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kentuck

(115,306 posts)
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 09:01 PM 15 hrs ago

Senators Scott and Goldwater, with House Minority Leader John Rhodes went to the White House...

..to talk to the President. They told him that if he did not resign, he was going to be impeached and convicted. The President chose to resign.

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Senators Scott and Goldwater, with House Minority Leader John Rhodes went to the White House... (Original Post) kentuck 15 hrs ago OP
I remember that gopiscrap 13 hrs ago #1
One big difference in what led up to that hvn_nbr_2 12 hrs ago #2

hvn_nbr_2

(6,764 posts)
2. One big difference in what led up to that
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 11:56 PM
12 hrs ago

That never would have happened without the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein, who worked for the Washington Post.

Today's Washington Post is the Bezos Billionaire Bullshit Bulletin. That reporting wouldn't have happened with the BBBB.

The rest of corporate media (I call them CorpoPravda or Plutocracy Pravda) have gone downhill quite a bit since then too.

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