Rachel Navarre

A twitter thread from 2017 on paper bc someone printed it out and put it on their door and it’s all we have of it Paul Musgrave @profmusgrave Around the department: Americanists: how bad can it be really? Comparativists: dictatorship, purges International relations: nuclear war Paul Musgrave @ profmusgrave Replying to himself Americanists: haha but seriously IR and comparative: who is joking

Time for the official polisci meme™️:

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I see we’re on exactly the same page. 😂

LBJ’s campaign response to Goldwater “in your guts you know he’s nuts.

Thinking about this and the Daisy add for no reason today.

I never got this. How is local, reusable power and “green” energy not good? Fine, climate change is a hoax* (*it’s not) but even so, how is it not in our interest to end up with high mpg military vehicles, and houses, businesses, and cars that don’t rely on imported energy? We still end up better!

That should be 2.0. But also we’re still in conflict with Venezuela even if the administration is too dumb to see it.

I think they thought this was going to be Venezuela. You walk in, take out the leader, 2nd in command “falls in line”. But what happens when we try to declare victory and Iran is still fighting us? Do we invade Cuba in the hopes of a quick Venezuela 2.9 to make grandpa feel better?

I’ve been told the bars in Waco really help you with preparing to do business meals with Ramco (bc you know, you’re not supposed to drink but you’re rich soooooo)

Hahahaha. If their will to live hadn’t been destroyed and they weren’t all on benders bc their life’s work has turned out to be pointless, this would send any counterintelligence agent into a coma.

Something about the unfairness of it really eats at you. Knowing that your safety is simply an accident of birth, the guilt because you’re just an observer and *you* feel bad, plus feeling completely powerless to do anything is complicated and you always know how much worse it is for those living it

My favorite is the pope hats/alligators one.

All those anti- Catholic, German, Jewish, Irish, Italian and Chinese Puck cartoons are public domain in case someone wants an art project.

I was told he’s the exact same as Mike Johnson which, no. He can be fine AND we can still denounce the people being racists weirdos about the very qualified Black lady (who is also religious) and the pundits who will 100% blame Black people if they lose (or if she won the primary & then lost).

One time, I went to a wedding around Texarkana in a dry county and managed to get the front desk to offer to sell me booze which is a cannon event for Texans, but even more so for Southern Louisianans in Texas.

Yeah they aren’t. So I guess it’s back to, what’s your whataburger order, pronounce Bexar, or recite the Texas pledge (that last one would get me bc I ain’t learning that you freaks).

Virginia Lawmakers Should Pass Citizens United Trigger Law Challenging the Supreme Court’s mistaken Citizens United ruling will help spur legal change and curb the influence of big money in state politics.

Trigger laws enabled some states to ban abortion the second the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now Virginia is considering one that would limit political spending if the Court ever overturns Citizen United. bit.ly/3OYOEOV

What is your favorite HEB and why and when you will go to a different HEB? (You may include Central Market in your answer).

We have such a small Congress. The UK is higher and is Germany’s. Also yes. I want a gigantic court that randomly get assigned to cases but also they also vote to approve the assignment— none of this recusal is up to the justice themselves.

Also, I’d like a single solitary requirement for them.

I’m trying to think back but it’s hard to remember before Covid times.

I know it’s a such a stupid point but as a child I was extremely caught up on the map that the Times Pic made showing David Duke’s dreamed of homelands for each ethnic group because a) what if you don’t want to live in Ohio but that’s your new homeland and b) what happens to mixed race people?

There’s a whole bunch on this and the main problem is it requires many other changes- if we went with a parliamentary system (which is better but not fool proof), you need to change the electoral system and number of reps per district.

Hey so how do you think you died and ended up in hell because clearly that’s what this is? But also do you think we all just sort of start at the same time point so we get the full horror or are you just all demons tormenting me?

Going fast and breaking things also works. They’re still getting what they want which is essentially a broken government.

Huh we’re doing all the greatest hits huh. Pulling out the old aging empires going to war for control of waterway I an attempt to show they are still powerful I see.

Why not both?

Here’s the chart I’m sharing with my class: lsintspl3.wgbh.org/en-us/lesson...

Anyway. Look up personal liberty laws and the strengthens fugitive slave act of 1850 and laugh and laugh at how nothing is new under the sun.

I just read Sumner’s speech about Presidential madness and, well, we survived one terrible jerk of a president that really really wanted all the super cool insurrectionists to like him.

Anyway, abolish the presidency. Cato (antifed) and Linz were right. They suck.

… We ban almost all travel from Iran to the US! The administration and its supporters have derided asylum requests as a scam! We only give asylum to white Afrikaners! Top MAGA people have insisted we not allow Iranian war refugees into the US!