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      It is the flex they think it is. He and the entire admin are getting away with everything. Will he be held to account?

      There won’t be unless their are trials on the level of Nuremberg with actual justice being carried out. If what we get next is another liberal admin that takes power and doesn’t hold war criminals accountable this will only get worse.

      People don’t want to hear it, but, Obama and his administration were the liberalism that sparked the permission for fascism. Not holding the Bush administration accountable for torture and war crimes further normalized that people in power will not be made to answer for their crimes. He didnt even close gitmo and next Democrat after Obama felt comfortable funding and enabling a genocide. Are we really surprised the war crimes of past administrations are now happening at home through ICE?

      The trials need to start with Trump and his administration. But all of these war criminals and pedophiles need to be prosecuted. All of the CEOs that profited from making us sick, polluting our world, and selling their weapons.

      America doesn’t need another “reaching across the aisle” liberal in the white house. We need unapologetic leftist policies that put a rope around the neck of the Epstein class.

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    Well, yeah. Roger Ailes was Nixon’s main media advisor, and the lesson he learned from Watergate was that Nixon would have gotten away with it if the media were more sympathetic.

    Years later, he was hired by Rupert Murdoch to run Fox News.

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    It’s true, the non stop ridiculous abuses and coverups of the Trump administration far eclipse what happened in Watergate. However, the only reason they get away with it is because Congress and the Supreme Court are in it with them.

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    Jd vance: Watergate would be 12-hour news story today

    Goose: what about your administration would make Watergate a 12-hour news story?

    Goose, angry: chases jd vance WHAT ABOUT YOUR ADMINISTRATION WOULD MAKE WATERGATE A 12-HOUR NEWS STORY?

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    “We have committed so many serious, major crimes that the last major executive crime would barely register on your radar today.”

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    When the President got re-elected despite being an adjudicated rapist, yeah, he’s probably right…

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    This statement should concern us all. Watergate was a tragedy that was a body blow to our nation’s psyches. It could be looked at as the beginning of our nation’s lack of trust in government. I believe Ford should have never pardoned Nixon. But with just this one line Vance has certainly convinced quite a number of people that Watergate was no big deal. Just a blip on the radar. And by saying this he is also implying that something of equal weight, like the things this administration has done almost on a daily basis it seems, is of no big concern. This is part of the vast and coordinated propaganda campaign the right is using on the american people. And the reason it’s particularly egregious now is because for the first time, with Trump as president, the right knows they can get away with almost anything. And they are determined to push things as far as they can go. A lot more Americans need to wake up to this threat.

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    It would be, no one has an attention span anymore. And lets not forget no one remembers anything either.

    Perfect for the powers that be to run rough shod over you…

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      @TIEPilot @FoxtrotDeltaTango It’s why I don’t use spellcheck or get summaries of my searches or use anything else that can cause the rest of my old brain to crumble.

      Memory tests (what do I know and what did I forget and it works). My memory is better than enough friends who use spellcheck and all the other super-looking programs that make us stupid(er).

      Flooding the zone meant forgetting crap because it’s part of fascism (come get me miller) and authoritarianism. 4get & vote chump again.

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          Well, the cons keep thinking about ways they can work around the Constitution.

          But Donvict might be in pretty bad shape by 2028 anyway, assuming he lives that long…he’s already slurring his speech and dozing off in meetings.

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              Well, I’m not saying they have been successful (yet) in pulling off a third term for Donvict.

              But as far as just flatly ignoring the law, including the Constitution, I’m not sure if there is an exhaustive list being kept (probably is), but when is the last time anyone has done anything to enforce the Emoluments Clause?

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              @TIEPilot @CharlesDarwin They are ignoring all things democratic. They’re embracing all things evil and undemocratic.

              “It” wants to stay out of jail and continue stealing our lives. 3rd term (unless he croaks first) is what it needs to live on.

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                He’s not going to jail, I assure. Its all getting tossed when a real unbiased court tries it.

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                  @TIEPilot I didn’t say he was going to ever be in an orange jumpsuit. It’s his fear and I’d like to see more of that in him. Yep, it would get tossed and his military slush fund might help with bribes (easy bribes).

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    No wonder, the level of unchecked corruption there is incredible, they can do anything, tell everyone, nothing happens. Let’s kitnap foreign President, nothing, lets bombard a country without congress approval, nothing happens, let’s say things to make our friends earn millions in the stock market, brag about it, nothing happens, etc

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    He preceded it by saying, “My daddies at the heritage foundation intentionally broke the country to the point that…”