That's a great cover.
― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Man yeah thats incredible
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
I want this book so bad.
― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
check out Reagan rising!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWV6V4JYEUw
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
oh you're all over here. i put this on that reagan thread:
perlstein update! they're going after him for plagiarism
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/business/media/rick-perlsteins-the-invisible-bridge-draws-criticism.html
oh i'm for sure buying it now.
― ♪♫ teenage wasteman ♪♫ (goole), Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:06 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ♪♫ teenage wasteman ♪♫ (goole), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
yeah that 'controversy' is laughable
― balls, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
I've done enough research to sympathize with any attempt to simply the act of collation.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
having the endnotes on a website makes perfect sense to me.
― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
i mean, nixonland almost broke my back carrying it around while i was reading it.
― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
sorry morbs, as per usual i foolishly assumed your posting on a message board full of ppl with diverse views meant you were interested in a conversation, as opposed to just throwing out glib statements with an undertone of "y'all can't handle the truth" and offering either more of the same or "fuck you" when asked to back them up, will try to avoid making that mistake in the future.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
go have a conversation with 'balls'
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
morbs when you're curled up on the floor in the middle of the night, crying and moaning about how you turned into such a dumb miserable fuck, a bigot playing out his last days online defending child rape and richard nixon, when you're there on the floor, thinking about how it'll all be over soon and how few will notice and fewer still care, do you take those deep intake sobs where it's almost like you're hyperventilating and you can hear the emptiness of your thick skull? cuz that's how i picture. or do you just lie there, silent, unblinking, urinating all over yrself? the latter seems to subtle and lacking of self pity for you ime so it's the sobs right?
― balls, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
Man what is your problem
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
bumping to flag that post
wtf balls
― Brad C., Tuesday, 5 August 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
let's all use our FPs judiciously
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 02:45 (nine years ago) link
i bet that sounded really great in your head
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
i said it out loud b4 i typed
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 04:38 (nine years ago) link
(test the good stuff that way)
the armond white of political opinions
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 04:43 (nine years ago) link
hey hey now balls, that was a mean thing to say to the guy who told you to die
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 05:34 (nine years ago) link
mine was an xp but whatevs
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 05:36 (nine years ago) link
"go die" is standard Tombot shit
also Obama needs to be credited with his share of the billions (ie everyone) who will die in climate change
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 11:00 (nine years ago) link
'superior' to Nixon in prosecuting whistleblowers as well
oh no Armondized by the guy who worships Brian fucking de Palma
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 11:03 (nine years ago) link
hooray!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
i support balls
― famous instagram God (waterface), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
hang in there balls
example #2,457,478 in the never-ending "morbz can dish it out but can't take it" exhibition:
http://www.ashcroftsurgery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/crying-baby.jpg
― 뉴 메탈은 나머지 모든 보지 똥, 거기입니다 최고의 음악이다 (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/FrameGrabs/2ACV17/Grabs/pic00612.jpg
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
What balls said was disgusting. No amount of obtuseness or dickishness can justify that sort of post. Wtf is wrong with everyone
― Treeship, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
Nixon.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HNaVoNk.jpg
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
^^^ A+
― Both Jandek and Authenty (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
all i'm saying is, don't throw a punch if you've got a glass jaw.
that shit is Nixonian (to bring this back to something related to this thread's purpose).
― 뉴 메탈은 나머지 모든 보지 똥, 거기입니다 최고의 음악이다 (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
yer still a sad little creep
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Morbs, his point is legit whether you acknowledge it or not.
― Harper Valley PTSD (WilliamC), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
per the new board style, no more name-calling from me til ppl get cancer.
as you were
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
http://www.whha.org/photographs/white-house-administrations/images/nixon-oval-office-on-phone.jpg
"When you're curled up on the floor in the middle of the night, crying and moaning about how you turned into such a dumb miserable fuck, how few will notice and fewer still care, do you take those deep intake sobs where it's almost like you're hyperventilating and you can hear the emptiness of your thick skull?"
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdoodyh7bZ1qe7o43o1_500.jpg
"What? Who is this?"
http://www.motherjones.com/files/nixon-phone.jpg
"Yeah, that's what I thought." *click*
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/west-wing/oval-office/oval-office-1969-apollo.jpg
http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2011/03/25/25_reagan.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg
"Sorry. Couldn't quite make out that last part!"
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2013/6/13/1371125278391/Richard-Nixon-007.jpg
"Damn, nothing gets to that guy."
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
http://thewallbreakers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/JFK_1960_21.jpg
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/files/legacy/lbj.jpg
"Wait, now just wait. Not sure how I got this iPhone here in 1969, but just wait a cotton-picking second here while I work this thing out. Bird!"
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/ddd/includes/images/475/185.jpg
"Goddamm chickenshit hillbillies."
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
Amazing thing about this pair is that I think they would have really gotten each other. Not liked each other at all but here's two proper old-school prewar assholes who probably saw most of the changes taking place in America through fairly similar lenses - can't see Nixon loathing LBJ the way he would the Kennedys or whoever. I'm sure there's actual facts to back up/contradict this reading.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
http://blog.nixonfoundation.org/files/2011/05/1.jpg
They both disliked the Kennedys. They both came from the West. They both had the same us-or-them attitude about everyone they met. Had it not been for Nixon purposefully sabotaging peace plans to end the war in 1968, they might've become buds.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
i'd like to think that chair in the foreground is obscuring, like, a giant bowl of ham salad
― ♪♫ teenage wasteman ♪♫ (goole), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Here is the leader of the free world and his would-be successors sounding like they're callers on the Paul Finebaum Show.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
President Johnson: Now--so I think it’s very important this be confidential. Do you know whether your talking to me is knowledge to any of your people?
Nixon: Well, in my case, the phone was picked up by somebody here. I’m at the Union Station in Kansas City. The phone was picked up by somebody else. It may be known, but I will seal them down. I’ll just tell them we got a routine report.
President Johnson: OK. If anybody asks, we will not mention it here. If they ask us, we'll say that we stated the facts as we see them, namely, that there has been no agreement between us, that we will constantly negotiate, and when there is, why, the candidates will be among the first informed...
Humphrey: Mr. President?
President Johnson: Yes?
Humphrey: It’s obvious that I’m here at a school and I’m all alone. There’s nobody with me, and they do not know that I’ve got a call from you. But I’ve been held up in a meeting, and that press is always very alert. I’m just simply--is it all right just simply to say that we’ve had our regular report?
Nixon: That’s good.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
Politically, however, (JFK and Nixon) were not continents apart. They agreed, for example, on the threat of communism. Kennedy had voted to continue funding the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and favored the latest version of the Mundt-Nixon internal-security bill. Like Nixon, he strongly hinted that Truman’s policy of vacillation had led to “losing” China and inviting Communist advances in Korea. He favored aid to Franco’s Spain and vast increases in the Pentagon budget.
Both congressmen felt that organized labor had grown too powerful. Earlier that year, upon receiving an honorary degree at Notre Dame, Kennedy had warned of the “ever expanding power of the Federal government” and “putting all major problems” into the all-absorbing hands of the great Leviathan the state....
Speaking to a group of students at Harvard three days after the election that autumn, Congressman Kennedy remarked that he was “personally very happy” that Nixon had defeated Helen Douglas. He reportedly explained that Douglas was “not the sort of person I like working with on committees,” but he did not make clear whether this was because of her manner, her politics, or her gender. On November 14, Kennedy wrote his friend Paul Fay, “I was glad to…see Nixon win by a big vote,” and he predicted that the winner would go far in national GOP politics, for he was “an outstanding guy.”
http://www.thenation.com/blog/168769/when-jfk-backed-nixon-against-progressive-woman#
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Amazing thing about this pair is that I think they would have really gotten each other. Not liked each other at all but here's two proper old-school prewar assholes who probably saw most of the changes taking place in America through fairly similar lense
oh you weren't talking about Morbs and balls
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
JFK ran "to the right" of Nixon on the missile gap (which didn't exist). He talked tougher than Ike ever did.
LBJ and Nixon had mutual respect: both in the Congress at the same time, both loving J. Edgar Hoover. Nixon more afraid of LBJ, who wasn't afraid of anyone. Never understood why in the last year of his life he didn't just say "ah fuck it I'm dying" and release what he knew about the Nixon people and Chennault.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
ask Oliver Stone
certainly by 1969 Nixon was scared shitless of J Edgar
you can tell i'm a postwar asshole bcz i'm culling my FB friends list
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
In everything I've ever read on Nixon, I think it's the commonly held view that he and LBJ were in sync on most everything by '68 and '69.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link