Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
What to do About Guns in America?
What do we do about weapons in the United States? 3 things, at minimum---all common sense and not complicated. These won't solve all our problems, no, certainly not but they'll go a long way to curing some of our nation's ills and keeping people from getting shot and/or killed.
1) Require background checks, coast to coast, for ALL weapons purchases, for mental stability and criminal history,
2) Put into law a waiting period for receiving a gun after purchase and
3) Ban assault weapons. Again. Period.
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Things We Americans Can All Now Thank Republicans For
Herewith, just that, a list, incomplete as it is, of all the things we have Republicans and their Republican Party to thank for.
--Senator Joe McCarthy and his attacks, repeated, on fellow Americans
--Richard M NIxon, who famously/infamously quit the office of our Presidency because he illegally had his own men break into a room of the Watergate Hotel to get information on his opponent(s) in the Democratic Party
--Ronald Reagan and his dismantling of the middle class what with cutting taxes on corporations and the already-wealthy and then his additional attacks on Unions across the nation
--The very illegal Iran-Contra affair of, again, Ronald Reagan which was when "Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo." (Source: Wikipedia)
--George W Bush, who also famously/infamously ignored his Presidential Daily Briefs warning us of a pending attack on the nation
--The 9/11 attack, see above, in which 2,977 very innocent Americans lost their lives
--The squandering of our national budget by, again, yes, George W Bush who took that budget surplus we had under his predecessor, Bill Clinton, and blew right threw it
--And the way "Dubya'" blew through our nation's budget surplus was by, of course, using 9/11 as an excuse to attack not just one but two nations, Iraq and Iran
--Then there's the way Dubya' flew TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS, in an airplane, to Iraq. And let it disapper. Yes. True. Really
How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq
--The intentional disenfranchising of at least hundreds of thousands, if not, in fact, millions of taxpaying citizens by using "voter ID" laws all so they, Republicans, could either get or stay in government office
--The denial of fair and true representation in our government due to gerrymandering which either puts or certainly keeps their own members in government office, instead of the rightly-elected
And now:
--Donald J Trump.
--Immigrant children in cages at our Southern border
--Immigrant families separated at our Southern border
--Immigrant children lost in our governmental penal system, away from their parents, because they were separated at our border and with no clear way to rejoin them, the children to their families
--Some of the greatest wealth inequality, today, in our entire nation's history
US income inequality jumps to highest level ever recorded
--Large tax cut after large tax cut for the already-wealthy and corporations all the while ignoring or denying the people's true needs, fairness, decency, equity and/or the nation's debt
--The worst national response to the worst international, killing pandemic in the last more than 100 years resulting in our nation's death toll from it all is the worst in the world, literally. The "world's wealthiest nation" with nearly 400,000 citizens dead from COVID-19 and still counting
--An insurrectionist, treasonous, traitorous attack from a President's supporters, on our nation's Capitol
--Pipe bombs, during that same attack on our Capitol, by this President's followers, at the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee Buildings
--Feces and urine left behind on this same treasonous attack on our nation's Capitol
--Threats from more of those same treasonous, traitorous people following a/this President to do it again, that is, attack our nation's Capitol again, this time on January 17, January 19 and/or January 20 because their leader told them he didn't lost an election which he really did decisively lose
--The legitimately most scandalous, scandal-ridden presidency and President in the nation's historycomplete with obstruction of justice, perjury and collusion with our known, sworn international enemy, Russia, to get himself elected. (That last part verified by our own FBI and intelligence agencies
So there you are, fellow Americans. An ugly, ugly and yes, keep in mind, very partial list of what Republicans have done and are responsible for in our nation and our nation's history. And keep in mind, this is still with 10 days left to go in this President Donald J "Jenius" Trump's presidency.
Let's hope it doesn't get any worse.
Additional link:
50 Reasons You Despised George W. Bush's Presidency
Monday, May 11, 2020
The Now Frightening United States of America
Exposing Nixon’s Vietnam Lies
Ronald Reagan upset me, made me mad.
George W. Bush was depressing--and made me mad.
Donald J Trump is, no exaggeration, frightening.
We're concerned, sure, but even those around him get and and are concerned.
I could go on.
Frightening. This President is honestly frightening. And in more than one way.
God help us. Again, God help us.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan
Click on picture for better, easier viewing/reading:
But everyone's pissed at the black guy.
Right.
Wonderful.
Happy birthday, Ronnie.
You got away with it.
You got away with it all.
Just as Dubya' did, years later.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Reagan: A man concerned about the wealthy not paying enough taxes
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The most-esteemed Ronald Reagan wouldn't make it in today's far Right Wing, Tea Party-forced Republican Party.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
To all Americans
Be sure to see Doonesbury today:
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html
(another, new post later today, too).
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html
(another, new post later today, too).
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