#October Elections

[dailyworldecho]

#Africa #Lutero Simango #MDM #Mozambique #October Elections #Presidential Candidate

[ibrahim-mazur]

something something about how steph's first impulse is to see love in relation to material things, so when the lords in black ask for what she cherishes most she offers up her phone. and then after the summoning when pete knows that she has to sacrifice him, she refuses and tells him to give up what he wants: "your pokémon cards or your comic collection or whatever it is you're into" and she says this thinking that pete doesn't feel the same way but also because once again she sees love/wants/desires intended toward material items instead of actual people.

and i just find it interesting.

#a lifetime of being raised by solomon 'well it isn't my october surprise' lauter #his fixation with power and winning the election #being the representative of a town and people he hates #something something SOMETHING #lautski #stephanie lauter #hatchetfield #npmd

[deadpresidents]

Is there any truth to the 1980 October surprise theory?

The New York Times published a story earlier this year where Ben Barnes -- a Republican supporter of Reagan's in 1980 who had once served as Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, and protege of former Texas Governor John Connally -- confirmed that the Reagan campaign absolutely encouraged Iran not to release the American embassy hostages before the election because Reagan would give the Iranians a better deal if he was elected President. Barnes admitted that he was present as Connally passed that message around while on a trip to the Middle East in order to get word to the Iranians. It's not exactly a smoking gun because virtually everyone seemingly involved in implementing the October Surprise is dead other than Barnes, but it's a weird thing for Barnes to lie about 45 years later, especially considering how close his relationship was with Governor Connally. Plus, we know that there were shady contacts between people in the Reagan Administration and Iran because of the Iran-Contra scandal.

I think there is definitely some truth to the theory, but I also believe that the Iranians were more than happy to spite President Carter by not releasing the hostages until literally the moment Reagan took the oath of office. The Iranians were still furious with the Carter Administration for letting the Shah come to the United States for medical treatment after he was forced to leave Iran as the Iranian Revolution exploded and Ayatollah Khomeini returned to become Supreme Leader. Carter had also helped broker the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, which also infuriated Iran and much of the Islamic world. Plus, Carter had ordered Operation Eagle Claw -- the failed attempt to rescue the hostages by force -- and that was seen as an act of war. So, the Ayatollah and leaders of Revolutionary Iran had no love lost for President Carter and weren't interested in doing him any favors before he left office.

The October Surprise that many people overlook is the one which took place in 1968 shortly before the Nixon vs. Humphrey election. When it looked like there might be some progress made in peace talks to bring the Vietnam War to a close, Nixon and his advisers got word to the South Vietnamese to hold off on working toward peace until Nixon was elected and could give them better terms. It was such an egregious act that LBJ actually told people around him that he felt Nixon had committed treason and that he had the blood of American soldiers on his hands for sabotaging peace talks. We even have the tapes of LBJ's phone calls after finding out about Nixon's actions where President Johnson straight-up says, "This is Treason!"

#History #Presidents #Presidential Elections #Presidential Campaigns #Politics #Presidential Politics #October Surprise #Presidential Scandals #1980 Election #Iran Hostage Crisis #Jimmy Carter #President Carter #Ronald Reagan #President Reagan #1968 Election #Vietnam War #Lyndon B. Johnson #LBJ #President Johnson #Richard Nixon #President Nixon #Dirty Politics

[todaysdocument]

Untitled. [What's the Use of Going Through With This Election?]

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

This cartoon concerns the 1948 presidential election. President Harry S. Truman, the Democratic Presidential nominee in the election of 1948, was widely expected to lose by a large margin to Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey. This cartoon, printed just days before the election, shows Dewey confidently looking over the shoulder of a frowning Truman as they read bulletins showing the prevailing public opinion at the time. Despite several polls predicting a landslide victory for Dewey, Truman won the election in one of the biggest and most well-known political upsets in U.S. history. Journalists at the Chicago Tribune were so convinced that Dewey would win that they prematurely printed the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" on the front page.

#archivesgov #1940s #harry truman #Thomas E. Dewey #1948 election #political cartoon #October 19 #1948

[vegan-and-sara]

Once again, the fishing industry is revealed as a source of extreme violence and oppression of Indigenous peoples for profit.

Bruno Araújo Pereira and Dom Phillips were murdered by fishermen for exposing their illegal conduct and the impacts of the industry on Indigenous populations and the environment.

The murders of Pereira and Phillips are exceptional for victimizing internationally recognized figures, but extreme violence in the fishing industry is routine against common workers. It is one of the most brutal industries worldwide, with some of the highest rates of modern day slavery and extreme violence against workers/slaves and their families.

It's time to wake up to the fact that the fishing industry is in direct opposition to human rights and environmental justice.

#the october election will likely determine the fate of the Amazon and humanity as a whole #thankfully bolsonaro is behind in the polls #but fucking hell if he somehow manages to win we're screwed #vegan #veganism #anti-indigenous #murder tw

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A grinning Dwight Eisenhower hears members of National Arts and Sports Committee for the Eisenhower-Nixon Republican ticket sing an "I Like Ike" song for him at the Waldorf Astoria before the general appeared at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner, October 16, 1952.

From left to right back of piano, are: Gene Tunney; Eddie Eagan, Robert Montgomery, Happy Felton (partially hidden), Gen. Eisenhower, Dorothy Fields, Bob Christenberry (partially hidden), Bill Gaxton, and New Hampshire Gov. Sherman Adams. Seated at the piano are Irving Berlin and Helen Hayes.

Photo: Matty Zimmerman for the AP

#vintage New York #1950s #Matty Zimmerman #Dwight Eisenhower #Presidential campaign #1952 presidential campaign #1952 election #political campaign #October 16 #16 October #celebrities supporting candidates #Oct. 16 #16 Oct.

[redlettermediathings]

#youtube #redlettermedia #red letter media #rich evans #jay bauman #gorilla interrupted #half in the bag #mike stoklasa #best of the worst #jack packard #ghost hunting #ghost hunter #ghostbusters #dan akroyd #bill murray #horse #election #trippy #new year #john waters #riddle #karate #ömer ege zorlu #ästhetik #october #patton oswalt #jack nicholson #finn wolfhard #finn wolfhart #stranger things

[lovelydialeonard]

October 2021. Red Election. It was love at first sight!

(with special thanks to SD ❤️)

5 December 2023: 🥳 Happy Birthday Lydia Leonard! 💘

#lydia leonard #red election #beatrice ogilvie #beatrice ogilvy #October 2021 #stephen dillane #william ogilvie #william ogilvy #5 december #happy birthday

[booasaur]

You taking care of yourself Booasaur? I don't think I have the words to describe watching truly horrible things take place in this modern age.... but please don't forget to take time out for yourself.

Thanks, anon, for checking. It feels selfish to focus on myself in times like this when, really, everything is fine for me, but, you asked, and this is my blog, so...

I'm angry! I'm hurt and disappointed and, like, so sad, all the time, it feels like I've had this physical ball of grief in my chest for three months, but I'm just so angry at so many people. Governments and media, of course, but so many other people, including on here.

They say the best way to sublimate these feelings is into action, and to me that seems to use what platform I have here, but that brings its own pressure to get it just right. I already second-guess myself over everything, but this is so important. What can I post that's egregious enough that people won't think it's somehow deserved, is it from a believable source, is it from someone who isn't actually just antisemitic or pro-Russia or China/anti-West, what if it's too egregious or I post too often and people just blacklist the tags or start tuning it out? Should I post about myself because presumably my followers see at least me as a person and my anguish could reach them, even if millions of Arabs could not, or is that centering myself?

And so many remain seemingly unmoved. I've read, well, you don't know what they're doing behind the scenes, but this is the one time when nothing helps so much as boosting public awareness and pressure. Not even donations can help as much as every call for a ceasefire. Food and medicine can't help if people are still being attacked.

I try to distract myself with other things, watching stuff, giffing, but there's always this moment of guilt when I remember and return to reality. I've actually giffed more than I've posted, giffing is mechanical in a comforting kind of way, but my tags are where I really express what I'm feeling, and I haven't been able to really focus on them. It's hard to focus on anything for long, really...

I will say, what HAS really been heartening is the solidarity. From the start, it felt like so many marginalized groups and previously oppressed people immediately were willing to learn what was going on and stand with Palestinians and that's just grown. I was telling my friend from Belgium the other day, who's got a vocal Palestine supporter in her government, that it was like this emerging network of support across the world, individuals or whole countries, all uniting on the Palestinian cause. I just wish so many hadn't died or suffered so much to get here...

#replies #Anonymous #sent on 20240110 #don't get me started on people who're already pivoting to the election #especially those who were already focusing on it in october and november

[dykehayleywilliams]

i don't know what it is about october that consistently makes it the busiest month of my year 🥴

#looking at my calendar and just realized i'm only spending one weekend at home this whole month #which also happened last year AND the year before #and probably would have happened in 2020 but pandemic so i spent all my free time that october doing election stuff #it's october 2 and i'm already exhausted :| NOT promising

[thecittiverse]

"Compassionate. Tough. Curious. These are all words Ralph Wiggum doesn't know."

Frinktober 2023 Day 17: Season 16 - 20 Episode

Ralph Wiggum's run for the White House from "E Pluribus Wiggum" with an Obama campaign poster parody. 

See the whole prompt list here.

#frinktober #inktober #drawtober #simpsontober #the simpsons #ralph wiggum #president #campaign poster #obama #parody #e pluribus wiggum #thecittiverse #cittiverse #election #october #fanart

[apricotsandcandles]

trying so hard not to be overly optimistic for the general election after the local elections 😵😵😵

#if the election is in october or later like people are predicting then itll be my first time voting as well!! #my mum and i were talking about how amazing itd be for my first time voting to coincide with a labour win similar to 97 #my politics teacher has mentioned that she isnt massively optimistic (she wonders if there'll be a coalition) #so im trying to keep my hopes down bc i trust her thoughts on this #but stilllll..... the local elections are making me SO hopeful #uk politics

[leondaltons]

I have been extremely M.I.A lately because life is overwhelming and work is eating me alive, but in the good news side: i might be moving, for the first time, to my own apartment on September 🥺🧡🥳

#been dreaming about this for years and it might actually happen.... #nothing too big or anything but i truly need the independence of living on my own #and i honestly didn't think it would happen because the economical crisis keeps getting worse #and we have presidential elections on October so everything might go to hell #but RIGHT NOW an amazing opportunity appeared #and i think that sometimes you have to take opportunities when they appear #and this is one #anyways i had to pause all my extra and not life necessary spending at least until October #but it's gonna be worth it #you guys have no idea how happy i will be if this becomes official #i haven't sign the contract for rent yet but this is 99% happening! #okay that's all 💜 #flor stuff #text #to delete

[todaysdocument]

"A Chicken in Every Pot" political ad and rebuttal article in New York Times

Collection HH-HOOVH: Herbert Hoover PapersSeries: Herbert Hoover Papers: Clippings File

This is the advertisement that caused Herbert Hoover's opponents to state that he had promised voters a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage during the campaign of 1928. During the campaign of 1932, Democrats sought to embarrass the President by recalling his alleged statement. According to an article in the New York Times (10/30/32), Hoover did not make such a statement. The report was based on this ad placed by a local committee -- which only mentions one car!

A Chicken for Every Pot [handwritten] World[?] 30 October 1928 [/handwritten] The Republican Party isn't a [italics] "Poor Man's Party:" [/italics] Republican prosperity has erased that degrading phrase from our political vocabulary. The Republican Party is [italics] equality's [/italics] party -- [italics] opportunity's [/italics] party -- [italics] democracy's [/italics] party, the party of [italics] national [/italics] development, not [italics] sectional [/italics] interests-- the [italics] impartial [/italics] servant of every State and condition in the Union. Under higher tariff and lower taxation, America has stabilized output, employment and dividend rates. Republican efficiency has filled the workingman's dinner pail -- and his gasoline tank [italics] besides [/italics] -- made telephone, radio and sanitary plumbing [italics] standard [/italics] household equipment. And placed the whole nation in the [italics] silk stocking class. [/italics] During eight years of Republican management, we have built more and better homes, erected more skyscrapers, passed more benefactory laws, and more laws to regulate and purify immigration, inaugurated more conservation measures, more measures to standardize and increase production, expand export markets, and reduce industrial and human junk piles, than in any previous quarter century. Republican prosperity is written on [italics] fuller [/italics] wage envelops, written in factory chimney smoke, written on the walls of new construction, written in savings bank books, written in mercantile balances, and written in the peak value of stocks and bonds. Republican prosperity has [italics] reduced [/italics] hours and [italics] increased [/italics] earning capacity, silenced [italics] discontent, [/italics] put the proverbial "chicken in every pot." And a car in every backyard, to boot. It has[italics] raised [/italics] living standards and [italics] lowered [/italics] living costs. It has restored financial confidence and enthusiasm, changed [italics] credit [/italics] from a [italics] rich [/italics] man's privilege to a [italics] common [/italics] utility, [italics] generalized[/italics] the use of time-saving devices and released women from the thrall of [italics] domestic drudgery. [/italics] It has provided every county in the country with its concrete road and knitted the highways of the nation into a [italics] unified [/italics] traffic system. Thanks to Republican administration, farmer, dairyman and merchant can make deliveries in [italics] less [/italics] time and at [italics] less [/italics] expense, can borrow [italics] cheap [/italics] money to refund exorbitant mortgages, and stock their pastures, ranges and shelves. Democratic management [italics] impoverished [/italics] and [italics] demoralized [/italics] the [italics] railroads,[/italics] led packing plants and tire factories into [italics] receivership, [/italics] squandered billions on [italics] impractical [/italics] programs. Democratic maladministration issued [italics] further [/italics] billions of mere "scraps of paper," then encouraged foreign debtors to believe that their loans would never be called, and bequeathed to the Republican Party the job of [italics] mopping up the mess. [/italics] Republican administration has [italics] restored [/italics] to the railroads solvency, efficiency and par securities. It has brought rubber trades through panic and chaos, brought down the prices of crude rubber by smashing [italics] monopolistic rings,[/italics] put the tanner's books in the [italics] black [/italics] and secured from the European powers formal acknowledgment of their obligations. The Republican Party rests its case on a record of stewardship and performance. [full transcription at link]

#archivesgov #1930s #October 30 #1932 #1932 election #herbert hoover

[larrylimericks]

2Oct22

In Texas, abortion’s unlawful Cos Abbott’s a massive twatwaffle. H emblazoned support For the present O’Rourke— May he win by a margin colossal.

#larry #harry #harry styles #hslot austin 5 #love on tour #texas gubernatorial candidate (and former representative) beto o'rourke #was in the pit at harry's fifth austin show tonight #o'rourke (a democrat) is in a race with republican greg abbott #the current texas governor who signed into law a ban on abortions after six weeks #the election is november 8 #harry and politics #so thrilled to see harry using his powers for good and not evil #harry had an o'rourke campaign sticker wedged behind his guitar strings #and beto was spotlighted on the screens #harry called him a 'lovely lovely man' #beto for texas #if you live in texas you must register to vote by october 11 #limerick-hs #october 2 #2022 #double edition

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Frank Sinatra addresses a meeting at Hotel Commodore on October 10, 1944, as Eleanor Roosevelt and Quentin Reynolds listen. "Sinatra shared top billing with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt before 2,000 women at a National Citizens Political Action Committee meetings," reported the Daily News. He "urged reelection of President Roosevelt in a brief speech. However, he dug down and ponied up $7,500 for the PAC."

Photo: NY Daily News

#vintage New York #1940s #Frank Sinatra #Eleanor Roosevelt #elections #1944 election #Democrats #campaign donation #politics #October 10 #10 October #10 Oct. #Oct. 10