@SeanCasten se allora mi avessero detto che avrei rimpianto #Reagan e #Nixon li avrei presi per pazzi. Cosa é successo che ci ha trasformati da manifestanti contro l'imperialismo del Presidente #Carter a silenziosi spettatori dello scempio bullistico attuale?

@ai6yr

#jimmycarter PUT #solar ON THE #WHITEHOUSE ROOF IN '79! We could have had ice caps and flying cars by now, but noooooooo, fuck #Reagan.

@FrancoisPrague

who is that?

the great "hero" of the #plutocracy for the "trickle down #economics" lie?

@DemocracyMattersALot
HEADS UP. This is from the #RonaldReagan playbook.

When #Reagan took office in '81, he immediately passed a MASSIVE tax cut for the wealthy (promising the benefits would "trickle down" to the poor & Middle Class.)

INSTEAD, UNEMPLOYMENT EXPLODED TO *10.8%* by November of his *second* year.

Reagan then went on a gov't spending spree (ie: "Star Wars") which EXPLODED the Nat'l Debt, but cut #unemployment to 7.4% just in time for the '84 election, making him a #GOP hero.

Ever notice #Republicans don't discuss #Iran or the Islamist Revolution?
#election2026
#2026election
Probably because they enabled the entirety of it all from 1980 until today.
#Reagan to
#Trump
#War machines
#No Kings !
#FreeIran
#FreePalestine

@palestine @israel @iran

@sk76 You didn't see much of the DEA arresting criminal stock traders after #Reagan got elected did you?
In fact, you didn't see much of the #DEA because they were perceived to be in the way of business.
One of the former agents wrote an expose' late in the 80s.

Ronald #Reagan declared in 1981 that “it is #dictatorships, not #democracies, that need militarism to control their own people & impose their system on others.” His successor, George H. W. #Bush, did the same in 1992, talking about American presidents confronting the Warsaw Pact, which had been “lashed together by #occupation #troops & quisling governments &, when all else failed, the use of tanks against its own people.”

@decryption

This reminds me of the legendary suite of utilities and book combo called Bob Levitus' Stupid Mac Tricks and Son of Stupid Mac tricks.

There are some legendary utilities on there.

One of my favorites from memory is #Reagan, which gives you a picture of the Gipper while his eyes follow the mouse.

If your mouse strays in between his eyes, he goes cross-eyed and recites a quote (actual recording) from the Iran-Contra hearings.

Legendary stuff.

(And for those who need to hear me say it, yes, for the record, Regan was one of the worst presidents of all time and really "set us up the bomb" when it came to the wall street takeover of government. And no, this statement isn't an invitation for Regan apologists to debate me. Ugh, the internet sometimes, yaknow?)

Day 20 ️

“spin-off of the US-based #CPAC – short for Conservative Political Action Conference – the #Sydney-based outfit described itself as a “values-based” organisation that “espouses the best of #Howard, #Reagan and #Thatcher while exploring new ideas and themes for the coming generations”.

Guests at the August event included #OneNation senator Pauline Hanson, Michelle Pearse, the CEO of the #AustralianChristianLobby, and broadcaster and soon-to-be alleged sex offender, #AlanJones.

Overseas talent included Jay Aeba, chairman of the Japanese Conservative Union and Heather Wilson, mother of six and co-founder of #GiveSendGo, a #Christian #crowdfunding network which has helped raise money for #NeoNazis and #AntiVaxxers”

“Then, in 2018, investment banker and long-time #ClimateConspiracist Maurice Newman, billionaire storage king Sam Kennard, and David Adler, of the #FarRight Australian Jewish Association (AJA), got together to form #AdvanceAustralia. Money was no problem: #HedgeFund manager and #Liberal Party donor Simon Fenwick tipped in $190,000; a further $400,000 came from Sydney #Establishment couple Rodney and Judith O’Neil, and the Taylor #winemaking family.

Advance pitched itself as a champion of the #SilentMajority – #HowardsBattlers 2.0. But its real concerns were better expressed by another early backer, #hotelier James Power, who was then engaged in a battle to prevent women from becoming members of #Brisbane’s #Tattersall’s Club.”

If you noticed a darker turn to the election this week, here’s a good explanation of the WHY and HOW. Also I see Tony got a new job.

#AusPol / #LNP / #Nationals / #Australia <https://archive.md/wY3Cn> / <https://theage.com.au/national/copied-the-maga-model-the-grassroots-lobby-group-funded-by-some-of-australia-s-richest-20250408-p5lq6k.html> (paywall)

@peterrenshaw I would think he would avoid the risk and just keep on rockin' in the free world. But maybe #Reagan was right that if US fails as a beacon of freedom, freedom everywhere is in jeopardy.

@Nonilex

The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople

(2/2)

... dumber the people, the more easily they can be controlled, as #Reagan and #GeorgeOrwell
discovered decades ago.

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1)
Dumbing of America:
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/how-did-we-get-here-the-dumbing-of-america-from-reagan-to-and-beyond/

2)
*The clandestine logic behind "#Reaganomics"
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592

3) If you like a good, high-school senior level of the #Alignment of German society by the #Nazis in the 1930's, I recommend this:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113908931207716944

#Reagan #Trump

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@Nonilex

The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople 1)

(1/2)

After #Reagan successfully started with the dismantling of higher education for the not-well-to-do as part of #Reagonomics 2), the extremist part of #Republicans called #AmericaFirst in the 1930's and 40's, and now #MAGA are now going a step further by axing primary/2ndary ed., and the #Alignment (#Gleichschaltung) 3) of the #Education system through #MAGA-controlled state bodies.

#TheStultificationOfAmerica
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