The Prodigal Carpetbagger

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Passage from Twilight of the Gods by Ian Toll referencing Lyndon Johnson's involvement in congressional procurement for building a naval pilot training station in Corpus Christi
Kramer dressed in Jerry's blue suit using a wooden spoon as a "mic"
Monopoly board
Cover for There Goes my Everything: White Southerners in the age of Civilization Right, 1945-1974. Cover image shows n older White man standing in front of his uniformed Black chauffeur
Peasants burn manor houses as nobles flee during the Great Fear
A collection of facial hair enthusiasts who supported John Brown's raid
My vote for Kamala Harris
Women in the 1920s drink perfectly legal beverages from glass bottles
Leonardo Di Caprio as Rick Dalton pointing at Rick Dalton in another movie
The cover of Ghengis Khan: Rise of rhe Mongols except the title reads The Rule of Jenny Pen
Lionel Baratheon hitting a vape and playing chess in armor and eyeglasses
Poster for LEFT BEHIND (2016)
Kendall Roy from Succession
THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
A woman screams "I'm not licking the boot! It's my boot!" while her husband turns the calendar over from December 2020 to January 1984
When Schwab said he could not accept the code because of his obligations to Bethlehem stockholders, Roosevelt asked amiably whether he had been looking after his stockholders when he paid those million-dollar bonuses to Eugene Grace and allowed his miners to live in coke ovens. To another visitor later that day, the President said with satisfaction, "I scared them the way they have never been frightened before and I told Schwab he better not pay any more million dollar bonuses."
Kruschev reads charges at Beria's trial, The Death of Stalin (2017)
Sir Gawain and Lady Bertalik in The Green Knight (2021)
President William Henry Harrison, first White House occupant to die in office
Scioio from HBO Rome saying "That's a threat!"
Gabe from the Office saying, "Shut up about the East coast! Shut up about the East coast!"
The storming of the Bastille
Pierce Hawthorne drawing a windmill that unfortunately looks like a swastika
Man with a swastika tattoo on his chest pointing to it saying "it's going to be a maze"
Bronze statue of Julius Caesar
Cillian Murphy as a judge in an expedited court, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
A tiny Venus fly trap and a tiny pitcher plant on a wooden fence
Let's go Blood Clot 2025
Headline: IS YOUR FISHING HOBBY A MONEY PIT?
Stack of books, Cicero, Rome's Last Citizen, Plutarch's The Age of Caesar, Uncommon Wrath, The Coinage of the Roman Republic, Lawless Republic, A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Mortal Republic
Greeting card with a picture of lemons reading "If life gives you lemons...you probably deserve them for being such a terrible person."
Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives! aye, and he comes even into the senate. He takes a part in the public deliberations; he is watching and marking down and checking off for slaughter every individual among us. And we, gallant men that we are, think that we are doing our duty to the republic if we keep out of the way of his frenzied attacks.
YouTube thumbnail reading "Everything Keeps Getting Worse"
Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "If it bleeds, we can kill it." From Predator (1987)
"Are we, out of all generations, deserving of the sky's collapse, its axis knocked from beneath its dome? Is it on us the last age comes? A harsh destiny has brought us to this: Wretches, either we lost our sun, or else we drove it away." -from Thyestes by Seneca
"Freedom of Speech" by Norman Rockwell
William Jennings Bryan
Antz (1998) DVD cover
Movie poster for Black '47 (2018)
Sign with a snake reading "JOIN OR DIE, HE WILL NOT STOP WITH CALIFORNIA"
A handful of tiny plastic babies
Screenshot from the NOLA article where Nottoway is described as a place of great injustice that has become somewhere for reflection, dialogue, and education. The next paragraph says the property was most recently used as an event space and wedding venue.
Screenshot of an AI service that creates lesson plans based on grade level and subject.
A whiteboard drawing of a snow man melting in a puddle with the caption "Not everyone looks forward to summer break"
Nucky Thompson from HBO's Boardwalk Empire in a dark suit and purple shirt, with his signature red carnation
Elon Musk giving a "Roman salute" that looks an awful lot like a Nazi salute
Scene from The Death of Stalin (2017) showing Beria being dragged off to his execution
Joe Biden in a black suit and blue tie and Elizabeth Holmes in all black seated at a table