#or just ‟ronald reagan‟ lol

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

Look, I don't have the audio of this interview so maybe there's extra context that was cut out... but it is HILARIOUS to me how defensive he got when LITERALLY no one asked.

[mariacallous]

I'm just lol-ing so hard at "Biden should have stepped down earlier" comments... why, so the right would have time to put together a coherent hit against the nominee that journalists would have pounded relentlessly for 8 months?? People were already mad enough at Democrats that we lost millions votes from 2020, you wanted to hand them the opportunity to elect Trump in a Reagan type landslide and bring down the state level politicians too??? Fucking stupid

It also doesn't fucking fundamentally matter. We could have nominated Ronald Reagan's corpse and still would have lost.

[egberts]

you described shinigami eyes correctly! for anyone who doesnt know: its super useful! but besides that, it is sometimes very funny. for example, sometimes you will be scrolling wikipedia and you see this:

there's just something so funny about a transphobe's wikipedia article being marked "anti-trans", esp when its someone this obvious lol.

and for anyone curious, this is what it looks like when someone is marked as "pro-trans" or "trans-safe" or whatever the word is that shinigami eyes uses:

I can't get over Ronald Reagan being marked as a transphobe. it's true but lijrnrjfjsjdjsjsjaa

[thebreakfastgenie]

Can you explain Jimmy Carter to an Australian

Jimmy Carter was president from 1977 to 1981. He lost re-election to Ronald Reagan in perhaps the downgrade of the century. Carter was traditionally ranked as one of our worst presidents, but that's kind of unfair, and recently some (including me) have begun to say he was underrated. I think sometimes he gets memefied into being more liberal than he actually was, but he was liberal, and he has a reputation for being more interested in peace that other US presidents. His foreign policy was mixed bag, but he did refuse to invade Iran during the hostage crisis, and I think that counts for something. The peaceful reputation is somewhat relevant to the contrast with Kissinger. The American hostages held in the embassy in Iran were released immediately after Ronald Reagan took office and Reagan fans like to claim this was because Reagan was so intimidating but Reagan didn't really do anything. The Ayatollah's government hated Carter personally because he let the deposed Shah of Iran come to the US for cancer treatment. Jimmy Carter is probably one of our best examples of a Christian president, except he's the kind of Christian who's like "peace is good and racism is bad" so the "America is a Christian country!!" people hate his guts lol.

He was also kind of chill in other ways; they called him the rock and roll president because he had some musicians campaigning for him, especially the Allman Brothers, who played a big role in his campaign. Also Gregg Allman smoked weed at the White House with Carter's son and Carter 100% knew about it.

For many years Carter's reputation has been "not a great president, but a great ex-president" because the Carter Foundation has done a lot of incredible humanitarian work, perhaps most notably nearly eradicating guinea worm, a parasitic disease. He was also personally building homes with Habitat for Humanity into his nineties. He's also known for being a peanut farmer before he got into politics. He was married to his wife Rosalynn who just died for 77 years. So he has kind of a sweet old man reputation.

He's also 99 years old, beat brain cancer once, and announced he was going into hospice, like, almost a year ago? It was a while ago, and yet he's still kicking. So that's kind of a meme too among the kind of nerd who follows these things (me).

So the tl;dr is two really old American politicians, one associated with peace and humanitarianism, one associated with war crimes.

[kcrabb88]

Saw some goof on Twitter say that Kamala Harris sounded like Ronald Reagan during her acceptance speech and I'm like LOL oh, yes, old Ronnie would definitely be up there talking about loving who you love with pride and having an entire segment on reproductive rights. There have been whole pieces about how "Bidenomics" (and therefore, Harris, who is as, if not more progressive on the same stuff) is an argument against the lingering hell of Reaganomics. Reagan hated unions! The DNC was full of them! Planting her foot on the ground and saying "hey, America should be for everyone, government can do so much good, and people should mind their business about people's personal lives" + nabbing back the theme of freedom from Republicans is damn good politics, actually. American presidential elections are TOUGH things. They're not like any other election because you have to appeal to SUCH a broad swathe of people.

Also like, calling a biracial woman from Oakland whose progressive bonafides have been clear for a long time if you don't fall for misinformation is just. So unserious. Ronald Reagan would hate Kamala Harris. Be real. If you want to make a Reagan comparison, I'll point you right toward Trump, who is busy talking on the phone to Netanyahu so he can try and ruin the ceasefire deal (which is exactly what Reagan did to Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis, and it's now, you know, illegal).

Anyway! Make sure you're registered to vote and have ID if you need it (especially in the states that are making it more difficult!)

[creature-wizard]

don’t freak out about the election lol, literally just assume that whoever wins is gonna be a good president. I’ve already manifested that Ronald Reagan was a good president in my universe

One day reality is going to come crashing hard into your little game of make-believe, anon.

[pablo20925]

Who you voted for and why

Trump! I had my vote for JFK JR but since he dropped out of the race & endorsed Trump... he got my vote. I don't think JFK JR wasn't going win anyway... without a doubt Trump is the popular candidate. He's got my vote for other reasons as well, he's for the American people, the deep state have tried to destroy his character but we the people are not stupid, they clearly have full control on the mainstream media, weaponizing the news to go after Trump & paint a bad narrative on him. Once they realized they couldn't destroy his character they moved on to plan B & tried to assassinate him but that also failed lol. At that point you just made Donald Trump more popular. The whole situation with Stormy Daniels is complete BS if they wanted to put Trump in prison how about you charge him with the death of Iran's military general Qasem Soleimani, he was fully responsible for that drone strike but of course the deep state loves this action from Trump

I can forgive Trump but maybe not the people of Iran lol. He had no clue how much corruption is going on when he took office, he wasn't sure who to surround himself at his first term but he sure does now. He's got a squad behind hime like Tulsi gabbard, Vivek ramaswamy, Elon Musk, JFK JR and much more on his team. He knows what he's up against this time around. He's not perfect by any means but I can honestly say he's the best President we ever had or since Our 35th president John F Kennedy. Some people would say since Ronald Reagan but in my eyes he bend over for the establishment (Deep State) too much.

[eclogues]

Oh so you're just dogshit with managing your money then, much better obviously lol. It's actually more embarrassing to be actively working but still begging for scraps, sorry nobody ever taught you how to budget for emergencies!

ronald reagan isn't gonna fuck you man...

[franzis-kunst-und-krempel]

Ask game babay! (Thanks for tagging me @onioneyez <3)

Last song: let me check my spotify... Terpsichore*: Bransle simple 1 (La, la, la, je ne l'ose dire) by Michael Praetorius. The song currently stuck in my head is Sona a battenti though :)

Favorite colour: it's been yellow for quite some time now, but I think I'm starting to like colours contrasting more and more... like a sky blue and terracotta, light blue and a bright orange etc

Currently reading: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, but I'm not on holiday anymore so I'm less motivated to read :( Also a collection of short poems in my local dialect

Currently watching: The Ritz (1976). Set in a gay bathhouse and one guy just had to sign in and he used "Ronald Reagan" as a nome de plume. Talk about irony eh?

Last movie: does Agatha Christie's Poirot count? Other than that: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) which I watched with my mum. We both liked it but it was heavy stuff phew

Sweet, spicy, savoury? Ideally a mix of all three. Mostly savoury, though!

Relationship status: what are you, a cop?

Current obsession: oh, Poirot without a doubt. That little Belgian has bewitched me body and soul. Also early music. Mwah!

(Re: prev - if you need Jeeves and Wooster fanfic recommendations, don't hesitate to ask me :) ! I've got lots in my basement (aka bookmarked). ALSO I recently went to Rhodes & took a pic with a copy of the Laocoon statue! You should totally do your own replica B) )

Tea or coffee? Both. More of a tea gal though

Last thing I googled: 'statue english' ahahah - turns out it's the same in English and German, but I wanted to be on the safe side lol

Only if you want to, tagging @loki-lock, @sadlonelyyogurt & @mutantenfisch :)

[psalm22-6]

Source: San Bernardino Sun, 13 March 1987 by Donald Kaul

This review from 1987 is too funny and I love that he calls Valjean the student’s uncle but also, it’s too optimistic about American politics lol. 

Save your McGovern buttons, folks; liberalism shall rise again. And soon. You can feel it. It's not merely that the air is going out of Ronald Reagan's balloon, it's that the times they are achangin'. Many liberals these days don't even bother with a secret handshake when greeting each other. Others have taken to openly advocating such controversial liberal ideas as public education, clean water and help for the homeless. You think I'm rushing it, don't you? Well, perhaps, but you'll have to forgive me. I've just seen "Les Miserables." 

Perhaps you haven't heard about it yet? You will. "Les Miz," as we on the fast track call it, is the latest stage phenomenon to hit this country. It is a grandiose musical  — really more of an opera —  based on Victor Hugo's novel. Like the last such phenomenon, "Nicholas Nickleby," it comes from London, and like "NickNick" (fast track again), it is going to be a smash hit. It is a genuine, hand-tooled, gold-leafed, can't-miss, must-see show. 

Overlooked in the hoopla of a hit, however, is the fact that it, again like "Nickleby," is a liberal show. Its story is the triumph of bleeding heart liberalism over hard-hearted conservatism. And people are going crazy for it. 

"Rambo" is out; "Les Miz" and "Nick-Nick" are in. 

"Les Miz" is the story of a poor Frenchman during Napoleanic [sic] times who steals a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving child (which is, basically, the only reason liberals ever steal). He is caught and given 19 years in prison. Released from jail, Valjean is unable to get work because of his prison record, so he breaks parole and assumes a new identity. He is a great success in business and becomes mayor of a small town. 

Valjean is pursued through the years by a cop, Javert, who wears black clothes and smiles only when he steps on a butterfly. 

Javert keeps rediscovering Valjean and trying to arrest him, but the ex-con is too smart for him; he keeps slipping away. In the meantime, Valjean helps any widows and orphans he finds in his path. He is a sweetheart of a guy.

But does this cut any ice with Javert? Not a cube. He's determined that Valjean pay the price for breaking parole. He reminds one of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, actually. (If Valjean had been arrested for income tax evasion instead of stealing bread, they'd have probably let him off with a warning.) 

Finally, or almost finally, Javert is captured by idealistic rebels during a student uprising and is delivered into the hands of Valjean, who is being a sort of uncle to the students. Javert, naturally, expects to be shot. Instead, Valjean does the liberal thing; he lets him go. Javert later has a chance to return the favor and does, but he feels so unhappy at having violated the conservative code of honor by helping a liberal that he commits suicide.

Anvway, it all ends happily. Valiean dies, but he goes to heaven, where all good liberals go. Javert is conspicuous by his absence.

It is a great snow, the night I saw it at the Kennedy Center, Washington's liberals clapped so hard I thought their jewelry was going to fly off. 

The production is a return to the drama of the late 19th and early 20th century, before movies, when one of the things you went to the theater for was spectacle, crowd scenes, chariot races, waterfalls. The effects in "Les Miz" are magnificent. A pitched street battle with students and troops is reproduced on stage, then within moments we are in a Paris sewer with the escaping Valjean. The next minute we stay with Javert as he jumps from a bridge and plunges to his death.

As I said, it’s a great show and a harbinger of things to come. You still don't believe me? Listen: in his current film, Sylvester Stallone plays an arm-wrestler. Conservatism is being downsized. In his next film he'll probably play a social worker.

Remember, you read it here first. 

[idiopath-fic-smile]

lol would anyone be interested if i wrote a sequel to We Are Stardust, We Are Golden that was just about the waitress from the diner and the fry cook from the diner falling in love (and hating Ronald Reagan) because that is something i've inexplicably been plotting out in my head lately

[anonymous-dentist]

Maybe a too random question, but did you watched many movies last year? and based on that...do you think it was a good year for films?

Okay so let’s answer this based off of the movies I saw in theaters last year:

M3GAN- solid 9/10, amazing cheesy horror when a pretty good message, could’ve used more kills tbh but this is what we got with a pg-13 rating ig

Cocaine Bear- 7/10, pretty decent but I went in expecting more humor besides “this bear is on cocaine”, some OUTSTANDING kills though (that entire ambulance scene was perfection)

Dungeons and Dragons- 10/10, you can tell how much effort went into it and how everyone involved in the writing just knew dnd, literally the perfect movie and we need more Now

Mario Movie- 8/10, I really enjoyed it and it was literally so nostalgic and, sue me, but Chris Pratt could’ve done worse, I just think that it could’ve done more with Luigi I think

Renfield- 9/10, I almost wish that that Nicolas Hoult stayed in that old timey 1910s outfit the whole time, but the message was actually pretty good and the action? PERFECTION, and the allegory to an actual abusive relationship was not expected but definitely welcome. Minus one point for not having the MCR song used be the literal song about vampires

Across the Spiderverse- 6/10, the animation was OUTSTANDING but the story suffered from being the second movie in a trilogy. Instead of being its own thing, the entire movie kinda just felt like a long trailer for the next movie, and that lost it a LOT of points imo. Also? It just didn’t know how to end? I was actually bored by the final fifteen minutes. And that’s bad

Barbie- 7/10, objectively excellent but I just personally couldn’t get into the humor, and I wish there was more about Barbie and a bit less about Ken yk?

Blue Beetle- 10/10, okay so I normally actually hate superhero movies but this was AMAZING and it’s actually criminal how badly it bombed. Story was perfect all the characters were likable outside of the villains, and the villains including goddamn Ronald Reagan and all those shitty white guys from the 80s who purposefully destabilized nearly every country in central and South America?? The villain being a white woman??? The villain being capitalism, neo-colonialism, and gentrification?? MY GOD like THAT is how you do a superhero movie!!!

Wonka- 10/10, I legitimately went in with super low expectations and came out with a new movie to add to my favorites list. It’s a kids movie, but it’s also just a fun time okay? Story was actually pretty good, the songs were surprisingly catchy, the visuals were Really Cool. Sleeper hit imo

So, based off what I personally saw this year, it was a pretty good year!

But also? It was a good year outside of this lol. Between Barbie and Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon and Asteroid City and Trolls 3 (yes, including that), it was a really good year for movies

[unseenacademic]

Okay I do need to ask about the Hospital Scene because A+ seriously <3

Haha, thanks, friend! 💜💜 and thank you sooooo much for expressing interest in my nonsense, I appreciate it 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 Sooooo, the Hospital Scene (I need to come up with a better title before I post it lol) This is one of my favorite Jed & Abbey pictures in the world:

Seriously, look how adorable they are! 💜💜💜💜💜💜 The look on Abbey's face, she's doing her best to stay calm, but she's obviously worried, the position of her body, the way she's hugging Jed, making sure she doesn't hurt him, Jed with his hand on her back, the little hug, he's almost unconscious, but he's still holding on to Abbey... just 😭😭😭😭😍😍😍😍😍 The scene is obviously from "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen Part 1", because Jed's in pre-op and Abbey's wearing the purple coat (purple coat my beloved 💜💜) so I guess it takes place right after Abbey talks to Doctor Lee ("when all of this is over, tell the press, don't tell the press"--my queen!). Her stage directions from script book for season 1 and 2 read "Abbey looks at him (dr. Lee) a moment longer, then exits into the trauma room to join her husband."

Unfortunately, this photo is everything we've got. The scene can't be found in deleted scenes (like the 'Medea/Jackass' scene), and it's not in the script book (like the 'Mrs. Landingham knew about Jed's MS' scene). So, naturally, I have to write it 😂 What can I tell you about the WIP so far?

It's going to be short

There's going to be a lot of Bartlet fluff & drowsy Bartlet banter (think about "He Shall From Time to Time")

Sorkin was inspired by the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, so there are going to be loads of references to Reagan, like "Honey, I forgot to duck", "I hope you are all Democrats", "If I had this much attention in New Hampshire, I’d have stayed there", and "I have to be [a good patient]. My wife's a doctor."

Have a snippet:

“Abbey?” Jed’s eyes fluttered open.  “Hey.” Careful not to disturb his wound, Abbey sat on the bed. She took his hand.  “I forgot to duck.”  “It’s okay, Jed,” she said. "It's okay." “You mad?”  “At you? No! At whoever shot you? Damn straight!” Jed managed a weak laugh in response.  “I told Zoey you’d be pissed,” he said.  “I talked to the doctor and the anesthesiologist.” Abbey brushed his messy hair off his face.  “Did you scare ‘em good?” “No.” “Too bad, you’re sexy when you’re scary.”

Thanks for the ask, friend! Now I want to work on this fic, when I have a million other things to do 😂😂😂😂😂

[golbrocklovely]

As a person who actually is old enough to remember Ronald Reagan in office, it may just be my old age creeping up on me, but I love seeing colby all happy with his lady. Seeing people happy makes me happy. These people need to touch grass.

literally my same thought.

i love seeing ppl in love. sue me lol

god forbid i like seeing the ppl i'm a fan of be happy, i guess.

it was a cute vid. a little strange to see first thing in the morning, but honestly i don't get all the hullabaloo

[baiheyurisolidarity]

It's not just as a lgbtq person but as a black person in the US that deeply distrusts any nigga that tries to argue public nudity or being walked in public or wearing peculiar clothes or whatever is somehow a violation of their "consent". Aside the fact that it's not a fucking consent violation for people who ain't even interacting with your bitch ass to be doing they business however horny it may be regardless of your fuckass comfort, I can't help but not trust you whitey whites when not long ago your parents and so on were lynching black people for walking around at the wrong place at the wrong time, walking in the white part of town, being in a sundown town by sundown, or merely looking at a white woman. Like sorry little eichmann and ronald reagan christian youth fascist pastor wannabes, I know my fucking history and know that y'all ain't shit and would be the same ones calling for lynchings and getting black and lgbtq people killed alike over your bullshit comfort. Go hide in a damn bunker if you're so scared and disgusted by human beings that ain't even touched or said nothing to you, cause newsflash you can't fucking avoid them completely no matter how hard you try. Or you know, just look the other way and quit being a little bitch over niggas in collars lol.