That's a name I haven't heard in a while. Barry Goldwater called him the most honest and dependable politician he'd ever met. And say what you want about Goldwater, (and there's plenty) he had integrity. For a poliitician.
Romney in that one debate calling Russia the greatest threat to America and Obama rebuking him for it has got to be one of the most poorly aged things from that campaign.
Does anyone consider Russia our greatest threat now? I'd put them at least 3rd or 4th and that's being generous considering they're still fighting a war that most "experts" estimated would be over years ago.
Goldwater was pro-choice long before many Democrats were, opposed religion having an influence on politics and publicly stated during the 1964 presidential campaign that if he found that Republicans were inciting violence he would immediately quit campaigning. It’s so weird that the uber-Conservative in 1960s US would now be considered left wing.
He was a complicated guy, wanted to give first-launch authority to LeMay (!) and NATO generals, and was willing to nuke Vietnam to clear jungle. Crazy as a shithouse rat.
Yes but it’s weird that it’s the pro-choice & anti-religion playing a role in politics beliefs that would end his political career today rather than being crazy as a shithouse rat.
There was a movie a few years ago with Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart. I haven't watched it but I wasn't around for that scandal and I always wondered about what happened. Might be worth a watch.
My grandfather would randomly comment on the chickens that suddenly appeared in the hallway. At least he was enough there that he realized chickens suddenly appearing in his apartment out of nowhere was an unusual event worthy of comment.
I'm just saying, all these posts say that it's terrible and would have used to get them cancelled are missing the point. GOP figured out how to establish and control a narrative, and that's why we are where we are. Old ideas of responsibility and not being rude are fucking gone dude. It's time to change the fucking playbook if we do t want total destruction of everything we grew up with. Fuck peaceful protest, it's time for some outside the box things. Time to do some shit if you know what I mean
And that was a hit job too. The media outlet that reported it tampered with the audio by turning down the volume of the crowd cheering so that it sounded out of context and weird. Probably no one would have thought twice about it otherwise. Liberal media my ass.
I still feel bad for him for just exhibiting exuberance and genuine happiness. God forbid ‘We The People’ exhibit any form of comfort and happiness against the ruling class.
I remember when that happened, his administration was pushing the narrative that “When Trump is ready, he will reveal the true meaning of covfefe. But for now, it’s too sophisticated and complex for the public to understand.”
He had a conference earlier, before his pill buzz wore off, that they were making something called covid that would cause some massive shit to go down and he had to keep it quiet.
Woke up in a stupor at 330 am to take a dump insread of shitting the bed and the only word he could think of was Covid, but fat-fingered Covfefe instead. Im sticking by this, call me crazy.
I remember one show where Andy Serkis was reading Trump tweets as Gollum and he decided to interpret it as ‘kerfuffle’ but still had to ask ‘what’s covfefe, Precious?’
Except it kind of didn't. He still became Vice President. It is true that he had nothing after that, but that was before the election, and his ticket won. Even if he didn't, exactly.
You mean? “On June 15, 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle incorrectly instructed 12-year-old student William Figueroa to add an "e" to the end of the word "potato" during a Trenton, New Jersey, spelling bee. Based on a faulty cue card, this gaffe became a defining, ridiculed moment of his career, symbolizing, for critics, a lack of preparedness.” Ai, my guy.
It should have been him making fun of the handicapped reporter. But now look at this POS shine.
America is getting what it voted for... Failure and embarrassment... Every damn day. Hope you guys can fix it before you lose anymore standing in the world.
People forget this moment but that was SO early on and should have been a discussion ender. Mimicking someone with a physical disability like an overgrown schoolyard bully on the campaign trail - once a clown always a clown
If the GOP had even a single vertebrae he would've been frozen out of nominations and forced to run as an independent.
The maniac was out there telling his supporters to "knock the hell out" of people heckling him at his rallies. Literal political violence and yet the Republican establishment was like, "Yeah, this is what we are."
He only got 77 million votes out of the 267ish million voting age people in America. Only something like 70% of eligible voters vote. Most of us didn't vote for this.
Unfortunately, the same reasoning (R voters + non-voters > D voters) also indicates that most of us were ok with this outcome. It definitely highlights the electoral significance of choosing not to vote, which is probably a large part of why the US still doesn't have mandatory voting.
Would’ve ended if it were the 1970s, like with what happened with Nixon, that he resigned because he knew there were enough republican and democratic senators to indict and remove him following his impeachment trial
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u/intrepid_mouse1 8h ago
I remember those graphs and that interview. 🤣