• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Dear God, I knew he was the worst already,

    He cut off funding to Israel after their illegal attacks on Palestinians.

    And he thought the tax rates on the wealthiest should be higher than most modern Democrats do now.

    Still a total shitshow of a president. But “the worst” is a stretch. I mean shit, trump hasn’t been out of office 4 years yet. He was a lot worse than Reagan.

    If we’re only allowed to use trump as a comparison these days, Reagan wasn’t that bad

    But only comparing a president to trump isn’t logical.

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      5 months ago

      Ronny “trickle down economics” Reagan thought taxes should be higher on wealthy folks? Are you insane? The top tax bracket went from 70% at the start of his presidency to 28% by the time he left office. What Democrat have you heard calling to drop the top tax rate below 28%?

      He was WORSE than “that bad”. Have you ever heard of something called the Iran Contra scandal?
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair

      And oh, by the way, he didn’t defeat the USSR, Carter did. Funding the Taliban’s war against the Soviet’s started under his watch. Ronny just took credit for it.

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      5 months ago

      “He thought tax rates should be higher than most modern Democrats do now.”

      Holy shit, what a take. And, uh, why is it that modern Dems are at that point, again?

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      5 months ago

      I don’t mean literally the worst as Trump absolutely holds that position. I meant it as a figure of speech in regard to how bad he was.

      I would argue Trump was only able to run because Reagan walked it out first.

      My point was on how remarkably and terrifyingly similar they were.