How Ronald Reagan saw the world: Hilarious 1987 map showing the 40th President's view...

The Daily Mail UK ^ | 29 Mar 2019 | Tim Stickings

[blueplum]

Full Title: How Ronald Reagan saw the world: Hilarious 1987 map showing the 40th President's view of the globe - with 'pacifist wimps' in Europe, Canada as a U.S. 'subsidiary' and Russia as an 'evil empire' - goes on sale

A 1980s map which pokes fun at Ronald Reagan's view of the world will go on sale at a cartography fair in London this summer.

The Reagan map shows an oversized United States dominating the globe, with the 40th U.S. President himself bestriding the continent and a prominent place given to his UK counterpart Margaret Thatcher.

...There are numerous other references to Reagan's presidency including his opposition to a Palestinian state - which is seen occupying a remote Pacific island ...

[blueplum]

times change, times remain the same

[SoConPubbie]

The Ignorance of Progressives, Socialists, and Communists on FULL display.

[Fresh Wind]

[AzNASCARfan]

Wow cool, Thanks for posting!

[Widget Jr]

It’s by David Horsey, cartoonist of the Seattle Times. Back in the 1980s, people on both sides could look at something like that and laugh.

[A strike]

as if the Brits have a clue

[freepersup]

It's really good to be among my own kind! God bless you!

[irishjuggler]

Ho-hum. It’s unfunny. They tried to tag RR as a dunce when he was in fact a very bright guy. And it’s a crappy map. That is to say, it’s not even good as a satirical map. The “Homos” thing, for example, is likely supposed to be targeting San Francisco but on the map the circle doesn’t even include S.F. it appears to be around Petaluma, CA, which in the ‘80s at least probably wasn’t any more gay than pretty much anywhere else in America.

[Migraine]

If anybody pays more than $21 for that piece of leftist condescending generality, they’re nuts. On the other hand, I might pay $210 for it as a prop to place in a gallery illustrating liberalism’s overblown paranoia and relentless pursuit of stereotype.

[RedMonqey]

California has changed.

[vannrox]

[9YearLurker]

Ha ha—that’s more detailed the usual NYers’ map of the US.

[alexander_busek]

The “Homos” thing, for example, is likely supposed to be targeting San Francisco but on the map the circle doesn’t even include S.F. it appears to be around Petaluma, CA [...]

At one time, Petaluma was known as the "Egg Capital of the World." Maybe the author of this parody-map misheard it as "Fag Capital of the World."

Regards,

[a fool in paradise]

$2100 for a 1980s novelty item?

Sheaaaaright.

Even a mint promotional poster for ANY movie from the 1980s wouldn’t be worth two-grand.

$10 would be overly generous.

[a fool in paradise]

THIS set the standard for novelty maps in the real 1980s. Launched hundreds of parody posters.

[Rocky]

LOL! That’s a classic map of the U.S.

[Rocky]

Great magazine cover. Very funny.

[SkyPilot]

The liberals are mocking Reagan, and don't see that they things they posted are actually true.

[gcparent]

I was thimking same thing. I still have my poster in tbe basement.

[nwrep]

Thanks. Which issue was it?