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bucolic_frolic

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27. There are parallels to Watergate

Thu May 18, 2017, 09:18 PM

May 2017

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

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Can you all smell it? [View all] kpete May 2017 OP

Off to the Greatest with you Hekate May 2017 #1

Note the date. Bleacher Creature May 2017 #2

That's because he's the FASTEST corrupt President in history! Everyone says so!! nt Honeycombe8 May 2017 #9

And the mostest, bigliest, worstest, famoustest lunatica May 2017 #40

+1. NT Honeycombe8 May 2017 #45

Nixon resigned a year after this story DesertRat May 2017 #3

1974 is so much different from 2017 LiberalFighter May 2017 #18

Very few people owned computers in 1974. StevieM May 2017 #28

In 1979 the first Apple store opened in the city I lived in RandomAccess May 2017 #42

Welcome to DU, RandomAccess!! My family got our first computer in 1981, I believe. StevieM May 2017 #43

I STILL love that sound RandomAccess May 2017 #44

Add to this TIA and a dozen more spy agencies, tracking all web traffic, DNS logs, ....... L. Coyote May 2017 #31

The other difference is that in 1973-74 DesertRat May 2017 #32

This BigOleDummy May 2017 #33

More importantly, we had a Democratic majority in both houses... Nitram May 2017 #34

That's the MOST important thing imho. progressoid May 2017 #36

5 years for Nixon to "get there" then gone 1 year later bigbrother05 May 2017 #39

I think few things are clear: MyNameIsKhan May 2017 #4

Yup. All, and more. WinkyDink May 2017 #17

Great find! eleny May 2017 #5

Flop sweat? Oh yes. n/t sarge43 May 2017 #6

I thought that term sounded kind of familiar... The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #7

Bazinga! Is this a real headline? nt Honeycombe8 May 2017 #8

the worst thing bora13 May 2017 #10

WHERE'S THE WITCH?!?!? alittlelark May 2017 #11

If its actually a witch....or someone who is doing almost as much damage as a witch could.. LiberalLovinLug May 2017 #41

Oh My! malaise May 2017 #12

Better for the world, life, humans....but now worried about my 401k. And, it's Laura PourMeADrink May 2017 #13

Yep.... I want to retire in a couple of more years also.... I'm in the same boat groundloop May 2017 #24

Poor republicans.... dubyadiprecession May 2017 #14

I think he is 100x worse than Nixon, but his hard core Alice11111 May 2017 #16

Now there's a brick from down Memory Lane! calimary May 2017 #15

This just seems so eerily reminiscent of Nixon's scandal.... very much deja vu groundloop May 2017 #26

Funny. Re: your last paragraph I had an acquaintance say the exact same thing ... KPN May 2017 #37

speech, speech bora13 May 2017 #19

YES. It is goose Mira May 2017 #20

I love the stench of profusely sweating Republicans in the afternoon... VOX May 2017 #21

Excellent! kentuck May 2017 #22

sureeeeee 45 dawn5651 May 2017 #23

Ironically, those two would have LED witch hunts back in the day. nolabear May 2017 #25

There are parallels to Watergate bucolic_frolic May 2017 #27

Lived this....very reminiscent.... Heartstrings May 2017 #29

Smoked ass with a nice dark char & a side of cooked bacon. flying_wahini May 2017 #30

Knowing the truth, being set free, 1974 and 2017 Blue Ridge Virginia May 2017 #35

Is anyone else into deja vu? raven mad May 2017 #38