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kpete

(72,024 posts) Sun Mar 24, 2019, 10:48 AM Mar 2019

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A WAPO cartoon from May 31, 1974

"Listen, are you going to be loyal to me or to that
(expletive deleted) Constitution?"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/cartoon17.html

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A WAPO cartoon from May 31, 1974 (Original Post) kpete Mar 2019 OP

Kick dalton99a Mar 2019 #1

BOOM SHA-KA-LAKA-LAKA... calimary Mar 2019 #9

Seinfeld: "...not that there's anything wrong with that." CaptYossarian Mar 2019 #21

That's interesting...nt 2naSalit Mar 2019 #22

Wow! Ohiogal Mar 2019 #2

Oh, it changed! Republicans are now a HUGE threat to the constitution. Hortensis Mar 2019 #10

Oh there's a BIG change gratuitous Mar 2019 #15

That did not appear in THE NEW YORKER brooklynite Mar 2019 #3

Thankyou brooklynite kpete Mar 2019 #5

Great cartoon Gothmog Mar 2019 #4

Yup. The Post is still on the job. Nitram Mar 2019 #6

Talk about timely! PatSeg Mar 2019 #7

Holy cow! Still true! cp Mar 2019 #8

K and R 47of74 Mar 2019 #11

Has time stood still? Karadeniz Mar 2019 #12

Sadly, GOP disloyalty to our Constitution is far more serious and dangerous today. dmr Mar 2019 #13

Herb Block appeared in a lot of papers, so I remember him well. This is spot on, then and now. Hekate Mar 2019 #14

At least back then the GOP was conflicted Azathoth Mar 2019 #16

Everything old is new again. volstork Mar 2019 #17

Second installment of Tricky Dick on CNN today, 9:00 Eastern question everything Mar 2019 #18

ding ding ding ding AllaN01Bear Mar 2019 #19

Instead of being true to the Oath of Office, CaptYossarian Mar 2019 #20

K & R...for visibility...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #23

dalton99a

(81,635 posts)

1. Kick

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 10:51 AM

Mar 2019

calimary

(81,523 posts)

9. BOOM SHA-KA-LAKA-LAKA...

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 12:00 PM

Mar 2019

The Man Without a Soul.

Oops - make that “Men”.

Ooopsie again ... NOT “Men”. “Lice” would be more accurate.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

21. Seinfeld: "...not that there's anything wrong with that."

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 06:49 PM

Mar 2019

2naSalit

(86,824 posts)

22. That's interesting...nt

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 09:26 AM

Mar 2019

Ohiogal

(32,106 posts)

2. Wow!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 10:52 AM

Mar 2019

I guess some things never change!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

10. Oh, it changed! Republicans are now a HUGE threat to the constitution.

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 12:02 PM

Mar 2019

We thought their realization that their white male supremacy party would have to change to survive meant they'd become less extreme and far more representative. They've clearly chosen a very different, and final, solution to their ballot problems.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

15. Oh there's a BIG change

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 12:30 PM

Mar 2019

Trump doesn't have to ask where his supporters' loyalties lie, and it isn't with that quaint old document.

brooklynite

(94,775 posts)

3. That did not appear in THE NEW YORKER

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 10:52 AM

Mar 2019

Herblock was an Editorial cartoonist for the WASHINGTON POST.

kpete

(72,024 posts)

5. Thankyou brooklynite

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 11:03 AM

Mar 2019

I did the research and you are right.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/cartoon17.html

Gothmog

(145,635 posts)

4. Great cartoon

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 10:54 AM

Mar 2019

Nitram

(22,900 posts)

6. Yup. The Post is still on the job.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 11:59 AM

Mar 2019

PatSeg

(47,633 posts)

7. Talk about timely!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 11:59 AM

Mar 2019

cp

(6,668 posts)

8. Holy cow! Still true!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 11:59 AM

Mar 2019

Thanks for finding this.

47of74

(18,470 posts)

11. K and R

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 12:03 PM

Mar 2019

Fuck Nixon.

Fuck Trump.

Karadeniz

(22,585 posts)

12. Has time stood still?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 12:17 PM

Mar 2019

dmr

(28,349 posts)

13. Sadly, GOP disloyalty to our Constitution is far more serious and dangerous today.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 12:22 PM

Mar 2019

Hekate

(90,849 posts)

14. Herb Block appeared in a lot of papers, so I remember him well. This is spot on, then and now.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 12:29 PM

Mar 2019

Azathoth

(4,611 posts)

16. At least back then the GOP was conflicted

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 12:34 PM

Mar 2019

Today the figure would be enthusiastically under Trump's desk.

volstork

(5,403 posts)

17. Everything old is new again.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 12:45 PM

Mar 2019

Will we ever learn?

question everything

(47,544 posts)

18. Second installment of Tricky Dick on CNN today, 9:00 Eastern

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 01:04 PM

Mar 2019

AllaN01Bear

(18,517 posts)

19. ding ding ding ding

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 01:21 PM

Mar 2019

my late mum said that they are still taking revenge for nixon.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

20. Instead of being true to the Oath of Office,

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 24, 2019, 02:05 PM

Mar 2019

they're loyal to the OAF of Office.

The GOP now stands for Government Of Putin. Joe McCarthy thought the Commies infiltrated the Army, quite a few media figures, and some of our elected officials in the 1950s. Now they own the NRA, Fox News, Sinclair, right wing hate radio, and the entire Republican Party.

That's a lot of useful idiots.

Wounded Bear

(58,728 posts)

23. K & R...for visibility...nt

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 09:30 AM

Mar 2019

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