How dare you depict Trump as a skunk! That is so demeaning of skunks! And skunks don’t have such bad hair!!!Okay, so skunks stink at everything. At least skunks pay their taxes!
Reagan taught Americans to hate their own Government, and it’s been downhill ever since.
Before Reagan convinced Americans that the Government couldn’t do anything, those awful Government programs put a man on the moon, laid the interstate, created radar, built huge hydro-electric dams, developed the internet, electrified rural America, and split the atom. A third of the private workforce was unionized. We had strongly progressive taxation. And America THRIVED.
Now the nations of Europe – whom we call “socialist” – have shot ahead of us in innovation and technology. They have internet speeds four times faster than we do. They have the high-speed rail. They have the state-of-the-art dams. They are developing inexhaustible energy sources while we refuse to stop digging coal out of the ground.
But in the United States, we can’t fix a stinking bridge anymore, because some billionaire might lose his almighty tax cut. We make educators making $50,000 a year take a 20% pay cut so that people making $50,000,000 a year don’t have to take a 3% tax hike. It doesn’t even make BAD sense.
The United States used to lead the world in damned near everything. After 35 years of Reaganomics and tax cuts for billionaires, we now lead the world in damned near nothing.
To paraphrase Reagan, “Are we better off now than we were 40 years ago?”
Reagan’s mass purging of mental health hospitals first began when he was the governor of California. As governor, Reagan threw more than half of the state’s mental health patients out of hospitals and onto the streets. He abolished the hospitals’ ability to institutionalize patients with severe mental illness.
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Before Reagan, Afghanistan more closely resembled Ohio than a Stone Age war zone. ✁
With the blessing of Reagan, the mujahideen militants violently overthrew the DRA government and instituted a repressive Islamic state in its place.
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However, it was recently discovered that Ronald Reagan led a double life at that time as an informant for the FBI. ✁
Reagan was contracted by the FBI to spy on actors and filmmakers as part of Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee.
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You may have heard of the Savings and Loan Scandal, which occurred when President Reagan began to deregulate the banking industry. ✁
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Reagan Administration hatched a scheme to funnel money to contributors to Reagan’s campaign by rigging housing bids in their favor.
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In the middle of his presidency, Ronald Reagan created a secret agency known as the Office of Public Diplomacy (OPD) with one nefarious purpose in mind: propaganda.
This was no ordinary propaganda. It was deemed “white propaganda,” designed to be used on the American people.
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Under the Reagan Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and its Reagan-appointed employees became embroiled in a host of scandals. ✁
Perhaps the most roundly illegal of these scandals was a scheme to fix elections with taxpayer money, otherwise known as “Sewergate.”
Well, they’ve done it again. And again. Whether blinded by ideological bias or suffering from a dearth of facts, conservative commentators still attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union to Ronald Reagan’s confrontational approach to the “evil empire.”
But the historical record points to an entirely different reality: Reagan’s deeply personal diplomatic engagement with a moderate, reform-minded Soviet leader fostered the liberalizing changes that ushered in the collapse of the USSR.
With significant implications for contemporary foreign policy – from Iran to North Korea – it is important to get history right. And the Trump administration has it dead wrong.
Yes, Reagan entered office embracing a bombastic, confrontational approach to the Soviet Union.
He also went on a massive defense spending spree which – in the wake of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy – led to staggering increases in federal debt.
But then things changed dramatically. Following a series of summit meetings with Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan softened his stance toward the Soviet Union.
Indeed, most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”
In a remarkable scene that some arch-conservatives seem to have forgotten, Reagan warmly embraced Gorbachev as the two world leaders casually chatted with cheering Soviet citizens while strolling through Moscow’s Red Square.
Far too many contemporary conservatives also conveniently forget that Reagan took enormous flak from his own hard-right flank in response to his diplomatic overtures to Gorbachev.
According to George Will, Reagan’s embrace of Gorbachev “accelerated the moral disarmament of the West.” William F. Buckley blasted Reagan (✁ 4 space)
If you actually listen to Trump, you will see that he almost always say “we”, rather than “I”, especially with regard to the COVID crisis. He only says “I” when he’s referring to the China and Europe lockdowns, because he ordered then against the advice of his team.
I remember being advised during the election after Reagan’s second term that if I voted for Al Gore, we would wind up in a war in the middle-east, gas shortages, and higher taxes. They were right. /s
Obama in the second panel wearing a trump wig. He was the I me I me I me I me I speaker. Listen to him when he speaks. He even tried to take credit for the economy before the pandemic when his lethargic economy of his last 3 years in office was pathetic. What a joke Obama was/is/. See the headlines of rioting and looting, Obama created that.
I first registered to vote in order to vote against Reagan. Reagan was a B list actor with good speech writers. Ken Khachigan and Peggy Noonan. Any reasonable actor can look good with the right script.
Cheapskate0 over 3 years ago
Sadly, Reagan, of all presidents, sets a pretty low bar. But Republicans still look up to him…
sergioandrade Premium Member over 3 years ago
Sadly when Donald Trump was nominated I kept remembering Ronald Reagan. I couldn’t believe he would win either. “It’s All So Depressingly Familiar.”
allen@home over 3 years ago
Reagan is the reason the registration for my pickup went from 22.30 to 74.00. Cause he was taking money from all the states for his Star Wars project.
Kurtass Premium Member over 3 years ago
Panel one, traitor. Panel two, traitor. Republicans, traitors since 1968.
braindead Premium Member over 3 years ago
“Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
Answer: There are 200,000+ and climbing who are NOT.
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Trump and His Disciples: “It is what it is.”
LeftCoastKen Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’m not a conservative … and certainly not a Reagan fan … but this is a pretty good strip today.
hugewolf over 3 years ago
How dare you depict Trump as a skunk! That is so demeaning of skunks! And skunks don’t have such bad hair!!!Okay, so skunks stink at everything. At least skunks pay their taxes!
Ignatz Premium Member over 3 years ago
Reagan taught Americans to hate their own Government, and it’s been downhill ever since.
Before Reagan convinced Americans that the Government couldn’t do anything, those awful Government programs put a man on the moon, laid the interstate, created radar, built huge hydro-electric dams, developed the internet, electrified rural America, and split the atom. A third of the private workforce was unionized. We had strongly progressive taxation. And America THRIVED.
Now the nations of Europe – whom we call “socialist” – have shot ahead of us in innovation and technology. They have internet speeds four times faster than we do. They have the high-speed rail. They have the state-of-the-art dams. They are developing inexhaustible energy sources while we refuse to stop digging coal out of the ground.
But in the United States, we can’t fix a stinking bridge anymore, because some billionaire might lose his almighty tax cut. We make educators making $50,000 a year take a 20% pay cut so that people making $50,000,000 a year don’t have to take a 3% tax hike. It doesn’t even make BAD sense.
The United States used to lead the world in damned near everything. After 35 years of Reaganomics and tax cuts for billionaires, we now lead the world in damned near nothing.
To paraphrase Reagan, “Are we better off now than we were 40 years ago?”
Silly Season over 3 years ago
Yeah… I’m sorry that I voted for Reagan….
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Reagan’s mass purging of mental health hospitals first began when he was the governor of California. As governor, Reagan threw more than half of the state’s mental health patients out of hospitals and onto the streets. He abolished the hospitals’ ability to institutionalize patients with severe mental illness.
✁
Before Reagan, Afghanistan more closely resembled Ohio than a Stone Age war zone. ✁
With the blessing of Reagan, the mujahideen militants violently overthrew the DRA government and instituted a repressive Islamic state in its place.
✁
However, it was recently discovered that Ronald Reagan led a double life at that time as an informant for the FBI. ✁
Reagan was contracted by the FBI to spy on actors and filmmakers as part of Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee.
✁
You may have heard of the Savings and Loan Scandal, which occurred when President Reagan began to deregulate the banking industry. ✁
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Reagan Administration hatched a scheme to funnel money to contributors to Reagan’s campaign by rigging housing bids in their favor.
✁
In the middle of his presidency, Ronald Reagan created a secret agency known as the Office of Public Diplomacy (OPD) with one nefarious purpose in mind: propaganda.
This was no ordinary propaganda. It was deemed “white propaganda,” designed to be used on the American people.
✁
Under the Reagan Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and its Reagan-appointed employees became embroiled in a host of scandals. ✁
Perhaps the most roundly illegal of these scandals was a scheme to fix elections with taxpayer money, otherwise known as “Sewergate.”
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Selling Illegal Arms To Iran
Supporting Apartheid
CIA Smuggling Cocaine
Supporting South American Terrorists And Genocide
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https://listverse.com/2015/01/15/10-reprehensible-crimes-of-ronald-re
kipallen over 3 years ago
Pulling the country out of Carter’s “malaise” and winning the Cold War is a pretty low bar, apparently.
bxclent Premium Member over 3 years ago
VOTE
Silly Season over 3 years ago
Well, they’ve done it again. And again. Whether blinded by ideological bias or suffering from a dearth of facts, conservative commentators still attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union to Ronald Reagan’s confrontational approach to the “evil empire.”
But the historical record points to an entirely different reality: Reagan’s deeply personal diplomatic engagement with a moderate, reform-minded Soviet leader fostered the liberalizing changes that ushered in the collapse of the USSR.
With significant implications for contemporary foreign policy – from Iran to North Korea – it is important to get history right. And the Trump administration has it dead wrong.
Yes, Reagan entered office embracing a bombastic, confrontational approach to the Soviet Union.
He also went on a massive defense spending spree which – in the wake of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy – led to staggering increases in federal debt.
But then things changed dramatically. Following a series of summit meetings with Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan softened his stance toward the Soviet Union.
Indeed, most Americans are unaware that Reagan recanted his description of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” dismissing his confrontational rhetoric as a relic of “another time, another era.”
In a remarkable scene that some arch-conservatives seem to have forgotten, Reagan warmly embraced Gorbachev as the two world leaders casually chatted with cheering Soviet citizens while strolling through Moscow’s Red Square.
Far too many contemporary conservatives also conveniently forget that Reagan took enormous flak from his own hard-right flank in response to his diplomatic overtures to Gorbachev.
According to George Will, Reagan’s embrace of Gorbachev “accelerated the moral disarmament of the West.” William F. Buckley blasted Reagan (✁ 4 space)
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https://thehill.com/opinion/international/478941-lets-stop-revising-history-reagan-didnt-win-the-cold-war
jomali3945 over 3 years ago
If you actually listen to Trump, you will see that he almost always say “we”, rather than “I”, especially with regard to the COVID crisis. He only says “I” when he’s referring to the China and Europe lockdowns, because he ordered then against the advice of his team.
quixotic3 over 3 years ago
“I alone can fix it.” DJT. He almost never says “we”, and on the rare occasions he does he explicitly excludes the blue states.
William Robbins Premium Member over 3 years ago
Quote of the morning, “The president is a man without depths to plumb” https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1310932749788868608
Bookworm over 3 years ago
I remember being advised during the election after Reagan’s second term that if I voted for Al Gore, we would wind up in a war in the middle-east, gas shortages, and higher taxes. They were right. /s
Ricky Bennett over 3 years ago
Looks like Reagan just got Trumped…
Bugbert over 3 years ago
Obama in the second panel wearing a trump wig. He was the I me I me I me I me I speaker. Listen to him when he speaks. He even tried to take credit for the economy before the pandemic when his lethargic economy of his last 3 years in office was pathetic. What a joke Obama was/is/. See the headlines of rioting and looting, Obama created that.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 3 years ago
The new campaign song is the Beatles “I Me Mine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qym5Vqi_KcE
MAGA Premium Member over 3 years ago
Trump exceeded Reagan in getting things done.
oldchas over 3 years ago
I first registered to vote in order to vote against Reagan. Reagan was a B list actor with good speech writers. Ken Khachigan and Peggy Noonan. Any reasonable actor can look good with the right script.