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There are things about it that seem crazy.
And I don't even think this is a controversial thing to say.
I think this is just like fact at this point that it was the Reagan administration who did traffic in cocaine to the United States of America while they were ramping up the war on drugs.
So like they're bringing in in their effort to help the Contras or whatever.
They're going like, OK, well, these guys are drug dealers.
So if we move these drugs in, we can get these money shipments to them.
And then you're sitting in there.
creating the conditions for the crack epidemic to explode.
And then they catch one guy with a few rocks on him and they're throwing him in jail for decades.
It's like just that alone, just that one piece of information, you'd almost, if you're like in a sane world, you'd go like, oh, so the people had a revolution and overthrew that government and publicly hung all the politicians involved and then we started over from new.
And you're like, no, no, they lionized that guy.
But still for decades afterwards, the Republicans at the RNC, you bring up Reagan and they go, our hero, Ronald Reagan.
Like the fact that that isn't enough to go, well, this guy should be remembered like as a monster.
He was the head of the CIA.