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deadpresidents · 5 months

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It is perfectly manifest that General Taylor is very hostile to the administration and seeks a cause to quarrel with it. This he shall not have unless he places himself wholly in the wrong, as indeed he has already done. He is evidently a weak man and has been made giddy with the idea of the Presidency. He is most ungrateful, for I have promoted him, as I now think beyond his deserts, and without reference to his politics. I am now satisfied that he is a narrow-minded, bigoted partisan without resources and wholly unqualified for the command he holds...I am now satisfied that anybody would do better than Taylor. Taylor is no doubt brave and will fight, but is not fit for a higher command than that of a Regiment. I have no prejudice against him, but think he has acted with great weakness and folly.

-- President James K. Polk, on General Zachary Taylor, commander of U.S. troops during the Mexican-American War, in a personal diary entry, November 21, 1846.

General Taylor's military success in Mexico had raised his profile nationally and made him a popular potential candidate for political office, which bothered President Polk, despite the fact that Polk only intended to serve a single, four-year term in the White House. As Taylor became more popular, President Polk worked to sideline him and eventually replaced him as commander with General Winfield Scott (who had political ambitions of his own). Much to Polk's chagrin, Taylor was easily elected President in 1848 and succeeded the retiring Polk, who died just over 100 days later in June 1849. President Taylor barely outlasted Polk, and died in office in July 1850.

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blairpfaff · 4 months

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I'll protect you from the hooded claw Keep the vampires from your door When the chips are down I'll be around With my undying, death-defying love for you

#something about the older generation of queer people protecting us godddd #all of us strangers #andrew scott #paul mescal #edits

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its-always-sunny-in-city17 · 6 months

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#star trek #star trek the original series #star trek the next generation #star trek lower decks #st lwd #st tng #st tos #tng #tos #james kirk #jim kirk #jean luc picard #star trek q #bradward boimler #bones mcoy #montgomery scott #my art

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luigra · 1 year

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The creationist myth

#luigrart #mcyt #mcytblr #mumbo jumbo #the mezalean king #joel smallishbeans #ranboo #generation loss #scott smajor #evo watchers #just a few thoughts quickly thrown together. parallels and stuff. you know how it is

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zegalba · 2 years

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Al Generated Harajuku Aliens using streestyle images from the lates 90s and early 2000s by Scott Wetterschneider (2022)

#Scott Wetterschneider #alien #harajuku #ai generated #90s #y2k #2022

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catboy-scott-agenda · 13 days

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i have explanations for all of my choices. i will not be giving them.

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sarcasm-and-stiles · 3 months

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Stiles: In my defense, I was left unsupervised.

Scott: Wasn't Y/N with you?

Y/N: In my defense, I was also left unsupervised.

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lost-in-frog-land · 1 year

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these came to me in a vision

#genloss #generation loss #ranboo #tom scott meme #tom scott

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foolpoof · 2 months

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Star Trek Six Fanarts! Well. 18 Fanarts. I got carried away okay?

Two are suggestions from discords I’m in, and the third one is all my favs! If any of these in particular tickle your fancy, feel free to use it as an icon! Just tag me please!

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pedroam-bang · 6 months

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ARC troopers - Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005)

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deadpresidents · 1 year

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“Compassion is always due to an enraged imbecile”

Attempting to besmirch each other, the two men ranted like spoiled adolescents. [Commanding General of the U.S. Army Winfield] Scott informed [Secretary of War Jefferson] Davis that he would treat all of Davis’s letters as official, “whether designed as private and scurrilous, or public missives of arrogance and superciliousness.” He characterized them as “examples of chicanery and tergiversation, of prodigality in assertion and utter penury in proofs and probabilities.” At one point, Scott declared: “My silence, under the new provocation, has been the result, first, of pity, and next, forgetfulness. Compassion is always due to an enraged imbecile, who lays about him in blows which hurt only himself, or who, at their worst, seeks to stifle his opponent by the dint of naughty words.”

Davis likewise leaped into the epistolary gutter. “Your petulance, characteristic egotism and recklessness of accusation have imposed on me the task of unveiling some of your deformities...” Davis went on to tell the general that his reputation had been “clouded by grovelling vices” such as “querulousness, insubordination, greed of lucre and want of truth.” Although Davis’s depictions of Scott were apt, he was seemingly unaware that he had descended to his antagonist’s level...To make matters even more embarrassing, Congress in December 1856 called for all the correspondence, publishing it in a volume of more than 250 pages for the entire country to see personal hostility and professional jealousy turned into acrimonious hatred.

-- William J. Cooper Jr. on the bitter feud between Commanding General of the U.S. Army Winfield Scott and then-Secretary of War Jefferson Davis during the Pierce Administration, in Cooper’s excellent 2000 biography Jefferson Davis, American (BOOK | KINDLE).

I’ve spent years looking for an original copy of the collected correspondence featuring this pre-Civil War feud between General Scott, the longtime commanding general of the United States Army and Jefferson Davis, who was the civilian leader of all military forces as Secretary of War during the Administration of President Pierce (1853-1857). The letters that Davis and Scott fired back at each other -- through official channels! -- are amazing due to both the viciousness and the pettiness of the language they used.

Over the years, I’ve found incomplete batches of the letters and fragments of the correspondence in various books that I’ve bought, but I could never find everything that I was looking for. However, I finally found the collected correspondence in the U.S. Senate’s Executive Documents from the 3rd Session of the 34th Congress (thanks 34th Congress!), and after searching all over the place, also found a place that would print them in book form for a reasonable price. So, I’m going to start sifting through the letters and will probably end up sharing some of the more entertaining exchanges because this feud is an absolute masterpiece of 19th Century shit-talking.

#History #Feuds #Antebellum Era #Winfield Scott #General Scott #Jefferson Davis #War Department #History Feuds #President Pierce #Franklin Pierce #Pierce Administration #Politics #Political Feuds

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bashfoal · 8 months

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it is green

#data soong #star trek the next generation #data star trek #brent spiner #my gifs #star trek #scotty #montgomery scott #green #sniff sniff #it smells green to me too

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travellingtribble · 18 days

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I'm in my feels thinking about how fucked up the TOS crew ended like

Kirk got stuck in the nexus from ~2293 to 2371 only to die again, for good, as soon as he got out? Come on. come on man.

Bones got old. like really old. and didn't get to see Kirk again??? It's been a while since I watched the TNG episode with McCoy, I don't remember what he says, but he was like 150 years old. Did he ever even see Kirk before he got stuck in the Nexus. Did he ever see Spock? (I'd hope so, Spock disappears years later, in Picard if I'm correct?)

Spock was... around doing Spock stuff. And then Kirk died and did Spock even know? did someone tell Spock that his literal soulmate died. twice. and then Spock got stuck in another universe, a reality slightly different from his own, where everyone is younger than him and Jim is not really Jim and he has his own Spock anyway and his planet is gone and he lived the rest of his days in the Kelvin timeline, alone.

And Scotty got stuck in a transporter buffer for 75 years. That's so long. They had to tell him Kirk was gone? (although, they were together when that happened, weren't they? they were on the Enterprise-B, technically Scotty knew that Kirk was "dead" didn't he? I guess spending 75 years stuck in a buffer mode will screw up your memory though.) Did he see Spock again? Did he see Bones again before either of them died?

Basically the only ones we didn't see explicitly (or implicitly) die or disappear of the OG crew are Uhura, Chekov and Sulu. Where were they? what were they doing? did they know about Kirk? about Scotty? about Spock?

Sorry but like. that is so fucked up. why does nobody talk about this!!!

#i may have the timeline a bit wonky #but like. it is a bit confusing #like i literally just found out that in Picard they exolain Spock's disappearance and how he appeared in the Kelvin timeline #i have to finish st picard now for that #but also like. Scotty basically had no moment of peace he saw Kirk die and then got stuck in a limbo #with the risk of being erased like his friend #for 75 years!!#like. somebody help I'm not. okay.#at least McCoy got to age and live his life #but they basically never saw eachother again????#Spock never saw Kirk again. Kirk never saw anyone again because he FUCKING DIED TWICE TECHNICALLY.#did Bones even live that long to see Scotty again? did Dcotty even know that Bones was still alive?#probably? DID THEY EVER SEE EACHOTHER AGAIN IS MY QUESTION.#BECAUSE IF NOT. THAT'S FUCKED UP #maybe I'm just making stuff up idk #star trek spoilers #i guess?#SOMEBODY clear this up for me or cry with me or SOMETHING #star trek #star trek the next generation #star trek tos #star trek tng #james t kirk #spock #leonard bones mccoy #montgomery scott #scotty star trek #star trek generations #tribblerambles

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spellboundbat · 2 months

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#teenage disaster #perks of being a wallflower #the doom generation #paradise kiss #scott pilgrim #heathers #live through this #three cheers for sweet revenge #i brought you my bullets you brought me your love #nirvana #who really cares #tv girl #neon genesis evangelion #ao no flag #nowhere 1997 #gregg araki #mysterious skin #chainsaw man

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mcybree · 3 months

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In his head. I wanted a blorbo-themed phone wallpaper so I made one for myself ig

as my lockscreen (yay!!) + no houses version

#Debated posting this bc it’s very targeted towards what I specifically like #hence why gem is at such a forefront LMAO i like her a lot #I don’t know if i like it as an actual piece but. as my wallpaper i do fuck with it. so. whatever. Doesnt matter if its bad #brawings #Theres no Martyn because i dont think scott thinks about him hardly at all post limlife its a whole thing in my head idk #scott smajor #smajor1995 #Auggh this has been in my drafts for long enough im just gonna post it and look away from its general direction

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nerdy-hyperfixations · 2 months

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I just want to remind everyone that Wallace is canonically the worse one to sleep in the same bed with.

Scott can be a bad roommate in every other aspect but GUYS Wallace is the one that canonically snores and kicks in his sleep.

Scott sleeps like a princess with his back against the sheet lying perfectly straight (and also taking all the covers) and Wallace sleeps semi-on-his-side and apparently just fucking punting Scott in the leg every so often (not to mention he talked in his sleep too) and I don’t know why this is important to me but it is.

Because when people draw them cuddling in their sleep it’s always Wallace being normal and Scott turning and snoring and shit but you’re missing out on sleepy-cuddly Wallace turning and snoring on Scott. Let that cringe-fail 25 year old be annoying. Istg.

I’m talking to the Mobillace people too btw. Not that I’ve seen anyone draw them cuddling in bed (which is a CRIME btw. Draw that. For me.) but like imagine how funny it would be: Mobile stays the night for the first time and the hot-weirdo is a bed-menace, snoring and kicking and tossing and turning and suction cupping for warmth and Mobile is like “I want him to be my boyfriend” THATS FUNNY! LIKE-

#scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim vs the world #scollace #scott x wallace #scott pilgrim takes off #wallace wells #mobillace #mobile x wallace #mobile scott pilgrim #I’m sick of the cringe-fail erasure of Wallace #he might be more mature than Scott but that fucker ain’t mature #(however yes generally he is the voice of reason for Scott but anyone can be a voice of reason to Scott. Scott has no internal reasoning /h #I made an analysis post at one point about how I believe the primary reason Wallace manages to do half the shit he does #is because it’s easier to get the motivation to do them if he’s telling off Scott for not doing them #we know DAMN WELL that he is scared of their landlord #considering he got plastered the night before they had to go #(he seems to drink when he’s anxious)#and because of how uncharacteristically timid he was in his office #(and can I mention he said the line ‘it’s not our fault we can’t afford rent’ and like. I don’t know it feels important to point out lol)#but he tells Scott that they *have* to go and there landlord is all bark and no bite #despite being visibly nervous around him #so. the reason he dragged Scott to see him with him is because it would make him feel less nervous to see their landlord #if he focused on dragging Scott to see him instead of his own worries #but I never posted that analysis lol #but all this to say #um #i don’t know #but I’m saying something for sure!

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