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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Trump is therefore not the first President to seek the controlled disintegration of the world economy by means of a devastating blow. Nor is he the first to purposely damage America’s allies to renew and prolong US hegemony. Nor the first who was prepared to hurt Wall Street in the short run in the process of strengthening US capital accumulation in the long term. Nixon had done all that half a century earlier.

And the irony is that the world the Western liberal establishment is grieving over today came into being as a result of the Nixon Shock. While admonishing the idea of a US President delivering a rude shock to the world economy, they are lamenting the passing of what only came into being because of another President’s readiness to deliver an even ruder shock. That is, the Nixon Shock gave birth to the darlings of today’s liberal establishment: neoliberalism, financialisation and globalisation."

unherd.com/2025/04/will-libera

UnHerd · Will Liberation Day transform the world?By Yanis Varoufakis
#USA#Trump#TradeWar
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 18, 1970: The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the U.S. Postal Service began on this date in New York City. The walkout was illegal, giving President Richard Nixon the excuse to send in federal troops to sort the mail. But the strike succeeded in forcing Congress to raise wages and reorganize the postal system and marked a new militancy among postal employees.

Postal workers on the picket line. Sign reads “President Nixon: 100% increase; Congressmen: 50% increase; Postal Employees: 0%. STRIKE NOW!”
#LaborHistory#workingclass#postal
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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️

Commentary by Corey Robin, one of my favorite political philosophy scholars.

The culture war doesn't distract us from the class war; it directs us to it. —

#politics #Nixon #Agnew #nabobs

coreyrobin.com/2025/03/04/the-

coreyrobin.comThe culture war doesn’t distract us from the class war; it directs us to it.Many people of my generation have heard of Bill Safire, who worked as a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew. When I was growing up, Safire had long departed the Nixon White House. He was now a columnist for the New York Times—perhaps the first in what is a by-now familiar sequence of the Times’ hiring voices who could speak for the “reasonable right” on its oped page. Like William F. Buckley, Safire liked to style himself a man of words, and his columns were often peppered with painful pedantry and middlebrow mewling (I can do alliteration, too!) over the rules of proper usage, the etymology of words, and such. So let’s do some here. Despite […]
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Jörg Preisendörfer

Now that you are grieving about #JeffBezos & the #WashingtonPost:

How about taking the opportunity to start a #reader-owned #newspaper #cooperative or an #audience-owned #media cooperative!?

Plenty of examples exist; several of them in #Germany alone.

I'd very much be interested to partake.

🏷️ #WaPo #Bezos #AllThePresidentsMen #JonathanCapeheart #BobWoodward #CarlBernstein #Watergate #Nixon #Trump #MAGA #HowFascismWorks #Amazon #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #Musk #Zuckerberg #Distributism #Coop

The image taken in April 2016 depicts the demolition of the former Washington Post headquarters at 1150 15th St. NW in Washington, DC. Most of the building is already torn down. Photo: Antony-22 on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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@ubi4me

#Nixon did some shady shit, but he was spot on with his support of #UBI.

There was a #commercial from some initiative in the #UK where they gave a, I think, £10 note to a rich person (who put it in his pocket) and to a normal person (who spent it). The commercial follows the note that is spent, and at the end, goes back to the rich guy, who still has the note in his pocket.

If anyone recognizes this, and can provide a #link, my #followers and I would be grateful.

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Megaphone :verified:
This post by #Trump communicates a powerful and #dangerous message that #laws do not apply to those acting in the name of the country. This undermines #legal accountability and #democratic principles, reinforcing a narrative where #patriotism is used as a shield against legal scrutiny.

It suggests the idea that if someone acts in the interest of their country, their actions cannot be considered #illegal—regardless of whether they break the law.

This kind of reasoning falls under “ends justify the means” logic, often used by political figures, revolutionaries, and authoritarian leaders throughout history to rationalize #unlawful or controversial actions.

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal” Richard #Nixon
The image appears to be a screenshot of a tweet. It is a post from Donald J. Trump, with a verified badge beside his name. The profile picture is a stylized image of Trump’s face, overlaid with the American flag, featuring red and white stripes and white stars on a blue background. The post itself reads: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Below the post, there are engagement metrics showing: • 972 replies (comments) • 2.23k retweets (shares) • 8.74k likes The message implies a justification for actions taken under the pretense of national interest, which could be interpreted in various ways depending on context.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"In all, there were six #resignations, including Sassoon’s. This is twice the number of people who were sacked when President #Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating #Watergate...

The multiple resignations, especially by respected Department leaders in both New York and D.C., are reverberating across the nation, in the halls of #Congress and in our #courts."
- @jaykuo

statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-t

Text from article: The ensuing bloodbath This is the point where things got really interesting. After Sassoon resigned, Bove sent the file over to the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department in D.C. There, he expected that the heads of the Section, Kevin O. Driscoll and John Keller, would obey his order and dismiss the case. Instead, they resigned as well. Bove went to other lawyers down the line, including one who reportedly was in the hospital giving birth. The response was the same: We quit. In all, there were six resignations, including Sassoon’s. This is twice the number of people who were sacked when President Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating Watergate. They had to go three officials down the line until they got to Robert Bork, who was unprincipled enough to order Cox’s firing. That series of dismissals became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre,” and it soured the public badly against Nixon who was clearly trying to obstruct the investigation. Political repercussions The multiple resignations, especially by respected Department leaders in both New York and D.C., are reverberating across the nation, in the halls of Congress and in our courts. Bove is on a tear to try to reshape the entire Justice Department into a political weapon of the White House, trashing its historic independence from politics, and he just hit a major roadblock.
#DOJ#Corruption#Trump
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petersuber

I remember Richard #Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, which precipitated the #impeachment hearings which triggered his #resignation. Only one person was actually fired — Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating Nixon. Two resigned because they refused to fire Cox — Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Total of three gone, and it was a scandal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday

Make America great again.

en.wikipedia.orgSaturday Night Massacre - Wikipedia
#OvertonWindow#Tump#USPol
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janhoglund

”Think I’m being too hard on you? Look, if all you were doing was planning Martian colonies and enjoying the occasional goose step, I’d leave you be. But … you’ve got a ragtag team of amateurs in DC breaking into places they don’t belong. Why does that sound so familiar to me? Mark my words, fuckface: this won’t end well. I’ll keep a place warm for you down here. Very warm.”
#nixon #musk

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janhoglund

”You’ve probably deluded yourself into thinking you’re the Second Coming of another Nazi who liked to fire off rockets: Wernher von Braun. Well, I knew Wehrner, and, believe you me, that sneaky Kraut did everything in his power to hide the fact that he was a Nazi.”
#nixon #musk

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janhoglund

”…it should come as no surprise that I caught your Inauguration Day speech in all its fascistic glory. And let me say this: that was some fucked up shit. I realize that you didn’t exactly grow up in the cradle of civil rights, but even by South African standards, that “straight-arm gesture,” as the mainstream media politely called it, seemed a tad extreme. Don’t get me wrong: back in the day, no one was more racist than Dick Nixon. But I tried to be subtle about it.”
#nixon #musk

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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘

@DemocracyMattersALot
In my lifetime, I've lived through #Nixon (a criminal who had to be pardoned), #Carter (a good Christian who walked-the-walk), #Reagan (who set a record for admin officials convicted of crimes), #Clinton (who balanced the budget and record job creation), "Dubya" (who ignored OBL leading to 9/11, and invaded Iraq exploding the price of oil crashing the global economy), Obama (who brought us back and set record peace & prosperity), #DementiaDon, #Biden 👍, and now #NaziDon.

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