Ronald Reagan dispensed horrid cruelty with a big, rosy-cheeked smile

[Aristus]

and avuncular charm.

Today’s GOP is keeping the cruelty, but they dispensed with the charm.

At best, they’ll offer a smug, self-satisfied Evangelical smirk.

[Clouds Passing]

1. Talibangelicals

[Aristus]

4. I never understood their open-mouthed shocked outrage over Sharia Law.

It’s exactly what they’re seeking to impose over here.

[COL Mustard]

32. Evangenitals.

More concerned than they should be about what's going on in your pants!

[GiqueCee]

35. Evangenitals!

I am SOOO stealing that!

[Clouds Passing]

38. LFOL

[Henry203]

2. Reagan

The man who destroyed the middle class.

[Aristus]

6. I hope they put that on his tombstone.

I’ll enjoy reading it if I ever get the opportunity to piss on his grave.

[Clouds Passing]

10. GHWB was scalp deep in that mess too. I suggest he ran the US while ronnie looked pretty.

[lonely bird]

18. To say I hated that fucker

Is too weak a sentiment.

He was brainless and an empty suit that spoke the words he was given.

[LuckyLib]

25. And in his later years Nancy stood behind him to

feed him his lines. He could not function.

[MadameButterfly]

31. Yet Reagan partnered with Tip Oneill to raise the cap on SS

thus saving it.

These new guys are on a whole other level.

[liberal N proud]

3. They will issue the obligatory thoughts and prayers statements

[Aristus]

7. Another example of their complete departure from anything resembling Christianity.

Christianity requires personal sacrifices for the good of others.

Thoughts and prayers require no effort of any kind.

[dchill]

5. That's why they deified him! He was the fancy label...

...on their jar of iniquities.

[Aristus]

8. Well put.

I like that.

[dchill]

9. Thank you.

It helps to have the decades of disgust to work with.

[Aristus]

11. "Decades of disgust."

I thought I had a way with words.

But I defer to a master.

[dchill]

13. Oh, you have a way!

😎

[Clouds Passing]

12. Good thread on Assembly of God cult

https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/ltxd7f/the_evangelical_fundamentalist_often_charismatic/

This is the speaker’s religion with the 7 mountains of society to take over. The False Religion.

[Martin68]

14. Yes, Reagan did indeed smile as he killed, lied, and profited.

[bmichaelh]

15. Shakespeare's Hamlet

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain

[Mr.Bee]

16. When People Learn to Stop Electing These Celebrities and Actors

Celebrities and Actors are blank canvases, they are a blank slate awaiting a script.
What do young actors do starting out? The beg for someone, Please! Please! Give me a role to play!
I can prove I can do it! I alone can fix it!
The GOP learned this very quickly from the 1960 JFK/Nixon debate, and ever since the Nixon administration, they've been working on their pet project with Roger Ailes; GOP TV!
Teach your children well, right now they are immersed in pay-TV, pay Streaming, pay social media.
Before the next president comes along, Elon or Bezos, Hannity or Carlson.
The best person for the job is not a blank slate. It is one with Congressional experience!

[GiqueCee]

17. Reagan wasn't a real boy...

... he just played one on TV. He was one of the Devil's demons posing as a third-rate actor. "Bedtime for Ronzo" didn't come soon enough.

Nancy was the only reason he wasn't still the host of "Death Valley Days" until Satan called him home.

His list of transgressions is jaw-dropping, but worse is the list of those who let him get away with it.

[La Coliniere]

19. The documentary The Reagans

on Showtime spells it all out loud and clear. He used racist dog whistles and the desires of the ultra rich to guide his destructive presidency as effectively as the orange felon. Middle class America has never recovered from what he began.

[electric_blue68]

30. And very obvious to those who knew - his first campaign stop for The Presidency was Philadelphia, MISSISSIPPI, near....

where the 3 Civil Rights workers were dragged away, and assasinated by white supremacists, where Ray-gun talked about "States Rights". 😑 🤬

That wasn't a dog whistle; that was a Foghorn!

I didn't know back then, I found out years later.

A hideous man with a "smile".

[GiqueCee]

34. Yeah, "The Great Communicator"...

... was a racist piece of shit.

[wolfie001]

21. Reads like a Bill Hicks monologue

I LOVED!!!! his takedowns of rayguns

[malthaussen]

23. Then Gil Scot Heron is your man.

-- Mal

[wolfie001]

26. He's amazing! Reminds me of Howard Zinn

[GiqueCee]

33. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...

... Heron was the first rapper. Although, the talkin' blues was probably the progenitor of it all.

[wolfie001]

20. He spoke out against Medicare when it was working its way through Congress in the 1960s

Piece of shit repuke voters attached themselves to that pile of horse crap. Gullible fools gave up pensions and started the decline of the US Middle Class. 1981 to be exact.

[malthaussen]

22. True enough. But I think even Uncle Ron would think today's GOP has gone too far.

Their attitudes have "evolved" over the years, and what was once only radical fringe thinking is now the party line.

-- Mal

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Bonzo went to Bitburg

Pruneface laid a wreath in a cemetery where NAZI Waffen SS are buried.



Historical Context -- what Elie Wiesel said: “I cannot believe the President, whom I have seen crying at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony, would visit a German military cemetery and refuse to visit Dachau or any other concentration camp.” (New York Times, April 13, 1985)

Source: https://israeled.org/ronald-reagan-visits-bergen-belsen-bitburg-cemetery/

[eppur_se_muova]

27. Oh oh oh ... how I wish I could find a certain Gahan Wilson cartoon to post here ...

suffice to say it was about what might really lie below a pleasant outer surface ...

[Skittles]

28. look how many people fell for Reagan's bullshit

he was SICKENING

[Dem4life1234]

36. That's why people don't hate him so much

Because he had a level of charisma, class, and always smiled, say what you want about him, you couldn't deny his likeability.

Now HE won on a landslide his second term, not this orange lard ass. This man has no mandate.


That said, I agree, he brought a level of destruction to this country.

[hunter]

37. I never understood this "likability."

Reagan always set off my stranger danger alarms, which I'd acquired by hard experience in my largely feral childhood and young adulthood.