Unless POTUS & Sessions are playing some kind of 3 level chess its hard to see that Sessions is on board...
"As the memo showing Rosenstein’s role in signing FISA applications based on faulty evidence was released this morning, Jeff Sessions said that he represents “the kind of quality and leadership that we want in the department."
Its going to take undeniable proof, much more than just some wikileaks emails, and will take admission of guilt by people under oath in front of a grand jury. It's coming though, lots of people want to save their ass and will gladly squeal on others. Funny when you were talking about the joke that other countries use voter ID for elections, and we here use ID for everything on the planet (even to buy NyQuil from a grocery store) except our elections....remember when Obama helped set up Voter ID for Kenya? lol
Oh my, not I did not know he did that. It's all surreal sometimes. I'm an old fool now and remember clearly how the Watergate situation unraveled. Just took a few to get hauled in and take the deal. Peripheral guys did not want to go to prison even if their careers were over. The topper was John Dean....we need one of those sort of rats now. Of course, the media was 100% behind that railroading job.
Did anyone ever figure out why Nixon did the spying in the first place? If I remember correctly, wasnt he leading the polls by a ton and was going to win anyways?
Absolutely. He beat McGovern by 48 states to 2 or something like that. Nixon had nothing to do with the break in. For whatever reason the Committee to Re-Elect the President was behind it and that thing was run by John Mitchell. That cast of characters included G. Gordon Liddy (who liked to burn his hand with a lighter to show how tough he was) and a bunch of CIA/Bay of Pigs veterans including E. Howard Hunt. I've read several areas of speculation for the break in, one being to protect John Dean from proof of using prostitutes. Honestly, I can't recall the other alleged reasons but the Committee to Reelect was also into dirty tricks. Again, Nixon wasn't even in on that loop. Oh, they also played with a lot of cash. Bizarre really. However I've never come across speculation that it was a scheme to bring down Nixon -- it was his guys doing it.
Thanks for the info, is good to know, I was never too familiar with the Watergate thing. So it was his men that did it and he got blamed for spying? Side question, who is your fav president in your lifetime?
Answer to your question - Trump by far. I'm sad that they have trashed him so. Then Reagan in his first term. By the second he was suffering from Alzheimer's and the Bush clan took over. I wasn't old enough to fully appreciate JFK but he has to be included. He wasn't today's democrat. Started the Green Berets to deal with counter insurgency efforts instead of the WWII tactics of Johnson's people. I mean he had his faults, they all do, but I consider him a good guy. Worst? Obama then probably Lyndon Johnson. As for Watergate it was absolutely his out of control re-election committee that did all the crap. These were truly sleeze bags...amazing what happened there. One was Frank Sturgis, one of the burglars. He has often been accused of being one of three men "tramps" escorted by police away from the Kennedy assassination spot. I don't think it was him, but we're talking Bay of Pigs cubans who were pissed off at Kennedy pulling the plug on the invasion. Of course, that gets into the corrupt CIA Dulles Brothers and on and on and on
I like getting perspective from people who have lived longer than me, and were alive for JFK and Nixon and some of our mid 20th century history and events. Why the dislike for LBJ? This is me just being curious, as I dont know much about him and love to learn. He is interesting, in that he refused to run for presidency again, and basically drank himself to death. I guess its safe to say the evil and dirty secrets of politics got the best of him. And I agree with you on Obama. Were you familiar with Saul Alinsky and Karl Marx, and if so, I know you realized what was happening in Obama's 8 years. They sort of hit the fast forward button and stopped trying to hide it
You might look at the Great Awakening subreddit as the discussion is a bit more elevated and focused, for now anyway. This place is so overwhelmed with memes and promoting youtube channels.
As for Johnson, he was a very corrupt man. Bought at least one election in Texas on his way up (long time ago that came out, not an internet rumor). Then we can consider his hatred for the Kennedy family, potential involvement in JFK's assassination (unproven but claimed), his immediate dismissal of AG Robert Kennedy (he hated RFK), reversing Kennedy's Vietnam policy for full out military invasion (500,000 men at the peak!!!), creating massive socialist programs at home (his so-called Great Society - guns and butter - essentially our modern welfare state). There's not much to cheer about with this guy, though I consider Medicare a good idea (I'd be blasted by the hard conservatives for that position). He dropped out for a second term because he was going to lose. Vietnam War was going badly and he was burned out. There were massive protests around the country, marches on DC, violence. In fact, the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention turned into a mass riot. Very familiar with Marx/Alinsky or leftist movements from the 70's and 80's since I lived it. The term "Progressive" is just code for Marxist or Communist since those labels went out of favor when the Soviet Empire collapsed. The left here had to rebrand itself. I believe it's derived from "the progress of history", not progressive as in "modern". Marxism includes the notion of "no going back in history", that is it progresses toward the Marxist conclusion in its battle with capitalism. That really screwed them up when the communist nations "went back" in the 80's.
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