• @mr_tyler_durden
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    461 year ago

    “Vorpious de liporius octo”, the coverup is worse than the crime.

    Let’s hope if the crime isn’t enough that his attempts to cover it up are what takes him down.

    • @YoBuckStopsHere
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      291 year ago

      Republicans didn’t learn a damn thing from Watergate.

      • @madcaesar
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        591 year ago

        Wrong!

        They learned they’d never let one of their criminals face punishment ever again. As a result they created FOX News in order to always be able to control the narrative and always muddy the waters.

        It has worked brilliantly for them so far. And the only cost has been a complete erosion in the trust of news, complete erosion in civil discourse complete erosion in bi partisanship.

        They have taken a metal pipe to democracy’s kneecaps just to make sure their criminals never have to pay any real consequences.

        All of this btw is fully documented. I’m sad to say say, but some brilliant minds put a lot of work into establishing and creating fox news… It’s very sad.

        It’s kind of like today we have brilliant engineers spending their time fighting ad blockers and shoving ads down people’s throats.

      • @PunnyName
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        They learned they can get away with it.

        Because, IIRC, Nixon didn’t die in jail…

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        21 year ago

        they absolutely learned from watergate. they got everything they wanted from trump. hell, with what they learned from watergate they got away with selling crack to fund right-wing death squads on behalf of coca cola.

    • Flying Squid
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      151 year ago

      I don’t know if that fits. He was showing off war plans. That could have had dire consequences.

      • @mr_tyler_durden
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        81 year ago

        Totally fair, I’m not trying to downplay what he initially did, I just think focusing on the coverup aspect is, in some ways, more effective. They can convince their followers that what he did wasn’t actually wrong (even if it absolutely was) but it’s harder to explain trying to cover up something that “wasn’t wrong”.

        • shuzuko
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          41 year ago

          You would think so, but their explanation will just be “he covered it up because he knew the libs would act like this”.

    • @Phlogiston
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know that the coverup is “worse” … but its often easier to charge and prove

    • @DarienGS
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      21 year ago

      Um, what language is that?

      • Flying Squid
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        21 year ago

        That’d be Latin, still used in legal contexts.

        • @DarienGS
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          1 year ago

          If someone told you that then I’m afraid I think they were pulling your leg. The phrase might be translated into Latin as something like “deceptio peius sceleris”… what you wrote means “[made-up word] of [made-up word] eight”.