Veteran 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley reported on Donald Trump’s efforts to strong-arm some of the country’s top law firms into doing his bidding on Sunday night’s episode of the embattled CBS newsmagazine.
Pelley’s segment pulled no punches in describing Trump’s efforts and reminding viewers that Trump is the “first felon” ever to sit in the Oval Office.
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Nixon didn’t do shit compared to Donald
Because he inherited a mostly functional democratic society and not the shitshow Trump took over from Obama and later Biden.
I mean, sure, you could call it a shitshow, but whenever a republican is president, they make things even worse than a shitshow. 😛
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Reported for ad hominem.
Did I ever imply otherwise? More relevantly, do I sound like I care?
Yes, the gift of unpopular wars, wildly expanded executive power, a massive surveillance state, backlash to ineffectual neoliberal rule, etc. The march towards fascism started with either Reagan or Nixon, and not with Trump. Trump took a society teetering on the edge of fascism and gave it the final push it needed to fall in.
You think you make good points but you don’t.
And yet you’re the one who cancelled his comment. Pray tell, is it not true that the rise in American authoritarianism started in the late 60es, when the government started to act in spite of what public opinions thought about its action in foreign countries and wars? If not, can you please post any proof supporting this thesis of yours? Because it’s sure as he’ll that I, as many others, will never take your word for granted if you aren’t able to support it with factual information.
Take your head out if your ass and realise that American (like most of us in the “developed” world) have been bought with pearls and trinkets to subdue their reasoning capabilities and voices to capitalism and its venomous fruits. The sooner you accept this ACTUAL FACT the sooner you can start fighting the good fight against capitalism and its cronies (who may also be your friends and family; not all capitalists drive around in nice cars or live in big villas. Most of them are “momentarily embarrassed billionaires” or delusional victims as I like to call them)
Then your comment was such a load of shit that it was removed from a moderator. Either way the original comment we were replying to is no longer with us so I cannot tell the point you were arguing about in it, I inferred its contents from the first reply by NoneOfUrBusiness and the citations he provided with it.
Furthermore your reply to NoneOfUrBusiness answer to your original post was just a “no, you’re wrong and I’m right”. Such a level of discussion, you must be a sage in your community. If your community is a kindergarden .
Lastly you can have opinions, too bad they are shit opinions not supported by facts
Hahhahahahahahhahahaha then when was the last good economy? 2008? LOL
I never said anything about the economy. Reread my reply; I said “mostly functional democratic society”. Democratic norms and checks and balances were in much better shape when Nixon took office than when Trump did.
Are you high?
He’s got a point. As far as culture, norms, and sensibility, it was before Obama. However, he’s leaving out that we got to here because shit heads like him had a fuse blow in their brain when a black man became president.
What kind of shithead exactly? I’m not sure what group I’m being pegged as here.
That’s certainly part of it, but let’s not pretend Obama’s biggest contribution to the march to fascism was being a black man. Continuing the war on terror after Bin Laden’s death handily gets that honor.
I will not dignify that with a response.
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He just further paved the way
Agreed. Trump is obviously the worst president in history, but Nixon and Reagan paved the way. There seems to be a common denominator there…
Ronald Reagan “Rookies”.