{"id":102415,"date":"2016-05-05T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/05\/wikdsushi-iammyfather-ayellowbirds\/"},"modified":"2016-05-05T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:21:07","slug":"wikdsushi-iammyfather-ayellowbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/05\/wikdsushi-iammyfather-ayellowbirds\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

wikdsushi<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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ayellowbirds<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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northcoastbear<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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straightallies<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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haydrion<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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straightallies<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I hope one day that history looks back on ronald reagan as one of the 20th century\u2019s most vile and disgusting serial killers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

may i ask why<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Remember when like 6 Americans had ebola and it was an international emergency, and Obama flew out to meet survivors?
Here is a list of things the United States government did in response:
-Increasing the number of Ebola testing labs throughout the U.S. that can quickly and safely screen a potential Ebola specimen
\n-Educating more than 150,000 health care workers on how to identify, isolate, diagnose, and care for patients under investigation for Ebola
\n-Developing countermeasures \u2014 including the first Ebola vaccine to progress to Phase 2 testing \u2014 to prevent and treat Ebola
\n-Converting at least 10 of the Ebola Treatment Centers into long-term Regional Ebola and Pandemic Treatment Centers for long-term readiness for years to come
\n-Helping state and local public health systems accelerate and improve their operational readiness and preparedness for Ebola or other infectious diseases
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Source: https:\/\/whitehouse.gov\/ebola-response<\/a><\/p>\n

When the Reagan administration was faced with tens of thousands of gay men dying, they did nothing. They made jokes. They laughed. They caused an epidemic that killed 40 million people, because they hated gay men and thought we deserved to die.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is so much more to it. \u00a0There is a myth perpetuated by Reaganites that he was an historically significant \u00a0President, in some positive sense. \u00a0If you are old enough to have voted in 1980, you probably know differently. \u00a0If you were born after 1980 you have been raised on this myth. \u00a0He sold Americans a fable about a Hollywood movie-like exceptional past and destiny, and led ordinary people around with portrayals of that mirage while his reactionary robber-baron friends set about dismantling 50 years of progressive advancements for working men and women, on their way to returning themselves to the position of unfettered economic domination they held between the Civil War and the Great Depression. \u00a0He was a union buster. \u00a0 He gave us Scalia \u2013 need I say more? \u00a0He tried to give us Robert Bork (does anyone under 30 even know who he is?). \u00a0He lied about Iran\/Contra. \u00a0He avoided dealing with AIDS. \u00a0He sealed the political sham-show between right wing capitalist kings and the evangelical thought-control snake-oil salesmen. \u00a0Americans don\u2019t want to hear that they are ordinary citizens of the world, and they don\u2019t want to hear that the aren\u2019t anointed by some deity to lead the world to salvation. \u00a0They lapped it up, and they continue to do so. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have to wonder how the response of a more competent presidency to the AIDS crisis might have changed even the global impact of the disease. Where might we be today? How many millions of people would be alive and not suffering? Yes, Reagan was historically significant\u2014for fucking things up in a globally devastating way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When you hear how he slashed Income taxes, he did on the Wealthy<\/b>, but he increased the lowest tax<\/b> rate<\/b> from 10% to 15%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

His campaign was funded by Christian radicals, whose entire goal was to dismantle Roe vs. Wade and see American women relegated once more to back alleys and dirty knives. \u00a0He opened the door to religion in politics in a way the postwar McCarthyists never dreamed possible. \u00a0Now, 36 years after his election, maybe a third of American medical schools offer proper access to even first-trimester abortion training (in an era where that should mean a pill or vaginal suppository), and there are currently fewer doctors trained to perform late stage abortions for the entire US than there were pre-RvW (when such operations were only performed as a heroic measure).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

wikdsushi: iammyfather: ayellowbirds: northcoastbear: straightallies: haydrion: straightallies: I hope one day that history looks back on ronald reagan as one of the 20th century\u2019s most vile and disgusting serial killers may i ask why Remember when like 6 Americans had ebola and it was an international emergency, and Obama flew out to meet survivors? Here … <\/p>\n

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