Tim Krieder posted:

Some of my younger readers may not even remember Ronald Regan’s presidency...calling him the Great Communicator is like calling Hitler the Great Negotiator, and if we’re going to credit him with winning the Cold War we may as well credit him with the Challenger disaster and the return of Halley’s Comet. Let me tell you what it was really like:

Even at age twelve I could tell that Jimmy Carter was an honest man trying to address complicated issues and Ronald Reagan was a brilcreemed salesman telling people what they wanted to hear. I secretly wept on the stairs the night he was elected President, because I understood that the kind of shitheads I had to listen to in the cafeteria grew up to become voters, and won. I spent the eight years he was in office living in one of those science-fiction movies where everyone is taken over by aliens—I was appalled by how stupid and mean-spirited and repulsive the world was becoming while everyone else in America seemed to agree that things were finally exactly as they should be. The Washington Press corps was so enamored of his down-to-earth charm that they never checked his facts, but if you watched his face when it was at rest, when he wasn’t performing for anyone, you could see him for what he really was—a black-eyed, slit-mouthed, lizard-faced old son-of-a-bitch. He was a bad actor, an informer for McCarthy, and a hired front man for a gang of Texas oilmen, fundamentalist dingbats, and right-wing psychotics out of Dr. Strangelove. He put a genial face on chauvanism, callousness, and greed, and made people feel good about being bigots again. He likened Central American death squads to our founding fathers and called the Taliban “freedom fighters.” His legacy includes the dismantling of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the final dirty win of Management over Labor, the outsourcing of America’s manufacturing base, the embezzlement of almost all the country's wealth by 1% of its citizens, the scapegoating of the poor and black, the War on Drugs, the eviction of schizophrenics into the streets, AIDS, acid rain, Iran-Contra, and, let’s not forget, the corpses of two hundred forty United States Marines. He moved the center of political discourse in this country to somewhere in between Richard Nixon and Augusto Pinochet. He believed in astrology and Armageddon and didn't know the difference between history and movies; his stories were lies and his jokes were scripted. He was the triumph of image over truth, paving the way for even more vapid spokesmodels like George W. Bush. He was, as everyone agrees, exactly what he appeared to be—nothing. He made me ashamed to be an American. If there was any justice in this world his Presidential Library would contain nothing but boys' adventure books and bad cowboy movies, and the only things named after him would be shopping malls and Potter's Fields. Let the earth where he is buried be seeded with salt.

exmarx posted:

sad 2004 d&d thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1076219

exmarx posted:

sad 2004 d&d thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1076219

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

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Slugnoid posted:

alzheimers is a slow and terrible death. in the end you forget how to swallow and starve to death






lol

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

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Baloogan posted:

vilerat's mom at the RNC

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

exmarx posted:

sad 2004 d&d thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1076219

exmarx posted:

sad 2004 d&d thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1076219

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

I'm too young to have actually experienced much of his presidency (22), but I do know that Michael J Fox liked him on Family Ties, and Michael J Fox was in the greatest movie ever, Back to the Future, so he's not all bad.

Al! posted:

lol sa really did move a lot further left