Paul F. Tompkins
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It hasn't worn off yet.
It hasn't worn off yet.
It hasn't worn off yet.
It's funny, like, sorry, but the idea that, like, with the Nixon era, after Watergate, when Nixon resigns, that is maybe the last time that there were real consequences for the highest office. Yeah. It doesn't mean anything.
It's funny, like, sorry, but the idea that, like, with the Nixon era, after Watergate, when Nixon resigns, that is maybe the last time that there were real consequences for the highest office. Yeah. It doesn't mean anything.
It's funny, like, sorry, but the idea that, like, with the Nixon era, after Watergate, when Nixon resigns, that is maybe the last time that there were real consequences for the highest office. Yeah. It doesn't mean anything.
It really is just like an asterisk in history, you know, essentially of saying like, just so you know, people, some people thought this was bad and they and they said so officially. But there's no real consequence for any of this. So really what they're doing is saying. We cannot, Nixon should not have had a consequence. We got to make sure that there's never a consequence ever again.
It really is just like an asterisk in history, you know, essentially of saying like, just so you know, people, some people thought this was bad and they and they said so officially. But there's no real consequence for any of this. So really what they're doing is saying. We cannot, Nixon should not have had a consequence. We got to make sure that there's never a consequence ever again.
It really is just like an asterisk in history, you know, essentially of saying like, just so you know, people, some people thought this was bad and they and they said so officially. But there's no real consequence for any of this. So really what they're doing is saying. We cannot, Nixon should not have had a consequence. We got to make sure that there's never a consequence ever again.
And unfortunately that meant for everybody for like, for, I don't know if, if, because if it didn't happen, if it didn't happen after Bush, which there was not even an impeachment for Bush, like for the Iraq war that we all know now was bogus. If there was never going to be a consequence for that, Then it worked. And there and from now on, like, when is it ever going to happen again?
And unfortunately that meant for everybody for like, for, I don't know if, if, because if it didn't happen, if it didn't happen after Bush, which there was not even an impeachment for Bush, like for the Iraq war that we all know now was bogus. If there was never going to be a consequence for that, Then it worked. And there and from now on, like, when is it ever going to happen again?
And unfortunately that meant for everybody for like, for, I don't know if, if, because if it didn't happen, if it didn't happen after Bush, which there was not even an impeachment for Bush, like for the Iraq war that we all know now was bogus. If there was never going to be a consequence for that, Then it worked. And there and from now on, like, when is it ever going to happen again?
When if it didn't happen, then when is it ever going to happen again?
When if it didn't happen, then when is it ever going to happen again?
When if it didn't happen, then when is it ever going to happen again?
And then it also conditions whether you're on Russia's side or not, whether you're on that side of things or not. It conditions everybody to feel like... it's okay that there's no consequences because what are you going to do?
And then it also conditions whether you're on Russia's side or not, whether you're on that side of things or not. It conditions everybody to feel like... it's okay that there's no consequences because what are you going to do?
And then it also conditions whether you're on Russia's side or not, whether you're on that side of things or not. It conditions everybody to feel like... it's okay that there's no consequences because what are you going to do?
It's just the way things are.
It's just the way things are.