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Peacetrain

(22,878 posts)
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 08:07 PM Aug 2015

I just had a Ronald Reagan flashback.. ie Donald Trump

I was at a friends house watching Trump speak on MSNBC... He said the biggest bunch of nothing.. and the press did not come back at him.. he just fluffed right over them.. I looked at my husband, and we realized the last time we saw such a clueless person was Ronald Reagan.. We both said then.. no way will the country elect such a buffoon.. Boy were we wrong..


sheesh could people truly want someone like Trump leading the country??

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I just had a Ronald Reagan flashback.. ie Donald Trump (Original Post) Peacetrain Aug 2015 OP
Yep!!!! - I'm Sure That There Are People Right Now Ready To Press The Golden Buzzer And Send Him.... global1 Aug 2015 #1
I almost lost my dinner.. Peacetrain Aug 2015 #2
I Remember That Well - Even Before That Time In His Bonzo Days......nt global1 Aug 2015 #3
ROFL.. Bonzo.. ahhhh yep... Peacetrain Aug 2015 #4
You're right. He was a laughingstock -- and the last laugh was on us. n/t pnwmom Aug 2015 #5
That is what John said.. Peacetrain Aug 2015 #6
Watching Reagan was like staring 50 milligrams of Valium hifiguy Aug 2015 #7
^^^^ Peacetrain Aug 2015 #8
The tone of his carefully-coached actor's voice always sounded hifiguy Aug 2015 #9
he was so inept .. so very inept.. and you are so right.. Peacetrain Aug 2015 #10
I remember thinking - when he spoke on TV - elias49 Aug 2015 #12
i was a kid. even then i saw thru reagan & detested him. pansypoo53219 Aug 2015 #11
Voodoo economics... and the country fell for it hook line and sinker Peacetrain Aug 2015 #13
I think it was the back of a napkin. trackfan Aug 2015 #14
Thank you... I forgot exactly what it was.. yeah a napkin Peacetrain Aug 2015 #15
If you think America won't elect a famous idiot to the Presidency then you don't know America. nt TeamPooka Aug 2015 #16
That is what is scary.. because you are right Peacetrain Aug 2015 #17
Reagan and GW Bush, also idiot Gov's like Arnold and Jesse Ventura. TeamPooka Aug 2015 #18
ronald reagan did have charisma...little else. trump has bullyism...nothing else. spanone Aug 2015 #19
It stupefies me that is for sure Peacetrain Aug 2015 #20

global1

(25,268 posts)
1. Yep!!!! - I'm Sure That There Are People Right Now Ready To Press The Golden Buzzer And Send Him....
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 08:12 PM
Aug 2015

directly to the Republican National Convention as their nominee. [Note: for you political junkies - the golden buzzer is a reference to the reality show - America's Got Talent - where when the golden buzzer is pushed by one of the judges - that talent is sent directly to Radio City Music Hall for the live talent shows]

Peacetrain

(22,878 posts)
2. I almost lost my dinner..
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 08:14 PM
Aug 2015

I do not know if you are old enough to remember old Teflon Reagan.. but this is how it went then.. nothing nada.. he made no sense..how he ever got the nomination is still beyond me..

Peacetrain

(22,878 posts)
6. That is what John said..
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 08:24 PM
Aug 2015

We had better get our you know what together,,because it is blowhards like Trump that get elected.. (and let us not forget W)... Where the heck is the press.. they let him slide like he was on ice pnwoman

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
7. Watching Reagan was like staring 50 milligrams of Valium
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 08:25 PM
Aug 2015

in the eyes. He lulled the low-wattage people to trusting sleep.

Listening to Trump is like hearing a monkey cage in which the monkeys are all jacked up on Red Bull and meth. Sheer cacophonous insanity.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
9. The tone of his carefully-coached actor's voice always sounded
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 08:28 PM
Aug 2015

like a trusted uncle giving you advice. The words, however, were unspeakably toxic.

Peacetrain

(22,878 posts)
10. he was so inept .. so very inept.. and you are so right..
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 08:30 PM
Aug 2015

he lulled people into thinking he was this wonderful grandpa or uncle.. and he just gutted this country and we are still trying to recover from it..

 

elias49

(4,259 posts)
12. I remember thinking - when he spoke on TV -
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 09:47 PM
Aug 2015

that it was like he was trying to shake words out of hs mouth but they wouldn't come.
He had that funny head-motion. Oh how I hated that man.

Peacetrain

(22,878 posts)
13. Voodoo economics... and the country fell for it hook line and sinker
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 09:55 PM
Aug 2015

I read once that they wrote that whole concept out on the back of an envelope .. I do not know if it is true or not.. but I would not be surprised..

trackfan

(3,650 posts)
14. I think it was the back of a napkin.
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 12:44 AM
Aug 2015

The origin of the Laffer curve. Arthur Laffer supposedly sketched it on the back of a napkin at lunch. Or something like that.

TeamPooka

(24,252 posts)
18. Reagan and GW Bush, also idiot Gov's like Arnold and Jesse Ventura.
Wed Aug 12, 2015, 05:00 PM
Aug 2015

Give Americans chance to vote for a famous idiot and they pick the idiot every time.
Even Gopher from The Love Boat went to Congress.

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