If I could wave a magic wand and undo a Presidency, it would be Reagan’s.
Trump was a big loud stupid animal, but almost completely ineffective at legislative work. McConnell carried all the water of his few cruel “accomplishments.” All Trump wanted to do was hear/see himself talk/tweet. He thankfully got in his own way a lot.
Reagan, on the other hand, was competent evil, and his malice towards American peasants is felt by most of us every day whether we realize and acknowledge it or not. One of the few people I can say without an ounce of guilt or shame deserved the traumatic way he died and far worse.
I see a lot of comments posted about Reagan, like this one, that infer that he was the mastermind behind reaganomics. The evidence though suggests otherwise. It more likely that Reagan was the perfect headpiece to the administrators that pulled the levers.
There’s a great story that was told by former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, about how on his first trip to the USA he had dinner meeting with Reagan to talk about economic matters globally, and domestically between the US and Australia. Hawke told of how once the pleasantries were over and they started to talk shop, Reagan handed the conversation to the advisors, who were also present, whilst Reagan sat there munching on his steak. Hawke said Reagan looked oblivious and was uninterested in the discussion.
Destructive president, absolutely. Evil genius, not so sure. I think that title silts squarely on Maggie Thatcher.
There’s no suggestion. He was almost certainly demented already save on several occasions referred directly to his “handlers” about speech and question preparation.
My favorite is the televised address where he was asked a question and they turned out the lights and shuffled Reagan offstage but not before he says something to the effect of “my handlers have told me not to answer that”.
Perhaps that’s where this timeline went off the rails.
He wasn’t supposed to survive.
There was a urban myth called the Zero Theory. Lincoln was elected in 1860, died in office. 1880 President Garfeild died in office, 1900 McKinley died in office, 1940 President FDR died in office, and 1960 President JFK died in office. The 1980 President should have died in office…
edit…skipped Harding, elected 1920 and died in office.
Of course, if you keep going, we would have President Harris right now. Ick.
That comment made me wonder if I did skip time lines, I don’t think dying at home at 93 with your wife by your side is particularly traumatic.
I can’t think of a more traumatic way to die than Alzheimer’s. You get to witness your own sense of self, your own identity unravel slowly, and witnessed by those you care about most. Cancer hurts, torture hurts, but its happening to you. Alzheimer’s is losing yourself in front of yourself every moment, leaving you in a worsening state of fear and confusion until there isn’t enough of you left to know your own name anymore. Then a blank slab sits in your place painting water colors until the slab forgets how to chew and eat and even breath until the slab of your vacant husk finally expires long after any you that you would recognize was cognitively dismantled a piece at a time.
Couldn’t have happened to a bigger garbage person than Reagan.
I’d say Nixon, without the Southern Strategy, the republican party wouldn’t have been basically taken over by the subsumed Dixiecrats.
Andrew Johnson. He reversed the reparations that were starting to happen, and put the former slaveholders back in power in the south. By the time Grant got into power, the slaveholders were firmly entrenched again.
All the problems of the modern day conservatives date back to not finishing the civil war, and Andrew Johnson is the reason why.
The sad part is that some of those kids probably grew up to vote for Trump.
It’s Oklahoma they absolutely did.
Source: lived in Tulsa for a few years. That whole state can just get sent to the shadow realm and nothing of value would be lost.
Send a warning first but use plain English and add in a random LGBT or democrat slogan.
Bernie Sanders presents
The WOKE-A-PALOOZA
Located just over the border
All Democrats/liberals/leftists and Antifa get in FREE
Oklahoma is merging with Outworld so bring your whole family! Quick! For reals.
Sprinkle in some acts and features that would make fashies skin crawl so they stay away and hey one big ass party while OK implodes into non existence. Then we add Puerto Rico as a state so we don’t need to update anything.
His presidency was probably the single biggest inflection point in this country’s history in the last 50 years, second only to 911.
Shame that JHJr wasn’t a better shot.
Having been around during 9/11, Reagan was a bigger inflection point. He was directly responsible for ramping up the arming of the groups that would go on to form al Qaeda. But, that’s a small contribution compared to overseeing the decoupling of productivity from pay and his war on labor.
Eh. I tend to view him as a symptom, not the disease itself.
Better he died more obviously brain-rotted and feeble than martyrd after he did all the damage anyways.
Do you really think anything would be different with an early HW Bush administration?
1000% yes.
Reagan was shot only about a year into his 8 years in office. If he was taken out then and Bush Sr stepped up, then the total reign of that awful administration would have been many, many years less. Plus Bush didn’t even come close to having the same pull as Reagan. Reagan was charismatic. He was a POS, but he knew how to talk to people and get them to agree with him - he was an actor for Pete’s sake, so he had all the “soft skills” to connect with both Republicans and Democrats. Bush Sr was nothing like that. He was just another “generic” politician who couldn’t even get reelected.
Our country would be vastly different today if JH Jr was a better shot.
These are children.
What excuse do modern Republicans have? When they made jokes about Pelosi’s husband getting beat with a hammer?
I mean, for a given value of vileness, I don’t see anything wrong with being privately amused about a person in a position of power getting some form of suffering inflicted upon them, though calling for it is nothing less than a plea for civil war. The problem with the whole Paul Pelosi incident was:
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Republicans openly make calls for political violence and then take no responsibility when it happens.
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Paul Pelosi wasn’t a politician or anyone of serious note. He simply had the sheer gall to be a member of a politician’s family.
Fun fact: John Hinckley is out of prison. He has a YouTube channel where he records cute little love songs and he sells art on eBay.
