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guillaumeb

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4. Yes.

Reply to uponit7771 (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2017, 05:23 PM

Jan 2017

Nixon's people were in discussion with North Vietnam prior to the election.

Reagan's people were in discussion with Iran re: the hostages.

Treason in both cases.

All three used racial resentment as a motivator.

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Does anyone remember Nixon or RayGun being as bad as Benedict Donald? [View all] uponit7771 Jan 2017 OP

Been voting since '64 jehop61 Jan 2017 #1

Which one stands out? Ignorance, Immoral, self serving, racist? The treason one stands out to me uponit7771 Jan 2017 #9

Nixon and Reagan were awful in their own idiosyncratic ways but you always believed there would be no_hypocrisy Jan 2017 #2

Trump is a whole new level of terrible. yardwork Jan 2017 #3

Yes. guillaumeb Jan 2017 #4

OK... seems like conservatives have been using outside help to win elections for a while now uponit7771 Jan 2017 #10

Trump is the worst but Reagan started this mess nini Jan 2017 #5

THAT'S IT! Chasstev365 Jan 2017 #6

Wasn't from me but it lights his Band Of Bigots hair on fire they hate that he's tied to treason uponit7771 Jan 2017 #11

The way they shifted the courts set up this whole corporate kleptocracy MattP Jan 2017 #7

Recommended. H2O Man Jan 2017 #8

This! n/t MANative Jan 2017 #13

The two of them laid the foundation for this piece of human excrement. MANative Jan 2017 #12

Nixon & Reagan peggysue2 Jan 2017 #14

WOW !!! Shit... KingCon is smart at grifting and the sail nothing else... shit... we're proper screw uponit7771 Jan 2017 #16

Reagan at least had some experience as governor and Nixon was not a stupid man. Vinca Jan 2017 #15

Iran Contra mythology Jan 2017 #17

What about open ties to US adversaries like Benedict Donald? Also what is Trumps uponit7771 Jan 2017 #18

It isn't him alone Cosmocat Jan 2017 #19

+1, "The country as a whole is now flat out stupid as fuck." or at least the part that voted for uponit7771 Jan 2017 #20

+1,000 AgadorSparticus Jan 2017 #21

Trump isn't president yet oberliner Jan 2017 #22

exactly. until he starts doing things, he can't be regarded as worse than Nixon onenote Jan 2017 #23