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madinmaryland

(64,933 posts) Tue May 10, 2022, 10:24 PM May 2022

I will say this once and only once. Ginni Thomas is no Mark Felt...

Mark Felt actually saved the democracy. Ginni needs to spend the rest of her life behind bars.

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I will say this once and only once. Ginni Thomas is no Mark Felt... (Original Post) madinmaryland May 2022 OP

Through his actions, Mark Felt also settled a score/exacted revenge. RockRaven May 2022 #1

I just wish they'd stop calling her a "lady." Haggis 4 Breakfast May 2022 #2

Lady BQ czarjak May 2022 #3

RockRaven

(14,967 posts)

1. Through his actions, Mark Felt also settled a score/exacted revenge.

Reply to madinmaryland (Original post)

Tue May 10, 2022, 10:44 PM

May 2022

There are two ways to interpret the coincidence. Either he sought vengeance and it happened also to be for the public good as a byproduct, or he acted in the public good and also happened to get his revenge as a byproduct.

OF COURSE he and his partners (Woodward et al.) would claim the latter. If it's the former their actions are not so flattering. And there's a reasonable bit of evidence that it was the former. We're just the beneficiaries of dumb luck that it turned out to be good for the public.

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,454 posts)

2. I just wish they'd stop calling her a "lady."

Reply to madinmaryland (Original post)

Tue May 10, 2022, 10:52 PM

May 2022

czarjak

(11,277 posts)

3. Lady BQ

Reply to Haggis 4 Breakfast (Reply #2)

Wed May 11, 2022, 12:22 AM

May 2022

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