Julia and Eliza finally confront the question: is Ronald Reagan responsible for all the world's evils? To investigate, the girlies delve into Reaganomics, the groundbreaking idea to give rich people more money, and trace how its legacy has trickled down into the capitalist swamp we all wade through today. The girlies also examine Reagan's abysmal impact on human life including his murderously indifferent AIDS response, his systematic defunding of welfare, his IDGAF environmental policies, and many other evils. Digressions include Eliza's upcoming consultation with a pet psychic, Australians getting mad at vowels, and a callback to Nancy the throat goat.

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This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette.

ADDITIONAL READINGS

Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan's Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon

Killing Asylum: How Decades of U.S. Policy Ravaged Central America

Ronald Reagan Made Central America a Killing Field

The Cold War 's Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets and Central America

THE IRAN-CONTRA REPORT: Chronology; After 13 Years of Hide-and-Seek, a Bitter Chapter of U.S. History Ends

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The war on drugs, explained

When Oliver North avoided prison time for his role in the Iran-contra scandal

You're Wrong About Podcast: Iran-Contra

SOURCES

A Timeline of HIV and AIDS

A troublesome legacy: The Reagan Administration's conservation and renewable energy policy

A Snapshot of Federal Student Loan Debt

Actor's Illness Helped Reagan To Grasp AIDS, Doctor Says

Aid To Dependent Children: The Legal History

Conservative Transition in American Social Policy

Decades of Distortion: The Right's 30-year Assault on Welfare

FAIRNESS OF REAGAN'S CUTOFFS OF DISABILITY AID QUESTIONED

How Ronald Reagan's Time at General Electric Pushed Him to Conservatism

How Ronald Reagan Tried to Shrink Government Spending

Looking Back On When President Reagan Fired The Air Traffic Controllers

Presidential Approval Ratings — Gallup Historical Statistics and Trends

Proposed cuts to public housing threaten a repeat of the 1980s' housing crisis

Reaganomics and the Welfare State

Reagan Administration's Chilling Response to the AIDS Crisis

Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill

REAGAN DEFENDS FINANCING FOR AIDS

Reagan, Deregulation and America's Exceptional Rise in Health Care Costs

Reagan Order Defines Drug Trade as Security Threat, Widens Military Role

Reagan Was a Disaster for the Labor Movement. A Second Trump Term Could Be Worse.

Republicans view Reagan, Trump as best recent presidents

Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Declining Union Organization

Ronald Reagan From the People's Perspective: A Gallup Poll Review

Ronald Reagan Has Shaped U.S. Labor Law for Decades

Ronald Reagan's Legacy: The Rise of Student Loan Debt in America

Ronald Reagan: Life Before the Presidency

Ronald Reagan on economics and political parties, 1962

Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness

The ideas in Project 2025? Reagan tried them, and the nation suffered

The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat"

The Reagan Administration's Budget Cuts: Their Impact on the Poor

'The Reagans': TV Review.

The Shadow of Ronald Reagan Is Costing Us Dearly

The Welfare Queen

Who Is Receiving Social Safety Net Benefits?

Will History Repeat Itself? Like Reagan's Repeal of Carter's Achievements in Advancing Solar Energy, Will Trump Kill Biden's?.

Why Are Workers Struggling? Because Labor Law Is Broken