Anyone else pissed at Gerald Ford?

[Ocelot II]

If he hadn't pardoned Nixon, Trump wouldn't have had an example of a president who could get away with shit.

[maspaha]

1. Yep, Me!

[Tree Lady]

2. I bet Nixon wasn't going to resign if

he hadn't agreed to it. Always deals...for GOP to not have him impeached and thrown out.

[markpkessinger]

6. There has never been a scintilla of evidence offered to support this . . .

. . . and such speculation is unhelpful. It has been well established that Nixon resigned following a visit by senior Congressional Republicans (including Barry Goldwater), who told him, on the eve of an impeachment vote, that if he didn't resign, he would be impeached, and these Republicans would vote in favor of impeachment and ultimately conviction at a Senate trial,

[Tree Lady]

23. Ok sorry I was just guessing

[still-prayin4rain]

3. For sure, while I doubt Ford made the decision alone, I think it would be wise to understand how that pardon paved the

way for what we are facing in the Trump era. I think analyzing, discussing and learning from that would be wise.

[synni]

4. I was outraged by it at the time

And I was only 10 years old....

[rurallib]

16. me too from the moment he said it

I was a bit older than you

[SWBTATTReg]

5. No, not really. Ford didn't have a single thing to do w/ tRUMP's illegal acts of today. Big difference.

And just because if a supposed event didn't happen, doesn't mean it won't still happen, had Ford did something or not. None of us are seers into the future.

I prefer to blame the POS in the WH today, for 100% of the crime-ridden things happening today. tRUMP is the only one standing w/ the diseased mind of a slug doing all of these things, no one else is.

[mr715]

7. Before my time.

But yeah. Republican.

[LT Barclay]

20. Worth digging into including his treasonous secret negotiations with Vietnam. And his conversations with Lee Atwater

when they developed their racist “southern strategy”.
And SFgate.com has a great special feature about all of Reagan’s misdeeds BEFORE he even got to the White House

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. ARRGLEBARGLE MILQUETOAST FORD!!!! nt

[Ocelot II]

9. Hahahaha!

We have lots of dead horses to beat, don't we?

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. And if we run out of dead horses, we'll kill some live ones

And beat them too!

[BannonsLiver]

10. Yes, of course.

He was as worthless as Garland, Comey, Nader, the Roberts court and Christopher Columbus.

This is getting fun!

[swong19104]

12. What we need

Is an example of a president who did things illegally and was drawn and quartered. On live TV. Without blurring out the gory bits.

[Ocelot II]

14. Well, there was the execution of Charles I in 1649,

a rare example of government-sanctioned regicide following a treason trial, but the illustrations don't have quite the impact of modern video.

[William769]

13. I'm pissed at all republicans!

[dchill]

15. Only for the last 50 years.

[IronLionZion]

17. Anyone else pissed at Abraham Lincoln?

if he hadn't been the Republican party's first president in 1860....

[Johonny]

22. The whole modern GOP hates Lincoln

If that bastard hadn't advocated the end of slavery and birth right citizenship . . .

GOP hates them most of the early GOP presidents. Like the ones that created the modern merit based civil service.

[LT Barclay]

18. That's where it started and now we need a way to "encourage" most of the radical SCOTUS

to resign over their enabling.
Or at least track down and stop all the special favors they are getting.

[Golfnbrew]

19. If only

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Foresight was 20/20 !
Ford, Bush, Nader, Comey, Stein, Perot, Gingrich, Roberts, Garland, ...

Our history is FULL of unhelpful or traitorous or evil people.

[Pacifist Patriot]

21. Yes, indeedy.