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Gone fishing in a data lake.

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Vance's creative storytelling should be read like a warning.
https://t.co/x2AO62OK6M

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What JD Vance’s Rewrites of History Tell Us About His Plans for The Future https://t.co/HzaHOKHnvI

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https://t.co/x2AO62OK6M

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Vance did a major rewrite of history last week at the Nixon Library: The US left Vietnam from a position of strength, Christianity has a 2000-year history of tolerating dissent, and Nixon was brought down by “the deep state.” What does this tell us about his plans for the future?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

JD Vance works for the most corrupt president in American history. So of course he wants you to believe Watergate was nothing.

Vance joked that if Watergate happened today it would be a “12 hour news story.” Let’s remember what Nixon actually did.

Operatives tied to his reelection campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to plant listening devices. Then Nixon personally orchestrated the cover up. The “smoking gun” tape caught him ordering the CIA to shut down the FBI’s investigation.

That is obstruction of justice, in his own voice, on tape.

The House Judiciary Committee identified 36 separate instances of obstruction. It approved three articles of impeachment, with Republicans joining Democrats.

Nixon weaponized the IRS and FBI against his political enemies, authorized burglaries of private citizens, and fired the special prosecutor investigating him in what is called the Saturday Night Massacre. When the Supreme Court ordered him to release the tapes, the vote was unanimous. Even his most loyal defenders walked away once they heard his own words.

Vance is telling us a president can break the law, lie about it, and turn federal agencies into weapons, and we should all just go along with it.

There is a reason he wants the bar that low. When you serve an administration this corrupt, the only way to look clean is to convince the public that crimes no longer count.

He’s wrong. They did then, and they do now.

History will not be kind to JD Vance.

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Vance trying to normalize theocracy? 2000 years of Western civ shows Christians tolerate dissent better than secular societies?

What about Galileo, Huguenots, Inquisitions and Crusades?

Remember why the Pilgrims come to North America?

https://t.co/pOI0GieOcT

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And that Vance identifies with Nixon rather than the 66% of Americans who actively disapproved of Nixon's presidency at the time is through-the-looking-glass crazy. And a sign of Vance's own depravity.

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Also crazy–and telling–is that he goes on to denigrate the legal system of that time as "the deep state." It must frighten him that the rule of law had strong bi-partisan support at the time–and won. He mocks it lest it happen again.

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Also crazy–and telling–is that he goes on to denigrate the legal system of that time as "the deep state." It must frighten him that the rule of law had strong bi-partisan support at the time–and won. He mocks it hoping to keep it from happening again.

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What's crazy is JD Vance trivializing Nixon's use of the CIA and hush money to cover up evidence in a criminal investigation. Vance has lost his moral compass–if he ever had one.

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Also crazy–and telling–is that he goes on to denigrate the legal system of that time as "the deep state." It must frighten him that the rule of law had strong bi-partisan support at the time–and won. He mocks it lest it happen again.

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What's crazy is JD Vance trivializing Nixon's use of the CIA and hush money to cover up evidence in a criminal investigation. Vance has lost his moral compass–if he ever had one.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

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Ethics questions aside (but only for a moment): Doesn't this undermine one of the original premises of crypto? That it was beyond the reach of governments?

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Hemos tomado 1.000 millones de dólares en criptomonedas de Irán, simplemente nos hemos apoderado de sus billeteras, muchos iraníes estarán escribiendo en redes sociales sin saber que les hemos robado sus billeteras".

Scott Bessent, Secretario del Tesoro de EEUU, se enorgullece de robar 1.000 millones en criptomonedas de Irán como si fuesen hackers y delincuentes cibernéticos.

Piratas Unidos con Trump ni siquiera tapan sus robos, son la mayor organizacion criminal del planeta.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined.

That is an astonishing figure historically.

The national debt just crossed $39 trillion.

President Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office.

That’s approximately 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789.

In 2016, Trump said he would pay down the national debt “over a period of eight years.”

Instead:

- First term: +$7.8 trillion
- Second term: roughly +$4–5 trillion already

And yes, COVID affected first-term spending.

It does not explain adding another trillion dollars every five months without a pandemic.

A political movement built on:
“fiscal conservatism”
“small government”
“balanced budgets”

has now overseen the largest debt expansion tied to any single presidency in American history.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This corruption is nauseating. Why are we paying taxes again?

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

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This is "the steal" we need to stop.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

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This is "the steal" we need to stop.

https://t.co/3TGcKROsf1

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Definitely tired of this kind of "winning"

https://t.co/vRrZp6HBih

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Cue the Law & Order music

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Trump's crime spree continues:

the government is now “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing” pending tax claims against Mr. Trump, his family members and businesses.

https://t.co/9tcfS7lPek

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Trump's crime spree continues:

the government is now “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing” pending tax claims against Mr. Trump, his family members and businesses.

https://t.co/9tcfS7lPek

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What types of claims will be paid out under the new $1.8bn "weaponization" policy?

Anything goes.

https://t.co/XWkOanRlBE