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  • Oh there’s no maybe about it. Reagan - “an actor?!” was the perfect foil for photo ops and propaganda. His lickspittle Michael Deaver created them such that as wikipedia says,

    As Deputy Chief of Staff, Deaver worked primarily on media management, forming how the public perceived Reagan, sometimes by engineering press events so that the White House set the networks’ agenda for covering him.

    Which was a quantum leap from the flashbulb-handshake photo ops of the earlier presidents.

    He coincided with Mtv, cable television, and the nascent seedlings of Fox News. In every demented rapist presser where Orange Julius presents stacks of binders filled with blank paper is drawn from the work Deaver did with Reagan.

    Also remember that while Reagan had more public office experience than the demented rapist, he wasn’t trained on anything - he wasn’t a lawyer, didn’t study foreign policy, wasn’t in the military - he was an actor. And so while he was a conservative at heart most of the ridiculous idiocies were pitched to him and pending any kind of ok were run by evil toadies, just as it is today.

    So yeah, he was probably nice enough as a neighbor or something, but as a President he created huge waves of evil we’re still getting hit with today. (And which were called out at the time, btw.)







  • His administration was when the republicans really started running with the idea of fucking with people’s minds. “Morning in America” turned a shitload of former Democrats into republican voters who voted themselves and their children into a shithole they’d never get out of.

    See also; “The Southern Strategy”










  • Optional@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneZeus rule
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    16 hours ago

    So longing as there ain’t no pernt in standartizaton. Like when your a researches and the output is bespanked its ain’t good for eveythang.

    But jest, ifn its just a bout, like, talking at a box of frogs, for nothin, thats perceptble. But then if hes like all me so HAWNY, I SPEEK GOOD HAWN hay’better be down to sniz, ma git?