Toon: The World According to Ronald Reagan

[alp227]

Found this from Liberal Values Blog. It's a 1982 cartoon by Pulitzer-winning Seattle Post-Intelligencer cartoonist David Horsey.

[Kurovski]

1. Kangaroos!

:rofl: Horsey, you bastard, marry me!!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

2. Love it!

And pretty damn accurate too!

[Capitalocracy]

3. Look at the size of the Falklands!

(or by their proper name, the Malvinas).

Injuns.

[Odin2005]

20. The people that live there call it the Falklands.

:eyes:

[Capitalocracy]

23. you mean the people that stole it?

;)

[Odin2005]

25. The people who first settled it.

:)

[madokie]

4. Thats exactly right too

[xchrom]

5. hysterical! nt

[MadHound]

6. I remember that cartoon,

A nice blast from the past.

[nxylas]

7. Africa is interesting

What does labelling most of North Africa as "Egypt" refer to? I was curious to see a nearly 30-year-old cartoon apparently referring to current events in this way.

[underpants]

22. It means he (they) don't care about anything in Africa other than Egypt

actually Reagan and Cheney (then in the House) and the YAFFi's and Young Republicans thought that Apartheid was a great economic system.....and didn't care about how it came to be or what it meant.

[DCKit]

8. The female with the apple pie looks strangely familiar.

Horsey saw the future and we weren't smart enough to be terrified.

[Kurovski]

18. The schoolmarm is Sassy Crackpot Sarah P's model.

Authoritarian female that Tighty-righties aren't afraid of or threatened by.

[alp227]

34. should've been drawn next to Alaska n/t

[Enthusiast]

9. I remember it!

Excellent. It approximates the actual thinking of Saint Ronnie.

[liberalhistorian]

10. OMG, I used to have a poster of this

up on my wall back in college at that time! I haven't seen this in years, but it's still perfect, lol!

And I had a lot of interesting conversations with fellow dorm dwellers and students about it as well. At that time, you could actually have a real, spirited, but civil and respectful, debate without the "us vs. them, if you disagree with me, you're automatically wrong and I don't wanna hear it anymore, insert name-calling here" type of shit that passes for "exchange of views" nowadays. From both sides a lot of the time.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. he forgot (*Shown actual size) on Palestine.

[russspeakeasy]

12. Perfect !!!!

[Arugula Latte]

13. It's so weird to think Calfornia used to be quite Republican.

Suck on it, Republicans.

[xxqqqzme]

19. And the enclaves of rethuglicans

still vote for (and re-elect) the looniest of the crazy caucus(rohrabacher, royce, gary miller, duncan hunter, ken calvert, dan lungren, dan mcclintock, issa).

[etherealtruth]

14. K&R .... this is great!

[Blue_Tires]

15. awesome!

[mdmc]

16. ..

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[CrispyQ]

17. A kick for Horsey - one of the best!

Their China - Our China :rofl:

[Odin2005]

21. LOL!

[LeftishBrit]

24. ROFL and cry at 'Thatcherland'!

[rpannier]

26. I remember that cartoon

I was at Washington State University when it was printed

[ladym55]

27. Wow ...

Lots of current Amurikans still see the world this way, especially the ones who live in the land of "Republicans and Other Real Americans." Only thing missing is Republicans and other GOD-FEARING Real Americans."

[Canuckistanian]

28. So true

In his tortured mind, THIS was reality.

K&R

[4dsc]

29. Rightie doesn't like this toon..

[PinkFloyd]

30. I'm not defending Regan but...

Does anyone else ever feel like the far right wing tries to pain Regan way farther to the right than he really is...same with Eisenhower? It's like they resort to picking guys in their party who were somewhat popular but now dead and stick words in their mouths because they know someone like Regan can't dispute it (being dead and all).

The only living person they want to hold up is Palin...but most people don't like her except them. Even sadder is often I feel like someone puts words into her mouth and she's still alive, like she's the far-right's ventriloquist's dummy.

[VPStoltz]

31. Where did I read...?

The Reps actually have somewhat of a problem with this deifying of Rayguns.
He wasn't what they say he was and if they keep it up it will come back to the form of Democratic fact finding.

[liberation]

32. I haven't heard any modern day republican refer to Eisenhower ever

Raygun was really reactionary at the end of the day, honestly. Thus the massive hard right lovefest...

[upi402]

33. Ecotopia

is populated with loggers and conservative Christians.