Remember when Republicans had integrity?

[Politruk]

Nixon finally decided to resign when a delegation of Congressional Republicans came to the White House and told him, proof of your guilt is now undeniable, and we would have no choice but to vote to impeach and convict you.

Republicans had integrity in 1974.

But that's a long time ago, now.

 

[RoryN]

That's a really low bar.

 

[Politruk]

That's a really low bar.

And one Republicans have failed to clear twice since 2019.

 

[Escierto]

So basically, you expect Republicans, when they have their foot on your neck, to show you some mercy?

The Republicans are engaged in a war with their enemies. A war in which they will give no quarter. Democrats are such worthless spineless patsies that all they do is whine about how those bad Republicans are so mean to them.

It's way past time for those opposed to Republicans to arm themselves and spend some time at the gun range. They should form militias and in the states they control, secede from this shithole of a country.

 

[Politruk]

It's way past time for those opposed to Republicans to arm themselves and spend some time at the gun range. They should form militias and in the states they control, secede from this shithole of a country.

Like this?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Jesusland_map.svg/300px-Jesusland_map.svg.png

 

[Bray123]

Trump is passing an Executive Order to allow bribery & corruption.

This is not a drill.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html

 

[Politruk]

Trump is passing an Executive Order to allow bribery & corruption.

This is not a drill.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html

The law remains -- Trump just orders it no longer be enforced.

Not so long ago, MAGAts wanted Biden impeached for failing to enforce immigration laws vigorously enough.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

 

[Politruk]

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You're not showing any integrity here.

 

[Politruk]

So basically, you expect Republicans, when they have their foot on your neck, to show you some mercy?

Dems always did in the reverse situation.

 

[Politruk]

McConnel showed a little integrity when he vote against confirming Hegseth -- but he's on his way out anyway.

 

[Intrigued42]

McConnel showed a little integrity when he vote against confirming Hegseth -- but he's on his way out anyway.

"He's on his way out" is the key here, I believe. Entrenched politicians are now threatened with being challenged in the next primary unless they kowtow to the president and his very rich contributor. I think McConnell had some integrity when he spoke against Trump's actions on Jan. 6, 2021, but he failed to realize how long the judicial process can take and his thoughts that the courts would hold Trump accountable won't be realized. Funny, too, how guys like Mitch, Romney, McCain can become truly honorable when their re-election doesn't matter any more because they're done. Liz Cheney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins have a lot more integrity than most. AND, when they buck the Rs, they still get re-elected! (Well, Liz didn't but I don't think she really cared all that much. She was in for a penny and in for a pound. Would probably do well in a bid for the presidency if she wanted it.)

 

[Rightguide]

Remember when Democrats dressed up in white sheets and hoods?

 

[Politruk]

Remember when Democrats dressed up in white sheets and hoods?

Today, Klansmen vote Republican and you know it.

 

[Intrigued42]

Remember when Democrats dressed up in white sheets and hoods?

Remember when Nixon invited them into the R tent and they joined the party? Those guys are yours now and they are still really, really active although not as publicly blatant about it. Do you not know your history?

 

[Rightguide]

Remember when Nixon invited them into the R tent and they joined the party? Those guys are yours now and they are still really, really active although not as publicly blatant about it. Do you not know your history?

No. Give us the date and time and a proper link.

 

[Intrigued42]

Here's a start for you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

 

[Intrigued42]

Then this:

https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2008/06/southern-strategy-myth-and-reality/

 

[Intrigued42]

And then this:

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article63683222.html

I thought you were older and better informed. You really don't know what you're talking about, do you, RG?

 

[Politruk]

As usual, RationalWiki is the best source on this:


[TR]
[TD]“”You don’t set a fox to watch the chickens just because he has had a lot of experience in the henhouse. … Nixon has never told the truth in his life. … He is against the small farmer. He is against small business, agriculture, public power. I don’t know what the hell he’s for, and that bird has the nerve to come to Texas and ask you to vote for him. If you do, you ought to go to hell.[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]—Harry Truman at a rally for Democratic Presidential nominee John F. Kennedy, 1960[1]:286-287[note 1][/TD]
[/TR]


[TR]
[TD]“”Well, remember, all that area from which the Gore family comes was solid Democrat and progressive under [Franklin D.] Roosevelt for several decades. So they just didn't become Republicans because they all wanted to be bankers. They became it because they didn't like Black people, and they thought the Democrats were pushing integration too fast. And that's how the great split came about, to the shame of the whole country.[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]—Gore Vidal, in an interview with Paul Jay of The Real News Network on July 31st, 2007[2][/TD]
[/TR]

The Southern Strategy was Richard Nixon's strategy to whiteify the electorate so that Republicans could hold onto power in light of demographic changes. It began as a grab for southern states during the 1968 and 1972 elections: a combination of dog-whistle politics as well as a deliberately racist agenda, effectively throwing any social/moral clout that the GOP had a right to out the window.

It resulted in a total party realignment over issues of civil rights and racism. Democrats went from being the party who opposed civil rights to being the party that passed them,[note 2] and Southerners who were formerly Democrats voted Republican instead, because Republicans opposed progress in those areas to various extents. This was the most significant political realignment in the US since the "New Deal Coalition," and one that still continues to this day.

It's a myth![edit]​

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1928 Electoral College, Smith vs. Hoover
Pat Buchanan and Kevin Phillipshttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png (1940–2023) were both advisers to Nixon, and have either released material or given interviews in which they made the Southern Strategy plain. Both were advisers to Nixon during his 1968 presidential campaign, and Buchanan went on to serve Nixon in the White House. Buchanan released a 1971 Nixon White House memo, addressed to Attorney General H. R. Haldeman, to The New Yorker in 2008,[4] the highlights of which are:[5]

• "From Day One, Nixon and I talked about creating a new majority… Northern Catholic ethnics and Southern Protestant conservatives — what we called the Rizzo[note 3] Democrats in the North and, frankly, the Wallace Democrats in the South.”
• "nominate for the Supreme Court a Southern strict constructionist who would divide Democrats regionally"
• "elicit white working-class support with tax relief and denunciations of welfare"
• "Bumper stickers calling for black Presidential and especially Vice-Presidential candidates should be spread out in the ghettoes of the country … We should do what is within our power to have a black nominated for Number Two, at least at the Democratic National Convention."

The Nixon White House even predicted in the memo that it would divide the country along north-south lines and eventually cause the media to turn against them.

Phillips for his part, wrote the book The Emerging Republican Majority that described the Southern Strategy,[6] and is sometimes attributed as the Southern Strategy mastermind.[7]

Nixon's adoption of the strategy is often credited to two Southern Republicans, Harry Dent (a former aide to Strom Thurmond, perhaps the most iconic Dixiecrat to turn Republican over racial issues) and Fred Cheney LaRue (a Mississippi oil tycoon and future Watergate conspirator, otherwise known for accidentally shooting his father while hunting[note 4]).[8] Dent in particular played a major role in securing Southern support for Nixon during the 1968 campaign; he later wrote a memoir, The Prodigal South Turns to Power,[9] in which he lovingly details the development of the Southern Strategy and his own role in it.[10

 

[Politruk]

Today, Klansmen vote Republican and you know it.

That has been going on a long time, too. You may be sure the Klansmen voted for Reagan.

 

[BobYesTheBob]

Nixon finally decided to resign when a delegation of Congressional Republicans came to the White House and told him, proof of your guilt is now undeniable, and we would have no choice but to vote to impeach and convict you.

Republicans had integrity in 1974.

But that's a long time ago, now.

You mean like...currently? But if you really wanna go back in time...remember when you could maintain an erection? Your wife don't!...well, that's what she told me, anyway. I personally thought that was kinda mean? But...women. Oh, sorry...using terms you don't understand - woman...an adult female. Female...a human with XX sex chromosomes. Just remindin' ya! ('Party of science' doesn't know what a woman is...hehheh)

 

[Politruk]

You mean like...currently?

No, the Pubs do not have any integrity currently. If they had, Trump would have been convicted by the Senate and removed from office in 2019.

 

[Bray123]

You mean like...currently? But if you really wanna go back in time...remember when you could maintain an erection? Your wife don't!...well, that's what she told me, anyway. I personally thought that was kinda mean? But...women. Oh, sorry...using terms you don't understand - woman...an adult female. Female...a human with XX sex chromosomes. Just remindin' ya! ('Party of science' doesn't know what a woman is...hehheh)

Ah, we have an expert with us.

Can you explain Down's and Turner's syndromes?

 

[Holy_Seduction]

Republicans had integrity in 1974

Then there is the 1953 Iranian Coup, and the 1954 Guatemalan Coup. The Watergate scandal, the secret bombing of Cambodia, the enemies list, and the political sabotage.

But wait — something’s off here … oh yeah!

There was that decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, killing some 200,000 civilians. Operation Paperclip, loyalty programs, civil rights abuses, the Korean bombing campaign, the Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam escalation, the Gulf of Tonkin, the secret bombing of Laos and Cambodia, Johnson’s domestic surveillance, the My Lai massacre, Agent Orange, support of various authoritarian regimes, etc.

Not all of these [as My Lai] resulted from specific orders, although their occurrence is of a piece with systemic wrongdoing. But a shared history of malfeasance does allow each party convenient excuse by pointing to the deeds of the other. It’s a bit too easy.

Capitalism’s economic diktats and political imperatives can always find their needed rationalization. This isn’t a partisan issue, and admit it or not, we know this. We also know that if we’re going to find integrity, we’ll be traveling further back than ‘74. Or ‘45.

Integrity happens when both parties are dissolved, and their assets, membership lists and leaders are seized. The assets go to repair what they destroyed together. The membership lists will be used to ensure that those responsible never participate in civic life. The leaders will be put on trial to answer for their crimes.

That, I call, integrity.