@TitusTorquatus The ebook I read had only a couple of typos, if I remember well.
@adam-l Coming from you, that's a strong endorsement indeed!
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.
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