All The Folks Trekking To See Reagan
 

OK, is it me or does anyone else think its a bit bizarre seeing all these strange looking people trekking from all over to stand in line for 7 hours and then walk by a coffin for 15 seconds and then go home.

The real intriguing ones are the folks that start crying as if he was a relative or something.

I think a lot of these people just want to get a chance to be on TV.

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It's all about TV. I mean fuck we're stuck with non stop 24/7 coverage of this shit. I turned on FoxNews and it was like a fucking live feed of the coffin for hours at a time, and a live feed of the hearse. Fuck this shit.

I think they have been watching too many JFK documentaries on TLC and think this is what you have to do for EVERY President :)

it's a president of the united states. if he was president when i was born.. i'd do it.

True but at the end of the day, he was just a man Bru that liked riding horses. And he sat on the toilet like everyone else.

Sure, but there are moments like this in life where the opportunities are rare for you. Something like this is one of those rare moments in your life where you may only get the chance to do it once.

Seeing the Cure in concert for example :) :winkwink:

I got to walk past Lenin in his tomb in Red Square. That was cool.

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But Lenin was a revolutionary, Reagan was nothing more than an empty populist:

March 31, 1976: Reagan's televised appeal to the nation for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination. Gerald Ford ultimately won the nomination, but Reagan was soon planning his return to national politics in 1980.

"The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before. It took this nation 166 years--until the middle of World War II--to finally accumulate a debt of $95 billion. It took this administration just the last 12 months to add $95 billion to the debt. And this administration has run up almost one-fourth of the total national debt in just these short 19 months."

How ironic.

Fuck you Ronnie!

so you would do this to say you did it, not because you wanted to?

He did basically make people feel good by sending the nation into massive deficits to finance all the happiness.

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Both reasons. I would have wanted to, and I would've appreciated the fact that it was a rare occasion. Something I wouldn't have very often in my lifetime maybe. There are probably a lot of people that were born between 1981 to 1989, or those with children who were born during that period. It's not an insignificant moment.

I just find all the ceremonies that happen for dead people to be a bit ridiculous.

I think as you get older like I am and have dealt with so many deaths you become a bit unemotional about the process.

People patting his coffin. People doing the cross. Another brain washed mechanism from the religious svengalis that want to control people with guilt and fear.

Its all just so nutty to look at in such volumes of people.

One lady was hysterically crying. I just cracked up laughing so hard.

dont forget selling drugs to the people to help the debt

I also got to walk past Lenin in his tomb, with a camera in my pocket, a BIG no no. That was a couple days after Soviet soldiers took some "contraband" away from me. (pirate Michael Jackson tapes I had brought in to sell)



I also did the same with Mao's tomb in Beijing, where the rumor was the glass tomb was actually magnified to make him look "larger than life" :1orglaugh

Anyone remember the song "Land of Confusion" - Genesis ?

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in moments like this is when i'm glad my tv is broken..
even tho i'm a news freak


KRL, i bet you most Russian Jews if they had a chanse would go and pay their last respects to Regon. If it wasnt for Ragon, they wouldnt have been able to leave Soviet Uniion and be able to prosper in the US like they have.

there probably wouldnt be Google or Sergei Brim studying at Stanford either if not for Regon

i didnt like reagan. I'm 31 now, so I was old enough to remember the reagan years. I remember living in fear that the russians would attack us. I remember in 8th grade gym class my teacher was telling us that russians were going to beat our asses because americans were lazy and during coffee breaks we smoke cigaretts and the russians do knucke push ups on sand paper. The point i am trying to make is this right wing cold war crap even infilitrated into the middle schools. Thats what I remember of reagan. I remeber during the Clinton years I had no fear of what lay ahead. Thise were the halycon years for sure. Every time a republican is in office its all about our national security and that we are on the verge of being destroyed. I am so tired of conservative propaganda. He can take his star wars shit and burn in hell with it for all i care.
Duke

The Soviet Union was on its last breath. With or without Reagan it was only a matter of time before it collapsed. You can only play the shell game for so long and they got away with it for way longer than most countries do.

Do you really think Reagan started the ball rolling with his "tear down this wall" or do you think it was about to collapse anyhow?

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Just paying their respects, I'm sure. :)

What does that really mean?

The guy is fucking dead. Why don't people pay respect when people are alive?

That's my point here.

LOL another idiot crying on CNN right now like his dog just died.

Nutz. The whole world is nutz.

it might have been, but what really put them over the edge and bankrupted them was massive military spending they tried to keep up with in the US. Would the events unfolded in the same time frame as they did if lets say Carter was pres? i highly doubt it.

Its your simple lack of respect that keeps you from understanding what this is all about.

Respect for the accomplishments achieved in a lifetime
Respect for life and its end
Respect for other's feelings
Respect for people's religion
Your lack of respect is a serious personality flaw that shows each time you bring up religion.
The warning bells should be ringing in your head when the likes of a "joe citizen" are agreeing with you.

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since its so close to me I actually thought about going just to get pics.

then i realized its like a neocon lollapalooza, i dont want to be anywhere near those sickos.

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