Joseph McCarthy's Downfall Was Accusing the Army of Communism 

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I know my research on the second Red Scare is heading in the right direction when I see Mr. Beat in the comments

You can say that again 😂🎉

Remember when everyone thought that Donald Trump was working for the Russians and that all social media was talking about it? Well, that aged badly.😂🎉

Perfect

Absolutely spot on.

"Aye Tone, you hear about that funny business happening down in DC at that Congressional hearing last week?"

It's that Midwestern diet lol

He doesn’t really look 65

Well, when you're an alcoholic and a drug addict, it ages you rather quickly.

That's what communists do to people

Totally, I was thinking the same. I’d guess the bottle played a role there too.

JFK.

And veterans organizations.

525Lines he kicked it off though to try and prolong his political career

I don't know about that. It started in the 30s, at least. After World War One, America occupied Russia and we've been paranoid about communism ever since.

FDR definitely wanted in the European war because he had to be there with the peacetime carveup. That's a fact. I hate to think that he knew Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing because nothing else would get the US on board with going into the war, but all signs point to it.

You can find same video in black and white with clearer audio. Hope it helps.

You can find same video in black and white with clearer audio. Hope it helps.

He says that until today he didnt realize how cruel mccarthy was, that he likes to think himself a gentle man but mcarthy will have to look elsewhere for forgiveness and that he has smeared the witness enough have you no sense of decency.

Yes, and what people didn't know about Eisenhower at the time was that although he was a Republican, he was a member of Leftist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which was founded by a Marxist in 1921 for the purpose of slowly establishing world government and dissolving America's borders and Constitution. Eisenhower was also instrumental in removing all the anti-communist laws at the time that barred Marxists from working in schools, colleges and in the government.

That is the most comforting alternative, yes.

Wanna know something? My friend said that in class today.. She said that it sounds like history repeating itself but it's not supposed to do that

Missouri needs a Senator like Symington again

Definitely. The GOP is now using McCarthy-ite tactics by blaming China for everything that's wrong with the world.

@@sayyestofairness4266 more worrying than that, they've fooled people across rural america into thinking democrats are all communists

@@everettduncan7543 - And they have done a great job convincing them that the GOP cares about them when GOP only cares about tax cuts and government money for people that are rich (paycheck protection act).

Anybody believing that you can die at the age of 48 from alcohol abuse is extremely susceptible to the propaganda they are trying to push. You'd have to be drinking like 2 gallons of liquor a day to die that early from alcohol.

Seemed like a big alcoholic and/or smoker, plus for some reason people aged much quicker back then

"Oh you like potatoes? COMMUNIST, ARREST HIM!" That era was just a huge 1st ammendment violation.

Actually, that isn’t remotely how the Salem witch trials went down. The play “The Crucible” was written as a criticism of the red scare, but in real life people were not convicted of witchcraft based on the accusations of children. 53 people admitted to being witches and werewolves on their own accord. Likely hallucinogenic drug use.

He was right though. We should have listened.

Arthur Miller wrote the play The Crucible on the Salem trials. Miller wrote it as an allegory of McCarthyism.

@wajidhussain5305 it wasn't remotely like that at all. The Salem Witch Trials were a clear case of the Emperor wearing no clothes. McCarthy and those who were weary of Communists were not looking for people who thought taxes should be raised to pay for more welfare. They were not looking for people who'd read the Communist Manifesto in college. They were asking "Were you a member of a secret organization taking orders from a foreign power intentionally designed to destroy the current political system and implement a totalitarian dictatorship based on violence." In Salem, there were no witches. In the 50's there WERE communists. Stalin and the USSR got the nuclear bomb through a network of communist spies that stole the tech from Los Alamos. MacCarthy may have over reached but he wasn't delusional. It was a legitimate threat.

Ya, they don't promise free stuff for votes to pathetic losers that don't want to get a job

Conservatism is a mental disability.

RedditISahole Oh look, a Ted Cruz supporter?

Joe McCarthy and Adam Schiff look a lot alike to me.

jon j this took me out homie 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks Trotsky

A lot of them were completly innocent too. The whole thing started when McArthy made an offhanded comment at a very small venue, and got an extremely big reaction. As he was failing politically and not likely to get re-elected, he leaned into it, making accusing people of communism his political brand. Some of them, there was some sort of communist connection, but not all of them, and that's not why he made the accusations.

You are a communist

Old geezer mumbling about decency, yeah a big line there. Nothing they said was big.

@@Alen725 Found the red-baiter.

And you are a fool if you don’t see that every single thing he predicted has come true.

McCarthy was 100% right were are going into communist fast. The majority is always liberals that know nothing and are filled with hate carrying water for the communist so ofc he got laughed at that's exactly whats happening now.

@alienlife7754 McCarthy was right about Russian agents infiltrating the government. However, he never catched a single one of them. All his policies amounted to nothing but mere fear mongering. Keeping the plebs scared and obedient at the cost of a few hundred lives and careers ruined. That's his legacy.

…and is still a senator. But it was a terror for the pinkos 😆

@@romanboxing3959 McCarthy had people doctor photos and forge stuff, he wasn't actually rooting out any communists(maybe some I guess considering the scale), he was putting on a show, and that's why the army thing failed. He's an actor, not a crusader.

Because it's current year there was no cables

BS. But a question for you; Why was communism so v!0lent and fail every time it was tried? It was sold as the reasonable answer to the worlds economic and social problems yet what it opposed thrived and won and represented greater freedom.

Joshua Willis not in the current year but there years later someone’s whistle blew to the soviets that we had intel on them. Not only that but Russia had put in couples from Russia acting as American citizens. It is the only conspiracy theory proven true.

@@becauseitscurrentyear8397 Only 9 of the hundreds of names McCarthy named were found in the Venona Reports, it was unlikely that McCarthy actually knew anything about it. If anything McCarthy was hindering actual efforts to find communists with his fearmongering.

@@86SuperRay fast forward to 2020 and you can see clear as day that the subversion and disinformation tactics have worked wonders for them hahaha you continue to believe the media's propaganda about McCarthy just like the mindless zombie they trained you to be.

He was murdered by the commies.

The Original Adam Schiff

And just like him he was right about everything

@@father042 Alex Jones ends up being right eventually. I always thought he was crazy until bit by hit he’s been proven correct

@@purromemes7395 Right? about what? I'm lost

@@xavihdez5060 he said there would be a massive pandemic a while back, he talked about trump winning, he talked about the UFO footage... all of which became known to be true eventually

And the USA died that day when the Hollywood communists succeed in their skillfully crafted smear campaigns, lies and character assassinations of McCarthy.

This was accurate. Stalin and the Soviets were bent on world domination and the subjugation of the US

I'm surprised they omitted he was also a homosexual and a communist himself. The way he acted he was clearly projecting. History should remember him for being all the things he weaponized against others.

Umm they mentioned his alcoholism at the end Quite clearly

Ever hear of Hunter Biden ?

@@joelonzello4189 Apples and Oranges, Einstein.

Here we go again 🙄

Everything you believe about Joe McCarthy and trump is false.

Yup, Joe Biden.

@@openmind2464 I see, you are totally CLOSED ...

@@BerraPettersson to what information?

@@openmind2464 CLOSED AGAINST T R U E INFORMATION...

of course not

Study a history book to find out that McCarthy was a stone cold liar.

Read blacklisted by history

@@ZombyMammoth the assassination of James Forrestal

Yeah its not like we have marxist on the streets and brainwashed comnunist youth right? Wrong.

Maybe the fact the army was already having investigations into probable subversives

Because the right wing extremists saw Korea as a failure, and they were looking for a scapegoat. Of course, this is nothing more than a childish emotional response, which, as you correctly point out, was not likely to land well with the general populace who still saw Eisenhower as a hero and were comfortable giving both him and the Army the benefit of the doubt. Emotions are emotions, and thinking had little to do with it.

Yes, exactly and too many people don't remember or never heard of Edward R. Murrow! Great point!!

if it were you against the world how well would you do?

@@zackp5294 he chose the fight and had plenty of support.

the communists murdered them both

They’re both are hero’s n truth tellers

Makes you wonder what they have planned for us common truth-tellers 😰

Well he completely lost his entire political career, all his power, and all his money, and he spent the last few decades of his life drinking himself to death as a sad old broke alcoholic, eventually his liver killing him from cirrhosis from the alcoholism. President Eisenhower is the one who brought him down although he did it all in secret. He planned this for years, and his plan worked perfectly, it made Mccarthy lose all his credibility and they prevented him from ever getting elected again. Mccarthy's mistake was to criticise the military, claiming that it was overridden with communist spies. Eisenhower, being the top military General before his presidency and now was obviously the commander in chief, absolutely hated Mccarthy from that day onwards. Though he never spoke about it publicly. But yeah, that was such a slap in the face to a 5 star general like Eisenhower that it became his mission to take down Joe mcarthy completely and utterly so that he'd never be able to tear the country apart with lies again. And Eisenhower won that war, that secret war, like he won every war. That's what he does. He's _THE_ General of generals, generally

@@duffman18 I know, Ike was awesome! Meanwhile, lies? What lies? A lot McCarty mentioned was true! He was still a senator, he voted, he didn’t lose his career, unless you want to say he lost his power that he had (unrivaled till this day). He was always an alcoholic….He is Irish don’t you know. I’d say who he took out suffered way worse…yes? And if you ask me, some of them deserved that fate

He was addicted to morphine as well.

Healthy? He looks 70 yet he was in his 40s

@@afriqiyyya people aged faster back then.

He was overweight, smoked like a fiend, and was an alcoholic. I think he looked terrible for his age.

The present of time was a former General in World War II

ya.. so if i were the enemy, i'd find way mess up the Army first!

See how Dems turn on their own today ?

That's sad.

I thought he died of hepatitis...?

No he wasn’t. We’re not communist. We’re more capitalist than before

@@joshuawillis602 All of our institutions have been infiltrated by neo-commies

How?

@@bman3794 what do you mean how? Look around see General Milley was talking about reading marx etc not long ago. Don't forget his secret communications with the ccp regime. The woke political ethos infecting the military.

@@bman3794 The Verona files proved he was much more correct than anyone thought. Multiple cases where the FBI ruled people were innocent but in reality they weren’t.

He was a pederast

5/31/24.....yyyyup.

Hardly. Your best bet is to RU-vid search Army McCarthy hearings and filter the results to only show long (20+ min) videos and watch some of the hearings for yourself.

the commies probably censored all those.

There is no other side of the story, just like how there’s no other side to how Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin or how JFK approved of the Bay of Pigs

McCarthy's side of the story was the same as today's. He was lying in order to gain political power. He, wife Jean and Roy Cohn were upfront about it, at least to each other. They went so far as to manufacture fake memos, which were shown to be fake when the secretary said to have typed them wavered on the stand.

@@switchbladekid1365 oh that's evil. but some form of cancelism is necessary at times when political infiltration becomes outrageous and toxic, that it threatens your own existence.

Yes, one can, the USSR was a democracy, if the 2 party dictatorship of the US was a democracy, then USSR certainty is

You're right, I noticed Donald Trump deliberately starved 20 million people to death while he collectivised US agriculture and Joe Biden send thousands every week to the penal camps in Alaska@@SteveOmnipotent

Cohn was bedding McCarthy and Edgar Hoover

True. Oswald was an admitted Marxist at aged 16, yet the Marine Corps still enlisted him.

So was G Edward Griffin.

He preyed on people's fears, as all demagogues do.

@@TheSaltydog07 He was actually correct. One of the greatest Russian Spies was a man who sold artwork in Langley Virginia. CIA employees routinely purchased from him all the time. And you can't deny the subversive actions in colleges in the 60's through today of sworn socialists. He was correct. He always was.

Despicable human

2024.

Thanks Man

Rick Enman Eisenhower was a stain on American history. War hero? He spent the war shacked up with a hoe.

Eisenhower was in fact a member of the Left-wing, pro-Communist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was a traitor and a phony who duped the American people into thinking he was a conservative Republican.

History has proven that to be a lie and a fabrication.

@@JohnB-dr8sk No, it hasn't. That is exactly the reason he attacked the Army. And he may have had a false sense of security because no one in the GOP wanted to stop him as long as he was winning elections for them.

@@switchbladekid1365 Post your direct, legal proof then (hint -- you can't).

Wdym

@@chaxi155 maybe he should have lived today.

He would have grilled Mark Milley

Then why don't you go live in China?

You’re ignorant of the history

Communism is the equivalent of a cancer affecting the world

Okay comrade

Your brain is obsessed. you're being played like a fiddle.

The Mockingbird media really has you in its clutches.

​@@conveyor2OK, Adolf.

Definitely. Not to mention the rampant stench of Wokizm in the Navy and Marines right now. American Army has indeed become the next victim to the phrase "becoming the very monsters they despised and sought to destroy".

Since when is diversity considered Marxism.

@@leviticuscornwall9631 so POCs should remain a minority in the US?

@@leviticuscornwall9631 not everything against your view is Marxism. Your not Joe McCarthy.

@@pemdemica1712 yes they should remain a minority. In fact, they shouldn’t be here at all. And yes everything i disagree with is Marxism

Not really . . .

Huh...right about what? McCarthy was just making up fake news. Lies that had nothing to do with actual espionage.

Example?

Milley!

Austin!