@realTuckFrumper
Is this REALLY that hard to understand? Not worthy of an entire article.
Educated/Informed people don't vote #Republican.
They've been trying to eliminate the DoEd since #Reagan appointed Bill "Place yer Bets" Bennett to be SecOfEd in 1981 b/c of it.
"I 
The Poorly Educated!"
America's First Queer President?
Today in Labor History July 13, 1985: Vice President George H. W. Bush became Acting President for the day while President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon. A few years later, Bush was treated for a cyst on his finger. Then, while running for president, himself, Bush said of their relationship: “We’ve had some triumphs. We’ve made some mistakes. We’ve had some sex.”
#Politics #trump #alt #Fascism #SCOTUS #Abortion #Reagan #CivilRights #WomenRights #History #FourteenthAmendment
Heather Cox Richardson 7/9/25
ORIGINALIST JUSTICE ROBERT BORK AND THE ATTACK ON CIVIL RIGHTS
Today in Writing History July 7, 1907: Robert Heinlein was born. Heinlein was a pioneer of “hard” science fiction, which emphasized scientific accuracy in science fiction stories. He was considered one of the big 3, along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. Some of his best-known works include “Starship Troopers,” “Stranger in a Strange Land,” and “The Moon is a Hard Mistress.” He often used technological advances to explore provocative political and social issues, and to speculate how they might affect the future. The social commentary in the fiction of H.G. Wells and Upton Sinclair influenced him. He believed that some form of socialism was inevitable and that some aspects of it were already developing in the U.S. However, in his later years he became very conservative. He became a member of the Citizen's Advisory Council on National Space Policy, which made policy recommendations that were later transformed into Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars.
#sciencefiction #scifi #author #writer #novel #books #heinlein #asimov #arthurcclarke #socialism #fiction #starwars #reagan #coldwar @bookstadon
What our media still forgets when they are talking about #project2025 is the idea of creating irreversible stable right-wing state structures by killing US democracy. And that has been going on since #reagan. Project 2025 has roots 30 years back, and they are still working on it. Consistently, like no democratic state on this planet has managed. Ever.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/trump-project-2025-100.html
Today in Labor History July 4, 1910: African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocked out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round, leading to race riots throughout the U.S. 11 separate riots occurred in NYC, alone. There were riots in 50 cities, including New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, and St. Louis. At least 20 people died in these riots. Johnson, who was also known as the Galveston Giant, became the first black World Heavyweight champion in 1908, which made him unpopular with the predominantly white audience of boxing. He held that title from 1908-1915 and quickly became the most famous black man of the era. The racism against him was so intense that many, including socialist writer Jack London, called for a Great White Hope to fight him and take away his title. Jeffries, a former heavyweight world champ, came out of retirement specifically to prove “that a white man is better than a Negro.” Johnson’s victory in this fight earned him $65,000 ($2.1 million in today’s dollars).
With his winnings, Johnson opened a multi-racial restaurant and nightclub, Club Deluxe, which he ran with his white wife. Because of this, the authorities arrested him for violating the Mann act (transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes). President Trump pardoned him in 2018, something Reagan, both Bushes and even Obama refused to do. Johnson fled the country to avoid arrest, but continued boxing abroad. Eventually he turned himself in and served time at Leavenworth Prison.
@DemocracyMattersALot
HEADS UP. This is from the #RonaldReagan playbook.
When #Reagan took office in '81, he immediately passed a MASSIVE tax cut for the wealthy (promising the benefits would "trickle down" to the poor & Middle Class.)
INSTEAD, UNEMPLOYMENT EXPLODED TO *10.8%* by November of his *second* year.
Reagan then went on a gov't spending spree (ie: "Star Wars") which EXPLODED the Nat'l Debt, but cut #unemployment to 7.4% just in time for the '84 election, making him a #GOP hero. 
Today in Labor History July 1, 1983: Copper miners began a strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Arizona. During the strike, company-owned railroad bridges were set on fire and strikers smashed windows of scab vehicles. Governor Bruce Babbitt repeatedly sent in state police and National Guardsmen to suppress and ultimately crush the 3-year-long strike. Replacement workers then voted to decertify the union in the largest mass decertification in U.S. history. 35 locals of 13 different unions representing Phelps-Dodge workers were all decertified. Within a couple of years, their profits skyrocketed 15-fold to $420 million per year. This was one of the most effective and historically significant union-busting campaigns of the post-WWII era, along with the PACTCO strike, and Reagan’s mass-firing of the air traffic controllers in 1981.
Today In Labor History June 29, 1983: President Reagan said that one cause of the decline in public education was the effort to comply with court-ordered desegregation.
Les mesures avant-gardistes et d'une folle originalité du #PLR.
1. Réduire le nombre de fonctionnaires et augmenter l'emploi dans le privé. Traduction: l'État devrait confier plus de tâches au privé, voire privatiser ses services. #Thatcher et #Reagan tout sourire!
2. Encourager la propriété immobilière en supprimant les contraintes écologiques, sociales et urbanistes à la construction. Bon, il fait juste plus de 30°C depuis 10 jours... en juin! 
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/le-plr-veut-limiter-la-croissance-du-personnel-de-la-confederation
@Veza85UE @ChrisMayLA6 equality goes way way beyond poverty. Also people who are objectively well off can worry about their future prospects and that of their children, and become susceptible for populist rhetoric.
Especially when considering housing cost, inequality has risen dramatically starting with #Thatcher / #Reagan.
As the 50s/60s with high taxes for the rich has shown, equality leads to tremendous economic growth. #TrickleDown fails in reality.
Hahaha … und ich Idiot hatte Panik, weil #Reagan Präsident wurde …
@drahardja Are you speaking of #DiaperDon.
Another impeachment with the #Repubs in control of #Congress will NEVER happen &, even when the #Dems were in control of the #House, they couldn't get the job done.
So, it's just a pipe dream to think that you can get the #ShortFingeredVulgarian impeached & convicted of anything. 
Like #Reagan, the #OrangeMan appears to be a #TeflonPresident. 
Ronald #Reagan declared in 1981 that “it is #dictatorships, not #democracies, that need militarism to control their own people & impose their system on others.” His successor, George H. W. #Bush, did the same in 1992, talking about American presidents confronting the Warsaw Pact, which had been “lashed together by #occupation #troops & quisling governments &, when all else failed, the use of tanks against its own people.”
This reminds me of the legendary suite of utilities and book combo called Bob Levitus' Stupid Mac Tricks and Son of Stupid Mac tricks.
There are some legendary utilities on there.
One of my favorites from memory is #Reagan, which gives you a picture of the Gipper while his eyes follow the mouse.
If your mouse strays in between his eyes, he goes cross-eyed and recites a quote (actual recording) from the Iran-Contra hearings.
Legendary stuff.
(And for those who need to hear me say it, yes, for the record, Regan was one of the worst presidents of all time and really "set us up the bomb" when it came to the wall street takeover of government. And no, this statement isn't an invitation for Regan apologists to debate me. Ugh, the internet sometimes, yaknow?)
#Histoire d'un jour - 12 juin 1987 : Le jour où Berlin entendit l’écho du monde https://www.election-politique.com/election.php?ref=1451
#Histoire d'un jour - 9 juin 1982 : Reagan à Bonn ou l’art de parler aux frontières https://www.election-politique.com/election.php?ref=1446
Spring Cleaning, Continued...
Cracked open a long-sealed box / 'time capsule' of stuff from 40 years ago, in this case, almost to the day...
So.... ya think? I love The Atlantic since way back then, but... um... not so sure about this proclamation/prediction
#history #GQP #conservative #politics #USpolitics #Reagan #1986 #TheAtlantic #conservatism
#woke 
