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Hell of Presidents: Episode 8 - The Brogressives

🕑 Added 2023-11-29 12:05:01 +0000 UTC

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Christopher Price

Anna Karenina is the perfect book for Teddy: kostya levin forsaking cushy city living and instead dedicating himself to farming. yeah, sure, there's the Anna and vronsky bits, but we all know he's highlighting the farming passages.

voteforjefe

Incredibly funny that Teddy Roosevelt still sounded like the weaselly wimp he tried so desperately not to be

No Relation to Henry

The middle school I attended was opened in 1919 and named after Woodrow Wilson. In the entryway there’s a large two-story chalk mural by a local artist from around that time period containing, among other things, rose of crosses with “why?” written on all of them. The artist, whose surname was also Wilson, was not a fan of the president.

Bella DeBall

Having already broken the French, the Germans were about thisclose to breaking the British (and were in the process of doing so) when the first American troops got onto the scene, to the point where the Wilson Administration put aside its "we will fight only as an American Army" policy aside temporarily to rush troops to the front to prop up the British. To that extent, the biggest contribution America made to the Allied war effort was "people", and the Allies do not win on the western front without them.

Mark Schneider

He was scum. When I was teaching High School US history I learned what a racist, misogynist, fascist piece of shit this faux "progressive" was . . . I'd compare him to Obama (who I voted for in '08 not expecting 3rd & 4th Bush Jr. terms).

JR

Look at this William Taft, every time I do it makes me laugh.

Ty Drown

Roosevelt’s father paid for a substitute during the Civil War (partially I think because his was Southern) and he was teased a little and ashamed of it. He definitely would have paid to fight in the war himself however. Ok, back to reading Wikipedia about trains for the rest of the evening…

Charlie Hoyt

My ancestor Henry M Hoyt was solicitor general under Roosevelt. He was not a nice guy.

Geechee

Well done - this was a really great episode. Especially dealing with the racist, fascist Wilson.

John Leavitt

The Espionage Act also killed The Masses, Americas biggest socialist magazine , cause having ain’t-war content meant it wasn’t able to have the dirt cheap UPS mass mailing rate which is what made it economically viable and relatively affordable

Jack

who?

Matthew Krueger

100% on the waiting for a fine meal. I listened to episode 52 today with Jeremy Scahill (it's a great ep and he was a really good guest) at the end they talked about how disgusting the display for "our honored statesman" would be on both sides when Kissinger died - Scahill actually asked to come back when it happened. I doubt anyone remembers the exchange but that would be a cool call back.

Robert Wolff

While slop is late, considering who died I am good with waiting for a fine meal

Chapo Trap House

what can I say he's "da man"

Skwilly

Slops late

Walker Gee

I think it's cute how fond Chris is of Teddy

Elliot Matheny

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Matthew Krueger

Looking forward to the celebration next show. Was so nice to get a piece of unadulterated good news this week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGo6gtqvHxE