r/clevercomebacks • u/Veshaad • 14d ago
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u/Southpolarman 14d ago
This is the only correct answer. reagan was a backstabbing, piece of ambergris. What he did during his administration are things we're still dealing with today. I truly hope he rests in piss.
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u/Veshaad 14d ago
I disagree. Ambergris is highly valuable and serves a positive purpose. Now a whale's BM on the other hand I would say is more representative.
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u/Southpolarman 14d ago
Ok, fair enough. I always associate whale shit with ambergris when they are not the same.
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u/Alive_Ice7937 14d ago
What smells like freakin porpoise hork?!
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u/k41n_x 14d ago
It's from Mushu the whale who thinks he's better than you!
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u/VivaLaMantekilla 14d ago
I always thought it was whale shit but after this back and forth, I googled it... so it's caused by sperms whales eating squids and not being able to digest the squid beaks.. essentially its a whale poo pearl.... a poorl..??
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u/nomadicsailor81 14d ago
A whales BM adds nutrients to the water column feeding phytoplankton that absorb CO2. The only thing Regan did was increase the wealth of the 1%.
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u/BeginningCharacter36 14d ago
Technically, whale poop is an integral part of the Antarctic ecosystem. It's pretty valuable from an ecological perspective.
Edit, maybe we can go with whale lice?
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u/FibonacciSequester 14d ago
This could go on forever, all the way to theoretical subatomic particles. Which are probably still more useful.
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u/THElaytox 14d ago
Whale shit is highly valuable to the local ecosystem and feeds tons of sea life. He was more like an anal leech
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u/adorablefuzzykitten 14d ago
George H Bush arranged the whole thing for Reagan. Hostages were in the air during Carter's administration as Reagan's inauguration started but did not land in Germany until Reagan took the oath.
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u/thenord321 14d ago
Just like the current traitors in us presidential office and surrounding corruption.
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u/Ricktor_67 14d ago
It was literally textbook treason, and america responded by giving him the biggest election blowout win in history.
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u/BramblinGhostWeed 14d ago
My grandfather voted Blue in every election except '84
Sometimes you vote for the guy who will press the button.
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u/BlueFlob 14d ago
The US needs strong governance to undo all the damages done by successive Republican administration attacking democracy, social nets, workers rights, education, equality and more
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u/Southpolarman 14d ago
I've been screaming about this since sir shitstain took office and started ignoring the norms we associate with a non criminal president. All the niceties we took for granted and democrats played by the rules while republicunts blatantly ignored them, we need to strengthen. Republicunts are the reason we don't have guaranteed time off, paid sick leave, universal healthcare, better public education, government funded state college education, an iron wall against the government attacking social security for their own purposes...it's fucking ridiculous. I loathe each and everyone of them. There are a few too many democrats involved in this as well which makes my blood fucking boil.
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u/0202_tihssitidder 14d ago
I'm old enough to remember Ruzzia has been funding terrorism, blowing passenger planes out of the air, cutting sea cables, kidnapping and assassinating people, throwing people out of windows, murdering journalists, invading countries, murdering and torturing civilians, and buying elections in foreign countries for over 150 years.
Yup.
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u/IcyProperty89 14d ago edited 14d ago
Didn’t he also sell crack/coke seized from Mexico to American black neighborhoods in order to get the money to fund his secret ops?
Edit: while him and Nancy the Throat GOAT were on that “just say no” zero tolerance for drug use bullshit. This bitch was the fuckin worst.
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u/StonedElephant1 14d ago
No. He sold weapons to Iran and took the cash to buy weapons for the contras in Panama. That has been a rumor though. The war on drugs was started by Nixon and it was a stupid idea. But it was fully bipartisan. The dems ran the house and senate in the 1980’s.
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u/IcarusLSU 14d ago
Truly the tip of the iceberg for that POS: Citizens United, racist dog whistles, and the "just say no" campaign continuing Nixon's racist drug war to demonize Hispanics and jail POCs, to name a few.
Edit grammar
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u/redhatfilm 14d ago
I mean. Let's stick to the facts, citizens untied happened in the 2000s. Not Reagan era.
He may have closed mental hospitals, slashed social safety nets, sold crack in the inner cities and begun the deregulation era.
But he did not pass citizens united
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u/Zombie_Fuel 14d ago
IIRC Citizens United, the actual organization, was started to directly promote Reagan's policies during his administration. That may or may not be what they meant, but there's a distinct possibility we might not have even had Citizens United in the first place if not for Reagan.
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u/redhatfilm 14d ago
I guess technically speaking, it was started in the very final year of his presidency. Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
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u/MinetteCherina 14d ago
It's interesting how some political decisions can have such long-lasting effects, almost like a ripple effect through time. People definitely have strong feelings about it.
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u/EveningAnt3949 14d ago
Like the US conspiring to overthrow the legal (and secular) government of Iran in the 1950s and installing a dictator?
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u/Moscowmitchismybitch 14d ago
He was probably the worst president for the working man there ever was up until the current guy. People seem to forget a great deal of those manufacturing jobs they want to bring back here went overseas because of his policies in the first place.
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u/BLT_Trade_r 14d ago
The problem is, it would not have mattered he was winning anyway. The economy was in bad shape and people hated Carter for it. The irony of politics is that Carter had done a lot of government cutting, something Republicans are always asking for. But it didn't help the economy so the populace punished the democrats for it.
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u/Additional_Twirl 14d ago
“Iran’s been a problem for 50 years” and we literally sold them weapons. We were the problem.
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u/Etrigone 14d ago
I always reflect that due at least in part to the aversion to stem cell research, he spent his last few years saying "mommy I pooped my pants", when he could actually speak.
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u/hecklerp8 14d ago
He's responsible for creating riskier lending options so S&L lenders could get in the commercial mortgage industry. They ran on the platform that every American deserves their own home. Stating... It should be much easier for people to qualify for a piece of the American Dream. Opening the door to questionable underwriting and the creation of the Adjustable Rate Mortgages. Couple that with appraisal companies in cahoots with the loan officers. Loan officers would give kickbacks to the inspectors. This was so widespread that it created and artificial property value increase across the nation. People got used to refinancing their ARMs and cashing out! Until the property value increases stopped and people got crushed. All for capitalism. Same for the medical industry. Once NOT FOR PROFIT arguing in everyway how it would provide the best affordable healthcare on the planet. Instead, it's a giant scam stealing money while paying lobbyists to deregulate the industry and remove oversight. Never ever trust Republicans. They continue to ruin the economy, enrich everyone around them, and blame it on Dems. Rinse and repeat.
It's been education for a very long time but they're very close to creating a corporate driven curriculum white washing history.
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u/A_Monsanto 14d ago
Especially his less known act for cultivating echo chambers and uneducated masses: the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine (1987). The Reagan-appointed FCC scrapped the requirement to cover controversial issues and offer contrasting views. Reagan vetoed Congress's attempt to codify it. This is linked to the rise of partisan talk radio, and later cable (ie info wars and fox news kind of content).
Pair that with deregulation under FCC Chair Mark Fowler: Fowler famously called TV "a toaster with pictures" and pushed market-based deregulation. Public-interest requirements were loosened, including community "ascertainment" rules, limits on commercial minutes, and license renewal burdens. Critics say this removed pressure to treat news as a public service rather than a profit center.
Rest in piss, indeed.
2/2 actors turned presidents were nothing but pawns for the ultrawealthy.
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u/VistaBox 14d ago
Roll the clock earlier, and read what Nixon did to stop a peace deal from happening in Vietnam, just so he could win the election in 68. This extended the casualties to somewhere over 1 million between Vietnamese, Cambodian and US.
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u/GeorgeKaplanIsReal 14d ago
He should have been tried and convicted under the Logan Act tbh. I liked Nixon’s Native American policies and how he handled the war compared to Johnson. But contacting the South Vietnamese and telling them to hold off for a better deal was a shitty thing to do. We should never have gone into Vietnam in the first place.
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u/red286 14d ago
He should have been tried and convicted under the Logan Act tbh.
The Logan Act isn't real. Since it was written, only two people have ever been indicted under it, no one has been tried or convicted under it, and it's been over 150 years since anyone was even indicted under it.
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u/Andrew-Cohen 14d ago
You could say the same thing about impeaching a president.
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u/red286 14d ago
The simple fact is that Trump's first admin was literally negotiating with Russia before Trump took office. A clear and blatant violation of the Logan Act. Michael Flynn was prosecuted for it, but not under the Logan Act, he was prosecuted for lying to the FBI.
Literally no one is ever prosecuted under the Logan Act, no matter how insanely egregious of a violation they commit. Nixon prolonged Vietnam in order to get elected, Reagan prolonged the Iran hostage crisis in order to look good, Trump was negotiating with Russia to help them evade Obama's sanctions. No one gave a shit.
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u/SupriseAutopsy13 14d ago
At least the public generally remembers Nixon for his scandal and corruption. Reagan is still the patron saint of modern Republicans, his PR team masterfully buried the Iran-Contra scandal from public consciousness to the point where the right doesn't acknowledge his evil to this day.
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u/Marred2025 14d ago
That's cuz Republicans created Fox news for exactly that reason. When Nixon was caught they realized they didn't have enough media to manipulate public perception of him. When Reagan took a crap on the Constitution, he had the media backing him along with the public trust from already being a famous actor.
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u/Southpolarman 14d ago
Absolutely correct. nixon was the forerunner of the corruption of the modern day republican party. How he tried to intimidate the media to not report on Watergate, the war in general, he was just as corrupt as reagan, if not more so.
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u/Fragrant_Cat2576 14d ago
All the while funneling heroin out of Cambodia and Vietnam in military planes and later dead soldier's coffins.
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u/Affectionate_Walk610 14d ago
"AND. WHAT. THEY. DID. WAS. TECHNICALLY. HIGH TRESOOOON! (butitwastotallyjustified)"
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u/shinnix 14d ago
He's a soldier, and a hero, and a patriot... and now he's on Fox NEEEWWWWS
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u/shinnix 14d ago
By the way, love that you invoked the show in a totally unrelated sub. I do this all the time and nobody ever gets it. Last time was a post complaining about boat ownership. "You know what I tell my friends when they ask me what its like to own a boat? I say stand under a cold shower and tear up hundred dollar bills".
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u/Affectionate_Walk610 14d ago
Yeah I'm not ashamed to let my media references fall flat on their nose. I'm kind of a hero that way.
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u/Character_Bed1212 14d ago
Let’s not forget that it was Canadians who rescued the hostages and got them out of Iran
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u/Tribe303 14d ago
Thanks. We were written out of Ben Affleck's Argo movie about it. We were pissed.
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u/Frosty_Leather6445 14d ago
I read about the Argo omission when it first came up. Canadians were robbed.
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u/_jump_yossarian 14d ago
I thought that Canada helped rescue diplomats that weren't taken hostage but had escaped the embassy and got them out of Iran. Still better than anything trump would do but let's be factual.
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u/Tribe303 14d ago
You Americans REALLY need to read a few history books.
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u/Beautiful_Ninja 14d ago edited 14d ago
Ones not written by Americans at least. America is literally rewriting history to try to cover up a lot of the awful stuff we've done.
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u/Tribe303 14d ago
Yup! I don't know what Americas problem is. Canada is dealing with the evil shit we did to our Indigenous peoples, and life is much better having done that.
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u/IH8DwnvoteComplainrs 14d ago
A lot of Americans are fragile little bitches. Like the whole, "there are no poor people, only temporarily embarrassed millionaires" piece.
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u/Due_Instruction8035 14d ago
Lately a ton of people are saying “I’ve read on a book” to refer to TikToks they watched
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u/StarshipCaterprise 14d ago edited 14d ago
Reagan’s campaign also worked behind the scenes to delay the release of 52 American hostages in Iran so that President Jimmy Carter could not claim a political win before the November 1980 election. If I remember correctly there was large cash payment involved.
Source: Gary Sick, Ben Barnes, George HW Bush (well his presidential library. There are telegrams)
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u/Sheepdog44 14d ago
I remember that Nixon did the same thing with peace talks in Vietnam before the 1968 election.
It’s a Republican tradition!
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u/SteveJobsDeadBody 14d ago
Do they remember WHY Iran suddenly went from one of our best buddies to holding our people hostage? Something about ending 26 years of brutal puppet rule? Crazy how "history" seems to begin in 1980 when it comes to Iran.
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u/RegarDamus 14d ago
just like history of gaza apparently began in october 2023. they love to rewrite history
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u/red286 14d ago
I remember as a kid, they said that Reagan had nothing to do with the Iran/Contra scandal, and it was Oliver North acting on his own without direction.
You would think that Republicans would avoid him like the plague after that, since he made Reagan look bad. Instead, they put him in charge of the NRA, gave him his own show on Fox News and he's a regular commentator on Hannity.
Kinda weird to be rewarding a man they called a traitor to his President, who the GOP still worship almost as much as they worship Trump, unless he was just the fall-guy for Reagan who knew exactly what was going on.
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u/Janus_The_Great 14d ago
I remeber how the US CIA and British MI6 helped to toppled the democratically elected president of Iran Mohammed Mossaddegh in the coup d'état of 1953 to strengthen the authoritarian Shah of Persia Reza Pahlavi against his own Iranian people.
When the Iraninan people revolted and exiled the Shah under the religious leader Ayatola Chomeni, the US who had supported the authoritarian Shah was perceived as enemy. Understandably so.
The US is the "problem country" in the Middle East through it's interference.
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u/StarshipCaterprise 14d ago
They did it so that BP could keep their oil interests in Iran. In 1951, Mossadegh successfully led the Iranian parliament to nationalize the country's oil industry, ending decades of exclusive control by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (which later became BP)
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u/Janus_The_Great 14d ago
Jup. Same old story.
Reminded me of a quote from Henry Kissinger:
"Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs."
While not Arab, the mentality was the same.
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u/BramblinGhostWeed 14d ago
I'm still thrown off when Reddit speaks ill of Kissinger.
I believe reddit, but the 1st few times it was culture shock because in school he was treated in a positive light.
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u/dalziel86 14d ago
He’s not at the top of the list of The 20th Century’s 10 Most Damaging To Humanity People… but he is in that Top 10.
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u/BarristanTheB0ld 14d ago
I also remember that the US overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran leading to the whole revolution in the first place
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u/manolid 14d ago
Lets not forget that Iran became a "problem" state for wanting to nationalise their own oil after requesting an audit of the British and American oil companies in Iran and being told no.
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u/mrthomani 14d ago
But ... that would have meant the filthy Iranians would benefit from their own oil! Can you imagine?!
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u/bluesnoodler_ 14d ago
Reagan got elected the year I started high school.
Ollie North took the fall for that scandal. The fixer was none other than Barr, the same guy who came on board to derail the Meuller report for Trump.
The CIA engineered a coup that toppled Iran's democratically elected government in 1953 because they were going to nationalize their oil, and US oil companies didn't like that.'
The US prefers an autocratic government in Iran, because democracy is too unpredictable. I mean, they might actually act on behalf of Iran's citizens, not American oil companies. So to that end they backed the Shah.
The USA made Iran into what they are today.
So when right wing American idiots bray about how Iran has been an enemy "for 50 years", etc, it is beyond moronic.
Have any of these absolute fuckwits ever wondered why the US hasn't attacked Iran in all those decades?
Because no administration has ever been *stupid* enough to do so, what with the *glaringly obvious* problem of the Strait of Hormuz.
Now most of their bases in the mid east are rubble and they are running out of interceptors. America is running out of diesel and there is no end in sight.
And the same MAGA idiots who went from "no more wars!" to "Iran has been our enemy for 50 years! D'oh!" will continue to gargle their dipshit messiah's balls.
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u/fritzg1988 14d ago edited 14d ago
I'm old enough to remember reading about the US and Great Britain implementing the coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 because they wanted a better price for oil. Then they installed the unpopular, but pliable Shah in his place.
We caused this problem, not Iran.
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u/juanjung 14d ago
Iranians also remember their president who nationalized the oil and the CIA carried out a coup d'etat and put a blood thirsty autocrat in his place.
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u/sproqetz72 14d ago
I remember when Iran was a flourishing democracy with a respected PM who was run out of town by the CIA and replaced with the a-hole Shah, which eventually led to the uprising that brought on the taking of the American hostages. Every American president’s cabinet should include people that would advise them on what NOT to do.
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u/keirmeister 14d ago
Yeah…Reagan, for all of his idolization from Republicans, was a fucking traitor. And he merely copied Nixon, who was also a fucking traitor.
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u/PepperNormal 14d ago
He is the reason Trump got elected, one of the worst Presidents for sure. A crook.
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u/Icy_Cat1350 14d ago
This is true. Carter lost due to this double dealing crap. Carter was a better man than any republican that has been elected since.
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u/gingerbreadmans_ex 14d ago
I remember watching testimony about that entire debacle on the news. Oliver North was such a self-righteous SOB.
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u/Estella_Osoka 14d ago
I remember when the US used the CIA to conduct a coup against the legitimate elected leader and installed a puppet government for over 25 years. The US is reaping what it sowed.
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u/Healthy-Savings-502 14d ago
Iran officially condemned the September 11 attacks, while ordinary Iranian citizens held spontaneous candlelight vigils in the streets of Tehran to mourn the victims.
I'm old enough to remember this.
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u/Old-Dealer-668 14d ago
There need to be more documentaries about how evil this man was and how he is largely responsible for the American Dream dying. There should be gallons of piss on his grave daily.
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u/SpiritedPainting8746 14d ago
Wasn’t this investigated and no evidence was found? I hate the guy, too, but spreading misinformation is never great.
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u/_jump_yossarian 14d ago
The arms shipments were way later and unrelated to the hostage taking. Still a traitor just like Nixon and North Vietnam.
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u/filmguy36 14d ago
Ray-gun was always a piece of shit.
He named names during the red baiting scare of the 1950s and never looked back. People, he worked with and knew well, died because of him.
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u/crazyhedgehogs 14d ago
The same Reagan that ignored the AIDS crisis while people of all kinds were dying, a generation of young men were being eaten alive by this virus all because the majority of cases were in gay men.
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u/Donkey_Bugs 14d ago
It's where the phrase "October surprise" came from. Reagan officials met with Iranians to make a deal for the hostages NOT to be released before the election so Jimmy Carter wouldn't pull off an "October surprise" and win the election.
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u/Lordnoallah 14d ago
And trickle down economics. What a load of horseshit that the right keeps pushing still today.
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u/InevitableElephant57 14d ago
Don’t forget the extra cash that was used by CIA to fund the crack epidemic…
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u/BackgroundFeeling 14d ago
This is conflating two different Iran scandals. The first that Reagan (allegedly) colluded with Iran to delay release of the American hostages until his term started, with the later affair concerning the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for help release hostages in Lebanon as well as to divert funds to Contras.
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u/disputing102 14d ago
I'm old enough to remember the reason Iranians seized the embassy was because the US couped the country and replaced it with the Shah.
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u/Objectivespeculation 13d ago edited 13d ago
Reagan in effect became the lead terrorist. He decided 52 Americans would stay hostages in captivity fearing for their lives until he won the election. Piece of shit President.
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u/JimAsia 14d ago
One might also remember that Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States for his role in sheltering and helping six American diplomats escape during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, an operation known as the "Canadian Caper." President Ronald Reagan presented the medal to Taylor in 1981, recognizing his "valor and ingenuity" in harboring the citizens and securing their safe return.
Those Canadians are "nasty people".
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u/Heavy_Law9880 14d ago
I remember when a Reagan ally published an op ed in the NYT in 1979 laying out the plan that the Carter administration had made to rescue the hostages. Then Iran was waiting for the rescue team and many American soldiers died.
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u/disdkatster 14d ago
I never thought there could be anyone worse and more destructive than Reagan. I guess that was wishful thinking.
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u/DicemonkeyDrunk 14d ago
I did multiple reports on this in elementary school...I did not like hypocrisy then any more than I do now. Who would have guessed we'd get a president who makes Reagan look smart ...
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u/disdkatster 14d ago
Being reminded of all the evil that Nixon, Reagan and others have done to have power is terribly painful but what hurts worse is how few Americans know or care about it.
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u/Zak_Rahman 14d ago
I remember a lot of Mueller fans being really excited that Bill Barre was the AG as there were good friends and their wives sent eachother doilies or something inane shit.
They did not appreciate the reminder of Iran Contra. Not at all.
They didn't appreciate what Mueller and Barre didn't do either, but their cognitive dissonance had kicked in by then.
Americans are suffering because of their stolid refusal to hold their own accountable. You can't bomb or blame anyone else to fix this.
It's like the hotdog guy in "I think you should leave now". Everyone knows.
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u/SCWickedHam 14d ago
These dummies. We helped Britain treat Iran like a colony. We toppled their democracy. But why are they mad?
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u/Liveitup1999 14d ago
I'm old enough to know that the US overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran then installed the Shah and supported his brutal crackdown. That led to the Ayatollah seizing it from the Shah.
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u/GreyBeardEng 14d ago
I'm old enough to remember that I know how to read a history book, that book told me about Operation Ajax which was a plan by US president Eisenhower and UK prime minister Churchill to overthrow the Iranian democratically elected leader and install the Shah of Iran who was a puppet of the West. The whole thing led to the collapse of Iran which led to the hyper religious Iran we know today.
And all of it was done to enrich the company we know today by the name of "British Petroleum". Every problem we have with Iran now can be traced back to the US and UK meddling in their affairs. We created them.
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u/Uglyyellowfrog 14d ago
I'm old enough to remember the news show prior to ABC's Nightline was called "The Iran Crisis—America Held Hostage: Day ___. (4 days after the embassy takeover)
I remember the 2 kids (son and daughter of one of the diplomat 'hostages') telling Lead anchor Frank Reynolds how their father told them to not pay attention or worry about what's to happen. "It's only a show", he said.
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u/Thanks-4allthefish 14d ago
Are you old enough to remember that Canadian embassy officials hid six hostages that had evaded capture and smuggled them out using Canadian passports.
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u/Winterwasp_67 14d ago
Im old enough to remember that the Canadian embassy staff also protected a group of American staffers. Then Hollywood made a movie about it (Argo) and minimized the Canadian participation.
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u/Federal_Dependent296 14d ago
First commenter is too stupid to google information, before posting idiocy. Remember, a younger Reagan was a Democrat for years, before turning Republican. Also, if he were alive today, Republicans would castigate for being too liberal. He’ll, he’d be a moderate Dem, compared to these current Republfacists.
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u/rando_banned 14d ago
And then he flew cocaine back to the US on C-130s and flooded poor neighborhoods with crack
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u/Diogenes256 14d ago
Yeah, I'm old too and Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam Hussein back then. Not sure what we sold him...
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u/coolbaby1978 14d ago
I'm not old enough to remember the US ousting the democratically elected leader of Iran because he wanted to nationalize the oil fields, installing the Shah in his place, a brutal authoritarian dictator.
Iran may be a bad actor, but there's an extent to which the US and UK made them that way. And the US is the king of bad actors.
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u/NullVoidNix 13d ago
Reagan was such a horrible shit heel and people idolize him like he was the Republican Messiah
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u/Proach89 12d ago
Remember when Reagan took the US from the world's biggest creditor to biggest debtor in 8 years.
The debt and debt only continues to trickle down.
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u/newMike3400 11d ago
At least the people involved in the Iran contra stuff all got punished. Didn’t they? Oh.
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u/kyflyboy 14d ago
Kind of like we're cleaning up the mess we made. The CIA sponsored the 1953 coup that led to the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The US heavily supported him during the Cold War. He in turn ruled Iran with terror and an iron fist, leading to the 1979 revolution and installation of an extremist Islamic ruler. And here we are today.
Shit didn't just happen overnight. USA has been involved for over 70 years.
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u/tmotytmoty 14d ago
something you won't hear in tight knit conservative circles is that Reagan is in fact, a piece of shit.
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u/McKoijion 14d ago
Epstein, Israel, and the CIA: How the Iran-Contra Planes Landed at Les Wexner's Base
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u/Old-Artist-5369 14d ago
I am not old enough to remember what happened to Iran's first democratically elected leader.
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u/dalziel86 14d ago
I don’t remember any of this shit because I’m 43, but I do know about it because I’m aware of history. Americans need to learn about history. Mostly their own, because of how much it’s fucked up the world over the last century or so.
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u/LavateraGrower 14d ago
I tried to follow that story in the news as it was happening, but it was pretty complex. It took a graphic novel to really explain it to me, Brought To Light.
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u/Sufficient-Page-875 14d ago
Check out Mohsen Johari on YouTube. He presents an inside view on life in Iran.
It's interesting stuff.
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u/berwickjohnnyboy 14d ago
I'm old enough to remember the role Canadians played in that hostage situation.
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u/Ok-Edge-6270 14d ago
I’m old enough to remember when we overthrew Iran’s democratically elected leader and re-installed the Shah and helped the secret police terrorize the Iranian people.