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IlxTheGreat 2 points ago +7 / -5

Every time someone says President Reagan's admin was based, I'll remind you, He had dementia thru out his presidency. Sure, easy to get along with, didn't accomplish any of his campaign promises, thinking in particular of the 300 ship navy. I don't want a Biden dementia Presidency, and I surely wouldn't hold President Reagan up as an example of what to do.

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ChokingOnARedpill 4 points ago +5 / -1

Fair point. He was still better than the alternative at the time and the country was held together and ran well. Doesn't diminish the damage done, but we've certainly had worse. Good thing we got GEOTUS now.

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IlxTheGreat 2 points ago +2 / -0

Absolutely! Was thinking of why I love this guy so much, it's because he's no politician. He's a worker. Always working, you gotta love that.

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Salt-N-Pepe 1 point ago +1 / -0

Whut? Were you alive then or just sipping on a juice box?

Rebuilt the economy, our defense, countered the biggest threat to us then (USSR)...

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IlxTheGreat 1 point ago +1 / -0

I was ADAF then. Hell, RR was a fellow Illinoisian, who had run as a liberal then became conservative. That "rebuilt the economy", you could just hang that on President Nixon. You do realize he did nothing about Pres J.C. deregulating Phones, Natural Gas, Electricity and especially Trucking. Avg OTR truckers used to make 70k yr, today its 35k. The Defense? RU Kidding? He gutted it, pulled the manpower out and privatized the Civil Engineer, Base Kitchen, Base Supply, all in the name of "Economics." I worked in Budgeting at the time and wrote numerous papers to the W/H saying why it was a mistake. By the numbers. No actual increase in Ships/planes/tanks, just planned increases. And when the Soviets fell, those planned increases went by the way side. Cost? About 3 Trillion$. So do I know? Oh yeah, I've got a pretty good idea! Not everything was ghosted, I could point to a boondoggle on Tyndall AFB that was built not to spec for 15m$ at the urging of the local commanding Gen'l. Or the attempt to run 30 foreign nationals thru US courses in my shop at a cost of 10m$. They were really pissed when I wouldn't let that happen. Or the 1500$Acft tires that were bought thru Sabine instead of Tinker AFB for 300$. You think he was super? He was the worst spindthrift since the last one, unfortunately. I don't think Pres Trump would have put up with it if he knew of it.