▲ 521 ▼ Megathread, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith Indicted Trump on 3 more felony charges. (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by outrageousmatter@lemmy.world [M] to c/politics@lemmy.world 111 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/politics/trump-documents-carlos-de-oliveira-charged.html https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/feds-add-new-charges-against-trump-in-classified-documents-case-00108667
[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 29 points 3 years ago (3 children) Republicans didn't learn a damn thing from Watergate. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 59 points 3 years ago (2 children) Wrong! They learned they'd never let one of their criminals face punishment ever again. As a result they created FOX News in order to always be able to control the narrative and always muddy the waters. It has worked brilliantly for them so far. And the only cost has been a complete erosion in the trust of news, complete erosion in civil discourse complete erosion in bi partisanship. They have taken a metal pipe to democracy's kneecaps just to make sure their criminals never have to pay any real consequences. All of this btw is fully documented. I'm sad to say say, but some brilliant minds put a lot of work into establishing and creating fox news.. It's very sad. It's kind of like today we have brilliant engineers spending their time fighting ad blockers and shoving ads down people's throats. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] treefrog@lemm.ee 24 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago How did that work out? Stay tuned permalink fedilink source parent [–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago* They learned they can get away with it. Because, IIRC, Nixon didn't die in jail... permalink fedilink source parent [–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago they absolutely learned from watergate. they got everything they wanted from trump. hell, with what they learned from watergate they got away with selling crack to fund right-wing death squads on behalf of coca cola. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 59 points 3 years ago (2 children) Wrong! They learned they'd never let one of their criminals face punishment ever again. As a result they created FOX News in order to always be able to control the narrative and always muddy the waters. It has worked brilliantly for them so far. And the only cost has been a complete erosion in the trust of news, complete erosion in civil discourse complete erosion in bi partisanship. They have taken a metal pipe to democracy's kneecaps just to make sure their criminals never have to pay any real consequences. All of this btw is fully documented. I'm sad to say say, but some brilliant minds put a lot of work into establishing and creating fox news.. It's very sad. It's kind of like today we have brilliant engineers spending their time fighting ad blockers and shoving ads down people's throats. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] treefrog@lemm.ee 24 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago How did that work out? Stay tuned permalink fedilink source parent
[+] treefrog@lemm.ee 24 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago How did that work out? Stay tuned permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago* They learned they can get away with it. Because, IIRC, Nixon didn't die in jail... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago they absolutely learned from watergate. they got everything they wanted from trump. hell, with what they learned from watergate they got away with selling crack to fund right-wing death squads on behalf of coca cola. permalink fedilink source parent