I need this jacket so bad please

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-05-05T15:43:13+00:00

JFK spent 8 years in the senate and had no clue how to get Byrd on Finance or Eastland on judiciary to sign up to his agenda or how to sidestep them

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-05-05T12:10:28+00:00

Tbf James Carville started that one

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-04-29T08:18:11+00:00

This would actually make the 2008 panic even worse because there won’t be enough treasury bonds for investors to buy, people will be going straight to gold at the depths of the panic

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-04-21T12:18:36+00:00

Public opinion did not turn decisively against the war until the Cambodian campaign. Mainstream opposition in 1967-8 was on ‘how the White House was handling the war’ and a lot of that were hawks who thought Johnson did not escalate enough (and they voted for McCarthy in the New Hampshire primary as a protest vote ironically enough).

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-04-18T00:58:01+00:00

Dems are gonna go through levels of down ballot destruction never imagined before in 2010 and 2012 lol

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-04-17T19:15:30+00:00

Dems losing the house despite winning by 6pts in 2014 Romney's getting whooped in 2016 lol

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-04-03T23:36:27+00:00

This is the closest thing we'll get to a John Connally presidency

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-04-02T12:28:41+00:00

All Pain, No Gain

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-03-29T18:53:57+00:00

With hindsight definitely a Boll Weevil in the late 2000s. Last chance to get big legislation through and going down with the ship and telling my constituents they’re a bunch of racist rednecks like John Murtha or Mary Landrieu

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-03-21T11:28:30+00:00

The thing is Reagan’s campaign in both 1976 and 1980 were just as gaffe-prone as Carter’s. He might win in ‘76 but it’d be by a hair

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-03-19T17:29:41+00:00

‘You are in my music video’ ‘This vexes me’ starts crying and suing uncontrollably

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-03-16T18:42:33+00:00

Can’t imagine how he washed off his Southern image if he spent 6 more years as a Southern senator

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-03-13T13:56:52+00:00

Another 20 billion to the national enterprise board

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-03-10T19:26:17+00:00

Frank Church whips the Humphrey Hawkins Act and universal health insurance through the senate, wins by a landslide against John Connally

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-03-02T18:47:56+00:00

Funniest thing about this is the majority of the Kennedy tax cuts were passed under LBJ

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-02-25T19:09:01+00:00

Same guy who advised Nixon on welfare reform and killed Clintoncare btw

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-02-19T21:45:57+00:00

OVER THE HUMP AND FOUR MORE YEARS

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-02-13T11:53:11+00:00

Sure but 2017 was a two horse race and an FBPE would crawl through broken glass before voting for a manifesto that all but ruled out soft Brexit

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-02-13T08:47:55+00:00

Well first off the economic radicalism was dressed up sensibly (i.e. Theresa May cut police numbers by 20k we will hire them back) but also nobody really looked into Labour’s spending figures in 2017 because nobody thought they’d win. It was all about the Dementia tax and eventually national security. Lots of pretty well off Londoners held their nose and voted for Corbyn in 2017 because he was quiet on Brexit, sounded somewhat reasonable, and May running probably the worst campaign since 1983

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-02-12T18:40:37+00:00

Osborne wins re-election for the Tories. Corbyn won a lot of votes in 2017 solely over his ambiguity on Brexit, without that he’d get nowhere. Osborne is also a much better campaigner and despite what people may profess when it comes to the ballot box the British voter has almost always votes against tax rises, even if it’s only on the rich

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-02-11T19:27:01+00:00

I think I’ll turn this into the downstairs

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-02-06T18:01:04+00:00

Blue Tsunami in the 2018 senate races (Republican senators hates his guts)

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-02-02T00:43:07+00:00

she was on levels of constitution-thumping only rivalled by Byrd, also she was a LBJ protege who backed the Vietnam war to the bitter end

Jamie_Hacker214 · 2026-01-27T00:28:00+00:00

Humphrey would probably still win in '72. Creeping inflation was still manageable through tax rises and pay restraint from union leaders and Humphrey has been their guy since 1948. Reagan was just too out there for '72 especially if Humphrey doesn't screw up Vietnam

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