Weird History looks back at the year 1980

Although:

Ladies and gentlepeople, The Aristocrats! The Republican Party!

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I missed the start of 1980, only having been born in april…

Late to the party…

Ronald Reagan made the 80s.
My favorite quote:

“My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

August 11, 1984

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As a traumatized punk teen survivor of that decade (born 1970), I got something to say!

Reagan FUCKED US UP man

You know that thing where you visualize yourself 5, 10, 20 years in the future?

Yeah, all I ever saw was NUCLEAR WINTER.

GenX is hopelessly damaged. Seriously, there should’ve been studies.

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At least you got a good soundtrack out of it:

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I think we would have preferred not being traumatized…

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