r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 1d ago

PoliticalTea šŸ—³ļø The Gipper's legacy...

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u/PretendingImNotAnApe 1d ago

They pretended this guy was a holy saint he literally taxed your social security. To give himself a tax cut.

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u/ComprehensiveHavoc 1d ago

How to be a "FiSCaL CoNsErVaTiVe":

  1. Implement "Trickle Down Economics"

  2. Watch it fail for 40 years

  3. Start war in Middle East

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u/Fancy-Dig1863 1d ago

Iā€™m in my 30s and every republican president of my life time has started a war in the Middle East.

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u/AmericanCitizenry 1d ago

You could be 60, and that would still be true.

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u/Greybirdk22 14h ago

I'm 76. When I was four years old, President Eisenhower began giving financial support to Vietnam, though military came after his presidency. To be fair, we have Kennedy and Johnson to blame for the worst of it. Modern times? All Republicans do is start stupid wars and wreck the economy.

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u/Explorers_bub 12h ago

Eisenhower and his newly minted CIA is the reason Iran is a shit show. Along with any number of other problems. Especially from Central and South America.

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u/AmericanCitizenry 9h ago

THANK YOU šŸ™