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I hope one day that history looks back on ronald reagan as one of the 20th century’s most vile and disgusting serial killers
may i ask why
Remember when like 6 Americans had ebola and it was an international emergency, and Obama flew out to meet survivors? Here is a list of things the United States government did in response: -Increasing the number of Ebola testing labs throughout the U.S. that can quickly and safely screen a potential Ebola specimen -Educating more than 150,000 health care workers on how to identify, isolate, diagnose, and care for patients under investigation for Ebola -Developing countermeasures — including the first Ebola vaccine to progress to Phase 2 testing — to prevent and treat Ebola -Converting at least 10 of the Ebola Treatment Centers into long-term Regional Ebola and Pandemic Treatment Centers for long-term readiness for years to come -Helping state and local public health systems accelerate and improve their operational readiness and preparedness for Ebola or other infectious diseases Source: https://whitehouse.gov/ebola-response
When the Reagan administration was faced with tens of thousands of gay men dying, they did nothing. They made jokes. They laughed. They caused an epidemic that killed 40 million people, because they hated gay men and thought we deserved to die.
There is so much more to it. There is a myth perpetuated by Reaganites that he was an historically significant President, in some positive sense. If you are old enough to have voted in 1980, you probably know differently. If you were born after 1980 you have been raised on this myth. He sold Americans a fable about a Hollywood movie-like exceptional past and destiny, and led ordinary people around with portrayals of that mirage while his reactionary robber-baron friends set about dismantling 50 years of progressive advancements for working men and women, on their way to returning themselves to the position of unfettered economic domination they held between the Civil War and the Great Depression. He was a union buster. He gave us Scalia – need I say more? He tried to give us Robert Bork (does anyone under 30 even know who he is?). He lied about Iran/Contra. He avoided dealing with AIDS. He sealed the political sham-show between right wing capitalist kings and the evangelical thought-control snake-oil salesmen. Americans don’t want to hear that they are ordinary citizens of the world, and they don’t want to hear that the aren’t anointed by some deity to lead the world to salvation. They lapped it up, and they continue to do so.
I have to wonder how the response of a more competent presidency to the AIDS crisis might have changed even the global impact of the disease. Where might we be today? How many millions of people would be alive and not suffering? Yes, Reagan was historically significant—for fucking things up in a globally devastating way.
When you hear how he slashed Income taxes, he did on the Wealthy, but he increased the lowest tax rate from 10% to 15%.
His campaign was funded by Christian radicals, whose entire goal was to dismantle Roe vs. Wade and see American women relegated once more to back alleys and dirty knives. He opened the door to religion in politics in a way the postwar McCarthyists never dreamed possible. Now, 36 years after his election, maybe a third of American medical schools offer proper access to even first-trimester abortion training (in an era where that should mean a pill or vaginal suppository), and there are currently fewer doctors trained to perform late stage abortions for the entire US than there were pre-RvW (when such operations were only performed as a heroic measure).
And no one has even touched on his legacy of racial hatred, deliberate destruction of black communities and establishing of COONTELPRO to destroy the lives of black panthers and black activists, his actual murder of black activists and more. He was actually a demon.
If you want to know how many lives could have been saved if the Reagan government had just fucking BUDGETED for AIDS research instead of telling AIDS researchers that they had to beg, borrow or steal any money for AIDS from other programs–then read And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts. And be prepared to have your heart broken at the unadulterated and wildly irresponsible waste.of time and human lives.
Other shitty things Reagan did:
1) He almost tripled the National Debt. And you need to see the difference with zeroes:
When Reagan took office in 1980: $909,100,000 owed.(909.1 billion)
When Reagan left office in 1988: $2,601,300,000,000 owed. (2.6 trillion)
2) He raised taxes on the middle class and the poor ELEVEN TIMES while in office.
3) Unemployment soared after Reagan passed his tax cuts for the rich, and it took decades to get back down again.
4) He turned the U.S. into an illegal weapons dealer.
5) He funded terrorists, helping create the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. From NewsOne:
After Ronald Reagan was elected in 1981, U.S. funding of the mujahideen increased significantly and CIA Paramilitary Officers played a big role in training, arming and sometimes even leading mujahideen forces.
The CIA trained the mujahideen in many of the tactics Al Qaeda is known for today, such as car bombs, assassinations and other acts that would be considered terrorism today.
6) When his economic policies began wreaking havoc on the government, Reagan stole from Social Security–to the tune of 2.5 TRILLION–treating it for eight years as the private slush fund of himself and his rich friends.
7) [T]he Reagan administration demonized opponents of apartheid, most notably the African National Congress, as dangerous and pro-communist. Reagan even vetoed a bill to impose sanctions on South Africa, only to be overruled by Congress.
They called him the Teflon president for a reason. All this shit–and none of it stuck to him. He got away clean every single time.
Not to mention his influence in shutting down help for the mentally ill and leading to increased homelessness.
Has anyone mentioned the War on Drugs and how that’s hit minority communities particularly hard?
This is the kind of shit i like to see on my dash
I dont think anyone has yet mentioned America’s role in the Salvadoran civil war & the School of the Americas
Look, I never believe in conspiracy theories, I think Al-Qaeda did 9/11, I think Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK, I think a high altitude radiation-sensing balloon crashed in Area 51, and I think Obama is a protestant from Hawaii. But I’m about 50% sure that Trump is (most likely unwittingly) a pawn of the Russian government. The evidence keeps piling up. He has aides with deep Russian ties. One of his chief foreign policy advisors is a regular on Russian propaganda TV. His campaign manager has a history of putting Putin lackeys into power. His aides gutted the pro-Ukraine parts of the RNC. And now he’s doubling down on his promise to maybe not help our NATO allies if they were attacked by Russia. Even a candidate saying that helps Russia. He has numerous business ties to Russian oligarchs, even hosting the Miss USA pageant in Moscow. And to top it all off, Russian hackers are trying their best to hurt the Clinton campaign. I don’t know how anyone can see all of this and not be suspicious.
Oh and it turns out the Trump Organization is heavily leveraged by Russian banks since American banks wouldn’t touch his shitty businesses anymore. So he owes the Russians a lot of money. I’m now 55% sure.
Just to expand on this here: the Trump campaign had no interest in shaping the party platform, with the sole exception of their demand that they remove the language promising to defend Ukraine from a Russian attack. They didn’t even care about immigration policy. They just focused on standing out of Putin’s way should he try to annex the rest of Ukraine.
Yo, this is real shit guys. Please, I’m begging you. This is not the year to vote Third Party. As it stands right now, Jill Stein and Gary Johnson have NO CHANCE of beating Trump or Hilary. Our choices are Hilary, an imperfect candidate but who has been a liberal politician all of her career, and who is running on THE MOST Progressive platform the Democrats have ever put forth
Or Trump, a failed businessman, who doesn’t pay his employees or his creditors, an out and proud bigot with ties to white supremacist groups and endorsed by the American Nazi Party and the KKK, who wants to overturn the Paris Agreement, and who is more than likely a nuke-happy Kremlin puppet.
Vote.
Blue.
Please.
Casey Blaney, the woman who launched a GoFundMe to help Fred Barley, had a change of heart after he objected her plans for the money. Get the scoop.
Ya’ll seen this shit? This has me hot
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Wow
What the fuck kind of sick shit is this
What’s her fucking damage?
THIS BOY GETTIN IT
Boy…. Shit…
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Prince was such a defying existence. A black man who was a rock star, a person who wore women’s clothing and never had his sexuality questioned. He was not limited by anything and neither was his influence