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hvn_nbr_2

(6,486 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 08:27 PM May 2017

37 Ways Tricky Dick Nixon wasn't as bad as Orange Foolius

Nixon didn't lie about everything all the time.

Nixon wasn't completely nuts.

Nixon knew enough about American government to pass eighth grade civics.

Nixon probably knew that he was lying when he was lying.

Nixon had some concept of how the U.S. government works.

Nixon knew the concept of separation of powers.

Nixon had some motivations other than greed and hate.

Nixon wasn't a Russian agent.

Nixon wasn't completely incompetent about almost everything.

Nixon didn't grotesquely violate the emoluments clause.

Nixon didn't do blatant nepotism.

Nixon didn't appoint his horse to be a consul. (Oh, wait. That was Caligula. Trump hasn't done that ... yet.)

Nixon didn't brag about grabbing women by the p****.

Nixon didn't generally appoint people to head agencies that they wanted to destroy.

Nixon read his executive orders before he signed them.

Nixon didn't put bizarrely delusional knuckle-dragging buffoons on the National Security Council.

Nixon knew when he was putting people on the National Security Council.

Nixon didn't think he was becoming king when he took office (although he sometimes acted like it as time went on).

Nixon didn't think that the main reason to be president was to enrich himself.

Nixon wasn't buddy-buddy with Soviet premiers.

Nixon supported NATO.

Nixon's wife stayed in the White House and didn't scowl at him behind his back.

Nixon didn't put foreign agents in national security positions.

Nixon could speak in complete sentences.

Nixon could spell.

Nixon's administration didn't shill for his children's businesses.

Nixon didn't give Tass favored treatment over American news media.

Nixon didn't think that science was bunk.

Nixon didn't get Russian prostitutes to pee on him.

Nixon didn't try to gut the State Department.

Nixon didn't depend on the Russian Mafia to keep him out of bankruptcy.

Nixon didn't spend six hours a day watching TV.

Nixon didn't continually make insane pronouncements (in lieu of tweets) at all hours of day of night.

Nixon didn't claim that his 1968 win was the biggest ever.

Nixon won the popular vote.

Nixon didn't start having campaign rallies during the first 100 days.

Nixon didn't think that every single thing he ever did was the greatest, most tremendous ever by anybody.

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Those are just off the top of my head. I'm sure you'll think of more.

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37 Ways Tricky Dick Nixon wasn't as bad as Orange Foolius (Original Post) hvn_nbr_2 May 2017 OP
Nixon was conflicted. He felt bad when he did bad even if he continued doing it. DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #1
Nixon signed endangered species act of 1973 Brother Buzz May 2017 #2
I think he also signed the law to create the EPA. hvn_nbr_2 May 2017 #3
I read several books about Nixon. He was highly conflicted. DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #4
Even Dubya looks like a model citizen... Dave Starsky May 2017 #5
True, and pretty scary FiveGoodMen May 2017 #7
"Nixon wasn't a Russian agent. " uponit7771 May 2017 #6

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
4. I read several books about Nixon. He was highly conflicted.
Fri May 12, 2017, 08:42 PM
May 2017

Trump isn't conflicted because he lacks even a semblance of a conscience. I think of the old saw that if there were opportunities for success in the early to mid twentieth century for crime figures like Meyer Lansky he would have become a titan of industry. If Trump wasn't born into wealth I could easily see him as a small time hood.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
7. True, and pretty scary
Fri May 12, 2017, 08:50 PM
May 2017

We're moving from bad to worse all the time!

The GOP will have to run Satan next time to continue their trend.

(And by Satan, I mean Paul Ryan)

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