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In honor of shit fucks like this simping for Ronald Reagan, this is gonna be a thread of most tasteful things this man ever did because “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” https://twitter.com/thatchereagan/status/1380399778727653378
We'll start off with this little fun infographic, this "fiscally conservative" president tripple debt in the U.S from 1 to 2.9 Trillion without ressessions, effectively trippling the debt americans had to pay with their tax dollars.
His Trickle Down economic model created thanks to the fear of so called "welfare queens" made the wide between rich and poor wider while his administration lost 400 Billion bailing out the private sector in the S&L crisis he created thanks to deregulation https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sl-crisis.asp
While sanctioning Cuba from any trade, in 1986 after great repression of black people in Apartheid SA, Reagan vetoed a bill in which the US would sanction them, and he said the quote that I'm sharing below, which is actually just rich.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/29/house-overrides-reagan-apartheid-veto-sept-29-1986-243169
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/29/house-overrides-reagan-apartheid-veto-sept-29-1986-243169
who can forget this literal bold face lies?
or who can forget when he got caught in 4K calling some political delegates from Africa Monkeys?
Or how he literally decided to ignore the Aids Epidemic going on in his country, essentially leading to the death of 89,343 people in the United States? https://lithub.com/ronald-reagan-presided-over-89343-deaths-to-aids-and-did-nothing/
or when he illegally gave weapons to Iraq against Iran https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/world/us-secretly-gave-aid-to-iraq-early-in-its-war-against-iran.html
and how he gave weapons to the Mujahadeen a group which would later turn into Al-Qaeda https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/osama-bin-laden
Or gave weapons and training to Contras in order to try to overthrow a democratically elected government in Nicaragua? https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-gives-cia-authority-to-establish-the-contras
I could honestly do a lot fucking more, the list is so long and can get so complicated it's baffling anyone can see that man in a good light. so yeah, listen to Killer Mike and...
Say after me, FUCK RONALD REAGAN.
