It’s nice to be reminded that we weren’t always like this. Even in the dying years of the Cold War a shell-backed conservative like Ronald Reagan could get through to the godless commies on matters of global importance. The threat from aliens. From The Smithsonian Magazine November 25, 2015
Gorb: "um . . . .sure comrade. We have your back, we will not sit back to see what the outcome is going to be before committing our extensive military resources . . .to um . . . how do you say? 'aid' . . . you"
Reagan: "would you come to the aid of the US?"
Gorb: "um . . . .sure comrade. We have your back, we will not sit back to see what the outcome is going to be before committing our extensive military resources . . .to um . . . how do you say? 'aid' . . . you"
And now we have a mumbling stumbling nitwit who can’t spell UFO. That’s on a good day if he can stay awake
They communicate by flapping their [meat|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27re_Made_Out_of_Meat] at each other.
So Ronnie was a fuckwit...got it.
And yet from the perspective of the Trump era we look back fondly at a time when an incompetent President was only mildly a fuckwit.