Posted on 03/30/2019 12:10:03 AM PDT by 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 ...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
In my forthcoming bio “Reagan: the American President” (May 7) I uncovered papers of Reagan’s first meeting with the German Chancellor who said Reagsn had a clearer assessment of world politics than any of his predecessors.
Oh! Thanks for posting the map. I completely forgot about the erf ending acid rain bs.
The acid can't live in heat. It needs glaciers. The erf has warmed so much and so dangerously from man's fault global warming that it even killed acid rain.
Did anyone else notice that the parody of Reagan’s thinking is still smarter than the Democrat’s view of the world? (Then, and probably even now.)
it may be a ‘crappy map’ from your 2019 point of view, but back in the 80’s, most people in America would have laughed at the accuracy of the labeling.
And NY’rs get so butthurt when we laugh at the rat infested anthill they live in.
Petaluma in the 80s was the playground for well-to-do gays. Still is.
In other words, it accurately reflects political and economic reality.
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