05-10-2017, 10:39 PM
(05-09-2017, 06:33 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(05-09-2017, 06:09 PM)Odin Wrote: Looks like Trump has done his own Saturday Night Massacre. This really is a shitty Nixon rerun...
Score another flub for the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight.
What a complete, freaking, sad, joke. The worst President in US history ... and he happens to be in our time!!!! Well, we cannot say we are not living in interesting times.
I thought Bush 43's grab on the worst president title would last a lot longer.
Trump trends narcissist while Nixon was paranoid. It seems to me that paranoia could be kept secret, hidden from the public, much longer. I have a similar feeling between the two presidents of an administration shooting itself in the foot. I'm not sure what it is, but I got much more intense and emotional about Nixon. Maybe I was younger. Maybe the times were still emotionally charged with the remnants of the awakening mood.
I remember at the peak of Watergate, when the Big Three TV networks were ever so dominant, watching Walter Cronkite spend 25 of this 30 allotted minutes on Watergate without having problems filling the time slot. Next up? A Watergate special, of course.
From my perspective, while Trump's fiasco certainly out splashes Bush 43, Nixon was a far more intense ride. Give Trump more time, I suppose.
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