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drewlyyours · 8 months
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If you have any questions, I’ll be at my center of operations…
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heinzezsquirt · 2 years
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now mike, go ahead and explain that poster.
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i just made this n i’m kinda proud of it. it would mean a lot if u reblogged or even just let me know what you think :)
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mm9688x · 3 years
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CANT STOP WONT STOP!!
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frmulcahy · 4 years
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Tag yourself as movies I watched religiously as a child :/
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irregularincidents · 3 years
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When it comes to naming infamous people connected with the White House, Joan Quigley doesn’t really rank as high as some, but if her account of events is accurate (and according to former Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan, Donald Degan, it is), she definitely had a much larger impact on a presidency than you’d expect for someone in her role. Her role?
She was the Reagans’ astrologer.
As Degan put it in his 1988 book, For the Record: “Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House Chief of Staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco [Quigley] who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in a favorable alignment for the enterprise.”
Initially working with the Reagans in the 1970s, Nancy cut ties with her when the couple concentrated on getting into the White House, but following the 1981 attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley, Quigley inserted herself into Ronald and Nancy’s business by implying that if she had been working with the couple on their horoscopes, she could have warned them it was going to happen.
Y’know, with star charts and things.
Later in her memoir, My Turn, Nancy explained her decision to give Quigley enormous control over decisions made in the White House (from dictating when Air Force One can land to the War on Drugs to the Iran-Contra Scandal) thusly: "Very few people can understand what it's like to have your husband shot at and almost die, and then have him exposed all the time to enormous crowds, tens of thousands of people, any one of whom might be a lunatic with a gun.... I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive."
And as Quigley herself put it in her own book, What Does Joan Say: “Not since the days of the Roman emperors, and never in the history of the United States presidency, has an astrologer played such a significant role in the nation's affairs of State."
According to the podcast, Behind the Bastards, Quigley herself was the person who suggested that Nancy Reagan use the War on Drugs as the thing to make her more popular in the eyes of the public (this being due to the Reagans’ bizarre negative obsession with the Kennedys*, with Nancy in particular being kind of fixated on being seen by the American public in the same positive light as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis).
Quigley suggested that the best means to boost her popularity would be to choose a particular cause to champion and stick with it, with an anti-drug message being one of the options she suggested to Nancy. This was the one the First Lady ultimately adopted, leading to DARE, raised penalties for drug offences, and a massively inflated American prison population.
Quigley was eventually ousted from the White House following the publication of Degan’s book (the pair frequently fought when he worked with the presidency, over the unreasonable amount of control she had over policy) in 1988, and while Nancy and Ronald Reagan were both terrible, TERRIBLE people, the possiblity that they had someone effectively feeding them policies seemingly at random which went on to hurt thousands of people wasn’t great either (even if she was potentially scamming them).
Alternatively, Quigley control over policy may have been overstated somewhat (although her dictating when the presidental planes could land and the timing of a visit to a German graveyard both happened)... But really, what’s worse: Someone who is feeding suggestions to bad, powerful people which effect the lives of thousands of people in a harmful way, OR a scammer who TAKES CREDIT for policies which harmed thousands of people as a means of inflating their own impact on history.
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* The Reagans hatred of the Kennedys boiled down to a combination of jealousy and Ronald’s irrational belief that JFK was the reason his acting career had tanked (even though Ron’s acting career had dried up long before Kennedy became president). In the Dollop’s episode(s) on Reagan, they recount how the day JFK was assassinated Ron and Nancy were holding a dinner party, only for it to morph into their weird celebration of Kennedy getting shot when some of the guests tried to cancel.
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Democrats Tread Carefully in Attacking Trump on Coronavirus
For weeks, President Donald Trump has dominated television coverage with daily White House briefings on the coronavirus pandemic, declaring himself a “wartime president” and touting his administration’s response.
But Trump’s tendency to pepper his news conferences with misstatements, untruths and scientifically questionable advice has armed Democrats with a wealth of ready-made sound-bites to use against him ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
The challenge for Democrats – and their presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden – is how to highlight what they see as Trump’s failures in handling the crisis without appearing too crassly political when Americans are dying and losing their livelihoods as a result of the disease.
“If you’re on the attack, you risk being seen as tone-deaf,” said Tom McMahon, a former executive director of the Democratic National Committee. “People don’t want to be seen as playing partisan politics with a pandemic.”
The coronavirus outbreak has upended life across the country, shuttering large portions of the economy. Some 94% of Americans are under stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of the respiratory virus, which had infected about 430,000 people in the United States and killed more than 14,700 as of Wednesday night.
In advertisements in battleground states that will decide the election, the Biden campaign and Democratic-aligned groups are testing ways of counter-programming Trump’s messaging, while trying to avoid alienating swing voters whose allegiance remains up for grabs.
Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC that has spent $7 million on pandemic-themed digital and TV commercials in five swing states, is using online panels with voters in key states to test for any backlash, said spokesman Josh Schwerin.
The group has grappled with how to spotlight Trump’s words without sharing misinformation. Like other Democratic-aligned organizations, Schwerin said it was refusing to use clips of Trump promoting unproven treatments or saying he would wear a mask if he thought it was important.
“We would never put that on TV,” Schwerin said.
The Democratic National Committee has been sending out tweets and releases to combat Trump’s daily briefings. The organization also has a research team of about 30 people compiling clips of Trump and other administration officials to repackage later in the year.
Aware of the potential sensitivity in messaging, a DNC spokesman said the organization would avoid citing the number of deaths in criticizing Trump.
A CALIBRATED MESSAGE
Biden, too, has been careful in his language. After Democratic House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump’s coronavirus response “deadly,” Biden demurred when asked on CNN a week ago whether the Republican president should be blamed for American deaths.
“President Trump is not responsible for the coronavirus, but he is responsible for using all the power at his disposal to be able to deal with this virus,” the former vice president said.
The campaign’s advertising reflects the same balancing act. In one video airing on Facebook and Instagram in battleground states, Biden does not mention Trump by name. Instead, he notes that doctors and nurses lack medical supplies and promises never to leave them unprotected as president.
“There is a balance to strike, but I think we have been doing it effectively,” said T.J. Ducklo, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign.
Biden has maintained a 6-point lead over Trump among registered voters in recent weeks, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. But he has struggled to break into television news coverage, reduced to conducting interviews from his basement recreation room since the pandemic halted all in-person campaigning.
Unlike some Democratic governors, such as California’s Gavin Newsom and New York’s Andrew Cuomo, who have seen their approval ratings soar as they confront their states’ outbreaks, the out-of-office Biden can only outline what he would do if he were in a position of power.
For some Democrats, Trump’s constant TV appearances have conjured up memories of 2016, when his unorthodox campaign enjoyed ubiquitous coverage.
Trump’s current campaign has also put its formidable digital advertising machine to work, with traditional events such as rallies on hold.
“The president obviously has a huge advantage,” said Tara McGowan, the founder of the progressive digital group Acronym. “He has a massive campaign war chest, and he has a captive national audience with his bully pulpit.”
Despite Trump’s penchant for attacking Democrats during briefings, Trump campaign spokeswoman Erin Perrine said the president was focused on helping Americans, not scoring political points.
“This crisis is hitting Americans – not Democrats or Republicans,” she said. “To try and politicize this crisis in terms of the election is ludicrous.”
A recent Priorities USA ad that aired the president’s comments downplaying the outbreak over a chart of rising U.S. cases drew the ire of the Trump campaign, which sent “cease-and-
desist” demands to television stations arguing the commercial falsely suggested he called the outbreak a “hoax.”
Trump has said he was referring to Democratic attempts to politicize the disease when he used the word “hoax.”
The percentage of Americans who approved of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus rose to 49% by the end of March from 40% at the beginning of that month, but has since fallen back to 42%, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.
Trump’s efforts to control the narrative surrounding the coronavirus will be more difficult than for previous crises that subsumed his administration, such as the Russia investigation or impeachment, said Tyler Law, a veteran Democratic strategist.
“This is a combination of a public health crisis and an economic crisis,” he said. “These are the two things that help drive voter behavior the most.”
(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt in New York, Elizabeth Culliford in Birmingham, England, and Joseph Ax in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Peter Cooney)
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MERRY CHRISTMAS, CLUE CREW!!!
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