Sabitlenmiş Tweet
Coming Soon: Our 3 Parter on Zachary Taylor's Presidency
English
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
14.1K posts
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
@myhist
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics' Mixing history and the politics of today since 2006.
Katılım Aralık 2010
1.5K Takip Edilen3.2K Takipçiler
@RBrookhiser I suspect the more logical though would be Newark could expand w creative eminent domain. It started as as a local airport. Has a new terminal which looks positively Soviet, dunno if runway expanded.
English
@RBrookhiser Landed in Stewart once, changed flight on a business trip. Company was mad about paying the car fare, but otherwise good. I think better to go thru Hudson Valley south to NYC then thru Jersey fighting shore traffic in Summer. Also Westchester county I guess, PHL plus an amtrak.
English
The Pine Barrens book is nice.
The proposed airport that was the impending disaster never got built. Where can the NYC area go for more capacity? Stewart?
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics@myhist
@RBrookhiser Yes, as a fellow school chum he could really describe him. Also a big fan of his book on Oranges, and of course The New Jersey Pine Barrens and the whole book he wrote about one tennis match.
English
@RBrookhiser It reminds me of a discussion in a Pines Barrens Facebook group. A member there said "what's the big deal with the Pine Barrens? There are woods everywhere in the US" to which I reminded them of the second part the barren. It's interesting because it had been inhabited.
English
@RBrookhiser Yes, as a fellow school chum he could really describe him. Also a big fan of his book on Oranges, and of course The New Jersey Pine Barrens and the whole book he wrote about one tennis match.
English
@losthunderlads @RBrookhiser However I would stand by my original point. Bradley challenges VP Gore, I don't think he challenges a President Gore.
English
@RBrookhiser Bradley's campaign did no damage to Gore, but Gore's singularly graceless response to Bradley's concession indicated a smallness of character that may well have cost him far more than the margin by which the general election was ultimately decided.
English
He freed Poland in the home stretch.
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics@myhist
@KeithLevenberg @RickyBobWeaver @BillieHolidayW @Dastardlyb247 @RBrookhiser @hutchison1812 @BrianCerv1 @Gilder_Lehrman Ford came darn close. His damage came from Reagan challenge. In 2000 Gore had Bradley, maybe Gephardt (though he promised Congress not to run) and they might back off if Gore was POTUS.
English
@losthunderlads @RBrookhiser It might have taken a little spin off Gore. A primary, especially one on one is never good. Let us not forget Jerry Brown's little 1992 campaign. Made Clinton feel corporate. Clinton won, but of course with less % than Gore.
English
@RBrookhiser Funny thing was, it was exactly what Ford was doing, essentially advocating what was status quo in the 80's GOP. But that failure to explain it... If he just said "in spirit" he avoids debate disaster (I tend to think Carter still wins).
English
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics retweetledi
Ftw
Time for bed.
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics@myhist
@RickyBobWeaver @RBrookhiser This is powerful. I may use different words but do find that the politics or as I like to say the "How I Would Run the Ship If I were Captain" is the least interesting thing to talk to people about, since generally they aren't captain.
English
@RBrookhiser I think there was back then too: New Yorkers going Sesech, and Virginians and Texans joining the Union army. Still if we talk where people leaned - you have to think geography, family, religion. I don't want to get all Kevin Phillips but there's some truth to shoot as you pray.
English
There used to be always some slice if something that might take you someplace. The question is, which do you choose? Determinism robs people of agency and responsibility. At worst it encourages sleep walking.
Dick Bertram@Dastardlyb247
@AstorAaron @TerriersFan @RBrookhiser @ArthurBoreman @RickyBobWeaver Behind most Northerners who turned, you’ll find a Southern wife, and vise versa. Indeed, most of them lived in side they would fight with prior to the war. They fought for the place they considered home, which wasn’t necessarily the place of their birth.
English
@RickyBobWeaver @RBrookhiser This is powerful. I may use different words but do find that the politics or as I like to say the "How I Would Run the Ship If I were Captain" is the least interesting thing to talk to people about, since generally they aren't captain.
English
@RBrookhiser There are many of us who tend toward Calvinism when it comes to religion and Arminianism when it comes to political matters. It is something I’ve been wrestling with lately. I can’t explain what has happened to the political views of many around me with logic assuming free will.
English
@AugustCohen4 @sahilkapur Fetterman might be bad, but you don't want Dr. Oz in PA four years into his term, you don't. Same here.
English
James Talarico calls out “the groups” in the Democratic Party on immigration.
“In recent years there’ve been a series of advocacy groups that claim to represent the interests of different communities like here in Texas, but actually have no real connection to the actual people on the ground. And those groups convinced the [Biden] administration that it was racist to support border security.”
x.com/ElectTheBench/…
English
@beatmastermatt Automatic 24th amendment challenge, and if SCOTUS is reasonable [rolls dice] it is obvious violation in current form. 24th says taxes "or other tax"
English
@RickyBobWeaver @KeithLevenberg @BillieHolidayW @Dastardlyb247 @RBrookhiser @hutchison1812 @BrianCerv1 @Gilder_Lehrman easy to remember how bad things were in 2008. eight years out the media was fawn-ready. Another angle is - Gore could have had BC campaign in Arkansas for a month and raise it. Bush only got 51% and other parties got 3.
English
@KeithLevenberg @BillieHolidayW @Dastardlyb247 @RBrookhiser @hutchison1812 @BrianCerv1 @Gilder_Lehrman I figure the press would have given Gore the same fawning treatment it gave Obama ten years later. Gore did lack Clinton’s charm, but he only needed to gain 538 votes in Florida to win.
English
Greetings, old friend!
My attendance record was four times in one day.
Jibran Khan@ScholarsInk
I will always associate this spot with @RBrookhiser. Great place, better conversation.
English
@KeithLevenberg @RickyBobWeaver @BillieHolidayW @Dastardlyb247 @RBrookhiser @hutchison1812 @BrianCerv1 @Gilder_Lehrman Ford came darn close. His damage came from Reagan challenge. In 2000 Gore had Bradley, maybe Gephardt (though he promised Congress not to run) and they might back off if Gore was POTUS.
English
I've always been skeptical of this assumption. Incumbency didn't help Gerald Ford. Any desire to clean the slate of Clinton would have punished Gore too, for similar reasons.
But there wasn't much desire for it. Clinton stayed pretty popular even at his low points. Charisma goes a long way. It was a running joke at the time that the worse Clinton behaved, the more unpopular Kenneth Starr got.
If Clinton could have run for a third term in 2000, he'd have done better than Gore, who couldn't even win his (nominal) home state.
English
@RickyBobWeaver @Dastardlyb247 @BillieHolidayW @RBrookhiser @hutchison1812 @BrianCerv1 @Gilder_Lehrman it was reel to reel tho.
English
@Dastardlyb247 @BillieHolidayW @RBrookhiser @hutchison1812 @BrianCerv1 @Gilder_Lehrman Poor Nixon. I believe his symbol is an old cassette tape.
English
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics retweetledi
@RBrookhiser They never got to specifics, but the idea seems to have been status quo ante bellum plus some trade agreements that might have grown into a continental customs union.
English
@jchmcl09 @RBrookhiser The end of Napoleon mean the end of France's wide territorial ambitions. That and the new emerging rival once Germany was unified. Vichy is as close as you get to exposing lingering/latent anti-Brit feeling in France. That was the group that went Vichy.
English
@RBrookhiser March 17, 1778, England declared war on France almost 3 years after Lexington and Concord hostilities began. The two countries were at War 23 times since 1109 with the last being 1815. Of that 706 years, their wars took up 130 years or 18% of the time. After 1815 and the end of Napoleon, they were generally on the same side. I don't count the Vichy government years. What do you account as to the end of their "warring" rivalry? British stability versus French instability?
English
@jchmcl09 @RBrookhiser I suspect best British policy was to keep France out as long as possible. No good came from it. But as RB points out, it didn't turn out to be terrible. Mostly because Post-Yorktown, France's Navy got a little greedy.
English
Was there much reluctance by Britain to get in another War with France in 1778 or was France's involvement in supporting us in the AR just too much to ignore? It was certainly a drain on British resources to have to take on the French while supporting their Army fighting 3,500 miles away.
English
The rise of Germany.
Jody Hopkins@jchmcl09
@RBrookhiser March 17, 1778, England declared war on France almost 3 years after Lexington and Concord hostilities began. The two countries were at War 23 times since 1109 with the last being 1815. Of that 706 years, their wars took up 130 years or 18% of the time. After 1815 and the end of Napoleon, they were generally on the same side. I don't count the Vichy government years. What do you account as to the end of their "warring" rivalry? British stability versus French instability?
English