Richard Nixon

[47of74]

Just came across this article from The Atlantic. Yeah Hunter S. Thompson spoke for a bunch of us. 

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Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing -- a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy. He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. He lied to his friends and betrayed the trust of his family. Not even Gerald Ford, the unhappy ex-president who pardoned Nixon and kept him out of prison, was immune to the evil fallout. Ford, who believes strongly in Heaven and Hell, has told more than one of his celebrity golf partners that "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.

These are harsh words for a man only recently canonized by President Clinton and my old friend George McGovern -- but I have written worse things about Nixon, many times, and the record will show that I kicked him repeatedly long before he went down. I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.

Let there be no mistake in the history books about that. Richard Nixon was an evil man -- evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. Nobody trusted him -- except maybe the Stalinist Chinese, and honest historians will remember him mainly as a rat who kept scrambling to get back on the ship.

Obviously Hunter never met fuck face. And I hope Ford is burning now because he paved the way for guys like Reagan and fuck face. 

Because next to fuck face Nixon was a fucking Saint. 

Edited October 3, 2022 by 47of74

[SPHASH]

In Hunter's defense this article was written in 1994, before Fuck Face entered the political ring.  At that time he had only two bankruptcies and him and Marla were newlyweds, Tiffany was in diapers, Fuck Face Jr, Ivanka, and Eric were in high school, middle school, and grade school respectively, Barron wasn't even a thought, and Melanoma was still in Slovenia plotting her escape to the US.

Edited October 4, 2022 by SPHASH