Reminds me of the story of the Russian optimist: A pessimist says "Things couldn't be worse." An optimist says "Don't be crazy - things could be much worse!"
@Shorty_Lickens America did to a great extent need the economic reforms. Clinton and Reagan paved the way for the growth we saw in the late 80s to 90s. Sometimes you need an FDR, and sometimes you need a Reagan
@@robertlind186 Reagan said the cause of US economic problems was essentially spending; too much debt. In fact, it was the oil embargo and a global downturn, with high interest rates all around to keep currencies afloat. Reagan raised the deficit and debt he said he'd reduce, AND lowered taxes during boom times. The crash of 1987 happened on his watch because of his economic policies' failure; the late 80's and early 90's were marked by one of the worst recessions ever. Clinton said to the poor "I feel your pain", and added to it accordingly, although he did it to reduce the debt and deficit that led to the recession without raising taxes because that is political suicide in the USA, and there was a boom as a result, for the "haves". But really, from 1980 to 2008, and 2016 to 2020, was a race to the bottom. Obama and Biden are the only ones since Carter who actually tried to better the plight of the poor; Obama as well steered the economy out of Bush Jr.'s deregulated banking sector financial disaster, Biden steered it out of the Covid financial disaster.
Fear the man who seems a charismatic hero to the people cause he can blind them with good intentions and lead them to hell, in the dune novel a charismatIc hero is the very thing Liet Kynes the previous leader of the freemen feared. And frank Herbert the author even warns about charismatic leaders.
I know you posted this 4yrs ago, but so others know, with a little digging, you can find him sharing this and several other jokes, on several different occasions. Slightly different delivery for all his different jokes, but mostly the same... Very much delivered in a John Wayne style..
@@drewthompson7457 I wouldn't vote for that hair sniffing piece of sh1t if my life depended on it. May Biden burn in the hottest corner of hell for all eternity.
Cold war in nutshell: The American and the Soviet leader participate on the running race. After the race back home the Americans celebrate because their leader won and the Soviet leader lost. The Soviets celebrate because their leader won the silver medal and the Americans finished on the penultimate place.
Yep a true leader who sanctioned the cia to carry out smuggling of cocaine to buy weapons and overthrow a government of another country, typical United snakes always trying to impose themselves all over the world
You have never been able to just walk into the Kremlin as an ordinary Russian, but you COULD just walk into the White House some 110-120 years ago. And you could even do that in some European monarchies back then. Never in Russia though.
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to "drive out the foreign invaders." Years go by. First Russian: When will our troops come home? Second Russian: When all the foreign invaders have been driven out.
Best USA President in my lifetime, although Trump's resilience and ability to forge friendships with countries previously seen as a threat puts him a close second.
He was an actor but freshened up the politics. He was a govenor in california I think. ( I am from sweden ) Military liked him cause spending. But can anyone U.S. inform me if he did anything actual good to society then spread good vibes. Did he do anyting???????? ( edit: he should have cut taxes : from a engineer point of view that mathematically means other people had to pick up the slack )
Did he do anything good? He won reelection with one of the largest landslide victories in the history of US elections. His economic policies ended the era of stagflation thereby improving everyone's quality of life. Americans were better off because of Regan's policies than without them, and that includes his tax cuts. Unemployment went down, inflation went down, Americans' income went up by a lot. The problem with his tax cuts, along with pretty much all tax cuts, is that the government increases spending which creates bigger deficits. However, if you look at the history of tax cuts in the US, you'll see how government revenue increases after tax cuts but the increased revenue is lost due to increased spending.
The US economy under Reagan vastly improved from the mess it had been during the 1970's. There had also been problems with labor unions basically holding the economy hostage and he stopped that by playing hardball with them. Of all the presidents in my lifetime (I'm 56), Reagan was unquestionably the best and there's nobody else close. If pressed, I'd say the next best one was Clinton, but there's a big gap between him and Reagan.
@@GreatDarkSpot I was left wing as teenager but the older you grow you turn middle or right. From my roots unions are really really needed as LONG as they are competent in national economics. In Sweden we have a bit above sort of strong unions and they "play ball" ..... if there ever is a strike in Sweden you KNOW something is unhinged. Mostly the parties just talk. Coffee and cinnamon buns. It is very calm in Sweden cause they all work together, being competent.
One thing that stands in my mind, having lived through the 1980s, was the genuine threat of nuclear war, and how close we were to accidentally setting off a chain reaction of nuclear ballistic missles at each other to cause humanity and every living thing, to be vaporized. There were so many nuclear weapons between the US and USSR, that the world could be wipped out, several times over.. Reagan frequent meetings with Gorbechov (who he joked with in the video), helped create a treaty where both sides dismantled their nuclear weapons, and help bring some peace to many years of stressful times. Сайда Губа in Russia near Sweden, is where >40 nuclear sections were cut from old Soviet submarines, are laid to hibernate.. A result of the Reagan time period. That Northern section of Russia, near Finland, used to hold many underground ballistic missle launch sites. You can find many of them if you look around. The fall of the Berlin wall also happened during Reagans time. I have family from Poland, and it was also during Reagans time that they were able to declare independence from communism and USSR control. Poland, like LIthuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine, after being free from communisim will never accept it again. The lives of my family have changed for the better, in Poland, because of Reagan. Like most people, Reagan was no saint, and many things I didn't agree with, but weighing the good and bad, I still feel like he's the best president the USA has had since WW2.
Ironically, if Reagan were around now the GOP wouldn't listen to a thing he said because he believed in gun control and didn't like government overreach. Reagan and Jesus are MUCH too liberal for the modern right.
True, Trump's party is really nothing like Reagan's party. Just try to imagine Reagan here, saying he would "encourage" Russia to "do whatever the hell they want" to a Nato ally country.
عن أبي هريرة - رضي الله عنه - قال: قال رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم -: (كلمتان خفيفتان على اللسان، ثقيلتان في الميزان، حبيبتان إلى الرحمن: سبحان الله وبحمده، سبحان الله العظيم)؛ متفق عليه.
Here's one: Someone asks Stalin about democracy and he answers: "I always thought that democracy is the rule of people. But comrade Roosevelt made it very clear that democracy is the rule of american people"
Q: "Can you imagine Biden trying to tell that joke" A: "Easy, absolutely easy, no problem at all!" Q: "Without notes or teleprompter?" A: "Then ... no, sadly."
Here's a better one: the American said, I can go and tell the President to f... off; the Russian replied, yeah? Well, I can't do that; but I can go to my boss and tell him to f... off.
So clever to make this narrative during the Cold War- and to tell the jokes so well. When being a Republican didn’t involve embracing lunatic dishonesty and a pose of religious extremism...
Reagan did seem to like to tell jokes. I've seen a few of his speeches with jokes in them. And although he was a crook (remember Oliver North?) he was funny with it.
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Reminds me of the story of the Russian optimist:
A pessimist says "Things couldn't be worse."
An optimist says "Don't be crazy - things could be much worse!"
And the optimist is right it can always get worse
Hi from Russia.
Optimist study English
Pessimist study Chinese
Realist study AK74
In Romania this joke sounded like this:
The pessimist says: it's bad, bad, it cannot get any worse.
The optimist: yes, it can, yes it can.
The newer would be "We thought we hit rock-bottom but then we heard someone knocking from below."
Now, this joke isn't a joke for all western countries.
Like him or hate him, Reagan could deliver a punchline well.
He was an actor. It was kind of his main thing.
Hate him. He's the main reason America went completely to shit.
And of course he got away with it.
Cuz he could deliver a punchline.
@Shorty_Lickens America did to a great extent need the economic reforms. Clinton and Reagan paved the way for the growth we saw in the late 80s to 90s.
Sometimes you need an FDR, and sometimes you need a Reagan
@@robertlind186 Reagan said the cause of US economic problems was essentially spending; too much debt. In fact, it was the oil embargo and a global downturn, with high interest rates all around to keep currencies afloat. Reagan raised the deficit and debt he said he'd reduce, AND lowered taxes during boom times. The crash of 1987 happened on his watch because of his economic policies' failure; the late 80's and early 90's were marked by one of the worst recessions ever. Clinton said to the poor "I feel your pain", and added to it accordingly, although he did it to reduce the debt and deficit that led to the recession without raising taxes because that is political suicide in the USA, and there was a boom as a result, for the "haves". But really, from 1980 to 2008, and 2016 to 2020, was a race to the bottom. Obama and Biden are the only ones since Carter who actually tried to better the plight of the poor; Obama as well steered the economy out of Bush Jr.'s deregulated banking sector financial disaster, Biden steered it out of the Covid financial disaster.
Fear the man who seems a charismatic hero to the people cause he can blind them with good intentions and lead them to hell, in the dune novel a charismatIc hero is the very thing Liet Kynes the previous leader of the freemen feared. And frank Herbert the author even warns about charismatic leaders.
Bro was old AF but still didn't stare at the audience like a fish that died confused.
But we finally beat Medicare!
And now he's looking at his place in he'll fire.
Hes in heaven lady. Along with Thatcher and bush 😊@@auntiesemite9295
@@capri2673 you know, the thing.
Are you with him?@@auntiesemite9295
Now the same joke can be used for China.
....and again for russia
And the us when democrats run the White House
True haha
Bold you assume that you can freely enter presidential palace without getting shot
And it would be true because no one likes how Biden is running the country.
I love how proud he looks when he is done telling the joke. Thank you I had been looking for this for a bit I couldn't find it.
I know you posted this 4yrs ago, but so others know, with a little digging, you can find him sharing this and several other jokes, on several different occasions. Slightly different delivery for all his different jokes, but mostly the same...
Very much delivered in a John Wayne style..
Ron was the last US President that understood Russia - most likely the last to make an effort to do so. Kudos!
Fact is ... neither of them could walk into their president's office at any time
Except americans could. Twice.
@@Marshal_Longarm
Yeah we see how well that ended
In the US the media will call that an "insurrection" and cry about it for years.
Yes, they can; in their dreams.
because it was. Made you look like some banana-republic.@@DevinDTV
Back when the President could laugh at himself.
Back when a President could remember a whole joke.
How's this "at himself"? It's a self-flattering joke.
@@DevinDTV How is this self flattering? Its about a man who comes to him complaining about the poor job he has done! Epic fail.
The entire world laughs at Trump. Things progress.
Reagan was a good bloke and highly underrated.👍
I miss this man.
actually for the first time I can see this without censorship and in the language I finally understand and speak fluently. he was a great president.
Nope
I get the impression that Gorbachev was a decent as a man could be and still rise through the Soviet government.
Gorbachev was also the man who decided to invade Latvia in 1991 when it declared independence.
@@jennysue601 ReagAn: Lybia, Iran, Lebanon, Grenada... so... no better, no worse.
I really like this joke
Ye, good one
😂😂😂 That was actually quite funny
That was pretty good 😅😅
He's got a lot of good ones...
The big difference between capitalism and communism is that under capitalism man exploits man but in communism its the other way around
Soviet joke.
Capitalism is the economic byproduct of respecting individual rights. In Communism there are no individual rights.
In communism the state exploits the man.
Wow
@@gordonfreeman1894yes
I miss Reagan.
but now you have an orange pig to worship.
cult clown
Brilliant!!
Always enjoyed listening to Ronald.
Life is getting better! Today is better than tomorrow and yesterday is better than today!
No
@@rovhalt6650 Didn't get the joke, huh? 🙄
@@larryroyovitz7829 im too bitter and disappointed to understand jokes
Remember when America had a REAL president?
It wasn't this senile fool.
I miss obama, he was rad
@@ianimations1656 -- You mis-spelled 'red' (as in far Left).
I can remember when it didn’t!
@@gregb6469 had no idea the sides had colors. I’m assuming the right is blue then
Ha ha that’s funny 😄🤪😂
Bellissima
I love this joke. Thanks mr president
@Mrfairchapthanks captain obvious
To update the story, add "no joke."
I bet Americans would love to have him as president now.
nice joke lol
Ronnie is the one who got suckered into giving 3,000,000 illegals amnesty.
@@sir_funk1271Yes
We would
americans loves clowns
1981 was when I first started to care about politics. every body loved president Reagan.
Im proud to say "I voted for him"
Which state were you in at the time?
@@CountFisco A drug addled one, I'm guessing.
@@RS-xx9ve: says the guy who voted for Biden.
@@drewthompson7457 I wouldn't vote for that hair sniffing piece of sh1t if my life depended on it. May Biden burn in the hottest corner of hell for all eternity.
@@RS-xx9ve Reagan won by a massive landslide, so the proper response is more "yeah duh, everyone voted for Reagan."
Were the interest rates for home mortgages in double digits during reagen times ?
I love Reagan and his sense of humor, I hope all president and future president of USA can get something like humor of Reagan.
For me from Spain the best president of the USA.
Cold war in nutshell:
The American and the Soviet leader participate on the running race. After the race back home the Americans celebrate because their leader won and the Soviet leader lost. The Soviets celebrate because their leader won the silver medal and the Americans finished on the penultimate place.
This joke is actually based on british magazines commenting Amundsen and Scott competition :)
The reality is you can't walk into the oval office and pound on the desk. So theres that
You could before Lincoln’s assassination.
@@marktester5799 no relevance
Very good joke. Made me laugh
Thanks Rorschach
Now that dude right there can read a teleprompter.
By far the best, most effective and decent US President - EVER.
And the conclusion was: The general secretary tells that Russian ''very well comrade, come back any time you want''.
Reagan was a true leader, the right person to lead a super power like US. We lack such a person today
He was a corporate puppet. And plenty of his type are still around today.
@@robtk3: at least Regan went senile after leaving the Whitehouse.
Yep a true leader who sanctioned the cia to carry out smuggling of cocaine to buy weapons and overthrow a government of another country, typical United snakes always trying to impose themselves all over the world
@@drewthompson7457 Why you gotta drag Trump into this?
@@morganarutsatz6736 : you spell Trump with R-E-G-A-N?
Try doing tha nowadays in the US!
Today you'd probably have a better chance to do this in the Kremlin and get away with it than to even get into the White House.
You have never been able to just walk into the Kremlin as an ordinary Russian, but you COULD just walk into the White House some 110-120 years ago. And you could even do that in some European monarchies back then. Never in Russia though.
@@beatekreuzer5025Don't be stupid Putin is a paranoid madman - just look at the videos of him with his generals at the end of 20 meter table.
@@francisdec1615The America of 1900 is so far from today that it might as well be a foreign country…
@@BeyondAldebaran America today is so flooded with illegal immigrants that even compared to 5 years ago it's a foreign country.
Great man.
We know that americans never make fun of anyone, especially of their country.
No we only make fun of people from your country shorty
I want a new version of this joke so that the conversation takes place between Gershkovich and Assange
Эта шутка всё ещё жива в России!
😂😂😂
Yra! This joke only shows who is in control.
Best USA president of all times 😊
Good one.
🤣😂🤣😂
Brill
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to "drive out the foreign invaders."
Years go by.
First Russian: When will our troops come home?
Second Russian: When all the foreign invaders have been driven out.
Rofl
I said 5years ago
Ex California Governor , may 1986😢2A
Kind of ironic in 2024 - ha ha ha. Actor as a president - it should tell you something then.
I miss Ronnie
I'm neither American nor Russian
Then in usa laughed. Now in Russian all peoples laughing about American freedoms.
Just look at Mr Reagan.had a Really good sense of humour. Now look at biden.
To avoid nausea I avoid that
Ya no quedan políticos como el!
Best USA President in my lifetime, although Trump's resilience and ability to forge friendships with countries previously seen as a threat puts him a close second.
You have got to be kidding😊
This guy was so successful at connecting with people.
It perfectly plays out even in india
Which part?
Whole of it
A time when Democrats and Republicans were friends.......
Fastforward in 2025:
- A man is a man and... Ouch! Why are you arresting me?
That doesn’t happen unless someone directly threatens their life.
@@2024Blue.boy are you naive
@@barblacy619 no one is getting arrested over saying a man is a man. The hell??😂😂
He was an actor but freshened up the politics.
He was a govenor in california I think.
( I am from sweden )
Military liked him cause spending.
But can anyone U.S. inform me if he did anything actual good to society then spread good vibes. Did he do anyting????????
( edit: he should have cut taxes : from a engineer point of view that mathematically means other people had to pick up the slack )
Did he do anything good? He won reelection with one of the largest landslide victories in the history of US elections. His economic policies ended the era of stagflation thereby improving everyone's quality of life. Americans were better off because of Regan's policies than without them, and that includes his tax cuts. Unemployment went down, inflation went down, Americans' income went up by a lot. The problem with his tax cuts, along with pretty much all tax cuts, is that the government increases spending which creates bigger deficits. However, if you look at the history of tax cuts in the US, you'll see how government revenue increases after tax cuts but the increased revenue is lost due to increased spending.
The US economy under Reagan vastly improved from the mess it had been during the 1970's. There had also been problems with labor unions basically holding the economy hostage and he stopped that by playing hardball with them. Of all the presidents in my lifetime (I'm 56), Reagan was unquestionably the best and there's nobody else close. If pressed, I'd say the next best one was Clinton, but there's a big gap between him and Reagan.
@@GreatDarkSpot I was left wing as teenager but the older you grow you turn middle or right. From my roots unions are really really needed as LONG as they are competent in national economics.
In Sweden we have a bit above sort of strong unions and they "play ball" ..... if there ever is a strike in Sweden you KNOW something is unhinged. Mostly the parties just talk. Coffee and cinnamon buns. It is very calm in Sweden cause they all work together, being competent.
One thing that stands in my mind, having lived through the 1980s,
was the genuine threat of nuclear war, and how close we were to accidentally setting off a chain reaction of nuclear ballistic missles at each other to cause humanity and every living thing, to be vaporized.
There were so many nuclear weapons between the US and USSR, that the world could be wipped out, several times over..
Reagan frequent meetings with Gorbechov (who he joked with in the video), helped create a treaty where both sides dismantled their nuclear weapons, and help bring some peace to many years of stressful times. Сайда Губа in Russia near Sweden, is where >40 nuclear sections were cut from old Soviet submarines, are laid to hibernate..
A result of the Reagan time period. That Northern section of Russia, near Finland, used to hold many underground ballistic missle launch sites. You can find many of them if you look around.
The fall of the Berlin wall also happened during Reagans time.
I have family from Poland, and it was also during Reagans time that they were able to declare independence from communism and USSR control.
Poland, like LIthuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine, after being free from communisim will never accept it again.
The lives of my family have changed for the better, in Poland, because of Reagan.
Like most people, Reagan was no saint, and many things I didn't agree with, but weighing the good and bad, I still feel like he's the best president the USA has had since WW2.
He was a drug smuggler
Хорошая шутка должна разойтись по всей стране от Калининграда до Магадана.
Вместе с её автором
Back when the Republican Party didn’t cozy up to Russia.
Reagan and Gorby got a long great.
Moronic nonsense. That fictional accusation has been thoroughly traced to its genesis.
The Cold War and the USSR are over.
@@brianmatthews4323so is Trump
You can't do that in the US.
OMELGROTFLMAO!!!!!
Reagan was such a ROCK STAR compared to the angry, senile old man we have now……..☹
Ironically, if Reagan were around now the GOP wouldn't listen to a thing he said because he believed in gun control and didn't like government overreach. Reagan and Jesus are MUCH too liberal for the modern right.
True, Trump's party is really nothing like Reagan's party. Just try to imagine Reagan here, saying he would "encourage" Russia to "do whatever the hell they want" to a Nato ally country.
Ron would kick Trump off a stage if he tried to come near him.
Americans should try their free speech thing by critisizing Aipac or Isreal.
People do everyday. That whine is played out long ago.
Go away.
@@MC-xt6xf
Ha... Did I scare you?
Shove it up your ass, terrorist lover
عن أبي هريرة - رضي الله عنه - قال: قال رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم -: (كلمتان خفيفتان على اللسان، ثقيلتان في الميزان، حبيبتان إلى الرحمن: سبحان الله وبحمده، سبحان الله العظيم)؛ متفق عليه.
ي المان إلم -: (كننننن فيمتفمتفمتف ة ة ة
Hooww wowwoowwowow o wowow oo luulu uoowwowlooiwlwiuiu woof, woof, also bark, bark!
Well... I guess...
Muslims are so annoying
Jesus Christ is Lord
That he'd be back archives lol
the U.S.A. has gone downhill since Reagan's day
Thanks in no small part to Reagan.
@@mkhedart0mt0avari: Regan ended the Cold War. Too bad other presidents had to start it up again.
Even much Truer today with Putin than with Mr Gorbachev
I think it's more true with China, than with Russia or the Soviet Union.
Nonsense. Russia is much more free today than at any point during the USSR.
@@QualityPen You are an idiot.
Where the hell is the Gipper when we need him?
We need another Ron right now. No disrespect to Joe but he's no Ron! As for the other fellow.........😢
I miss this guy. He used to show arab countries their place
We had a president then.
Screwed us on Social security benefits.
No, that would be yourselves and your greed through debasing your responsibility on the U$D as the Bretton Woods reserve currency.
It would be interesting if you could walk into the Oval office for such a reason.
Would require a country with very little fear.
Maybe it happened during President Andrew Jackson's big block of cheese day.
Several hundredJanuary 6th demonstrators have entered the chat.
American tankies unironically believe the Soviet system is better.
No, the irony is in that either way it makes no difference.
Kinda predictable, but funny
I'd like to hear some old Soviet or Chinese jokes about the US.
Here's one - Why doesn't Russia or China have to build a wall to keep people from trying to get in. Because nobody is trying to get in.
Here's one:
Someone asks Stalin about democracy and he answers: "I always thought that democracy is the rule of people. But comrade Roosevelt made it very clear that democracy is the rule of american people"
Dear Lord above I miss the Gipper!
And the other side was never capable of making jokes about Reagan.... Typical commandeconomy..
Confirm, this's pretty famous joke, even nowadays in Russia
Really we saw that on Jan 6th
Democrats for you. Try to focus and maybe you can contribute something.
We will never again be blessed with a President like Ronald Reagan.
Can you imagine Biden trying to tell that joke 😂
Why do you idiots always turn onto Biden when you had a joker like trump for president? The world is laughing at you lot.
Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Can you imagine Biden trying to tell any joke !!! LOL
Would require coherent speaking... we haven't had that since 2015
Q: "Can you imagine Biden trying to tell that joke"
A: "Easy, absolutely easy, no problem at all!"
Q: "Without notes or teleprompter?"
A: "Then ... no, sadly."
American tells a joke.
In conclusion: american wins.
Beta
President Reagan had a great sense of humor
Here's a better one: the American said, I can go and tell the President to f... off; the Russian replied, yeah? Well, I can't do that; but I can go to my boss and tell him to f... off.
Ronald Regan was a great President and a good man
How many people went to jail after Jan 6? 500? Things change…
Back when our (alleged) president could speak.
That joke would take Joe Biden two hours to get out and he'd still screw up the punch line.
Funny joke. Flawed premise though.
Americans did bang on the desk in the office, now they’re trying to lock up Trumpy!
So clever to make this narrative during the Cold War- and to tell the jokes so well. When being a Republican didn’t involve embracing lunatic dishonesty and a pose of religious extremism...
Reagan did seem to like to tell jokes. I've seen a few of his speeches with jokes in them. And although he was a crook (remember Oliver North?) he was funny with it.
Happy times back then, when the KGB had someone to answer to.