Popular Thug Drink posted:

It highlights that the things I loved as a teenager were generally just as horrible, but in a cooler way.

Irradiation posted:

This is my friend. Unfortunately despite being unemployed the past 8 months and living off the remainder of his student loans he hasn't changed his tune as much as I thought. He has started hating Bill O'Reilly which is a pretty big step I guess.

The Rokstar posted:

Yeah, I think most kids raised in a red state go through a libertarian shitlord phase, myself included. A lot of us grow out of it when we leave the echo chamber and actually experience humanity, thankfully.

FuzzySkinner posted:

O'Reilly, Cavuto, Greg Gutfield, and others seem to enjoy making GBS threads on millenials any chance they get.

Playing the bitter, angry, racist viewer base is causing them to really alienate a lot of potential voters for the GOP in that regard.

"ALL OF YOU KIDS WITH THE DAMNED RAP MUSIC, DAMNED INTERNET AND DAMNED OBAMACARE ARE ENTITLED JERKS! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO WORK HARD! NOT LIKE THE "GREATEST GENERATION!" THAT'S WHY YOU'RE ALL UNEMPLOYED AND STUPID! THAT'S WHY OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM SUCKS. YOU PEOPLE, AND YOUR PARENTS THAT RAISED YOU TO BE MORONS!."

Chantilly Say posted:

He had been National Security Advisor but was made VP after the sitting VP resigned from a scandal, then a Japanese airline pilot crashes a 747 into the White House as revenge for Hiroshima and he becomes President 'reluctantly.'

I'm sorry if I spoiled the Clancy canon for anyone.

FuzzySkinner posted:

There's such a stark difference between the GOP of the 80's which used to sell my father on the great opportunities that awaited him and his generation under Reagan. You do notice a lot more optimism in the speeches of Reagan during his two campaigns versus the type of noise that currently comes out of the right wing noise machine right now. Even though he was full of it, and did some awful things? (Treason) Dude was a hell of a salesman.

It's as stupidly simple as that sometimes.

FMguru posted:

As this thread has pointed out multiple times, Fox's median viewer is in their seventies. Blaming everything on the kids today with their sagging pants and their hippity hop and their FaceSpace phones is pretty much exactly what that audience wants to hear.

This is a huge problem for the GOP because they've effectively outsourced a huge portion of their communication work to Fox/Drudge/Limbaugh et al, and what's good for them (flattering their elderly audience by making GBS threads on The Kidz) isn't good for the party (which could really use the votes of those Kidz, now and for the next sixty years).

FuzzySkinner posted:

It's so beyond far from that compared to what they sold my father on. The message I get from them is how "MEXICANS ARE STEALING YOUR JOBS! OBAMACARE IS KILLING AMERICA! QUEERS ARE DESTROYING THE COUNTRY! THERE'S A WAR ON CHRISTMAS! ABORTION! BLACKS ARE USING YOUR TAX DOLLARS ON WELFARE!". I mean, why would I even have any remote interest in voting for something like that?

computer parts posted:

Reagan said a lot of that. I mean yeah he did do the amnesty thing but he was clearly on the "blacks using welfare" train and while he was probably not worse than average regarding LGBT that was a time when people thought AIDS was caused by sodomy.

quote:

Christian broadcaster: Ebola could cleanse US of atheists, gay people, and sluts

A Christian radio host who enthusiastically looks for signs the world will end welcomed the Ebola virus as a cleansing force.

“This Ebola epidemic could become a global pandemic and that’s another name for plague,” said broadcaster Rick Wiles on his “Trunews” program.

“It may be the great attitude adjustment that I believe is coming,” Wiles continued. “Ebola could solve America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography, and abortion.”

Wiles was enthusiastic Tuesday about the arrival of Ebola, but Right Wing Watch reported that he warned the previous day that President Barack Obama may intentionally spread the deadly virus through a mandatory and mysterious vaccine.

That would somehow then allow Obama to declare martial law and force Americans into FEMA camps, the religious right broadcaster theorized.

“If Ebola becomes a global plague, you better make sure the blood of Jesus is upon you, you better make sure you have been marked by the angels so that you are protected by God,” Wiles warned. “If not, you may be a candidate to meet the Grim Reaper.”

FMguru posted:

Nirvana's output really tailed off after that period, I wonder why.

Babylon Astronaut posted:

And lesbians are God's chosen people because they have the lowest occurrence of HIV.

beatlegs posted:

Reagan was a sweet, charismatic grandpa figure who was basically untouchable, especially after the assassination attempt.

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His sons have written books on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of their father's birth, that falls on 6 February.

The more contentious of the two is My Father at 100, written by Ron, Reagan's natural son with Nancy.

In it, Ron Reagan describes his growing sense of alarm over his father's mental condition, beginning as early as three years into his first term. He recalls the presidential debate with Walter Mondale on 7 October 1984.

"My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered," Ron Reagan writes.

Against that is the word of Michael Reagan, who was adopted by the president and his first wife, Jane Wyman. His book The New Reagan Revolution, is an appeal for a return to his father's political principles of low taxes and small government as a way to making America great again.

He has lashed out at his brother via Twitter. "What a way for Ron to say Happy 100th Birthday Dad," read one tweet.

"Ron, my brother, was an embarrassment to his father when he was alive and today he became an embarrassment to his mother," read another.

The tale of the Reagan brothers is like a miniature depiction of the polarisation that has taken hold in the US in the past few decades. They have come to occupy opposite corners of the political ring.

FuzzySkinner posted:

Someone suggested on "Forbes on Fox" that we should not have a border, but rather US Citizens should all have "ELECTRONIC ID BRACELET, WITHOUT IT YOU CANNOT GO ANYWHERE"

Because you know...that's not completely terrifying and not out of 1984.

FuzzySkinner posted:

Someone suggested on "Forbes on Fox" that we should not have a border, but rather US Citizens should all have "ELECTRONIC ID BRACELET, WITHOUT IT YOU CANNOT GO ANYWHERE"

Because you know...that's not completely terrifying and not out of 1984.

StandardVC10 posted:

THE MARK OF THE BEAST!

Tatum Girlparts posted:

Michael Reagan is probably one of the most pathetic people in America.

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One childhood story he has told that introduced him to politics was how at the age of 8, he asked his father for a raise in his allowance. At the time, around 1953, his allowance was $1 a week. Ronald Reagan said that since he was paying 90 percent of his earnings to the federal government as income tax, he was not able to increase Michael's allowance. This, according to Michael, was how he was introduced to the subject of tax cuts and how that affected people.

quote:

At his high school graduation, Ronald Reagan introduced himself to his son by saying, "My name is Ronald Reagan. What's yours?" He replied, "I'm your son Mike." "Oh," said Ronald Reagan. "I didn't recognize you."

quote:

According to Nancy Reagan in her memoirs published in 1989, Reagan disclosed to his parents in 1987 that "at the age of 8, he had been sexually molested by a camp counselor, who had also taken nude pictures of him.... Poor Mike had spent his whole life wracked with guilt and in constant fear that these pictures would someday surface in a way that might embarrass him and, especially, his adoptive father."[11] Speaking at the opening of the Michael Reagan Center in Spring, Texas, October 7, 2005, Michael said, "At 8 years old, I thought I was going to hell." Michael said the experience drastically changed him: "I cussed God and his Son. I wanted to do anything I could to earn my way into hell." Michael said he was horrified that the pictures would be made public and ruin the lives of his family.

pentyne posted:

Someone like that could never happened again. The degree of Reagan's dementia/Alzheimer's during his second term is debated, but no one can really dispute the fact that major red flags started showing up.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

quote:
At his high school graduation, Ronald Reagan introduced himself to his son by saying, "My name is Ronald Reagan. What's yours?" He replied, "I'm your son Mike." "Oh," said Ronald Reagan. "I didn't recognize you."

FAUXTON posted:

So they've elected a senile president, then with Bush they elected a completely fried president. Maybe they'll go for the trifecta and elect an autistic president.

Chantilly Say posted:

It's a no-go, he'd crunch the numbers real quick and slash the F-35 program to fund Amtrak.

Chantilly Say posted:

It's a no-go, he'd crunch the numbers real quick and slash the F-35 program to fund Amtrak.

Dr.Zeppelin posted:

Joe Biden is autistic?

quote:

Writing for Townhall , Fox News contributor Erick Erickson compared the tactics of gay rights activists — which have included boycotts of anti-gay businesses and public ridicule of homophobic Christians — to the tactics employed by Alabama police chief Theophilus “Bull” Connor who turned fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators in the early 60's.

quote:

Citing a tweet by New York Times writer Josh Barro, who wrote: “Anti-LGBT attitudes are terrible for people in all sorts of communities. They linger and oppress, and we need to stamp them out, ruthlessly,” Erickson lamented that “those who believe in traditional marriage are not worthy of respect or civility.”

Erickson writes, “…enormous energy is being expended by the left in America to make Christianity and Christians unacceptable,”

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before stating, “As gay rights activists use the tactics of Bull Connor to push for what they declare civil rights, they are targeting churches, religiously affiliated groups and Christian businesses for harassment and lawsuits. ”

Among the offenses Erickson found comparable to siccing police dogs on children protesting for equal rights on the streets of Birmingham, Erickson cites a teacher at a Macon Catholic school who filed a discrimination complaint against his employer for firing him for wanting to marry his partner, and “photographers, florists and bakers compelled against their will to provide goods and services to gay marriages.”

Stating that, “Several thousand-year-old pillars of society are being shoved aside in the name of tolerance,” Erickson warns that “This will not end well for any of us.”

Despite a recent study that concluded that children of same-sex couples fare better than children in the general population, Erickson maintains ” Despite surveys designed to show the contrary, children tend to do best with mothers and fathers.”

Erickson concludes, ” A society that willfully undermines perpetuating itself is a society bent on suicide.”

beatlegs posted:

Erickson is the equivalent of the Japanese soldier hiding away on an island well after WWII ended but still believing the war was raging. It's over dude, obsess about something else.

Dr.Zeppelin posted:

Joe Biden is autistic?

Cardboard Box A posted:

He does love trains...

SedanChair posted:

I don't think they would say things like that, even in private, even if they were sure that they weren't being listened to. In a very racist America, Nixon was Especially Racist.

SedanChair posted:

Soonmot posted:

Also: What the gently caress, GenX?! We used to be cool.

Mr Hands Colon posted:

OH NO!!!!! You heard it here first, folks.

Mr Hands Colon posted:

OH NO!!!!! You heard it here first, folks.