US Politics

In any case, the man has damaged the US more than any single individual since the Civil War, possibly ever.

It depends on what you mean by damage, but I think Regan carried out more structural and long term damage.

Also when you look at the loss of life in Vietnam and extra judicial killings through the 60s and 70s, on a body count he scores pretty well compared to quite a few others.

Honestly, I think this is where his crassness and overt cuntishness clouds peoples views. If you put stoking already present divisions to one side, what are his top 5 onerous and irreversible policies?

Yep - I think he was the useful idiot designed to whip up the "impressionable" section of the electorate & it turned out better than anyone could have thought and he just fucking ran with it.

I'm sure that somewhere there's a Trading Places type wager going on & this is the result - a couple of old Randolph & Mortimer types pissing themselves laughing as they shuffle their investments accordingly.

Gucci Mane also mentioned as a petitioner for Kodak Black's pardon too.

Big day for rappers with face tattoos

3 Supreme Court judges and >200 Federal judges,
all selected solely for their right wing views.

But that would have been the same with any GOP president elected for those years.

what are his top 5 onerous and irreversible policies?

1. Loading the courts
   
2. Not filling a lot of roles in most agencies - gutting their capability and leaving voids
   
3. Filling some agency roles with loyal lobbyists - perverting their mission, i.e. FDA and FCC
   
4. Permitting oil and mineral mining throughout Alaska and accelerating the speed at which that happens
   
5. Diminishing the finances of the govt through broad tax cuts to the wealthy, leading to a lot of grass and root projects being gutted
   
   

Probably not actually in order... but those off the top of my head.

Ai Wei Wei

Is it just me who can't read this without hearing:

I say Muhammad Ali, you say Cassius Clay
I say butter you say Parkay
It's alright if you wanna make a sway
I'm away up town, took the deuce to the tre
I originate, they duplicate
I praise the lord and keep the faith
It's alright keep biting at the bait
'92, uh! One year later
Peace out Premier take me out with the fader

?

Vs (off the top of my head) all of which I think had a greater negative impact:

1. Permanently breaking up the strength of the federal government.
   
2. Carrying out an insane number of covert wars, some of which helped to establish Islamic extremism and destabilise the middle east
   
3. Fundamental transfer of wealth from the poorest to the wealthiest.
   
4. Accelerating the power of the Christian Right.
   
5. Prison privatisation and mass incarceration.
   
   
   

And yes, some of those are only apparent in hindsight, but I think 10yrs on Regan will still win in top Trumps.

(I excluded sowing the seeds of the financial crash as I think the actual run up to that was more on Clinton's watch)

This is like comparing Jack and the Yorkshire Ripper, they're both massive cunts, probably the biggest of their differing eras.

As far as egregious presidential fuck ups go, Bill Clinton losing his nuclear codes and covering it up for months has to be right up there.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11591213

Really grim. 'You're lucky I'm pro-life' being a particularly despicable thing to say to your kid.

Telegraph:

Head over to Reddit to hear some nasty recordings Kelly Ann Conway's daughter has taken of her mother screaming at her.

Btw, if you grew up in an abusive home you may want to give this a miss.

Fucking hell that was very disturbing

OK gang (step up!)

If Trump goes to jail does he not just get out on a huge bail like Derek Chauvin.
What would prevent him getting bail

Likely to abscond

That's one way of looking at it...

Didn't he reply "i'm Irish" to a BBC reporter asking him about brexit / future trade deals recently?

Yes - https://twitter.com/darranmarshall/status/1325146584284323841

To the Russian embassy?

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-considers-starting-new-patriot-party-wsj-2021-1?r=US&IR=T

putting the RIOT in patriot.

i hope he dies soon.

Lol imagine if Trump ended up permanently on a Scottish golf course.

Every white person in the USA is decended from immigrants, it's nothing special, I don't get why they're always so hung up on being Irish or Italian or whatever. It's like me claiming I'm Norwegian because it was them that settled in Normandy then later invaded and settled England.

Copenhagen museum has us as all being Danish.

There's an episode of Somebody Feed Phil where he goes around Ireland with his American 'Irish' wife, and everyone gives them a polite smile and nod every time he exclaims "My wife is Irish too!!!!!". They do an ancestry test and it's something like four or five generations back.

pretty sure Rollo was from the Norways and played on the telly by a man called "Clive".