"Nixon was removed, it was a coup d'état" -Joe Rogan.

Resign because you literally sent deep state goons to wiretap your opposition party's campaign headquarters for literally malicious reasons. You deny it and then blame your aides.

Edit: let's help people remember what this was and what Tucker Carlson, the hack who was fired from Fox News because of the Dominion scandal, is JAQ'ing off about in front of Joe, shall we?

The Watergate scandal was a significant political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation. It originated from attempts by the Nixon administration to conceal its involvement in the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters located in the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

Following the apprehension of the five individuals involved in the break-in, both the press and the Department of Justice connected the funds found on those involved to the CRP (the fundraising organization of Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign).^[1][2] Subsequent investigations and revelations during trials prompted the U.S. House of Representatives to grant the House Judiciary Committee expanded investigative authority.^[3][4] Additionally, the Senate established the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee, which conducted hearings.

Witnesses testified that Nixon had sanctioned plans to cover up his administration's involvement in the burglary and that there was a voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office.^[5][6] Nixon's administration resisted the investigations, leading to a constitutional crisis.^[7] The televised Senate Watergate hearings garnered nationwide attention and public interest.^[8]

Numerous revelations and Nixon's efforts to impede the investigation in 1973 led the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against him.^[9][10] The Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Nixon (1974) compelled Nixon to surrender the Oval Office tapes, which revealed his complicity in the cover-up. The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon,^[11] who subsequently resigned from office on August 9, 1974, becoming the only U.S. president to do so. His successor, Gerald Ford, pardoned him on September 8, 1974.

The Watergate scandal resulted in 69 indictments and 48 convictions, involving several high-ranking officials from the Nixon administration.^[12] The term "Watergate" has since become synonymous with various clandestine and illicit activities conducted by Nixon's aides, including the bugging of political opponents' offices, unauthorized investigations, and the misuse of government agencies for political purposes.^[13] The addition of "-gate" to a term has since been used to denote public scandals,^[14][15][16] particularly in politics.^[17][18]

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The police apprehended five men, later identified as Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Barker, James McCord, Eugenio Martínez, and Frank Sturgis.^[20] They were criminally charged with attempted burglary and attempted interception of telephone and other communications. The Washington Post reported the day after the burglary that, "police found lock-picks and door jimmies, almost $2,300 in cash, most of it in $100 bills with the serial numbers in sequence ... a shortwave receiver that could pick up police calls, 40 rolls of unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras and three pen-sized tear gas guns".^[29] The Post would later report that the actual amount of cash was $5,300.^[30]

The following morning, Sunday, June 18, G. Gordon Liddy called Jeb Magruder in Los Angeles and informed him that "the four men arrested with McCord were Cuban freedom fighters, whom Howard Hunt recruited". Initially, Nixon's organization and the White House quickly went to work to cover up the crime and any evidence that might have damaged the president and his reelection.^[31]

On September 15, 1972, a grand jury indicted the five office burglars, as well as Hunt and Liddy,^[32] for conspiracy, burglary, and violation of federal wiretapping laws. The burglars were tried by a jury, with Judge John Sirica officiating, and pled guilty or were convicted on January 30, 1973.^[33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

And:

The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, the Room 16 Project, or more officially, the White House Special Investigations Unit, was a covert White House Special Investigations Unit, established within a week of the publication of the Pentagon Papers in June 1971, during the presidency of Richard Nixon.^[1] Its task was to stop and/or respond to the leaking of classified information, such as the Pentagon Papers, to the news media. The work of the unit "tapered off" after the bungled "Ellsberg break-in" but some of its former operatives branched into illegal activities while still employed at the White House together with managers of the Committee to Re-elect the President, including the Watergate break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal.^[2] The group has been described as Nixon's "fixers".^[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Plumbers

These excerpts illustrate the dark extent to which Tucker Carlson is lying about these incidents on the show. Moreover, they illustrate why Democrats have every right to be livid about this propaganda. Note also the ties these "plumbers" have to the Kennedy Assassination and the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

This is how goddamned awful these far-right propagandists have become in their desperate attempts to paint a traitorous, seditionist clown like Donald Trump as a "victim". All the while sucking off Vladimir Putin for every last drop of anti-democratic cum, especially Tucker Calrson, whose text messages in the Dominion Voting Systems trial reveal he was knowingly lying about everything and knowing allowing pathological liars to lie on his show to his very large, gullible conservative audience.

Wasn't his VP not his choice?

Exactly. This is such a bullshit take, I'm shocked that anyone is remotely taken by it.

Nixon was a corrupt and dirty politician guilty of a crime. He had to resign because so many in his own administration resigned or turned against him, not to mention the ones that were being arrested. His position was untenable.

I mean House of Cards basically did this

Except it's not.....

Christopher Hitchens wrote a book called “The Trial of Henry Kissinger” where he basically goes through all the illegal and evil shit Kissinger did. It’s almost shocking. At times it seemed like he would do evil shit just because he could. Even if there was no real strategic benefit.

The mother of one of my childhood friends had her village illegally bombed under Nixon

Or to US troops by keeping them engaged in a losing battle for election purposes

The way Kissinger is revered and shielded within the foreign policy community is shocking. Guy single handedly torpedoed an entire region which is arguably still recovering from the damage.

What JFK and LBJ did in Laos was worse than Kissinger in Cambodia. More bombs, less rationale.

Yeah, love it when the dawgs get all historian mode.

Matt and Shane’s secret podcast episode 490 for the people who don’t know

I listened to it and thought he was a nice guy who truly believed what he was saying but the evidence was flimsy at best. What did you find interesting about it? Because this is reddit and comments like this can be misconstrued I want to say that I’m genuinely asking too and not trying to be snarky or anything.

Yup. Nick was also on Warmode a year or two ago

No it wasn’t. That dude was a bumbling moron who couldn’t complete a sentence let alone a thought. He seems very passionate about watergate, but everything he said was a meandering tale of hearsay said with complete conviction.

Edit: that sounded harsher than intended, it was a very frustrating listen.

100% Joe talked to the same guy or heard the episode if he has that take this week. Interesting indeed especially the Woodward and Bernstein stuff. And totally thought he was a right wing shill until he called out Trump for being cycled in Epstein’s black book and helping destroy the middle class.