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In reply to the discussion: No, younger Democrats, this isn't like Nixon. This is like Nixon on crack. [View all]Alice11111
(5,730 posts)111. I feel like my head is exploding! I wish I felt more like your image of watching w popcorn.
My thoughts were the same watching the presser. I cant believe the Pres of USA is still talking about this.
With all going on, and planning ground troops for Syria, N Korea launch, cruise missiles, subs...and he cant move past bloviating about details of his electoral college win. Im afraid, we are done in, unless we get rid of him now.
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No, younger Democrats, this isn't like Nixon. This is like Nixon on crack. [View all]
grantcart
Feb 2017
OP
I remember Watergate; it seemed like an eternity. This is so fast it's making me dizzy.
lagomorph777
Feb 2017
#73
I feel like my head is exploding! I wish I felt more like your image of watching w popcorn.
Alice11111
Feb 2017
#111
No kidding. It took Nixon 5 years for folks to be asking, "What did the President know and
catbyte
Feb 2017
#31
No comparison at all -t here was no rw "alt reality" back then. Well OK mayber there sort of
Kashkakat v.2.0
Feb 2017
#35
Pence is to tRump as Agnew was to Nixon, only much worse too. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2017
#41
As Godawful as Nixon was, and as overjoyed as I was to see him brought down......
Paladin
Feb 2017
#44
Also a congressman & senator. The only person elected president to have served.....
jg10003
Feb 2017
#80
Watergate was only an internal document theft. That was nothing compared to russian complicity
lindysalsagal
Feb 2017
#53
Who didn't see this train wreck, or something like it, happening? Oh, the low-info voters!
Lanius
Feb 2017
#57
It's moving faster than Watergate . . . Thanks, Internet! . . . but does it have legs? n/t
MrModerate
Feb 2017
#60
I haven't heard the suffix "-gate" applied to this mess. Its far too serious and rapidly unraveling.
mulsh
Feb 2017
#75
We've left the Twilight Zone & have gone into Dinner Theatre of the Absurd Zone. Your points are...
Hekate
Feb 2017
#86
Nixon screwing up the Paris Peace talks and Reagan's hostage shenanigans come to mind
bigbrother05
Feb 2017
#88
also nixon opened china to the west. the orange menace is trying to close it back up.
Javaman
Feb 2017
#90
Correct. Reagan got our enemy to tear down a wall. DT is building one beween our friend and neighbor
Alice11111
Feb 2017
#110