Fitzgerald probe widening to include Ronald Reagan and Joseph Stalin

[jobycom]

Unidentified sources have confirmed.





(uh, sarcasm. you never know what people will take seriously).

[no name no slogan]

1. Why would F. Scott want to probe Ronnie and Papa Joe?

Wasn't "The Great Gatsby" enough?

[graywarrior]

2. Probe is one of my most favorite words

[NNadir]

3. Stalin I think, is involved.

Something about the one party state, the cult of personality, the controlled press, the fixed elections, the imperialism disguised as liberation, the view of the poor as disposables, the suppression of dissent, the gulags where there is no indictment no formal accusation and no trial, the warm and friendly dealings with fascists suggests that Stalin may well represent the brains behind this operation.

[GirlinContempt]

4. But, you're missing one key point

Stalin had a sweeeeeet 'stache.




Did I just blow your mind?

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Sweet stache, maybe...

But you said it yourself, dude looked like a fucking Village People reject.

[GirlinContempt]

8. Only in that one pic

I mean, the rest of the time, when he was all givn'r, dude looked crazy. I mean, that 'stache man! All he needed was chops

[jobycom]

9. Well, most of that fit Reagan, too, except

the part about having a brain! And his gulags were not for his own people.

[NNadir]

11. Reagan, I think was more Brezhnev than Stalin, old, doddering, senile...

...praised to the most absurd level by party apparachiks who refused to comment on or else pretended not to notice the fact that he'd been brain dead for decades.

It is true that Leonid, like Reagan, was responsible for untold horror, but, in Leo and Ron's case, it more out of confusion than direct action.

Bush and Cheney have more of the criminal intent of Stalin, more of the calculation, however neither of them is as remotely intelligent or as cunning as Stalin.

Isolated ideologues in one party states are almost all dangerous to their countries and to the world at large, but some are worse than others. I thought Reagan was a disaster, but I didn't realize quite how much worse things could be.

There is likely to be no one available to run this country who can undo the damage this time. It's third-world-city for us.

[jobycom]

12. Reagan was underrated

as far as complete catastrophes go. I don't think Bush has been any worse. I do think that the cumulative effect of Reagan/Bush, and then Bush II before the nation had recovered its manufacturing base, may be too much for us.

On the other hand we have a natural resource base the world is jealous of, we have a workforce educated and trained beyond most nations. We do have the raw materials to recover.

The world might be better served with a weaker America, anyway. Given that we can't elect two Clintons or Carters or JFKs in a row.

[NNadir]

14. I agree that Reagan was worse than many people know, but I don't

agree that we have that great of a natural resource base.

I think the biggest area of our decline is intellectual decline and that we are showing graphically our contempt for education. I also don't believe our natural resources are all that much. They're increasingly played out, in fact, by years of orgiastic behavior.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. This is HUGH!

[deadparrot]

13. And VERY series!! nt

[Democrats_win]

6. Those slacker reporters misspelled KEN STARR again.

[jobycom]

10. Cause remember, two Rs, just like the greatest president ever!

Pretending to be brain dead for a moment. Sorry.

[slybacon9]

15. Joseph Stalin widening Ronald Reagan with his probe.