General John Kelly: "He said that, in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law."
I still maintain the Senate is more important than the White House. Stop his judges, stop his appointments, stop his initiatives.
And then impeach him again. For gross incompetence, including high crimes, which conservative favorite Jonathan Turley defined as essentially "anything Congress wants it to mean."
Now back to Covid, which is what will determine Trump's support in the 2020 elections... look at these numbers.
Racine County, Wisconsin... cases up 100% Hall County, Georgia... up 100% Polk County, GA... up 100% Kenosha County, GA... up 150% Stearn County, Minnesota... up 450% Colfax County, Nebraska... up 530% Buchanan County, MO... up 630% Leavenworth County, Kansas... up 1000% Trousdale County, Tennessee... up 1400%
Pure data, no interpretations, supplied by the White House. As our President lies that cases are down all over the country. As Mother Ship sailors and other extremists ask if anyone knows a single person personally who has gotten sick, or died, intimating that this is in fact, all a hoax.
If Trump loses in November, and it looks more likely everyday, pending Biden's performance in the campaign, it does indeed look as if the president will drag the Senate under with him.
Why? Because he's a serial liar, unable to tell the truth and unable to broach any criticism.
Dave "Why? Because he's a serial liar, unable to tell the truth and unable to broach any criticism."
And unable to act with any humility in the face of a crisis. Unable to cede leadership to those who know more than he does; unable to assess facts from fantasy for the good of America.
I am at a loss to understand those who still support this president, since almost daily what he says is underminded by the truth, by facts, by reality.
I guess the hardest thing in the world is to admit one was wrong, so abysmally wrong about Trump.
They certainly ought to be. But this is the trumptard GOP. Their worry will likely be fleeting. The freight train to authoritarianism and rule by persnality has left the station. It is gaining steam. Plutocrats are smiling. Indications are a pliant America will ultimately rally around the flag and accept tyranny by minority rule. Why? They will have little to no choice but to bow to state force. It is my belief that it has been Trump's dream for years, he simply has been plotting while waiting for the optimum time. We know he was enamored with Hitler for a time.
I recal Thomas Jefferson saying something along these lines, A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. I believe Jefferson was likely meaning at times exactly like the Trump era of chaos, division, executive overreach, prufuse government propaganda and lying, and on and on it goes.
We Need A REVOLUTION AT THE POLLS come November 2020. If a majority of Americans vote for Biden and Trump retains the presidency a different kind of revolution just might be in order.
Other than claiming “great marks” for handling the pandemic — and praising Vice President Pence for praising himself — there was very little on covid-19. Mother’s Day got two mentions. The president attacked CNN’s Brian Stelter, and NBC’s Chuck Todd and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel. He praised the new head of the Chicago police union and touted the reopening of his Los Angeles golf course.
But most of all, Trump extrapolated the “framing of Michael Flynn” into a deep state plot to destroy his presidency conducted by the FBI, intelligence officials and President Barack Obama. The president now calls this “OBAMAGATE!” and charges his predecessor with the “biggest political crime in American history.” Trump made his case, in part, by retweeting QAnon conspiracy accounts. And he spread the threatening meme: “HOPE YOU HAD FUN INVESTIGATING ME. NOW IT’S MY TURN.”
The president of the United States of America is a mental case!
(I will be posting this often, because I must.) STAY FOCUSED. THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO DISTRACT. TRUMP HAS BROKEN AMERICA. HE HAS KILLED YOUR LOVED ONES, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. HE HAS LAUNCHED US INTO AN ECONOMIC DEPRESSION. EVERYTHING ELSE IS BULLSHIT. STAY FOCUSED.
We literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored
And an office called the Pandemic Preparedness Office... that they abolished.
And a global monitoring system called PREDICT .. that they cut by 75%
Lying in the Age of Trump is a feature not a bug:
Tonight's Team Trump Livestream features Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who, talking COVID-19, tells Lara Trump, "clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration, any kind of game plan for something like this."
skudrunner, Why don't you try educating yourself on how Trump needs to take a BIG share of responsibility for the 80,000 and counting American deaths.
Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work.
Trump has insisted that no one could have seen the coronavirus coming. His predecessor did. In December 2014, then-President Barack Obama warned that the United States needed to prepare for an upcoming pandemic.
In a speech to members of the National Institutes of Health—which came only a short time after the Ebola outbreak had threatened to spread worldwide—Obama emphasized the importance of building a public health infrastructure to combat the next pandemic.
“There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly,” Obama said. “And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure—not just here at home, but globally—that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly, so that if and when a new strain of flu like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it.”
Obama’s words now seem depressingly prescient as the novel coronavirus has spread rapidly across the United States, infecting more than 583,000 Americans and killing roughly 23,650 people. As the outbreak has ravaged the country, President Trump has refused to take responsibility for the way his administration has failed to adequately respond to the crisis and instead has blamed others for the severity of the pandemic.
Unsurprisingly, one of his favorite targets has been former President Obama.
For weeks, Trump has repeatedly blamed Obama for his own slow response, arguing the former president who left office more than three years ago is to blame for the nation’s testing failures and “severe” and “widespread” shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for doctors and nurses.
In March 2009, a novel influenza A, H1N1, was identified in Mexico before spreading quickly across the U.S. and the rest of the world. The new virus contained a unique combination of influenza genes that had not previously been seen in humans or animals, making it a unique threat to public health.
Sensing this threat, the Obama administration acted early and decisively to prevent the swine flu pandemic from devastating the U.S. Just a week after the flu first appeared in Mexico, Obama instructed every federal agency to play a role in preparing the U.S. for a pandemic. H1N1 was first detected in the U.S. on April 15, 2009 and within a week, the CDC had already begun working to develop a vaccine and activated its Emergency Operations Center to respond to what it identified as a growing public health threat.
Eleven days after the first case was confirmed, the federal government declared a public health emergency and began releasing medical supplies and drugs from the CDC’s Strategic National Stockpile. By April 28, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new CDC test to detect H1N1 infections.
Obama’s response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak was similarly marked by action. The president appointed Ronald Klain, an attorney and former chief of staff to then-Vice President Joe Biden, as the White House Ebola response coordinator. Klain oversaw an enormous response that included $5.4 billion in emergency funding in December 2014, most of which was dedicated to international activities combating Ebola.
The U.S. sent thousands of health officials to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, where the virus was spreading, to help with response efforts and limit the virus’ spread. The Obama administration helped create 15 Ebola treatment centers in the region, provided PPE and medical relief supplies to the countries, and conducted aggressive contact tracing to identify how the virus was spreading to limit its spread beyond Western Africa.
There were an estimated 12,469 deaths from H1N1 in the United States. Only one person in the United States died from Ebola after traveling from West Africa to Dallas, Texas.
To help the incoming administration be better prepared to fight future pandemics, officials under President Obama took what they learned from these battles and prepared a 69-page playbook. Written by Obama’s National Security Council and finalized in 2016, the playbook detailed strategies for when and how to obtain personal protective equipment, and included recommendations on how the government should move quickly to detect and contain potential outbreaks, secure additional funding, and possibly even invoke the Defense Production Act to compel private companies to produce needed medical supplies.
But the Trump administration ignored the playbook. Instead, as the Associated Press reported, the Trump administration wasted nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed supplies and equipment. Federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators, and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers. By then, it was too late. Doctors, nurses, and hospittal administrators have spent weeks pleading for more PPE, ventilators, and medical supplies.
But you get the picture. Instead of trying to change the subject to abortions, face the fact that the Republican president will be blamed for his reckless dismantling of the pandemic response system Mr. Obama set up.
Instead you and your fellow Trump cultists are blaming Dr. Fauci, and anyone or anything you can come up with instead of placing the responsibility where it belongs -- Donald Trump.
Now would be a great time to just throw out all our elected elite and start from scratch. Start with term limits, a representative government run by people who have a stake in the success of the country not life time politicians who only care about keeping their fortune building jobs.
Trump is not fit to remain in office and the DNC is not giving us any options for competent leadership. It is sad when you have to choose from an incompetent narcissist and a lifetime politician who can't remember the day of the week and who's only accomplishment is tagging along with barry. Maybe an independent will step up. Howard Schultz who is a strong leader and is young enough to remain that way would be a great choice.
This republican presnit will never be held responsible by skud or the other trumptard cultists. They chose the bumbling incompetent asshole (excuse the profanity) and they continue go support him regardless the unnecessary human carnage he alone is responsible for. The result his of arrogance and ignorance. He may have completed his education but his wisdom is that of a hedgehog, or less.
History of course will accurately record the Era of America's Decline. It WILL place the lion's share of responsibility squarely at the feet of America's worst president and most corrupt administration of the modern era.
Excellent summary response to skud's usual bulkshit Shaw.
No skud, the opposition party candidate, the one you have NEVER said you would vote for regardless how often you play the "both sides suck" meme over and over again and no matter how incomperent, corrupt, and dishonest Dotard the Ignorant is. Therefore skud one can omly assume you'll be voting for Dotard again.
PS, your slap at Biden, like tour many slaps at President Obama is bullshit (excuse the ptofanity please) and you know it.
RN, I don't think obama was the worst president and most corrupt administration in modern era. Most incompetent would have to go to jimmy and most corrupt is a toss up between nixon and trump. Maybe the latest dirt concerning the FBI will change this equation but it is doubtful. I would have to go with trump as the most corrupt because all nixon did was to lie and that seems to be acceptable in modern times. He was another ego driven maniac like the current president but at least he had a handle on whet the job took.
Jimmy was just a bible toting incompetent who lost big time to one of the greatest presidents in history and not just modern.
"Skud says Trump is the most corrupt president ever!
Finally, a libertarian or conservative admits what we've all known to be true for years.
Sadly Skud, I know you'll never be able to say that, nor will you, to crow's nest on the Mother Ship. Because once you do, you'll never be allowed to post there again.
The dirt of which you speak.. We'll wait comment on that. But, as Dotard is pushing the new meme my first thought is, likely bulls*t because that is what about 90% of what rolls off his tongue IS EXACTLY that.
Carter, a conservative governor from Georgia was NOT the worst. He was actually TOO honest, if that is possible. He also was not a hypocrit, corrupt, or immoral. He was a poor president but certainly not the worst. Trump is by FAR and historians WILL judge him very very poorly. He deserves ezactly that.
Nixon, with the exception of Watergate and his miscues on Nam was a relatively decent president. His dark side (paranoia) cost him his legacy as a successful president.
Reagan was NOT one of tthe greatest presidents in history. His greatest accomplishments were 1) Reatoring the nation's optimism and belief in itself and 2) Bringing the old Soviet Union to its knees.
Folks can try to rewrite the truth of truthful history, like D I tard the Ignorant is attempting to do right now but it ultimately always fails.
Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever? (excerpt) ...there's a growing realization that the starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan's presidency. There's also a grudging reassessment that the "failed" presidents of the 1970s - Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter - may deserve more credit for trying to grapple with the problems that now beset the country.
Nixon, Ford and Carter won scant praise for addressing the systemic challenges of America's oil dependence, environmental degradation, the arms race, and nuclear proliferation - all issues that Reagan essentially ignored and that now threaten America's future. ...
With his superficially sunny disposition - and a ruthless political strategy of exploiting white-male resentments - Reagan convinced millions of Americans that the threats they faced were: African-American welfare queens, Central American leftists, a rapidly expanding Evil Empire based in Moscow, and the do-good federal government. In his First Inaugural Address in 1981, Reagan declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem".
Reagan pushed for deregulation of industries, including banking; he slashed income taxes for the wealthiest Americans in an experiment known as "supply side" economics, which held falsely that cutting rates for the rich would increase revenues and eliminate the federal deficit.
Over the years, "supply side" would evolve into a secular religion for many on the Right, but Reagan's budget director David Stockman once blurted out the truth, that it would lead to red ink "as far as the eye could see". [end excerpt]
Derv, You are absolutely correct. Reagan was horrible in all that he did. Brought americans together, worked well with democrats, removed the wall in germany, brought us back from the carter financial disaster, beefed up the military, refined government regulations so companies could earn a horrible profit(which is baaaad)kept us from going into a depression. His statement that government is not the solution but the problem is spot on.
Carter was honest and incapable of leadership. He will go down tied s the worse president ever.
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They should be worried. I heard unemployment could reach 25%. Remember, it's the economy, stupid.
I still maintain the Senate is more important than the White House. Stop his judges, stop his appointments, stop his initiatives.
And then impeach him again. For gross incompetence, including high crimes, which conservative favorite Jonathan Turley defined as essentially "anything Congress wants it to mean."
Now back to Covid, which is what will determine Trump's support in the 2020 elections... look at these numbers.
Racine County, Wisconsin... cases up 100%
Hall County, Georgia... up 100%
Polk County, GA... up 100%
Kenosha County, GA... up 150%
Stearn County, Minnesota... up 450%
Colfax County, Nebraska... up 530%
Buchanan County, MO... up 630%
Leavenworth County, Kansas... up 1000%
Trousdale County, Tennessee... up 1400%
Pure data, no interpretations, supplied by the White House. As our President lies that cases are down all over the country. As Mother Ship sailors and other extremists ask if anyone knows a single person personally who has gotten sick, or died, intimating that this is in fact, all a hoax.
If Trump loses in November, and it looks more likely everyday, pending Biden's performance in the campaign, it does indeed look as if the president will drag the Senate under with him.
Why? Because he's a serial liar, unable to tell the truth and unable to broach any criticism.
Dave "Why? Because he's a serial liar, unable to tell the truth and unable to broach any criticism."
And unable to act with any humility in the face of a crisis. Unable to cede leadership to those who know more than he does; unable to assess facts from fantasy for the good of America.
I am at a loss to understand those who still support this president, since almost daily what he says is underminded by the truth, by facts, by reality.
I guess the hardest thing in the world is to admit one was wrong, so abysmally wrong about Trump.
They certainly ought to be. But this is the trumptard GOP. Their worry will likely be fleeting. The freight train to authoritarianism and rule by persnality has left the station. It is gaining steam. Plutocrats are smiling. Indications are a pliant America will ultimately rally around the flag and accept tyranny by minority rule. Why? They will have little to no choice but to bow to state force. It is my belief that it has been Trump's dream for years, he simply has been plotting while waiting for the optimum time. We know he was enamored with Hitler for a time.
I recal Thomas Jefferson saying something along these lines, A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. I believe Jefferson was likely meaning at times exactly like the Trump era of chaos, division, executive overreach, prufuse government propaganda and lying, and on and on it goes.
We Need A REVOLUTION AT THE POLLS come November 2020. If a majority of Americans vote for Biden and Trump retains the presidency a different kind of revolution just might be in order.
Other than claiming “great marks” for handling the pandemic — and praising Vice President Pence for praising himself — there was very little on covid-19. Mother’s Day got two mentions. The president attacked CNN’s Brian Stelter, and NBC’s Chuck Todd and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel. He praised the new head of the Chicago police union and touted the reopening of his Los Angeles golf course.
But most of all, Trump extrapolated the “framing of Michael Flynn” into a deep state plot to destroy his presidency conducted by the FBI, intelligence officials and President Barack Obama. The president now calls this “OBAMAGATE!” and charges his predecessor with the “biggest political crime in American history.” Trump made his case, in part, by retweeting QAnon conspiracy accounts. And he spread the threatening meme: “HOPE YOU HAD FUN INVESTIGATING ME. NOW IT’S MY TURN.”
The president of the United States of America is a mental case!
(I will be posting this often, because I must.)
STAY FOCUSED.
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO DISTRACT.
TRUMP HAS BROKEN AMERICA.
HE HAS KILLED YOUR LOVED ONES, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.
HE HAS LAUNCHED US INTO AN ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS BULLSHIT.
STAY FOCUSED.
Let the RESISTANCE RISE TO THE TIMES!
Ronald Klain
@RonaldKlain
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We literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored
And an office called the Pandemic Preparedness Office... that they abolished.
And a global monitoring system called PREDICT .. that they cut by 75%
Lying in the Age of Trump is a feature not a bug:
Tonight's Team Trump Livestream features Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who, talking COVID-19, tells Lara Trump, "clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration, any kind of game plan for something like this."
skud, comparing legal abortions, a medical procedure to a pandemic is your typical bullshit and it won't get published here.
Post it over at the Mother Ship where people don't use logic.
skudrunner, Why don't you try educating yourself on how Trump needs to take a BIG share of responsibility for the 80,000 and counting American deaths.
Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work.
Trump has insisted that no one could have seen the coronavirus coming. His predecessor did.
In December 2014, then-President Barack Obama warned that the United States needed to prepare for an upcoming pandemic.
In a speech to members of the National Institutes of Health—which came only a short time after the Ebola outbreak had threatened to spread worldwide—Obama emphasized the importance of building a public health infrastructure to combat the next pandemic.
“There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly,” Obama said. “And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure—not just here at home, but globally—that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly, so that if and when a new strain of flu like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it.”
Obama’s words now seem depressingly prescient as the novel coronavirus has spread rapidly across the United States, infecting more than 583,000 Americans and killing roughly 23,650 people. As the outbreak has ravaged the country, President Trump has refused to take responsibility for the way his administration has failed to adequately respond to the crisis and instead has blamed others for the severity of the pandemic.
Unsurprisingly, one of his favorite targets has been former President Obama.
For weeks, Trump has repeatedly blamed Obama for his own slow response, arguing the former president who left office more than three years ago is to blame for the nation’s testing failures and “severe” and “widespread” shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for doctors and nurses.
(cont.)
A Different Virus, A Different President
In March 2009, a novel influenza A, H1N1, was identified in Mexico before spreading quickly across the U.S. and the rest of the world. The new virus contained a unique combination of influenza genes that had not previously been seen in humans or animals, making it a unique threat to public health.
Sensing this threat, the Obama administration acted early and decisively to prevent the swine flu pandemic from devastating the U.S. Just a week after the flu first appeared in Mexico, Obama instructed every federal agency to play a role in preparing the U.S. for a pandemic. H1N1 was first detected in the U.S. on April 15, 2009 and within a week, the CDC had already begun working to develop a vaccine and activated its Emergency Operations Center to respond to what it identified as a growing public health threat.
Eleven days after the first case was confirmed, the federal government declared a public health emergency and began releasing medical supplies and drugs from the CDC’s Strategic National Stockpile. By April 28, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new CDC test to detect H1N1 infections.
Obama’s response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak was similarly marked by action. The president appointed Ronald Klain, an attorney and former chief of staff to then-Vice President Joe Biden, as the White House Ebola response coordinator. Klain oversaw an enormous response that included $5.4 billion in emergency funding in December 2014, most of which was dedicated to international activities combating Ebola.
The U.S. sent thousands of health officials to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, where the virus was spreading, to help with response efforts and limit the virus’ spread. The Obama administration helped create 15 Ebola treatment centers in the region, provided PPE and medical relief supplies to the countries, and conducted aggressive contact tracing to identify how the virus was spreading to limit its spread beyond Western Africa.
There were an estimated 12,469 deaths from H1N1 in the United States. Only one person in the United States died from Ebola after traveling from West Africa to Dallas, Texas.
(cont.)
Then Came the Trump Administration
To help the incoming administration be better prepared to fight future pandemics, officials under President Obama took what they learned from these battles and prepared a 69-page playbook. Written by Obama’s National Security Council and finalized in 2016, the playbook detailed strategies for when and how to obtain personal protective equipment, and included recommendations on how the government should move quickly to detect and contain potential outbreaks, secure additional funding, and possibly even invoke the Defense Production Act to compel private companies to produce needed medical supplies.
But the Trump administration ignored the playbook. Instead, as the Associated Press reported, the Trump administration wasted nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed supplies and equipment. Federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators, and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers. By then, it was too late. Doctors, nurses, and hospittal administrators have spent weeks pleading for more PPE, ventilators, and medical supplies.
The rest is here.
But you get the picture. Instead of trying to change the subject to abortions, face the fact that the Republican president will be blamed for his reckless dismantling of the pandemic response system Mr. Obama set up.
Instead you and your fellow Trump cultists are blaming Dr. Fauci, and anyone or anything you can come up with instead of placing the responsibility where it belongs -- Donald Trump.
Now would be a great time to just throw out all our elected elite and start from scratch. Start with term limits, a representative government run by people who have a stake in the success of the country not life time politicians who only care about keeping their fortune building jobs.
Trump is not fit to remain in office and the DNC is not giving us any options for competent leadership. It is sad when you have to choose from an incompetent narcissist and a lifetime politician who can't remember the day of the week and who's only accomplishment is tagging along with barry. Maybe an independent will step up. Howard Schultz who is a strong leader and is young enough to remain that way would be a great choice.
This republican presnit will never be held responsible by skud or the other trumptard cultists. They chose the bumbling incompetent asshole (excuse the profanity) and they continue go support him regardless the unnecessary human carnage he alone is responsible for. The result his of arrogance and ignorance. He may have completed his education but his wisdom is that of a hedgehog, or less.
History of course will accurately record the Era of America's Decline. It WILL place the lion's share of responsibility squarely at the feet of America's worst president and most corrupt administration of the modern era.
Excellent summary response to skud's usual bulkshit Shaw.
No skud, the opposition party candidate, the one you have NEVER said you would vote for regardless how often you play the "both sides suck" meme over and over again and no matter how incomperent, corrupt, and dishonest Dotard the Ignorant is. Therefore skud one can omly assume you'll be voting for Dotard again.
PS, your slap at Biden, like tour many slaps at President Obama is bullshit (excuse the ptofanity please) and you know it.
RN, I don't think obama was the worst president and most corrupt administration in modern era. Most incompetent would have to go to jimmy and most corrupt is a toss up between nixon and trump. Maybe the latest dirt concerning the FBI will change this equation but it is doubtful. I would have to go with trump as the most corrupt because all nixon did was to lie and that seems to be acceptable in modern times. He was another ego driven maniac like the current president but at least he had a handle on whet the job took.
Jimmy was just a bible toting incompetent who lost big time to one of the greatest presidents in history and not just modern.
Hold the presses...
"Skud says Trump is the most corrupt president ever!
Finally, a libertarian or conservative admits what we've all known to be true for years.
Sadly Skud, I know you'll never be able to say that, nor will you, to crow's nest on the Mother Ship. Because once you do, you'll never be allowed to post there again.
The dirt of which you speak..
We'll wait comment on that. But, as Dotard is pushing the new meme my first thought is, likely bulls*t because that is what about 90% of what rolls off his tongue IS EXACTLY that.
Carter, a conservative governor from Georgia was NOT the worst. He was actually TOO honest, if that is possible. He also was not a hypocrit, corrupt, or immoral. He was a poor president but certainly not the worst. Trump is by FAR and historians WILL judge him very very poorly. He deserves ezactly that.
Nixon, with the exception of Watergate and his miscues on Nam was a relatively decent president. His dark side (paranoia) cost him his legacy as a successful president.
Reagan was NOT one of tthe greatest presidents in history. His greatest accomplishments were 1) Reatoring the nation's optimism and belief in itself and 2) Bringing the old Soviet Union to its knees.
Folks can try to rewrite the truth of truthful history, like D I tard the Ignorant is attempting to do right now but it ultimately always fails.
Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever? (excerpt) ...there's a growing realization that the starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan's presidency. There's also a grudging reassessment that the "failed" presidents of the 1970s - Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter - may deserve more credit for trying to grapple with the problems that now beset the country.
Nixon, Ford and Carter won scant praise for addressing the systemic challenges of America's oil dependence, environmental degradation, the arms race, and nuclear proliferation - all issues that Reagan essentially ignored and that now threaten America's future. ...
With his superficially sunny disposition - and a ruthless political strategy of exploiting white-male resentments - Reagan convinced millions of Americans that the threats they faced were: African-American welfare queens, Central American leftists, a rapidly expanding Evil Empire based in Moscow, and the do-good federal government. In his First Inaugural Address in 1981, Reagan declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem".
Reagan pushed for deregulation of industries, including banking; he slashed income taxes for the wealthiest Americans in an experiment known as "supply side" economics, which held falsely that cutting rates for the rich would increase revenues and eliminate the federal deficit.
Over the years, "supply side" would evolve into a secular religion for many on the Right, but Reagan's budget director David Stockman once blurted out the truth, that it would lead to red ink "as far as the eye could see". [end excerpt]
Nice follow up Dervish. For skud as well as a very many like him the excerpt, while accurately reflecting truth, will be considered fake news.
Derv... Stockman did not blurt out the truth, he offered a full throated reassessment, saying supply side economics never worked and was wrong.
But as usual, the minute he said that, he became a RINO.
Derv, You are absolutely correct. Reagan was horrible in all that he did. Brought americans together, worked well with democrats, removed the wall in germany, brought us back from the carter financial disaster, beefed up the military, refined government regulations so companies could earn a horrible profit(which is baaaad)kept us from going into a depression. His statement that government is not the solution but the problem is spot on.
Carter was honest and incapable of leadership. He will go down tied s the worse president ever.
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