But they’re not only shielding him they’re shielding and defending his methods, which are very authoritarian. I have no hope in an appeal to the GOP’s sense of fairness or traditions of our democracy. They want power and they’ve shown they want it by any means necessary. Pence is no better.

Our problem is our opposition party isn’t a real party of the people. Democrats confirming trump cabinet picks left and right, taking all the same donations as the republicans do to boot. All the motherfuckers need to be primaried out the door, we need to get some leftists with spines elected that will actually fight…

Exactly. How do you shame a man who has none? He has no dignity or honour. He is a pig. He has shown us many times that he is willing to operate completely outside all norms and break any rules he finds inconvenient. People are slowly coming to realise what a danger he poses but too many are still far too blasé about…

Tax returns took down Capone. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

My 59 year old mom says that she’s never been this scared, even during the 60s when they were still ducking and covering. She said that at least back then you believed your own government had your back. Now, however...

I was *just* asking my mom this very question last night! She’s 68, so she was on the front lines for civil/women’s rights during the 60's and 70's. She said that while it was bad for POCs and women, she felt like they had hope. She is absolutely despondent about what’s been happening. My mom was/is a fucking badass,…

I can only imagine how my dad would be reacting (god rest his smutty soul). He despised Trump (my dad worked at a major telecom and I believe had an interaction w/ Trump at one point). Back in 2000ish I remember he talking to him about Trump. His opinion Trump is a dishonest sack of shit who has never earned an…

I feel like Bannon and Conway are smug bastards who are using the Nixon blueprint but think they can “fix” where Nixon “went wrong” and come out of all of this fine. Except I hope they get a huge smack to the face, fired and arrested for all the world to see.

No. Way worse. Don’t get me wrong: Nixon authorized criminal activities while president and was truly a huge dick, but even he maintained the veneer of civility and the rule of law until right at the end, when he completely lost it. Trump is “Nixon wandering drunk in the White House, talking to paintings” right out of…

Much worse today. Trump & Bannon are openly totalitarian fascists, taking advice from our country’s enemy, Russia. THATS BAD

No. Absolutely not. Bush gave a speech after 9/11 calling for tolerance and acceptance of Muslims. Bush was scary, and lots of people died. This is fucking terrifying.

I mean I’m Australian, but from what I recall this is way worse than the Bush administration. I never seriously considered that Bush might actually drop a nuclear bomb on someone for a minor infraction.

Here’s another fascinating/troubling thought: It’s bizarre, to say the least, that no one around Herr Gropenfuhrer knew, or was willing to tell him, that Nixon tried this, and it didn’t work.

No.

This is the first thing I thought of, too. It really was the beginning of the end for Nixon. Folks in his own party began to back away slowly, whistling and looking off into the middle distance. When you fire the Attorney General because they are trying to uphold the Constitution, things have really turned…

He’s quicker on the draw, that’s for sure.

No no no no no no. Not at ALL. I was in college, so I remember well. It wasn’t this scary. I wasn’t this unsettled after 9/11 happened. Our government was stable and things were going along according to protocol (Patriot Act was an obvious low point as well as the Iraq War). Yes, there was Darth Cheney and W was…

No… Nixon took 5 years to work out how to take that big a dump on the Constitution, not 5 days!

Tonight when I heard this news, my mind immediately went to the Saturday Night Massacre. But things generally happened at a much slower pace back. It was more of a drawn out ordeal. It’s interesting to note that it was the Saturday Night Massacre that really spurred the calls for Nixon’s impeachment.

No, it’s really worse. At least back then we could trust most of the conservative party to respect the law, and put nation over party.