• Fontasia@feddit.nl
    491·
    6 个月前

    To be fair, he’s annoyed at them having missiles, he had no problem selling them as long as he could profit.

  • davelAEnglish
    38·
    6 个月前

    Those who do US crimes get airtime; those who expose them get canceled.

      • davelAEnglish
        12·
        6 个月前

        You don’t have to be rich or white, you only have to be useful in furthering US state propaganda. Condi Rice is still gets plenty of airtime.

    • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
      81·
      6 个月前

      we think it started with trump, but Reagan did so much illegal BS.

      He should have spent the rest of his life in jail for trafficking cocaine

      • Grapho
        5·
        6 个月前

        He spent the rest of his lif living with Nancy Reagan so I think he kinda got his due

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world
          4·
          6 个月前

          When Nancy Reagan was a struggling actress in Hollywood, she had a reputation for giving the best blowjobs in town. True story.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world
    271·
    6 个月前

    Giving this traitor a television platform instead of a prison cell, was one giant step in making Republicans feel untouchable, no matter how poorly they behaved. Even treason is excused, and rewarded.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world
        91·
        6 个月前

        Well, it didn’t really happen like that, but yeah, the Iran-Contra Scandal contributed heavily to the onset of the crack cocaine epidemic. The fact that they couldn’t use the US military in this operation is why cocaine became involved.

        They needed to smuggle illegally purchased weapons to Central America, so they hired drug smugglers to smuggle guns in the other direction. What does a drug smuggler do after he’s dropped off his weapons, and finds himself in Central America with an empty plane, a fistful of dirty money, and CIA cover?

        That’s right, he fills it full of cocaine, flies it back to America, and quintuplets his money. And they did it over and over and over, until there was so much coke on the streets of America, that it went from being the drug of the wealthy and celebrities, and became the drug of the ghetto.

        And how do we know this? Because smuggler Eugene Hasenfus was captured, and he spilled the entire story.

        The only question was: Was the CIA aware of the drug smuggling? Some think that they used it to raise even more money for their cause, but I’ve never seen any real evidence of that, other than speculation. OTOH, I find it hard to believe that they didn’t know their pilots were smuggling cocaine back to America. If they didn’t know, they should have, they’re the CIA. Besides, it’s not exactly a big leap to realize they would do this. They didn’t hire commercial cargo pilots to do some side gigs, they hired drug smugglers specifically because they were smugglers. They aren’t going to fly an empty plane home. Of course, they’re going to smuggle Coke (or weed), back in their planes. Duh.

        • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
          71·
          6 个月前

          forgot to mention that Congress made a specific law against funding the CONTRA. And Reagan went around it by illegally smuggling weapons and drugs for them.

      • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
        2·
        6 个月前

        And dumping it in marginalized neighborhoods and starting the '90s Crack epidemic.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world
      8·
      6 个月前

      It’s a wild tale. I once told the entire thing to a friend, who listened through the whole story, then said “Did that really happen?”

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world
    15·
    6 个月前

    George HW Bush pardoned him on the advice of William Barr, giving Barr the start of a career helping presidents avoid responsibility for their illegal activities.