Jeffrey w/3 Fs

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Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader

Sign on glass: "land of the free" in red, white, and blue. Next to the blue "free" is a blue star.
Keith David says “Welcome to hell!”
Newspaper featuring a cartoon photo of fictional film critic Jay Sherman and President George HW Bush. Headlines: “BUSH LOSES! FAT LECHEROUS HILLBILLY ELECTED”
AI painting of a bearded man with unreadable text on his hat. It’s from the Trump-as-Christ pic.
Sign: Trash Receptacles Are Placed For Your Convenience
The FIFA Peace Prize is a special annual award established by the sport’s governing body in 2025. The award will be presented each year to individuals who “helped to unite people all over the world in peace.” The inaugural prize was awarded to U.S. President Donald Trump during the group stage draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in December 2025.
Joachim Phoenix as the joker. Caption: "I'm going to become the green bubble"
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi will meet the US ambassador to Italy on Tuesday “to clarify” the scope and scale of ICE operations there, added Tajani. “It’s not like they’re the ones on the streets of Minneapolis,” the foreign minister said. “It’s not like the SS are coming.
Protest on a bridge over I-25
Kid holding a sign with a hand drawn frog and the word "hop"
Cargo ebike carrying a US flag and a sign that says "No Kings But US"
A list of bands playing on dates, including "June 21st Kentucky Straight Band"
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com "We're gonna ensure that our truckers, who are the backbone of our policy, are all able to speak English" --Leavitt says Trump will sign an order demanding that all truckers can speak English
Screenshot of iPhone stocks app. The Dow Jones is rising.
Tons of protesters at the Colorado capitol
Abandoned cicada skins on a palm tree
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Some trees, some houses, and an overpass backed by dark clouds
Upward photo of the sky with a tree and a roof in view but most cloud cover
Photograph of a row of houses in Denver CO. The picture is dominated by a deep blue sky and few clouds on the horizon.
Going anti-vax after his one big success was the COVID vaccine. Not understanding tariffs. Nominating a sex pest for AG. Nominating (and confirming!) a sex pest for Secretary of Defense. Claiming the constitutional authority to ignore the Constitution on birthright citizenship. Wasting water reserves to fight a fire that was already under control and somewhere else. Tough negotiations with Canada and Mexico to get them to do things they were already doing. Okay, obviously not an exhaustive list! Threatening war with Greenland. Finding an even bigger liar than himself to make the government more “efficient.” The Gulf of America! Firing nuclear safety experts without realizing it and scrambling to hire them back. Trying to fix air safety – which wasn’t a problem before he took office.
After narrowly avoiding constitutional disaster with the 2020 election and January 6th, Joe Biden spent the interregnum between Trump presidencies governing as if everything was back to normal.
Jesus, where to start with Donald Trump? Lying about being “Michigan Man of the Year.” The stack of blank papers that were supposed to address his business conflicts. Frederick Douglass doing an amazing job and being recognized more and more. Claiming you need a photo ID to buy cereal. Drawing on a hurricane map because he was wrong. Throwing paper towels to hurricane victims. Space Force. Tim Apple. Marillyn Lockheed. Claiming windmills cause cancer. Saying COVID was under control. Recommending bleach injections. Lying that he was invited to throw a first pitch before Dr. Fauci was. Four Seasons Landscaping!
Barack Obama came to prominence by asserting that there was no "red America" or "blue America." In retrospect, he may have overstated the case.
Sure, George W Bush got us into a war with a country that didn't attack us because of weapons that they didn't have as if no one would find out. But get this: Six weeks into the war, he stood in front of a huge "Mission Accomplished" banner. Brilliant.
Bill Clinton graduated from Yale Law School so that he could make such powerful legal arguments as "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
Read his lips, George HW Bush coined a great phrase to sound convincing about a principle he was ready and willing to abandon: "Voodoo Economics”
Ronald Reagan was probably the most reactionary world leader who starred in a movie with a chimp.
A couple of months before the 1976 election, Jimmy Carter gave a weird interview to Playboy where he claimed he had "committed adultery in my heart many times." TMI, Jimmy!
Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to put one national nightmare behind us and to make sure there would be more national nightmares in the future.
Richard Nixon did secret crimes and made recordings of himself talking about doing secret crimes.
Lyndon Johnson's experience in Congress made him one of the most effective presidents at getting his preferred legislation passed. It didn't help him end the Vietnam War, which is the main thing we remember.
In his short presidency, foreign policy whiz John F Kennedy managed to give us the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the beginning of the Vietnam War.
In his farewell address, Dwight Eisenhower warned against the growing influence of the "military-industrial complex." Gosh, now you tell us, lke.
When Republicans attacked him for being soft on communism, Harry Truman tried to neutralize the issue with a "loyalty order" that investigated federal employees and created a list of subversive organizations, which set the stage for Joseph McCarthy's rise a few years later.
In his twelfth year as president, Franklin Roosevelt learned that his heart was failing. He ran for reelection anyway and died a few months into his fourth term. Two years later, the Constitution was amended to limit presidents to two terms.
"Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation" — Herbert Hoover, shortly before the Great Depression
Calvin Coolidge was a believer in the free market and a detractor of government intervention in the economy, which was humming along nicely in the 1920s with no trouble in sight. (Checks notes) Hold on..
Warren G Harding was a popular president when he died of a heart attack. His reputation survived only slightly longer as word got out that his cabinet had been filled with crooks. One of them went to prison.
Woodrow Wilson was the only president to have lived under the Confederacy. In an amazing coincidence, he was a huge racist, who loved segregation and iokes about "darkies."
William Howard Taft was Theodore Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. Taft's policies deviated so far from Roosevelt's progressivism that TR made a third-party run against Taft, handing the election to Woodrow Wilson.
Big stick carrier Theodore Roosevelt liked to box and sparred weekly as president. One of his sparring partners hit the president so hard, he went blind in his left eye.
After a string of attempted and successful assassinations of European leaders, William McKinley's secretary tried to limit the president's meetings with the public. McKinley ignored him and was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland had opinions about women's suffrage, writing in the Ladies Home Journal that "sensible and responsible women do not want to vote." He probably had other wrong opinions too.
Beniamin Harrison tanked his popularity with a huge tariff that raised prices. On the bright side, the tariff created a budget surplus that he and Congress spent away.
Cleverness or cowardice? Grover Cleveland skipped out on the Civil War by paying an immigrant to fight in his place. His substitute survived the war. Maybe Cleveland wouldn't have?
Before he became a champion of civil service reform as president, Chester Arthur was part of Roscoe Conkling's political machine and a beneficiary of the spoils system. President Hayes fired him during a purge of corrupt officials.
He was only president briefly, so in the case of James Garfield, the idiots would have to be the doctors who treated his gunshot wound with dirty hands and killed him with infection.
Gallantry or recklessness? Rutherford B Hayes was injured 5 times in the Civil War, being shot repeatedly and falling off horses, which threw him or were shot out from under him.
Ulysses S Grant's first military stint ended when he couldn't control his drinking. During the Civil War, he still drank, but timed his benders for when it didn't matter.
Hoping to build support for his policies, Andrew Johnson went on a speaking tour to make his case. Might've worked for someone with charisma.
Running for re-election, Abraham Lincoln wanted to create a unity ticket by picking a war-supporting Democrat to be his VP. He picked Andrew Johnson, who would become one of the worst presidents.
Behind the scenes, James Buchanan encouraged the judges behind the Dredd-Scott decision to write a broad opinion, which would protect slavery and bar African Americans from full citizenship. Buchanan thought this would put the issue to rest. (No spoilers.)
Not alone among the presidents of his time, Franklin Pierce's legacy is letting slavery fester. He opened Kansas up to slavery, which triggered the "Bleeding Kansas" conflicts.
After Millard Fillmore left office because he was unpopular, he ran for president again with the support of the "Know Nothings," who believed Catholics were conspiring to subvert religious liberty.
Zachary Taylor didn't know much about politics when he became president (he had never voted before) and he might have gotten the hang of it if he hadn't died after consuming a bunch of cherries and milk that was probably bad.
James K Polk was a successful president who didn't seek reelection, which is good because he worked himself so hard that he died months after leaving office. At 53!
John Tyler's party kicked him out when he blocked their agenda. He dropped out of the next election when his "Tyler Party" didn't catch on. In the Civil War, he joined the Confederates. Nobody misses that guy.
Poor William Henry Harrison. It might not have been giving a two-hour inaugural address in the cold without a coat or hat that gave him the illness that killed him a month later. (He might have caught something from the White House water supply.) Hard to shake a good story though.
When enslaved Africans revolted and took control of the Amistad, ending up in the US, Martin Van Buren tried to send them back to Spain to be re-enslaved. His administration lost the case at the Supreme Court to former president John Quincy Adams. Thankfully!