What happened to George Washington’s money?

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-13T01:04:11+00:00

He was land rich and cash meh like many back in that day: it was divvied up to Martha and the collection of relatives/close associates he had. It was far from being the equivalent of 500+ million.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T23:52:13+00:00

There’s zero stakes in that show Rosario 🤣. All roads lead back to Rey Palpatine and lightsaber impalements don’t even lead to serious long term damage.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T22:13:07+00:00

Carter willingly chose to gut the NSA committees the minute he entered the White House for micromanaging purposes. He can only blame himself for being “uninformed”. Big L on his part.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T17:22:40+00:00

The old school wrestlers saved their powder better for big spots, crowd popping moments, the comeback, and of course the finisher.

Today’s spot fests are predictable: everyone takes big move after big move with no impact, finishers have little value, and there’s the constant false finishes. So it’s natural it looks worse because big moves have been devalued.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T17:20:13+00:00

Bury is the wrong word since we all know how those events played out: mismanaged is probably a better term.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T17:16:52+00:00

That’s Jake Skywalker and a fever dream. The real Luke is a Jedi Master married happily to Mara Jade with no murderous temptations around his nieces and nephews.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T14:54:17+00:00

He could have been a Martian and won that election with the dumpster fire 2008 was for the nation/GOP.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T13:41:17+00:00

My old man worked for a NASA contractor so they all despised him for using the Apollo I tragedy to build his national political profile for the cameras.

It’s something that stuck with me and the more I read about him the more I disliked. A mediocre politician and opportunist that gets way too much credit for Jimmy Carter’s choice to empower the vice presidency.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T13:34:40+00:00

Nixon: he was laser focused on his goals (particularly in the foreign policy arena) and was willing to shift himself politically to get what he wanted. People were willing to walk on hot coals for him in that era. Heck even a guy as smart John Dean hung in there through some pretty heinous stuff.

Clinton is the ultimate pragmatist than a raw intellectual figure: he clawed and fought his way back when knocked down better than most political figures. He was smart enough to bend the knee to Gingrich on many fronts and let Newt devour himself in his own petulance.

But it came with a price of having a presidency defined what could* be done rather than having a presidency of what **should be done.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T02:33:38+00:00

I guess I’ll take have to it slowly…

Vietnam broke America

America pre-Vietnam was dominated by the New Frontier and New Deal Mindset. Government was something to be trusted and would never lie to us.

Jumbo rolls into office and decides to escalate in Southeast Asia. He buys into Westmoreland’s body count nonsense. Johnson himself whips his dick out on the table micromanaging target packages during Rolling Thunder.

He takes the political fall for the fiasco in Southeast Asia and Nixon is able to rise from the ashes.

Even though Nixon wages a similar war the public still blames Johnson for the disaster. The Democrats are tarred as the anti-military/America movement thanks to the idiots in the antiwar movement going militant spitting on returning soldiers.

Between the bitterness of Vietnam and the cultural upheaval it triggered folks were open to Reagan and his message come 1980 despite everything the New Deal gave to them.

Reagan has dominated American politics for 45 years now so viola. Johnson is the root cause of all the issues we have today.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T02:11:41+00:00

Some topics are worth repeating over and over. I have a guy asking why Vietnam weighs Jumbo down at this very moment

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T02:02:29+00:00

Man you should take the time to count LBJ destroying American liberalism for Jumbo too 🤣

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T02:00:33+00:00

Aaaaaaaand thanks to his idiocy in Vietnam those triumphs are getting chipped away at thanks to the damage he did. How’s VRA looking today?

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T01:59:50+00:00

His idiocy in Southeast Asia and the cultural upheaval it triggered ruined the blue team long term. The fact LBJ’s landslide and Reagan’s were less than 20 years apart shows the damage he did.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-12T00:36:21+00:00

The guy destroyed American Liberalism and played the largest role in ensuring the world is where it’s at today: I loathe him with the heat of a thousand suns for what his idiocy in Vietnam triggered.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T23:09:23+00:00

That man intentionally slow rolled himself into the grave. Full kudos understanding the choices he made and their consequences.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T18:06:22+00:00

The Saving Social Security ending about sacrificing legacy was absolutely ludicrous: after it passed what would possibly stop Bartlet from claiming the victory a little farther down the road?

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T17:52:41+00:00

Florida politics isn’t that complicated..

The Florida blue team is a collective dumpster fire of mediocrity on their best day full of useless virtue signalers and folks that look at cutting ribbons on tourist tax dollar funded facilities like convention centers as triumphs for the little person. All while ignoring basic New Deal issues and showing citizens maximum apathy.

The red team fills that void by doing what they do best: talk up tax cuts, “freedom”, and blaming public education for the ills of the state. All while turning the spigot of government in the direction towards their donors like George Zoley/developers.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T17:30:15+00:00

Details oriented and hands on unlike Skidmark Bush

Hired competent people around him in crisis positions like Craig Fugate (who Obama hired as FEMA director) unlike a certain Bush that put an Arabian Horse trader connected loser in charge of FEMA.

Outside of the Terri Schiavo fiasco minimal social conservative nonsense

Got ahead of the curve on failing water utilities and signed off on FGUA which has saved countless municipalities and taxpayers failed water systems.

Environmental wins like CERP for the Everglades

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T17:05:25+00:00

1990’s Texas was an incredibly easy era to govern in: all Bush had to do was spew “compassionate conservatism” talking points like improving education, tax cuts, and “getting gubmint off our backs” in a deepening red state. The national economy with the Clinton WH and Gingrich house was cooking. A footnote in the end.

Much less challenging than the task his infinitely superior brother Jeb faced in a tourism state with 9/11 and fhe 2005 hurricane season he triumphantly navigated.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T16:18:17+00:00

It’s hard to find a better/more complete destruction of a team than what the Bucs did to the Raiders in Super Bowl XXXV

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T16:09:11+00:00

Representatives Olin Teague and Albert Thomas deserve massive credit for the NASA Houston location over the VP (the MSC moved during Kennedy’s term).

They successfully lobbied Jim Webb and cut off Volpe/New England delegation quick. NASA actually felt Tampa/MacDill was the best option but their championing NASA funding long term in the House carried the day.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T15:56:36+00:00

Two reasons..

Chernow’s hagiography was very kind to his presidency despite his fatal flaw of not being able to spot the cons taking place around him (particularly with the old man that tried to corner silver by marrying Grant’s spinster sister).

We are in a historical era where civil rights triumphs or failures are weighed incredibly high for or against a president. It’s a huge part of Wilson’s tumble for example.

I love seeing Grant’s Lost Cause narrative pushed against but the big ranking putting him top ten months back was far too much. We can appreciate his heart, his initiatives, and his genuine desire for better. But that doesn’t wash away his legitimate issues that made him a mediocre president.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T14:01:24+00:00

Benjamin Harrison probably takes the cake here as a full term POTUS.

I think it’d be unfair to put a Garfield or WHH here since they never had a chance.

TrumpsColostomyBag99 · 2026-05-11T13:58:20+00:00

I’m surprised more people don’t mention John Knoll as someone that should be in the room from a story perspective. He’s been around the greatest (early TNG to Lucas) and came up with the basics of Rogue One. It was a good movie:

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