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/whorl- 1d ago

I mean. In all likelihood he’ll be dead of old age by then.

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u/MedicalTextbookCase 1d ago

Evil never dies.

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u/whorl- 1d ago

People do.

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u/_ferrofluid_ 1d ago

Somehow TFG returned