Nixon.
Reagan.
Dubbya.
Trump.
Who will stand in 10 years as the president who was Really The Worst?
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I feel like we already knew he’d done this. Is it that this is the first hard evidence?
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I have it in my heart that it will be Trump, hands down. It’s the ignorance, the self-interest above all, in which he acts that makes me believe this.
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daneel
January 2, 2017, 8:38pm
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The Trump movies are going to be brutal.
Assuming society still exists to make movies.
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It’s long-accepted as historical fact, AFAIAA. Or at least it was in the history courses I took.
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“If I have seen further fucked the country more than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
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FGD135
January 2, 2017, 9:42pm
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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But Clinton got a blowjob, libtards!
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Are any of the guys involved still alive?
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Well, there is Shrub (aka Dubya), you know. But I kind of think of him as a piss-ant of history, the enabler of true evil in the form of Cheney and his henchmen. Shrub was really just a mean frat boy, in the end.
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Kissenger is. As is Anna Chennault. The rest of the people that are named in the NYT article are all dead.
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ChuckV
January 3, 2017, 4:11pm
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I wonder what a fan of Nixon, Reagan & W would think about this…
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CLamb
January 4, 2017, 12:45am
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…and Henry Kissinger is Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy mentor. Sigh.
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People have been calling for a tribunal against old Hank for the last 40+ years. He’s way too well connected to have to worry about that sort of thing though.
Most of the senior figures of the GW Bush administration were GOP junior staffers during the Nixon years.
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daneel
January 4, 2017, 6:29am
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Like these two arseholes:
Donald Henry "Don" Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is a retired American political figure and businessman. Rumsfeld served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the second-oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a three-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963–1969), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970), Counsellor to the President Born ...
Richard Bruce Cheney (/ˈtʃeɪni/; born January 30, 1941) is an American politician and businessman who was the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Cheney was primarily raised in Sumner, Nebraska, and Casper, Wyoming. He attended Yale and then the University of Wyoming, at the latter of which he earned a BA and an MA in Political Science. He began his political career as an intern for Congressman William A. Steiger, eventually working his way into ...
These two who went to prison for Watergate are still around, at least.
Dwight Lee Chapin (born December 2, 1940) is an American political organizer, businessman, and retired public servant. He was Deputy Assistant to the President Richard Nixon, during the Watergate scandal. Chapin was convicted of lying to a grand jury (perjury) during the scandal and served nine months at the Federal Correctional Institution, Lompoc. Chapin was born in Wichita, Kansas. He got his first experience in California politics in 1958 at the American Legion's Boys State summer program, ...
Egil “Bud” Krogh Jr. (born August 3, 1939) is an American lawyer who became infamous as an official of the Nixon Administration who was imprisoned for his part in the Watergate Affair. He is currently Senior Fellow on Ethics and Leadership at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and Counselor to the Director at the School for Ethics and Global Leadership. Krogh was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Seattle, Washington; his father was a Norwegian immigrant. He graduated ...
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It’s far too transparent that there is no rule of law, but rather rule by an elite class. Kissinger should be in prison, and should have been there for a long, long time.
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