

Yeah. I mean I understand that for a very large population - the boomers - the Watergate thing was extremely formative for the time. But when someone tries to tell me that Iran/Contra was not as bad as Watergate? I just don’t get that. It’s just like what you say - it sounds like some wild-eyed black helicopter thing when you read it out loud. It also reads like a rather salacious Hollywood plot when you add in that Ollie North, decades later - in 2025 - married the secretary (Fawn Hall) that helped him shred documents…Fawn Hall also dated Rob Lowe because he saw her in the trial…and she was offered lots of money to pose nude.
Ever since Watergate, a -gate is added to every scandal, even after Iran/Contra, even though Iran/Contra seems remarkably worse. I guess at that point, the boomers and the Silent Generation were jaded and had PTSD by so many things that came before, but…wow. Also, Gen X is a much smaller set of people, so their opinion on it or impressions didn’t really matter, and Gen Y was much too young or not born.





I think that word is designed for someone like Noem.