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Patricia Cole's avatar

IIRC, Teddy was in favor of women's suffrage.

Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

What's that you say, Teddy?

"𝗧𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰."

~ Theodore Roosevelt; May 1918

No Quid Bro Code's avatar

HE haD TRuMp deRAngEmeNT SYnDRoE.

TheGreatAndPowerfulMormos!'s avatar

God I wish I could watch Teddy beat the every-loving fuck out of Trump. Because he would. If he met Trump for five minutes you know Teddy would just start beating the shit out of him.

paperlesstiger's avatar

Trump is a natural for Mt. Rushmore, because he's a big chiseler.

ShrillKitty's avatar

I'll have you know that a "coarsened fopdoodle" is a new designer breed in which the offspring of a fox terrier and a cocker spaniel is mated with a toy poodle, and which I just made up myself about a minute ago.

zuludaddy (seamonkey!)'s avatar

[the words everyone is happiest to hear from a linguist]

I Stedman's avatar

One guy once swam the length of the Panama canal. Based upon his tonnage, they charged him (as I recall) about twenty-three cents (US), then promptly made a rule that it was not allowed to happen again.

Richard S's avatar

Oh, by the way, you could have mentioned the assassination attempt on TR.

"This farce of a Man is trying to turn himself into a martyr because he got nicked on the ear? I took a bullet to the chest, and spoke for nearly an hour before seeking medical attention. And I instructed the local police to make sure the shooter was unharmed."

PrimerGray's avatar

It would be nice to have a modern alternative to both political parties we have now. Instead of casting their lot in with Assface, the disaffected Republicans could have reformed into a party that took the best of TR: conservation, trust busting, prosecuting corruption. Leave the racism (he had complex views about this), sexism, and imperialism out of it.

The Square Deal would have him labeled a Communist today.

<Roosevelt, moving to the left of his Republican Party base, called for a series of reforms that were mostly not passed. He sought a national incorporation law. All corporations had state charters, which varied greatly state by state. He called for a federal income tax, but the Supreme Court had ruled in 1895 that any income tax would require a constitutional amendment. Roosevelt sought an inheritance tax so the great family fortunes could not be inherited without the tax for generations.

In the area of labor legislation, Roosevelt called for limits on the use of court injunctions against labor unions during strikes. Injunctions were a powerful weapon that mostly helped business. He wanted an employee liability law for industrial injuries, pre-empting state laws. He called for an eight-hour law for federal employees. In other areas he also sought a postal savings system to provide competition to local banks, and, finally, campaign finance reform.>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Deal

Carstonio's avatar

Trump deserves to be on Mount Rushmore…on a tabletop display at the visitor center across from the mountain, showing only the rear ends of the four worst presidents. Who would accompany him? Nixon and Buchanan, certainly. How about Andrew Johnson?

PrimerGray's avatar

George W. Bush

Richard S's avatar

I can actually imagine TR saying this.....

peregrin's avatar

Gary was seriously channeling Teddy on this one.

Warren's avatar

Don’t forget Gifford Pinchot, conservation, The NCAA, (when football players were dying of head injuries), the American Boy Scouts (sons of daniel boone, sons of johnny appleseed, all became part of scouting), the Great White Fleet, the Nobel Prize for mediating the peace treary that ended the Russo-Japanese War, mediating coal strikes, preventing depressions and Wall Street panics by timely interventions, the Square Deal, the New Nationalism, and traveling along the River of Doubt to chart it. And last but not least, being father of Alice Rossevelt Longworth.

You have got to have done a lot to be on Mount Rushmore. Sorry, Donnie.

Resource NW's avatar

But the convicted felon is a legend in his own mind.

EyeQueue's avatar

He understands sports very well so he knows better than the refs that that wasn't a foul. He was a very good athelete and understands sports on a deep level. Very strongly. The referee was suspect. Check his past. I don't want o say t hat, but check his past. Very suspect.

JanuaryClaire's avatar

"I don't want o say t hat, but check his past. Very suspect."

I hate when he says shit like this. He believes he's being very clever by "not NOT" saying it, when he simply sounds idiotic.

AIB's avatar

“If you don’t like a decision, appeal it to the highest court” is his instinctual response.

Bear is Under-Cubbed's avatar

"BILL! Go see if he did a mortgage fraud!!1!"

JanuaryClaire's avatar

"coarsened fopdoodle!"

I will be incorporating this slight into my vocabulary post-haste.

PrimerGray's avatar

It's the cromulent thing to do.

EyeQueue's avatar

The Trump accounts are to fight communism, he claims.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I said that when I stole a small child's ice cream but the police thought different

EyeQueue's avatar

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EyeQueue's avatar

And I'm sorry. That Dell woman looks disgusting. Like an actual clown. How sad she must be to make herself look like that.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Quite possibly your best one yet, Gary

Parakeetist's avatar

OT:

Birb is now watching Stephanie Miller on Free Speech TV.

Now the break is over, the new part of the show is back. Yay! :)

Bear is Under-Cubbed's avatar

I read that as "the beak is over". More and more every day, we live in Birb World!

Warren's avatar

Thank you for watching so we don’t have to!