren Christopher and the Algiers Accords. What a prick.

[Boomerproud]

41. Reaganism lives on.