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#43 Flag: rightnut bushlover2 afkabl2 STD displays his verbal vomit for all to see

20 minutes using google can catch most folks up with the real knowledge level on this place regarding Reagan.
#25 | Posted by eberly

They might get a cursory understanding of the facts.

But they will never, ever be able to grasp the spirit

They will never be able to accept that their Republican grandparents and idols didn't always hate immigrants.

Excerpted from Ronald Reagan's farewell address:

I've been thinking a bit at that window. I've been reflecting on what the past 8 years have meant and mean. And the image that comes to mind like a refrain is a nautical one -- a small story about a big ship, and a refugee, and a sailor. It was back in the early eighties, at the height of the boat people. And the sailor was hard at work on the carrier Midway, which was patrolling the South China Sea. The sailor, like most American servicemen, was young, smart, and fiercely observant. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat. And crammed inside were refugees from Indochina hoping to get to America. The Midway sent a small launch to bring them to the ship and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood up, and called out to him. He yelled, ``Hello, American sailor. Hello, freedom man.''

A small moment with a big meaning, a moment the sailor, who wrote it in a letter, couldn't get out of his mind. And, when I saw it, neither could I. Because that's what it was to be an American in the 1980's. We stood, again, for freedom. I know we always have, but in the past few years the world again -- and in a way, we ourselves -- rediscovered it.

www.reaganlibrary.gov

#14 Eb, please stop digging.

The rules here are no copy/paste the entire article as per the DMCA.

And you knew that, right ? ? ? ?

"You're suggesting he's referring to voters who didn't vote for Trump in 2024." = What the author referred to as the "Normals clubhouse".

I am still amazed that you don't/can't/will not understand that.

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