In 1994 the great Hunter S. Thompson wrote his Nixon

[bronxiteforever]

obituary. It was a powerfulI piece. I was reminded of the anniversary of Nixon’s death by the learned mahatmakanejeeves in the American History forum.

My point is Thompson’s obituary had warnings for the press and the public that have gone unheeded. It is worth just a few lines to quote from here:

FROM: DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
SUBJECT: THE DEATH OF RICHARD NIXON:
NOTES ON THE PASSING OF AN AMERICAN MONSTER....HE WAS A LIAR AND A QUITTER, AND HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN BURIED AT SEA. ...BUT HE WAS, AFTER ALL, THE PRESIDENT.

… 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…

…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.

… Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism--which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful.
More here
https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/299685.html?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

1. Hunter understood

how dumb our electorate was getting...he would have savagely attacked the orange menage with his writing in a way our current press never could or never would !

[bronxiteforever]

2. Agree. Both sideism enabled TSF to come back.

[spanone]

3. Wish Hunter was around to harrass the orange one.

Trmp makes Nixon look like an altar boy.

[rubbersole]

4. "slither into the White House"...

...check.

[generalbetrayus]

5. I bought this shirt back during the Dubya Bush administration.

I've taken to wearing it again, all these years later.

[andym]

6. Nixon would be envious of Trump doing in public what he kept secret

Nixon's secret enemies list, and using the IRS to punish opponents have been replaced by a public list of Trump's enemies and public use of government to punish them and those that opposes the current administration.

[orangecrush]

7. The Environmental Protection Agency

IIRC, Nixon was instrumental in its creation.

Compare that to the Russian puppet scum we have now.


See this -


https://www.epa.gov/history

[Hekate]

8. No wonder Hunter S. Thompson is legend: that obit is awesome...

My memories of Nixon (and I hated him in real time) have been overlaid and blurred by the trauma of Repub presidents who came after.

I only dialed it back a bit after a memorable conversation with my late father in law, who was old when I met him and about 99 when he died in 1995. He was always a bit hard for me to understand because of his heavy Polish accent — but his response to Nixon dying was epic. His face turned so red it verged on purple; he pounded the arm of his chair with his fist; he shouted; and worst of all from my perspective, in his fury he lost his English. Pop really, really hated Nixon — and I would have liked to know more of what he saw in that ratf*ker, if only.

[ShazamIam]

9. I am deeply worried about a nation that raises up people who elect evil amoral men like Nixon and Trump. and the so

called, free press, promotes and endorses them and refuses to tell the nation the truth about these men. It is of course because the free press is not free and is owned by the wealthy men who benefit from Nixon and Trump presidencies.

[jmowreader]

10. There's a big difference between Nixon and Trump

Nixon loved his country. He truly believed he could do whatever the hell he wanted because the “right way to do things” wouldn’t get the country to where he thought it should be right now.

The only thing Trump really cares about is himself. He truly believes destroying the nation is acceptable if it puts more money in his pocket.

I’ve said it before and will again: Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that says The Buck Stops Here. Trump’s sign says What’s In It For Me?

[CaptainTruth]

11. I love HST, I believe I have a copy of everything he wrote.

If only he were alive today...

[rurallib]

12. Thanks for that - that was a great read.

[many a good man]

13. Birds of a feather

[jimmy the one]

14. Hunter Thompson the gun nut, drug addict... was 'great'?

Hunter Thompson: "I hate to advocate drugs, violence, alcohol or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
Lifelong user of drugs and alcohol, love of firearms. Yes he did not care for the NRA and supported Jimmy carter but a weird democrat if he even was one, said he was not a liberal.
He helped the republican right wing subvert the 2nd amendment from the original militia interpretation to the abomination that exists today where anyone of age can own assault rifles and carry concealed without a permit, without having to serve a single day in any militia or military service. Just what the founding fathers intended, eh?

'Great'? bronxite et others? What the hell are you all talking about?
To me gonzo was scum.