His worst triumph was getting the GOP to stop worrying about deficits and debt. Later the Iraq war was put on the USA credit card (debt selling treasuries) and no taxes went up. No millitary draft, so no protests from rich White kids. Reagan made all the millitary buildup painless and easy. We'll never get the bill for all that right?
I just wanna take a moment to point out that it wasn't specifically Reagan himself who did these things. It was the vast network of Republican and Federalist (honestly the same thing for the most part) machinery operating behind the curtain that did these things. Reagan was just their mouthpiece and their vehicle for actually getting them done. This is not a defense of Reagan; he was horrific. I just want everyone to understand that the enemy from back then is still alive and is the enemy today.
Yea people who think Trump is the worst president ever: Trump isn't the worst. Trump isn't even the deadliest to the world or to Americans. Trump is just the most recently overt fascist in the US government.
Actually Reagan's "look pretty and do as little as possible" genocide of AIDS victims killed an estimated 10x as many as Jackeon's Indian Removal Act. Which is not to downplay how bad the Indian Removal Act was, but rather to illustrate the sheer depravity of Reagan
The thing is, he's as bad as any of the others, but also totally incompetent on top, and has loaded his administration with similarly incompetent sycophants.
That does not seem to be true at all. He was worried his son was gay when he took up ballet, but there's no indication that he actually was gay. He was widowed from his first wife after 34 years, and married his second wife in 2018. I see nothing indicating even a suspicion that he's gay.
So the scary part is that none of if was undone by successors..... so once something is undone by the government it's really hard to fix it to a previous state 😕
Of course I saw it coming. It's easy to see who he is. That's part of how one chooses to vote.
But it's not because he's 6'3" or because he's of German descent or because he was a celebrity beforehand. That's called bullshit correlation not causation.
.. Oh .. Oh wait!! ACAB
All Celebrities Are Bad
Now I see your logic. How foolish of me. If Keanu Reeves runs for President, the zombie apocalypse is not far behind!
"zombie apocalypse"? No, that's just more typical murican fantasy, born of Hollywood and gun culture worship. Anything to ignore reality. That's working great for you, hey?
XD. It's apparent you narrowly think my nationality alone defines me; just as "celebrity" alone determines a bad leader.
I've experienced enough countries & cultures, felt and given real love from/to others and have emotional navigation & critical thinking enuff to validate myself. I remain open to self reflection.
I'm sure we're both bored so here on Imgur. The difference is I understand your bait enuff to poke fun at your logical fallacy. IDK all of reality but enuff without your validation.
NO! Reagan's literal COIN war on Dems- we know from Nixon Aid Ehrlichman, mass incarceration, destruction of Blacks, the Left and their families using Cointelpro including torture in the prison system and mass disenfranchisement of millions of Dem voters to keep minority GOP in power. CIA's Bush China ambassador knew all about British opium warfare. https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-">s-2019-7">https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-anti-left-anti-black-war-on-drugs-2019-7 http://irp.fas.org/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm 1
Partisan "National Security"- COIN warfare- actual war- against 100,000s, millions of Americans by US Intel first by "war on drugs" Bush partisan abuse of war powers then Bush Jr "war on terror" disrupting Dems, Blacks, Liberals, immigrants, unions. in "disruption" , destruction ops "Divide, discredit, disrupt, destroy" "We lied, we cheated, we stole." Trump CIA Chief Mike Pompeo. /gallery/trump-vance-announce-new-war-on-left-what-will-be-like-what-has-already-been-0W9avpc 2
Mass incarceration as part of deliberate destruction of Blacks, the Left. "Disruption", torture, COIN warfare against "enemies" of the Right to disenfranchise, keep from voting, break, convert victims to informants since Hoover, Nixon, /gallery/trump-vance-announce-new-war-on-left-what-will-be-like-what-has-alre-0W9avpc">http://imgur.com/gal">ady-been">-0W9avpc">http://imgur.com/gallery/trump-vance-announce-new-war-on-left-what-will-be-like-what-has-already-been-0W9avpc https://imgur.com/gallery/mlk-day-is-also-about-truth-reconciliation-about-us-government-abuse-of-power-WTViMK2 http://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814 4
Next Google LSD, CIA and war on Blacks, the Left, anti-war protesters. "The intersection of CIA psychedelic testing, domestic surveillance, and the political targeting of marginalized communities involves Project MK-Ultra, Operation CHAOS, and the War on Drugs. While MK-Ultra's LSD experiments initially focused on Cold War mind control, subsequent government policies weaponized drug laws to suppress political dissent and minority populations." https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehr 6
It's very slightly more complicated than that. Oh, Reagan totally fucked it up by letting companies do stock buybacks whenever they wanted, but companies were allowed to do stock buybacks before. They just had to announce them way ahead of time and file a ton of paperwork showing that it really was the best use of that money/was truly needed from an internal control perspective. So it was a giant PITA and most companies didn't do it.
Reaganomics 1980 cancelled FDR's "New Deal" economy where all shared in rising productivity, returned to naked exploitation capitalism, colonialism economics where nearly 100% of increase in GDP goes to the .01%- 14,000 families worth over $600million each, many now pay lower rates of taxes than the poor. Nearly flat wages since 1980. Misery for the lower 50%. /gallery/us-has-ruling-class-americans-must-stand-up-to-bernie-sanders-guardian-X9Lmvut
Let's not forget Zero Tolerance. ANY amount of ANY drug found in ANY vehicle coming across the border into the US, meant immediate, vehicular seizure and confiscation. I lost my 1 year old (basically brand new) car for less than .08 grams total of marijuana. Another guy lost his sailboat (that was also his home) over a joint found in a pocket of a guests jacket left accidentally, months earlier. The list goes on. All seized vehicles were auctioned off, proceeds used to fund "The War On Drugs".
whadyameanthatnamestaken
I never saw a homeless child til reagan's second term.
Chicagorooftop
His worst triumph was getting the GOP to stop worrying about deficits and debt. Later the Iraq war was put on the USA credit card (debt selling treasuries) and no taxes went up. No millitary draft, so no protests from rich White kids. Reagan made all the millitary buildup painless and easy. We'll never get the bill for all that right?
PackratMagpie
Efreeti
Based
HandoB4Javert
HonestCommentFarmer
The real tragic thing was that the Reagans were close friends with Roc Hudson and he reached out to them as he was dying of AIDS. Hudson got snubbed.
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
ImAWeirdMom
I thought that was half of a turquoise pendant and I was like that's a clever friendship necklace
Alvatore
I just wanna take a moment to point out that it wasn't specifically Reagan himself who did these things. It was the vast network of Republican and Federalist (honestly the same thing for the most part) machinery operating behind the curtain that did these things. Reagan was just their mouthpiece and their vehicle for actually getting them done. This is not a defense of Reagan; he was horrific. I just want everyone to understand that the enemy from back then is still alive and is the enemy today.
Frodyne
Those are the same (type of) people who are in the Heritage Foundation and who wrote Project 2025 - just to give a modern example of their fuckery.
thinkybrainpains
The bankers’ puppet.
jargonmon
*sigh*
BenderRodriguz1010
TungstenOrbital
I don't understand
CommunCreator
John Hinkley’s stated reason for shooting at Ronald Reagan was that he wanted to impress Jodie Foster.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1M2R4cjM3aDJobXJvaGc5c3JkYWdlY3kzbGxxamJoNGUxNXoyZGEwNiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/NsGwmfoLREoUt767a1/200w.webp
TheOneThatGotBanned
The actor??
blaghart
Yea people who think Trump is the worst president ever: Trump isn't the worst. Trump isn't even the deadliest to the world or to Americans. Trump is just the most recently overt fascist in the US government.
thebigbaka
Trump is probably going to get his chance to prove that he's going to be the worst
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blaghart
Actually Reagan's "look pretty and do as little as possible" genocide of AIDS victims killed an estimated 10x as many as Jackeon's Indian Removal Act. Which is not to downplay how bad the Indian Removal Act was, but rather to illustrate the sheer depravity of Reagan
HonestCommentFarmer
Worst? No. Most corrupt? Yes. He blows the corruption of every other president out of the water, combined.
getadogupya
The thing is, he's as bad as any of the others, but also totally incompetent on top, and has loaded his administration with similarly incompetent sycophants.
cosinewave
And Reagan's son is gay - go figure.
Slewth87
That does not seem to be true at all. He was worried his son was gay when he took up ballet, but there's no indication that he actually was gay. He was widowed from his first wife after 34 years, and married his second wife in 2018. I see nothing indicating even a suspicion that he's gay.
VulcanTourist
Aaaand he's an independent liberal thinker. Turns out he had an anti-father figure (like me).
Macetheace50
Efreeti
I recognize Reagan on the left and GHW Bush in the back right, but is that Warren Buffet in the front?
Cynthi007
No sympathy whatsoever. Vote republican and reap what you sow. Best wishes from Europe.
SecurityBadger
I know these are all stupid, but these are all true.
sweetandsmokey
So the scary part is that none of if was undone by successors..... so once something is undone by the government it's really hard to fix it to a previous state 😕
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
The previous celebrity president was also really bad??!
Yet nobody learned that lesson apparently.
They are just symptoms of the disease that is US corporate overlordship.
epicurusaquinas
Seriously? You're going to take a sample size of two and strongly imply a trend? There's no lesson to learn .. just a hasty generalization to make.
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
No lesson to learn? Typical murican ignorance then.
I hope you enjoy your fascist military government that no one could possibly have seen coming...
epicurusaquinas
Of course I saw it coming. It's easy to see who he is. That's part of how one chooses to vote.

But it's not because he's 6'3" or because he's of German descent or because he was a celebrity beforehand. That's called bullshit correlation not causation.
.. Oh .. Oh wait!! ACAB
All Celebrities Are Bad
Now I see your logic. How foolish of me. If Keanu Reeves runs for President, the zombie apocalypse is not far behind!
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
"runs for President"? No.
"zombie apocalypse"? No, that's just more typical murican fantasy, born of Hollywood and gun culture worship. Anything to ignore reality. That's working great for you, hey?
epicurusaquinas
XD. It's apparent you narrowly think my nationality alone defines me; just as "celebrity" alone determines a bad leader.
I've experienced enough countries & cultures, felt and given real love from/to others and have emotional navigation & critical thinking enuff to validate myself. I remain open to self reflection.
I'm sure we're both bored so here on Imgur. The difference is I understand your bait enuff to poke fun at your logical fallacy. IDK all of reality but enuff without your validation.
michaelfire
NO! Reagan's literal COIN war on Dems- we know from Nixon Aid Ehrlichman, mass incarceration, destruction of Blacks, the Left and their families using Cointelpro including torture in the prison system and mass disenfranchisement of millions of Dem voters to keep minority GOP in power. CIA's Bush China ambassador knew all about British opium warfare. https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-">s-2019-7">https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-anti-left-anti-black-war-on-drugs-2019-7 http://irp.fas.org/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm 1
michaelfire
Partisan "National Security"- COIN warfare- actual war- against 100,000s, millions of Americans by US Intel first by "war on drugs" Bush partisan abuse of war powers then Bush Jr "war on terror" disrupting Dems, Blacks, Liberals, immigrants, unions. in "disruption" , destruction ops "Divide, discredit, disrupt, destroy" "We lied, we cheated, we stole." Trump CIA Chief Mike Pompeo. /gallery/trump-vance-announce-new-war-on-left-what-will-be-like-what-has-already-been-0W9avpc 2
michaelfire
https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-anti-left-anti-blacks-2019-7">https://www.businessi-war-on-">s-2019-7">https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-annsider.c">-war-on-">s-2019-7">https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviserti-left-">nsider.c">-war-on-">s-2019-7">http">-ehrlich">ti-left-">nsider.c">-war-on-">s-2019-7">https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-anti-left-anti-black-war-on-drugs-2019-7 https://truthout.org/audio/the-fbi-appears-to-be-engaged-in-a-modern-day-version-of-cointelpro/ https://irp.fas.org/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm https://history.wisc.edu/publications/the-politics-of-heroin-cia-complicity-in-the-global-drug-trade/ https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/jul/12/the-save-america-act-has-brought-congress-to-a-hal/ http://www.tni.org/en/article/waging-counterinsurgency 3
michaelfire
Mass incarceration as part of deliberate destruction of Blacks, the Left. "Disruption", torture, COIN warfare against "enemies" of the Right to disenfranchise, keep from voting, break, convert victims to informants since Hoover, Nixon, /gallery/trump-vance-announce-new-war-on-left-what-will-be-like-what-has-alre-0W9avpc">http://imgur.com/gal">ady-been">-0W9avpc">http://imgur.com/gallery/trump-vance-announce-new-war-on-left-what-will-be-like-what-has-already-been-0W9avpc https://imgur.com/gallery/mlk-day-is-also-about-truth-reconciliation-about-us-government-abuse-of-power-WTViMK2 http://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/814 4
michaelfire
Please see my report on torture in ICE for-profit detention, mass incarceration-/gallery/torture-ice-private-detention-centers-bSU3TeW my first-hand report on torture of detainees help me spread the word/let people know www.worldconsul.com">isruptio">the word/let people know www.worldconsul.com. Also Blacks, Dems, the Left, Progressives targeted for "disruption" Ops. https://imgur.com/gallery/mlk-day-is-also-about-truth-reconciliation-about-us-government-abuse-of-power-WTViMK2 http://www.tni.org/en/article/waging-counterinsurgency 5
michaelfire
Next Google LSD, CIA and war on Blacks, the Left, anti-war protesters. "The intersection of CIA psychedelic testing, domestic surveillance, and the political targeting of marginalized communities involves Project MK-Ultra, Operation CHAOS, and the War on Drugs. While MK-Ultra's LSD experiments initially focused on Cold War mind control, subsequent government policies weaponized drug laws to suppress political dissent and minority populations." https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehr 6
Clockworkdancerobot
Conservatives are fascists and liars, have always been.,
TungstenOrbital
Damn it Reagan
dixxienormus
He also enabled news outlets like Faux to thrive on lying.
TheFastpaws
He really isn't dead enough.
cosinewave
And he legalized stock price manipulation by allowing companies to do stock buy-backs. To make t worse, they buy back their stock with our money.
jayman0123
And here he is calling UN delegates from Africa monkeys because they disagreed with him.
TinyBadger101
It's very slightly more complicated than that. Oh, Reagan totally fucked it up by letting companies do stock buybacks whenever they wanted, but companies were allowed to do stock buybacks before. They just had to announce them way ahead of time and file a ton of paperwork showing that it really was the best use of that money/was truly needed from an internal control perspective. So it was a giant PITA and most companies didn't do it.
getadogupya
That is one she covered in the vid.
michaelfire
Reaganomics 1980 cancelled FDR's "New Deal" economy where all shared in rising productivity, returned to naked exploitation capitalism, colonialism economics where nearly 100% of increase in GDP goes to the .01%- 14,000 families worth over $600million each, many now pay lower rates of taxes than the poor. Nearly flat wages since 1980. Misery for the lower 50%. /gallery/us-has-ruling-class-americans-must-stand-up-to-bernie-sanders-guardian-X9Lmvut
HRHLordDonkeyPunch
Merely existing was the worst thing he did.
Legomaniac91
KamikazeGerbil101
clonedeeznuts
Conservatism is a cancer. Full stop.
MendoncycleSmith
Let's not forget Zero Tolerance. ANY amount of ANY drug found in ANY vehicle coming across the border into the US, meant immediate, vehicular seizure and confiscation. I lost my 1 year old (basically brand new) car for less than .08 grams total of marijuana. Another guy lost his sailboat (that was also his home) over a joint found in a pocket of a guests jacket left accidentally, months earlier. The list goes on. All seized vehicles were auctioned off, proceeds used to fund "The War On Drugs".