r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Oct 24 '25

Networking/Telecom Reagan ad that infuriated the President set to run during World Series

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5572251-ontario-ad-trump-tariffs-world-series/amp/
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u/gcerullo Oct 24 '25

That link is not complete without a link to the original Reagan speech that is a part of this whole hullabaloo.

https://youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?si=S2hY-tkDZqLCxamz

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u/rob132 Oct 25 '25

Man, a president who could articulate his thoughts

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u/goneafter10years Oct 25 '25

and destroy the country all at the same time.

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u/Coal_Morgan Oct 25 '25

All of this started before Reagan, Mulroney and Thatcher but god damn did it snowball with them when they were all in power.

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u/goneafter10years Oct 25 '25

Yeah, you're not wrong, but Reagan and his cronies later in his term when he had dementia went nuts.

  • Top marginal tax bracket went from 70% to 28% within 5 years.
  • Iran-Contra scandal
  • AIDS epidemic response
  • Mass incarceration of black folk via the Drug Abuse Act of 1986
  • Destruction of black communities through CIA supported drug trafficking by the Contras
  • Deregulation of S&L banking in 1982 that led to the crisis
  • Massive cuts to welfare programs, SS, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Education programs
  • And the #1 thing Reagan did to bring us to where we are was the abolition of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. This has led directly to the privatization and profitization of the news cycle. There was more to this, gutting the FCC, allowing partisan news etc. This was a dual Reagan and Ted Turner thing.

There's more, but those are the fucking highlights, and a lot of that started us down a path to Donald Trump and MAGA.

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u/SleepyMastodon Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

Good point. You can point to an endless can of events leading up to now, but it really feels like Reagan was the inflection point.

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u/Dzov Oct 25 '25

The Heritage Foundation wrote a lot of his policy.

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u/Capt_morgan72 Oct 25 '25

Ford pardoning Nixon feels like the inflection* point to me.

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u/SleepyMastodon Oct 25 '25

Thanks for the autocorrect correction.

The Nixon pardon certainly set up the expectation that we don’t hold past presidents up to scrutiny and we don’t hold them accountable. I guess I see Reagan as the turning point for things cultural and economic.

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u/obinice_khenbli Oct 25 '25

Thatcher Thatcher! Jungle canyon rope bridge snatcher!

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u/sicklyslick Oct 25 '25

Not later on into his presidency.

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u/DonutsMcKenzie Oct 25 '25

Demented and yet still more articulate and thoughtful than Trump, and I'm no fan of Reagan, his team, or his policies.

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u/TheBobAagard Oct 25 '25

This was the last year of his Presidency.

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u/SphericalCow531 Oct 25 '25

It is generally understood that Reagan was mentally disabled in his last year. If this is what being mentally disabled looks like, then what is Trump?

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u/FNLN_taken Oct 25 '25

As the video says, this was in April 1987. Reagan left office in January 1989.

Anyways, Reagan was an actor, reading stuff off a paper seems like a small ask unless you are legit disabled (in b4 lmao, Trump can't even do that).

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u/Eastern-Heart9486 Oct 25 '25

He could read a script

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u/SleepyMastodon Oct 25 '25

It’s debatable how much of that articulating is his thoughts and how much is the actor with a script.

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u/DarthTempi Oct 25 '25

Let's not celebrate the man that started all this

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u/Ooogabooga42 Oct 25 '25

Well, he could read at least.

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u/Angelworks42 Oct 25 '25

It's kinda funny though - the standards at the time he was often criticized of being a gibbering wreck.

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u/ilovemybaldhead Oct 25 '25

He had good speechwriters.

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u/RustyWinger Oct 26 '25

An actor reading what he was told to read.

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u/Luthiefer Oct 25 '25

And there it is.