Can you all smell it?

[kpete]

[Hekate]

1. Off to the Greatest with you

[Bleacher Creature]

2. Note the date.

Nixon had been in office five years.

Trump got there in 118 days.

[Honeycombe8]

9. That's because he's the FASTEST corrupt President in history! Everyone says so!! nt

[lunatica]

40. And the mostest, bigliest, worstest, famoustest

Beautifulest ever in the history of the world. There would be much more but thats the mostest words he knows.

[Honeycombe8]

45. +1. NT

[DesertRat]

3. Nixon resigned a year after this story

Aug. 8, 1974. I want Trump gone NOW, but I know that these investigations take time.

[LiberalFighter]

18. 1974 is so much different from 2017

Based on the below and other comparisons I don't think it should take as long.

Social Media
1974 -- Face to Face
2017 -- Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc

Resources
1974 -- Pen and Paper
2017 -- Computer and Internet

Electronic Media
1974 -- basic Radio and basic TV
2017 -- basic Radio, Sirrius, internet radio, basic TV, 24/7 news tv, web blogs, web boards, Facebook, Twitter.

Paper Media
1974 -- newspaper stands, libraries, delivery
2017 -- newspaper stands, libraries, delivery, internet

FBI or Special Prosecutor
1974 -- non-internet age and very slow computers
2017 -- opposite of above

Access to sources across the world
1974 -- slow and limited
2017 -- not as much as 1974

[StevieM]

28. Very few people owned computers in 1974.

There is one other thing that is different today: the GOP gets away with everything and anything.

I hope that this one is different.

[RandomAccess]

42. In 1979 the first Apple store opened in the city I lived in

They were in other cities, I'm sure, but personal computers was kind if a new thing. My how far we've come! Wow.

At the time, I was utterly fascinated, but had trouble thinking what someone could use them for. (I should've gone with the fascination, skipped the thinking, and bought stock!!) I could see that keeping recipes on a computer wasn't a great idea (there were no recipe programs that figured out nutrition profiles, quantities, and so forth yet). Apple was heavy on educational materials, but that wasn't of much interest, and probably games which interest me not at all. Email was nonexistent at the time, since there was no internet for personal use so that means we didn't even have Bulletin Boards, let alone discussion forums!

I bought my first computer about 1985 - a Mac SE. IIRC it cost me about $3k. And I joined AOL not long after. I remember something else that fascinated me a bit but didn't make sense to me. Some firm in Washington state had developed this thing called hypertext, which enabled you to read things in a non-linear way, unlike, say a book. As an AVID reader of BOOKS, I just couldn't see the appeal.

Needless to say, it didn't take long for people with far more vision and imagination than I to make great use of personal computers and hypertext too. LOL. So I could come along after them and make great use of them as well.

[StevieM]

43. Welcome to DU, RandomAccess!! My family got our first computer in 1981, I believe.

It was from Radio Shack. I seem to remember my father saying it cost $1500, which is a lot when you take into account inflation. It is possible it was more, maybe $2500.

And, of course, that computer could do practically nothing compared to today's computers.

It is cool that you were on AOL in the mid-80s. I remember when my brother used to "go on the modem," as he called it at the time. Today we think it is kind of cool that my brother was on-line in 1982.

I love the show "The Americans." There was a scene where a Russian scientist who defected was trying to entice the Soviet spy who was kidnapping him by offering to "put him on the ARPANET." The year (according to the show's timeline) was 1983.

[RandomAccess]

44. I STILL love that sound

of my modem opening up the whole world for me.

And yes, it was a lot of money back then. Thankfully, prices have gone way down while technology has gone way up!

Thanks for the welcome.

[L. Coyote]

31. Add to this TIA and a dozen more spy agencies, tracking all web traffic, DNS logs, .......

[DesertRat]

32. The other difference is that in 1973-74

We had more Republicans who put country over party than we do now.

[BigOleDummy]

33. This

is exactly why.

[Nitram]

34. More importantly, we had a Democratic majority in both houses...

[progressoid]

36. That's the MOST important thing imho.

[bigbrother05]

39. 5 years for Nixon to "get there" then gone 1 year later

118 days for Trump to "get there", let's hope he's gone in 24 days

Donald Trump, "the Evelyn Wood of Presidents"

[MyNameIsKhan]

4. I think few things are clear:

1. Trump has major connection with Russian Money
2. His company is used to money launder Russian Money
3. He is fixated with Russia, his two wifes are from ex soviet union or nearby countries
4. He did do golden shower in 2013 and had sex with under age girls
5. His campaign did collude and Michael Flynn was top guy to manage the transactions

and many more....

[WinkyDink]

17. Yup. All, and more.

[eleny]

5. Great find!

Hey, somebody's brains are frying, for sure.

[sarge43]

6. Flop sweat? Oh yes. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I thought that term sounded kind of familiar...

[Honeycombe8]

8. Bazinga! Is this a real headline? nt

[bora13]

10. the worst thing

is that the trumpsters are the type who can't cope with being wrong.

[alittlelark]

11. WHERE'S THE WITCH?!?!?

?w=660

[LiberalLovinLug]

41. If its actually a witch....or someone who is doing almost as much damage as a witch could..

then wouldn't having a witch hunt be appropriate?

[malaise]

12. Oh My!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Better for the world, life, humans....but now worried about my 401k. And, it's

not necessarily a selfish angle....millions of common people will lose wealth because this schmuck is a crook

[groundloop]

24. Yep.... I want to retire in a couple of more years also.... I'm in the same boat

However, the next year or so will probably be a great time to be putting money into your 401K (I'm assuming, of course, that 45* doesn't have a chance to to irreparable harm which we can't recover from in the course of a few years).

[dubyadiprecession]

14. Poor republicans....

They so desperately wanted another Reagan, but ended up with another Nixon.

[Alice11111]

16. I think he is 100x worse than Nixon, but his hard core

Followers really believe it is the liberal media's fault.
The swallow Fox news and worse as a daily diet.

Funny, how Fox is tanking at the same time as DT.

[calimary]

15. Now there's a brick from down Memory Lane!

What's that cliche - "everything old is new again" - ?



Gotta say, I've been around awhile. I cannot believe what is playing out before our very eyes. I CANNOT believe it. I keep wondering if I'm hallucinating.

[groundloop]

26. This just seems so eerily reminiscent of Nixon's scandal.... very much deja vu

I was only like 16 when all the Nixon shit was going down, but I sure the hell remember the moment he resigned.

[KPN]

37. Funny. Re: your last paragraph I had an acquaintance say the exact same thing ...

to me last night -- almost word for word, starting with "I've been around awhile" verbatim! There's a lot of us living in what seems the Twilight Zone right now.

[bora13]

19. speech, speech

The following is adapted from "Blazing Saddles" by Mel Brooks.

"WE THE PEOPLE, THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES
wish to express our extreme displeasure with your choice of president. Please remove him immediately! The fact that you have sent him here just goes to prove that you are the leading assholes in the country!"

[Mira]

20. YES. It is goose

and it is cooked

[VOX]

21. I love the stench of profusely sweating Republicans in the afternoon...

...it smells like...just desserts.

[kentuck]

22. Excellent!

Witch hunt, huh?

[dawn5651]

23. sureeeeee 45

did someone toss 45 a history book or did he study up on nixon...

[nolabear]

25. Ironically, those two would have LED witch hunts back in the day.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. There are parallels to Watergate

but also I think to the 1950s McCarthy Era in the sense that there are
Russian sympathizers in the government. This time of course they are not
communists but privatization freaks as long as it goes in their pockets,
and we don't have to look for them in obscure places like Hollywood, this
incarnation are proudly in full view

[Heartstrings]

29. Lived this....very reminiscent....

Only hope it doesn't take as long. This merry go round needs to stop now!

[flying_wahini]

30. Smoked ass with a nice dark char & a side of cooked bacon.

[Blue Ridge Virginia]

35. Knowing the truth, being set free, 1974 and 2017

Not a Bible believer or Christian but that one line always evokes both hope and despair. The truth came out about Nixon and we were freed of him. Hoping (and would pray if I thought it might help) that the same scenario unfolds now. The despair part is that such a large segment of the population is so totally brainwashed by Trump's lies that MAYBE no amount of truth can possibly free us from this nightmare.

[raven mad]

38. Is anyone else into deja vu?

yep..............