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Eh, we had Reagan and Schwarzenegger and others before too

• wqaatwt 2y ago
  They put in some effort to not behave like clowns after getting elected, though
  • zimpenfish 2y ago
    Schwarzenegger, maybe, but Reagan? The man was a horror show as president.
    • wqaatwt 2y ago
      Not sure, I’m a bit too young but the standards seem to have been much higher back in those days. Reagan’s [public] behavior would still be pretty tame nowadays. Of course broadcasting your deranged random thoughts to the whole world in the middle of the night wasn’t really and option and listening to Nixon’s tapes the way they behaved in private was well.. quite something. I don’t even believe that Nixon was especially egregious either he just decided to record everything anyone said in his office due to whatever reasons. And then you had career politicians like Johnson who might have been even more vulgar than Trump..
      • zimpenfish 2y ago
        > Not sure, I’m a bit too young I, sadly, am not and he was a horror show. > but the standards seem to have been much higher back in those days. He was a service-cutting, union-busting, lunatic military hawk guided by Nancy's astrologer. Sure, he's not as overtly and in-your-face as bad as Trump (who could be?) but that doesn't preclude him being a horror show in and of himself.