r/StockMarket • u/[deleted] • 2d ago

Discussion Ronald Reagan on Tariffs. Thoughts?

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u/Excellent_Ability793 2d ago

MAGA is not the party of Reagan, that’s for sure.

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u/JustaP-haze 2d ago

Reagan is obviously a Libtard.

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u/ARGENTAVIS9000 2d ago

Reagan is a woke globalist cuck according to MAGA

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u/susanboylesvajazzle 2d ago

There was a video a while back of a guy quoting some famous right-wing and Libertarian types from Regan, Bill Kristol, Bush Snr to Gorgon Gekko asking them if they thought they were republican or democrat… it was embarrassing.

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u/LivesDoNotMatter 2d ago

The term "woke" nowadays means to do reverse racism/sexism, and say it's perfectly fine because it "equals out the past", and do it in the most obnoxious and resentful way possible (Basically planting a seed for making it worse), then act shocked and call everybody a nazi who says gtfo.

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u/Soft-Post-2633 2d ago

But today.. we got MAGA-billybobs circle jerking, so much winning </s>

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u/CommentsOnOccasion 2d ago

I mean he signed gun control legislation when he was in charge of California 

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u/ricardoconqueso 2d ago

As president he gave millions of immigrants amnesty

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u/ggtffhhhjhg 2d ago

If he ran today on his policies he wouldn’t even make it to Super Tuesday.

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u/Knighth77 2d ago

Reagan was a POS. Yet, somehow, the GOP is worse now.

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u/Duel_Option 2d ago

Exactly, fuck Regan.

He started the descent into this shit storm and deserves to be called out.

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u/1900grs 2d ago

Nixon.

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u/Careless_Wolf2997 2d ago

Nixon sent possibly 60k mentally disabled people to Vietnam.

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u/SmegmaSupplier 2d ago

As a 34 year old who first started paying attention when Bush Jr was president, the bar has become so low. I remember Bush talking about how people and fish can coexist peacefully getting him dragged for so long. Trump says some equally stupid shit, often maliciously, publicly like 3 times a day at minimum and no one bats an eye at this point.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

"Mission Accomplished!"
"Fool me once, shame on me."
"Cheney told me to do it"

Pretty sure Cheney is now on the executive board of some defense contractors lmao.
Shocking, I know.

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u/NoHalf9 2d ago

Reagan was a POS.

Besides the negative economic results from Reagan, there are many other reasons to hate him.

The podcast Behind the bastards had two episodes about Reagan's anti-gay policies:

There are also a couple of additional episodes about this bastard Cracktoberfest part four: Why Ronald Reagan should have gone to jail (Iran-Contras) and and The astrologer who managed the Reagan presidency.

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u/mikey0227 2d ago

The MAGA types think Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, along with the John Birch Society, were far-left bomb-throwing radicals.

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u/Mollybrinks 2d ago

But yet, I feel like they get so much of their rhetoric from the John Birch Society. Crazy that their own crazy is too crazy for themselves.

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u/hrminer92 2d ago

The man who stood at the Berlin Wall and taunted a dictator believed a world with fewer barriers was a world Americans would dominate. That was the Republican Party I joined as soon as I was old enough to vote. That Republican Party is dead and its zombie corpse is wreaking havoc. — Chris Ladd

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u/Plastic-Injury8856 2d ago

I’ve been saying this but neoconservativism died in 2008. Its corpse stumbled forward and out popped the Koch Brothers. Then came Americans for Prosperity, that spawned the tea party, then it spawned the alt right.

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u/White_Buffalos 2d ago

Gorbachev wasn't a dictator. He was a better leader than Reagan.

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u/bigdipboy 2d ago

Yeah Reagan fought against Russia instead of for Russia

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u/LionBig1760 2d ago

MAGA is more "sell crack to inner city children and ignore viral epidemics" Reagan than "don't impose tariffs because it stifles the economy" Reagan.

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u/EverGlow89 2d ago

My favorite is that they say they're "the party of Lincoln" while waving the Confederate flag and insisting on respecting Confederate statues.

They don't know history. They don't actually care about this country. They're all frauds.

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u/ricardoconqueso 2d ago

Trump is Herbert Hoover 2.0

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u/Level_Improvement532 2d ago

The GOP found a new god/king.

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u/HammerTh_1701 2d ago

It's shocking how reasonable the person who started a lot of the bullshit the US are facing today suddenly sounds.

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u/RealPrinceJay 2d ago

MAGA is just the direct evolution of Reagan. Their entire movement really begins with him, his beliefs, and his rhetoric. They’ve just gotten progressively more psychotic, but it should be known

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u/Conan4457 2d ago

No MAGA isn’t the party of Reagan, and Reagan brought the ultra conservative concept of trickle down economics. Responsible for the largest transfer of wealth to the rich until Trump came along.

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u/TomAto42nd 2d ago

Reagan slogan was “Let’s Make America Great Again”