H.P. Hovercraft posted:

his secret service nickname was "headache"

StashAugustine posted:

Every president has at least one extremely embarrassing close relation

StashAugustine posted:

Every president has at least one extremely embarrassing close relation

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

quick reminder: after the Bidens got rid of their first ill-tempered German Shepherd, it was Jimmy Biden who got them a PUPPY German Shepherd to replace him lol

bedpan posted:

username/post combo

also jimmy carter was such an enormous sack of poo poo

Mister Bates posted:

American military adventurer and pro-slavery radical William Walker, who briefly ruled Nicaragua as its dictator in the 1850s as part of an effort to annex the country to the US as a slave state before the locals booted him out, escaped alive and spent the rest of his life attempting to build a slave empire in Central America

in 1860 he was arrested by the British while attempting to raise volunteers for yet another invasion, and rather than repatriate him to the US, the local British commander decided he was more trouble than he was worth and handed him over to the Nicaraguans, who were very eager to get their hands on him, and promptly put him on trial

his entire legal defense hinged on his argument that 'filibusterism' isn't a word, which, while technically true, was also missing the point

the court was unconvinced and he was executed by firing squad

30.5 Days posted:

https://x.com/dril/status/575121631846227968?s=20

Fish of hemp posted:

Well he was sandwiched between Nixon and Reagan, so poo poo sackness is relative.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

zero knowledge posted:

gently caress that. the presidency immediately after Nixon was the best opportunity since fdr to use a strong mandate to bring real change to America. guy shoulda nationalized a bunch of poo poo and done reparations and whatever. to blow it so bad that you lose as an incumbent to loving Reagan is unforgivable.

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

ah, i see your problem. those are all things carter could have done if he didn't suck poo poo. but he was elected president of the us, so the fact that he sucked poo poo should be self evident.

zero knowledge posted:

gently caress that. the presidency immediately after Nixon was the best opportunity since fdr to use a strong mandate to bring real change to America. guy shoulda nationalized a bunch of poo poo and done reparations and whatever. to blow it so bad that you lose as an incumbent to loving Reagan is unforgivable.

Peanut President posted:

i agree, gerald ford did suck but he didn't lose to reagan

Peanut President posted:

i agree, gerald ford did suck but he didn't lose to reagan

Milo and POTUS posted:

Spiro Agnew

Milo and POTUS posted:

Spiro Agnew

Weka posted:

Carter initiated America's neoliberal reforms plus began funding terrorism in Afghanistan to get the Soviets to invade. I'm not as clear on this last point but I think he was also the beginning of America getting bogged down in the middle east in the way it currently is.
Basically started half the bad stuff ongoing today.

That's funny, to me, because he really sped up the destruction of America.

zero knowledge posted:

I legit appreciate this pedantic correction and will now disembowel myself ritually

Weka posted:

Carter initiated America's neoliberal reforms plus began funding terrorism in Afghanistan to get the Soviets to invade. I'm not as clear on this last point but I think he was also the beginning of America getting bogged down in the middle east in the way it currently is.
Basically started half the bad stuff ongoing today.

That's funny, to me, because he really sped up the destruction of America.

Fish of hemp posted:

Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan because local communist party was in deep trouble and Iran revolution had made islamism compelling alternative for muslim population.

Carter started support after invasion.

Wikipedia posted:

In May 1979, U.S. officials secretly began meeting with rebel leaders through Pakistani government contacts. After additional meetings Carter signed two presidential findings in July 1979 permitting the CIA to spend $695,000 on non-military assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") and on a propaganda campaign targeting the Soviet-backed leadership of the DRA, which (in the words of Steve Coll) "seemed at the time a small beginning."

MikeCrotch posted:

Also the general secretary got smothered to death with a pillow which might be the most ignominious way for a world leader to go

Animal Friend posted:

Garfield

Fish of hemp posted:

If soviets invaded because of radios, then doesn't this mean that the soviets were loving stupid? Morons, even?

wikipedia posted:

The first CIA-supplied weapons were antique British Lee–Enfield rifles shipped out in December 1979

quote:

https://history.state.gov/historica...e%20insurgency.

Summary of Conclusions of a Special Coordination Committee Meeting
Washington, October 23, 1979

The lack of radios to coordinate their activities has placed the insurgents at a tactical disadvantage vis-à-vis the DRA. It compels the insurgents to operate on a piece-meal, local basis, and consequently the DRA is able to deal with their raids one at a time, bringing preponderant strength to bear on the area of the insurgent attack. Coordinated simultaneous attacks in several areas would force the DRA to stretch its forces much more thinly in dealing with these attacks and significantly improve insurgent chances of success. Radios would also permit rapid transmission of intelligence on DRA activities from one insurgent unit to another, and could also be used to spread propaganda.

projecthalaxy posted:

One day, for no reason, war were occuring.

quote:

"On 25 April 2022, a group of female Conservative MPs met with the Government Chief Whip Chris Heaton-Harris to complain about sexism in parliament. In the course of the discussion one female MP spoke out alleging that an unnamed male colleague had been watching pornography next to her in the House of Commons. Initial media reporting likewise did not name the MP.[28] Before he had been publicly identified as the accused MP, Parish was interviewed on GB News and said that the MP should be "dealt with and dealt with seriously".[29][30]

On 29 April Parish had the Conservative whip withdrawn after being accused of watching pornography on a personal mobile phone in the Commons chamber.

Initially, Parish said that he might have viewed the pornography by mistake.[34][35] He subsequently told the BBC that he had watched pornography in the Palace of Westminster on two occasions, first accidentally and then deliberately. He said that he had been initially looking at a website about tractors; allies of Parish suggested he may have been looking at Claas Dominator tractors, a brand of combine harvesters. According to Parish, he then reached "another website with a very similar name" and "watched for a bit". He said: "My crime – biggest crime – is that on another occasion I went in a second time ... that was [while] sitting waiting to vote."

quote:

Asked if he had been "done in" by some of his colleagues, he replied: "I think probably I was."

Necrothatcher posted:

he may have been looking at Claas Dominator tractors, a brand of combine harvesters. According to Parish, he then reached "anot