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hpslugga

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  1. The best way I can put the comparison of the two is in villains in TV/cinema. As Nixon was Emperor Palpatine, Trump was a bastard child of the Joker and Ernest T Bass.
  2. I’m quite aware of the whole scope of the operation and that wasn’t the point. The point is: 1. he was a willing participant and it received next to zero press coverage even though the sheer depth and depravity of the whole thing was so far beyond Watergate as to render it a footnote. 2. Since that’s the case, it cannot be said that the Republican senators who were going to vote to remove him in his impeachment proceedings were acting on some sort of “principle” or “good of the country.”
  3. Deluded is as deluded does
  4. I’m sorry but I have to jump on this. This seems to be a growing sentiment and I’m not questioning it; I’m denying it entirely. Richard Nixon had been told repeatedly by Senate Republicans in the wake of all the Watergate exposures and when impeachment proceedings were about to commence that they had enough votes to convict and convict they would. He had no chance to survive. Now, if you want to credit those Senate Republicans for actually taking a half assed principle (more on that in a minute), ok fine. And yeah even a half assed principle is considerable compared to what these current degenerates have. In any event, Nixon resigned precisely because he was going to be removed and he was told so. Giving him credit for making that decision is like giving credit to Bob Livingston for “falling on his sword.” No, that man resigned because Larry Flynt had told him he would release all the lurid details of his marital infidelity if he didn’t. Sure it gives to the general public a facade of integrity and it lets the perpetrator step down with some “dignity,” but in the end it’s all for show. Nixon was a monster. Period. If his party was littered with the kind of degenerates the republicans are known to be today, he serves out his entire second term. Getting back to the half assed thing, the Watergate indiscretions weren’t even the worst things Nixon did as POTUS. He, like a few of his predecessors, participated in a long-running program by the FBI known as COINTELPRO. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO. When Watergate was becoming public knowledge, so was COINTELPRO. But watergate was all anyone ever heard about. Why? Because when Nixon was involved in COINTELPRO, he was spying on minorities and minority rights leaders. When he was involved in Watergate, he was spying on half of the arm of power in the United States government. The lesson that should be taken is the following: Spying on the black panther party: Good Spying on the Democratic Party: Bad
  5. Oh no doubt, but the R’s were just better at the rhetoric and the marketing and that’s what drew Reagan to them.
  6. It was all that rabid anti-communist crap. Reagan never got off of that.
  7. Same ole clueless little Jimmy. Dude’s always like “look at me I have something to say!!! It’s important and I agree with it!!!” Nah Jimmy, you ain’t about that life.
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  9. There will be fence jumpers but I doubt it’ll be a significant portion
  10. And that’s not the kind of sniffing-glue-while-making-believe-LBJ-killed-JFK shit, either.
  11. Has anyone stopped to notice that literally ALL of his “alters” just by fluke of fate happen to be giant dicks?
  12. Yes and then someone tells him "sir, the child is 13 years old." His response? *calls John Roberts* "John, do NOT overturn Roe!!!"
  13. He really does. Go back and watch that 30 for 30 about the USFL and Herschel is shown doing nothing but praising Trump…on a documentary about the USFL. Like motherfucker, you’re talking about the guy who was most responsible for killing it. This is like someone telling everyone what a great birthday party clown John Wayne Gacy was.
  14. I wouldn’t even begin to compare the two. As a matter of fact, I would say 9/11 begat 1/6.
  15. I’ve no doubt he actually believes what he just said. The problem is: ”insurrection” comes from the old French “insurgere,” which means “rise up.” In modern lingo, the word is very frequently associated with the concept of “armed rebellion.” Here’s the thing: one needn’t possess a gun in order to be “armed.” When you have anything that can be constituted as a weapon, by definition, you are armed. You’re armed if you have a knife; armed if you have a crowbar; armed if you have a mace; armed if you have a sword; armed if you have nunchucks; etc. This whole deal about “armed means guns” is an exclusive American perversion, and the US does not have exclusive rights over the word “insurrection.” And yeah there’s the extra layer of “yeah, there were guns too.” So not only is Tucker absolutely wrong, he cannot be right. This level of wrongness is right up there with the assertion of Noah’s Flood as actual history: we know it isn’t right, and we know it cannot be right. He’s not going to get out of that by playing semantics about as well as Todd Marinovich played QB in the NFL. The US legal code isn’t gonna help him, either. ”Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” It says absolutely nothing about guns, so he’s gonna have to give this one up. But such is the mind of the right wing: lazy, suggestible, inarticulate, uneducated, undisciplined, unmotivated to do anything except be a dick for dick’s sake. They have as much business being offended when they’re called “degenerates” as a fire truck has when it’s described as being “red.”
  16. There are those who are worth considering, there are those not worth considering, there are those who are so laughably stupid that it almost requires us to mock them, and there are those who give rise to the idea that if brains were fuel, they wouldn't have enough to power a flea's motorcycle around a drop of rain.
  17. Oh it is. We don’t condone it in our household, and yet when I play my 14-year old nephew in Madden and when I’m beating his ass, he is guaranteed to say the phrase “LITERALLY GAY!” like 5-6 times. He doesn’t get that from me, his dad, his mom, his aunt (my wife) or anyone else. That’s obviously a school (i.e. peer) thing.
  18. 90’s kid in Dallas. That was the slogan we had for the week we played against JJ Pearce HS
  19. Don’t those fat asses (aka the majority of the participants) qualify as “toxic irritants” just in and of themselves?
  20. Seriously that guy is a fucking idiot
  21. Well I only said that because he’s not catholic
  22. How long til this guy is found in a motel snorting coke off a dude’s ass?
  23. Why are we allowing children to sit at the adult table?
  24. It won’t do anything because she poured gas on what amounts to the floor of Hill House.
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