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Kennedy vs. Nixon: The first 1960 presidential debate - YouTube
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Is it chuddy? (Be honest.) Then /h/chudrama.
Is it from back in old boomer times or before?
This is the place for it.
Feel free to talk about history here at
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It's been said Nixon didn't wear makeup. He won among the radio audience, but lost the tv audience because he didn't look gay enough.
Kennedy, a strong closeted homosexual, knew the importance of gayness and said "Give me the full makeup. Lipstick. Mascara. Please."
And that's how jfk became president.
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JFK won by a razor thin because of foids voting for the most handsome candidate and he gets lionized for having being assassinated. They did the same thing with Harding in 1920 (the first election they were allowed to vote).
!nooticers
The 66th congress passed the 19th amendment and the Volstead Act
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I think if he wasn't
he'd be remembered as a pretty 
president.
LBJ god actually got shit done, but his peepee was too big for the office so he couldn't be reelected.
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LBJ was quite remarkable indeed. He knew JFK's death meant Congress would handle them everything on a silver plate and he cunningly used that to his favor.
Apollo, the Civil Rights Act, the "Great Society" war on poverty plans, the Vietnam involvement.
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LBJ's policies were a disaster for America. Fricking worst part of JFKs death
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He's definitely a mixed bag. His "great society" programs are the most controversial (not including FoPo like Vietnam). I was just saying that he was an effective politician as in "getting what I want passed" regardless if those policies were good or trash.
!neolibs what's your assessment of Lyndon B. Johnson?
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He definitely would've at the very least shitposted on /r9k/. Possibly /soy/ if he was a zoomer !soyteens. He seems real and modern in a way most presidents aren't.
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Isn't /r9k/ the sissification encouragement board?
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Isn't that most of the internet?
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A true !Texas president
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He won because he played the "I'm harder on commienisn than the other guy game" better
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I knew this was gonna be the top comment in this thread before I even opened it.
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Nixon also had a bad knee injury too. That's also why he sweated so much.
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Debate cope never changes
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Imagine taking Bardy seriously enough to downmarsey him lol
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Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist
rdrama is currently running at 271.991 µBardyhertz
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This is definitely bogus. There's no way those 1960s troglodytes could tell the difference on a 8x6 black and white TV. They look fine.
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The presidential (candidate) debate which most blows my mind is the 1980 Ronald Reagan vs. George H. W. Bush one:
It's hard to imagine a civil and intelligent AmeriKKKan political debate like that today, let alone a Rethuglican one.
How far America has fallen since then.....
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Imagine being such a nerd that you find shit like that interesting (didn't even watch btw)
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I ain't watching that, but I'll take your word for it.
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Reagan was unironically so fricking based.
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Before his brain turned to geriatric dementia-mush like Biden's, at least.
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His stories and quips are absolutely hilarious. He has a great personality.
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Tbh, I don't really care about that shit. Debates are all performative anyways and voting candidates based on who performs better instead of their policy and stances is r-slurred.
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Personality is important in politics. Most of the job is convincing other people to do things for you so you mainly need to be a good salesman. Bernie Sanders had policies but he wouldn't have been able to enact them because nobody in congress likes him.
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The debates are supposed to inform you about their policy and stances though.
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Not really. There are tons of official statements and policy documents that actually give you a clearer picture of their stances than these debates, which honestly don't always do justice. I've seen so many leftist strags unintentionally hype Trump up because Biden didn't perform well in the debate, eventhough anyone who isn't too chudbrained can see Trump is way worse for America.
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I mean, sure, for the last 20 years (tops) you could find their policy documents on the internet. Before that not so much.
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That's what I meant originally. Debates don't matter now, and anyone reminiscing about better debate days is r-slurred.
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Nixon totally exonerated and did nothing wrong per his conduct being an offical act, by the way.
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I mean, did Nixon do anything wrong?
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No.
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WHY ISN'T THE MODERATOR FACT CHECKING WHAT THE FRICK. The moderator should be debating with Nixon
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Nixon told one gorillion lies and the moderator did nothing to stop him
. How can my precious JFK be expected to debate without all the rules favoring him and the moderator doing his work for him
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How the frick was JFK considered handsome? His eyes look r-slurred
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Can someone else ask @aevann and ask him if the hole a comment was made in can be added to the comments api response, and also ask why he muted me?
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misclick lol sry
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Oh thank God
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done king
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Be the change you want to see and submit a patch.
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You used to be able to just call a baby negro or mexican and nobody batted an eye, we need to retvrn
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The tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and to some extent checks its irresistible flow, and, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over, it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.
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