A few facts about Nixon no one mentions

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/10-fascinating-facts-about-richard-nixon

Don't take everything FL(unatic)bear says seriously

Look at his party, and their prospective candidates

Danielsjackson114 said:

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Don't take everything FL(unatic)bear says seriously

Look at his party, and their prospective candidates

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Spends all his energy chasing Chaff ....

- el UF

... spewed from Trump's sweet golden ample arse.

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You think Watergate was overkill? Breaking into the opponents office is ok ..

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Oldbear83 said:

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EatMoreSalmon said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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You think Watergate was overkill? Breaking into the opponents office is ok ..

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It was the cover up after that got him. I don't think Nixon ordered the break in, if I remember correctly.

I'm ok with such a thing causing a resignation, but we are so far past that in the "legal" suppression of opposition parties, I don't know if a similar incident would move the needle anymore. Look at the wiretap of Trump communications in 2016. Not much different.

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The Watergate thing gets weirder. The initial planting of the bugs was successful and went undetected. The burglars were caught going back to take out the bugs.

If they had not tried to remove the bugs, the thing would have been a scandal when the bugs were found but there would be no link to the White House.

The security guard who found the tape over the door jam, was not known for attention to detail and discipline. There have been some stories that someone told him to look for that tape.

Watergate is a tale of many things, not least the dangers of arrogance and missing the importance of details.

People are often slow to learn such lessons.

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No one from the Old Guard liked Nixon - esp after he skewered their Golden Boy - Hiss.

So yes, Watergate was someone - Howard Hunt?? - earning his keep in service to them.

- UF

Now the famous Nixon paranoia / dirty tricks and the recording system sealed his fate.....

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EatMoreSalmon said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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You think Watergate was overkill? Breaking into the opponents office is ok ..

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It was the cover up after that got him. I don't think Nixon ordered the break in, if I remember correctly.

I'm ok with such a thing causing a resignation, but we are so far past that in the "legal" suppression of opposition parties, I don't know if a similar incident would move the needle anymore. Look at the wiretap of Trump communications in 2016. Not much different.

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True. Watergate required him to step down. His Cabinet and staff did time. That is pretty up there.

As for now, there are no standards.

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boognish_bear said:

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So...much...gold

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Or how about we say **** you to these multinational corperations importing Indians and Pakistanis into our countries and taking all the homes!

If housing prices going down hurts Boomers, good! **** them! They've had their time in the sun, time to step aside and let the next generation take the lead.

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The_barBEARian said:

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boognish_bear said:

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So...much...gold

Trump: I’m not signing the housing bill… I made billions of dollars with housing. I know housing better than anybody maybe anywhere. It’s all about the interest rate. Lower the interest rates and you’ll have all the housing you want.

But I don’t want to hurt people that own…

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 24, 2026

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Or how about we say **** you to these multinational corperations importing Indians and Pakistanis into our countries and taking all the homes!

If housing prices going down hurts Boomers, good! **** them! They've had their time in the sun, time to step aside and let the next generation take the lead.

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or maybe you could focus and make more $ so you can get your little house in the burbs. Quit your *****ing. Very MAGA of you. Somebody else is responsible for not getting what I was promised. You were lied to , little fella.

EatMoreSalmon said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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You think Watergate was overkill? Breaking into the opponents office is ok ..

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It was the cover up after that got him. I don't think Nixon ordered the break in, if I remember correctly.

I'm ok with such a thing causing a resignation, but we are so far past that in the "legal" suppression of opposition parties, I don't know if a similar incident would move the needle anymore. Look at the wiretap of Trump communications in 2016. Not much different.

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Nixon did not even know about the break in until after the fact.

Meanwhile, the Dems since then have all been unmitigated disasters with few real accomplishments but plenty of scandals:

-Carter's record as one of the r we pray presidents in history. At least he didn't have lots of scandals.
-Clinton's greatest accomplishment was to make Nixon look like a saint in comparison: Nannygate, Travelgate, and of course Monicagate. These are just the highlights. The economic successes of the late 1990s is more deff St pits Clinton than because of him. The Gingrich revolution actually produced positive results while Clinton wanted more govt control & more taxes (and thankfully was limited in what he could get).
-Obama was arguably even worse: he destroyed much of American healthcare and made it unaffordable for many. And he had many scandals: Fast & Furious, the Russia collusion hoax, paying Iran to develop nukes, IRS (Lois Lerner anyone?), etc.
-Pres Autopen's entire presidency was one continual scandal with one disaster after another: Afghanistan, his mental deficiencies, Bidenflation, open borders, pro crime, Hunter's laptop, cocaine in the White House, the FBI, etc ad nauseum.

And they all (except maybe Carter) covered up far more crimes than one idiotic burglary attempt.

FLBear5630 said:

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EatMoreSalmon said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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You think Watergate was overkill? Breaking into the opponents office is ok ..

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It was the cover up after that got him. I don't think Nixon ordered the break in, if I remember correctly.

I'm ok with such a thing causing a resignation, but we are so far past that in the "legal" suppression of opposition parties, I don't know if a similar incident would move the needle anymore. Look at the wiretap of Trump communications in 2016. Not much different.

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True. Watergate required him to step down. His Cabinet and staff did time. That is pretty up there.

As for now, there are no standards.

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True no one from the Clinton, Obama, or Biden administrations has even been prosecuted much less done time for their myriad crimes. OTOH, Pres Trump endured years of lawfare with bogus investigations and prosecutions based on madd up charges, lies, zero evidence, and a complete lack of due process (& other constitutional abuses).

The fascists only care about the law when they can abuse it against others. They are very rarely held accountable.

boognish_bear said:

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True. Those words appear nowhere in the original document or in any amendments. It would require a dishonest misreading of history to imply the idea was prevalent among the Founders. The phrase originated in a letter by Pres Thomas Jefferson to a group of Baptist pastors in Danberry, Connecticut and his meaning was the opposite of the way it is used today.

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boognish_bear said:

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Dan Patrick: "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution" pic.twitter.com/aV6ro6kltS

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2026

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Another "broken clock is correct" thing

It's true that the phrase is not in the U.S. Constitution

And was not even mentioned as a phrase by the Supreme Court until the 20th century

The constitution forbids a single Federal-established religion. And at the same time the constitution prevents the Federal government from interfering with religious practices of the citizens and States.

It does not prevent citizens or States from attempting to democratically put ethics into law. Or even prevent the States themselves from having established churches/religions

Obviously several of the original states HAD state religions at the time of the adoption of the constitution. And would have them for years after. One State until 1833. So the Constitution technically wasn't even against States having a state religion, but THE Federal state having one.

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