Thread by @eshaLegal, By unfortunate necessity, I must do a thread on the Reagan years.Millennials: [...]

By unfortunate necessity, I must do a thread on the Reagan years.

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.

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& #39;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. https://youtu.be/Nix_vj2DaqQ ">https://youtu.be/Nix_vj2Da...

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/1...

7. Ronald Reagan proposed a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in public schools https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/1...

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/2015/03/2...

9. Technically not when he was President, but it is horrible enough that it merits a mention

(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& #39;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)

https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/955761796228571137/photo/1

12. He funded death squads in El Salvador that chanted "Be a Patriot, kill a priest" https://youtu.be/4J8FvX8ahqU ">https://youtu.be/4J8FvX8ah...

13. Reagan screwed over women and helped defeat ERA
(H/t @JudyJones1990)

14. Thank you @HumanistReport for your thorough run down of Reagan and AIDS https://youtu.be/hyJ1JdnaSqA ">https://youtu.be/hyJ1JdnaS...

15. Gutting welfare https://youtu.be/MjnTQ8b6byY ">https://youtu.be/MjnTQ8b6b...

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/">https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/m...

17. Ronald Reagan invades Grenada https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/25/united-states-invades-grenada-oct-25-1983-244072">https://www.politico.com/story/201...

United States invades Grenada, Oct. 25, 1983

In little more than a week, Grenada's government was overthrown.

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/">https://www.salon.com/2014/04/1...

Reaganomics killed America's middle class

This country's fate was sealed when our government slashed taxes on the rich back in 1980

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

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/2...

22. Reagan gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons to gas the Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/2...

23. Reagan called the Taliban "freedom fighters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQKoyJ8KRh4">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/0...

SENATE, 78 TO 21, OVERRIDES REAGAN'S VETO AND IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON SOUTH AFRICA

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">https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nati...

In Ronald Reagan era, Mandela was branded a terrorist

The outpouring of acclaim for Nelson Mandela from across the American ideological spectrum contrasts with the history of an earlier era, when many politicians and others derided the late South...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24760045.html

26. The Mulroney-Reagan free trade act http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3993 ">https://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3993...

The Mulroney-Reagan Free Trade Legacy

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/2014/05/1...

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">https://www.politico.com/story/201...

President Reagan calls for launching ‘Star Wars’ initiative, March 23, 1983

The president's goal was to mount a near-total defense against a massive sophisticated intercontinental ballistic missile attack.

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/">https://evonomics.com/ralph-nad...

Ralph Nader: How CEO Stock Buybacks Parasitize the Economy - Evonomics

Hyper enrichment of a handful of radical corporate state supremacists wasn’t what classical capitalism was supposed to be about.

http://evonomics.com/ralph-nader-ceo-stock-buyback-parasitize-economy/

31. Vetoed laws that would stop unethical ads in children& #39;s programs

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/07/us/reagan-vetoes-bill-putting-limits-on-tv-programming-for-children.html
(H/t">https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/0... @hooper_x)

Reagan Vetoes Bill Putting Limits On TV Programming for Children

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/07/us/reagan-vetoes-bill-putting-limits-on-tv-programming-for-children.html

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/1...

Reagan Is Urged to End U.N. Support of Pol Pot

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& #39;t have a filibuster -proof majority? Why did the senate confirm him with 98-0?

#VichyDems collaborate...

34. Ronald Reagan froze minimum wages

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 https://youtu.be/nbex61DxPDE ">https://youtu.be/nbex61DxP...

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">https://news.usni.org/2012/06/2...

Reagan Readied U.S. Warship for '82 Falklands War - USNI News

While publicly claiming neutrality between Argentina and the U.K. during the 1982 Falklands War, President Ronald Reagan’s administration had developed plans to loan a ship to the Royal Navy if it...

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">https://www.newsweek.com/reagan-im...

Descendants of immigrants themselves, Americans have a long, complicated history with immigration

"They provide a vital source of labor for the agricultural, manufacturing and restaurant industries in states where they settle in numbers, yet their status is shadowy—never quite tolerated, never...

http://www.newsweek.com/reagan-immigration-reform-and-control-act-1986-641806

38. The FBI under Reagan& #39;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">https://mashable.com/2016/01/1...

1985: When Philly police dropped a bomb on a residential neighborhood

When an armed black radical group refused to surrender, the police responded with deadly and unprecedented force.

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/">https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/02/0...

When Reagan Cut and Run

The forgotten history of when America boldly abandoned ship in the Middle East.

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

41. Opposed removing asbestos in schools

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=124474">https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index....

41. Opposed removing asbestos in schools https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index....

42. Handcuffed the FDA and didn& #39;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/">https://www.povertyinsights.org/2013/10/1...

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 https://youtu.be/MU4aI-G49Rg ">https://youtu.be/MU4aI-G49...

45. Remember when Reagan had to fire Neil Gorsuch& #39;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">https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/0...

REAGAN DISMISSES HIGH E.P.A. OFFICIAL

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/08/us/reagan-dismisses-high-epa-official.html

46. A consequence of Ronald Reagan& #39;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/...

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">https://timeline.com/ronald-na...

Watch: Ronald Reagan and his ‘War on Drugs’

An American tragedy in three acts

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/-">https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2...

List of Reagan administration convictions.

Challenged by a conservative to present evidence that Reagan ran the most corrupt administration of the 20th century, I assembled this list of convicts from Reagan's ranks. If anybody can provide...

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">https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/l...

KKK SUPPORT

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/0...

REAGAN REVERSING MANY U.S. POLICIES

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/1...

REAGAN'S WISH IS NO MINIMUM WAGE FOR YOUTHS

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/156...

55. No matter whose in power, the Saudis seem to get their weapons

http://www.merip.org/mer/mer155/saudi-arabia-reagan-doctrine">https://www.merip.org/mer/mer15...

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/2...

REAGAN SAYS U.S. FAVORS COVERT AID TO ANGOLA REBELS

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/0...

REAGAN DROPS PAY FREEZE AND ASKS 3.5% WHITE-COLLAR RAISE

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/1...

Arming Afghan Guerrillas: A Huge Effort Led by U.S.

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" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syi4i4OqMF8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

60. Supplying arms to those "moderate rebels" in Somalia https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/26/US-planes-airlift-weapons-to-Somalia/7727399182400/">https://www.upi.com/Archives/...

U.S. planes airlift weapons to Somalia

U.S. military transport planes have begun an airlift of $5.5 million in emergency weapons and supplies to Somalia to aid in its war against Ethiopia,...

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 ">https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/...

Donald Rumsfeld and the Strange History of Aspartame

Yes, that Donald Rumsfeld, the "knowns and unknowns" guy who remarkably executed some of the worst decisions in American foreign policy and got a medal f...

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/805581

62. Reagan strategically courts the & #39;George Wallacee Voters" https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/897305373278740480">https://twitter.com/eshaLegal...

https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/897305373278740480

63. He makes Trump& #39;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& #39;t want Donald Trump& #39;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& #39;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">https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/1...

IS PUBLIC EDUCATION A CASUALTY OF REAGANOMICS

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/15/education/is-public-education-a-casualty-of-reaganomics.html

70. The Grape Worker& #39;s Strike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1YPKFJvgE8&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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">https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/2...

Opinion | DON'T MAKE THE C.I.A. K.G.B.

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& #39;t know what they were doing" https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-elie-wiesel-confronted-ronald-reagan?ref=home">https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-elie...

When Elie Wiesel Confronted Ronald Reagan

Time and again, the Holocaust survivor showed great courage, but in his last years he was saddened by how little the world had changed.

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 )

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">https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis...

75. Let Nazi scientist leave the US without trying him and also refused to strip Nazi scientist of a medal. https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis...

76. Sometimes, he makes Trump sound like a stable genius.

77. Remember when Reagan accidentally started a nuclear war?

Everyone, let& #39;s thank Stanislav Petrov for everything after 1983! True Hero!

78. Ronald Reagan& #39;s campaign slogan

(h/t @daveanthony)

79. Did someone say "space force?"

80. US bombs hospital in Grenada. Many Cuban doctors served there.

Interesting juxtaposition of capitalism vs socialism.

81. Reagan& #39;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">https://historicly.substack.com/p/the-thr...

The Three-Decade Long War... You Never Heard About

The War on drugs in Bolivia wasn't metaphorical. It was literal!

https://historicly.substack.com/p/the-three-decade-long-war-you-never

83. He is purely vile!