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By unfortunate necessity, I must do a thread on the Reagan years.
Millennials: If your life sucks, blame your parents for voting Reagan
Millennials: If your life sucks, blame your parents for voting Reagan
1. Ronald Reagan gave a speech in the same county 3 Mississippi civil rights workers were killed.
Date of speech: August 3, 1980
Date that the FBI found their body: August 4, 1964
If this were a dog whistle, human beings heard it loud and clear.
Date of speech: August 3, 1980
Date that the FBI found their body: August 4, 1964
If this were a dog whistle, human beings heard it loud and clear.
2. Soon after, the KKK endorsed him. Pay attention to the highlighted section
3. Reagan learned from the Kissinger play-book and sabatoged the hostage negotiation in Iran. He chose hardliner over moderate.
So what was Reagan's deal with Iran?
So what was Reagan's deal with Iran?
4. What deal did he negotiate with Iran?
He sold arms to Iran and used that money to fund the right right death squads contra in Nicaragua.
He sold arms to Iran and used that money to fund the right right death squads contra in Nicaragua.
5. Reagan passed an unprecedented tax cuts in 1981. Oh look at how #VichyDems collaborated
6.Even as an actor Reagan collaborated with the FBI and their witch-hunt against Hollywood.
7. Ronald Reagan proposed a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in public schools
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/18/us/reagan-proposes-school-prayer-amendment.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/18/us/reagan-proposes-school-prayer-amendment.html
8. He funded the right wing government in Guatemala. They committed Maya genocide.
https://www.salon.com/2015/03/24/ronald_reagans_genocidal_secret_a_true_story_of_right_wing_impunity_in_guatemala/
https://www.salon.com/2015/03/24/ronald_reagans_genocidal_secret_a_true_story_of_right_wing_impunity_in_guatemala/
9. Technically not when he was President, but it is horrible enough that it merits a mention
(H/t @DanniYelllll )
(H/t @DanniYelllll )
10. He mass-fires FAA workers who striked for better wages.
Also imposed a lifetime ban on them.
BTW.. if anyone knows one of these air traffic controllers, please introduce me. I'm curious.
Also, was this ban ever lifted?
Also imposed a lifetime ban on them.
BTW.. if anyone knows one of these air traffic controllers, please introduce me. I'm curious.
Also, was this ban ever lifted?
11. Worse, it was just out of spite.
Even worse he endangered all of our lives because it took 3 years to train new controllers.
(Air traffic controllers are the reason we are alive after a flight)
Even worse he endangered all of our lives because it took 3 years to train new controllers.
(Air traffic controllers are the reason we are alive after a flight)
12. He funded death squads in El Salvador that chanted "Be a Patriot, kill a priest"
13. Reagan screwed over women and helped defeat ERA
(H/t @JudyJones1990)
(H/t @JudyJones1990)
14. Thank you @HumanistReport for your thorough run down of Reagan and AIDS
15. Gutting welfare
16. Reagan made the war on drugs an international issue and created Cartels.
Also, look at how #VichyDems voted
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/mexico-drug-cartel-neoliberalism/
Also, look at how #VichyDems voted
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/mexico-drug-cartel-neoliberalism/
17. Ronald Reagan invades Grenada https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/25/united-states-invades-grenada-oct-25-1983-244072
18. Reagan raised taxes on the middle class while cutting it massively for the rich https://www.salon.com/2014/04/19/reaganomics_killed_americas_middle_class_partner/
19. He massively increased income inequality
20. He deregulated the loans and savings regulations to legalize "red-lining"
oh, look at who was terrible at resisting! (Dems had control of Congress)
#VichyDems
oh, look at who was terrible at resisting! (Dems had control of Congress)
#VichyDems
21. Reagan cut taxes on the wealthy in half.
22. Reagan gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons to gas the Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/world/us-secretly-gave-aid-to-iraq-early-in-its-war-against-iran.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/world/us-secretly-gave-aid-to-iraq-early-in-its-war-against-iran.html?pagewanted=all
23. Reagan called the Taliban "freedom fighters"
24. Reagan vetoed the Anti-Apartheid Bill and back then, apparently some Democrats had a backbone and they did override the veto http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/03/politics/03REAG.html
25. Despite being cozy with the Taliban, Reagan thought Mandela was a terrorist. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24760045.html
26. The Mulroney-Reagan free trade act http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3993
27. Reagan packed the NLRB with anti-unionists and the results were disastrous
28. Courted the Religious right who were pretty anti-semitic and gave them undue influence over the party
https://www.salon.com/2014/05/18/the_evangelical_presidency_reagans_dangerous_love_affair_with_the_christian_right/
https://www.salon.com/2014/05/18/the_evangelical_presidency_reagans_dangerous_love_affair_with_the_christian_right/
29. Star Wars defense: Sounds a little over the top, but then again, the Dems might want to build one again with their Russia hysteria https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/president-reagan-calls-for-launching-star-wars-initiative-march-23-1983-236259
30. Legalized CEO stock buybacks and created what Nader calls a "parasite economy" http://evonomics.com/ralph-nader-ceo-stock-buyback-parasitize-economy/
31. Vetoed laws that would stop unethical ads in children's programs
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/07/us/reagan-vetoes-bill-putting-limits-on-tv-programming-for-children.html
(H/t @hooper_x)
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/07/us/reagan-vetoes-bill-putting-limits-on-tv-programming-for-children.html
(H/t @hooper_x)
32. Continued to arm genocidal maniac Pol Pot (who is arguably response for the worst genocide after world war 2) http://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/10/world/reagan-is-urged-to-end-un-support-of-pol-pot.html
33. Appointed Scalia. Guess who didn't have a filibuster -proof majority? Why did the senate confirm him with 98-0?
#VichyDems collaborate...
#VichyDems collaborate...
34. Ronald Reagan froze minimum wages
B). Curiously two other presidents share that history
#VichyDems
B). Curiously two other presidents share that history
#VichyDems
35. Interesting that the Saudis enjoy such a long lasting, bipartisan friendship with all American Presidents
36. Sent war ships as back up when Maggie wanted to invade the Faukland islands https://news.usni.org/2012/06/27/reagan-readied-us-warship-82-falklands-war-0
37. What is fair, is fair. He did do one good thing. He offered undocumented immigrants mass amnesty. http://www.newsweek.com/reagan-immigration-reform-and-control-act-1986-641806
38. The FBI under Reagan's authority collaborated with the Philadelphia Police to bomb a building. Yes, they Bombed a building in philadelphia and killed 9 http://mashable.com/2016/01/10/1985-move-bombing/#.T.6gvAcskqx
39. War with Lebanon http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/02/07/when-reagan-cut-and-run/
40. Required Federal Agencies to do a cost-benefit analysis for safety regulations. Many of these safety regulations were life or death matters, but it was a sign that corporate profits by weight b our safety
42. Handcuffed the FDA and didn't listen to them about warning labels for children who were given aspirin when they had chicken pox.
43. Disgusting! While governor, he threw mentally ill people onto th street
http://www.povertyinsights.org/2013/10/14/did-reagans-crazy-mental-health-policies-cause-todays-homelessness/
http://www.povertyinsights.org/2013/10/14/did-reagans-crazy-mental-health-policies-cause-todays-homelessness/
44. Started a propaganda outlet for the U.S. government called "white propaganda."
They would plant fake stories about Samdernistas to garner sympathy for contras
They would plant fake stories about Samdernistas to garner sympathy for contras
45. Remember when Reagan had to fire Neil Gorsuch's mom because she gave EPA super fund money to only people in swing districts occupied by a Republican? http://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/08/us/reagan-dismisses-high-epa-official.html
46. A consequence of Ronald Reagan's cruel treatment of mentally ill people is that prisons became mental health facilities...
47. Ronald Reagan gave private prison companies its first federal contract in immigration detention centers
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/history-of-americas-private-prison-industry-timeline/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/history-of-americas-private-prison-industry-timeline/
48. Reagan and Clintons have the same friends
49. He started the War on Drugs (except for the contras and other death squads who were allowed to sell drugs to finance their death squads) https://timeline.com/ronald-nancy-reagan-war-on-drugs-crack-baby-just-say-no-cia-communism-racial-injustice-fcfeadb3548d
50. Back in those days, corrupt officials who were caught went to jail... But 21 officials from Reagan administration were convicted of a crime. https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/10/17/157477/-
51. He was endorsed by the KKK for the second time https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/04/23/kkk-support/bf0b2fb8-6b5e-4de5-966c-a1adec167afc/?utm_term=.25eaafba1904
52. Reagan rolled back antitrust enforcement, which allowed big companies to buy up the competition. He created more monopolies http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/us/reagan-reversing-many-us-policies.html?pagewanted=all
53. Slave wages for the youth http://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/10/us/reagan-s-wish-is-no-minimum-wage-for-youths.html
54. Turned a blind eye to dissident baby theft scheme
https://www.alternet.org/story/156200/what_did_reagan_know_about_the_argentine_dictatorship%27s_baby_thefts
https://www.alternet.org/story/156200/what_did_reagan_know_about_the_argentine_dictatorship%27s_baby_thefts
55. No matter whose in power, the Saudis seem to get their weapons
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer155/saudi-arabia-reagan-doctrine
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer155/saudi-arabia-reagan-doctrine
56. Arming the "moderate rebels" in Angola http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/23/us/reagan-says-us-favors-covert-aid-to-angola-rebels.html
57. Dismantled the Federal Government by lowballing the employees. So basically, if you pay federal employee so poorly, they will go to the private sector http://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/01/us/reagan-drops-pay-freeze-and-asks-3.5-white-collar-raise.html
58. Continued to arm those "Freedom fighters" in Afghanistan for 8 more years http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/18/world/arming-afghan-guerrillas-a-huge-effort-led-by-us.html?pagewanted=all
59. Ronald Reagan and Zia Ul Huq toasting to turning Pakistan from a Democracy to an autocracy, when Zia Ul Huq with American weapons got to change the constitution to make himself "king"
60. Supplying arms to those "moderate rebels" in Somalia https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/26/US-planes-airlift-weapons-to-Somalia/7727399182400/
61. Legalized Aspartame https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/805581
62. Reagan strategically courts the 'George Wallacee Voters" https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/897305373278740480
63. He makes Trump's clean coal statement seem smart.
64. Changed educational money into block grants and stopped enforcing civil rights provisions to educational money, which meant, he let local districts re-segregate schools.
65. " I don't want Donald Trump's kids to go to college for free" must have been a line Hillary Clinton borrowed from Reagan
66. Cut HUD housing development from 600k a year to 10K a year!
67. This was the HUD budget before and after Reagan and compare that with homeless people by year
Which of course increased homelessness, but here was Reagan's take on that.
Which of course increased homelessness, but here was Reagan's take on that.
68. This was when he was Governor, but this quote is still ghastly. (h/t @ivorydocumentary)
69. The answer to this question is: Yes. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/15/education/is-public-education-a-casualty-of-reaganomics.html
70. The Grape Worker's Strike:
71. Created the American Gestapo with the CIA (expanded its powers) https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/24/opinion/don-t-make-the-cia-kgb.html
72. Went to the Bittberg Cemetary with Nazi soldiers and claimed "They didn't know what they were doing" https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-elie-wiesel-confronted-ronald-reagan?ref=home
73. This stable genius president said the biggest problem we have in 1982 was witches on food stamps.
(h/t @Remember_Sarah )
(h/t @Remember_Sarah )
74. Ronald Reagan with Ukranian Nazi war Criminal Yaroslav Stetsko
75. Let Nazi scientist leave the US without trying him and also refused to strip Nazi scientist of a medal.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/nasa-nazis.html
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/nasa-nazis.html
76. Sometimes, he makes Trump sound like a stable genius.
77. Remember when Reagan accidentally started a nuclear war?
Everyone, let's thank Stanislav Petrov for everything after 1983! True Hero!
Everyone, let's thank Stanislav Petrov for everything after 1983! True Hero!
79. Did someone say "space force?"
80. US bombs hospital in Grenada. Many Cuban doctors served there.
Interesting juxtaposition of capitalism vs socialism.
Interesting juxtaposition of capitalism vs socialism.
81. Reagan's Kaibeles invaded Mexico to hunt down a refugee!
82. He started a "crusade" against the war on drugs which involved killing many campesinos in Bolivia. https://historicly.substack.com/p/the-three-decade-long-war-you-never
83. He is purely vile!
84. Just reminder about the contras
