That’s right, heathens.

Post a famous bathroom scene.

Many of the responses to this are what you would expect from this site. What’s missing is the lack of real investment on the party’s behalf to run good candidates with firm backing—not carpetbaggers—and do the hard work of talking to folks. But sure, “rural whites all racists” is one way to respond.

"Pretending to see land and then explaining that thou has not in fact spotted shore, but rather thou hast seen 'Thy mom afloat, so huge as to appear to be a land mass.'"

“Why did you let us do this to ourselves?” punchbowl.news/article/hous...

It’s great when a sizable number of rural Dems get together. I just wish the average age wasn’t 60. I know from experience that getting the youths involved is a chore no matter where you are, but there is such a wide base of gettable voters in rural America.

It’s been on an ongoing GOP project for decades to erode Americans’ faith in government by making the administrative state less responsive to citizens. Mostly, this has been done in dribs and drabs subject to the budget. DOGE laid aside the scalpel and picked up a chainsaw.

Just some guy.

Not really sure why I’m being told to verify my age to be on here, but I’m not cool with it.

The quality of ham decreases the further north one travels. I swear that those people could take the flavor out of most any food. They probably put ranch on it.

I’m old enough to remember McConnell promising to make Obama a one term president by making responsible governance an impossibility. Obama hadn’t even been sworn in yet.

An interesting follow up was learning the Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana, Fernando de Leyba, who directed the defense of the city, and is buried there, has a monument to him in his hometown of Ceuta, in Spanish Morocco.

I cannot understand the anti-rolls discourse each year. Yeah. The crap that you buy frozen is just filler. But handmade rolls?

Missouri folks should enjoy this. On the surface, not so surprising. Areas with more population and college towns lead, but a couple of euro counties do surprise.

James Jones is best known as the novelist who wrote ‘From Here To Eternity’ and ‘The Thin Red Line.’ In 1975 he wrote a narrative history of American involvement in WW2 that is less a work of history than it is a combat veteran’s reflections on the war and the American people who fought it. Read it.

It’s a shame when you have the rare film that hits the material culture out of the park and then fails everywhere else. Firstly, it has to have a compelling story. That’s obvs Job #1. If it’s rooted in an historical event or era, it’s understood that liberties will be taken for the sake of the story

@1812andallthat.bsky.social I have been working my through the AWI discussions you are moderating at NAM. Very well done. Great perspectives.

Just watched an interesting documentary about the 1780 Battle of St Louis, and I’m ashamed to say, I did not know that Fort San Carlos was located on the grounds of present day Busch Stadium.

Post a movie where you are from.

Youtube comment of the day: "I knew a smart young guy whose family fled Iraq just before the war began [...]. He graduated High School in Canada. Unfortunately a collision with a moose in his car ended his life. [...]Escape to safety only to be wiped out by a swamp donkey."

Howard Pyle’s 1906 painting, “The Battle of Nashville,” depicts the attack of two Federal brigades against rebel positions near Shy’s Hill. Many of the troops involved were Minnesotans. Pyle’s painting created a stir among veterans, some of whom felt slighted by the artist’s depiction of events.

I want the world to know that this post has led to me busting out my Chicago LPs. I have no regrets.

Rubio fesses to a couple of senators that the administration’s Ukraine peace plan is really “Russia’s wishlist,” and I think somebody is gonna get taken to the shed.

“Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world So there was only one thing that I could do Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long"

He’s a Chicago boomer, so you know that he has sung a lot of Chicago/Peter Cetera in the shower. “If you leave me now, you’ll take away the biggest part of me, Ooh-ooh-hoo, Baby, please don’t go…”

“Girl, you’ll be a woman soon…”

I highly encourage milhist folks to check out Kevin’s post. It is worth reading and reflecting on, with some very thoughtful comments in reaction to the post by one of our best CW military historians.

Ascribing JFK’s granddaughter’s cancer diagnosis as “the Kennedy curse” is something you would expect from a tabloid, not an online mag that aspires to be taken seriously.

Howard Pyle had a style and it was windswept. I remember that his “Book of Pirates” was practically fought over by the boys in my third grade class.

When hate gets hold of your pocket book this is one result. www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/s/...

“She was pretty enough that I was not offended and not so pretty that I was offended.” Man, you really struck gold, Simon and Schuster.

If she pulls this off…Her break with Trump was motivated in part by anger that the party froze her out of a statewide run. Now, she can lay claim to independence and being on the right side of an issue that cuts across ideological lines.

It’s like the time Archie Bunker and Meathead reconciled.

He doesn’t even talk about his kids the way he just did the dude his administration wants deported. This is too much fun.

Is today the day Trump became a Democratic Socialist? 😆

And Stephen Miller wept.

There is no use arguing with such people. This isn’t about historical illiteracy (entirely). It’s an article of faith for them.

#OTD in 1943. One square mile of hell.

He just found out his yuppy neighbor doesn’t change his own oil.

The thing about public officials using rhetoric that encourages violence against their political foes is not what they may try to do themselves, but that it might “inspire” truly unwell people to take matters into their own hands.

An interesting (but not altogether surprising) study from 2012 that found states whose capitals were not located in their most populous cities have higher rates of corruption. www.npr.org/sections/its...

“Hang them.” This unhinged rhetoric is only going to get worse as his poll numbers slide and the MAGA civil war heats up.

By 1781, Irish immigrants will up about one quarter of the Continental Army.

This would make for some great comedy.

So, he signed it. That’s a thing.

A. Piece. Of. Work. www.stlmag.com/news/matthew...

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw. Metallica Genesis Slayer Metallica Chris Cornell (it was that long ago)

This hurts.

Rob Manfred is the guy who goes to a casino with $100, loses $95 of it, on the last spin of the wheel wins $20, and goes home and tells his wife he won $25 at the casino.