Who was worse for the country: Lee Atwater (who helped Reagan and invented the Southern Strategy) or Mark Burnett (who created The Apprentice)?
#politics
#trump
#reagan
#USPol

Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.

Rupert Murdoch: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past
#Hysteria #HysteriaPodcast
On episode 17 of "This F*cking Guy," Hysteria podcast hosts Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco dive deep into Rupert Murdoch’s unscrupulous past. From building a fake news media empire, to backstabbing his kids better than Logan Roy, to a relationship history to rival Henry VII, this guy is the grandpappy of evil meets ick.
#Murdoch #Thatcher #Trump #Epstein #RoyCohn
#Reagan #RogerStone #USpol #AUSpol #UKpol #NYC #NYpost #Fox #NewsCorp #Roger Ailes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbjTlwpC0c0

#EAS #WEA for Borden, #TX; #Glasscock, #TX; #Howard, #TX; #Mitchell, #TX; #Reagan, #TX; #Scurry, #TX: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 10:30 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX #Borden,

#EAS #WEA for Borden, #TX; #Glasscock, #TX; #Howard, #TX; #Mitchell, #TX; #Reagan, #TX; #Scurry, #TX: Dust Storm Warning issued March 18 at 9:07PM CDT until March 18 at 10:30PM CDT by NWS Midland/Odessa TX Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX #Borden, #TX; #Glasscock, #TX; #Howard, #TX; #Mitchell, #TX; #Reagan, #TX; #Scurry, #TXwx** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

Republicans (used to?) idolize Reagan. But the Reagan administration would likely love the racism of the present day Republican party, and loathe most of the rest of it. Electing a Russian asset president of the US would be inconceivable to them.

If the author of the excerpt below, Andrew Michta, sounds like a Reagan Republican, it's because he pretty much is. He's written right-leaning editorials, blames Biden for the world's problems, etc.

And yet he writes that if Trump hands Russia significant territorial gains in Ukraine—and so far giving Putin everything he wants seems to be the no. 1 goal of this administration—it will essentially undo America's victory in the Cold War:

"In 1991, the Soviet Union lost the Cold War, as it could no longer compete either in the economic, political, or military spheres... Post-1991, the United States exercised its victor’s prerogative, together with its democratic allies, to structure the post-Soviet space in Central Europe and the Baltics in a way that stabilized the region and served the United States’ interests and those of its European allies.

"...it was not the West’s aggressive pursuit of an anti-Russian agenda, but rather the weakness and lack of strategic clarity it communicated at every turn post-Cold War that encouraged Moscow’s revisionism. It was not the West’s alleged geostrategic assertiveness, but its timidity each time Putin used military power to occupy territory—first in Georgia in 2008, then in Ukraine in 2014, in Syria in 2015, and finally in Ukraine for the second time in 2022—that set the stage for the unfolding tragedy in Eastern Europe.

"The West is poised to communicate weakness once again, only this time unabashedly and without pretense that it is doing so because of norms or the 'rules-based international order.' If the final peace agreement on Ukraine simply ratifies the status quo on the battlefield, the Trump administration will hand Moscow a major win, in effect undoing the consequences of the Western victory in the Cold War."
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-real-reason-russia-invaded-ukraine-hint-its-not-nato-expansion/

The Republican Party has advertised itself as racist since ~1964. That seems to be its only center of gravity.

https://www.europesays.com/1917259/ Why Trump’s executive order can’t abolish Education Department #agency #Branch #congress #democratic #DemocraticParty #Department #Donald #DonaldTrump #education #elon #ElonMusk #environmental #Executive #ExecutiveBranch #Government #Musk #Negative #of #Overall #OverallNegative #party #Politics #protection #Reagan #Republican #RepublicanParty #Ronald #RonaldReagan #Senate #trump #U.S. #U.S.Congress #U.S.DepartmentOfEducation #U.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #U.S.Senate

"Wenn es dieser Tage jemandem gelänge
Ronald #Reagan zum Leben zu erwecken

und dem dann zu erklären, was gerade in #Washington abgeht

würde Reagan das so hart treffen,
dass der gleich wieder stürbe"

- John Oliver (so in etwa)

"It would be difficult to imagine a worse message either in strategic terms or on its merits. Ronald Reagan was, by any sane reckoning, a poisonous figure. He illegally armed contra death squads in Nicaragua and bloodthirsty Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan. He invaded Grenada for the crime of building an airport. On the home front, he crushed labor unions and demonized “welfare queens” to further his austerity agenda. He presided over the “Greed Is Good” era of Wall Street hedonism. American politics is still deeply disfigured by his legacy.

And Trump has massively benefited from the widespread belief that he’s a different kind of Republican, one who wouldn’t cater to Wall Street or start bloody wars to assert America’s right to “lead the world.” It’s impossible to understand the Trump phenomenon without understanding the profound backlash, even among Republican voters, against George W. Bush’s seemingly endless wars in the Middle East (which were continued by Barack Obama). After years of working-class Americans coming home in flag-draped coffins, Trump benefited precisely from the impression that he didn’t believe America has some special mystical destiny to “lead the world.”

What the Democrats Should Have Said

A better response to Trump’s address would have been to point out that the political substance of what he was offering was little more than warmed-over Reaganism"

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-congress-address-reagan-democrats

Marco #Rubio on Donald #Trump (2016): “I will never stop until we keep a #conman from taking over the party of #Reagan and the conservative movement. He’s a con man”