Hate the Nixon bashing

maximbarne126 wrote:

ghallmark814 wrote:
The Simpsons parody everything, even the game you play. :roll:

:thumbup: I find it funny how they essentially make fun of their OWN game! :lol:

and us!
LOL

jukan00 wrote:



---two party system isn't true democracy

The United States of America is not a democracy and never was a democracy. The founding fathers of the United States of America did not establish a democracy.

It is a Constitutional Federal Republic.

Lancemountain37 wrote:

jukan00 wrote:



---two party system isn't true democracy

The United States of America is not a democracy and never was a democracy. The founding fathers of the United States of America did not establish a democracy.

It is a Constitutional Federal Republic.

Exactly. We in the US for the vast majority of government choose people to make government decisions for us. True democracy lives only in a small number of places in the USA and only on the municipal level, everywhere else no matter what they call it is a republican form of government.

Even people who're best at something need to be able to take a joke and make fun of themselves to be perceived in a likable manor. He did what he did and history remembers it. The good. The bad. And everything in between. No need to freak out about. Remember people don't play this game to get a history lesson. They play it for fun and know there are jokes that will be made about everyone, including ourselves.

Don't blame me I voted for Kodos.

Disagree with the "EA makes fun of everyone" line. The game doesn't really make fun of both sides; most of the barbs are aimed at conservatives. I try to ignore that so that I can still enjoy playing the game. But please don't argue that "everyone" gets slammed.

Side note: I remember watching President Nixon resigning on TV. I was visiting my cousins that summer and my aunt made us watch because "it was history." We thought it was boring, of course but I do remember watching!

He may of been a good president but he was also a cheater which in my opinion makes him the worst president. Even if I don't agree with some of the things future presidents do they will never be worse then him because they got the spot fairly. Also The Simpsons parodies EVERYTHING and frankly I think they went way to easy on him. If I would have written his questline it would be 10x worse... When I saw him in the store I expected the game to parody him to a South Park level but I was unfortunately disappointed.

honolululu wrote:
Don't blame me I voted for Kodos.

I agree I think Kodos would be the best choice for the 2016 election. Now that I think about it that would be a great update...

I'd take him over Reagan any day.

Nixon deserved and still deserves all the bashing. One's good deeds do not counteract one's felonies, hubris, and arrogance. I lived through the awful Nixon years. One of the great lies that got him re-elected was that he was going to bring home tens of thousands of troops, which he did - and then sent tens of thousands of fresh troops right back again to replace them immediately after being re-elected.

To most of us at the time, it wasn't the lies which we knew he was telling, it was the breathtaking arrogance of defying Congress, the Supreme Court, the justice system and the will of the people who elected him, stonewalling the investigation at every turn and throwing everyone around him under the bus to try to stay in office. They were very dark days indeed, and the whole country felt tainted and dirty. He put an entire nation through hell - I've no sympathy for him whatsoever.

The phrase "Would you buy a used car from this man?" was coined about Nixon, and he didn't earn the nickname "Tricky" because he was a magician.

The system should be the way the ancient Greeks used to have, the equivalent of jury duty. One day you get a letter in the post and bang, you're president (or whatever office) for a year, just long enough to learn the ropes and enact some things, but not long enough to really screw things up or become utterly corrupt.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.