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[–] 84 points 1 month ago

Some real not the onion shit here.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    In other news the Trump administration announces the dismantlement of the DOJ as all crime is now legal. Hoorah!

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    That's not true. It's only legal if you are rich enough.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    We passed legal crime decades ago

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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(TM), ROTFLMAO.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    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 removal stepping 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.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    They’ll soon be claiming Hitler was the victim

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nixon is the ONLY president that Trump can associate himself with. They’re both crooks.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Great use of our tax dollars. Definitely focusing on the important stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Don’t give the fed your tax dollars.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Nixon was the beginning of the right-wing coup against America. Roger Ailes (the Fox News aka Unofficial Propaganda Network guy) was Nixon's media aide. Redid his image from his 1960 loss. Key to the coup.

    It's interesting that they're choosing to rehabilitate him now. It's a weird card to play.

    If you believe, as I do, that fascist movements are more or less a forest fire, and that "grievances" are the fuel for that fire, then "rehab Nixon" is really "mine the Nixon issue for grievance fuel."

    And if they're down to playing this card, they're running low on fuel.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    If he can clean Nixon, people will stop comparing how much more of a fucking criminal he is in comparison.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    No, Nixon's far worse than Trump and whoever believes otherwise has no Idea what kind of stuff he's done outside of America.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You haven’t been paying attention and it shows.

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  • [+] -10 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Only reason Americans think Trump's worse is because Trump's been inflicting pain to America and the west far more than any other president has. Nixon supported genocide in Bangladesh and had nukes pointed towards India because they were trying to liberate Bangladesh, and also was the reason for rise of Pol pot in Cambodia.

    People who say Trump's worse than Nixon also think Watergate's the worst thing Nixon did in his career.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago*

    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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah that will help end the war in Iran, lower the gas and grocery prices, and bring justice to the Epstein-Trump child rape victims.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Donnie and other racist old assholes got all butthurt about Obama going on an "apology tour", but all they dream about is retribution for decades of everything conservatives have so many childish grievances about.

    They don't want to do anything for Americans and they don't give a flying fuck about Americans, no, they just want retribution against anyone perceived to be an enemy of conservatives.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    A perfect move, this will surely raise his approval rating.

    I also think, why not make it illegal to vote against him? One party, one truth.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Jack the Ripper did nothing wrong. Bloody woke police

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Trump raped kids.

    Of course he wants us talking about Nixon.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    I wonder why the book 1984 comes up so often. It's a mystery.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    All those kids in the streets with their "free Nixon" signs are going to love this!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Next step will be saying hitler was an alright guy, a great painter and did nothing wrong.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Under Ford's photo it says,

    "He narrowly lost reelection to Jimmy Carter, probably because of his brave Pardon of Richard Nixon"

    "brave"

    🤮

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    trying to erase history

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Conservatives still see absolutely nothing at all wrong with Nixon's behavior. They even glorify it in their music and their political commentary. Cheating in elections and spying on American citizens is completely fine in their eyes (as long as it's conservatives doing it).

    It's almost like conservatives are pure evil and should be completely excluded from normal society.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    When the clown is in the ring performing, it's usually to distract from something going on behind the scene they don't want you to see.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Who exactly do they think people believe is the "deep state". The people running the government, or the people buying them? Both are Trump and his supporters right now.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    The ones that "know" (theydon't believe talking points, but still repeat them because they know the game), well they know the "deep state" MAGA is/was after were the civil servants dedicated to the rule of law over partisan political loyalty, and/or simple self gratification (bribe/blackmail vulnerable).

    So they got them out.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    He was pardoned and now he is dead. Do they want to dig him up so they can have gay sex with him!?

    These Nixonsexuals need to get a life. I guess they don't need to get consent from a corpse. Finally, someone they can have a relationship without having to hear them scream, "STOP!"

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Because of course he is

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    Hopefully they can get on clearing the good names of Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris next.

    Wouldn’t that be a relief.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Does anyone think this is just going to end? Fascism is the future.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Can't tell if this is sourced by tRump's fear/vanity, or Peter Theil's malice. Trump is pro-crime, but not cogent. Peter Theil is running everything.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I thought this was the Onion for a moment. Sigh

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