Infographic is correct, though it left out how he destroyed labor unions and a bunch of other stuff, but you can only fit so much in there. Reagan and his despicable cohorts like Gingrich were the beginning of the end for not just the ability to reach the middle class, but indeed for the middle class itself in this country (as his contemporary partner in crime, Thatcher was for the UK).
It was an absolute tragedy. If Trump wasn’t coming back in, Reagan would still hold the top rank in amount of devastation caused, but I’m pretty sure Trump will manage to surpass him on that front in his second term.
The good news is Trump will be the architect of his own downfall, just like Hitler and Nero
The bad news is Ronnie was also senile and the people surrounding him still managed to cause generational harm.
This man is responsible for the nightmare that is my life.
Fuck going back in time to kill Hitler, if I ever get into a DeLorean or a phone booth, I’m coming for that ass Reagan! THIS ONE’S GONNA BE FOR FREDDIE MERCURY!
Edit: Just got back, I think I got the wrong year or something, missed my shot too. Feds tried to stop me from getting back to the car, I got them to go bother some dickhead who wouldn’t shut up about some Crazy Taxi movie or whatever the hell he was talking about. Can’t try again for awhile, DeLorean’s out of plutonium.
If I could go back in time and kill three people from history, I’d kill Reagan three times.
Hey, get rid of Ayn Rand and Nixon too
Milton Friedman
Mmm… Fried man. salivating
Sorry I’ve been in the mood to eat rich powerful people lately… Was he one?
In 1971 he explicitly told all of the business world (with help from the Business Roundtable) that the only social responsibility of businesses is to increase profits. This set the course of acceptable practices for 50 years, until the Business Roundtable reversed their decision in 2019, to include stakeholders. Of course, the damage and cultural shift had already been done.
1976 he was awarded the fake Nobel prize they invented for Economics.
Might as well give Trump a prize for Humility… Jesus Christ, how can America be a “Christian Nation” if it believes the only Virtue we need is greed?
I think a lot of self professed Christians just believe in Jesus as if he’s the adult version of Santa claus and a magical genie who grants wishes if you pray hard enough
Allen Dulles deserves scrutiny.
Come on. You wouldn’t use one of those tokens to stop by east Germany and wax Putin in the KGB? You wouldn’t even need to change years to get Reagan and Putin in the same trip
Also kill Nancy Reagan. Pretty sure that succubus would have had a negative impact on people with HIV even if she wasn’t First Lady. The blowjob queen probably would have used her influence on Hollywood elites to create a hate campaign against the people with HIV
There was this one time a painter couldn’t hack it
The mental institution thing… That’s maybe not entirely fair. Prior to Reagan, most residential mental institutions were terrible places, worse than some of the worst prisons in the US. Closing them seemed better for the residents than keeping them open and attempting to reform. But it’s certainly had a lot of unintended consequences.
I know he was really bad, but Trump promised he will do everything in his power to be worse.
I don’t think it is mental illness causing the homeless crisis. Homelessness is up 20% from 2023 and I’m pretty sure the high cost of living is to blame.
Libs prefer blaming the victims of capitalism rather than capitalism itself.
A lot of homeless people are mentally sound, but are struggling with sky high prices, or dont have the motivation to work 60 or 80 hours, facing, constant exhaustion to live in a hole in the wall.
If you ever happen to visit Berlin in Germany, make sure to spit on his memorial plaque, as he is worshiped as a freedom fighter in Germany.
I (german) know of nobody that does that
https://withberlinlove.com/2012/10/01/ronald-reagan-memorials-in-berlin/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_honorary_citizens_of_Berlin
https://www.berlin.de/rbmskzl/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2024/pressemitteilung.1452879.php
https://www.parlament-berlin.de/Das-Haus/Berliner-Ehrenbuerger/ronald-w-reagan
Maybe nobody of the normal people, but in the political elites they love to praise Reagan.
Same shit in Poland. What’s crazy is that we are suffering from his incompetence here as well.
Fascists don’t actually care about anything other than attacking the poor, minorities, women, etc.
Reagan was “great” for that.
and now he is burning in hell with Tatcher and Pinochet ❤
The number of people that died of AIDS each year under his watch was in the millions. Not 90k.
Ronnie was a senile racist POS and he pushed the deregulation for the financial sector.
As non American I was ready to just move on and let them suffer in their own cycle of nonsense. But we can’t even do that. Since jokes about invasions are increasing at an alarming rate. Jokes about countries sovereignty became completely unfunny after Feb 2022.
If this next administration isn’t the actual downfall of democracy and just another blip in history I wonder if trump will have the same sort of vibe to his legacy that Regan has.
He’s the shining poster child of the GOP!
Reelected in 1984 when the national unemployment rate was 10%
