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(90,745 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Nixon had been in office five years.
Trump got there in 118 days.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Beautifulest ever in the history of the world. There would be much more but thats the mostest words he knows.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Aug. 8, 1974. I want Trump gone NOW, but I know that these investigations take time.
LiberalFighter
(51,004 posts)Based on the below and other comparisons I don't think it should take as long.
Social Media
1974 -- Face to Face
2017 -- Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc
Resources
1974 -- Pen and Paper
2017 -- Computer and Internet
Electronic Media
1974 -- basic Radio and basic TV
2017 -- basic Radio, Sirrius, internet radio, basic TV, 24/7 news tv, web blogs, web boards, Facebook, Twitter.
Paper Media
1974 -- newspaper stands, libraries, delivery
2017 -- newspaper stands, libraries, delivery, internet
FBI or Special Prosecutor
1974 -- non-internet age and very slow computers
2017 -- opposite of above
Access to sources across the world
1974 -- slow and limited
2017 -- not as much as 1974
StevieM
(10,500 posts)There is one other thing that is different today: the GOP gets away with everything and anything.
I hope that this one is different.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)They were in other cities, I'm sure, but personal computers was kind if a new thing. My how far we've come! Wow.
At the time, I was utterly fascinated, but had trouble thinking what someone could use them for. (I should've gone with the fascination, skipped the thinking, and bought stock!!) I could see that keeping recipes on a computer wasn't a great idea (there were no recipe programs that figured out nutrition profiles, quantities, and so forth yet). Apple was heavy on educational materials, but that wasn't of much interest, and probably games which interest me not at all. Email was nonexistent at the time, since there was no internet for personal use so that means we didn't even have Bulletin Boards, let alone discussion forums!
I bought my first computer about 1985 - a Mac SE. IIRC it cost me about $3k. And I joined AOL not long after. I remember something else that fascinated me a bit but didn't make sense to me. Some firm in Washington state had developed this thing called hypertext, which enabled you to read things in a non-linear way, unlike, say a book. As an AVID reader of BOOKS, I just couldn't see the appeal.
Needless to say, it didn't take long for people with far more vision and imagination than I to make great use of personal computers and hypertext too. LOL. So I could come along after them and make great use of them as well.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)It was from Radio Shack. I seem to remember my father saying it cost $1500, which is a lot when you take into account inflation. It is possible it was more, maybe $2500.
And, of course, that computer could do practically nothing compared to today's computers.
It is cool that you were on AOL in the mid-80s. I remember when my brother used to "go on the modem," as he called it at the time. Today we think it is kind of cool that my brother was on-line in 1982.
I love the show "The Americans." There was a scene where a Russian scientist who defected was trying to entice the Soviet spy who was kidnapping him by offering to "put him on the ARPANET." The year (according to the show's timeline) was 1983.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)of my modem opening up the whole world for me.
And yes, it was a lot of money back then. Thankfully, prices have gone way down while technology has gone way up!
Thanks for the welcome.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)We had more Republicans who put country over party than we do now.
BigOleDummy
(2,272 posts)is exactly why.
Nitram
(22,840 posts)progressoid
(49,992 posts)bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)118 days for Trump to "get there", let's hope he's gone in 24 days
Donald Trump, "the Evelyn Wood of Presidents"
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)1. Trump has major connection with Russian Money
2. His company is used to money launder Russian Money
3. He is fixated with Russia, his two wifes are from ex soviet union or nearby countries
4. He did do golden shower in 2013 and had sex with under age girls
5. His campaign did collude and Michael Flynn was top guy to manage the transactions
and many more....
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)Hey, somebody's brains are frying, for sure.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,781 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)bora13
(860 posts)is that the trumpsters are the type who can't cope with being wrong.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,175 posts)then wouldn't having a witch hunt be appropriate?
malaise
(269,103 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)not necessarily a selfish angle....millions of common people will lose wealth because this schmuck is a crook
groundloop
(11,520 posts)However, the next year or so will probably be a great time to be putting money into your 401K (I'm assuming, of course, that 45* doesn't have a chance to to irreparable harm which we can't recover from in the course of a few years).
dubyadiprecession
(5,719 posts)They so desperately wanted another Reagan, but ended up with another Nixon.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Followers really believe it is the liberal media's fault.
The swallow Fox news and worse as a daily diet.
Funny, how Fox is tanking at the same time as DT.
calimary
(81,367 posts)What's that cliche - "everything old is new again" - ?
Gotta say, I've been around awhile. I cannot believe what is playing out before our very eyes. I CANNOT believe it. I keep wondering if I'm hallucinating.
groundloop
(11,520 posts)I was only like 16 when all the Nixon shit was going down, but I sure the hell remember the moment he resigned.
KPN
(15,647 posts)to me last night -- almost word for word, starting with "I've been around awhile" verbatim! There's a lot of us living in what seems the Twilight Zone right now.
bora13
(860 posts)The following is adapted from "Blazing Saddles" by Mel Brooks.
"WE THE PEOPLE, THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES
wish to express our extreme displeasure with your choice of president. Please remove him immediately! The fact that you have sent him here just goes to prove that you are the leading assholes in the country!"
Mira
(22,380 posts)and it is cooked
VOX
(22,976 posts)...it smells like...just desserts.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)Witch hunt, huh?
dawn5651
(604 posts)did someone toss 45 a history book or did he study up on nixon...
nolabear
(41,988 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,236 posts)but also I think to the 1950s McCarthy Era in the sense that there are
Russian sympathizers in the government. This time of course they are not
communists but privatization freaks as long as it goes in their pockets,
and we don't have to look for them in obscure places like Hollywood, this
incarnation are proudly in full view
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Only hope it doesn't take as long. This merry go round needs to stop now!
flying_wahini
(6,626 posts)Blue Ridge Virginia
(26 posts)Not a Bible believer or Christian but that one line always evokes both hope and despair. The truth came out about Nixon and we were freed of him. Hoping (and would pray if I thought it might help) that the same scenario unfolds now. The despair part is that such a large segment of the population is so totally brainwashed by Trump's lies that MAYBE no amount of truth can possibly free us from this nightmare.