You don't see a lot of this imagery except in the 80's.
Posted on 01/03/2020 12:41:26 AM PST by DallasBiff
Ronald Reagan bombed Libya, after quadaffi bombmed a Berlin nightclub.
Yeah it kinda does feel like that :)
A great president can change the moral compass too over time.
But unlike Reagan, Trump’s enemies hate him so much they’re willing to expose themselves and destroy the nation to take him down.
I was in Berlin back then. No comparison - back then our enemies were overseas for the most part, not 1/2 of our voting electorate.
Enemies foreign and domestic meant foreign then. Not now.
If the boogaloo starts now, we can fix it. Better to be offense than defense sometimes - this time is soon. (Yeah, I was Infantry in Berlin back then, clearing Anarchists that were squatting in apartment buildings, the Polizei looked the other way when we used real combat in cities techniques.
Fun times....
We used frags on Antifa in the good old days....
“But unlike Reagan, Trump’s enemies hate him so much they’re willing to expose themselves and destroy the nation to take him down.”
Trump is an easier target. But I remember the 80’s well and the left was willing to expose itself and destroy the nation to take Reagan down. So too were the RINO’s.
Its the same level of hatred.
Only back then there was no Twitter, no YouTube no social media. Only the big news stations. Hell, CNN was a cable channel out of Atlanta. They didn’t get big until the gulf war and Bush 42.
Remember the parties the retards had when Reagan died? The high dollar wine flowed like water.
Now they have tons of social media so every crazy on the left can make themselves heard.
They think they are at the finish line and don’t have to hide anymore because their sycophantic followers on socialist media echo their every insane utterance. They think THEY represent the real America.
I guarantee when Donald Trump passes away the fokkers will be dancing in the streets.
I was 12 when he was elected and I didn’t follow politics anywhere near like I do now even in my late teens.
I fully believe you.
That’s all true.
They are actually losing terribly but when you live in a msm and hollywood bubble, you don’t get a good view of what’s going on.
The interplay between Left and Right and common economic trends tend to generate similar, recurrent patterns in US and British politics — with variations, of course. Most notably, Trump’s and Boris Johnson’s blunt, flamboyant, in your face style today contrasts with the genial, conventional style of Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980s. I attribute this to the Left’s more entrenched opposition today and the more idological, partisan nature of the news media. As the improbable success of Trump and Johnson demonstrate, genial and conventional just doesn’t cut it for insurgent conservative leaders these days.
I voted for Regan in 1980. But then I took up with a woman who had been a ‘60’s radical and I voted for Wally Mondale in ‘84. What can I say? I was young then.
I hope she was worth it!! :)
I dated a liberal too. But I was 27 and a hardcore conservative by then.
We’d argue but in certain room of the house we’d leave the politics at the door :)
I didn’t need to get hit with a frying pan
Amen. 1986 was my fav year...
You have summed up the 80’s. A great time.
Qassim Soleimani didn’t kill himself.
I was at Graf for Gunnery. Ended up being stuck there a few extra days because they stopped all military convoys.
She’s my wife, you know.
Yeah...that’s the ticket!
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