Nothing new here. Regan was the flashpoint of the dumpster fire that is America now. Nixon was just the match. Trump is a tanker truck full of napalm.
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I wouldn't give Trump that much credit (yet), the damage done by Reagan was far greater (disregarding social/demographic, which I mostly blame the attention industry of). But we'll see how much damage he does this time, maybe he "trumps" Reagan...
He's speaking openly about imprisoning political opponents and even members of his own party that didn't bend the knee. And now the Courts he packed are backing up his claims to absolute immunity.
He even said people will no longer "need to vote" after he's done.
The best hope for America right now is an aneurysm.
Yeah definitely, it could escalate to a complete shit-show unfortunately, as they even got senate and house as well... I'm lucky currently that I'm european, not that politics is heading in the right direction, but we're not yet at autocratic level as could happen in the USA...
Somehow its still democrats' fault.
Oh, are we counting treasons again? I guess mid-century modern is actually a thing now. Good, it’s a nice aesthetic. Bell bottoms and protest, fuck yeah.
Maybe this time we can follow through, eh? We’ve seen what happens when we don’t.
Good thing they learnt their lessions and itll never happen again. On a completely unrelated note did you know that Hamas is planning on releasing their hostages mysteriously as soon as Trump gets elected, Bibi is also planning on starting serious peace talks at the same time.
Nixon extended the Vietnam war, because he didn't want it to end before the election.
My first thought also, and I strongly recommend Ken Burns' Vietnam War doco to those who haven't seen it - that's where I first learned of Nixon's unforgivable treason (about this particular topic... not to mention his other treasons).
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Democrats let it happen and let it slide after the fact. The GOP is criminal. The Democrats are just lazy and weak.
Unger reserved his most intense criticism for the Washington Post, which owned Newsweek at the time and, he says, had an outsize role in quietly killing the story. He’s also equally critical of Congressional Democrats, who he claims never pursued the dramatic charges as earnestly as they should have.
“Democrats were lap dogs,” Unger said
From here:https://www.press.org/newsroom/media-covered-1980-iran-hostage-deal-october-surprise-author-tells-club
Democrats serve the rich class. They're a red herring to make us believe that we are a democracy
Damn, nothing has changed
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Then they committed treason again with Iran Contra
GOP: Oops, all treason
I'm not young and there isn't a time in my life when the GOP wasn't somehow treasonous
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"This was genuine treason by the GOP."
Nah...just a typical Wednesday for them.
Two things can be true
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especially given iran contra drugs for guns. The whole thing is unbelievable and the historic thing has been. shrug.
It was not unprecedented. Nixon sabotaged the Vietnam War peace talks to get elected too. Don't think that has ever been addressed very well either.
Why is media and news so important? It controls the recording of history.
When a large majority of media conglomerates being conservative, like the Sinclaire group, it makes sharing this news with Americans very difficult.
Throw in education restrictions to keep kids from learning about these events in school, you've got a steep uphill battle to raise awareness.
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