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I love Argentina and Leo Messi (despite the fact that he looks like Susie Derkins from Calvin & Hobbes). But I think even Pope Francis and Eva Perón are kinda rooting for Cape Verde today.
This is incredible. Cape Verde has tied the game with ARGENTINA and they are going to extra time!!!
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I love Argentina and Leo Messi (despite the fact that he looks like Susie Derkins from Calvin & Hobbes). But I think even Pope Francis and Eva Perón are kinda rooting for Cape Verde today.
"This much is known about Kurt Waldheim's career. He was always adaptable in his own interests...There is a report on young Kurt Waldheim from the Nazi leader in his home town, Tulln, about fifteen miles from Vienna, which says that before the Anschluss Waldheim was a diligent Catholic who opposed National Socialism in a "disgusting" way -- he had stood on street corners handing out leaflets that said "Vote Austria, Not Nazi" -- but that after the Anschluss he was a diligent soldier of the Reich and "served us well."
In fact, two weeks after the Anschluss Waldheim joined the Nazi Student Union. One week after Kristallnacht, he joined a calvary unit of the Storm Troopers -- in German, the Sturmabteilng, or S.A. The Storm Troopers had made a name for themselves in Vienna on Kristallnacht, burning synagogues...When it was time to marry, he chose a girl, Elisabeth Ritschel, who held the right new National Socialist views, and had joined the Nazi Party as soon as she was eighteen. When it was time to write his law-school thesis, he chose for a subject a German nationalist named Konstantin Frantz, whose concept of the Reich, Waldheim said, had finally been realized in the "current great conflict...with the non-European world."
Two years into the war, he got himself attached to the staff of the German High Command for the Balkans, under General Alexander Löhr, and...ended up with a King Zvonimir medal from the Croatian puppet state. He also ended up as Case No. R/N/684 in the United Nations War Crimes Commission file, charged with "murder" and with "putting hostages to death." Officially, he was a translator, an interpreter, and a "special missions staff officer." His job involved verifying and transmitting special orders, and, eventually, recommending on those orders and making suggestions of his own.
He was in Greece for the high command when forty eight thousand Jews from Salonika and Corfu were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. He was there, after the Italian surrender, when a hundred thousand Italian soldiers who were left in the country were seized and deported to German camps. He was in Yugoslavia for the High Command when massacres of thousands of partisans and their families took place. As far as the record goes, Waldheim never murdered anyone himself or personally "put to death" any hostage. "I only did my duty," he says now."
-- Jane Kramer, on Kurt Waldheim, who served two full five-year terms as Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-1981) and was elected President of Austria in 1986 even as it was revealed that he had lied about the extent of his service in the German Army and connection to Nazi war crimes during World War II, The New Yorker, June 30, 1986.
Charles P. Pierce's Top 10 Presidents in American history, ranked for America's 250 birthday and published in Esquire's Summer 2026 issue.
I'm glad to see LBJ getting his due at #7 and there aren't any surprises -- except for Chester A. Arthur at #10, which is a HUGE surprise. I don't think I've ever seen President Arthur ranked so high by any writers or historians, but as the author of the article points out, the "Elegant Mr. Arthur" has had a bit of a renaissance since last year's Netflix series, Death by Lightning!
I know that presidents and vice presidents have had a range of different working relationships over the course of US history, from very amicable to very fractious. Is there any book that examines the relationship between the president and the VP in various regimes?
Here are a few books that are not just general histories of the Vice Presidency, but examine some of the President-Vice President relationships through the years:
•First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Kate Andersen Brower [2018]
•American Roulette: The History and Dilemma of the Vice Presidency by Donald Young [1972]
•Crapshoot: Rolling the Dice on the Vice Presidency by Jules Witcover [1992]
•The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power (BOOK | KINDLE) by Jules Witcover [2014]
•The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden (BOOK | KINDLE) by Joel Goldstein [2016]
And these are even more directly focused on specific Administrations:
•Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Gordon S. Wood [2017]
•Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary (BOOK | KINDLE) by Joseph Wheelan [2005]
•The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 (BOOK | KINDLE) by Irwin F. Gellman [2015]
•Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Jeffrey Frank [2013]
•The Johnson Eclipse: A President's Vice Presidency by Leonard Baker [1966]
•In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique by Paul R. Henggeler [1991]
•Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (BOOK | KINDLE) by Jules Witcover [2007]
•Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Peter Baker [2013]
•Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Barton Gellman [2008]
•The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Gabriel Debenedetti [2022]
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"I am living, breathing proof the Democrats can win anywhere and we should be fighting everywhere!" -- Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky
Mr. Beshear, who seems to be everywhere on the 2026 midterms circuit, is in demand as a surrogate for Democrats in frontline races, all while positioning himself for an expected Presidential run in 2028. Democrats who urgently need to be competitive in more states if they are to win back Congress and eventually the White House, see hope in Beshear, a twice-elected Democratic governor of a deep-red state that President Trump won by 30 points in 2024... ...In Kentucky, Mr. Beshear remains popular despite his support for abortion rights and his veto in 2023 of a bill that placed sweeping restrictions on transgender youth. A statewide poll in February showed that 52 percent of Kentucky voters approved of the job he was doing as governor, including 81 percent of Democrats, 50 percent of independents, and 30 percent of Republicans.
New York Times article on potential 2028 Democratic Presidential candidate and two-term, incumbent Democratic Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear.
Pope Leo XIV is the perfect vessel for 6-7 and other internet trends, where juxtaposition — and sparring with Trump — boosts virality.
Here's a gift article from me for the express purpose of seeing Pope Leo XIV do the 6-7 thing.
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One morning, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt entered the Oval Office to find Donald Trump clutching a tube of superglue and attempting to affix gold decorations to the marble fireplace mantel. As he was known to prefer his own aesthetic handiwork to anyone else's, the sight of the President squeezing glue onto gilded appliqués and mounting them on the wall himself surprised no one in his inner circle.
Trump's first wife, Ivana, the vice president of interior design at his company, had had a penchant for gilding everything. It was Ivana who was said to have first encouraged the gold obsession that soon became a hallmark of her husband's properties. Gold projected the ostentation that would be Trump's brand and he reveled in its glow. His signature New York City building would beat the words "TRUMP TOWER" in gold letters and boast gold-hued elevator doors and escalators; gold silk lined the walls of the bedroom on his private plane, he draped himself in bling for the cover of Esquire, and he would eventually sell gold sneakers.
The Oval Office had always been deliberately understated -- a reminder that the United States was a republic, not a monarchy, and the President's office was not a palace. Trump had gone along with that tradition in his first term. In his second term, he would unleash his inner Louis XIV.
Every President had put his own stamp on the White House. In 1909, William Howard Taft bathed the original Oval Office expansion of the West Wing in olive green. Some critics at the time imagined that Taft's greenery was an homage to the natural beauty of America, but in fact Taft just liked green.
Similarly, Trump now brought gold. Golden urns and chalices would replace the tufty green Swedish ivy on the mantelpiece -- which had graved the Oval Office for many decades before Trump. As the year progressed, he kept jamming more gold pieces onto the mantel. When Trump asked White House residence staff what they thought of the glittering display, most responses were muted, but his devout aide Natalie Harp would gush with delight.
Gold cherubs flitted about in the pediments above doorways. Golden molding encircled the room, a golden Presidential seal beckoned like heaven from the recessed ceiling above, and golden appliqués festooned the hearth and walls, alongside ornate gold-framed paintings from the vast art collections of the federal government. Trump called the antique golden urns plucked from the White House collection "cash," and would tell people: "See that cash? People look at it, all they see is cash."
-- Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
Trump had done less redecorating of his bedroom during the first administration and his living quarters back then were often chaotic. His bedroom carpet was regularly covered in piles of bankers boxes, where he stashed documents. First-term aides would privately refer to them as his Beautiful Mind boxes, a sardonic reference to the biopic of the schizophrenic math prodigy John Nash. The boxes were sometimes stacked so high that they left impressions in the carpet when moved. A nighttime snacker, the President would frequently leave an array of empty potato chip bags, Starbucks wrappers, and ice cream cartons in the trash, or on the floor. The staff had to begin monitoring the trash after it was discovered he was sometimes throwing out White House sterling silver utensils. The Bidens had made remarkably few changes to the Trump family's first-term decor. But for his second term, Trump wanted to spruce up his bedroom with gold and other flourishes. In the early weeks of the new administration, items were spirited from the second-floor corridor into the President's bedroom. Sometimes Trump carried the objects in himself, rearranging things across the private quarters on a whim. A massive mirror framed in gold leaf -- one Melanie had made the centerpiece of a first-term redesign of the Queens' Bedroom -- was relocated to the White House colonnade, where it became known as the "selfie" mirror. The President's redecorating generated such a flurry of activity that staff often felt caught between the two Trumps, who were the only Presidential couple to regularly use and maintain separate bedrooms since Richard and Pat Nixon. (Bill and Hillary Clinton were said to have slept in separate bedrooms for a period of time after his affair with Monica Lewinsky became public.) Trump would let his wife use the master bedroom, known inside the White House as Room 219, and its dressing room; the President took Room 220, next to the Yellow Oval. Melania spent little time at the White House in the early weeks after the inauguration and was not around to consult as various objects vanished into the Oval Office or her husband's bedroom on his say-so. Once, when staff gently reminded the President that he was taking things from the Center Hall his wife had personally selected, he made clear he didn't care. He seemed almost to be competing with her -- determined to have the better room. The staff resorted to photographing potential substitutes and sending the images to Mrs. Trump for approval. Trump, a television addict, had three sets installed in his personal quarters, just as he had in his first term: two for the bedroom and one for the bathroom. New carpet was laid in the bathroom on Inauguration Day, as before. Trump's preference for a fully carpeted bathroom had posed a challenge for the residence staff during his first term. The portion nearest the shower would often be soaked through; the staff was never quite sure why, but they worried about mold growing underneath. The solution was to lay a small piece of the same carpet -- never an actual bath mat -- over the larger one. Several of these pieces were kept in rotation, swapped out and dried.
-- Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
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Are there any professional wrestlers that you think would make a good president?
We have a President right now who has used professional wrestling tactics every step of the way during his political career, is a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, was one-half of a WrestleMania storyline, and literally stole his reality show catchphrase from his real-life good friend, Vince McMahon. Stone Cold Steve Austin has hit the Stone Cold Stunner on the President of the United States and the Secretary of Education. Hulk Hogan was the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention! I think we have had enough pro wrestling influence on the White House.
Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation letter from October 10, 1973 and President Richard Nixon's resignation letter from August 9, 1974.
Title 3, Section 20 of the United States Code of Laws mandates that "an instrument in writing" must be delivered to the Secretary of State in order for the President or Vice President of the United States to resign from or refuse to accept their respective offices.
In the photos above, you can see where Secretary of State Henry Kissinger initialed and time-stamped the letters from Agnew and Nixon immediately upon receiving them, which formally accepted and triggered their resignations from office.
I was wondering why is it that FDR is almost revered and in comparison LBJ is villainized and or painted in a far more negative light. When just looking at YouTube search’s for LBJ it will bring up videos about how bad he saying he was an individual of poor character . This is interesting because FDR has the Japanese intermittent camps and his unwillingness to properly handle the dixiecrats along with many of his policies during the great depression ignoring black people or excluding them.All of FDRs mistakes or failures are ignored and washed away to the point of making him almost saint like in the minds of those who talk about him.I understand that Vietnam is a big black mark of LBJs legacy but he did a lot of good at the same level if not greater than FDR but none of that’s truly acknowledged .Instead his legacy is filled with either just the failures of his presidency and some of other actions along with conspiracy theories that he helped to have JFK killed.LBJ was no saint and was a very complicated and complex individual but it seems like many are unwilling to understand him or acknowledge his accomplishments.Sorry for such a long ask this has just been bothering me for awhile.
The answer is definitely Vietnam. But even with the Vietnam War, most Presidential historians have consistently ranked him as one of the ten best Presidents. The breakdown of results of the survey of Presidential historians done every few years by C-SPAN clearly shows how great he is considered in the categories that aren't dominated by Vietnam:
I find it worrisome how so many Dems I know have been focused on The Kennedy Center and the Reflecting Pool lately, but then when I bring up competitive races this fall, they're a bit clueless. A family member of mine, who's an activist, didn't even realize that her Republican member of Congress is vulnerable.
Do you share my concern that Democrats tend to fixate on Trump, rather than on elections and winning back power?
Yes, I agree. The focus should be on the midterms and the fact that President Trump has flushed practically any form of dissent or moderation from the Republican Party through his endorsements of the most extreme of the extremists, state-by-state, throughout the entire primary season.
Instead of the Reflecting Pool or The Kennedy Center or the ballroom or the UFC fight that was held at the White House, Democrats should be showing voters just who these people are that Trump has endorsed over more traditional Republican incumbents during this cycle.
But more than anything, Democrats should be hammering home how desperate things are for Americans economically because of the disastrous war with Iran that Trump launched (and, let's be honest: a war that we did not win). There'a a direct line from the war to millions of Americans struggling to pay for gas and groceries and utilities. Democrats should be buying up ad time and playing Trump's dismissive comments about inflation and skyrocketing cost-of-living while pointing out how he and his family are making a shitload of money while we all struggle. He's literally sitting in the Oval Office super gluing more gold shit on the walls while people can't pay for groceries or gasoline.
I'd love to see someone like Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear take a page out of Bill Clinton's 1992 playbook and just take aim at the economy with laser focus. He should say we need to block out all of the performative distractions and make the economy the center of everything the Democratic Party does or says. The ability for Americans to eat and pay their electricity bills and fill their car up with gas to get to work normally shouldn't be a fucking luxury (or impossibility), and I want to see a Democrat just stand on that corner and make that the only thing they talk about for the next two years.
Brendan Fraser as General Eisenhower?! I mean, I'm not any sort of expert on the Presidents (oh wait...yes, I am), but I'm not feeling this casting choice. I know it's just a trailer, when I heard his voice sounding like Jame Gumb from Silence of the Lambs, I can't say I immediately though of Ike.
Hopefully Brendan Fraser proves me wrong!
Despite my misgivings about the casting of Brendan Fraser as Dwight D. Eisenhower, I decided to reserve my judgment until I actually watched Pressure.
Well, I watched Pressure last night and nothing about his portrayal is correct except for the chain-smoking and occasional flares of bad temper. Brendan Fraser is a big, hulking figure who towers over everybody in the film while Eisenhower was 5'10", ramrod straight in bearing and wiry. I was immediately taken out of the film by the obvious differences in physicality. It's like Abraham Lincoln being played by someone 5'2" or Donald Trump being played by someone with a six-pack.
And then Brendan Fraser spoke, and I just couldn't believe that I was watching a dude who won an Oscar for acting because it's like he figured putting on an Eisenhower jacket and shaving his head was all that was required to become Ike. Eisenhower had a very, very distinctive voice -- you can hear Kansas when you listen to Eisenhower speak. Brendan Fraser just spoke in his regular-ass voice. He sounded like he was doing an impression of Brendan Fraser. I don't know what the hell he was going for in the film, but it's not Dwight D. Eisenhower. Very strange casting choice in a movie that feels like the most boring parts of other, much better World War II films being spliced together to make a new story.
(On the positive side, Kerry Condon is in the film and speaking with her regular Irish accent, and that's always enough to get me to watch anything.)
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Here is an English translation of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's full statement responding to President Trump's weird lie that she "begged" for a photo with him at the G7 Summit this week and pointing out the differences in how Trump deals with traditional American allies compared to how he interacts with authoritarians:
"Some things deserve an immediate response. Donald Trump's statements are completely fabricated. I'm frankly shocked. I don't know why the President of the United States behaves this way towards his own allies, and it's not the first time it's happened.
I can only say that it's a shame he doesn't have the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leadership with which he instead appears much more accommodating.
But you must remember one thing: Italy and I never beg."
You know, it's possible that Trump and the Trumpettes have absolutely no idea how to govern.
Now, stealing money? *That* they're good at.
But making things work? No clue and less interest.
Since "fixing" the Reflecting Pool so that it is American Flag Blue didn't work, maybe he should just change the color of the FLAG to Reflecting Pool Algae/Vomit Green.
I'm sure there's a way to do that via a no-bid contract that he can profit from.
