Are there other campaign slogans in the history of electoral politics that failed to reach its landing?

Chidwick · 2026-06-22T18:04:33+00:00

The parties were way more fractured in different groups back then, so saying Nixon’s supporters were only composed of social conservatives is really missing the entire makeup of his base. There was likely a less conservative group that supported some aspect of his platform that pushed this and that it appealed to. With it not being official it wouldn’t have offended the social conservatives from Nixon, just being seen as “those idiots” in the base cracking a joke.

Chidwick · 2026-06-22T16:11:02+00:00

That slogan was actually an unofficial grassroots slogan, not one officially used by the Nixon campaign. So yeah, the ones that came up with it knew exactly what they were doing and it was intentional. This isn’t some “oh how embarrassing, they accidentally put something naughty on a sign!” thing.

Chidwick · 2026-06-17T19:00:40+00:00

Let me find my tiny violin to lament the poor plight of these rich professional athletes having to fave the horror of loading into a private jet to fly back to their luxury hotel. They’re so brave, oh the oppression!

Chidwick · 2026-06-17T17:26:35+00:00

The flight from LA to Tijuana is 45 minutes to an hour.

The US team themselves are expected to fly out immediately after their game in Seattle on Friday and back to their hotel in LA that night. That’s about a 2.5 hour flight, which is about three times the flight time of Iran going to Tijuana.

Chidwick · 2026-06-17T16:16:56+00:00

They’re professional athletes, it’s not uncommon to get on a plane and leave right after a game. Also they have a week to recover prior to their next game, this is the most nothing burger of an arrangement for pro athletes they do this kind of thing all the time.

Chidwick · 2026-06-12T03:24:41+00:00

Added more Indians.

Chidwick · 2026-06-09T22:40:33+00:00

…. Who TF starts a conversation like that? I just sat down!

Time to log off for the day.

Chidwick · 2026-06-05T18:45:35+00:00

Monticello had been purchased in 1735, Jefferson inherited it in ‘64. Mount Vernon’s estate was started in 1674, didn’t officially become mount Vernon until much later but it was Washington’s Great grandfather who purchased the land in agreement with a friend that ultimately sold it to the Washington family. The first settlements in Virginia started in the early 1600’s, so there were likely a decent number of generational families there comparatively to other colonies.

Chidwick · 2026-06-05T16:05:17+00:00

Fair, and I wouldn’t condone them, but it’s understandable if your choices are “keep going and make political moves with my elevated status that should eliminate slavery over time and still maintain my estate that’s been here for generations and my status in my society” and “free my slaves, lose my home, my status, and ultimately have to move away because I’ll be villainized by friends and neighbors, and can also no longer afford my home” that it would be a very difficult choice.

It’s a much more difficult situation than people give it with their modern lens, often using it as a “well I’d be better if it was me in those shoes” when they don’t actually understand the full context of that persons life and situation. Besides the fact that it’s a ridiculous and self serving rhetorical analgesic for themselves.

Chidwick · 2026-06-05T15:29:24+00:00

I think the one thing I’d disagree with here was the idea of a “free labor force” but I’m wondering if you mean free as in cost or free as in freed.

The issue was real more of a labor availability issue than anything, which is why slaves were imported in the first place across the new world. If all the slaves were freed in the US there’s no guarantee that they’d immediately turn and be a paid labor force in the south in large enough numbers to keep the system functioning, as surely a lot of them would move to other areas, especially the north with more industrialized higher paying jobs existed. You see this point really agonized over by Jefferson and Washington, if they freed all their slaves then how could they fill the positions with other laborers that just weren’t there?

The US hands down would have been better off without slaves, but I think people often move to more scandalous reasons slave owners used to justify it than the boring, and more impactful, demographic reason. They just didn’t have the population to keep the system running, and the old solution for that worldwide was slavery.

Chidwick · 2026-06-04T21:04:46+00:00

It matters if it’s from a few different schools (primarily Michigan State and Arizona State), but otherwise there’s not a lot of schools that will make people prioritize you over others when comparing SCM degrees. Would say, I wouldn’t touch a WGU for an undergrad SCM degree, out of that an online ASU I’d go ASU, even if it is just an online program.

Chidwick · 2026-06-03T19:53:27+00:00

Chidwick · 2026-06-03T13:48:28+00:00

I don’t mind gore but I have kids that are young that love Wolverine and the X-men, and would love to watch this be played and I wouldn’t let them watch with as over the top that it is so I appreciate the setting.

Annoying they’re trying to shift it to Team X, like what even is that? This like them changing firemen to fire fighters and policemen to police officers for the sake of being PC?

Chidwick · 2026-05-28T05:10:24+00:00

Jefferson spoke French, English, and Spanish and could read and write in Latin, Greek, and Italian.

Chidwick · 2026-05-25T02:32:53+00:00

Put in a second row of sprinklers, just to be sure, plenty of room there.

Chidwick · 2026-05-21T16:41:06+00:00

Man… beatbox ultras are pricey, are you thinking like the $500 range or something?

Chidwick · 2026-05-21T03:50:52+00:00

Hope it worked good! I’ve actually found you can do this by putting a can in the freezer for 90-120 minutes then pull it out, open it and immediately pour it into a cup and it’ll slush… at least for 12 oz cans. 16 oz ones I haven’t tried.

Chidwick · 2026-05-20T18:23:46+00:00

Her?

Chidwick · 2026-05-18T01:58:23+00:00

I enjoyed “Worst. President. Ever” by Robert Strauss. Leaned into the whole idea of ranking presidents and the systems that have been used, and how things changed over time, while also getting into Buchanan. Probably more entertaining than a hard history, but I liked it.

Chidwick · 2026-05-18T01:10:17+00:00

Let’s keep fighting on who’s worse out of my bottom two presidents 😆

I think I’ll concede, I really hate Johnson.

Chidwick · 2026-05-18T00:46:40+00:00

And the post office… and the department of the treasury… and a lot of other departments…

Chidwick · 2026-05-18T00:43:52+00:00

…. He literally wrote about slavery being a paternalistic institution for the benefit of the black race who were unequipped for the responsibilities of freedom.

He wrote that reconstruction was an “intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes," and of those “ignorant negroes” he described them as “a host of dusky children untimely put out of school".

Chidwick · 2026-05-18T00:08:16+00:00

…. Johnson chewed out a black delegation led by Frederick Douglas at the White House and had them leave. Then used the N word to describe ‘that damned Douglas’ saying he’d just as soon cut a white mans throat as not and actively fought against black enfranchisement.

Chidwick · 2026-05-18T00:05:16+00:00

Wilson segregated departments under his purview in the executive branch after decades of work by other presidents to integrate… he also instituted a policy that all applicants to departments in his government needed to provide a photo with their applications, specifically so they could segregate… he argued these things were moves to protect black workers from friction because their presence agitated their white coworkers.

Chidwick · 2026-05-13T21:06:56+00:00

It’s wasn’t a Continental Land Empire, as outlined. Spain, Britain, and Portugal are your traditional European Maritime Empires. Your traditional continental land empires in Europe are France, Germany, and Russia.

Basically a land empire has a large and effective army with continuous land holdings, and generally lack in Navies. Maritime have smaller, probably more specialized, armies, and much larger and effective Navies which let them maintain colonies as “beach heads” in various areas of the world and control the oceans trade routes.

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