2016 Postmortem
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<iframe width="636" height="362" src="
" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)was put online, shameful............
PonyUp
(1,680 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Auggie
(33,314 posts)Shameful
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)PonyUp
(1,680 posts)uppityperson
(116,026 posts)seeking information to give to people about it.
So much bad happened during Reagan years, so many people hurt and died.
This video is very good and heartbreaking.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)People were dying and this was our government. Horrific. They were monsters, the lot of them.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)i can't believe I was alive when that happened, it seems like something out of the Dark Ages. Good for the reporter who represented civilization among those barbarians. I hope the rest of the country was more like him than the others.
Fairgo
(1,571 posts)I think. I'm pretty sure. Maybe not. They tell me she was part of the discussion somehow, and I am told she was pretty influential...but, we have no transcripts, so I'm not sure what her postion was or ow it evolved over the years
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Plus, other people do know the history and if Nancy made attempts she failed miserably and never used her own public platform as she most certainly could have. It was a pandemic being ignored. A public health crisis.
Holly_Hobby
(3,033 posts)I guess I had forgotten just how bad it was. Excuse me while I go puke.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)WTF was Hillary thinking..
AzDar
(14,023 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)
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