Woujo's book, Transcending the tribe is the single best book on getting into the mindset for game that I've read. Highly recommended.
Nixon himself didn't do shit, except try to cover for his friends once they did.
As above, this is really whitewashing his Presidency, but I'll leave it at that rather than belabor the point. Far more important to focus on the discrepancy between your image of Trump as Best President Since Washington, and the realities of the man, his policies, and his donors and (somewhat resulting) cabinet.
One thing I must stand corrected upon: TIL that it was not Reagan but Carter and his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (not incidentally, a founding member of the Trilateral Commission) who initiated the funding of the Mujahideen which later gave rise to Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban.
@SeasonedRP Kind of a Scooby-Doo Villain defense. "My Presidency would have worked perfectly if not for these darn KIDS!" I say Nixon WAS corrupt and authoritarian in many ways, but would rather agree to disagree than go to the mat over this topic.
For fun, here's a bit of immersion into the 1974 Zeitgeist. The movie The Exorcist is pretty tame by today's standards, but it was outlandish and shocking at the time. The Catholic Church went out of their way to condemn it, and theaters reported that ushers had to clean vomit out of the aisles between screenings. Here's a comedy record that I first heard on the Dr. Demento show circa 1980: Perfectly Clear- The Nixorcist.
@Dark108 So, first, a "your loss" answer would be, of course, better, if this was what you truly believed.
Authenticity is quite straightforward: express what you really feel deep inside. The problem being that, in order for the chick to bite, what you feel deep inside must be positive. It's the dynamic behind shit-tests: adversity reveals your mettle or your weakness.
So if you feel shaken, which is, actually, the normal reaction towards rejection, you still can tap onto your perseverance, the belief that you'll still be fine without her. Use that to convey a sense of strength.
@Typo-MAGAshiv I appreciate you making a detailed case. However, I disagree about many of your claims.
Nixon's "corruption" was overhyped, and really only consisted of trying to cover for some people who tried to break into a hotel on his behalf.
No, he was notoriously paranoid and known for abusing government resources and agencies to spy on and harm his political enemies, as well as unlawful and authoritarian actions against citizens like Vietnam war objectors.
They were trying way to hard to find a way to cheat at an election he was going to win quite handily anyway.
You're acting as an apologist for openly subverting the Democratic process... for Nixon of all people?!?
Ford was clumsy. Oh no. That's about the only bad thing I've ever heard or read about him.
That's about the only thing TO read about him. His "term" was basically a comma between Nixon and Carter.
Reagan was awesome, though still overrated in some ways. His Star Wars program bankrupted the Soviet Union,
That's one of the ways he was overrated. It certainly enriched the military-industrial complex and put America on the Jingoist Neocon path that has taken over both parties at this point.
he restored a love for this country not seen since Kennedy.
Heh... I KNEW Kennedy would come up positively in the timeline I proposed. :P Reagan was loved by conservative Boomers and their parents to be sure, but Reaganomics came to get considered a pejorative to many entire classes of Americans not of the top quintiles. I was in the workforce later in his term and saw firsthand how behind all the flag-waving and America-Firsting, US companies, General Motors in particular, were putting out absolute GARBAGE product, and Boomer idealism alone was keeping their market share in existence at all. It was a mantra that "Environmental and fuel economy goals are unreachable and impossible and will RUIN the automotive industry!" Meanwhile, Japanese carmakers quietly went about making cars that totally met and exceeded the requirements and were still great to drive.
The first Bush got a raw deal. He wasn't that bad at all.
The hell he wasn't! I couldn't find it, but I had a great political cartoon of him drawn as GLOBOCOP. He kicked the Neocon and Military-Industrial complex agenda into high gear, and helped set up "US friendly assets" like Osama Bin Laden. The Bushes and Neocon foreign policy really helped piss off entire nations so badly that people were willing to die flying airplanes into the buildings representing American financial and military global dominance and fuckery.
Trump was the greatest President since Washington himself.
Bwahahaha... going for broke with the Hyperbole now!
I like Trump better now than at the start of his first term, but he's cast his lot and filled his cabinet with Zionists and his pockets with AIPAC money. I don't see how he's going to Make America Great Again with the Israel monkey on our back, but I hope he manages to pleasantly surprise us on this.
Read More@Dark108 These small island nations are special cases. They introduced western diet too rapidly, and ended up eating foods for which their DNA hadn't adapted. As a result, they suffered immensely from diabetes and obesity. There are cases where a huga part of the population was extinct in just one or two generations.
widely considered the worst President in US history
I agree that was a popular sentiment at the time and in the years following, but by 2024 information available, can we consider this position actually justified?
Carter replaced the notoriously corrupt Richard Nixon, a president so awful that to this day major political scandals are given the suffix -gate. Do you consider Carter "worse" than Nixon? Then consider VP Ford who finished Nixon's term. Clumsiest President till Biden came along; he was always stumbling and falling, including the time he practically tumbled down the gangway of an aircraft on TV. A running joke at the time was that he stumbled and bumped Nixon in the halls of the White House, and Nixon said, "Pardon Me."
Two of the major contributors to public opinion of Carter were the "Energy Crisis" and its effects on our economy, when in fact this kicked off during Nixon's term. Unlike Presidents before or since, Carter did NOT commit US troops to foreign wars of aggression and exploitation. Contrast to Trump boasting of US Troops are there to steal Syria's oil (and wheat), and what is happening to Syria today largely as a result of such foreign policy fuckery.
Then the Iran Hostage Crisis, which was born of still more authoritarian American fuckery in Iranian politics going back to WWII and peaking with the 1954 coup (American instigated under Operation Ajax, which wasn't officially acknowledged until long AFTER Carter left office) and installation and long term propping up of the Shah, who arguably cucked Iran and its interests to America. There were two rescue attempts made, both of which didn't succeed due to equipment failures. First, helicopters that were put out of service by dust storms, then an implausible and ultimately expensive and deadly plan to land modified winged aircraft in a football stadium near the embassy using rocket assistance for ultra short takeoffs and landings.
Contrast Carter's actual moral behavior and character to that of "the most popular" President Reagan who followed him. I was in 8th grade when Reagan took office, and was wowed when the Iranian hostages got released on his inauguration day. It later emerged that the incoming Reagan administration CONSPIRED WITH the Iranians to extend the captivity of the hostages to prevent a Carter administration "October Surprise" and to release them in a manner that put Reagan in a corruptly contrived positive light.
Can you or anyone name (and support their case for) a US President who represents a "better human being overall" than Jimmy Carter since the end of WWII?
Read MoreRIP Jimmy Carter, who passed away at age 100 today.
I was a kid while he was in office, and his Presidency was not fondly remembered by lots of people.
The way he spent his life after his time in the Oval Office though? Absolutely different and I would argue better character demonstrated than several former Presidents before him, and all of them after.
Some might suggest Oh living his life serving others, how bay-tuh!! I see it as self-actualization and fulfillment, going hands-on in projects like Habitat for Humanity, putting his ideals into action and bringing about the change he wanted to see even in in advanced age. I wonder if America will ever again have a man serve as President, of the caliber of the one who left this mortal coil today?
almost anytime a guy said he said something "within frame" or "calmly and rationally" that he was full of shit.
Rian Stone has mentioned this several times in his podcast. Credit to him for it coming to mind when responding to Baron there. Was thinking after the fact that I should have written, Uglily ugly-cries...