Post B20cjGsuQGFTDPZOXA by gooser3000@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B20cjA3HpHOG1ZN5Em by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-03-30T22:12:02Z
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From Perlstein's Reaganland: "Reagan had certainly placed himself out on a political limb where public opinion was concerned. Of those who watched the Frost interviews, 72 percent responded that Nixon was a criminal, for which there could be no place in public life. "Times have sure changed (or have they since Reagan was elected after saying he was ok with breaking the law (and then he did)).#ushistory
(DIR) Post #B20cjBldRsSXLP810C by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-03-30T22:36:10Z
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Here's another quote from Reaganland:"Liberal Democrats had particular cause for dismay. Caddell wrote that with the Republican Party “bent on self-destruction,” the White House could “adopt many of their issue positions,” ... the “liberal establishment” was “as antiquated and anachronistic a group as are the conservative Republicans.”"Rot in hell, Carter.#ushistory
(DIR) Post #B20cjDBu9h4BlAQVaS by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-03-31T23:41:15Z
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Another quote from Reaganland:'''Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana noted “a remarkable parallel” between abortion foes and those voting against housing and education bills, who “do not have the same degree of sensitivity for the quality of life after birth.” Orrin Hatch replied that he discerned “remarkable similarity between those who believe in abortion and those who are spending us into bankruptcy.”''A situation where knowledge of #mmt could counter a dumb argument #ushistory
(DIR) Post #B20cjEIg204tCSbQmW by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-03T22:02:02Z
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More reaganland:"""Between the end of World War II and the oil shocks of 1973, the real income of ordinary American working families approximately doubled—then, it flatlined or even declined."""So why do we keep seeing charts with pictures of Reagan on them as where this started? They're trying to create a narrative that democrats aren't also responsible.
(DIR) Post #B20cjEdwkv5kGQYPw0 by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-06T23:42:38Z
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More Reaganland:"""By then the president was Richard Nixon, who had to accede to the new anti-corporate mood just to maintain political credibility."""Why did Nixon even get elected? So weird.Also, really sucks we never got Ralph Nader as Prez.
(DIR) Post #B20cjF1hKc5fS5fNxI by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-07T23:44:42Z
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Another quote from Reaganland:{ Carter felt warm toward Sadat but distrusted Begin, who consistently went back on his pledges to limit Israel’s illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. }But I thought this all started Oct 7??
(DIR) Post #B20cjFPRuJ5adkmLya by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-08T02:18:38Z
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Another quote from Reaganland:∆ Hubert Humphrey had died on January 13 at the age of sixty-six, after a long fight with cancer. Carter called him “a hero”—and worked to cut to ribbons the measure Humphrey had hoped to leave behind as his greatest legacy. ∆What an asshole, and a disaster for America.
(DIR) Post #B20cjFbrAB0vGEaGJc by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-09T21:08:23Z
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More Reaganland:|| It was the epitome of Reagan’s rhetorical gifts, that capacity to cleanse any hint of doubt regarding American innocence. That was the soul of his political appeal: his liturgy of absolution. And a key aspect of his value to the conservative cause—for other exemplars of the movement were revealing themselves as increasingly nasty and foul. ||Going from Reagan to Trump the innocence has narrowed from America to White Christan America.
(DIR) Post #B20cjG6LKpOsmmqbpo by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-10T21:16:09Z
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Still reading Reaganland:|• My concern is the desperate need of people of conscience and good will to face down the bully boys of the radical right before the politics of intimidation does to America what it has tried to do in New Hampshire.” •|When do you think that was spoken?A: 50 years ago!Should have learned how to stop it by now.
(DIR) Post #B20cjGQY7hYznSIkKW by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-10T23:32:31Z
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More Reaganland:~~ President Carter handed down a Taft-Hartley injunction to force them back to work, which the UMW ignored without consequence. ~~Haha suck it Carter, Taft, and Hartley. Something to remember when anti-strike laws are passed.
(DIR) Post #B20cjGsuQGFTDPZOXA by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-13T23:41:20Z
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Reaganland again:{{ “The cabinet discussed regulatory reform, We estimate that government regulation cost $100 billion this year—about 5 percent of our GDP.” }}Who do you think wrote that idiocy in his diary: Reagan? Trump? Musk? Nope, it was Carter.
(DIR) Post #B20cjH9ZQJZm35MhVI by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-20T01:21:23Z
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More Reaganland:<< Though Labor Secretary Ray Marshall put it more bluntly. “We have the only labor movement in the world that embraces capitalism.” The business community was “trying to kill it.” >>*Leopards eating faces.gif*
(DIR) Post #B20cjHdLdbOZXRITuy by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-20T01:47:50Z
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Another quote from Reaganland:<< He was welcomed with placards reading “NIXON’S THE ONE FOR 1980” and “NOW MORE THAN EVER.” >>Who could have anticipated a Trump revival?
(DIR) Post #B20cjHuib1I2PJQLzc by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-21T19:40:30Z
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Another quote from Reaganland:> Stevie Wonder ... noodling quietly on his electric piano, addressed the watered-down version of Humphrey-Hawkins that the administration was pushing, saying, ... : “4 percent ain’t good enough. For a country that’s the richest in the world.… I call bullshit.” The audience roared louder than they had for the president.I totally agree, Stevie. He's still right.
(DIR) Post #B20cjIKF47hrgTMjmC by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-04-22T22:05:08Z
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Another quote from Reaganland (trimmed):|• CARTER TRAVELED TO #MINNESOTA, BEMOANING the lack of enthusiasm for candidate Short, the businessman calling for 50% income tax cut and 20% slash in federal spending. Carter called the liberals opposing him “the one group of Democrats with whom I feel uncomfortable. They have a commitment to political suicide in order to prove some far-left philosophical point. It’s really disgusting.” •|Sounds really familiar! What a turd Carter was.
(DIR) Post #B20cjIlXQdXb388XK4 by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-05-12T23:11:38Z
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Another quote from Reaganland:|• He also kept a sealed letter in his desk to be read in the event of his death. Harvey Milk had had one of those, too. It read, “Let the bullets that rip through my brain smash through every closet door in the country.” •|
(DIR) Post #B20cjJ0mVxjZoPGi5A by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-05-21T20:30:05Z
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An odd anecdote from Reaganland:'''John Denver, the beloved troubadour famous for his protests against building highways across unspoiled wilderness, emerged as a national villain after it was reported he had secreted a tank beneath the lawn of his Colorado home of a size large enough to hoard gas to fuel a car for six years.'''This was during a gas crisis during Carter's presidency. I was too young to remember. My parents never talked about it (maybe wasn't in their area).
(DIR) Post #B20cjJTUnChdFShdq4 by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-05-31T01:42:30Z
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Another quote from Reaganland:> he announced that the Immigration and Naturalization Service would require all fifty thousand Iranian students to report their locations and visa status at the nearest INS office, and would immediately initiate deportation proceedingsWho is "he"? Some fascist wannabe dictator? Nope, it's lovable Jimmy Carter!
(DIR) Post #B20cjJlDjIsg8QznSy by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T21:42:45Z
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Another quote from Reaganland, dang they've been getting away w/this shit for a long time.> Atwater explained the secret ... in 1981—though he asked not to be quoted. The trick was “how abstract you handle the race thing.… You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘N-, n-, n-.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘n-’—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract now, (cont.)
(DIR) Post #B20cjK7YOGkHFhRdHE by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-06-12T03:44:59Z
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Couple more bits from Reaganland:> she wished he could be there to see “all these beautiful white people.”That was Nancy Reagan talking to her husband.This was Reagan's campaign slogan... Seems familiar: “LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”Seems like we should have learned our lesson from the 80s.
(DIR) Post #B20cjOrQldorx8wKLA by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T21:43:33Z
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(cont) you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… And if it is getting that abstract and that coded, we’re doing away with the racial problem one way or another. You follow me? Because obviously sitting around saying, ‘We want to cut taxes, we want to cut this,’ (cont.)
(DIR) Post #B20cjUNAH5At30pEzw by gooser3000@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T21:44:02Z
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(cont) is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘n-, n-.’ So any way you look at it, race is coming on the back burner.”(End quote)