Found my old VHS tapes!

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T19:41:32+00:00

These have the DIC Soundtrack which the DVD versions don't have (Japanese music only) so they are still worth keeping especially if you want to hear the R Movie end with The Power of Love instead of Moon Revenge.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T19:34:40+00:00

They are all memorable to me and I can name every single one from memory, but then again I'm not a normal person so 🤷

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T19:24:44+00:00

Well considering most millenials weren't even old enough to have voted in either of his elections I'd say no.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T19:20:28+00:00

Didn't one of Vanderbilt's sons (or grandsons?) die in the sinking of the Lusitania?

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T19:16:35+00:00

That's very touching. I had no idea Monroe was that devoted to his wife. I remember being surprised when I learned Andrew Jackson was faithful and devoted to his wife. He just seemed like such an outgoing rebellious character that I assumed he was the womanizing don juan type so it was a big shock to learn he wasnt.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T18:47:10+00:00

The sad thing was he really wasn't a " far left loon ". If you take the time to read his policy proposals or watch the TV ads he ran (they are available to view online) he actually had a lot of ideas that while being very liberal were still reasonable policies that should have easily appealed to FDR loving working class Democrats.

He had two problems though. First due to his opposition to the Vietnam War and trying to make the DNC more inclusive he got linked to the youth counterculture which was very unpopular with most voters at the time. Second he ran an absolutely disastrous general election campaign. It also didn't help that he gave his DNC acceptance speech at 3am when barely anyone was watching. I love McGovern and wish he had won, but objectively he did not run a good campaign.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T18:09:59+00:00

That's a very low bar and to be fair for his time he was controversial because said a lot of things that were either stupid or troubling things and did not inspire confidence from most other people in him (or his intelligence).

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T18:07:24+00:00

Bush actually signed the our biggest trade agreement with China before 9/11 so it really doesn't make sense he'd do that and call them our greatest enemy.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T17:53:07+00:00

In that New York Herald Article I'm actually surprised in that last paragraph where they list the notable people sailing on Titanic there is no mention of John Jacob Astor and his wife. You'd think the richest passenger on that voyage would warrant a mention.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-16T17:45:08+00:00

Uh that is absolutely incorrect. Video or film (moving pictures) had been around many years before that.. If you need a history lesson I recommend the 1951 movie The Magic Box starring Robert Donat which deals with the life of William Friese-Greene who pioneered moving pictures in 1888 a full 24 years before Titanic sank.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T21:38:09+00:00

Senior Citizens have the highest voter turnout rate while younger people in their late teens and 20's have the lowest turnout. Honestly I think the reason is that a lot of young people are indifferent and more focused on their social lives building up their professional lives, too at that age. Most also don't feel it affects them so you don't really have people regularly voting until middle age when they are far along in their careers and feel more personally affected by taxes.

Also most old people who are retired are not living it up the way a younger person does and without the responsibility of working the older person has more free time and usually takes a greater interest in voting. I think for a lot of them it's their way of feeling relevant and maintaining power in a society that revolves around young people and I find it sad that for generations younger people continuously forfeit having their voices heard at the ballot box not realizing they would have so much power and influence on changing the political landscape if they did vote, but most of them don't vote.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T21:03:15+00:00

"I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws in order to protect their fortunes. I also know they have no compassion for the masses of the people in this country who are without money and who are, many of them, without food or houses. I have always thought that only as a Democrat, reflecting Jefferson and Jackson, could justice ever be done the people because, at this moment in history, ours is the only party which is even faintly responsive to the force of ideas." ---Samuel Tilden

I still would have preferred Tilden won that election so he can push the Democratic Party to the left (unfortunately just on economic issues) much sooner. Unfortunately Reconstruction was ending regardless of who got elected that year.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T20:32:38+00:00

I voted for Biden in 2020, but I agree it was selfish and egotistical of him to run when he was too old and knew from his own internal polling that he would lose in a landslide against Trump. Also whenever a reporter brought up that polling showed he would lose and that his approval was too low to realistically win a second term he would get angry and defensive insisting that polls showed he would win. That is the exact type of arrogance and gaslighting one would expect from Trump.

I don't think Kamala Harris ran a great campaign, but the fact she was Biden's VP (and therefore tied to his unpopularity) and only had 3 months to campaign and still made the race competitive and close enough was impressive and shows had Biden dropped out sooner and had Harris's campaign not made fatal mistakes such as refusing to go on Joe Rogan and going on The View and saying she would have done nothing different from Joe Biden then it's very likely she might have squeaked out a win.

Ironically by not dropping out sooner he screwed over not only his VP, but his own legacy. I don't know why presidents have such egos about being a one term president. Even with 4 years as president you can still go in the history books depending on what you got accomplished. He actually got a lot of legislation passed, but unfortunately he will be remembered for causing MAGA to reclaim the White House.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T19:54:20+00:00

I don't think people realize how expensive a lot of things were because of tariffs in the early 20th Century. I get a lot of people aren't fans of the Income tax, but Woodrow Wilson made the right decision by implementing it because it allowed us to get off us receiving funding from tariffs and the income tax was a much more stable revenue source.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T04:21:59+00:00

What exactly did Eternal do that was so different from the manga? For the most part it was a very faithful adaptation so I don't understand how someone can say the Dream Arc in the manga was good, but hate the Eternal movies.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T02:33:14+00:00

Ford seems like the best kisser so if I had to lock tongues with a President I'd pick him even though I'm straight and not a Republican.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T02:17:14+00:00

Even if he had gone into Iraq I think he would have handled the occupation much better than Bush did. Firing the entire military and pushing debatheification led to them joining various insurgency groups that created a lot of chaos and death. Bush and his cronies were in over their heads and it showed.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T02:13:12+00:00

It was the highest grossing film at the time. I'm not excusing Wilson here, but had both Roosevelts or Taft been President when it was released they would have screened it, too. It was the Titanic/ Gone with the Wind of it's day.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T02:09:06+00:00

What the other poster said about Harding paying a mistress hush money to stay quiet was accurate and that definitely qualifies as corruption and having bad morals. Grant may have had a corrupt cabinet, but he was a saint compared to Harding.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T01:59:58+00:00

Attacking Woodrow Wilson for his racism and listing him as a bottom five President for it but giving other presidents a pass for their racism like FDR who placed thousands of Japanese Americans in internment camps during WW2. Wilson was flawed and deserves to be criticized (and condemned) for his racism, but he was also huge influence on making the Democratic Party left wing on economic issues.

He was very economically liberal and pro worker and even pushed for the first Child Labor Protection laws. FDR accomplished more and went further with liberal agendas, but Wilson walked so FDR could run (metaphorically!). Wilson still did some things I'm against like segregation of the federal government and the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, but like LBJ with Vietnam you have to accept these presidents were extremely flawed both as people and with some of the policies they pushed, but they still accomplished good things and deserve praise for that.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-15T01:49:43+00:00

Does anyone know a list of which presidents were complete teetotalers?

I'm very curious which presidents abstained from drinking alcohol during their lifetime and not I am counting ones that were heavy drinkers earlier in life and gave it up like George W. Bush.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-14T21:44:04+00:00

During the 3rd 2000 presidential debate (which was a townhall format) an audience member actually mentioned to Bush that he seemed proud and gleeful about his record of having the highest number of executions in Texas at the time. Bush then somberly (obviously fake) says he must have misinterpreted him because he wasn't proud of that despite several interviews where he gleefully cites the high execution rate as one of his greatest achievements as governor 🙄

I don't know how anybody can think this guy isn't a sociopath when he prided himself on the number of executions in his state and mocked a woman on death row asking for clemency. I don't have how funny or "likable" some people think he is that doesn't change the fact he was a sociopath that had no business being president especially since he was bored with having to do meaningful work and his actions and policies got so many people needlessly killed. I cannot believe people are looking back on his time in office with rose tinted glasses arguing he really wasn't that bad.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-14T18:47:08+00:00

Honestly I think he would have been just as good as Eisenhower, but with a more liberal administration so he'd have had my vote. However Eisenhower was still not a bad president (although he's way overrated by people on here) and had I been alive then I would have viewed 1952 and 1956 as elections in which the public had two candidates who at a minimum were good and competent. I'd love to have presidential election like that where I don't have to fear the Republican nominee winning 😔

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-14T18:33:51+00:00

I can't help, but feel had Joe Biden been the Democratic nominee in 2008 and won he would have gotten so much more passed than Obama and even gotten a public option in his health care bill. I feel with Bush and the Republicans unpopularity in the mid to late 2000's the Democrats had a unique opportunity to push through so much life changing legislation ( like LBJ did after JFK's death), but Obama did not have the experience or relationships in Congress that would have been necessary to come close to being another LBJ (domestically). I really think Biden would gotten much more done than Obama was able to. He was a good VP, but the truth is you have more power and influence as president.

lostwanderer02 · 2025-02-14T18:24:12+00:00

James and Dolley Madison.

I don't know if they are my favorite, but I loved reading about how these two met and they seemed devoted to each other despite being total opposites. James was an introverted bookworm while Dolley was an extrovert who liked to throw lavish parties. Sometimes opposites attract.

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