@jamesgleick@zirk.usSomebody go back in time and explain to Ronald Reagan and John McCain that their grand old party is now deliberately trying to lose a war to Russia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-leaves-two-week-break-addre…
@servelan@newsie.social
@gwendolyn@mastodon.cloudRonald Reagan controlled enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on earth.
His wife, Nancy, organized Christmas decorations.
Galaxy-sized power imbalance. There's no way she could consent. Every time they made love it was rape.
(That's the idiocy of "power dynamics")
@jamesgleick@zirk.usSomebody go back in time and explain to Ronald Reagan and John McCain that their grand old party is now deliberately trying to lose a war to Russia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-leaves-two-week-break-addre…
@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned about yet another awful gift from Ronald Reagan: a legalized kickback scheme in the medical insurance industry perpetrated by Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) companies. By obfuscating the real price of drugs behind rebates (i.e. kickbacks), PBMs incentivize the rapid #enshittification
@cdarwin@c.imThe Council for National Policy began taking root on Jan. 22, 1981, when six religious and social conservatives gathered for dinner at a home in Dallas.
Most American conservatives were still jubilant about the inauguration of Ronald Reagan two days earlier.
They rejoiced at the prospect that Reagan might make good on one of his campaign slogans:
“Let’s Make America Great Again.”
Over dinner, they resolved to bring together
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeFun fact from ‘If We Can Keep It’ (Tomasky): In 1965, 83 Republicans voted for a bill Reagan had called “socialized medicine.” Reagan disliked the idea behind SSA 1965 so much, he released a spoken word album. The album, Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine, was part of Operation Coffee Cup. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/operation-coffeecup-reaga_b_45444/amp
@jpanzer@mastodon.social“It is the result of heedless gerrymandering out in the states, the massive amount of unregulated money that overwhelmed the ability of the national party to maintain any sort of discipline, and the steady and irreversible progress of the prion disease that has afflicted conservatism since Ronald Reagan first fed it the monkey brains back in the late 1970s.” 🔥
@drahardja@sfba.social#TodayILearned about yet another awful gift from Ronald Reagan: a legalized kickback scheme in the medical insurance industry perpetrated by Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) companies. By obfuscating the real price of drugs behind rebates (i.e. kickbacks), PBMs incentivize the rapid #enshittification
@cdarwin@c.imThe Council for National Policy began taking root on Jan. 22, 1981, when six religious and social conservatives gathered for dinner at a home in Dallas.
Most American conservatives were still jubilant about the inauguration of Ronald Reagan two days earlier.
They rejoiced at the prospect that Reagan might make good on one of his campaign slogans:
“Let’s Make America Great Again.”
Over dinner, they resolved to bring together
@fluxed@ieji.de
@Aboumael@mastodon.socialÀ méditer : "L’État n'est pas la solution, c'est le problème" disait Ronald Reagan ....
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[La Libre] - #PortAuPrince : des gangs prennent d'assaut une prison, les détenus s'évadent.
Des prisonniers se sont évadés du pénitencier national de Port-au-Prince, après l'assaut de gangs armés samedi soir contre la principale prison haïtien…
@cdarwin@c.imIt’s the media’s failure to put Biden’s occasional slips into any meaningful context.
Unfortunately, Ronald Reagan helped cement the idea of a president as performer-in-chief, when that’s really not the job.
The person in the White House is CEO of an outfit with a cadre of whip-smart top aides and cabinet secretaries overseeing nearly 3 million federal employees.
They implement policies set by what is in the president’s heart, not the speed of the neurons in his brain.
@servelan@newsie.social👍 Calling January 6th attack “selfish, not patriotic," federal judge takes veiled swipe at Trump at sentencing for insurrectionist - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/03/ca<…
@servelan@newsie.social👍 Calling January 6th attack “selfish, not patriotic," federal judge takes veiled swipe at Trump at sentencing for insurrectionist - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/03/ca<…
