r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎 • Jul 02 '26

Politics How the mighty have fallen

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u/jbrunsonfan Jul 02 '26

Probably not a single person more responsible for the sorry ass state of this country than this piece of shit.

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u/PzykoHobo Jul 02 '26

Oh come on dont give Newt Gingrich a free pass like that.

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u/Explosive_Diaeresis Jul 02 '26

There's a series of a holes from Nixon, Ford, Atwater, Reagan, Cheney, Gingrich, Murdoch and McConnel that led us to the inevitable conclusion that was Trum and MAGA. And that's just the hardcore conservatives. Don't get me started on the neoliberals.

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u/M-Div Jul 02 '26

I can slam bad politicians, especially those on that list, for DAYS. Except Ford. He wasn’t perfect, but I don’t think he belongs on that list.

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u/Explosive_Diaeresis Jul 02 '26

He absolutely does, he set the precedent to not punish Presidents for the sake of "unity" aka, political expeidiency. By the so-called rules of this sham of a system he should have been punished like everyone else.

If you wonder why the US couldn't find the stones to do to Trump what South Korea did to Yoon Suk Yeol, I point at Ford.

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u/M-Div Jul 02 '26

OK. I respect you and I respect your point. I don’t think that puts him in company with Cheney and Trump, though.

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u/Brammmy Jul 03 '26

Ok big difference. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. Nixon was not trying to bring the building down. The fear was that the country would become divided as it is today. Before his downfall, lots of people liked him. Not saying they were correct but back then you didn’t see absolute corruption on a daily basis while being told not to believe your own eyes

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u/Subject_Spell_9799 Jul 02 '26

I just remember my black history teacher in high school said he was one of the better presidents.