#Nixon Unit

[avesseloflanguage]

i know this is old news but like. it is so fucking insane to me that convicted felons — who can qualify in every other way, citizens who are absolutely affected by elections and politics — are not allowed to vote in the united states. like that alone is fucking crazy. and fucked up and VERY intentional and on track for the usa. but still genuinely crazy to actually think about.

but worse is that donald mother god damn fucking trump can still run for president and could be elected while being a convicted felon. like. bro can't vote for himself i guess. but this guy could still legally become the fucking president. HE CANT LEGALLY VOTE IN ELECTIONS ANYMORE. BECAUSE HE IS A CONVICTED FELON.

BUT HE COULD LEGALLY BECOME THE HEAD OF STATE.

[kennedycore]

Joan Kennedy greets President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon at a White House reception, March 12, 1969.

Mrs. Kennedy wore a silver, six-inches-above-the-knee mini-dress where long gowns were the tradition to White House receptions.

President Nixon was later taped complaining about Joan's 'revealing' fashion sense:

Haldeman: Did you see his wife [Joan] came into the White House again all done up in some crazy outfit?

[..............]

Nixon: Weird.

Haldeman: She was going to wear hot pants but Teddy told her she couldn’t.

Ziegler: They’re weird people. They really are. I mean, even the–

Nixon: It’s crude. What the hell’s the matter with them? What’s she trying to prove?

[malarkgirlypop]

What the Easy men are ticketed for when driving

Richard Winters:

He has all of his paperwork at the ready the police officer doesn’t even have to ask. He’s very apologetic, but he didn’t do anything wrong. Dick politely chats with the officer, he’s not intimidated by the man but he’s being cautious. When the officer says he made a mistake and lets him go, Dick is very understanding. They even exchange information, talk about meeting up. You feel like a third wheel for a hot sec. He has never had a ticket.

Lewis Nixon:

IM NOT DRUNK!!!! I CAN DANCE, I’LL PROVE IT!!! 'Darling stay in the car', proceeds to fall out of the car while trying to exit. The cop and you exchange a glance. You follow the cop car to the station, you can see Nixon’s little head in the back window. He was indeed drunk. Yeah you should've seen it coming he had to blow into a breathalyser before starting the car, turns out that's why you were there.

Harry Welsh:

Nervous around the cop, tries to make small talk but the guy isn’t having it. You sit there in awkward silence as the cops leaves to fill out the paperwork. Harry got pulled over cause he was trying to show you a trick, but the trick was swerving back and forward across the lanes and wasn’t very impressive. Sheepishly takes the fine, with a mumbled apology.

Ronald Speirs:

Asserts dominance over the cop, uses his killer stare. The cop is jumpy under his cold glare. He’s not smug about it, stating facts about the law making the cop look dumb. The officer can tell he’s fighting a losing battle so tries to rescind the fine. Ron is very happy about this reaching out if the window to give the cop a pat on his arm. "It’s ok, people make mistakes". Leaves the police man in the dust before the interaction is truly over. He was speeding, but it was fine, he had somewhere important to be.

Carwood Lipton:

I feel like he would be the same as Winters. Very calm and collected, hearing out the officer. Obviously it's our baby boy and he hasn't done anything wrong. Even if the cop was a total dick, Lip would be so polite and understanding. I think it would piss off the cop that he wasn't talking back, giving a "Have a good night officer", as the cop marches away muttering under his breath. I'm sure he would turn to you saying, "shall we?" before pulling away from the curb. He did nothing wrong, Lip getting fined. Ha! You wish.

George Luz:

Thinks he is a stand up comedian and can get out of the ticket by telling jokes. Unfortunately for Luz he gets the most grumpy, stoic officer of all time. George crashes and burns with each quip and pun, you sink lower in your seat hoping the ground will swallow you whole, (we all know second hand embarrassment is the silent killer). Finally he receives the ticket and you sit in silence while he re-thinks his entire life. Before making the most ridiculous remark sending everyone into hysterics. He is very proud of himself, "I knew I still got it. He was just a bad crowd." Very pleased with himself he doesn't even care he got a ticket. What was the ticket you ask. Trying to stand and drive. Yeah this isn't his first time either, yikes George.

Joe Toye:

Yeah no this man never gets pulled over. Even if he does, he will evade the police. His brag is that he has never been ticketed. Well, they have never been able to catch him to give it to him. He will never tell you what he does to be chased by the police, the mystery of it all. Bill says its cause he's a shit driver.

Bill Guarnere:

Knows everyone, so when he is pulled over all you get is, "Wild Bill you mad dog, I haven't seen you in years!" Buddies with the whole police force, gets let off the hook way too often. Has broken all the laws, but hey when you know everyone, what really are laws?

Joe Liebgott:

You all might think he's a bad boy rebel with the most tickets out of the lot. But you forget, hes a tried and true cabby. Like Bill he knows everyone, all you have to do is utter his name and you can get a million stories about the man. His brag is that he has never been ticketed, sure he's broken the law, but he never gets caught. Unlike some people *cough cough* Toye. But hey Toye hasn't actually been caught, just been in multiple car chases.

David Webster:

He's offended you think he drives. Clearly passenger seat princess, put some respect on his name. Has been fined for not wearing a seatbelt and standing up through the sun roof singing Unwritten, but that's just a vibe and he has the ticket framed on his wall.

Buck Compton:

The self proclaimed 'best driver of the group'. He's daddy and drives around his baby boy's. He's like the dad that picks you up from Saturday sport, 'who wants to stop at McDonalds?' His car is the vibe, everyone always fights over who rides with him on road trips. Has the best songs and snacks for the road trips, he laughs in the face of tickets, this man is untouchable and has a squeaky clean record. May have tried to do a donut, but he'll never tell.

Eugene Roe:

Pfft, this man getting pulled over. You're dreaming. The most calm driver. He's like my nana, anyone heard of the story the tortoise and the hare, yeah well he's the tortoise. No one wants to drive with him if they need to be somewhere in a hurry, he's too nice and gives way to everyone. This man panics when the police pass him, even when he's doing nothing wrong.

Babe Heffron:

If Gene is the tortoise, then Babe is definitely the hare. Hold on for dear life if you ride with this man. The most chaotic driving of all time. Over taking, under taking, side by side taking? Yeah he does it all. You see orange light, he sees pedal to the metal. Speed limits are just suggestions to this man. The amount of fines and tickets this man gets in a year he could buy a whole other car.

Donald Malarkey:

He's a good driver, but boy oh boy he's easily distracted. If you're sitting in the back showing photos to the rest of the boys, he's turning around fully in the seat to see what's going on. The most common phrase in his car is, "Don watch the road!" He's a fun driver having the best songs and also has karaoke mics in the car that he hands back, but please encourage him to keep both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road. The ads the are on the side of the road are catered just for him, he can't help himself when he sees something flashy. Has rear ended a car or two, maybe one of them was a police officer, but no one was there to see it.

Skip and Penk:

They don't drive. Skip is clearly a passenger princess and Alex is a backseat babe! Just tell them to please keep all limbs inside the car. Should not be allowed in Malarks car as they are the reason for his distraction but the love it, you will have to pry them out of the car they aren't splitting up!!

[gregor-samsung]

Tell Me Lies [also known as Us] (Peter Brook, 1968)

[thepresidentsblog]

[bonnieura]

hello tumblr

[god-breast-america]

Dog that got stung in the mouth by bees

[stone-cold-groove]

MAD magazine - October 1968.

[pennyserenade]

there’s nothing the united states government hates more than angry protesting college students and that’s how you know they’re powerful

[sitishafiyyah]

But there Ben and her friends?

Ben: oh. Hey guys, did you want to be my friends anymore? Hehe,

Both: uh. Not yet!

But NOT There's a Agent six and Dr. Holiday?

Lol 🤣🤣🤣

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[hardcore-lonewolf]

*Black Cat | Felicia Hardy (Spectacular Spider-Man) & Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson | Lucky Girl (Ultimate Alien Force) As Evelina "Eva" Gwendolyn Nelson | Felicity Sarah Kyle*

Eva has Felicia's weapons and gadgets, Gwen's powers and abilities to her face claim, and both of their personalities and skills.

*Benjamin "Ben" Kirby Tennyson | Ultra 10 〈Omniverse〉 & Noah Nixon 〈Generator Rex〉 As Fredward "Freddie" Noah Sweigeld*

Freddie has Ben's powers and abilities from his watches, Noah's face claim, and both of their personalities and skills.

*Avatar Korra {The Legend Of Korra} & Asami Sato {The Legend Of Korra} As Octavia Stephanie Trevor | Lucina*

Tavia has Korra's powers and abilities, Asami's face claim and weapons, and both of their personalities and skills.

*Arnold Casey Jones Jr. [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles] & Kevin Ethan Levin | Ultimate 11 [Alien Force] As Nathaniel "Nathan" Kevin Davenport | Nate Draven*

Nathan has Kevin's powers and abilities with his face claim, Casey's weapons and mask, and both of their personalities and skills.

My OCs!!!

[glitterypin]

I am naturally having a very normal autumn so far.

When the year started, I am sure my resolutions involved something along the lines of losing weight, maintaining healthier relationships and working more productively but since I didn't do any of that, my current plan for the rest of the year is to attempt to watch every single fucking thing Michael Sheen has ever been in.

It's going rather well so far. I don't think I will reach 100% before New Year's (though a comfortable 65% is in the bag, I think), but that's good, because it means I will also begin 2024 with at least one attainable goal.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matt Gertz at MMFA:

Somewhere — probably in hell — Roger Ailes, the Richard Nixon acolyte who co-founded Fox News, is smiling at the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States. The majority’s ruling is another strike against the institutions that brought accountability to Ailes’ old boss over the Watergate scandal. And Ailes’ fingerprints are all over the result.

The court’s decision gifts presidents with extraordinary immunity from criminal prosecution that will hamstring the prosecution of Donald Trump over his 2020 election subversion plot. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for himself and the other five justices appointed by Republican presidents, declared that Trump and other presidents “may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.” Roberts stipulates that Trump’s efforts to pressure Justice Department officials to support his false claims of election fraud fall under the former category, while the then-president’s attempts to get then-Vice President Mike Pence to throw out electoral vote slates are an example of the latter.

This is a new and radical doctrine. The majority defies “an established understanding, shared by both Presidents and the Justice Department, that former Presidents are answerable to the criminal law for their official acts,” as Justice Sonia Sotomayor notes in her dissent. “Consider Watergate, for example,” Sotomayor continues. “After the Watergate tapes revealed President Nixon’s misuse of official power to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation of the Watergate burglary, President Ford pardoned Nixon. Both Ford’s pardon and Nixon’s acceptance of the pardon necessarily ‘rested on the understanding that the former President faced potential criminal liability.’”

Observers are noting — in horror or with glee — that Nixon would likely have been immune from prosecution for Watergate under the majority’s doctrine. That’s not a coincidence, but the result of a decades-long effort by the right to delegitimize and defang the institutions that stymied the Republican president — the press, the Congress, and the criminal justice system.

Ailes was part of a generation of Nixon aides who blamed the supposed depravations of liberal journalists for driving Nixon from office. Rather than accept that the former president had committed crimes and abuses of power, they organized and strategized, building the right’s massive parallel information ecosystem.

Fox is the crown jewel of that apparatus. As the network grew and solidified its audience over the years following its 1996 launch, it evolved from a right-wing propaganda machine to a GOP power center. But part of Fox’s key function is preventing Republican presidents from suffering the indignities of another Watergate. And no one has benefited more from that effort than Trump, as demonstrated by the aborted efforts to secure accountability for his attempted coup.

[...] Here, too, we see the ramifications of Ailes and his Fox apparatus. His network helped elect Presidents George W. Bush and Trump, who appointed five of the six justices who signed on to the opinion. And the three Trump appointees in particular were heavily supported by Ailes’ foot soldiers during their nomination fights, smoothing their way to the bench. Nixon’s depravities made him vulnerable to the press, Congress, and the criminal justice system. But thanks to Fox, Trump has a level of protection his predecessor lacked.

Matt Gertz wrote yesterday in Media Matters For America that Monday’s Trump v. United States SCOTUS ruling is a win for autocrats and corrupt politicians such as Donald Trump and the late Richard Nixon.

The late Fox “News” co-founder Roger Ailes has his bloodprints all over this ruling, as the reason of creating a GOP propaganda organ like Fox was to prevent another scenario in which Nixon was forced to resign as a result of Watergate.

[paulgadzikowski]

Further fact about UNIT timelines: in the comics Richard Nixon tried to nuke Britain. I don’t know if that makes it better or worse. Time is not my strong suit.

Not on my bingo card

[thepresidentsblog]

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis)

02/09/2024