Trump supporters, what would he have to say before you would not vote for him?

It helps to have friends at the DoJ.

 

W appointed a special prosecutor who got Scooter Libby. And he did not pardon him.

Huge contrast.

 

Tear down that wall Mr Riverman, tear down that wall

 

Democrats controlled the purse. Prriod.

Reagan's tax cuts grew government revenues by 2x. Democrats grew spending 3x.

Star wars had a PUNY budget. $200B over 30 years.

Military spending was about half what it was in the JFK years.

 

Donald Trump eats babies

 

I trust Trump as much as this little girl does

 

You got me interested in Reagan and his opposition to marijuana, and illegal drugs in general. In the 1980s, I exchanged several mails with myy congressman, the awful Henry Hyde. I suggested to him that legalization and taxing marijuana would end a huge underground economy and raise revenue for the government. His reply was that where it is tried, a decent % chunk of the population becomes dependent, and it's not in the best interest of the nation to have more drug addicts. I still think I was right, but the guy did make a quality argument against.

So Reagan wrote his own speeches. I do remember C.A.M.P., just say no, and all the rest. But in his own hand writing, he made a case against marijuana.

The link is here to one such speech:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CExclJtH1qYC&pg=PT559&lpg=PT559&dq=reagan marijuana&source=bl&ots=YLLDn_9Oyl&sig=7T8C7475NMd_WH9pLE7jNO5_y6o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd1L-e5LrOAhVM5mMKHQl-AzA4ChDoAQg1MAk#v=onepage&q=reagan marijuana&f=true

There is an image there of his handwritten version as well. So I read it and his claims, and sure enough, he had the facts on his side. The vast majority of people polled at the time opposed legislation as well.

Anyhow:

1. THC stays in the body (fat cells) for a month. True.

2. THC does indeed affect short term memory and transfer to long term. True.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_and_memory

3. Marijuana slows the production of white blood cells. True.
http://topnews.us/content/229343-use-cannabis-suppresses-body-s-immune-system-says-study

4. Pot smoke contains carcinogens. True, but at the time it wasn't understood that THC counters the effects.
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20051017/pot-smoke-less-carcinogenic-than-tobacco


And there is this quote attributed to him from many sources:
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
The smoke from burning marijuana contains many more cancer-causing substances than tobacco. And if that isn’t enough it leads to bronchitis and emphysema. If adults want to take such chances that is their business. But surely the communications media … should let four million youngsters know what they are risking.

Sure enough:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276036/
We affirm that in all cases of bullous emphysema in young individuals, marijuana abuse should be included in the differential diagnosis. The period of marijuana smoking plays an important role in the development of lung emphysema. Most of the patients are asymptomatic and present with spontaneous pneumothoraces. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) should be considered as one of the options for resection of bulla and prevention of recurrent pneumothoraces.

 

I didn't agree with him on everything. He promised to end selective service, but didn't.

On the other hand, he literally saved the world. Scientists had their doomsday clock at 11:59PM. When he met with Gorby in Iceland, the two neatly eliminated their entire nuclear weapons stockpiles. All of the real nuclear reduction treaties that followed are thanks to him.

He was willing to meet face to face with our enemies and make peace.

 

Allright Denny, I'll give him that

 

When was Ford's reelection?

And what does it matter anyway?

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