Nixon's bums

[TheDudeInMe]

This thread brings up the question: How Dude-like were the Dude's parents?

[Bartender]

And wasn't Nixon the first President to meet the Chinaman in their own country?  Probably not a significan event, because really, the Chinaman is not the issue here.

[not_exactly_a_lightweight]

You're joking, but perhaps you're right.

[DigitalBuddha]

And wasn't Nixon the first President to meet the Chinaman in their own country?  Probably not a significan event, because really, the Chinaman is not the issue here.

........and dude, Chinaman  is not the preferred nomenclature here, Asian American, please.

[not_exactly_a_lightweight]

Good catch dude. I think the the dude's fuck it attitude may in fact be because the bums lost. Think about it; the port Huron statement got compromised, the civil rights movement failed to truly integrate and led to Detroit and many other cities burning, Nixon's national guard put down the Kent state uprising, Attica, the devolution of hippie idealism in to destructive nihilism like the weather underground and simbianese liberation army. He probably realized that ideologically pure idealism can only take one of two forms: ineffective pacifism, or becoming the fucking fascism it's fighting. One must abide in your ideals without any expectations outside of your own peace of mind.

Mark it 10 Dude.
I missed in my earlier limberments, and you make an interesting, fucking interesting point. of course its could be a false dichotomy, but no, I think at some point you do have to draw that line.
or go insane, or become an artist... and what have you...

I sold out to the man aka the fucks in the league office.
I have pissed on no rugs, and I have peace with that.

[triviadude]

Maybe that explains those missing 18 minutes from the Watergate tapes.  Nixon was conceiving the Dude with Rose Mary Woods, his secretary. 

By the way, I hear it's an ungodly number of pages so I haven't read it.  But there is a historian, Rick Perlstein, who has a book called Nixonland where he describes how Nixon revived his political career in the late 60's by building a political strategy around hippie bashing, law and order, respecting the values of decent working folks who kept their hair trimmed ("the silent majority").  Of course, it was all BS and Nixon was the biggest crook and power junkie elitist of them all, but alot of people really bought into it and it's worked pretty well for Republicans for a long time. 

[DigitalBuddha]

Maybe that explains those missing 18 minutes from the Watergate tapes.  Nixon was conceiving the Dude with Rose Mary Woods, his secretary. 

By the way, I hear it's an ungodly number of pages so I haven't read it.  But there is a historian, Rick Perlstein, who has a book called Nixonland where he describes how Nixon revived his political career in the late 60's by building a political strategy around hippie bashing, law and order, respecting the values of decent working folks who kept their hair trimmed ("the silent majority").  Of course, it was all BS and Nixon was the biggest crook and power junkie elitist of them all, but alot of people really bought into it and it's worked pretty well for Republicans for a long time. 

Interesting comment, dude. Fucking politicians, man, all of them, they beliefs in nosing! Fucking nihilists!

Tricky Dick was just a product of the parlance of his times.

[SouthernDude]

This thread brings up the question: How Dude-like were the Dude's parents?

That's fucking interesting, man. That's fucking interesting. Statistically they probably weren't, looking at dudes of the 60's or 70's, they seem to all have been rebelling against their parents but maybe there is something to the whole "The dude's parents were laid back, too." There are a lot of strands in 'ol Duder's head on this one, man.