Nixon didn't become president until January 20, 1969.
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Nixon didn't become president until January 20, 1969.
02.02.2026 21:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the publicβs attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
03.01.2026 18:49 β π 10764 π 3831 π¬ 416 π 217Might have been better to say nothing rather than do a Susan Collins imitation.
03.01.2026 21:48 β π 500 π 83 π¬ 39 π 5Remember, these are the same folks who talk about "mazel tov" cocktails and "gazpacho" tactics.
03.01.2026 21:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was watching this two days ago and musing to myself about what big distraction might land this weekend.
03.01.2026 20:01 β π 780 π 213 π¬ 12 π 2This is what I've been saying. You have to fight this by destroying his legacy. And doing it with prejudice. There needs to be spectacle made of the destruction.
29.12.2025 21:57 β π 1143 π 182 π¬ 54 π 4Bulldoze the ballroom.
29.12.2025 22:27 β π 1156 π 172 π¬ 61 π 8When I was in 8th grade walking in the hall between classes, I bumped into a 9th grader who was about to punch me before a friend intervened. It was Scott Asheton, drummer of the Stooges.
30.12.2025 02:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is like when pressure from LBJ caused CBS executives to pull a segment from the Smothers' Brothers show with Pete Seeger singing "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy."
22.12.2025 02:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bravo! Such acts of vandalism cannot be permitted to stand.
21.12.2025 01:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
20.12.2025 14:57 β π 5911 π 1686 π¬ 118 π 460To me, it's still Washington National Airport.
18.12.2025 23:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When this is fixed by legislation, a provision should be added taking Reagan's name off of our airport.
18.12.2025 22:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He wasn't elected by the American people the first time. Clinton won the popular vote by 2 million votes. He was elected by the electoral college. But you're right about 2024.
17.12.2025 23:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My favorite after Jim McGreevey cried at a press conference: "Gay Man Tearfully Admits to Being Governor of New Jersey."
05.12.2025 23:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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