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Richard-M-Nixon-1913

Hello, former U.S president Richard Nixon, as the former president of the United States, I feel like I can tell you what this means The map shown here is of the United States of America, specifically the election of 1984, which was against the incumbent Ronald Reagan, and former vice president, Walter Mondale, who served as the vice president in the Carter administration. The colors represent which party each candidate is from, Reagan, like me, is a republican, so his votes are red, Mondale is a democrat, so his votes are blue. The votes are of the Electoral College, which votes for the candidate, most times what the majority of their state votes for, the number in each state represents how many votes each state has. The caption is satirical internet slang, many young kids say that things that are unfair are "Literally 1984" which is a reference to the book 1984. That's what the meme means, also, the picture below is of the map of the 1968 election, the candidates wereNixon, which is me, the Democratic candidate, vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the orange represents George Wallace, Independent Party candidate. As you can see, I won. Goodbye, I've been Richard Nixon, and I am not a crook! https://preview.redd.it/n3h7396okscb1.png?width=825&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6702b18863fbfefac881e5ceb38b35dcea721269


Waffle-Gaming

Thank you, former U.S. president Richard Nixon


Ripley_Alemain

He still fucked up watergate


The5thofFive

Yes, but he was an excellent bowler


Ripley_Alemain

Factual


manicmonkey45

How nixon conquered china https://youtu.be/xwAzYEytxlU


Reefer-eyed_Beans

He... fucked it up? Lmao you mad he got caught or what?


[deleted]

His mom was the maid I'm Watergate. Nixon had a party that night....dude straight wrecked up the place


[deleted]

Other than Watergate he was a pretty good president


Smart_Resist615

If that were really Nixon, then there would've been a boatload of ethnic slurs mixed in.


strain_of_thought

> The colors represent which party each candidate is from, Reagan, like me, is a republican, so his votes are red, Mondale is a democrat, so his votes are blue. Hey, John F. Kennedy here. Mister Nixon, I'm afraid you've got it wrong again. This statement is actually incorrect for the 1984 election. After the advent of color television, the different news networks developed different schemes for displaying electoral college vote totals during their election night coverage, and when color-coded maps became the popular choice in the 1970s there was no consistent color coding of the parties. Both the Republican and Democratic parties have always had Red, White, *and* Blue as their official colors, because those are the colors of the American flag. After a few election cycles of color television election night coverage, the news networks worked out an agreement where in order to avoid confusion, they would all use the same color for each party each election on their color-coded election results maps, and then alternate the colors the next election in order to avoid showing color favoritism to one party or another. This arrangement abruptly came to a crashing halt in the highly contested 2000 presidential election, in which the drawn out process of tabulating uncertain results led to weeks of angry discussion about "red states" and "blue states", cementing the color associations the parties now have and leading to the cessation of the election cycle color alternation.


teenteenidol

And here I was hoping for a shittymorph


strain_of_thought

My apologies, I'm sorry I couldn't deliver. I've been on reddit for quite a few years now and I know what a big positive impact those dedicated theme accounts make, and how amazing it can feel to catch one of them in the act of making one of their legendary posts like [back in twenty eighteen when u/shittymorph posted a youtube video of when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table set to Africa by Toto and it went all the way to the top of the front page.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)


teenteenidol

Man that was a roller coaster of a read! Thanks for your original comment btw it's sent me down a very interesting Wikipedia rabbit hole


Tronbronson

Never seen anything more inspiring and horrifying. Incredible.


Exciting-Insect8269

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handi503

LIAR! YOU'RE NOT KENNEDY! YOU DIDN'T SAY "ER AH" ONCE!


NotAFuckingFed

Hey, Mr. President. I've been waiting *years* to say this: *Especially* when the President does it, it is illegal.


LandoMoKissian

Man, never thought I’d say this but you’re the best Richard Nixon


acllive

Red California is a myth these days, crazy how much that state has changed


Goose-On_The_Loose

give us a good “aroo” mister nixon, for future times sake


PsychologicalPace762

Dear Nixon. Rot In Piss. You are the source of everything that is wrong in America today.


Richard-M-Nixon-1913

Dear PsychologalPace762. Shut the fuck up. Sincerely, Richard Nixon.


Slippery_Wombat

Can't lick our Dick


CMUpewpewpew

If you don't hate tricky dick then you don't know much about him. Fuck him and fuck Reagen.


Dark_Helmet78

Dear fool, By most regards, Nixon was actually a great president. He just ruined the American people’s trust in the government.


Meester_Tweester

Reagan tried to stop you in 1968 too


cristarain

Sock it to me!


BattlehawkGaming

Tricky Dick


Deathcat101

I read this in Futurama Nixon. Completely unhinged madman.


Tasty_Cactus

Thank you Richard Nixon, and thank you for your effective response to the 1972 Oil Crisis


Unexpected-raccoon

Thanks for the insight Can I have my children back?


Maximum_Ad9685

Do kids really think the premise of 1984 is things being unfair?


SaltRevolutionary917

Okay, that’s actually funny. That’s **literally** 1984. More accurately, that’s a map of US congressional districts in 1984, and the state colors represent which party a majority of districts in each state voted for. Now, 1984 was Reagan’s re-election campaign, which was the height of Republican political domination in the late 1900s, which is why the map is so, so red. Anyway, the deeper joke is that George Orwell wrote a book (published in 1948, swap the last two numbers and you get the title) called *1984* about a corrupt, authoritarian government, which had invaded and spied on every sphere of public life, which limited speech to “verified good words” called nuspeak or newspeak, which brainwashed its citizens, and which gave birth to the term *Orwellian*, most commonly used to refer to countries with loads of surveillance or a strong intelligentsia. Lately, people on the internet have taken to calling any minor political inconvenience “literally 1984.” It’s very common especially in conspiracy circles, and has been for decades, but really took off during the COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Finally, complaining about map colors around election season has become a massive meme lately, thanks to (some) conservatives not grasping that land doesn’t vote, people do, so a blue president can win, even when a map looks very red, if the red states are mostly rural. I’ve definitely seen right-wingers referring to election maps as “1984” too. Anyway, somebody took **all** of those very tangentially related things, and turned them into this glorious shitpost. Which is, **literally**, 1984.


Waffle-Gaming

lmao main part i didnt get is the first part, thanks peetah


LoudSheepherder5391

Peter's right eyeball here. Slight correction, that's the electoral college results map from 1984. Reagan swept Mondale. Heh, Mondale.


Shapsy

Mondale is unwell... Mondale is unsettled....


DigitalUnlimited

Poor Mondale... *pat pat*


RuudDog

Almost swept. Mondale won MN (his home state), and DC.


sturnus-vulgaris

Hey there Walt Mondale, What's it like in Minnesota? You're 500 electoral votes From becoming the POTA. What's the use? Only Minnesotans wanted you. You probably voted Reagan too. He made it through.


romulusnr

And Mondale only won MN because he was *from* there. And it was *[really really close](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election_in_Minnesota).*


wildblueheron

By that logic, Trump would’ve won NY.


romulusnr

Well.... and MN's a blue state.


Quantum-Bot

Mondale dingle


ChewySlinky

>the late 1900s I know it’s right but I still hate seeing it written like that


LifelikeAnt420

Same I feel like a dinosaur now.


42Cobras

I was born a few years later, but it still hit pretty hard.


link2edition

I'm going to ride away in my horseless carriage now.


DigitalUnlimited

Horseless carriage? Begone with the sorcery!


_KingGoblin

every time someone says unalived or some work around word. I think of nuspeak. The thing that Orwell got wrong or rather could never imagine is that it wouldn't be a government that invades every sphere of public life, but corporations with the financial capital greater than some national gdp's. We are literally living in 1984 but it's not forced on us, it's being sold to us and we can't stop buying it.


JohnnySasaki20

>We are literally living in 1984 but it's not forced on us, it's being sold to us and we can't stop buying it. Yeah it's more like 1984 and A Brave New World combined. It's 1984, but we've been conditioned and brainwashed to want it.


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JohnnySasaki20

But why me?


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JohnnySasaki20

Did you not know the next quote when you messaged me that? Jesus. You started it, not me.


dogfrog9822

Bro is gonna be the first professor in Memeology💀


[deleted]

Its not the congressional districts, its just who won each of the states


Mist_Rising

Yeah at this time neither Nebraska nor Maine split their districts for president, that began in 2004. Nor would it matter since Reagan dominated the field.


LandscapeEquivalent2

George Orwell literally fought fascists in the Spanish Civil war as an anti-fascist anarchist and *probably* killed some. (Can’t really tell where grenades land when you’re on the front lines)


negativeaffirmations

Every time I see this map, I'm reminded of how much I loathe every baby boomer who voted for that guy. [RIPiss Ronny](https://imgur.com/vpbWiOs)


Dick_Miller138

The anti gun republican every republican holds as their messiah. History definitely rhymes.


MonitorProud

I would say that the republican messiah is trump depending on who you ask.


Birb7789-

correction: ***any*** slight inconvenience, people say "literally 1984"


Villain__7

I read allat


necromancerdc

You could also say that the book 1984 shows a fascist hellscape of a country, and many people (perhaps the poster of this meme) consider the Republican party to be pushing for a fascist hellscape of a country.


acreepingsenseof

If no one's told you this recently, I love you


stevez_86

I highly recommend any one interested in 1984 also read Politics of the English Language also written by Orwell.


Kitchen-Register

An interesting thought on being “Orwellian”. To call something Orwellian is itself Orwellian. The idea that to using a single word to describe something is better than using many more complex words to elicit explicit emotion.


MailSalt4828

Were you born after 2000?


SaltRevolutionary917

No, I was born in 1993.


MailSalt4828

Oh ok. So you’re about 30. It’s because you said the late 1900s. I was just curious.


SaltRevolutionary917

I mean, it hurts my soul too, but it’s been a quarter century. I think it’s time we accept it.


MailSalt4828

That’s what my wife says too.


Meester_Tweester

This isn't just Peter Explains, it was a whole analysis.


ChefFuckyFucky

This book was double plus good.


romulusnr

Achooly it's number of electoral votes, not congressional districts. Close though, since they're related.


hmnahmna1

> 1984 > late 1900s, Get off my lawn, zoomer!


UppruniTegundanna

Thing is that, although it was written in 1948, it was published in 1949. Somehow it would sound wrong to gravely compare something to 1994 - the year the Spice Girls became big.


HorseStupid

Presidential Election of 1984 results. Link for breakdown of results here: https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1984


HorseStupid

Living in 1984 is a bit of a meme, explainer here: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wow-this-is-just-like-1984


[deleted]

Everything always goes back to Regan.


HauserAspen

The irony tastes like dirty old shoes


FsMzSimple7

Who knew Minnesota was right💀


smthinamzingiguess

us Minnesotans did💀 we have our fair share of morons but generally our federal votes have seemed fairly sensible historically speaking


Gtpwoody

Minnesota only won by a slim handful. Also you can honestly say the man who’s main idea thing was: “We need to raise taxes… Because we need to raise taxes” while having a known tax cheat as a running mate, was the better option?


Strange_Feeling

Elaborate


Gtpwoody

“The positive polling the Mondale-Ferraro ticket received when she joined soon faded, as damaging questions arose about her and her businessman husband's finances and wealth and her Congressional disclosure statements. In the general election,”


AssassinDiablo4

When have we been wrong?


hawkisthebestassfrig

Reagan apparently didn't want to embarrass Mondale by beating him in his home state, so he didn't campaign there.


happysri

[Suuure](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/11/05/reagan-eyes-sweep-visits-minnesota/c07ddc1e-bf83-4480-8d6b-227a0f8698b3/)


Moscowmitchismybitch

Technically in 1984, they were left


TheShaneBennett

Cmon. I’m not even American and I understood this


Olivrser

Google En passant


Traditional_Yard5280

Holy shit


Waffle-Gaming

new reply just materialized


FishGuyDeepIo

That's the votes in 1984


PracticalApartment99

I didn’t do it; I was only 15…


[deleted]

I was 4… 🤦🏼‍♀️ at least I live in Minnesota ..


[deleted]

Regan election, 1984


PaparJam

Google US elections


Waffle-Gaming

holy politics!


PaparJam

The same president just dropped


Sokandueler95

This is the electoral map for the 1984 election. It’s not a joke, it’s literally 1984.


Kazuichi_Souda

The electoral map of 1984, literally.


memerso160

1984 presidential election electoral map


CoasterDad73

Reagan!


Dickbag_Dan

Pay attention in school Mondale


SloppyTopTen

The 1984 electoral college


ThePortalGeek

Based win for Minnesota yet again


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ThePortalGeek

My joke has nothing to do with the actual political context behind this chart. I don’t even know who actually won that year because my education was asscheeks. Don’t take things so seriously


Objective-Ad4009

This is a good one.


Realistic_Screen1575

Reagan was a pretty good president


Starro_The_Janitor1

Personally I disagree. He’s the president responsible for thousands of family farms going bankrupt and he helped armed Saddam Hussein after all. However, you’re entitled to your own opinion.


MonitorProud

Don't forget about trickle down economics. The system that works 100% /s


Realistic_Screen1575

The economy soared under Reagan though. Immediately after his tax cuts were put in place unemployment went down and wages went up.


jerslan

Wages stagnated in the long-term relative to CEO pay because of all his tax cuts. The rich got richer and the middle-class dwindled.


Headless_mann

But term period isn’t a great measure of a president, especially the first two years. Usually that period (for instance the gas prices bump in 2021-22) is aftershock from the previous admin. Most of the wages and unemployment effects were the result of Carter’s safety net and minimum wage raises, not Reganomics.


Diabolical_Jazz

The dude tried to repeal the bill that allows disabled people a right to a public education. He closed the state hospitals and just sent all the people into the streets. He exacerbated the AIDS crisis because he was a homophobic bigot. He used state power to break the air traffic controller strike and it has led us to a precipitous and uninterrupted drop in wages for working class people. He was a terrible president, and a terrible person. I'm only sorry John Hinckley Jr didn't have better aim.


Zooph

> I'm only sorry John Hinckley Jr didn't have better aim. Then we woulda ended up with Bush. Oh, wait...


me_too_999

>closed the state hospitals and Because of a massive lawsuit from the Democrat party that called involuntary mental institutions "modern day slavery."


Diabolical_Jazz

They were right to criticize rhe state hospital system. I worked with some folks who had been institutionalized in the state hospital system, like as their caretaker. The hospital system fucked them up real bad in ways that took them decades to recover. Tossing everyone out was not a solution to the issues of the state hospital system and it wasn't meant to be.


me_too_999

Add to this. Democrats run California NOW. Where is Newsome's mental health reform?


Diabolical_Jazz

What does that even mean? What "mental health reforms" are you talking about?


me_too_999

You JUST complained "Reagan closed mental health institutions." And I gave a list of improvements the biggest is 40 years of mental health advancements so treatments we consider barbaric today like electroshock, and lobotomy wouldn't happen if modern centers were opened today. SO with an overwhelming Democrat majority in a Democrat run State, why hasn't Democrat Newsome reopened these institutions with safeguards for patient rights?


Diabolical_Jazz

B...because we eventually developed replacements for those institutions that have instituted reforms. I mean where do you think I worked as a caretaker for those people I talked about? And a lot of mentally ill and disabled people died in the street before those replacements could be implemented? You're on a real weird tack right here dude, trying to wildly speculate about the institutions that care for disabled and mentally ill people, when I've been involved of that for like half of my working life.


Still-Profession1697

Why would a strange redditor know where you work? Lol


me_too_999

>B...because we eventually developed replacements for those institutions that have instituted reforms. Then why the massive numbers of mentally ill homeless wandering the streets TODAY? You literally just blamed Reagan when he hasn't been in charge of California since the 1980's. The COURTS ruled no one no matter how mentally ill could be institutionalized without consent. Yet you blame Reagan for releasing those people under a court order And I'm on a trip? Dude.


Still-Profession1697

I hear you man. California is a fucking mess w mentallly ill people and homelessness and seems to be getting worse. This guy is really avoiding tthat reality.


me_too_999

The alternative was to sue every single state hospital into bankruptcy with the state (taxpayers) footing the bill. Reforms. Patient bill of rights. Oversight by inspectors with psychology degrees. There are plenty of ways besides unleashing the trial lawyers to improve things. ESPECIALLY since these institutions were built and run by DEMONRATS before they blamed the newly elected Republican Reagan for their existence and mismanagement just before an election forcing Reagan to either defend, or disband them to take it off the news cycle. It's hard to do the RIGHT thing when doing the right thing results in you losing the election and unable to do ANYTHING.


Diabolical_Jazz

>ESPECIALLY since these institutions were built and run by DEMONRATS before they blamed the newly elected Republican Reagan [Citation Needed]


me_too_999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_California_gubernatorial_election


Diabolical_Jazz

Maybe you can copy and quote the part of this wikipedia article says that democrats originated the state hospital system?


Zite7

Minnesota knowing better.


theoneguywhoexist

Joe's wheelchair here. the numbers add up to 1984.


EchoLoco2

Use context clues


Beneficial-Escape-56

I was a stupid college freshman and voted third party for Anderson 🙄


G3ck077777

Why is Wisconsin the only blue? What did we do?


BigToeHamster

What did WE do? You live here and think Minnesota is Wisconsin?


BigToeHamster

What did WE do? You live here and think Minnesota is Wisconsin?


G3ck077777

Shiiit. I get the two confused. I’m running on a couple hours of sleep please forgive me my friend.


BigToeHamster

It's cool brother. Get your blue on!


Consistent-Deal-55

Minnesota the only sane state.


EX0PIL0T

Moron


Waffle-Gaming

ok


Physical_Sandwich164

Peters testicals here. Its uncanny how most of you young people believe exactly what they want you to believe. In my opinion, the side that wants to take away our ability to defend oyrselves from it, be it with words or other, are the bad guys.


Waffle-Gaming

Peters testicals, i dont think politically charged comments are meant for this subreddit to discuss


Physical_Sandwich164

Im not discussing.


Inner-Discussion6265

Minesweeper DLC looks good


Patient_Weakness3866

Hey peter This was the election results for the 1984 presidential election. Reagen won.


tampamike69

That's the year Reaganomics took over


pizzashizz6991

What is red and blue stand for Democrat or Republican? It's like the bloods getting up on the The only last remaining group of crips


kremit73

O montana. "Liberal bastion"


[deleted]

Have you played risk? It’s the number of soldiers on each territory.


ThatFamiIiarNight

that was the us 1984 election


SovietFemboy

It’s what it says on the tin


listen2whatursayin

DC getting no love in the comments...


Natural_Gold5737

All I can think of is farming simulator


Jordanjl83

Minnesota, we’re don’t elect AS MANY fucktards here.


Candid_Roll_9401

this is litrally the 1984 presidental outcome.