AUDIO REVIEW: 'What Would Reagan Do' By Chris Christie.
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🗓️ 18 February 2024
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So this week, I read – in addition to everything else in the news – Chris Christie’s book, What Would Reagan Do, and my review is as follows.
I think only Chris Christie could possibly achieve something like this. I think only Chris Christie could make Ronald Reagan look like a weak, feminine, moderate, pale-pastel-wearing pansy while not adding anything to the lore, the underlying epistemological foundation of Reagan’s legacy—just zero.
He may as well have been reading from Wikipedia. Maybe he was. And then he just regurgitated that in his own words. I mean, perhaps he was. Because it was that stilted, it has very little flow. It was jarring. It was all sorts of things, you know, “Ronald Reagan was an actor… Ronald Reagan was the president during the Challenger disaster…” A little cut and paste. Tidbits, anecdotes. They’ve appeared elsewhere.
Only Chris Christie could’ve made Reagan both a dislikable figure, especially in the book’s epilogue where he goes, “Oh, well, of course, you know, Reagan got amnesty done, and that’s what Trump should have been doing.” I’m pretty sure that’s one of the things that people disliked about Ronald Reagan. His positive legacy is not amnesty.
I mean, how disrespectful of fatboy Christie in the first instance. Not just only Chris Christie from a technical prowess perspective of making anything he seems to endorse look like utter shite. But only Chris Christie, in the sense that I don’t think anybody else would have had the kind of top-tier grifter mentality even to attempt those philosophical gymnastics. It’s the only form of gymnastics I suspect Chris Christie will ever do.
That is my review of Chris Christie’s book that came out last week. It is a 1 out of 10. It would have been a zero out of 10, but it allowed me to be funny on a pseudo-podcast with you for four minutes.
So. It gets 1/10 for what it created in its wake rather than what it was for itself. Don’t buy it.
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| 0:00.0 | So this week I read in addition to everything else in the news I read Chris Christie's book |
| 0:17.0 | What Would Reagan do? And my review of it is as follows. I think only Chris Christie, only Chris |
| 0:28.7 | Christie, the only person I can think of that could possibly achieve something like this. I think only |
| 0:38.6 | Chris Christie could make Ronald Reagan look like a weak, effeminate, moderate, pale pastel wearing pansy, |
| 0:55.0 | while really not adding anything to the law, |
| 1:03.8 | L. O. R. E, the history, the underlying |
| 1:10.6 | epistemological foundation of Reagan's legacy, just zero. |
| 1:18.0 | He may as well have been reading, and he was from Wikipedia and then just |
| 1:27.2 | regurgitating that in his own words I mean seriously maybe he was because |
| 1:32.1 | it was it was it was it was it was like that it was stilted it was very little |
| 1:37.8 | flow it was jarring it was all sort of things you know anyway, Ronald Reagan was an actor, you know, Ronald Reagan was the president |
| 1:46.7 | during the challenger, decided, you know, little cut and paste tidbits, anecdotes that have appeared elsewhere. |
| 1:55.0 | Just, you know, I think only Chris Christie could have made Reagan both, you know, a |
| 2:03.7 | dislikeable figure, especially in the epilogue of the book |
| 2:07.6 | where he sort of goes, and, you know, well, of course, |
| 2:10.8 | you know, Reagan got amnesty done, and that's what Trump should have been doing |
| 2:14.5 | mmm pretty sure that's one of the things that people disliked about Ronald Reagan not |
| 2:19.6 | not that his legacy is amnesty I mean how disrespectful |
| 2:25.9 | from fat boy Christie in the first instance |
| 2:29.5 | But you know not just only Chris Christie from a technical prowess perspective of making |
| 2:37.2 | anything he seems to endorse look like utter shite, but only Chris Christie in the sense that I don't think anybody else would have had the kind of top-tier |
| 2:50.7 | grifter mentality. |
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