I am currently reading The Complete Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant and am pleased to report the Republic has been this fucked before and survived. 🧐 🇺🇸
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My mother-in-law lived thru #WWII in #France, this too will pass. But its gonna get ugly
nov 14, 2024, 9:19 am • 1 0 • view
We are going to survive, but America will have changed. It’s our third act, middle of our book. Full of villains and monsters and a few hero’s. Let’s be hero’s.
nov 14, 2024, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
But they didn't have X.
nov 13, 2024, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Or Fox. But also, we have modern medicine. They didn't have anesthesia and had to endure amputations. That might be a tangent, I'm sorry.
nov 14, 2024, 8:17 am • 0 0 • view
this time can we actually do reconstruction right? 🔥 🔥
nov 14, 2024, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
And yet, we never truly recovered from that episode. White supremacists are still active and the super-rich still feel entitled to run everything.
nov 14, 2024, 4:34 pm • 1 0 • view
That book was written in Upstate New York, about 50 miles from my home.
nov 14, 2024, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Is that the one where he walks around Dublin for a day
nov 14, 2024, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Boy I hope that's true!
nov 14, 2024, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
Any lowlights to cheer us up. I got about 1/3 of the way through and Grant was still building his own Hard Scrabble house
nov 14, 2024, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
I have this book queued up next myself!
nov 14, 2024, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t know how we unfuck ourselves now that there is billionaire control of mass media and social media. And I see no plans on how to change that.
nov 14, 2024, 5:02 am • 0 0 • view
I thought the same when I read a bio of Grant back in 2017 or so.
nov 14, 2024, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Reading about HUAC and McCarthy one comes to the same conclusion, but but but..
nov 13, 2024, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Very encouraging!
nov 14, 2024, 3:49 am • 1 0 • view
It has. While I’m not thrilled majority decided to take this route I am fully aware what’s coming is survivable. While I know I’ll be okay, many people are not gonna handle this environment well.
nov 14, 2024, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Humanity does tend to have the same problems on repeat.
nov 13, 2024, 6:37 pm • 28 0 • view
Because we are irredeemably stupid
nov 14, 2024, 9:24 am • 1 0 • view
I used to believe/hope human nature could change, could evolve to something higher. Right now, that is not what I am believing.
nov 15, 2024, 2:46 am • 1 0 • view
Everything is cyclical, except powered wigs, they never came back.
nov 14, 2024, 3:35 am • 22 0 • view
We could bring 'em back.
nov 14, 2024, 7:54 am • 3 0 • view
😳
nov 14, 2024, 11:56 am • 2 0 • view
Why is that shocking? I was just joking.
nov 15, 2024, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
No,no, I understood. 🤣 That was the best “oh God I don’t wanna wear one of them if they come back“ looks.
nov 15, 2024, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
🤣🤣 idk, I’d like to think I could make it work. 🤣 I wonder why they wore those things. And also didn’t the men use a lot of makeup? Idk.
nov 16, 2024, 12:18 am • 0 0 • view
If I am correct, it had something to do with lice or something along that line. They just kept their head shaved and wore wigs all the time. I could be wrong, but if not, that’s your history lesson for the day! 😂
nov 16, 2024, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
They smelled so bad. They attracted lice but these are why they wore them. status, health, sun, vanity, hair loss
nov 16, 2024, 12:53 am • 1 0 • view
Yet.
nov 14, 2024, 4:56 am • 15 0 • view
Now, that would be the icing on the cake of this administration! Powdered wigs on the lot of them would probably improve their image…
nov 14, 2024, 8:16 am • 15 1 • view
One person would be especially improved by a less bottle blond coif.
nov 14, 2024, 4:56 pm • 6 0 • view
Almost made it. The fight never really ended. It’s still not over and going backward at warp speed.
nov 13, 2024, 11:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Ken Burns says we've never really resolved the Civil War.
nov 14, 2024, 9:00 am • 3 1 • view
Yes exactly.
nov 14, 2024, 2:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Tell me. Because i don’t go quietly.
nov 14, 2024, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
Fascism didn’t exist when Grant was alive. The only reason we exist after it was invested is because our grandparents gave their lives to ensure it never came to America. I hope they haunt their descendants who voted for this.
nov 15, 2024, 3:28 am • 2 0 • view
nov 14, 2024, 5:46 am • 1 0 • view
With digital spying? Drones? Robots?
nov 14, 2024, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, I was thinking that DJT and USG belong in the same category. Big difference--USG was an honest man and wrote his memoirs while dying to ensure his family was not destitute after his demise. The USG is less memorable than Hoover's, which had the Great Depression as a historical marker.
nov 15, 2024, 12:33 am • 1 0 • view
I’ve been meaning to read them. Been sitting on my bookshelf for months. About as good a time as ever.
nov 13, 2024, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Little reminders like this make me feel a little better…a little. 🙂↕️
nov 14, 2024, 7:25 am • 1 0 • view
Hope springs eternal!
nov 14, 2024, 3:48 am • 1 0 • view
Not without a lot of blood shed.
nov 14, 2024, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I find reading history right now really does help with that hope piece of this nightmare. Reminding me of who had it worse, to also remind me that the horror didn’t last infinitely- And to remind myself it required some level of fight by masses each time ✌️
nov 14, 2024, 3:40 pm • 5 2 • view
Has it, though?
nov 14, 2024, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Not like what’s about to happen. Not even close.
nov 13, 2024, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
You really think you’re living through some kind of massive historically significant and negative moment You guys need to chill 🤣
nov 14, 2024, 3:45 am • 0 0 • view
Please, enlighten me.
nov 14, 2024, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
How on earth to explain the last 10 years? You guys made all sorts of crazy claims about Trump in 2016. None of that came true. Why would 2024 be different? You’ve spent this whole time running away from imaginary Nazis. It’s been incredibly bizarre!
nov 14, 2024, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I admire your optimism. They never had the press before did they?
nov 14, 2024, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
Read "The Soul of America" by Jon Meacham too
nov 14, 2024, 2:45 am • 5 0 • view
Thank you. 🙏
nov 14, 2024, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
I really don’t think there is any real equivalency. History does tend to repeat itself and at this point not for the better. I am reading Doris Kearns Godwin’s An Unfinished Love Story about the 1960’s. I think here is more equivalency and what I am seeing is a return to the dark old days.
nov 14, 2024, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Grant was just a drunk! Trump has much more to add to that résumé!
nov 14, 2024, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t think with something this demented disgusting and mentally incompetent!
nov 14, 2024, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
I know we will survive this, but at what cost?
nov 13, 2024, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Issue being is the Union lost the peace. They should have said "since you tried to secede, we've gone over this whole 'electoral college' setup, and we're gonna go straight up with population. Sorry, you don't get to keep your 'black people get to boost our electors but can't vote' crap."
nov 14, 2024, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
We have gone through some horrible times, true.
nov 14, 2024, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Hmm I’ve been wanting to read that
nov 13, 2024, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
tbh, it was way more fucked during the Civil War since it actually broke apart lol.
nov 14, 2024, 4:51 pm • 1 0 • view
History definitely repeats itself - we are coming around WWII era now so hold on tight
nov 14, 2024, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
Was UG a good guy in this? (I know he led northern forces in the Civil war)
nov 13, 2024, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
That was a long long barely edited read
nov 14, 2024, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah a lot of people don’t seem to remember his Presidency as basically him and a bunch of other drunk dudes blatantly stealing and being incompetent. Big difference though here is that Trump has access to nukes.
nov 14, 2024, 3:06 am • 1 0 • view
I'm comforted by the knowledge that he is safeguarded from indiscriminately launching said nukes. But I get your point.
nov 14, 2024, 3:07 am • 1 0 • view
It always does somehow. Good leaders are on the way in our future.
nov 14, 2024, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
But did billionaires control the “news?”
nov 15, 2024, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
Have you read Hamilton? I was stunned by how little things have changed.
nov 14, 2024, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Good suggestion. Thanks. 🙏
nov 14, 2024, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Between it and the musical, you'll get a lot of questions right on jeopardy. :)
nov 14, 2024, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
1876 by Gore Vidal is a good read on how the republicans stole the election and help to Prematurely end Reconstruction ushering in The Jim Crow era.
nov 15, 2024, 1:16 am • 2 0 • view
Great perspective
nov 14, 2024, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
In a civil war group and heard a report on that! Timely!
nov 14, 2024, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, but then we had Lincoln, Seward, Stanton, Grant & Sherman. And the anti-slavery forces in Congress. Plus Grant & Sherman (among others) leading the fight. Now?
nov 13, 2024, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
🤞🤞🇺🇸💙
nov 13, 2024, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
That's such a good read, and the circumstances surrounding its inception and publication are fascinating, too. Mark Twain was *begging* Grant to publish them.
nov 14, 2024, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you, I needed this reminder
nov 14, 2024, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah, but the country didn't have Twitter/X and Russian hackers/bots back then, now did it?!? The momentum has changed...
nov 14, 2024, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
600,000 people died to bring us back from that precipice. I’m not all that sure I’d want to repeat the experience
nov 14, 2024, 1:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m sure I don’t.
nov 14, 2024, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, but at what cost. I'd prefer my children not have to live in a hellscape before we as a nation can get our shit together again.
nov 14, 2024, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
How many, many times did I say this about reconstruction. Grant was something else. And, I'll always contend, when Reconstruction went craaay-z, it set this all in place. No healing, no read reconstruction. Here we are, an outgrowth of that.
nov 14, 2024, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
Is this the one that Mark Twain published? I read Ron Chernow's book on Ulysses S. Grant and it was fascinating. I finished 500 pages in 3 days which covered the civil war. The second half took a little longer covering his presidency and reconstruction. All fascinating though...
nov 14, 2024, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
How? Speak slowly and use simple words.
nov 14, 2024, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
What percentage of the population died?
nov 14, 2024, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
this is oddly comforting to read. thank you so much for this! i really needed it.
nov 15, 2024, 2:53 am • 1 0 • view
"Thank God for that!..."
nov 14, 2024, 11:35 pm • 1 0 • view
But so did the ideologies that keep fucking it up
nov 13, 2024, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Not to be Debbie Downer…but - we didn’t have the issues from external forces (Russia/China) like we do today. Europe basically sat the war out without choosing sides. Also - no nukes in 1866.
nov 14, 2024, 7:02 am • 0 0 • view
One of the more underrated presidents imo. Simply too trusting of his friends and not a great political mind but a fine leader.
nov 14, 2024, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
I like the way you processed your findings.
nov 14, 2024, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Really? But we didn't have all powerful billionaires then..
nov 14, 2024, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Grant wrote the best, most direct memos.
nov 14, 2024, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
1. Good book 2. You are correct!
nov 14, 2024, 5:45 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you for the reassurance...it's truly needed...I keep thinking it's just for years...but the effects from those four years will last for years... maybe decades.
nov 14, 2024, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
thanks for the tip. just went to amazon and loaded it to my kindle.
nov 14, 2024, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
We survived, but African Americans never recovered from the policies of Andrew Johnson, don't you think?
nov 14, 2024, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
100%
nov 14, 2024, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
But not unscathed.
nov 14, 2024, 9:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Next watch PBS series on the Reconstruction. It’ll bolster that opinion. pbs.org/show/reconst...
nov 14, 2024, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
Just need another Fighting Irish Brigade to hold the line at Gettysburg. 😆
nov 14, 2024, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I needed to read this today
nov 14, 2024, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes but over a half a million people died in about four years before things started to get better. 🤷🏻♂️
nov 14, 2024, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Read David Corn's American Psychosis to get the full spectrum of lunacy we've experienced throughout our history. I have no idea if it will confer a sense of relief or sheer terror.
nov 14, 2024, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
I find everything so schizophrenic presently it will probably bring both. Thank you, Jon. 🙏
nov 14, 2024, 3:23 am • 1 0 • view
Yay? Lol. You know what, I'll take it. Any hope is welcome.
nov 14, 2024, 3:02 am • 1 0 • view
Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but 620,000 - 750,000 people didn't survive the Civil War, or 2% of the population. In today's bodies that would be about 6.9 million people. Plus, you have to consider in the Civil War, they only had muskets, cannonballs, and bayonets.
nov 14, 2024, 1:00 am • 1 0 • view
Fascinating life he led. Also, holy shit the things that happened post civil war 😳
nov 13, 2024, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I was helping my son with a world history class (which I'm sure at some point I took in high school but is infinitely more interesting now). To read about history repeating itself over & over & over is really mind boggling
nov 14, 2024, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
This is worse.
nov 13, 2024, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
No it is not.
nov 14, 2024, 8:18 am • 0 0 • view
Good to know
nov 14, 2024, 4:01 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, and 2% of the population died. This would be over 6 million in today’s world. We’re not in a good place
nov 13, 2024, 8:56 pm • 6 0 • view
Exactly right! It only took about 130 years to circle back there. They say history repeats itself. Maybe the Hoover years are coming up and they’ll be a Roosevelt out there. A Teddy or FDR type - doesn’t matter, either will work!
nov 14, 2024, 11:11 am • 1 0 • view
That is some good news. Lol
nov 14, 2024, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
I needed to hear this — this is oddly reassuring.
nov 15, 2024, 1:24 am • 1 0 • view
New here. Love this reassuring piece of joy. You’re my official first Following.
nov 14, 2024, 11:35 am • 2 0 • view
Feeling much better now 🙏🏽
nov 14, 2024, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
Question is how long it will take And will a lot of blood be shed
nov 13, 2024, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
But with a hangover that we're still suffering from.
nov 13, 2024, 10:50 pm • 1 0 • view
But they didn't have Social Media, instant communication across many platforms and all the expertise in Marketing (lying) that politicians have today. Hell, they didn't even have radio!
nov 14, 2024, 1:35 am • 1 0 • view
Read Michael Harriot Black AF History The Un-Whitewashed story of America
nov 14, 2024, 3:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm waiting for our John Brown.
nov 14, 2024, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I've read them too. The difference being Lincoln beat MacLellan because the insurrectionists weren't allowed to vote.
nov 15, 2024, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view
Well, this is the good news I came here for.
nov 14, 2024, 6:50 am • 1 0 • view
Next you should read the works of Jefferson Davis, a highly intelligent man.
nov 14, 2024, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
😳
nov 14, 2024, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
Well, no. Back then the oligarchs didn’t own all the media / news outlets and citizens united had yet to kick in. Were fucked.
nov 14, 2024, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
Well that's encouraging... a little
nov 14, 2024, 8:28 am • 1 0 • view
Because of men
nov 14, 2024, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
Let’s hope.
nov 14, 2024, 3:55 am • 1 0 • view
Always fascinating to read up on the 1876 election and realize that time is a flat circle
nov 13, 2024, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Legend says Mark Twain really got on his case to write that multivolume book.
nov 13, 2024, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Hope floats
nov 14, 2024, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Small blessings.
nov 14, 2024, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Skip to the part where we get the magic beans and tell us where to plant them.
nov 14, 2024, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
True. And there were guardrails then that don't exist today. Look at the effects of Citizens United, for example.
nov 14, 2024, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
After a war. It was the same problem then. filthy rich people with to much power.
nov 14, 2024, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Very hopeful news!! Thx!!
nov 14, 2024, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
Ya but would be nice if we didn't have to slap these losers down over and over
nov 14, 2024, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
Agreed. Ron Chernow's "Grant" is fantastic and shocking, especially the chapters on Reconstruction. We will get through this!
nov 14, 2024, 2:34 pm • 1 0 • view
This is more optimistic. I was in full doom and gloom.
nov 14, 2024, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
After a civil war.
nov 14, 2024, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
🇺🇲💔😥
nov 14, 2024, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Let’s never underestimate the power of the people! Fuck The 2%
nov 13, 2024, 5:42 pm • 26 2 • view
I recommend the podcast Totalus Rankium: American Presidents for the same reason: it has always been like this. But that doesn’t mean sit back and wait, either.
nov 14, 2024, 3:25 pm • 3 0 • view
@totalusrankium.bsky.social
nov 14, 2024, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s great. The thing is, we don’t want to have to keep trying to “survive” every time a new Republican president comes in.
nov 14, 2024, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Yay
nov 13, 2024, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Not everyone survived Dave
nov 15, 2024, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
I pray for the downfall of the American imperial military
nov 14, 2024, 8:55 am • 0 0 • view
Grant is an ancestor of mine. His mother and my 5th or 6th great grandmother were sisters
nov 13, 2024, 11:33 pm • 1 0 • view
That is really cool.
nov 14, 2024, 8:56 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks
nov 14, 2024, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I keep telling myself this. Not sure it’s working.
nov 14, 2024, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I would hate to see another half million people die to keep it together.
nov 14, 2024, 11:26 am • 1 0 • view
Recently read The Bully Pulpit about Roosevelt and the muckrakers at the turn of the 20th Century and made me feel better for the same reason. Every generation has to fight for democracy and opportunity. And every generation forgets.
nov 14, 2024, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
I imagine Teddy rolling in his grave at the idea of the billionaire class running the country, but you're right.
nov 14, 2024, 3:20 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you.
nov 14, 2024, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
I'm reading "The Demon of Unrest" by Erik Larson, and I'm coming to a similar conclusion.
nov 15, 2024, 5:07 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you! 🙏
nov 15, 2024, 6:03 am • 1 0 • view
Well, that is somewhat of a comfort. Thank you. 🫶🏻
nov 13, 2024, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. ~ Mark Twain (maybe)
nov 14, 2024, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
By its President?
nov 14, 2024, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
🩵
nov 14, 2024, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Gore Vidal considered it one of the best autobiographies ever written. It is powerful and beautiful, albeit as you indicate, a dire subject.
nov 13, 2024, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Four generations of African-Americans who languished under Jim Crow beg to differ.
nov 14, 2024, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Founding Brothers and His Majesty are also great. The nation has been hanging by a thread since inception really. That’s the beauty of it.
nov 14, 2024, 12:56 am • 1 0 • view
Does he mention a woman named Sarah Bowman?
nov 14, 2024, 3:56 am • 0 0 • view
Not yet, but I'm early in the reading.
nov 14, 2024, 3:59 am • 1 0 • view
Please let me know. If you remember to. If you want to know her story, I can send you my script lol She was a wild lady! Sarah didn't tame the Wild West. She kicked its ass. 😎
nov 14, 2024, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
Funny, I'm reading "Willie T" Sherman's memoirs (Library of America) and thinking things could be worse.
nov 13, 2024, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Let me know when we have gone beyond this fucked please.
nov 13, 2024, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I read that book in the early 2000s. I am not so sure we will survive this time.
nov 13, 2024, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Still not excited for these next four years 😭😭😭
nov 14, 2024, 2:30 am • 1 0 • view
good read but that wasn’t anywhere near my main takeaway from reading it
nov 14, 2024, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
Great book, and an exceptionally important American. I live about ten blocks south of his memorial in NYC.
nov 14, 2024, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re being over-optimistic.
nov 14, 2024, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
This is what I keep telling my friends and family!
nov 13, 2024, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m reading this too.
nov 14, 2024, 5:46 am • 1 0 • view
I still think reconstruction was a complete and utter failure example in musk land before the election the number of far right people from the Deep South advocating for secession was obscene
nov 14, 2024, 12:56 am • 1 0 • view
Well Reconstruction was never completed. It was upended. Those fuckers always want out.They'd rather live separately in a sovereign land than live peacefully under a D admin. Bonkers. But also, I'd rather live separately in a sovereign land then live in their hellscape of autocracy. Sooooo...
nov 14, 2024, 9:09 am • 1 0 • view
They had Lincoln. We have…
nov 14, 2024, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
A deep bench. Believe it, we do. Among them are California Gov. Gavin Newsom; Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker; Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear; Maryland Gov. Wes Moore; Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper; Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro; Georgia Sen. Raphael ..
nov 14, 2024, 9:15 am • 4 0 • view
Warnock; New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker; Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman; California Rep. Ro Khanna; and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. And there are others. This list is from an ABC News story. I'm sure there are even more. Deep bench. I like our chances.
nov 14, 2024, 9:15 am • 3 0 • view
Thank goodness!
nov 28, 2024, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I dunno. Social media & cyber hacking did not exist then.
nov 15, 2024, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
The south still thinks the civil war is ongoing. Their (lack of) education systems encourages this way of thinking.
nov 14, 2024, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
This is why I read history.
nov 14, 2024, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
No, back then we did NOT have an elected DICTATOR MORON who is hell bent on destroying the United States!
nov 14, 2024, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I've been fascinated by Lincoln. Currently reading And There Was Light by Jon Meacham
nov 14, 2024, 2:36 pm • 2 0 • view
We need Jon on this app!
nov 18, 2024, 11:05 am • 2 0 • view
They didn't have the internet, though
nov 14, 2024, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I live in the Missouri Ozarks and the South needs a little blue pill to rise again. It's gettin' there!
nov 14, 2024, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
But back then the ones you/we were rooting for were in charge…
nov 13, 2024, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Good to know ! It is the cruelty that I don't like !
nov 14, 2024, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
There are many things that need to be done. We have entered a conservative time where people think the 1950's were a good time socially and social control was expected.
nov 14, 2024, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Today, even the Catholic seminaries are filled with young men who parade around in cassockd and liturgical garb, waiting to tell their "flocks" how to think and behave. We need a Renaissance of new ideas, with new thinking and new people, honoring American intellect.
nov 14, 2024, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
That takes time to grow again from the ashes of the dark time we are in. We are entering a time of great struggle and suffering, but that is where there is rebirth. It will take generations.
nov 14, 2024, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Adding this to my TBR
nov 14, 2024, 5:33 am • 1 0 • view
Sure, but 3% of the population died. That would be 11 million people today.
nov 22, 2024, 3:15 am • 0 0 • view
Watching the Burns Doc on prohibition. Holy corrupt...
nov 14, 2024, 5:16 am • 1 0 • view
Let’s hope that just as everything is moving at warp speed in our lives, so too will our recovery from this horror.
nov 14, 2024, 9:04 pm • 2 0 • view
He was also kinda hot 🤷♂️
nov 13, 2024, 7:53 pm • 3 0 • view
We’re supposed to learn from history and not repeat mistakes.
nov 15, 2024, 2:27 am • 1 0 • view
Phew 😏
nov 14, 2024, 2:59 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, but were there two nuclear armed wannabe superpowers hedging for world domination in the wings?
nov 14, 2024, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
The Republic will, perhaps, survive. Inertia is a hell of a drug. Lots of Black, Brown, and Queer folk will not.
nov 13, 2024, 9:22 pm • 2 0 • view
“At least the republic will probably survive” I say as they execute my ass for being gay
nov 13, 2024, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Grant was so important to our Democracy
nov 15, 2024, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
Never when a Party held a “Superfecta”. Sorry, it’s just reality that this is not going to end well. Especially when the base of said Party is all in on the Doomsday ending.
nov 14, 2024, 6:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Except the insurrection succeeded this time.
nov 14, 2024, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
Although we didn't then have multibillionaire "global citizens" pushing lies 24/7.
nov 14, 2024, 4:18 am • 0 0 • view
Yes but without nuclear weapons
nov 14, 2024, 9:52 am • 1 0 • view
I was amazed at his writing skills, particularly as he was in such pain from throat (I believe) cancer. The first time I read it, I wasn’t sure what I’d find.
nov 14, 2024, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
My dad was a Dutch high school exchange student in the US in 1968. He told me it was worse back then.
nov 14, 2024, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks. I needed to hear this.
nov 14, 2024, 5:16 am • 1 0 • view
💙💙
nov 14, 2024, 6:11 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah but a lot of people died and society is still suffering from the repercussions :/
nov 13, 2024, 5:12 pm • 184 1 • view
Lincoln should have let the CSA go: the USA would be better today and the CSA would be a third-world country.
nov 15, 2024, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
Ok, there’s that…
nov 14, 2024, 3:10 pm • 1 0 • view
This time we finish reconstruction and let the traitors finish their terms 6 feet under.
nov 13, 2024, 10:24 pm • 111 4 • view
It is the height of lunacy that Joe Biden and the military would actually stand by, normalize Trump, and let a traitor and insurrectionist take over our country. Jack Smith has the proof that Trump is a traitor and insurrectionist, and our generals should throw Trump in the brig. Hello Prez Vance.
nov 14, 2024, 9:24 am • 1 0 • view
Biggest regret is that Jefferson Davis wasn't hung for the entire country to see
nov 14, 2024, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Listen I say the mistake was letting those traitors live
nov 14, 2024, 2:49 am • 4 0 • view
Gonna need guns. A lot of 'em.
nov 14, 2024, 12:27 pm • 0 0 • view
THIS!!
nov 14, 2024, 12:38 am • 1 0 • view
Collapse driven by climate change / overshoot is the different factor. It changes the future prognosis entirely, as well as explaining what's driving a lot of what's happening now.
nov 16, 2024, 5:21 am • 1 0 • view
Great writer.
nov 13, 2024, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Do we have to go through Jim Crow again for another 100 years before it gets good again?
nov 13, 2024, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view