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JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2026
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A: He's not wrong.
B: That's not the flex he thinks it is.
It is the flex they think it is. He and the entire admin are getting away with everything. Will he be held to account?
There won't be unless their are trials on the level of Nuremberg with actual justice being carried out. If what we get next is another liberal admin that takes power and doesn't hold war criminals accountable this will only get worse.
People don't want to hear it, but, Obama and his administration were the liberalism that sparked the permission for fascism. Not holding the Bush administration accountable for torture and war crimes further normalized that people in power will not be made to answer for their crimes. He didnt even close gitmo and next Democrat after Obama felt comfortable funding and enabling a genocide. Are we really surprised the war crimes of past administrations are now happening at home through ICE?
The trials need to start with Trump and his administration. But all of these war criminals and pedophiles need to be prosecuted. All of the CEOs that profited from making us sick, polluting our world, and selling their weapons.
America doesn't need another "reaching across the aisle" liberal in the white house. We need unapologetic leftist policies that put a rope around the neck of the Epstein class.
Indeed.