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i have to say, i like a lot of you involved fine but the ronald reagan debate distracting from the best thread on the internet is tied with my least favorite thread hijack along with cheese puns in the 2023 recruiting thread and bozo's insatiable need to summon the ag freak every time he wants to replay the gerrymandering argument on every thread in this forum.

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32 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

A lot of Trumpists proudly declare that "I'm not a Republican." That was certainly not the case with Reagan.

It was much more difficult to build that kind of cult of personality in the early to mid-80s.  There was essentially no social media, and people had 2 maybe 3 choices (Republican, Democrat, independent).  They also tended to be much more private in their political discussions.  (OK, there were the initial tendrils of Usenet but outside of academic dorks like me the vast majority of people knew nothing about that.)

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15 hours ago, sidis said:

i have to say, i like a lot of you involved fine but the ronald reagan debate distracting from the best thread on the internet is tied with my least favorite thread hijack along with cheese puns in the 2023 recruiting thread and bozo's insatiable need to summon the ag freak every time he wants to replay the gerrymandering argument on every thread in this forum.

It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby.

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36 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


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Yup.  We knew it was going to happen.  The GOP knew it was gong to happen. 

But their voters, well, they're stupid

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On 9/12/2025 at 3:20 PM, TwiceHorn said:

And I have stated as much.

The tangent of this thread was whether Reagan's "cult" really compares to the Trump "cult."  It does not, regardless of similarities they shared, or more accurately how Reagan's actions trace to the environment we find ourselves in today.

And the genesis of this tangent was my statement that a lot of MAGAts outright reject the GOP prior to Trump. A lot of Trumpists proudly declare that "I'm not a Republican." That was certainly not the case with Reagan.

 

Okay, hermano. The similarities in common are of no consequence. Got it.

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Let's see now. We got former Conservatives defending Reagan as a Teflon God  .... and yet saying it's not a precedent related to MAGAs who see Trump as a Teflon God. 

Hilarious... and terrifying.

The level of doublethink is staggering. 

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On 9/10/2025 at 8:07 PM, Captainant said:

what's wild is the even the nazis supported the idea of a Jewish state. It would give them a place to ship all their jews off to - they came to their "final solution" because they just didn't have anywhere to keep all these pesky jews!

The nazis wanted all the Jews out of Europe. The Zionists wanted Jews to move to the Holy Land out of Europe. During Kristallnacht, there were mobs chanting ’Juden raus! Auf nach Palästina!’ (Jews out, out to Palestine) as they destroyed jewish businesses.

 

Something, something, horseshoe theory.

Sorry, this is a super-whack reading of history.  The Nazis implemented the Haavara agreement in 1933 as a method first to shore up foreign currency reserves (they allowed Jews to use their confiscated property to buy German made “exports” to Mandate Palestine via a special bank) and second to remove some 60k Jews from Germany. A purely pragmatic move and nothing at all about a Jewish state: a temporary solution to help ease a financial crisis. 

 Hitler raved about the dangers of a Jewish state in his writings and even had an Einsatzgruppen created for Mandate Palestine as Afrikakorps appeared to be advancing. There’s debate over whether it was an extermination plan or whether they intended to place Mandate Palestine Jews in forced labor camps. What’s clear is that the idea of a sovereign Jewish state in the near east ran strictly against Nazi policy. 
 

Before the Final Solution was implemented there was some desultory speculation about mass expulsions to Madagascar to be administered as a massive open-air SS camp (never actually an option due to the Royal Navy) or massive forced labor camps in the vastness of the conquered Soviet East. There was never a discussion of creating or supporting a Jewish state at any time, and it’s only a very few fringe and extremely biased political figures who try to cast the Nazis and Zionists as somehow pursing similar goals (with an obvious political purpose for doing so). 

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President Donald J. Trump has been trying to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook from the board of governors, alleging she lied on a mortgage application by claiming two homes as primary residences, which could garner a lower interest rate. Yesterday Chris Prentice and Marisa Taylor of Reuters reported that documents show that, in fact, Cook told the lender who provided a mortgage that a property in Georgia for which she was obtaining a loan would be a “vacation home.”

 

It appears the documents that director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte used to accuse her of mortgage fraud were standardized forms that her personal application specifying the house was a second home overrode. It also appears that Cook never applied for a primary residence tax exemption for the Georgia home and that she referred to the home on official documents as a “2nd home.”

 

In contrast, Reuters reported last week that unlike Cook, Pulte’s own father and stepmother claimed primary residence tax exemptions for two homes in different states. When that news broke, one of the towns in which they reside removed their primary residence exemption and charged them for back taxes.

FAFO bitches

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37 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

There was never a discussion of creating or supporting a Jewish state at any time, and it’s only a very few fringe and extremely biased political figures who try to cast the Nazis and Zionists as somehow pursing similar goals (with an obvious political purpose for doing so). 

What's my obvious political purpose, then? The IDF is literally doing a lebensraum to Palestine

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11 minutes ago, Captainant said:

What's my obvious political purpose, then? The IDF is literally doing a lebensraum to Palestine

I honestly thought you’d made an honest mistake repeating something you saw somewhere, but the quick deflection to something happening 90 years later and irrelevant to the historical inaccuracy under discussion makes me reconsider.

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20 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I honestly thought you’d made an honest mistake repeating something you saw somewhere, but the quick deflection to something happening 90 years later and irrelevant to the historical inaccuracy under discussion makes me reconsider.

It's highlighting a historical parallel? And please, elucidate for me your point because you're building up to something but won't say it

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4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

It's highlighting a historical parallel? And please, elucidate for me your point because you're building up to something but won't say it

My point: Saying the Nazis supported a Jewish state in Palestine or anywhere else is wrong and ahistorical. 



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