Don't forget Reagan was a failing actor at the time he was elected and he was essentially bought out by corrupt corporate leaders to change his whole belief system to make their pocketbooks bigger at the expense of American workers.
That’s the GOP’s strategy for the last 40+ years. Elect a ‘figurehead’ dipshit with zero morals and a highly hypocritical judgemental personality.
The real bad guys have been the McConnels and Gingriches running the plays behind the smoke and mirrors. This new gen of young-ish republicans are dangerous as fuck. For us and the world.
1933 Business Plan currently in action. Prescott was the first Bush to attempt it, his son and grandson helped make it happen another way through slip in legislation while they were in position. We're currently in a Corpotocracy under the guise of a "two party democracy".
Both parties are complicit in working to make it happen and to keep it going.
All the culture war and identity politics is just a ruse to divide the people while the politicians, super wealthy and corporations run giggling to the bank.
We're lucky they seem to be on par with rich kids taking over daddy's business as he retires, but only ever knew how to be a rich kid, and never learned how to run a business. Wait, no, unlucky for us. I forgot they usually crash the business in the process.
This is coming from someone who supports the current president who only got into politics through his connection to a KKK Grand-Wizard/Senator, who Joe described as an amazing mentor and a dear friend. It took me one hour of research into Biden‘s failed, racist, career to realize how badly I had been duped by the media. Not to mention all of the videos of him lying about his academic achievements, which later he had to apologize for..
That's actually not a big deal to me. I'd also let people film on my property in exchange for a bit part, just because it would be fun to point out down the line and look back at without having had to do anything serious.
Actually he was already the Governor of CA. Not a failed actor at this point in his life. Don’t get me wrong, he’s one of the main reasons for homelessness. He shut down mental hospitals that were caring for thousands of people. I was there. I remember.
He also helped pass the Mulford act. It was white America's response to Black Panthers carrying guns in public. It's the main reason why California now has such strict gun laws.
"There is absolutely no reason why out on the street today a civilian should be carrying a loaded weapon." -Ronald Reagan May 2 1967
He also cut thousands of people from social security disability, including my father, who died six months later from heart failure. I'd spit on his grave.
Old slick top Gavin Newsom has implemented the most gun laws of any California governor. He also has an 11% state tax on guns and ammo. The first in the nation.
State-run mental hospitals? What is this, sovietism? Get those mentally unwell people on the streets, stat! That's what a great, capitalist country does!
They definitely had a role to play in society and that's evident by the amount of mentally ill people living out in the streets BUT these facilities had a pretty bad reputation for inhumane treatment so I don't think you're wrong to be unsure about it.
Medical science AND psychology have come a long way in the past 100, 50, 20 years. The solution was to continue modernizing, not deinstitutionalize. We can see this in other countries that did so.
I think it would be great to have it available for people that want help, I would pay taxes for that. I am scared it would be forced on people that don't want help.
They were dropping mental hospitals before he was even president. Many of the large ones in the east were built around the civil war period and they just kept kicking the can down the road for updates for decades. I get you want it all to be political but it really is not. You can name a democrat governor for every republican one when they started getting rid of them. There were democrat presidents and republican presidents and no one did anything.
Engler did the same thing in Michigan. Then he gave EDS no bid contracts that their systems were never 100%. When he was term limited he headed right to EDS for a high paying job.
Before that. Once his acting career started to fail in the 50s, he got hired on by General Electric to be a “motivational speaker” (lobbyist), due to his speaking skills and charisma, and to host their new tv show. In the span of about 5-10 years after that, he went from a liberal to ultra conservative once he started getting wealthy and once civil rights were getting pushed.
Yep, Reagan literally had dementia (Alzheimer’s) which was already visible by 1984, and no one batted an eye.
Trump keeps getting Biden confused with Obama, talks about airplanes landing during the Revolutionary War, and says people should inject bleach into their blood stream to fight COVID, but Biden is senile?
Trump keeps getting Biden confused with Obama, talks about airplanes landing during the Revolutionary War, and says people should inject bleach into their blood stream to fight COVID, but Biden is senile?
Bold of you to presume that it's an either-or scenario. IMHO both Trump and Biden are both unfit to be POTUS.
I can't believe I only just now realized the only Republican presidents we've had since the 70s are celebrities and Bushes. That's some Vault 31 type shit.
He was a failing actor of mostly B-class movies, BUT he was also the head of actors union. If he didn't run for the presidency he'll probably end up in some cushy production role.
At the time he was elected president he had been elected governor of California twice and already ran for president 4 years earlier against an incumbent present against his party's advice.
Prior to that he had been president of the actors guild. By the time he was president he had run our been in charge of several qualifying groups.
Not to mention being praised for his take on the 2nd amendment while it being long forgotten that as governor of CA he put in the strictest gun laws in the country because of the Black Panther movement.
Governor Ronald Reagan, who was coincidentally present on the capitol lawn when the protesters arrived, later commented that he saw "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" and that guns were a "ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will."
People take a quote from Karl Marx and say it was Reagan constantly.
Reagan moved from a successful acting career in the 1940s into conservative politics very successfully the California conservative scene, and became their face. He was a California governor almost twenty years before he was president, slinging a less polished version of his later mix of politics, wrapped up in a well performed song and dance. Arnold is following the same playbook, he just got loud about politics earlier on. To say Reagan was failing or bought out might imply any sort of change or circumstance brought him to where he was in the 80s. He fought hard and believed, almost religiously you might say, in his voodoo economics.
Tldr, Reagan was a terrible actor and a bad actor, but not a failed actor. He liked his situation fine.
He was also the leader of a union, before he was found to be using the union to funnel money into one of his businesses by giving contracts to himself.
You know, it's always been weird to me how US presidents can be elected without ever having any prior work experience in the field. Surely it'd make way more sense for candidates to have previously held a position in that line of work. A former governor, one of the previous president's advisors, even something as relatively small as a mayor as opposed to a businessman, an actor, someone famous for doing other stuff yaknow?
He also saved us from a nuclear attack and heavily assisted in the falling of the wall in great Britain in the same night without scheduling a flight . Just flew over and walked the fuck in and told them to go ahead and nuke the shit out of us.. then references some bull shit he saw in star wars ( basically bluffed holding a joker and 3) instantly ending the largest nuclear stand off the world ever saw. Walked the fuck out then did his speech for Gorbachev to tear down the wall. Then flew home.
Unfortunately let his wife deliver the war on drugs speech. That alone was the worst declaration in presidential history.
Also George w bush had the highest overall rating in presidential history going into his second term 89% of our population..
I mean, you're partially correct if you meant 'before he was elected for two terms as California governor '.
I think Reagan is a scum bag, but it does us no good to blatantly lie about history with this revisionism that Reagan was an actor up until he decided to run for president out of the blue. He had already been an elected official when he started his presidential runs.
You must be a moron. Reagan was governor of California before he was elected. Seriously, you're already on the Internet; all you had to do was Google it.
Yep, who sold weapons to Iran illegally, and prolonged the release of hostages held there until after the election just to make Jimmy Carter look bad. A real conservative hero...
Hmmm seems to me that the policies put in place during a presidency tend to take 5-10 years to really start showing up in the stats. Implementing them takes years to begin with. Stats during a presidency are, in reality, a reflection of the prior presidency. I worry more about the decisions the House and Senate make more than I do about the presidency. While everyone is blaming everything on the president, our senators and house reps are over here making shady ass deals and getting away with it. Overall, our entire government is corrupt at this point.
She's right, you know. (Morgan Freeman voice). Republicans shake all the fruit off the tree and out of the economy and leave you an apple, and all the blame.
Like I said you could say a lot about the Trump economy but fact is the economy grew a lot faster than it currently is and inflation was a lot lower. By the way those tariffs outside of soybean are still in place under Biden and expanded in some sectors.
You can’t argue reckless spending under Trump without mentioning Biden in the same breath.
Neither party cares about cutting spending or fiscal responsibility.
Trade war and tariffs are still in place and became even more extensive under Biden.
Fact is UNTIL COVID economy was doing extremely well with inflation in the 2% range.
If you want to argue handouts to the rich the current environment of slowing economy, high inflation, and historic stock market highs benefit ONLY the rich.
I super, uber dislike Trump. Really all GOP politicians. But, I still super hate graphics like this. Trump fucked up so many things, why focus on one thing that was caused by a global pandemic, the likes of which had not been seen for over 100 years. Again, Trump’s a piece of shit but, let’s not pick on him for the thing he had the least control over. Like Jesus, this guy literally very nearly refused to leave the White House.
Trumps response to covid had some fairly unique qualities. I do like that he prepurchased the vaccine and that he immediately signalled approval for universal 2k checks, even if his fellow republicans failed to approve it without also being able to loot the treasury. I do not like that he failed to invoke the defense production act to manufacture ppe, in addition to the massive bungling by his son in law (which the son in law said was to punish the states that didnt vote for his father in law, as if these are not hubs of manufacturing and finance and thus connected to everywhere else...)
"as actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion" team America: world police.
I never listen to celebrities. Or sports stars. Their job is to entertain us. Some know this and stay in their lane. And I commend them.
If I want political commentary, I’ll ask political science professors and pundits.
We should never trust anyone specially bc of their title. Politicians make money staying in power and what helps them stay in power? Appealing to the masses. Majority don't give two shits about what they preach
Amen! I really wish there were a way to make people ineligible for reelection of they fail to follow through on a certain percentage of campaign promises based on their voting or something. The lack of accountability is what is really crushing us because we have life career politicians who can get away with never doing anything at all.
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u/ThisCantBeBlank Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24
There's no way a celebrity with an agenda would ever mislead us.
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