Reagan had dementia

Wifey was a cock sucker, literally

The cocksucker was running the country when she wasn’t blowing Frank Sinatra.

Nancy totally controlled him, before and after the dementia.

Moron OP has never heard of media like the NYT, WaPo, The Nation, Mother Jones etc. America is suffering from a stupidity problem.

They may have mentioned it (after it was admitted) but there was not this drumbeat.

But it was known. But no one questioned the patriarchy then.

It was ADORABLE that he napped, according to 1980s media.. With Biden, being tired was a crime against humanity.

Rupert took advantage of him and covered for him.

No OP it was big news and the right wing did not have control of the press. Nice try.

Not only did we not have the internet then, to fuel negative press, but if I’m not mistaken, he was already in his second term when his mental decline was becoming apparent.

It was treated as a big deal, OP. It was even a punchline with SNL and Spitting Image had his brain bouncing away down the White House corridor.

Reagan is the reason Americans don’t want old people running for president. Biden is even older than Reagan.

Yes, R10, but you didn't hear calls to invoke the 25th Amendment like we're hearing now for Biden. And Biden is much more on the ball than Ronnie was in his last 2 years in office.

25th Amendment? I'd have cut a bitch!

Because we didn't have the internet we didn't know how bad Reagan was because the press protected the president. The press notoriously protected the presidents about their extra-marital affairs.

[quote][B]y then the right had a monopoly on news.

Not even remotely true. In the '80s the news was still "tell it like it is," not partisan. The tabloidization of the news started in the early-mid '90s, both with the Clintons to some degree but particularly O.J. Instead of Ronan Farrow breaking news in The New Yorker, these "tawdry" topics were initially only aired on "A Current Affair" or other trashy gossip show. Fox News didn't debut until the middle of the Clinton years, long after Reagan's presidency.

What first changed things was the advent of cable TV, but what really upended everything was the internet. As a stark example of how much times have changed, note that Reagan won EVERY FUCKING STATE in his '84 reelection bid, aside from Mondale's Minnesota. While I'm assuming nearly all gay men at the time knew about his appalling inaction towards AIDS, the general public was entirely clueless: these stories were literally almost never told by the media back then. The public could accept Ryan White, a kid who contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, but not gay men or IV drug users who got it from a "vice."

Still, the news was at worst uncritical, not "controlled by the right."

Here's Reagan in 1984 as the incumbent debating Mondale. Reagan was 74 at the time and seems far more alert than the 81 year old Biden.

... and Biden did not.

Here's Biden reading from a teleprompter and demonstrating why he wouldn't have been able to preside for the next 4 years.

R17, Reagan didn't start showing obvious signs of dementia until after he was reelected. Biden was fine at 77, so it's no surprise that Reagan was at 74. It seems like 80 is roughly the age when politicians start losing it (see also Moscow Mitch & Susan "I'm a dumb twat so I'm voting for Nikki Haley" Collins - and at this point I'm surprised Pelosi's still holding it together).

That's not true. Remember he was an actor trained to read speeches. He didn't have to think, and he didn't/

Reagan made any number of gaffes like that R20

R22 Did Reagan look for dead people in the crowd? 🤡🤡🤡

Reagan NPR joke 1984 "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

That one caused a military alert in the North Pacific.

Reagan 1982 joke "As he prepared to announce his cancellation of Poland's most favored nation status (in retaliation for suppression of the Polish trade union Solidarity), Reagan called the military government "a bunch of no-good, lousy bums.

Big deal, Nancy had the clap, genital warts, and a prolapsed anus by the end of his presidency. The old girl left Washington DC more inflamed that when the British burned it down.

His stories are not particularly funny but he still seems 'sharp as a tack'

[Quote]Reagan NPR joke 1984 "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

[Quote] That one caused a military alert in the North Pacific.

"We begin bombing in five minutes" is the last sentence of a controversial, off-the-record joke made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1984, during the Cold War. While preparing for a scheduled radio address from his vacation home in California, Reagan joked with those present about outlawing and bombing Russia. The joke was not broadcast live, but was recorded and later leaked to the public. The Soviet Union criticized the joke, as did Reagan's opponent in the 1984 United States presidential election, Walter Mondale.

It did more than that. It caused a Soviet to claim they were starting military operations in the north pacific, which put Japan and Korea on high alert.

It may have ledc to the shooting down of a Korean airliner.

R29, I believe you're correct.

Scroll down to "Shoot-down"

[quote] While I'm assuming nearly all gay men at the time knew about his appalling inaction towards AIDS, the general public was entirely clueless: these stories were literally almost never told by the media back then.

That's not how I remember it.

It was a joke, and the off the record comment was leaked. It had nothing to do with dementia.

By August 14, the recording of Reagan's joke had become world news. On August 15, someone, whom the National Security Agency described to U.S. Representative Michael D. Barnes as "a wayward operator in the Soviet Far Eastern command", sent a coded message from Vladivostok that said, in part, "We now embark on military action against the U.S. forces." Japanese and U.S. intelligence decoded the message and raised the alert state in that part of the world; Soviet naval vessels in the North Pacific contacted Vladivostok in confusion. The U.S. never saw any evidence of Soviet attack preparations, and the alert status as promulgated by Vladivostok was canceled within 30 minutes.

Reagan used to make a weekly radio address. It was before one of these, from his home in California, that it was recorded and later leaked.

R32 dementia lowers inhibitions.

dementia causes imbalance

dementia causes confusion

dementia caused Biden to drop out of the race. Reagan in 1984 as the incumbent running for President was far more articulate, alert and able to talk extemporaneously then Biden was in 2024.

PSA for OP & Socks:

Biden has withdrawn his candidacy. It's over. There is no justifiable reason to keep fucking this chicken.

The Democratic candidate is Kamala Harris now.

Just thought you should know.

R38 the topic of this thread is about Reagan having dementia. He's dead and his presidency was over 30 years ago. Biden is still the POTUS

His last speech was in favor of immigration. Today's Republicans party is not Reagan's Republican party

In many ways it is, R40. Reagan was the one who ushered in the Christian White Nationalist influence in the GOP when he embraced Jerry Falwell and the so-called Moral Majority.

Now that group had taken control of the party.

[quote]R39: the topic of this thread is about Reagan having dementia. He's dead and his presidency was over 30 years ago. Biden is still the POTUS

No, babe. The discussion of Reagan is intended as commentary / compare/contrast on Biden, who is the actual subject in view. See R7, R12, R13, R17, R18, R19, R20, R23, R35, R36, and R37.

Bless your heart R42 but no one elected you hall monitor. Just thought you should know.

You're not hall monitor either, R43.

Just clarifying the situation.

Reagan was such a tool.

but what a tool R45!

[Quote] The discussion of Reagan is intended as commentary / compare/contrast on Biden, who is the actual subject in view. See [R7], [R12], [R13], [R17], [R18], [R19], [R20], [R23], [R35], [R36], and [R37]

[Quote] You're not hall monitor either

[Quote] Just clarifying the situation.

Oh, you sweet summer child! Have you already forgotten what the topic is R42?

The "sweet summer child" troll needs to be set on fire.

I meant r42, not r47

Apparently I live in your mind rent-free, R48/R49. You and your socks have pursued me from thread to thread for over two years, and have become even more desperate after the Bootsie-Gumdrop primary account was redlined.

Your posting history reveals your sad obsession with me.

^^keep on fucking that chicken.

You're not very original, R51. You keep repeating back to me things that I've said to posters you've insisted aren't your socks.

The socks are coming from under your bed! Paranoid freak.

Mmm-hmm.

I was addressing somebody else at R38, and now you're here, R53, expressing rage at me on behalf of other accounts.

You're the account they resort to when they want to make it personal.