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JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today
(www.theguardian.com)
He knows that's not a good thing right? It just highlights the fall
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2026
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It’s sad that he’s right. To be honest compared to what’s going on now I’d be surprised if it even went national.
3rd page news compared to what's going on today
"Nixon was not a crook" isn't a thing. Even back when I was a dumb right leaning kid, everyone knew he was a crook. (Everyone as in everyone knows Nazis are evil fucks, and everyone knows the world is round, not everyone as in every last breathing soul.)
By connecting the dots between Nixon and Trump, they aren't exonerating Nixon. They are doing the other thing.
Roger Stone, who has a tattoo of Nixon's face on his back, is a long-time Trump friend and and one of his most important unofficial advisors throughout his campaigns and presidencies. Somehow Stone's involvement has stayed out of the limelight despite his heavy involvement in, among other things, all the most insidious parts of January 6th.
Quoth Roger Stone: "Fuck the voting. Let's get right to the violence."
For some extremely preliminary reading:
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/roger-stones-crimes/
https://www.jan-6.com/who-is-roger-stone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign
I'm aware of Roger Stone (hence the parenthetical above). My point is that the vast majority of people ONLY think "crook" when they think of Nixon. Of course, the vast majority of people never think of Nixon...
Piece of shit literally explains why fox news exists. Roger ales literally said "if we had a friendly media, Nixon would have never had to resign."
So yeah, dickhole vance, we know the propaganda machine is protecting you...
Isn't that the whole point of Fox news? Drastically minimize the public's attention span and make sure a Republican president is never taken down the same way again?
He’s not wrong.
Trump’s Stooge is so proud of the heights of corruption they have reached.
'We're so awful that--'
Jail.
JD Vance would have gleefully served in the Nixon administration and would have denied everything until the end.
I hate having to agree with this loser