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Medusa - Percy Jackson and the Olympians, S01E03

After a long while I have finally managed to draw Jenny on my own. Thanks for joining me in this journey.

[why do people get so confused by circular formations of rocks. "what put them there😟😱😱😱😣🥺???? why??" . an autistic person. an autistic person saw the rocks and put them jn a cool little circle. why do you hate fun]

Jessica Parker Kennedy’s latest Instagram post

He wasn’t cut out to be Attorney General by any means. He had no experience in the justice department, only limited experience as a lawyer for a senate committee, and was the youngest cabinet secretary since Alexander Hamilton in 1789. JFK didn’t even want to appoint his brother AG, but their father made him do it because it would help the family and pave the way for Bobby to become president later (Joseph Patrick Kennedy insisted all his sons enter politics to form a dynasty; JFK was actually the second son, but he inherited his father’s expectations when Joseph Jr, a Nazi sympathizer, died in WWII). The nepotism was so unpopular that VP Johnson had to grease some of his old senate colleagues’ palms to force a unanimous voice vote because Bobby wouldn’t have gotten more than 40 in a roll call. First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy said that Bobby was the least like their father of all his siblings; Jack and Teddy were both ambitious and ruthless, but Bobby seemed like a decent (-ish) guy. Every politician is corrupt, there are no exceptions, and his biggest failure was when he authorized J Edgar Hoover and the FBI to illegally wiretap Martin Luther King and the SCLC. Bobby did this in part because Hoover was a bastard who would have done it anyway and threatened to retaliate against the entire Kennedy family if he were refused, but also because he suspected King was a communist for his “far-left” ideologies (King was anti-capitalist, and rightfully so, but not a Russian plant and certainly not a threat to the nation’s economy). Bobby was vehemently opposed to the Teamsters Union and Jimmy Hoffa, though less because of the union aspect and more because it was literally run by the mafia. Either way, it’s not a good look to be anti-union. He turned his career around after Jack was assassinated and Johnson made it clear he wasn’t welcome in the new administration; he forged a friendly working relationship with King and other civil rights leaders, and advocated for leftist social policy that we’re still fighting for today. Had he not been assassinated, he almost certainly would have won in 1968, meaning no Nixon and no Watergate. Bobby was, alongside Hubert Humphrey and his protege Walter Mondale, one of the fathers of modern liberalism; he would be a progressive today, but that term was associated with Republicans at the time because of Teddy Roosevelt.