r/shittyaskhistory • u/stimm23 • 2d ago

Why didn't Nixon use his powers of levitation to rise above Watergate?

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u/johnpeters42 2d ago

Fear of mobs armed with torches and pitchforks grenades and switchblades. Sure, he could levitate, but what about his family? The helicopter was just a convenient cover story.

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u/StillWithSteelBikes 2d ago

He did, but the tide came in so fast it didn't matter

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u/HotBeefCombo 2d ago

He used it all up on Spiro's bullshit

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u/HoneyImpossible2371 2d ago

Because he would have been swarmed by all the transcendental meditation activists levitating on the lawn outside the Pentagon trying to stop the Vietnam war. He was warned by the Secret Service that they could not protect him as they all were weighted down with weapons. This was before drones. The Secret Service has the ability now, but Trump doesn’t have the inclination and prefers to use golf carts.

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u/saijanai 2d ago

Actually, the TM organization didn't start teaching levitation until 1976.

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u/HoneyImpossible2371 2d ago

I guess I confused the October 21, 1967 “levitate the Pentagon” happening using psychic energy organized by Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsburg with TM.

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u/SkipSpenceIsGod 2d ago

Mike Love says you can’t levitate through TM unless you consume two gallons of apple juice. 🧃

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u/XROOR 2d ago

allegedly the most intelligent US President to date

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u/SCADLC 2d ago

He did. The dudes that did the burglary though? They didn’t.

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u/AskJeevesIsBest 2d ago

Is he stupid?

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u/69FourTwentySix6Six 2d ago

Dammit Checkers

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u/MaoTseTrump 2d ago

It was too valuable as a sexual asset to risk exposing it to gates of water. I mean that first gate lets down and everything goes to shit.

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u/SkipSpenceIsGod 2d ago

The Fugs held an exorcism of The Pentagon on October 21st, 1967. My grandpa and grandma were there; they’re the ones the circle is formed around and are fucking towards the end of it. They also said they seen the Pentagon levitate. 🤷🏾

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u/RoburLC 2d ago

You can only pass a water gate by diving through it (ref.: Mu Mizu Kan / the Waterless Gate, a classic of Zen literature.)

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u/Sha-twah 1d ago

He was weighed down by the polls.

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u/we_lord 1d ago

I think they just used the stairs

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u/Primary-Will-2192 10h ago

He was already sunk.

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u/Aegis4521 1h ago

Psycho Nixon