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At this point Trump is looking more and more like Nixon on fast-forward.

sandworm101 10y ago
Fast-something. Nixon created the EPA, trump is on rewind there. I think nixon was more his own person, this guy seems a sponge for whoever spoke to him most recently. In that way he is more similar to many historical kings than modern presidents.
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res0nat0r 10y ago
And I'm guessing he's going to freely get away with much more than anything Nixon did. Thanks to the GOP who doesn't care about any abuses coming out of the White House because they want to get tax cuts for their millionaire friends they are allowing the integrity of our systems to erode.
- aaron-lebo 10y ago
  At some point you simply make too many enemies. Dems already hate him and this removal continues his conflict with the traditional GOP. He's either gonna cross the wrong person or be so unpopular that he's gone in a few more years and nobody will care.
  - cthulha 10y ago
    There doesn't seem to be any Democrat involvement with this. Every recent development is to do with Trump-Russia investigation. Seems unlikely that Democrats would have supported him much, but it sounds like they weren't asked to -- they were told at 5.30pm that he was fired, same as everyone else!
tareqak 10y ago
FWIW, it has been 43 years since > The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_9&oldid=779607159 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_9&oldid=77960...
anigbrowl 10y ago
Minus the intelligence and a number of other factors. I seem to be the only leftie in America that rather admires Nixon despite his numerous flaws and considers him a bit of a tragic figure. In an earlier and scrappier era he'd have been considered a great statesman.
- pm90 10y ago
  Like another comment pointed out, Nixon created the EPA for chissake....unthinkable thing for a Republican today.
  - mikestew 10y ago
    Ooh, if you like that one, you should read up his proposal for health care. Were it not for that little Watergate kerfluffle, the whole ACA debate might have never taken place, and the U. S. might have had decent healthcare. (A lot of supposition behind that, though.) In other words, comparing Trump to Nixon does a disservice to Nixon, IMO.
  - tzs 10y ago
    ...and Ronald Reagan instituted the first cap and trade system in the US for the phase out of leaded gasoline, and then a few years later used cap and trade again to reduce the chemicals that damaged the ozone layer. Also unthinkable in today's GOP.
- maxerickson 10y ago
  I like to troll time travel threads by joking about warning Nixon. People don't like it.
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CalChris 10y ago
Even the Nixon Library trolled Trump: FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian https://twitter.com/NixonLibrary/status/862083605081862145 https://twitter.com/NixonLibrary/status/862083605081862145
- tanderson92 10y ago
  A very good Nixon parody account is @dick_nixon: https://twitter.com/dick_nixon https://twitter.com/dick_nixon
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Fast-something. Nixon created the EPA, trump is on rewind there. I think nixon was more his own person, this guy seems a sponge for whoever spoke to him most recently. In that way he is more similar to many historical kings than modern presidents.

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res0nat0r 10y ago

And I'm guessing he's going to freely get away with much more than anything Nixon did. Thanks to the GOP who doesn't care about any abuses coming out of the White House because they want to get tax cuts for their millionaire friends they are allowing the integrity of our systems to erode.

aaron-lebo 10y ago
At some point you simply make too many enemies. Dems already hate him and this removal continues his conflict with the traditional GOP. He's either gonna cross the wrong person or be so unpopular that he's gone in a few more years and nobody will care.
- cthulha 10y ago
  There doesn't seem to be any Democrat involvement with this. Every recent development is to do with Trump-Russia investigation. Seems unlikely that Democrats would have supported him much, but it sounds like they weren't asked to -- they were told at 5.30pm that he was fired, same as everyone else!

tareqak 10y ago

FWIW, it has been 43 years since > The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_9&oldid=779607159 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_9&oldid=77960...

anigbrowl 10y ago

Minus the intelligence and a number of other factors. I seem to be the only leftie in America that rather admires Nixon despite his numerous flaws and considers him a bit of a tragic figure. In an earlier and scrappier era he'd have been considered a great statesman.

pm90 10y ago
Like another comment pointed out, Nixon created the EPA for chissake....unthinkable thing for a Republican today.
- mikestew 10y ago
  Ooh, if you like that one, you should read up his proposal for health care. Were it not for that little Watergate kerfluffle, the whole ACA debate might have never taken place, and the U. S. might have had decent healthcare. (A lot of supposition behind that, though.) In other words, comparing Trump to Nixon does a disservice to Nixon, IMO.
- tzs 10y ago
  ...and Ronald Reagan instituted the first cap and trade system in the US for the phase out of leaded gasoline, and then a few years later used cap and trade again to reduce the chemicals that damaged the ozone layer. Also unthinkable in today's GOP.
maxerickson 10y ago
I like to troll time travel threads by joking about warning Nixon. People don't like it.

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CalChris 10y ago

Even the Nixon Library trolled Trump: FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian https://twitter.com/NixonLibrary/status/862083605081862145 https://twitter.com/NixonLibrary/status/862083605081862145

tanderson92 10y ago
A very good Nixon parody account is @dick_nixon: https://twitter.com/dick_nixon https://twitter.com/dick_nixon

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