Happy Deliberate Sacrifice of 2,403 Pawns so FDR Could Get the US Fully into WWII Day!
Trying a new experiment to up my following: posting dick-pics.
Well, here goes! 🤞🏻 ⬇️
Woodrow Wilson was narrowly reelected in 1916, primarily because he pretended to be much more anti-war than he actually was. To learn more on that and other things, check out my latest DHP episode! 👇🏻
https://fountain.fm/episode/qxU9AmlPxUYrh775NRdI
I just published Episode 13 in my Woodrow Wilson series, covering events in 1916, including Wilson's reelection campaign.
https://fountain.fm/episode/qxU9AmlPxUYrh775NRdI
From my favorite Socialist in American history:
“Mr. Wilson, who had all his life been opposed to militarism, has now become the avowed champion of plutocratic preparedness, and today he stands before the country pleading in the name of Wall Street and its interests for the largest standing army and the most powerful navy in the world.”
-Eugene Debs, campaigning for a US House seat in 1916, while Woodrow Wilson was running for reelection as POTUS
Debs, based as usual on war issues, saw through the BS of Wilson's "he kept us out of war!" campaign messaging.
Well, I powered through being sick & managed to record all of Woodrow Wilson Part 13 today.
On the morrow shall be The Editing.
This Thanksgiving I’m thankful that I’m still alive, still sober, still married, still not homeless, & still on the upswing (across the board) in life despite many trials & tribulations.
And I’m thankful for my listeners, without whom I wouldn’t have made it this far.
PS-Woodrow Wilson Part 13 is in the works, trying to get it finished over Thanksgiving weekend. I’ll be thankful if I’m able to do so. 😉
Been working like mad on research & notes for a while & now tomorrow the plan is to start laying down some tracks for Woodrow Wilson Pt 13! 👊🏻
The Simpsons used to be so damn funny
American academia has been captured & corrupted for propagandistic purposes for well over a century now:
"In World War I American academic intellectuals committed themselves to serving the needs of the state. The role they played committed them to priorities that fettered their critical intelligence and warped their judgment; the work they produced in the service of the state seriously departed from responsible scholarship...
"...[T]he state of academic freedom depends largely on the professoriate itself, for they reveal the extent to which professors themselves were involved in wartime violations of academic freedom. The crisis of war exposed the repressive underside of majority sentiment on the campus; it exposed a lack of commitment to academic freedom within the profession at large and a willingness even of its chief defenders to bend the principle to the pressures of the moment..."
-Carol Gruber, Mars and Minerva: World War I and the Uses of Higher Learning in America
Things haven't changed at all in the last century; if anything, they've only gotten worse. The biggest obstacle to intellectual freedom in academia comes via horizontal enforcement from the professors themselves.
If I cosplayed as Church Lady
Never forget that the president who put the US on the path of global domination, a path characterized by perpetual warfare for a perpetual peace that never actually materializes, is also the only president who had a Ph D & whose entire pre-political career was spent in academia.
Ever since we put up the tree, this has been his favorite place to flop when he’s out for playtime.
FYI - Currently hard at work on DHP Villains: Woodrow Wilson. This will be lucky #13 in the series, in which he’ll get reelected on an anti-interventionist platform (“He kept us out of war!”) & then less than a month after starting his second term - he gets us into war.
Hopefully I’ll get it done before our current rulers get us into the second sequel to Wilson’s folly. Like most sequels, it looks like it’ll be even bigger & dumber than its predecessors.
I already got what I want for Christmas- an excellent Puppybunny!
I had quite a surprise during my run when I bumped into Senator McConnell taking a stroll. I guess he’s on vacation here, taking a break from representing the interests of Ukrainian oligarchs & the American Merchants of Death.
Just finished running 6 miles nonstop, including going across a big tall bridge & back. I think I’m on a good trajectory (👊 on 🪵) to FINALLY do the 7 Mile Bridge Run in the FL Keys in just over 4 months.
Twice in recent years I’ve bought a ticket for the race but wasn’t able to do it - in 2022 (bit by a dog while training & needed rabies shots) & 2023 (going through alcohol withdrawal that was worse & took longer than I expected.)
This spring I didn’t even buy a spot because I knew I wouldn’t be able to because my wife was going through her last big spinal surgery.
April ‘25 is gonna be the one.
When you fall, get back up. 💪
Unwinding with my best buddy.
Just published a new episode of Archetopical, "The Hardest Part of the Hero's Journey," about why the 'death & rebirth' step is always the hardest & scariest, but also why, the more fear & difficulty you have to overcome, the greater will be the reward when you make it through.