Re: The Biden-Harris Era
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 3:57 pm
I'm obsessed with how many people Matt Gaetz is going to bring down with him.
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It is speculated by historians that the wound Reagan suffered in his assassination attempt, as well as a fall post-presidency precipitated his Alzheimer's. So it is not unreasonable to assume some early signs may have been there very late in his second term, although he could be quite sharp even after he left office. We should remember he was already the oldest elected president up to that time and seniors do have "senior moments," so it is rather difficult to say that he was deep into it that early (he was diagnosed in 1994). He made a warmly received speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, though it wasn't among his blockbuster moments. So I'm not certain you can imply he wasn't all there when he was president.I don't know when he developed Alzheimer's but it was well before it was publicly disclosed. It was clearly evident by his second term to anyone who didn't have blinders on. You could see it in his responses at press conferences and other public speaking engagements where he had to respond to questions. Either Nancy or one of his trusted advisors would whisper the answer to him or he would stare blankly which would be interpreted by the too kindly press of the day as his ignoring the question to put the questioner in his or her place.
Actually this is factually and historically wrong. I may have switched parties, but I'm not going to let someone throw Reagan under the bus with a falsehood. Oppose his policies, even dislike the man, but the truth is he wrote a lot of his own material though he did have (like they all do) speech writers. He wasn't an airhead. He had real ideas about where the country should go, right or wrong. Not only was he an actor for nearly three decades, but he was elected 7 times as the President of the Screen Actors Guild and later became a two-term Governor of California. Obviously people liked him and thought he did a good job for them. He wrote most of his own speeches while working for General Motors and he also wrote his "Time for Choosing" speech supporting Barry Goldwater in 1964, which got much praise and attention, launching his own political career. So whether you liked him or not doesn't mean he was an empty suit. I don't think it's fair for one side to say that about every leader of the opposition party. There are good and bad leaders in both parties. But somehow Reagan and Bush are simply idiots to hardline Democrats. That's like the Republicans in my family who think Clinton and Obama were "evil people out to destroy the country." I think that's unfair, too, even if I didn't vote for them at the time.Big Magilla wrote:
The Reagan thing I never got. He was an actor whose greatest performance was his pretending to be president while his writers wrote the lines for him and his wife fed him the lines when he couldn't remember them which was all the time when he wasn't in front of a teleprompter. He was the worst president between Nixon and Trump, but you'll never convince the bulk of the population of that. History will eventually paint a much less flattering picture of him than all those who fell for his voodoo economics as George W. Bush rightly called them before he, too, drank the Kool-Aid.
The official response doesn't make me feel better.Sabin wrote:It's worth writing somewhere but the Atlanta Spa Shooting was super racist.
Also I'm not usually the first to call on law enforcement to resign. But the combination of Sheriff Baker saying that Robert Aaron Long wasn't racist but was just having a bad day (trying to protect him) plus his social media promoting sales of an T-shirt referring to the coronavirus as an “imported virus from Chy-na" probably can't go without consequence.
Correction: The spokesman for the Sheriff's office who made those stupid remarks is not the sheriff. He's a captain in the sheriff's office, a county employee, not an elected official so he can be fired by the sheriff but so far that's not happening.Sabin wrote:Yeah, I'm not really interested in game-planning what those consequences are. That's up to the people of Atlanta. It's just really bad.Big Magilla wrote
It shouldn't go without consequence but may if he doesn't resign. Sheriffs are elected officials. They can't be fired but can be recalled by special election.
Yeah, I'm not really interested in game-planning what those consequences are. That's up to the people of Atlanta. It's just really bad.Big Magilla wrote
It shouldn't go without consequence but may if he doesn't resign. Sheriffs are elected officials. They can't be fired but can be recalled by special election.
It shouldn't go without consequence but may if he doesn't resign. Sheriffs are elected officials. They can't be fired but can be recalled by special election.Sabin wrote:It's worth writing somewhere but the Atlanta Spa Shooting was super racist.
Also I'm not usually the first to call on law enforcement to resign. But the combination of Sheriff Baker saying that Robert Aaron Long wasn't racist but was just having a bad day (trying to protect him) plus his social media promoting sales of an T-shirt referring to the coronavirus as an “imported virus from Chy-na" probably can't go without consequence.
I watch Morning Joe while I'm having breakfast Monday-Friday. Although I don't watch the whole show, I do recall one of the historian's bringing this up, so if Scarborough said it, he's quoting one of them.Sabin wrote:Joe Scarborough pointed out what Tee has said about burgeoning and failing coalitions. From 1940 to 1980, it was FDR's world. Then in 1980, it was Reagan's world. But 76% of Americans support this bill. It's not Reagan's world anymore (even though he never has the House and Senate for more than two years).
To clarify a bit: Rubio came out for this because Jeff Bezos (via the Washington Post) has been an enemy of Trump, and therefore deserves to be "punished" with a union. So, just another element of what you rightly characterize as "we all like cancel culture, it just depends on who's cancelled." I don't see that as a useful way to bring organized labor over to the GOP, other than those who are already in the camp.Sabin wrote:This past week, Marco Rubio came out in support of unionization of Amazon workers.