Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation
hey go fuck yourself
Oh so now the Columbine fanblog with an Annoying Orange icon is gonna preach to me, huh
tumblr is a website made entirely of glass houses through which people are constantly throwing stones
Dang! Quit before I could block him. Reagan was truly a piece of shit.
It is funny that Hitlers last moments of life were pure misery and terror before he blew his own brains out, it is funny that Luis Carrero Blanco was blown up by a bomb so powerful it sent his car flying over a 3 story building, it is funny that Ronald Reagan got shot and that his wound led to health complications that plagued him for the rest of his vile life, it is funny that Margaret Thatcher lived in constant fear of assassination by the IRA, it is funny that Mussolini ended life looking like a prized ham in the deli section, and it is funny that Trump might die from covid.
America is the least educated country in the world when it comes to American history
For any of my followers who may genuinely have this question:
Gay people know Reagan as the president who laughed at AIDS and did nothing because “all the right people” (aka us gay people) were dying from it.
Reagan is the president under whose auspices the incarceration rate of Black people on drug charges ballooned to caricaturishly high levels.
Reagan is the president that abolished the air traffic controllers’ union.
Reagan is the president who espoused the flawed “trickle down economics” theory, cut federal funding for state welfare programmes by 80%, froze the federal minimum wage while taxes and costs skyrocketed, and established the capital gains tax cuts that set our corporate feudal state into motion.
Reagan is the president who gutted federal assistance programmes, purging the Social Security disability rolls, and caused my own grandfather to die because he could no longer afford to buy both food and medicine.
Then of course, there’s the Iran-Contra Affair, Star Wars (not the film, but the space based missile platform), school prayer, blah blah blah
But American History textbooks only remember him for “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” treating him like he alone was the force that united East and West Germany and brought the Soviet Union to its knees.
Yeah, like Soviet incompetence had nothing to do with the fall of the Soviet Union.
How effing dare they? But of course, they do. trump and his people have figured out, yet again, the fog-horn version of the dog-whistle.
“The Biden campaign on Wednesday evening criticized [t]rump and the timing and location of next week’s rally.
”‘Do some research on #Juneteenth and the racial violence that took place in Oklahoma known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921,’ Kamau Marshall, the campaign’s director of strategic communications, wrote on Twitter.“
The dog-whistling, performed by Reagan as by other Republicons, was ugly enough.
"Reagan launched his 1980 general election campaign with a speech lauding ‘states’ rights’ outside Philadelphia, Mississippi — the site of the notorious ‘Mississippi Burning’ murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.
…"James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were abducted and killed in Mississippi by the local Ku Klux Klan in June 1964 — a case that garnered enormous national attention because, as Schwerner’s widow said, he and Goodman were white.
"On August 3, 1980, Reagan traveled to the Neshoba County Fair, which a prominent state Republican had recommended as the place to find ‘George Wallace-inclined voters.’ There — within walking distance of the earthen dam where the murderers of the three civil rights workers had surreptitiously buried them just 16 years before — Reagan delivered a speech…[endorsing] ‘states’ rights’ — the same phrase white Southerners had used for decades to justify Jim Crow segregation.”
trump, seeking to kick-off his campaign covid-rally shout-ins, is choosing Tulsa? That is so far from coincidence as to be completely foul.
Even in the middle of a pandemic Congress is still trying to strangle USPS to death. Lord.
For anyone that’s unaware on how Congress has tried to bleed the USPS dry for decades to benefit private shipping corporations and b/c it was an example of the Government actually working, here you go:
