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Bret Stephens wrote another article where he gets mad that Democrats aren't Republicans. Rather than link it and risk that people read it, here's a list of better ways to spend your time than reading a Bret Stephens article:
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quote:But peel back the oil-spattered pages of history, and you’ll find that the sandwich so closely aligned with the stars and stripes was once also embraced by the hammer and sickle. (Yep, like so much about this current administration, even Trump’s beloved hamburgers have surprising ties to Russia.) im surprised this piece of hard hitting journalism wasn't already brought up by maddow
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Aug 1, 2019 16:01
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incredible ratio
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turn off the TV posted:im surprised this piece of hard hitting journalism wasn't already brought up by maddow the name of the sandwich? bernie sanders
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Aug 1, 2019 16:30
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Aug 1, 2019 16:36
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It makes you wonder how hard the author worked to paint a complete picture of Reagan.
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Aug 1, 2019 16:39
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Reagan had a world class team of handlers at all times ensuring the public (including the vast majority of other government workers outside the WH) had a very particular image of Reagan. If you want an example of how far gone his brain was later into the presidency my dad had to make a model trainset to convince him that the soviets didn't have secret nuclear missile trains
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Venom Snake posted:Reagan had a world class team of handlers at all times ensuring the public (including the vast majority of other government workers outside the WH) had a very particular image of Reagan. If you want an example of how far gone his brain was later into the presidency my dad had to make a model trainset to convince him that the soviets didn't have secret nuclear missile trains What?
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Aug 1, 2019 16:50
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Aug 1, 2019 16:52
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We are so loving doomed.
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Aug 1, 2019 16:52
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the clothes have no emperor should be required cspam reading, it’s like an archive of tweets feom the reagan era, and it’s free! http://www.theclotheshavenoemperor.com/
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Aug 1, 2019 16:53
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Venom Snake posted:Reagan had a world class team of handlers at all times ensuring the public (including the vast majority of other government workers outside the WH) had a very particular image of Reagan. If you want an example of how far gone his brain was later into the presidency my dad had to make a model trainset to convince him that the soviets didn't have secret nuclear missile trains It's established with everyone but Reagan's handlers at this point, who have sworn themselves to secrecy, that Reagan had significant Alzheimer's problems while in office. Trump is our first old-rear end president in a long time so people forget how hosed up this can get.
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Aug 1, 2019 16:53
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iv got to go back to studying but the story is the joint chiefs and a ton of air force people where convinced the soviets had secret nuclear missile trains. my dad whose been a train nerd his entire life had an intuition this was bullshit and when he demanded proof the air force nor the cia could produce any except extremely blurry photos of trains from super far away (we did know they moved rocket parts via train, which could look like missiles). So knowing reagan he decided that the best way to convince him that he was right and everyone else was wrong was to make a model train set. the cold war was really silly.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:the clothes have no emperor should be required cspam reading, it’s like an archive of tweets feom the reagan era, and it’s free! quote:Asked to comment on his wife's unusually high disapproval rating, President Reagan says, "I just heard earlier today – and maybe Larry can tell me if this is true – I just heard that some poll or something has revealed that she's the most popular woman in the world." quote:At his sixth press conference, President Reagan is asked if he agrees with his Justice Department's efforts to overturn the Supreme Court's Webber ruling, which allows unions and management to enter into voluntary affirmative action agreements. The President says he "can't bring that to mind as to what it pertains to and what it calls for." When a reporter explains it to him, he says he supports the decision, though White House aides later say he thinks it should be overturned. quote:ABC's Barbara Walters asks President Reagan what adjectives he would use to describe himself? "Soft touch, I really am ... sometimes I'm stubborn, I hope not unnecessarily so, but ... [long pause] ... I ... I can't answer that question, I wouldn't know how to do it." He is, however, able to describe his academic record: "I never knew anything above Cs." Reagan was a complete CSPAM moderator while he was in office
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Aug 1, 2019 16:55
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MAY 1981 5/9/81 New York Times: C.I.A. SEEKS LAW FOR SURPRISE SEARCHES OF NEWSROOMS
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Aug 1, 2019 16:56
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Presidential Model Train Maker is the zenith of c spam aspiration
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Aug 1, 2019 16:56
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"I mean if you ignore the welfare queens thing and the all the references to "over sexualized women" and to "violent big, Black bucks" and him only wanting gun control AFTER the black panthers started arming themselves, how was i supposed to realize he was kinda big on racism?" 
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Aug 1, 2019 16:57
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7/6/81 Nancy Reagan, 60, celebrates her 58th birthday.
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GalacticAcid posted:Presidential Model Train Maker is the zenith of c spam aspiration Jizz mopper in the presidential restroom.
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Aug 1, 2019 17:00
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I too make model trains to understand how conspiracy theories don't make sense.
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Prav posted:7/6/81 iirc this is a running joke throughout the book i need to read it again, it owns
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Toplowtech posted:"I mean if you ignore the welfare queens thing and the all the references to "over sexualized women" and to "violent big, Black bucks" and him only wanting gun control AFTER the black panthers started arming themselves, how was i supposed to realize he was kinda big on racism?" I have to point out that the Reagan scholar having an attack of the vapors was not the scholar who got the comments disclosed. That was Tim Naftali, NYU history prof, and it'd been denied to him when Reagan was still alive on the grounds of 'privacy.' So apparently getting access to these tapes has been a king-hell-rear end long battle between scholars and the Reagan library And while they trot out Mr. Vapors for some con-text, the article actually makes the point that for a lot of people, this disclosure comes as no suprise: quote:But many African Americans have long regarded Reagan as an exploiter of racism for political gain. He kicked off his 1980 presidential campaign at the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi, a Ku Klux Klan stronghold where civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney were murdered in 1964.
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 “I’m not saying that blacks cannot govern; I am saying they have a hell of a time. Now, that must demonstrate something.”
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Nebakenezzer posted:I have to point out that the Reagan scholar having an attack of the vapors was not the scholar who got the comments disclosed. That was Tim Naftali, NYU history prof, and it'd been denied to him when Reagan was still alive on the grounds of 'privacy.' So apparently getting access to these tapes has been a king-hell-rear end long battle between scholars and the Reagan library i thought they got the tape out of the nixon library
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Aug 1, 2019 18:21
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she looks like a forgetable 1 skit Rachel Dratch character
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Shear Modulus posted:i thought they got the tape out of the nixon library Yeah, my mistake. The author was in charge of the Nixon Library, and it was the National Archives that initially passed over the comments and then later released them to that library.
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Aug 1, 2019 21:31
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nyt delenda est
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Astead thinks Bernie’s supporters are all white men and has said as much when Bernie announced this year
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Aug 1, 2019 22:30
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They're gonna keep repeating the line that black people hate Bernie all the way to election day.
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Aug 1, 2019 22:34
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Sorry, "Black twitter ain't havin' no Bernie!"
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Aug 1, 2019 22:35
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Sorry, "Black twitter ain't havin' no Bernie!" When you put it like that, I can see their logo as those crows from dumbo
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ugh, je suis fatigue I'm reading it now and his criticism is that democrats want to discuss policy and real solutions
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/DrAndrewThaler/status/1156650054423207936 the rigorous editorial standards of the nyt are just incredible
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Their editors are all busy dropping racist hot takes and rushing to each other's defense on Twitter
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