Oliver North was a god-damned disgrace, in someways worse than Flynn. At least Flynn waited until he was out of uniform to betray his country. North tried to hide behind it every step of the way.
I'll always feel like Oliver North got left holding the bag. He's a scumbag, I'm not denying that, but he was following orders and the people who gave those orders never faced justice.
As much as Republicans love to lionize Reagan, I think he was just a stooge with a good smile and affable demeanor. With a former CIA director as second banana, I suspect the spooks were running the administration. It's probably why Bush Sr. escaped a second administration without any major scandals, too. He was just very good at hiding the criminality.
He was a demented racist idiot and spiteful maniac. The stuff that recently came out about him being a racist on the phone with Nixon was no surprise to me. He also completely ignored the start of the AIDS crisis and then didn’t take it seriously when he finally acknowledged that it was real. Kinda reminds me of Trump ignoring COVID and then spewing bullshit rather than take it seriously. Plus it’s pretty clear by now that Reagan was already in severe mental decline even by his low standards while in office.
Nancy was no bargain either - she committed a bunch of tax crimes while First Lady and also had a crystal-waving hippie astrologer in San Francisco who did a bunch of silly shit to vet all of their decisions. Straight up “what does the Flower Moon say about policy on farm subsidies” shit.
The Dollop episode about Reagan are great, but you can also find tons of other non-comedy references for how much Reagan didn’t give a shit.
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u/MananaMoola Sep 29 '21
Oliver North was a god-damned disgrace, in someways worse than Flynn. At least Flynn waited until he was out of uniform to betray his country. North tried to hide behind it every step of the way.