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Boomers and Gen X'ers of Sup Forums, how was it like living under a Reagan presidency?

As a millennial, I can only read about this based man in history books. Are we ever going to see a president as inspirational as Reagan?

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>Reagan
>based

Shut the fuck up, bong. Your cuck island has never produced a good PM.

How much did you shart while typing that?

Our 'cuck island' forged the greatest empire the world had ever seen.

PEE IN TEA britbong

WTF. Reagan wouldn't have been shit without Maggie Thatcher and John Paul II.

That reply was horrendous, like your sharting epidemic

Oh yeah, since your country is so big and bad... hows that eu withdrawal going?

We're leaving unlike shit coming from your pants

This has officially turned into an Amerifag bashing thread.

Let's go in for the kill.

>implying Brexit is bad

OUT, NOW.

>Reagan
>Based
Pick one and only one.

Committed treason against his people, should have died in prison.

dubs don't lie

>Boomers and Gen X'ers of Sup Forums, how was it like living under a Reagan presidency?

Fucking glorious.

* My parent's weren't nearly as nervous about money as they were under Carter / the first couple years of Reagan. (It took just over 2 years for Reagan to turn Carter's fuck ups around.) I was very young when Reagan was elected but still remember being sad because my parents were nervous and bickering over money. That is until Reagan turned things around.

* Christmas was fucking great. What does that have to do with Reagan? The economy and money. We were never rich, but we felt secure under Reagan. Dad saved enough to take some extra time off in December, buy great fucking presents, and it was just a warm/happy time. Some of my best memories are of 80's Christmas breaks from school, both parents home, everyone calm and happy, visiting friends and family, great meals, etc.

* There was a sense of optimism in the air.

* I never worried about WWIII. I knew the Soviets wouldn't fuck with Reagan because Reagan would nuke them off the face of the Earth. But at the same time, he didn't get us involved in quagmire's in the middle east like Bush Jr., Obammy, and the Hildabeast.

* Men and women got along better. Women were still feminine. Races got along better. Former 60s / 70s bad areas and ghettos started to improve.

* Lots of new companies, tech innovation, etc. Again, just a general feeling of optimism.

>As a millennial, I can only read about this based man in history books. Are we ever going to see a president as inspirational as Reagan?

Pic related. Your generation can decide this election. You want jobs and the ability to move out of your parent's houses to start your own families? Or do you want TPP and a few million more immigrants (H1B, illegal, and refugee), along with a few more wars in the middle east?

I hope your generation makes the right fucking choice.

Faggot

Fooken maggie factha m8

actor is president

Le Amerique

Well he introduced the war on drugs and plunged the nation into debt, so you can take a shit look into the toilet and read that, and that's as good as any book by him.

>Former 60s / 70s bad areas and ghettos started to improve.
Wrong, crack was just starting to hit the ghetto in the 80s and AIDs was a thing with gays and blacks.

Did everybody shit their pants when they saw how hard he dominated the election?

>implying that (((Thatcher))) was based

Shitty spending in the 70s set us up for failure in the long run. Those policies were unsustainable.

>Le Amerique
Dude, Sarkozy married Carla Bruni. Also, you guys haven't had a good president since De Gaulle.

I have big dreams but I'm too much of a pussy to carry them out, so i reserve my few possible business ventures for a "won the lottery" scenario.

It was shitty and most Americans were broke.
Kinda like now, but without the credit cards and sjw faggotry.

>Reagan
>inspirational

he made HW his veep and thus allowed the Gulf War and Dubya to happen. He's a kike shill just like the rest of them.

yes but everyone knew the hostage crisis fucked over Carter. Had Operation Eagle Claw ended successfully, Carter would have gotten two terms. The military was so pissed off about their failure they then plowed several billion dollars into what became the V-22.

She wasn't, but she busted the socialist communist unions that were cucking you guys in the 70s.

>most Americans were broke.
You're either black or lived in a trailer park.

Wait, what?

>Had Operation Eagle Claw ended successfully
That's a big if dude, it was a poorly planned logistical nightmare and showed the entire country what a cuck carter was.

The unions were out of control, but that doesn't change the fact that she was a shill for the Jews.

All I need to know about Reagan is this
> Carter in power
> Iranians take American's hostage
> They don't give a shit
> Carter sends them many angry letters
> They take more hostages
> The stress causes Carter's nipples to become fully erect twenty-four/seven
> He has to start wearing bandages under his shirt to keep the blood from staining his suit
> Needs twelve laxatives a day to take a shit
> Enter Reagan
> Drop kicks Carter's faggot ass back to his peanut farm
> Entire nation of Iran simultaneously shits their pants
> All hostages released immediately
> Reagan's inbox flooded with apology letters, returned ransom money, they swear they'll even convert to Christianity if he shows mercy
> This all happens before based Reagan's sculpted ass even touches the presidential chair

I remember the 80s well, but can only provide a highly anecdotal account of what I experienced. To me, Regan was a vague backdrop to getting married, recovering from alcoholism, and the close friendships I had during that juncture.

During the Carter years, I landed a job in sales and coasted on that for the rest of the decade. The pay was meagre, but it was at least a living. Such was all one could ask for with a degree in philosophy.

The fondest memories were writing prolifically for zines, spending every weekend with friends playing war games, getting sober, fiddling with BASIC on an Atari and spending time with my wife the rest of my spare time.

If there's anything you'd like me to go into detail about, shoot. I'll be lurking.

You don't strike me as someone who lived during that time.

>blame Reagan for AIDs meme

AIDs was a thing because gays literally couldn't stop fucking 10 partners a night in the ass with no condom. This was a direct consequence of the end of social / police pressure on gay bars and bath houses. They got some freedom and went fucking nuts.

>crack was just starting to hit the ghetto in the 80s

True. Never the less, many bad areas improved with the rising economy.

Sarkozy is a jew and who cares about the first lady ?

>Sell weapons to Iran
>Iran apologising

American schools really are fucked.

>he made HW his veep and thus allowed the Gulf War and Dubya to happen.

Gulf War I was well executed with a just cause. We went in, we pushed Iraq back out of Kuwait, we got out. I hate globalist Bush Sr., but he was not the cluster fuck that his son was.

> Drop kicks Carter's faggot ass back to his peanut farm

Fucking lost it. Thanks for the laugh.

> say good things about Reagan
>"You don't strike me as someone who lived during that time."

You were apparently drunk off your ass during that time, gazing into your navel and thinking about philosophy. So how would you know?

Reminder that Reagan's (((neoliberal))) policies meant that more women than ever before went into work, which opened the floodgates and unleashed the kraken of feminism onto the unsuspecting nation of the United States of America.

Good job, Gipper.

>Reagan
>Based

Kek.

You'll enjoy Clinton.

Your banter makes it sound like you're about 14.

school lunches must include vegetables

>ketchup is a vegetable

thanks Reagan.

>ketchup is a vegetable

Literally America in one sentence.

It was great. We had a clear enemy and a leader who loved our country

Im gen x but remeber 80's

Also the press hated reagan. My father talk about media try to get him. Wasnt till a few years ago that i realized the jewish inflence

Jew media like ny times hated reagan - print media was very powerful

The irony is that rean was the first president to provide serious funding for aids research - if u look at the numbers

Reagan did a lot of good but he is still kind of shady to me. It doesnt help at all that I was born in the 90s, and didnt experience the Reagan years firsthand. On one hand he fixed the economy and brought American optimism back to a high we havent experienced since. On the other hand, government expanded largely during those years and has continued to grow exponentially.

I cant decide if I like him or not, because there is so much shady shit that surrounds him. It's sad that not everyone can come together and agree that one president was good, unless they died 200 years ago.

I was pretty young back when Regan was president. But i do remember the country being very optimistic and cheerful during the Regan years.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and everyone cheered Regan on for it. He was gracious, but firm with our enemies.

Overall the Regan era was a great era for the USA.

> passed antigun legislation
> amnesty
> was just another jew loving globalist
Go away from here at a rapid pace family

this he did nothing more than speeches.
prove me wronge

A few bumps and rough patches, but generally a steady ship. Rabble rousers were tolerated within limits but largely ignored.

Ill eat my words with the antigun legislation. However he did pass amnesty and nontheless supported gun control (coincidentally, goy) after his terms were over. He was a shill. Fug em

Destroyed mental health care in this country. The reason so many people got murdered was because the asylums chucked em out on the street with no medication.

Worth it to watch the whole speech:

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Somehow people only remember the toughness when they invoke his legacy and forget the openings for peace he created and the risks he took pursuing them.

Churchill, Thatcher...don't be stupid.

>On the other hand, government expanded largely during those years and has continued to grow exponentially.

Reagan had to deal with a Democrat congress. To make any head way on defense and his economic policies he had to give them 'moar money for dem programs.'

There are two things which Reagan did that I hate. One happened while I was alive, but too young to really think about. The other happened before I was born.

* Amnesty for illegals in exchange for promises to fight illegal immigration which were never fulfilled. (Hint: when dealing with liberals always get 'payment' up front. Build wall, THEN amnesty.)

* As governor of CA he ushered in the no fault divorce craze that has decimated the nuclear family in America, with all the related consequences.

Reagan was an insanely popular president, east to west, north to south, modern liberal studies seem to make Reagan into a huge failure because of his economics policies, yes they weren't good, but it shuns Reagan into negative light, which is completely horse shit. If he would been able to run a 3rd term, even with having lost all his marbles, he still would have won in a landslide. Dude was awesome president. That being said, I hate how fucking neocons who fucked him over on many policies, wheel him out as 2nd coming of Christ.

>the blame Reagan for mental health meme

People wanted asylums closed because of the horror stories of rampant abuse. They were on their way out regardless of Reagan.

This is one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't choices in society.

>Lock crazy people up

Pros: they're off the street. They generally won't starve or freeze to death. They won't murder people.

Cons: there seems to be no way to prevent rampant, horrific torture and abuse. (See: Stanford prison experiment. Asylums induce more stress in the staff and are worse than prisons in this regard.)

The power to lock someone up for mental issues can and is abused by government.

>Leave crazy people in the population

Pros: with medication many of them are truly better off outside. No rampant abuse. Costs less. Far less chance of government declaring a political enemy "insane" to put them away.

Cons: homelessness, hunger, death from exposure. And yes, some of them will commit acts of violence or even murder.

Which choice is less shit?

>modern liberal studies seem to make Reagan into a huge failure because of his economics policies, yes they weren't good,

Then why was everyone doing better during the 80s?

"How" was it like living under a Reagan presidency?

You mean to say, "What was it like living under a Reagan presidency?"

Born in 65 so I can remember a lot of things others here aren't mentioning.
To set the background, as you know the late 60s early70s were about boomers throwing traditional values out the window and doing things there own way.
But what you probably haven't heard about was that once the boomers got married and started planning families they suddenly wanted a return to those same values they were laughing at before. Suddenly they were agreeing with their parents and things started being very uptight again. Don't know if you ever heard of the moral majority movement but the were boycotting advertisers ofTV shows, radio stations,cracking down on porn, or trying to anyway.
One of their biggest targets was music. They thought all headbangers were Satanists.
It may sound weird now because the person getting your coffee in the morning probably has blue hair and a nose ring but just having long hair and a leather jacket in the early 80s would have people treat you like you were part of the Manson family.
If a radio station played music by a band on their hit list, theyd call all the advertisers of the station and threaten a national boycott. If Sears or Walmart was selling albums they didn't like theyd get them pulled off the shelf.
It was so bad in the bible belt Metallica couldn't get their shows advertised in newspapers or radio so people didn't even know they were coming.
They had congressional hearings trying to ban albums for Satanism.
When Guns and Roses came out Hard Rock and Metal became mainstream and it changed things.

Another thing I don't see anyone talking about is the cold war. I know most people think of the 60s when you mention that but things were getting ridiculous with the sheer amount of Intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear subs and the "Star Wars" missile defense system Bush was planning.
Back at the time people my age just all assumed that sooner or later Shit was going to hit the fan before we'd get a chance to get old.
I know people joke about that now on here but with there being enough nukes to waste the planet 20x over it was something people always had in the back of thier mind.

Because this economy is so shit it makes that look good.

>based man
Reagan was literally acting the entire time
He was a dirty globalist piece of shit and should be treated as such by history even though he isn't

Reagan was not overly bright. He did have Bush sr. to basicly take care of foreign policy issues.
He gave good speeches and I don't think anyone could doubt his patriothis, but even before the Alzheimer's he wasn't too sharp.

Patriotism

There has been a few threads on Sup Forums recently where Reagan gets called a cuck. That false for the following.

>He BTFO the USSR ending the dark chapter of Judeo-Bolshevism
>Unemployment by 1989 5% compared to 10% in 1982
>Tamed Inflation back to Pre-Nixon days
>Opposed the sanctions on Apartheid South Africa, because they were loyal American allies being intimidated by communist apes.
>Placed an Arms embargo on Israel on Israel for invading Lebanon telling he kikes to get out
>regarding Israel Reagan said "It is not the business of other nations to make American foreign policy,'' Merchants on suicide watch!
>Never visited Israel while President!!!
>Said Israel should return to pre-1967 borders as a start for negotiations
>Regarding the Germans and their holohoax guilt Reagan said"I feel that they have a guilt feeling that's been imposed upon them I just think it's unnecessary."
>Slowed the growth of progressive cancer in America
>Didn't care about Fag and their AIDS/GRIDS degeneracy
>Survived an assassination attempt breaking the Curse of Tippecanoe and joked about it like a Boss

Verdict: Not a Cuck
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Great time, I think it was the only time that modern america really rode into prominence throughout the western world. People respected americans, cheered for us, and sent us notes all the time. We were the center of positive attention under reagan.

I still remember reading those notes from switzerland and the Uk with my parents. It was the only time that I really felt that america was a force for good.