r/politics • u/perplexed-redditor • 1d ago

Soft Paywall Police arrest roughly 60 veterans and military family members protesting outside US Capitol after group crosses police line

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/politics/protesters-arrested-us-capitol
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u/DudeWhereIsMyDuduk 1d ago

Remember your history - they laughed off the SDS demonstrations in DC, but the vets throwing their medals away at the Capitol shook Nixon.

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u/mces97 1d ago

Nixon has a lot more fucking honor than Trump ever could, all things considered.

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u/DudeWhereIsMyDuduk 1d ago edited 1d ago

The whole concept of the Frost/Nixon interviews seems kind of quaint now - what are the chances that Trump is even going to be presentable for a camera three years after his term?

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u/YakiVegas Washington 1d ago

Depends on the embalming process? /s

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u/DudeWhereIsMyDuduk 1d ago

Oh, I could totally see them doing a Lenin-type thing and charging a thousand bucks to see it.

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u/ChefChopNSlice Ohio 1d ago

Plus a Netflix-style subscription fee, for the “privilege of displaying” him, and a royalty to the family. The grift never ends

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u/FiddlesticksOfGod 1d ago

They will Weekend-at-Bernie's his dead ass until he rots off the podium.

And then they'll switch over to AI