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FBI informant Ronald Reagan testifies against fellow actors before House Un-American Activities Committee. 1947 [1500x1492]
FBI informant Ronald Reagan testifies against fellow actors before House Un-American Activities Committee. 1947 [1500x1492]
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[Ronald Reagan: Informant](https://www.salon.com/2012/08/19/ronald_reagan_informant/) At a crucial moment in his career, Reagan talked to the FBI about communism in Hollywood
ChainChompsky297 赞2022/11/27
That was fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
Lucid-Day403 赞2022/11/27
40k a week to spread movies to troops is absurd
Fugacity-483 赞2022/11/27
$44.3k in 2012 dollars is the equivalent of $57.5k per week today. That is $3,000,000 per year. The father of trickle-down economics, everyone.
adh247103 赞2022/11/27
Let's not forget how he sold his soul (and everyone else's) to GE as well.
Glabstaxks109 赞2022/11/27
Rats got paid well sounds like
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definitely
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FleaBottoms285 赞2022/11/27
That committee itself was ruled as unAmerican by SCOTUS and dismantled for its unconstitutional infringement on citizens’ First Amendment rights.
otakucode182 赞2022/11/27
McCarthy was a butthole, but the real driving force behind it was his lawyer, Roy Cohn. After tearing through Hollywood, Roy Cohn decided to go after gays in various positions, particularly the military. Roy Cohn was gay, though (very poorly) closeted. He got his young gay lover a high position in the military but wanted him to have an even higher position and intended to get him there by tearing apart the upper ranks through accusations of being gay. That's what eventually shut down the while Un-American Activities nonsense. The military fought back, and Cohn lost. Cohn went on to defend mafia bosses against the government, known for directly attacking the judges and their families instead of fighting actual cases in court. Both Roger Stone and Donald Trump consider themselves disciples of Roy Cohn. Cohn said that you can always count on Americans not caring about white collar crime but only street crime, and you can always call on their racism to manipulate them. There is a documentary about him called 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' that is quite good. It was on Amazon Prime Video last I checked. The way he was so flagrantly and publicly gay but at the same time adamantly denied being gay was fascinating. Ronald Reagan got him into an experimental treatment program for AIDS when Cohn got AIDS, but Cohn still claimed that he absolutely did not have AIDS, was not gay, and that him getting into the treatment program was a mistake but he was going to it just to be polite or something. Just absurd.
the-grand-falloon97 赞2022/11/27
>Roy Cohn decided to go after gays in various positions, Yeah, I fuckin' bet he did.
Werallgonnaburn33 赞2022/11/27
This is what is so frustrating about politics today. It's all there in film and books how these sociopaths manipulate people and the system, but there are so many fuckwads filled with hate and lacking any critical thinking skills, that these people prosper. Every high school student should be shown the films Where's My Roy Cohn? and Get Me Roger Stone, then be given critical thinking classes. This will never happen in a million years, so these people will continue to fuck the system and enrich corporations while the general public are screwed over without even realising it.
TheMadTemplar144 赞2022/11/27
My Dad loved John Wayne movies, and I grew up watching them. We were always able to separate the actor from the work. I remember my dad saying he was not a good man. He never elaborated on it further. But later learning just how fucked up he was really soured me on his stuff.
the-grand-falloon68 赞2022/11/27
I'm lucky in that I also think he was shit at acting, so I can just write him off completely.
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PirateStedeBonnet108 赞2022/11/27
Don't worry there are also a lot of people who see him as the complete piece of shit he was too.
mattBJM62 赞2022/11/27
Elia Kazan too
Cyrax8972142 赞2022/11/27
I had no idea that the court scenes in The Majestic were based on reality. Thanks for the link.
utter-futility474 赞2022/11/27
You spelled 'homosexuality' wrong...
overzealous_dentist293 赞2022/11/27
Literally nothing about homosexuality in this plotline, no. Strongly recommend reading the link.
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bcarter3180 赞2022/11/27
Source? I’m certainly no fan of Reagan, who’s largely responsible for the collapse of American unions and the subsequent decline of the American middle class, but I’m pretty knowledgeable about his life and career, and I’ve never heard of any legitimate source that claimed “Reagan was willing to lie and say someone was communist, if he thought they were homosexual.”
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RealHunterB19 赞2022/11/27
Perhaps he’s thinking of J Edgar Hoover, a closeted homosexual and head of the FBI from the late 1920s onward. He would dismiss and blackmailed multiple people for a litany of reasons, he headed the committee in the 30’s or 40s I believe to dismiss possible homosexuals in the US government, all except for himself who wasn’t let go because politicians actually were so scared of his backlash by exposing them they let him keep his job lmao
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Reagan was seriously one of the most impactful Presidents of the late 20th century, and not in a good way.
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If a parent died they used to pay out social security for children till they were 21. Reagan moved the age down to 18. Fuck you Reagan!
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Wow that's a big one that I hadn't heard before. I bet it has had a massive compounding impact on poverty and inequality. It's often the little number adjustment stuff that sneaks by that has massive downstream effects.
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Still waiting for it to trickle down, it coming anyway now
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I hope he’s rolling around in hell
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Oh, yeah. Hadn't even touched on the hypocrisy of his gun control stances. He also refused to back a bill in CA that would have made it legal for schools to discriminate against gay employees. Which was so huge that the likes of Gerry Fallwell claimed ole Ronny would never make it in national politics. But he needed those fundies, so he made amends, then ignored the rapidly growing AIDS pandemic, despite some of his and Nancy's close personal friends being directly affected. Total shitbird.
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He helped the rich get very rich and fucked over everyone else. Good riddance.
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Not to mention his intentional failure to do anything about AIDS.
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Or his spreading of crack in the inner cities while giving it a far harsher punishment than powder cocaine. His entire administration were shitbirds.
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Failure to do anything about AIDS makes it sounds like he ignored AIDS. He and his administration watched AIDS and celebrated it. They watched with glee as gay people dropped dead. Do you know why there aren’t that many old gay men? Reagan committed genocide on a portion of the American population.
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He only stepped up once his BFF (Rock Hudson) came out as gay and had AIDS. THEN it became an epidemic.
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There's footage of Reagan's press secretary literally laughing at people dying of AIDS. Reagan and everyone around him are utter evil, total dogshit.
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The amount of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity perpetuates by the US government should have gotten American sanctioned, even invaded for regime change of the same standards are applied.
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That's why I said intentional
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Sounds like trump vs COVID.
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Except Trump largely hurt his own supporters.
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Initially his administration thought it would hurt liberals more because they thought big cities would be the most threatened. This didn't turn out to be true, and more republican voters in the suburbs and in rural areas died than liberals in cities. Largely because people in more liberal areas were more likely to take precautions and they had better access to medical care (since rural hospitals are often not well funded because they have less people).
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Riddance, schmriddance. He helped to establish the culture in which Republicans will push for lower and lower tax rates for the wealthy, and we are still suffering from that today. Fuck that fucking fuck.
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But hey, atleast he owned those libs and commies, right?
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he almost spent the us into bankruptcy too. the late 80s was one of the highest crime rates and recessions of all time. reagan was a real POS, but Gen X right wingers lionize him because they grew up with him.
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Gave you an upvote for speaking the truth. I’m a GenXer that got wrapped up in his bullshit.
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Gen-X reporting in: I hated that prick from day one.
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I'm 61 years old and I hated him in 1980. Knew he was a pos .
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You could argue that this man sent the US (and by extension as the world leader - the world) to their climate change induced doom. Reagan started the snowball rolling downhill that will inevitably extinct humanity.
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Biggest drug dealer in the US through his presidency.
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How DARE you say that! /s
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Horrible person and horrible President.
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Now imagine if he died in ‘81
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I was in 2nd grade that year. My parents HATED Reagan and said they were sad that he didn't die. For some reason, I expressed that sentiment in the classroom and my teacher about had a coronary.
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My dad, who was a kind sweet man who never had a bad word about anyone, I learned not to bring up Reagan around. He said things I'd never heard him say before.
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got any reading on this i’m just curious, i find reddit is good for nuggets of info but not the whole 10pc w fries
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Honestly having lived through most of it, I’ve just been there to see shit happening. Maybe start digging on the Iran/Contra scandal, the War on Drugs, his complete inaction on the AIDS crisis, union busting via the ATC strike, dismantling of the public mental health system, etc etc etc. Oh and the complete farce that is “trickle-down economics”. He talked a good game and he was charming as hell, but his administration did more to undo the nation’s social safety nets than any other. The boomers loved him because they got theirs!
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He waved a banner of fiscal responsibility but started a trend of public debt and monetary gaming of the financial system from which our country still hasn't recovered. 2007 without bailouts, that's what it's going to look like when the big one finally hits, the bad consequences of the financial tricks he and his administration enabled. The consequences were seen immediately in the savings and loan crisis, which was rampant with financial fraud where organized crime connected banks lent each other giant sums of money and then defaulted, and the banks were made whole by the taxpayer. We just keep doing that same thing over and over.
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For further reading, google reagan war on drugs, trickle down economics, domino theory, & iran contra Edit: also "california/black panther gun laws", "forced busing", "welfare queen" & as someone mentioned below aids crisis
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Schools need a 20th century president history class.
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That's American History. We focus on the actions and characters of the executives past a fault, which reinforces our tendency towards "The Imperial Presidency".
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Nicely said.
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It really fucking sucks when you read 'president passed this law' and how much impact it had - when we had to shove it down their throat, having to build so much community power and struggle to get it through congress in the first place. And they take credit in the hidtory books I wish I learned about the people who actually pioneered these bills, who were the ones there at it's first introduction when it had hardly any cosponsors. How they got support and won over other organizations, as well as the problems they faced along the way
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Seriously, what if all the people who demanded that Obama be more like FDR understood that FDR was repeatedly pushed left by Congress and didn't fully embrace Keynesianism until his third term.
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Damn I didn’t know that last one
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Honestly would have been super interesting what would have happened if Wallace had stayed on the ticket and became president after FDR died. I doubt he would have been reelected in 1949 but still interesting to imagine
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Yeah but schools will avoid topics where the school board will be on their ass because some kids will realize their families have been the bad guys
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Hopefully it's taught alongside the CIA history [Legacy of Ashes](https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/0307389006)
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George H W Bush's father was involved in an attempted fascist coup.
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Prescott Bush
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the business plot.
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They can't teach about racism without people getting their panties in a knot, there's no way they could get away with teaching the reality about politicians.
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I'm a history teacher, and I don't shy away from the negative aspects of any presidency, especially Nixon and Reagan, although my class also looks at the failings of Democrat presidents too, like Carter and Obama. Overall, I try to emphasize to my students that the President isn't the only decision maker in the executive office, and that mistakes have been made on all sides. Fuck Reagan, though.
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Schools get assault rifle wielding protesters for non-existent litter boxes for made-up students that identify as cats. Laws get passed against teaching the history of systemic racism that isn't getting taught in the first place. What do you think will happen when you try to teach the hard facts about only president these shitheads have left without a pile of scandals in recent memory?
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> What do you think will happen when you try to teach the hard facts about only president these shitheads have left without a pile of scandals in recent memory? If you are talking about Reagan, his presidency was riddled with scandal. The Iran-Contra Affair was huge during his second term.
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Do you actually think that Iran-Contra is a commonly taught event??? I went to a public school in a very liberal area and never learned about it.
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I never knew Reagan was THAT kind of rat…
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A lot of big figures in American politics were McCarthyist scum. Thurgood Marshall turned in a bunch of black socialists. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one who turned in DuBois
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Him and Mrs. Throat-Goat Say No to Drugs were the simple worst.
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It’s wild because there are so many major issues in the US that start with his ass. All roads lead to Reagan.
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I've always known that Reaganism was poison, but holy shit
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Yeah dude. I consider myself to be pretty informed, but I’m still amazed by the amount of shit I’m finding out came from the Reagan era. You know how homelessness in LA is a big deal, yeah… guess who kicked that shit off.
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The USA had done so much atmospheric nuclear testing in the south west, with the fallout ending landing across much of the country east of the test sites. The atmospheric testing went on between 1945 and 1958, by 1980's would be about the time when people who had been living and working in areas that had been contaminated would have started dying of cancer. https://www.americanscientist.org/article/fallout-from-nuclear-weapons-tests-and-cancer-risks
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A lot do. A lot go back further.
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Sure, in fact most of the stuff he’s responsible for go back much further but he really put the nail in the coffin for a lot them. The ones that really gets me is his Union busting. Used the benefits of unions to his advantage all throughout his acting career and then does everything he can to destroy them when he’s president. I really hope there’s a hell just for him.
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Ronald Reagan was the OG Anakin/Darth Vader. He started out as a card carrying FDR Democrat. He even spoke on behalf of unions and forecast the industrialists' class warfare against working people. He turned all the way to the dark side once he started making serious money and hooking up with Nancy Davis.
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Gutted federal unions by firing and blacklisting almost every flight traffic controller who participated in a strike. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1025018833/looking-back-on-when-president-reagan-fired-air-traffic-controllers
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THAT was CRAZY stuff. To only be topped by being shovey in order to get the Challenger ( what O rings ? ) launched on his timeline. He's really never been held accountable historically for either PLUS Iran- Contra sure rolled off his back. There's a reason he was called the Teflon President.
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> All roads lead to Reagan. A lot to him and Nixon it seems. Both crooks
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At least we got the ADA and EPA out of Nixon. I can’t think of anything good to say about Reagan but you’re right. Carter also had his hand in the current wealth inequality.
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All three of these comments are wrong or wildly misleading. ADA happened towards the end of Reagan's administration, after blocking it for years until activists and popular opinion made it unavoidable. Oh, and what do you know? Nixon only created the EPA because stronger legislation driven by activists and popular opinion was about to pass Congress with a veto-proof majority. Carter inherited a cratered, sabotaged economy from Nixon/Ford and wasted time negotiating with Congressional Republicans in good faith while Reagan was conspiring with Iran to hold onto their American hostages *just* a little bit longer.
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The EPA was said to be quickly pushed by Nixon because the Congress supposedly was going to create an even stronger agency. If that's true, then even the EPA was tainted.
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“You don’t have to suck dick for drugs, you can just suck dick” -Nancy Regan (probably)
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He's far, **far** worse than just a rat.
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He and Margret Thatcher are two of the worst human beings that ever fucked this planet over massively.
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Reagan was a real piece of shit. All the way through both his acting and political careers.
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Every director who said he was a lousy actor and didn't give him a lead role was a Communist, apparently.
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All the Marxists were interrogated, even Zeppo. Harpo wouldn't talk.
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When authoritarian powers ask for denunciations, they tend to attract those with some grudges to settle.
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*”Long held hatreds of neighbours could now be openly ex-pressed, and vengeance taken, despite the Bibles charitable injunctions”*
- Arthur Miller, opening of The Crucible
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Other actors going for roles that he was going for too
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And don't forget the makeup artists who made Errol Flynn look more handsome. All Stalinists.
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They were stylists but Reagan misheard
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Poor guy, probably early signs of Alzheimers. He's the true victim here.
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Burl Ives literally named names so that he could get off the blacklist. He and Pete Seeger became bitter enemies afterwards.
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In the ‘70s and ‘80s, had a mild-mannered great uncle who - at Christmastime when he heard Burl singing “Silver and Gold” or if we (kids) were watching the Rankin Bass Rudolph special - would mutter something and leave the room. One year at my grandma’s house we were watching it yet again and he just snapped, “Fuck Burl Ives - he named names!” and stormed out. That became one of the better family Christmas memories to us, and we cousins greeted each other with “Fuck Burl Ives - he names names” later in life. My great uncle hated Reagan, as you can imagine.
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I just got a new Christmas tradition. Thank you.
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Seeger was better on the banjo anyway
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Elia is one of the greatest directors in history. It’s just a real bummer he was a shitty fucking person.
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This guy was a huge piece of shit.
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Slicked back hair, lived for New Year’s Eve
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Sloppy steaks!
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Ah yes the good old days of mccarthyism. I knew Reagan was a rat i just didn't realize how dirty of a rat he was
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A coward from birth to death. Truly scum of the earth
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• Reagan supplied weapons to America's enemies. • Reagan ignored the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein. • Reagan illegally supplied arms to both sides of the Iran-Iraq War. • Reagan caved in to the demands of terrorists…Twice. • Reagan was weak in the war on terrorism. • Reagan supported the violent overthrow of the democratically elected government of Nicaragua. • Reagan started an unnecessary war in Grenada to divert attention from his failure in Beirut. • Reagan failed to defend the US From Saddam Hussein. • Reagan helped create Al-Qaeda by abandoning the Mujahideen Rebels in Afghanistan. • Reagan supported the racist apartheid government in South Africa. • Reagan supported the most brutal dictators in the world as long as he didn't consider them “Communists”. • Reagan’s administration had more documented corruption than any previous President in U.S. History. • Reagan frequently repeated bald-faced lies even after they were publicly revealed to be untrue. • Reagan set records for budget deficits. • Reagan's economic policies put millions of Americans out of work. • Reagan’s policies allowed hundreds of thousands of family farms to go out of business or declare bankruptcy. • Reagan’s financial policies caused the savings and loan industry to collapse. • Reagan robbed the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for his budget shortfalls. • Reagan largely ignored the AIDS epidemic while tens of thousands of people were dying of the disease. • Reagan’s administration pushed Congress to pass the Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act, which mandated that the FTC would no longer have any authority whatsoever to regulate advertising and marketing to children, leaving markets virtually free to target kids as they saw fit. • Reagan’s Supply Side (i.e. “Trickle-down”) Economic policies slashed taxes for the rich, allowing the upper classes to horde more and more money, leaving the rest of the nation with crumbs. • Reagan mobilize anti-black sentiment among whites for political gains by actively fostering racial disharmony and hatred as a strategy to gain white electoral support. • Reagan’s “War on Drugs” was a race war on inner-city blacks by law enforcement and the America judicial system to flood American prisons with African-Americans. • Reagan, who had made major efforts during his Governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions, pushed a political effort through the U.S. Congress to repeal most of the Mental Health Systems Act. • Reagan’s confrontation with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization undermined the bargaining power of American workers & their labor unions. It also polarized our politics in ways that prevent us from addressing the root of our economic troubles: the continuing stagnation of incomes despite rising corporate profits and worker productivity. And the list just goes on and on….
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[Ronald Reagan ruined the United States in many ways.](https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-objective-reasons-ronald-reagan-was-our-worst-president) This betrayal was just one of them where he ruined the lives of innocent people by falsely accusing them of being disloyal.
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As with all presidents.
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This POS was the SAG president …
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That was by design, to show the moral panickers that Hollywood was on board
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Snitch
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I'm not sure it's quite understood what a campaign of horrors was this chapter in American History. I've never understood how in hell Reagan became president with this very real stain on his record. Read the about the genuine hysteria evoked by Mccarthy and his stooges. Then scoff.
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Consider that the FBI could have made Reagan's role as an informant public knowledge and apparently chose not to. I wonder why.
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People don't realize how easy it is to have your rights destroyed by a corrupt government.
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Fuck that guy. He was destroying good people's even before he was president.
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What a POS.
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Rat
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Ronald Reagan! The actor?!
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1.21 jiggawatts
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Just checking in to say fuck Ronald Reagan. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
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Reagan was always shit.
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What a little bitch.
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Oh! What a piece of shit! People are proud of this snitch?