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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums50 years ago on this date, security guard Frank Wills discovered a door latch taped open in
The Watergate.
So it began.
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Liddy didnt want them to do that. They did it anyway.
The rest is history.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)Liddy was at a Washington cocktail party, he lit a match and held his hand in the flame until the match went out. Somebody asked him Whats the trick?. He answered the trick is not caring.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)James Bond? Col. Flagg from MASH, more like.
He started doing that match shit in military school to toughen himself up.
Certifiably insane.
Didnt stop there. I read Will several years ago and he told a story about a neighbor coming to his house with some kind of complaint. Liddy slowly got up, got a gun, and made a big show of taking it apart and cleaning it in front of the neighbor.
Just nuts.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)to get over his fear of them. Psycho!!!!!
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Just like Col. Flagg.
FLAGG: Close your eyes and Ill be gone like the wind.
(Sound of glass breaking)
HAWKEYE (Looking out a broken window): The wind just broke his leg.
That was Liddy.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)and Liddy was a large part of the show. He was so extreme that I did my own research to see how much of the over-the-top story was fiction. It turned out that all the crazy shit really was true and it went beyond the Watergate years. I don't understand why Carter commuted his sentence though.
MASH episodes with Flagg are my favorite ones. That actor was really good.
Probatim
(2,538 posts)Thanks for the reminder.
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)the area above the flame is the hot part that will burn you. My grandmother would use her hands to flip flatbreads on a gas stove.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)The dude was psycho. He said the room would smell of burning flesh when he did this. I really can't figure out why anyone would have anything to do with him, let alone hire him for an important crime.
Best_man23
(4,907 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,965 posts)Time for the online MAGAts and Q crowd to get their comeuppance where threats of violence are concerned.
rurallib
(62,441 posts)from Nixon to Reagan to Bush 1 and Bush 2 to Trump and McCarthy.
It is just a long continuous string
Omnipresent
(5,720 posts)He called out the National guard to burn down a camp city built by veterans in 1932.
All they wanted was to cash in their WW1 bonus certificates early, because they were in need during the Great Depression.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,581 posts)Link to tweet
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)catbyte
(34,426 posts)How naive we all were.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)barbtries
(28,810 posts)what if nixon had paid the consequences for his crimes
what if reagan had
what if bush had
they all got away with it. trump so far as well. maybe if there were prosecutions then, there wouldn't be a democracy in peril today. We are ostensibly a nation of laws and not men, after all. republicans have been putting the lie to that for decades if not centuries, and they got away with it.
rurallib
(62,441 posts)thinking what the consequences might be. Much worse than I could ever imagine.
If Trump skates, that will be the curtain call for democracies.
barbtries
(28,810 posts)and it pissed me off. as long as he lived i would not tune in. it outraged me that he was still respected. i feel the same about reagan and gw, cheney, etc. the list of crimes is long. I can't get away with jaywalking but these fucks got away with so much worse. I agree, our democracy is on the edge. if trump skates or heaven forbid is allowed back in office, it's over.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)Ill be gone before the inauguration so help me God.
wnylib
(21,571 posts)we heard yesterday in the hearing, that overturning the 2020 election would have been settled in the streets, will come true.
I am concerned that, no matter which way 2024 goes (and maybe 2022), there will be civil unrest. Don't know how bad it will be, but things seem to point in the direction of open physical confrontations. If Republicans overturn election results, or interfere with votes to get their desired outcome, we will not sit back and accept it. If Dems win, they will not accept it.
Looks like our best bet right now, in addition to GOTV, is to discredit the RW thugs publicly as we are doing in the hearings. And brace ourselves for whatever might happen.
niyad
(113,526 posts)that one day we would have someone worse than nixon. Then we got ray-gun, the bushes, and then the horror of t****.
We need to stop being squeamish about prosecuting these guys. Worrying too much about the scandal seems to prevent us from going after them. No one is supposed to be above the law. It's one of our founding principles. We send the wrong message when we let them skate instead of enacting consequences on them. And, so here we are.
murielm99
(30,755 posts)We were off. And the rest of the race was exciting and horrifying.
Nixon's men went to jail. I hope TFG's men do, too. And this time, no pardons for the chief culprit!