FUCK RONALD REAGAN

[hatesthegop]

My earlier post got deleted so I'll sanitize this one...Ronald Reagan was a worthless piece of shit! Not only did he try his best to wreck the government, he made mean spiritedness an admired political trait. Instead of what can I do for my country..it became what can my country do for me? He was a nasty self absorbed asshole and that prune face wife of his was a nut case as well, consulting astrologers about what to do concerning the nation's problems and then having Ronnie act upon their findings. To make matters worse Ronald and his muddled brain didn't have the courtesy to fade away gracefully-he saddled the taxpayers with another 15 and half years of paying for his security and diaper changes. I can't believe how anybody can even look up to him, yet alone put his fucking face on currency or chisel that asshole's mug on a mountain side. Every time I see that God damn GE commerical running right now, it drives me straight up the friggin wall.

[LiberalLoner]

1. I hate that commercial too.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. No thanks, I'm not into Necrophilia...

[mix]

3. hear hear

fuck raygun and his disciples

[Ruffhowse]

4. I agree

I totally agree. History in the long run will regard Ronnie Ray-Gun as one of the worst presidents in American history. He ushered in an era of unprecedented greed and selfishness and hammered our economy with ruinous tax cuts that we are still paying for today until forever. He was a puppet president for fat cat corporate elites and it was obvious to any who looked closely enough and didn't believe the hype.

[knowbody0]

9. my daughter's senior history records him as

misguided, ultra paranoid about "communism" spreading throughout Latin America, and the Iran Contra scandal. very brief, but definitely no hero bullshit.

[RKP5637]

11. I imagine the Texans in rewriting history will fix that up in the new text books... It's great

she's now being taught facts and not fables.

[hatesthegop]

50. I would hate to halve to teach in Texas

[katandmoon]

5. K&R and ICAM.

[IndianaGreen]

6. How come Clinton did not rehire the PATCO air traffic controllers that Reagan fired?

And why did he pursue Reaganesque policies such as welfare reform?

[katandmoon]

7. Clinton DID sign an EO immediately after his inauguration allowing abortion coverage for Feds

Not saying Clinton wasn't a huge disappointment because he was (as is Obama), but Clinton was no Reagan.

[IndianaGreen]

8. It was a meaningless piece of paper

Abortion coverage is not allowed for federal workers, thanks to the likes of Henry Hyde.

[katandmoon]

15. For the first two years of Clinton's presidency, federal employees had abortion coverage.

I was there. You obviously were not.

[IndianaGreen]

47. There was no abortion coverage

and there has never been abortion coverage.

[MajorChode]

18. He did

Or at least he signed an Executive Order that allowed them to reapply for their jobs. A couple of things to remember here. Most, if not all, of the PATCO controllers signed an agreement that they would NOT strike and federal government workers had no right to strike under the law. PATCO also was one of only two unions that endorsed Raygun in the 1980 election. Few union members wasted any tears on PATCO at the time.

[RKP5637]

10. Yeah, I know, that GE commercial irks me too. IMO the nation started falling apart when

he became president. I always puke when the republicans hold him up as a god. In fact they don't even have to do that, most republicans make me puke...:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Chulanowa]

12. Not with George Bush's forked little dick

[WCGreen]

13. Not even with your dick...

[kestrel91316]

14. Reagan started this country down the road to ruin with his blind worship

of corporations, the religious right, and the almighty dollar. If there is a God, may "Saint Ronnie" be burning in hell.

[hatesthegop]

51. He was nothing but a lousy actor with a mean spirit

he was already an asshole when he was with the screen actors guild...IIRC he was one of nthe forces that screwed over Francis Farmer and caused her to be institutuionalized, have a lobotomy and not only ruin her career, but her life in the process!

[BeFree]

16. Federal deficits...

...raygun sent the line of increasing deficits to the moon. Every long term chart of federal deficits shows raygun's term with a huge sustained rise. Clinton made the line even out but bush took the deficit to the stars.

Fucking lying cheating republicans.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Eeew. No thanks. Even if he wasn't dead for years. nt

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[katandmoon]

20. So? She's not the one who trashed the country. Her husband was.

[hatesthegop]

31. she actually ran the country

remember Ronnie was afraid of her and called her 'Mommy'

[omega minimo]

26. FAIL

[JSK]

21. That's the sanitized version?

Love it!

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[leeroysphitz]

22. Yes. Fuck him running, uphill, backwards, on skis, carrying crutches, blind-folded, with his mouth

open the day after Christmas.








(thanks Keith)

[Initech]

23. I agree - Raygun and his "trickle down economics" theory fucked us all.

[rufus dog]

34. it really wasn't his theory

I need to do some more research, but it was originally called piss and sparrow back in the 20's (sucked at marketing didn't they!) Same idea, cover those up high then it will trickle down.

[omega minimo]

24. Maybe they thought it was a phony, pathetic, parody pretending to portray how we really feel

[hatesthegop]

30. what?

[timtom]

27. I was saying that in 1968.

[hatesthegop]

28. My mom had just passed her citizenship class

and loved the thought of being able to vote, but said that there were two people she would never vote for:
Reagan and Nixon

[timtom]

41. Congrats to your mom!!!

That's great.

And she has shown herself to be a wise and intuitive thinker.

[hatesthegop]

49. Thanks I studied

and when I was 14 years and 2 days old, I passed mine also!!!

[timtom]

52. Very impressive.

By the way....

WELCOME TO DU!

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. Hell YES!!!

[rufus dog]

32. NO FUCKING WAY

Even when I was in college he was old and wrinkled, and now he is dead you sick, perverted MOFO.

Now I will read your post and not just your subject.

[dchill]

33. He really lowered the bar...

for the presidency.

[rufus dog]

35. OK read your post - Reagan = Obama is what some people have to get

When Obama made the Reagan comparison some people on the left went NUTS. It is because they don't fucking get it. Reagan had limited intellectual knowledge but was DAMN good at being a figure head for what he thought was best for the Country. So Ronnie had limited knowledge, limited accomplishments, but became an instant idol used by Conservative to push an agenda. AND IT WORKED.

We have the counter Reagan, but he is a helluva a lot smarter. Look at what can be done over 20 years rather than what has been done over one year (or what hasn't been done) and realize you can use Obama to argue for everything you want and get a boatload of it!

[lutefisk]

36. How about: FUCK THE MORANS WHO WORSHIP RONALD REAGAN?

Ronnie's dead, but the fuckwads who either worship him, or pretend to, deserve our scorn.

:)

[upi402]

37. Welcome to DU

:fistbump:

[democrat2thecore]

38. Classy. -nt

[Skittles]

39. reagan made idiocy and greed fashionable

he has caused irreparable damage to America

[Golden Raisin]

40. The Reagan presidency

was a catastrophic disaster on multiple levels for this country, from which we have not recovered.

[mix]

42. Raygun's neoliberal legacy: poverty

The new Gilded Age began in 1980 and continues.

[LWolf]

43. If that's sanitized, I wonder what the first post said.

:rofl:

Not that I disagree, mind you. :D

[hatesthegop]

46. I used more graphic language

and included his wife in more of what I said

[branders seine]

44. yep. he was a lukewarm squirt of shit

neck and neck with l'il george for worst president ever. Everything he stood for has turned out to be a disaster. The world is a fucked up place and at least half of it is reagan's fault.

[Bettie]

45. I just want them to stop naming stuff after the guy

I'm so tired of hearing him being spoken of as a saintly man when it is a direct result of HIS POLICIES that have screwed over our economy and turned the political discourse toxic.

You are totally right about the man though.

And, to make it worse, he wasn't even a good actor.

[hatesthegop]

48. Me too everytime I hear that bastards name mentioned

I want to puke!

[mitchum]

53. Fuck Reagan and all those motherfuckers who deify that rotten piece of shit

[hatesthegop]

55. couldn't have phrased it better

[Libertas1776]

54. not to mention

a godawful actor. I mean have you ever sat through one of his films. But in summation, FUCK RONALD REAGAN!!!

[hatesthegop]

56. I'd love to some one take a giant shit on his grave

In fact I'd probably pay some one to do just that!

[JSK]

70. I live in Simi Valley and I could use some cash

How much?

[jmowreader]

57. I think they should install a Reagan memorial in every town

Every town deserves a Reagan Memorial.

Design of the jmowreader-approved Reagan Memorial: a plaque bearing his name screwed to the inside of the first toilet in the women's room on the first floor of city hall, so women, who Reagan took a giant shit on for eight years, can return the favor without traveling to California or going to prison.

[uponit7771]

58. AMEN!!!

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[Pesci11]

60. Reagan was a very successful President

In the words of Obama: http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/01/obama_reagan_changed_direction_of_country_in_way_bill_clinton_didnt.php

[musette_sf]

61. "even though I did not agree with him on many issues,"

Be sure to quote the ENTIRE quote instead of cherry picking to support your hero.

The only thing Reagan was successful at, was using racism and treachery to gain support through fear and ignorance.

Reagan's campaign was the initial RNC floating of a complete boob, infinitely malleable, as a power puppet to front the right wing corporatocracy and the military-industrial complex*.

Reagan's election was the beginning of the death of the middle class in America.

He and GWBu$h are tied for Worst President Ever.

* Also see J Danforth Quayle as RNC hollow figurehead trial balloon.

[Joey Liberal]

62. Reagan was a senile jerk

But a nice guy...............

[Naturalist111]

63. Not that politicians have ever been clean, upstanding,

in it for the people, but for me, it was, "what is American doing? A actor running for president? I said to many "this is the end of sanity for America. No longer will politics make any sense at all. It will be full of loonies." Was I right?

[slackmaster]

64. My grandfather knew him personally

He said Reagan was really a nice guy.

[Arugula Latte]

67. Gee, isn't that special.

That "really nice guy" screwed over this entire country in many ways. I'm sure the relatives of the people he helped slaughter in Central America will be happy to hear he was so genial.

Too bad he didn't croak decades ago and not besmirch this country...evil bastard.

[wolfgangmo]

69. Pleasant, perhaps. Genial, maybe. But nice?

No.

Nice is a verb, not a noun. It describes actions. His actions were despicable, cruel, and harmed millions world wide. Does anyone remember the AID's epidemic? Iran-contra? The Iran hostages (kept 3 months after their release was arranged so that their release came AFTER the election - he should be dug up, burned, shot, vaporized and shat on just for that little piece of buggery)?

I'm sure everyone here on the board could mention a dozen thugish and criminal acts he personally oversaw. In fact, let's do just that.

Pile on everyone. Name a Reagan crime or misdemeanor.

[DatManFromNawlins]

71. Nice is an adjective, genius

[druidity33]

65. I'll K&R that. nt.

[Lifelong Protester]

66. Makes my husband and I fight for the mute button...

yuck, such coporate tools and the corporations that glorify them.

[HughMoran]

68. We're still paying for his fucking deficit spending and union busting

...never mind the extreme partisanship that he started that has us at each others throats now.


I hate that ignoramus.

[Truth2Tell]

72. One from a few years ago...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2707207

:) :hi:

[hatesthegop]

74. Well spoken...thank you!!!

[cheapdate]

73. Fuck Ronnie Raygun. I was a 15 year old high school kid

when it was reported in the news that our government was supporting and training right-wing paramilitary death squads in Latin America and that killing priests and nuns to terrorize the population was a part of their work. I was just a dumb high-school kid and wasn't political at all but I knew then that that was way past fucked up. All part of Ronnie's commie paranoia. Fuck him.

[Robeson]

75. Kick and Rec.

[Hamlette]

76. Can anyone tell me why the love him?

I lived through the Reagan years and I couldn't figure it out. Was it because he made stupidity fashionable? I remember how anti education he was. Even as governor. He destroyed the free 2 year colleges in CA.

I see him as Bush with better speaking skills. Kinda like Palin. At least the GOP isn't trying to say Bush was a good prez and Reagan ran up a bigger debt than Bush did and Reagan even raised taxes which Bush refused to do. Why do they like him?

[pezDispenser]

77. Thats the santized version?

:rofl: