the US let an insurrection off, he should have been in a federal jail for life but you then rewarded him with the presidency… again. If there are no consequences for a bully physcopath, all you’ve done is let them know that behaviour is ok.
he said he could shoot some random and hed het away with it and he’s right
Next step will be saying hitler was an alright guy, a great painter and did nothing wrong.
Of course because this is the pressing issue of the new millennium. Everyone sitting around going man Nixon really got the short end of the stick.
This shows that they aren’t concerned about what’s coming and are just rewriting history.
It will be interesting to see how much more weird shit people will believe by 2028 if the human race makes it that long
There is a sincere and legitimate argument that the Watergate burglars deliberately took a dive to throw Nixon under the bus. He’d already pissed off both the CIA and FBI at this point, and many within his own party were turning on him due to his unpopularity.
Trump’s not the guy to make this argument, of course. But it does get into the Cold War politics of the era and Nixon’s Third Way strategy of detente for the benefit of his millionaire allies.
The Cold Warriors would eventually hijack the federal government entirely through Reagan/Bush in '80. But back in the 60s/70s there was still a meaningful divide between business goons and military maniacs.
…And he would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddlesome coconspirators.
Unironically
Makes sense. There’s been a lot of commentary over the years that after Nixon Republicans decided that their principles could never get in the way of holding power again.
And they’re run by ghouls on life support who still care about the 70’s.
trying to erase history
Hopefully they can get on clearing the good names of Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris next.
Wouldn’t that be a relief.
Some real not the onion shit here.
In other news the Trump administration announces the dismantlement of the DOJ as all crime is now legal. Hoorah!
That’s not true. It’s only legal if you are rich enough.
“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”
Ahh so true, so its likely to be renamed to the Trump Justice department or some other stupid bullshit name lol
21 Trump Street
Navigating the DC area became much more challenging after all the streets, roads, and highways were renamed after Trump.
We passed legal crime decades ago
Yahhh and it doesn’t look it’ll change in the coming decades either. Only hope is to become a millionaire lol. Hows that working out?
You have to be a millionaire to buy a house in many places. You have to be a billionaire to get away with anything. Maybe the half billionaires too, but they have to hire lawyers, the billionaires own lawyers already.
yah so true…wasn’t it revealed that Juliani was auctioning off pardons at $5million a piece…so yah, Billionaire status is needed.
Might as well just make it official that laws don’t apply to the rich
That certainly seems to be the status quo for at least several decades, they latest new twist is that you can barter for a presidential pardon now…lol
Only by companies though, lol
Lol, yep, This message brought to you by Citizens United! Thanks Raegan.
LOL, I’ve been saying for years and years that cons have a deep, simmering resentment about Nixon. I’d hear old assholes - think the parents of boomers - bitching about Nixon getting what they thought was a raw deal, because “liberal media”.
I cannot tell you how many extremist right wingers and reactionary centrists would try to deny what I was saying.
And here we have it…people that were not even alive back then are still holding a grudge about it, like “JD” “Vance”.
Who GAF about the fact that Nixon definitely was involved in these crimes and taped himself covering it up, it was The Deep State™, ROTFLMAO.
Nixon showed up nationally as Eiseinhower’s VP, which was a MIC sponsored ticket.
And the Military Industrial Complex is the clay from which the DeepState automatron is made.
Who GAF about the fact that Nixon definitely was involved in these crimes and taped himself covering it up, it was The Deep State™
Nixon used the southern strategy to make an appeal to racists to restore The Good Ole’ Boy Network which is how people in power or aspire to be in power think the world is supposed to work. He got elected and could then start “fixing” “things.” His impeachment and
removalstepping down was a very public example of someone not in the good ole’ boy system disrupted the power structure. Inevitably people bought their way into that system and his removal wiped out the “investments” they made. There’s probably some feeling that the Deep State stole their money, and they want reprecussions for the theft.
They’ll soon be claiming Hitler was the victim
Giving the current vector you aren’t even leaning out very far.
Maybe they’ll make a musical telling Hitler’s side of the story
Coming this spring!
Don’t be stupid. Be a smartie.
Wasn’t there a moment some number of years ago when a bunch of dumbfucks got upset that Nazis were portrayed as the bad guys in games?
Nixon is the ONLY president that Trump can associate himself with. They’re both crooks.
Fine, “delegitimize” the prosecutors and “clear” Nixon (he was never actually prosecuted due to Ford’s pardon). We’ll expand the supreme court, who will rule that because he was “cleared”, the pardon is null and void. Further, they’ll rule that because he was never prosecuted, double jeopardy doesn’t apply.
Then we can appoint a special prosecutor and convene a new grand jury to go after him and all the co-conspirators new and old for real this time. Dig up that rotten corpse and we’ll make the trial of Richard Nixon part of Reconstruction 2.0.
Great use of our tax dollars. Definitely focusing on the important stuff.
Don’t give the fed your tax dollars.
Oh yeah, I’ll just call my employer up real quick and tell them to stop paying taxes on my behalf. Should work out real well.
Yes. Get everyone else to do it too.
nah, only the rich get away with tax evasion.
