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 Republican Spiro Agnew served as Vice President under President Richard Nixon from January 1969 until his resignation in October 1973 due to issues unrelated to the Watergate scandal. He was the second United States vice president to resign from office, following only John Calhoun, who did so in 1832. Agnew was a crusader for what became known as “The Silent Majority,” which the administration depicted as patriotic, conservative, middle-class Americans opposed to the counterculture events of the time. He was often used as Nixon’s voice in the public to attack the media, war protestors and the administration’s opponents in colorful, bombastic ways. After Nixon won re-election, Agnew was targeted by a U.S. Attorney investigation for tax fraud, bribery, extortion and conspiracy related to his earlier political career in Maryland. He was formally charged with accepting bribes of more than $100,000. Agnew decided not to face trial and resigned, entering a plea of no contest to charges of evading income taxes. Agnew was given three years probation and fined $10,000. In 1981, a civil court revealed that Agnew had in fact accepted the sum of $147,000 in bribes while governor of Maryland. He received $17,500 of the cash while he was serving as Vice President. Agnew was forced to reimburse the state $268,000.
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This is a thread where people can be mad at politicians other than the ones we're usually mad at.
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He's been dead for almost exactly 20 years
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here is a good example of the wrong kind of thing to post in this thread:
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Cease to Hope posted:He's been dead for almost exactly 20 years
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Hate 'em all, it's in their nature be unlikable cretins.
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I never really cared for that Stalin character.
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Sep 30, 2016 19:02
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Applewhite posted:I never really cared for that Stalin character. Well he helped stop that Hitler chap, who I have heard many bad things about.
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akulanization posted:Well he helped stop that Hitler chap, who I have heard many bad things about.
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Roosevelt refused to allow America to become involved in World War 2 because, quote, "Douche and a turd sandwich, amirite?"
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Michael Bloomberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruQq3s_ux90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu2JIHoFZmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L0Zq0MusGA
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David Duke's kind of an rear end in a top hat. Former Imperial Wizard of the KKK, white nationalist, Holocaust denier, etc. and still occasionally runs for office. He ran/is currently running for a Senate seat in Louisiana this year. Edit: Oh and he endorsed Trump saying it was “really treason to your heritage" if you didn't vote for him. TwoStepBoog fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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TwoStepBoog posted:David Duke's kind of an rear end in a top hat. Former Imperial Wizard of the KKK, white nationalist, Holocaust denier, etc. and still occasionally runs for office. He ran/is currently running for a Senate seat in Louisiana this year.
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Gregory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev sided with Stalin over Trotsky because they thought the latter was rude. Then all three (Zinoviev, Kamenev AND Trotsky) got owned in epic fashion in the 1930s by Stalin. Looking back, nearly every original Bolshevik ended up in the owned zone come to think of it.
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Sep 30, 2016 19:29
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George Bush vomited on the Japanese PM, how dishonorable
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Sep 30, 2016 19:30
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He did give the Japanese PM some really tacky boots with the Japanese flag on them, which is like a huge insult or some poo poo.
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Sep 30, 2016 19:31
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George Bush played as E. Honda to honor the Japanese PM, but it came across as an insult (this was back when both players couldn't be the same character).
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George W Bush couldn't open that one door in China during a press conference.
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akulanization posted:Well he helped stop that Hitler chap, who I have heard many bad things about. Near the end of the war it was common for resistance movements to stage an uprising as an Allied army was just a couple days away. This worked to help the Allies capture Paris and a few other cities. In Warsaw the same thing happened when the Red Army was on its way. Except Stalin had the Red Army stop just outside the city limits and post up behind the Vistule river. Then the Red Army just sat there and ignored the Polish attempts to make radio contact as the Germans fought them. Churchill and FDR made numerous attempts to get the Soviets to aid the Poles to no avail. The US finally decided to just airdrop supplies in but they couldn't really do much as the Soviets refused to let them use their airfields. The Poles managed to hold the Germans in a stalemate for 2 months but were ultimately defeated. The entire remaining civilian population of the city was removed and about half were sent to concentration camps (~150,000 of ~400,000 people); the others were shipped to various other parts of the Reich for resettlement. The Germans then leveled 1/3rd of the city block by block. Because of previous damage this meant the city was 85% destroyed. Then the Soviets attacked. Then any Polish resistance fighters who weren't caught by the Germans got caught by the NKVD who killed them for collaborating with Nazi Germany. Assholes. e: Poles in a captured German Panther: 
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Roylicious posted:Near the end of the war it was common for resistance movements to stage an uprising as an Allied army was just a couple days away. This worked to help the Allies capture Paris and a few other cities. No that's just what we in the business community call a "power move."
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TwoStepBoog posted:David Duke's kind of an rear end in a top hat. Former Imperial Wizard of the KKK, white nationalist, Holocaust denier, etc. and still occasionally runs for office. He ran/is currently running for a Senate seat in Louisiana this year. Great! quote:“Before Trump, our identity ideas, national ideas, they had no place to go,” said Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank based in Arlington, Va.
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Applewhite posted:I never really cared for that Stalin character. That is a very reactionary thought comrade
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TwoStepBoog posted:David Duke's kind of an rear end in a top hat. Former Imperial Wizard of the KKK, white nationalist, Holocaust denier, etc. and still occasionally runs for office. He ran/is currently running for a Senate seat in Louisiana this year. He already came within a hair's breadth of winning Governor because he was running against convicted criminal and Last of the New Deal Democrats, Edwin Edwards.
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Sep 30, 2016 20:24
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jerry springer was a politician and he went on to do his thing
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I guess I'll be the guy who says it. gently caress THIS GUY
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bernie sanders -- white male progressive: obvious hypocrite as everyone knows, the political system is about getting privileges or keeping privileges for your particular configuration of intersecting traits, so therefore as a white male who is working to give away all the hardfought valueburdens of white males, this cretin is clearly some kind of reptilian human impostor developed in cooperation with the cultural marxists to put gay black female stalin in charge of earth aka: the antichrist dookifex_maximus fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Sep 30, 2016 20:32
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Sgt. Timmy Krimbles Was elected speaker of the house despite being unable to speak and being a guinea pig. Now nobody can speak in my house. I also don't believe he is a real sergeant and many questions have been brought up about his service record.
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Sam Brownback and Scott Walker are both in the top 10 for lowest approval ratings, but Brownback has the absolute worst approval rating in the entire country so probably him.
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do u know jenny posted:Sam Brownback and Scott Walker are both in the top 10 for lowest approval ratings, but Brownback has the absolute worst approval rating in the entire country so probably him. yea but they're correctly using the political system to quash their enemies and help the wealthy aristocracy so opinion doesn't figure into it
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In Stalin's defence, he did modernize a country that had slavery 100 years ago. Literacy rates and industry went through the roof under his rule. Sure, there were all the mass murders, but I get the impression that was pretty par for the course in Russia.
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sure, he was an excellent executive, but for a competing firm lemme explain how ethics and values work we value us, and disvalue them and this gives us a framework to develop our ethics: we = good they = bad things that help us = good things that help them = bad things that hurt us = bad things that hurt them = good now go vote/enlist dookifex_maximus fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU they are pretty much universally bad right now, i like elizabeth warren though shes feisty
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The only politicians I trust. http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/life-raft-election/n11682
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BIG PUFFY NIPS posted:
i love liz, as a minority she's not a hypocrite when she does the progressive thing this is the same reason I like david duke and the american nazi party, they're way more honest than the rest of the politicians
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another thing they have going for them is they're NOT FILTHY FOREIGNERS
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dookifex_maximus posted:i love liz, as a minority she's not a hypocrite when she does the progressive thing what does this even mean?
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BIG PUFFY NIPS posted:what does this even mean? well everybody knows the political system is all about attaining or preserving privileges for your specific configuration of intersecting personal traits. because we live in a globally competitive society, and nobody's right or wrong (except foreigners), the only real metric you can judge a politician's value is by how little hypocrisy they display, because it really should be me in that seat getting the kickbacks, but that's a different subject the subject is the fact that racism and sexism are more of a function of power than of actual preconceptions and prejudices. because the n word possesses this power, it is racist, while the word honkey is merely a racially charged minority appropriation of the n word's social and cultural superstructures. so from this perspective, there are two sides; the patriarchy and minorities. if a person who is a beneficiary of patriarchy says or does a thing, it can be honest (in support of patriarchy) or dishonest (bernie sanders) and if a minority says or does a thing it can be honest (elizabeth warren) or dishonest (those crazy alt-right ladies who want to be chained to the stove) dookifex_maximus fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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 Baron Waqa, president of Nauru
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