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deadpresidents · 5 days

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"It hurt to lose to Ronald Reagan. But after the election, I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. Later, from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive."

-- Former President Jimmy Carter, on losing the 1980 election and the transition leading to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, interview with TIME Magazine, October 11, 1982.

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o-the-mts · 1 year

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It’s also a reminder that contrary to the fairytale the public is being fed by many of these same sources, US politics and the GOP were far from bastions of decency and righteousness until the dastardly Donald Trump came along and messed everything up. It was Reagan, the Republican president most often cast these days as Trump’s polar opposite, who carried out something close to treason to win an election, before carrying out a host of other crimes and outrages as president. Everything in our scandal-filled times is, sadly, part and parcel of decades of US political tradition.

Once Dismissed as Absurd, Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” Is Now Confirmed as True

#Iran Hostage Crisis #October Surprise #1980 Election #Ronald Reagan #Republican corruption #they've always been this bad

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muppet-facts · 7 months

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Muppet Fact #864

In the 1980 presidential election, people cast write-in votes for both Miss Piggy and Kermit.

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"Cizanckas Fund ... The Write-in Votes." Matthew L. Wald. Connecticut Journal. December 7, 1980. Section C, page 3.

#muppet facts oc #jim henson #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #fun facts #miss piggy #miss piggy lee #kermit the frog #kermit #1980 presidential election #Connecticut Journal #Matthew L Wald

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adventurelandia · 2 years

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1980 Miss Piggy for First Lady... President button

#miss piggy #the muppets #muppets #president #election #1980 #1980s #vintage #disney #vintage disney

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tygerland · 1 month

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Andy Warhol Goethe. 1982. Series of four screenprints: 96 × 96 cm (38 × 38 in) each.

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cleoselene · 1 year

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this makes me ill on so many levels

Jimmy Carter is the most decent man to ever hold the office and Ronald Reagan is the malignant tumor that started movement conservatism

fucking ghouls to use American hostages as political pawns

The Republican Party is a domestic terror organization.

#presidential election of 1980 #jimmy carter #iran #ronald reagan

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posttexasstressdisorder · 1 year

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#presidential election of 1980

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retropopcult · 1 year

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Campaign Trail board game, 1983

#elections #1980s #gaming #vote #art #illustration #election

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troyonhudson · 1 year

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#presidential election of 1980

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deadpresidents · 9 months

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Is there any truth to the 1980 October surprise theory?

The New York Times published a story earlier this year where Ben Barnes -- a Republican supporter of Reagan's in 1980 who had once served as Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, and protege of former Texas Governor John Connally -- confirmed that the Reagan campaign absolutely encouraged Iran not to release the American embassy hostages before the election because Reagan would give the Iranians a better deal if he was elected President. Barnes admitted that he was present as Connally passed that message around while on a trip to the Middle East in order to get word to the Iranians. It's not exactly a smoking gun because virtually everyone seemingly involved in implementing the October Surprise is dead other than Barnes, but it's a weird thing for Barnes to lie about 45 years later, especially considering how close his relationship was with Governor Connally. Plus, we know that there were shady contacts between people in the Reagan Administration and Iran because of the Iran-Contra scandal.

I think there is definitely some truth to the theory, but I also believe that the Iranians were more than happy to spite President Carter by not releasing the hostages until literally the moment Reagan took the oath of office. The Iranians were still furious with the Carter Administration for letting the Shah come to the United States for medical treatment after he was forced to leave Iran as the Iranian Revolution exploded and Ayatollah Khomeini returned to become Supreme Leader. Carter had also helped broker the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, which also infuriated Iran and much of the Islamic world. Plus, Carter had ordered Operation Eagle Claw -- the failed attempt to rescue the hostages by force -- and that was seen as an act of war. So, the Ayatollah and leaders of Revolutionary Iran had no love lost for President Carter and weren't interested in doing him any favors before he left office.

The October Surprise that many people overlook is the one which took place in 1968 shortly before the Nixon vs. Humphrey election. When it looked like there might be some progress made in peace talks to bring the Vietnam War to a close, Nixon and his advisers got word to the South Vietnamese to hold off on working toward peace until Nixon was elected and could give them better terms. It was such an egregious act that LBJ actually told people around him that he felt Nixon had committed treason and that he had the blood of American soldiers on his hands for sabotaging peace talks. We even have the tapes of LBJ's phone calls after finding out about Nixon's actions where President Johnson straight-up says, "This is Treason!"

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indizombie · 2 years

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The ’70s witnessed the Navnirman student’s movement, essentially an urban upsurge against those who were repeating ad nauseum the slogans of green and white revolutions. To recover from the setback caused by the Navnirman movement, the Congress formulated an election strategy around a combination of caste and community known as KHAM (Kshatriya-Harijan-Adivasi-Muslim combine). After the great success of this formula in the Assembly elections of 1980, the upper castes for the first time sensed a political and economic threat to their domination. To them it appeared that their political power was slipping away and being transferred to the ‘backward castes and communities’. The educated middle class, mainly the Brahmins, Banias and Patidars, reacted sharply by starting an agitation against the reservation system in 1981. Probably for the first time in independent India, a modern industrial metropolis experienced such extreme forms of caste violence. The clashes between the savarnas and the Dalits in the industrial periphery of Ahmedabad gradually evolved into a caste war that spread to the towns in 18 out of the then 19 districts. In many villages dominated by land owning Patidars in North and Central Gujarat, Dalit bastis were burnt. Caste tension resurfaced in 1985 in the second anti-reservation agitation. The issue this time was the increase in job quotas of the non-Dalit socially and educationally backward castes; yet the victims were all Dalits. As a result of these two agitations, the Brahmin-Bania-Patidar combine acquired a savarna unity.

Achyut Yagnik, ‘The pathology of Gujarat’ (2002)

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thoughtportal · 2 years

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I don’t want a president who panders to hate.

#tiktok #1990s #1980s #american history #history #elections

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age-of-moonknight · 2 years

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“Black Spectre,” Moon Knight (Vol. 1/1980), #25.

Writer: Doug Moench; Penciler and Inker: Bill Sienkiewicz; Colorist: Christie Scheele; Letterer: Joe Rosen

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Moon Knight vol. 1 #Moon Knight 1980 #Moon Knight comics #Marc Spector #Jake Lockley #Steven Grant #Marlene Alraune #see what I mean about the political commentary? especially the discussion of the democratically elected really being the worst criminals

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largoindminor · 2 months

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TIL social security payments to children of deceased or retired parents, which end when a child turns 18 and/or graduates high school, USED to extend through college. Until 1981.

#once again they answer to the question ‘why is this fucked up thing fucked up?’ is Ronald Reagan #I know this one is small in the grand scheme of things but damn it’s always the 1980 election coming back to bite us all #imagine a world where ghwb became president 8 years earlier #idk if this would be better but I doubt they’d be worse

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thenewdemocratus · 8 months

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Roger Sharp Archive: President Jimmy Carter on 1980 Campaign (3/21/1980)

Source:The New Democrat As much trouble as President Jimmy Carter was in politically in 1979-80, having an approval rating somewhere in the thirties and looking very vulnerable to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election with all the economic problems and the Iranian Hostage Crisis, President Carter whipped Senator Ted Kennedy in most of the Democratic presidential primaries. Senator…

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toruandmidori · 1 year

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