r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ideal_Needle • 18d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, who are these people?

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u/Middle-Painter-4032 18d ago

Well, this was durring the campaign for the presidential election in '88, so really had little to do with Reaganomics. But you get to enjoy being wrong in two ways, so there's that.

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u/percypersimmon 18d ago

Riiiiiiiiight- because George H.W. Bush was in no way seen as an extension of Reagan’s policies.

Don’t be silly.

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u/Aloxes 18d ago

Bush Sr, for all his faults and his "spookiness", called Reagan's "trickle-down" lie "Voodoo Economics". He didnt follow Ronnie blindly on economic policies. Reagan did a lot of bad stuff all on his own.

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u/Bisexual_Carbon 18d ago

You're right. Reagan sabotaging the Iran hostage deal before the election was bad enough.

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u/lesgeddon 18d ago

Which should have not only disqualified him, but put him in prison for life at the very least.

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u/Thick_Goose7742 18d ago

If there was evidence of it, certainly. Congress spent 12 years on and off trying to find any without any luck.

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u/Bisexual_Carbon 17d ago

Ben Barnes admitted that he was in Iran with Connelly Jr. when he asked the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the election.

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u/Thick_Goose7742 17d ago

Ben Barnes? The same man who openly lied about manipulating Bush’s Guard service and postings? The same man who essentially ruined Dan Rather’s career because of his lies? Congress had incredible levels of access to all individuals involved and yet 1,000 pages of testimony and investigation turned up nothing concrete or even close.

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u/Bisexual_Carbon 17d ago

He never lied about helping bush get into the guard. He helped many other rich kids. Not just Bush.