• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    27 minutes 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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    Conservatives still see absolutely nothing at all wrong with Nixon’s behavior. They’s 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.

  • BillCheddar@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Pratai@piefed.ca
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    10 hours ago

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

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      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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          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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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

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    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!”