#comte propaganda

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

Spoiling You With All My Might -- Comte Collection Story Translation

I've been meaning to post this one for a while, as it's honestly in my top ten Comte events of all time. For this Collection story event, it was basically all the suitors comforting MC when she's stressed/tired/overworked. And lbr, who doesn't need that in their life?

Enjoy everyone, and just a reminder that I'm no professional--I just translate these for my own enjoyment. Without further ado:

In the early afternoon, when the hands on the clock are pointing to 3pm-- I was alone drinking tea in a quiet kitchen. (I’ve been busy lately…I think I’m a little burnt out.) My cup of tea was already empty, but somehow I didn’t have the energy to stand up-- Comte: MC, are you taking a break? Turning around revealed Comte standing in the middle of the doorway.

Okay but like. I gotta say just the thought of him peeking around the corner is killing me, he's the cutest man alive I swear

But also. Now I'm wondering if he's lowkey like IS IT MEOW MEOW TIME? MEOW MEOW T I M E!!!!!! pounces on the opportunity for quality time. Somehow that's even more adorable I'm going to explode from uwus

MC: Indeed I am. Would you like to have some tea, too? Comte: That’s an attractive invitation, but if you don’t mind, would you spend some time with me for a little while after this? MC: Go out with you…? Comte: I’m thinking of going for a walk. Would you like to join me? His hand was outstretched in a gentlemanly gesture that touched/eased my heart. MC: Haha, I’d love to.

I laughed a little at this because I'm definitely the kind of person that's like "omg pls, you are not beating the silly goose allegations!!!" over him being all suave over a walk together but. At the same time. HEART EYES M-- King of romantics everywhere. Gentleman of my heart. Mellifluous seducer have MERCY

More under the cut!

Comte’s escort led me to a forest a short walking distance from the mansion. As I walk alongside him, the sunbeams penetrate through the trees as they sway with the breeze. Comte: The weather is lovely today, making it a perfect occasion for a walk. MC: You’re right…the wind feels nice, too. As I walked slowly listening to the rustling trees, I could feel the fatigue/tension draining out of me little by little. (It feels like my heart is being cleansed. It’s so soothing…) Comte: … It was then that I noticed Comte gazing at me calmly.

As somebody who used to be plus ultra literally every minute of my life, this made me so softe inside. The way he cares so much about her ;-; he really said "I will die before I disrespect a girlboss, but also. I am here. For to help PLS. Also a crumb of attention...p l swleseskje...."

(Ah…by any chance) MC: Comte Comte: Yes? MC: …You invited me out for a change of pace, didn’t you? Comte smiled softly at my words. Comte: I just wanted to take a walk with you like this.

I do love how, especially in recent events, MC notices his gestures more and more 🥺💛💛💛💛💛💛 I think it's really cute that he wants to be sneaky sweet and supportive, and whenever she realizes it he's like. C'est moi? You're not fooling anyone pretty boy!!! I know you have brain cells up there!!! But also the sincerity in that last line, of how he really does also just want to spend some time with her. How he's always saying the most wonderful thing she can give him is her time.

Just put my body out to sea I can't do this anymore--

I was enveloped in the sound of his voice, warming my heart, and my feet stopped involuntarily. Comte: MC? MC: Every time you treat me so kindly like this…I’m so happy I could cry Jokingly, Comte turned around and spread his coat. Comte: If you want to do so, that’s okay too MC: Huh… Comte: After all, there is no one here but us. If you want to cry, you can cry. Comte wrapped me gently in his open coat and murmured in my ear. Comte: Like this, there will be no trace of tears left behind. MC: Oh… (It’s okay to cry…that’s not something you hear very often when you’re fully grown.) (Just hearing him say that in such a sweet voice makes my heart feel lighter…) (Comte really is amazing)

Honestly this part just made me melt, I have no words--I'm down bad fellas. We love a man who encourages his partner that its safe to be vulnerable 😭🙏🏼

But also I feel the need to say. Comte don't offer this to me because from that point on I will live in your coat. It will no longer be 'Comte's nice coat,' but rather:

MC: Thank you. But…Aren’t you spoiling me too much? When I looked up and asked him, he leaned over to drop a kiss to my forehead… MC: Oh… Comte: I see. I think I don’t spoil you enough. Comte’s long fingers reached out to wipe my eyes gently. Comte: MC, I love everything about you. Comte: Your fatigue and your tears, don’t forget that it’s my privilege to soothe them with these hands. He gazes deeply into my eyes, and I can’t help how my heart races in response.

So like. Do you ever just cry and die. Because.

I'm like somewhere between "WE GOT A 2319!!!!!!!!!" and inches from professing my eternal love and loyalty like some kind of lovelorn knight too afraid to even touch the radiance of their beloved. Comte how on earth am I supposed to look at you without being blinded. Sun that's too bright!!!!! That's too b r i g h t!

I just. "Your fatigue and your tears, don’t forget that it’s my privilege to soothe them with these hands." [muffled wailing noises] Did I ASK--

Mfer out here like 'oh the terrible fate of being tied to me for eternity' meanwhile every second of being with him is either dizzyingly passionate or like being wrapped up in the warmest, fluffiest blankie imaginable. I HAVE TO S T A N SIR--

MC: Ah, if you spoil me so much, I’m afraid I won’t be able to do anything on my own anymore. Comte smiled a little as I laughed deceptively in the hopes of hiding how delighted I was. Comte: That’s great. I’d love to see that, myself. The fingers that had been stroking my eyes slipped down my cheek to touch my lips. Comte: If you can’t manage to walk alone--I’ll be there to hold you up, and walk alongside you. His sweet whisper ends when his lips gently cover mine. MC: Mn… In the midst of his enveloping kiss, I gently entrusted my body to the person dearest to me--

Can I just ?????? Say????? How much I love MC being teasing/catty with him as the events go on. I LOVE it here. I think I really like how she grows into her own strength, and how she feels comfortable expressing her shyness without ceding that integrity. One thing I've noticed that I love in relationships is this ability to air grievances in a playful way, where the stakes are low--but the person can still express their feelings and be comforted. I think I like how it's not about putting pressure on the person, but getting it out in the open and resolved all the same. It just fills me with warm fuzzies c:

Also. "If you can’t manage to walk alone--I’ll be there to hold you up, and walk alongside you." Like not to beat a dead horse, but wow. Pretty sure this metaphysically changed me as a person. Thanks, I will never be the same. True love exists, [unhinged barking noises], etc etc

#ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp comte #ikevamp saint germain #ikevamp mc #i am So Normal About Him i promise (egregious lie) #no i do not have a dragon's hoard worth of transcribed stories #look a w a y #but fr this one really just ended my life #i'm so so so weak to the idea of a couple as two people supporting each other through good and bad #like i know that's the foundational operating precept of the thing but #nothing will ever ruin me the way comte does when he gets Ride Or Die #honestly all i think of when i see comte and mc tg is that one meme of like #team/couple be like: 'fk it we ball (tank)' and 'but did you die? (healer)' #not incorrect quotes #comte propaganda #fangdad propaganda #baguettosaurus

[zahut]

I hate talking about this because it’s something that should be obvious, but no matter how crooked the road was from Darwin to Hitler: Darwinism and eugenics smoothed the path for Nazi ideology, especially for the Nazi stress on expansion, war, racial struggle, and racial extermination.

When Charles Darwin presented his evolutionary theories in the 1840s, his ideas of natural selection were soon applied to humanity itself, Social Darwinists asserting that among the human “races”, some had reached a higher stage of evolution than others. Indeed, some human “races” were claimed to be biologically more fit for survival than others, possessing racial characteristics that distinguished them as stronger and more intelligent, even more beautiful than others.

According to Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau, a French diplomat and writer who in the 1850s published “Essai sur l’inégalité des races humaines” (Essay on the inequality of the human races), the most intelligent human “race” were the Aryans. Now, like “Semite”, “Aryan” is a linguistic term, denoting speakers of the Indo-European language. Gobineau claimed the existence of an “Aryan race”, which was physically and intellectually superior to other “races”.

Gobineau’s ideas of racial inequality were combined with Social Darwinist notions that within humanity, too, there was a “struggle for survival” from which the “fittest” race would emerge as victor. Upon such ideas, Marr’s (coiner of the term Antisemitismus) notion of a Jewish “race” was founded. Now the existence of a Jewish “race” implied that Jews were a nation in itself, and not German, French or British nationals of the Mosaic faith. Nationalists claimed that as a “race” of their own, Jews could not and would not fully integrate with other peoples.

Modern antisemitism of the 1870s introduced a “scientific” element of racial theories, claiming that there existed a “Jewish” race inferior to the “Aryans”. The antisemitism of the Nazi movement evolved around such theories, elaborating on the “science” theme by bringing in biological terms and concepts such as the idea of a racial “body” upon which “parasites” preyed. But antisemitic propaganda of the Third Reich also made use of age-old clichés and traditional antisemitism.

Antisemitism, rather than a fixed structure of ideas, is elastic in the sense that from the core of anti-Jewish sentiment, the most diverse political and popular movements have managed to select ideas that attract and provoke. Having established a historic framework.

#antisemitism #eugenics #jumblr

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

PRELIMINARY ROUND 4

Saint-Germain propaganda:

“is my actual ikevamp fave”

Corsac propaganda:

“Huntsman concerned with preserving the ecosystem and obtaining potion ingredients in a sustainable manner. Pro-level survival skills and non-existent social skills. Easily flustered by flirting, but will excitedly teach you how to distinguish animal droppings.”

#comte de saint germain #ikemen vampire #Corsac #Potionomics #preliminary round #most datable datable character

[lorei-writes]

Just outta curiosity, which characters do you think are the easiest for you to write?

Hello!

Hmm... In Sen, that would be Masamune, Mitsuhide, and Kenshin. I'm tempted to add Kanetsugu to the list -- not because I've written him particularly much, though. I like him a lot (and religiously spread Kanetsugu propaganda, haha), and I believe that would carry me quite well... I just lack suitable plot bunnies for him.

Vamp -- comparatively easy, that would be... Theo, most likely? Theo, Comte. Sounds about right. In certain settings, Jean, but, hm. I wouldn't consider a character "easy to write" unless I can convincingly carry them into a situation that's not something you'd expect to see in canon.

Pri's where I'm conflicted at. I don't feel particularly much strain writing any characters I've tackled so far (unless we include overthinking-induced-strain), but I could also use a bit more practise... They're still fairly dependent on the scene being "set for them", so to say, and it's just not it when I can't throw them into absolute bullshit and keep them as them.

For now, I'd say I'm doing fairly okay with Clavis in that regard, and with Chevalier. (Although, Chevalier is the character I overthink lots -- and well, I am fairly certain there were moments when I've written him in a way that may be disagreeable to others... But oh well, not that it matters. It's what my reasoning led me to, so I decided to stick by it.)

... This turned out longer than expected, would you look at that.

#answered #limonzu

[galpalaven]

OC Codex - 7 for Nadia, 11 & 12 for Kira

7. something written by a diplomat who has stayed at Skyhold

A letter addressed to the Inquisition, found in the waste bin near the desk of Ambassador Josephine Montilyet.

Mistress Montilyet, I would like to issue a formal complaint about the conduct of the so-called Herald of Andraste. During my stay at your fortress, I requested an audience with her no less than four times. I was constantly rescheduled and eventually was simply told that the Herald would not be seeing me as she had more 'pressing matters to attend to.' Tell me—do these pressing matters have anything to do with the heretic staying in your presence? I say heretic, but apparently, there are plenty to be found. Qunari, Tevinter magisters, and I even saw the man responsible for the destruction of the Kirkwall Chantry walking with her in the gardens one morning! They were holding hands! I don't know who you people think you are, but the Maker will see you all punished for using His Bride's name in such a despicable manner! —Comte Jean Luc Dupont

11. slander written about your OC

A letter addressed to Queen Anora of Ferelden, sent along to Fergus Cousland of Highever with a note that read:

Believe you may find this humorous. —A

My Queen Anora Theirin Mac Tir, Many pleasant greetings and well wishes to you, your Highness. I am writing this letter to inform you of a matter that I believe should be brought to your attention regarding the Hero of Ferelden. It has come to my attention that the Grey Warden who is currently ruling over the arling of Amaranthine has been using the surname Cousland. This is an outrage and I cannot let this go unopposed. The Cousland family were very dear friends of mine. Fergus is the only surviving member of this family by blood—though the so-called Cousland ruling Amaranthine was raised by the Couslands, she is not of their blood and should not be allowed to continue calling herself nobility. It is a direct offense to the memory of the Couslands. In fact, I have even heard a rumor that she is bedding an elf. An elf! And, if sources are to be believed, this elf is an Antivan Crow. Surely, keeping assassins so close to a usurper of a noble line should be some cause for concern from the Crown? Sincerely, Ser Thomas Browen of South Reach

12. propaganda written in support of your OC

From an article published by the Amaranthine News Gazette, 24 Cloudreach, 9:31 Dragon.

Readers, It has come to our attention that there has been some upset about the recent changing of hands over Vigil's Keep. We are writing to inform you that, though the Grey Wardens of Ferelden have indeed taken over Arl Howe's estate, this is no cause for alarm. Many of you seem to believe that apostates and elves are going to be running our beloved arling—this is not the case. As you may or may not know, the Hero of Ferelden has been granted the title of Warden-Commander of Ferelden. This is the person in charge of the arling, and this person is Kira Cousland of Highever. Cousland is a noble, and the daughter of late Teyrn Bryce Cousland of Highever. Not only that, but Kira has also already done much for Amaranthine even in the few weeks she has been here. According to some of our sources, she has*: - Delivered a baby after slaying a group of Darkspawn in the farmlands - Restored access to the mill south of Amaranthine - Personally cleaned up some of the waterways around the arling of tainted bodies left behind by the Horde - Promised a stipend to every noble of Amaranthine to help them recover from the damage of the Blight Please give her a chance and do not cause a stir without proper proof for concern. *All claims made were made by individual citizens and are not the view of the Amaranthine News Gazette.

#nadia surana #kira cousland #my writing #thank uuuu

[drosera-nepenthes]

The Royal House of Bourbon has been unfortunate ever since the first French Revolution, and there are still two more branches of the family which are in exile and never likely to regain what they have lost. Of these, the line best known in England is the House of Bourbon-Orleans, of which the head is the Duke of Orleans, the eldest son of the Comte and Comtesse de Paris, who resided for so many years in England.

The Duke of Orleans was born at Twickenham on February 6, 1869, and received a great part of his education in Great Britain. His Royal Highness was on good terms with the British Royal Family, and was fairly popular in England until he took part with the Paris artists who so shamefully caricatured the late revered Queen Victoria.

This evidence of hostility and bad taste (despite his apology) has since caused him to be treated with marked coldness by all the members of the English Royal Family, and his conduct has certainly not strengthened his cause with thinking Frenchman.

The Duke's escapade as a young man in France, when he went, in spite of being banished from France, to offer himself as a conscript, gave him a momentary popularity, and it is very likely that he might long ago have been made King of France had he shown himself more capable. As it is, he is not trusted by the nation; and though there is undoubtedly a strong party in favour of the re-establishment of the Bourbon-Orleans on the French throne, there are not many people who would welcome the Duke of Orleans as their king. His Royal Highness was married to his cousin, the Arch-Duchess Maria-Dorothea of Austria, on November 5, 1896; but there are no children of the union to the great disappointment of the Royalist party in France.

The Duke of Orleans is now in his thirty-fourth year, and his is by no means in good health. His heir is his brother, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier, who is eighteen this month. He is a promising youth, and is said to be much cleverer than his elder brother.

The Duke is always very busy in making propaganda for his cause, and during the first years of her marriage the Duchess did all in her power to help him. Her Imperial Highness, however, has now somewhat lost heart, and she is but seldom heard of as working for the cause. During a visit she paid, soon after her marriage, to France she won all hearts, and were she the heir to the throne of France there would be much more chance of seeing the Bourbons restored to the the throne of their ancestors.

- Lady’s Realm, 1902

#Philippe Duke of Orleans #Archduchess Maria Dorothea #orleans family #french royal family #1900s #magazine article

[madame-coquette]

Under the cut: you will find a lengthy, yet concise summary of the historical life and rule of Louis XVI. 

*** While this is not a mandatory read - it is interesting and will be referenced in most threads outside of the Modern AU, ( which must be requested to write in. ) Some knowledge may benefit you to know if you don’t have a good base in the history of the french revolution. I may add to this as I gain more sources and insight into the King’s personal life. ***

Name: Louis Auguste de France

Other Names: Louis XVI ||  Citizen Louis Capet ( Before Execution ) 

Titles: Duc de Berry ( Given at birth ) || Dauphin ( After his father died ) || King of France ( After his grandfather died )

Birthday: 23rd of August 1754 || Reign as King lasted from May 10th 1774 - September 21st 1792

Died: January 21st 1793 || Execution By Guillotine

Religion: Roman Catholic

Family Ties: House of Bourbon

Siblings: Louis XVIII Comte de Provence, Charles X Comte d’Artois, Élisabeth de France, Louis Duc de Burgundy ( Died at 9 ), Clotilde de France, Xavier Duc de Aquitaine ( Died at 1 ) , Marie Zéphyrine de France ( Died at 5 ), Marie - Thérèse de France ( Died at 2 ). 

Parents: Marie-Josèphe of Saxony & Louis the Dauphine of France

Spouse: Marie Antonia Josepha Johanna || ( French Version ) Marie Antoinette ( Second Cousin, Once Removed. ) 

Biography: 

Often passed over in favor of his older brother Louis ( Duc de Burgundy ) because he was more outgoing, handsome & intelligent. Tragically, he died at 9 & favor was shifted to the new future Dauphin. Louis Auguste was by all accounts a healthy but painfully shy & reserved child. He was equally as bright as his brother excelling in: Latin, History, Geography, Astronomy. He was also fluent in English & Italian. ( Louis liked to wrestle with his brothers & hunt with his grandfather. ) His special interest was in locksmithing & this was encouraged by those around him as a worthwhile pursuit even in his childhood. The subjects he was taught by the Duc de la Vauguyon additionally included: Religion, Morality & Humanities.

Louis married Marie on May 16th 1770 when he was just 15 and she was 14. By the time the two were married to form the French & Austrian alliance: the defeat of France, in the 7 years war had already made the French public view the new Dauphine as an unwelcome stranger to the country. 

The couple only met 2 days before their marriage, and for this reason the marriage was cordial but very distant in the beginning. Louis was shy & also afraid of being manipulated by Marie for stately purposes --- this made him act coldly towards her in public. They did eventually foster a fondness for each other & their marriage was consummated in 1777.

( Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette’s reputations were damaged because they did not produce heirs in a traditionally ‘ timely manner ‘. ) 

After gentle prodding from Marie’s brother, Joseph II --- Louis began to take his conjugal duties seriously and Marie fell pregnant, eventually giving birth to 4 live-born children. ( Marie suffered 2 miscarriages and Louis - by all accounts - consoled her each time. ) Louis XVI also ‘ adopted ‘ six children additionally, though they were never granted royal status.

Louis took the throne in 1774 at age 19 after his grandfather died. By then, there was already resentment among the public for the royal family, lots of government debt incurred before he was installed as monarch, and so much responsibility that Louis himself did not feel ready & prepared to take on.  

Louis XVI’s indecisiveness & lack of firmness - though grounded in the idea he wanted to be liked & loved - ultimately, led to part of his downfall. ( It should be noted Louis Auguste DID genuinely attempt to be a good and just king, the circumstances that line up before his assent to the throne were too vastly stacked against him. ) 

Louis reinstated the ‘ parlements ‘ & put a more experienced advisor in place to ensure that things were fair and on the up and up. Louis also signed the Edict of Versailles || Edict of Tolerance that allowed Non-Catholics to have the legal right to practice their faith(s), as well as restore legal/civic rights and status to them. This overturned the Edict of Fontainebleau which had reigned as law for a little over 100 years. While the Edict of Versailles didn’t claim freedom of religion - it decriminalized the practice of other religions and helped ease tensions based on religious differences in the country.

Radical financial reforms were a steadily growing need in the country because of the mounting debt ... the nobles refused to instate the necessary laws ultimately culminating in further dissatisfaction among the public and stoking the flames of the oncoming French Revolution. The publication of ‘ Le Compte - rendu au Roi ‘ -> ‘ The Records of Accounts for the King ‘ further ruined the monarchy’s reputation by publishing propaganda that was full of fictitious & inaccurate budgets meant to make France look more financially stable than it was. When the true extent of France’s debt was revealed: the common man & many nobles alike were shocked and disgusted, the nobility outright rejecting the reforms necessary to begin to rectify the scenario. 

Finally, the country’s finances reached an appalling low --- and Louis was forced to use his absolute powers to force reforms, though they could only be maintained for more than 2 - 4 months maximum before he would be forced to revoke them. He closed down the french parliamentary system. The royal treasury was also unable to sustain the reforms imposed because it was in a crippled state as it was. 

 After much abuse from the the First & Second Estates ( after Louis reinstated the Estates-General ) the third estate decided unanimously declared themselves the National Assembly. Soon after Louis lost control of this newly formed legislative body - the revolution was underway and officially began with the Storming of the Bastille on July 14th 1789. 

Louis Xvi’s Palace de Versailles was stormed by an angry mob on October 5th 1789. This was done in an attempt to kill Marie --- the now much hated symbol of frivolity to the French public. After the Marquis de Lafayette diffused the situation - the royal family was forced to move themselves to the Tuileries palace in Paris. 

While plenty of key figures besides the king and queen attempted to gather strength to restore the former absolute power of the monarchy --- it would ultimately fail and many of these secret supporters either retracted loyalty to the crown under threat of death, or met grisly ends by the hands of the public & new governing body. Louis, finally realizing the danger he and his family were in and wanting to regain control of France - helped Axel von Fersen ( a rumored lover to the Queen ) plan the royal family’s escape to gather forces and gain protection by Austria. After a series of setbacks, missteps, poor judgements, indecision, and assorted other issues behind the scenes - the family was caught and returned to Paris ( Tuileries Palace ) on June 25th 1791 and placed under highly monitored ‘ house arrest ‘. It didn’t help that before they left, Louis left a manifesto denouncing democracy and asserting his authority as king by birthright. Many of his subjects felt torn and confused, though remained loyal ... until this incident in which the revolution was known to be imminent. 

All in all, the call to arms fell on inactive deaf ears amid among other foreign monarchs, making the response woefully lackluster and this ultimately sealed the fate of the French aristocracy. On August 10th 1791, the people once again stormed the palace Louis and his family resided in forcing them all to take refuge with the Legislative Assembly. 

Louis was officially arrested on August 13th 1792. 

September 21st 1792 - the former Third Estate’s new government body the ‘ National Assembly ‘ announced France a republic and abolished the monarchy altogether. All of Louis - Auguste’s titles were taken and he was referred to as Citoyen Louis Capet. While many members wanted the gratification of executing the former king --- the fact some had backgrounds in legal work felt due process a necessity. An agreement was reached that there would be a trial for Louis before the National Convention. 

Several charges were brought against Louis while he was being tried, though there were only three questions that mattered to the assembly: 

1| Is Louis guilty ?  

2| Whatever the decision, should there be an appeal to the people ?  

3 | If found guilty: what punishment should Louis suffer?

On the 26th of December 1792, Louis responded tot he charges: Not Guilty. At this time, behind closed doors - he had already accepted his fate & knew that he would be found guilty. He was reported as wanting to hold his ground so that he might still be viewed favorably and as a good king to France. 

Voting took place & after an uncomfortably close call - Louis was sentenced to death by the majority of one vote: his own cousin, the former Duc d’Orleans, voted to have his cousin executed immediately. After an unsuccessful attempt at swaying the decision - the King’s council was resigned ( read as: ‘ forced ‘ ) to allow the execution to proceed. 

On Monday, January 21, 1793 --- The ( Former ) Sun King was executed by Guillotine at age 38. This happened on the Place de la Révolution. By most reputable accounts, Louis faced his death with resignation and dignity. He gave a small speech before hand and was stopped before he could complete it with a drum roll that signaled the Guillotine was ready. 

After the execution, his body was taken to Madeleine Cemetery where he was given a small secret funeral service and then buried in an unmarked grave, head between his feet and covered in quicklime. 

The cemetery closed in 1794. 21 years later, Louis XVIII had his brother and sister in law exhumed and reinterred in the Basilica of St. Denis. From 1816 - 1826 a monument honoring the King and Queen was erected in the same area the former cemetery and church occupied. It was named the ‘ Chapelle Expiatoire ‘. 

#• Le Tendre Soleil Se Lèvera Á Nouveau. • ( Louis Auguste || Louis XVI. ) #• You Can't Play My Cabinet Like A Harpsichord ... • ( NPCs. ) #• Why Do Americans Think They Know It All ? • ( OOC Historical Rambling. )

[bantarleton]

The Top 10 Banastre Tarleton Myths

SOURCE

He was arguably the greatest “anti-Hero” produced by either side during the Revolutionary War. From Washington Irving to Mel Gibson, so much has been written about the career of Banastre Tarleton that it is difficult, even today, to separate man from myth.  Yet many of the most persistent and damning indictments of him are also those most easily refuted as historically exaggerated, or even quite simply, untrue.  Here we look at ten of the most damaging or obstinate myths about the British Cavalry leader absolutely no contemporary called “Bloody Ban!”

1 // He made his living before and after the war as a slave trader Tarleton’s father John certainly made his fortune from the slave trade.  His three brothers were also heavily involved in both the West Indies sugar trade and the Atlantic slave trade.  Banastre, however, was the only son of four to never join the family business, and being a notorious spendthrift showed little inclination for the disciplines of commerce.  He was nonetheless a vociferous opponent of those who aimed at ending the slave trade in the British Empire, particularly William Wilberforce MP, whose policies he referred to as a “mistaken philanthropy.”   After the war, Tarleton was elected as MP for Liverpool and unfailingly argued that the city’s prosperity had been built on commerce, and that the slave trade in particular had been instrumental in propelling the town from struggling provincial port to Britain’s second city. His opposition to the Abolition movement never wavered throughout his long Parliamentary career.

2 // He was an arrogant, detached, brutal martinet This has been the “default” portrayal of Tarleton in American history for over two hundred years. His reputation as a ruthless thug has been almost universally accepted, and unquestioned, through popular folk tale and sober history alike.  “We look in vain for any redeeming trait in his character” the nineteenth century historian C.L Hunter concluded, a judgement enduring into the twentieth century with the influential historian Christopher Ward emotively describing him as “cold hearted, vindictive and utterly ruthless.” As late as 1976 the author Charles Bracelen Flood felt able to go further still with a piece of doggerel psycho-analysis that concluded Tarleton was “the sort of man who needs a war to legitimise his violent and cruel impulses.” Mel Gibson’s cinematic portrayal of a fictionalized Tarleton as a sardonic, brutal, sociopath is based largely on these and similarly unflattering histories.

Yet no contemporary who actually met Tarleton described him in such terms. That he was vain, there is no doubt, but haughty he certainly wasn’t.   Indeed The Times noted rather condescendingly that “his frankness and bonhomie make him popular among the “lower orders” of his constituents.” The Comte de Revel on meeting Tarleton after his surrender at Gloucester Point described him as a young, pleasant man: “He had a most gentle and genteel face as well as elegance, a certain air of ease, and French manners.” That Tarleton drilled his Legion relentlessly in quiet times, and drove it hard in battle is not doubted, but he was no martinet, and it is  accepted that his men greatly respected and even loved him; the Waxhaw’s massacre, often blamed on Tarleton, was largely instigated by their distress on mistakenly hearing he had been killed.

An intelligent, complex, but contradictory man, perhaps the most pithy summary of Tarleton’s personality came from his erstwhile lover, Mary Robinson, who in her novel “The False Friend” portrays her barely disguised hero Treville as  being “too polite to be religious, too witty to be learned and too handsome to be discreet.”

3 // Tarleton ordered the Waxhaws Massacre Tarleton’s black reputation rests predominantly on his supposed actions at the Battle of Waxhaws, with “Tarleton’s Quarter” becoming a rallying cry, inspiration to recruitment, and propaganda indictment against the supposed brutality of Loyalist and British forces for the rest of the war.   However, much modern study has been undertaken on the battle and many previously accepted “facts” about its course have now been challenged.  That the British Legion continued to attack Patriot soldiers after most had sought to surrender is not disputed.  However, that this butchery took place under the eyes, indeed with the complicit approval, of their commander is now widely disputed. Tarleton’s horse was shot from under him, pinning him to the ground during the battle, and it is this single act that appears to have led to the subsequent confused, rudderless massacre of over one hundred Patriot soldiers, or a quarter of Colonel Buford’s entire force.  Tarleton himself wrote of the battle that the high American casualties were attributed to the Legion being “stimulated to a vindictive asperity not easily restrained” after Legion cavalry heard a rumour that their leader had been killed. However, there is not the slightest shred of evidence that he condoned, much less ordered any such behaviour himself.  Of course it could be argued that the Legion’s ill-discipline, following on from similar episodes at the battle of Monck’s Corner and smaller engagements, was ultimately the responsibility of its commanding officer.

4 // Tarleton and his superior, Lord Cornwallis, hated each other We have Mel Gibson’s The Patriot to thank for one of the more recent myths surrounding Tarleton.  In the film, Tarleton (or Tavington) is constantly rebuked by his superior Cornwallis.  “Damn him! Damn that man!” his exasperated Lordship cries when Tavington disobeys yet another battle order. The entire film goes to great lengths to portray Cornwallis as regarding Tarleton with both a patrician disdain and barely concealed contempt.

In fact Cornwallis was a mentor to Tarleton during the war, giving him his full support and an unprecedented free hand throughout the Carolinas campaign.  This favoured position induced much jealousy among fellow officers, who felt themselves continually overlooked for promotion.  Lt. Col. John Graves Simcoe, commanding officer of the Queens Rangers, an elite Loyalist regiment, made constant complaints to Sir Henry Clinton about Cornwallis’s preferences for Tarleton despite his own seniority.  Cornwallis’s official and private dispatches were littered with compliments showered on his Cavalry chief, many of which unquestionably strayed from military protocol.  He ended one dispatch to Tarleton with the almost plaintive “I wish you could get three Legions and divide yourself into three parts.  We can do no good without you.”  His official report after the victory of Camden included the briefest of praise to his infantry commanders Lord Rawdon and Lt. Col. James Webster before devoting an entire paragraph to Tarleton’s operations, ending with, “this action was too brilliant …. and will highly recommend Col.Tarleton to his majesty’s favour.”

It is true that Tarleton and Cornwallis had a severe falling out after the war when Tarleton’s vainglorious military recollections attempted to shift blame onto Cornwallis for the defeats at Cowpens and Yorktown, but during the war itself they had a harmonious, constructive relationship that was akin to that of father and son.

5 // Tarleton returned to England in shame and ignominy Most British senior officers returned to England after the war to severe criticism from their compatriots.  Sir William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne and Charles Earl Cornwallis all received varying degrees of blame and censure for the loss of the American colonies.  But Tarleton was almost unique in attracting no such rebuke. Lacking any real war heroes, he was received home with universal acclaim, being feted at court and becoming an intimate friend to two future kings, George Prince of Wales and William Duke of Clarence, even sharing a mistress with the former.  He was famously painted by the two greatest portrait painters of the age, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough.

6 // He designed the “Tarleton” Helmet Perhaps the most iconic headgear of the entire war, this leather helmet with a sturdy tapered peak was adorned by a fur crest and dyed feather plume.  The British cavalry certainly came to refer to this dragoon headdress as a “Tarleton” Helmet.  But it was in use in various forms on the European continent well before the war and was in fact introduced to the British by Lt. Gen. William Keppel in 1771. There is doubt too that Ban even introduced it to the British Legion, with Lord Cathcart (the regiment’s original commander and later Quartermaster General of the entire army) being it’s more likely sponsor.  Regarded as the best looking headgear of the war, its attractiveness was such that it was worn by both British and American forces and long survived the conflict, being in common usage in the British army until 1812 when it was replaced by the more robust French-influenced shako.

7 // Tarleton raped and abused women during the war That Tarleton was what we would now refer to as a “womaniser” there is no conjecture.  He had many mistresses, infamously bedding both the Regency courtesan Mary Robinson and then allegedly her own daughter Maria.  He seems to have adopted a sporting attitude to his conquest of women, rakishly seducing them for a wager on more than one occasion. This certainly makes the oft reported, though second-hand quote, that he “ravished more women in America than any other man” plausible. However, portraits show Tarleton as a handsome man, with a fine physical figure who was both charming and dashing.  Most contemporary accounts by females who crossed his path attain to his gentlemanly manners and good grace, and Tarleton appears to have been more a professional wooer of women than a dissolute brute.  He also saw members of his own British Legion hanged and flogged when they raped and abused women, and there is absolutely no evidence that he ever behaved with anything other than a reserved gallantry towards Patriot women in their person, though of course he was not quite so liberal in his treatment of their property!

8 // Tarleton slashed the forehead of the young Andrew Jackson This hoary old chestnut still turns up occasionally even in academic studies and one can only put its longevity down to it making such a great story!  Jackson, forthright and brave, a representative of the New World and new social order, encounters Tarleton his abuser, an Imperial despot, pitiless and haughty.  Historical circumstances also meant that it could have happened. Certainly the future President, at the time already a battle-hardened thirteen year old boy, was slashed over the head by a British officer for having the temerity to refuse the demand to clean his boots.[15] It also happened at the Waxhaws, scene of Tarleton’s most vicious battle, and Ban was known to be in the vicinity at the time.  Unfortunately for historical conspiracy theorists, Jackson himself never named Tarleton as his tormenter, something he would surely have done, having admitted that he once saw him riding by less than one hundred yards away “and could have shot him.”

9 // The disastrous American war ended Tarleton’s military career It says much about the impact Tarleton had on British military fortunes, that when the war ended he had been promoted, without purchase, from lowly cornet to lieutenant colonel in a meteoric five years. This was far from the end of his career, and he remained on active service or half pay until the end of the Napoleonic Wars, ultimately being promoted to the rank of full general in 1812.  However, Ban was adept at courting influential enemies as much as he was powerful friends, and his reciprocated loathing of the Duke of Wellington may have had more than a little to do with the fact that he never commanded troops in action again after Yorktown.

10 // He was known to contemporaries as “Bloody Ban” or the “Green Dragoon,” and led “Tarleton’s Raiders” The two personal monikers, the alternatingly violent and romantic caricatures by which Tarleton is now largely known, are sobriquets of pure fiction.  There is no evidence that Tarleton was ever referred to by either name, though there is testimony that after Waxhaws he was known in Patriot circles as “The Butcher.”  Both labels appear no earlier than the 1950s, originating in the Robert Bass book The Green Dragoon.  This was the first serious reappraisal of Tarleton’s life since his death, and the nicknames simply seem to have been just too good not to have stuck.

The “Tarleton’s raiders” tag occurred with increasing regularity after the American Civil War.  Various Confederate partisan and guerrilla cavalry units, like Mosby’s and Quantrill’s, came to be named after their commanding officers, and writers began following the same fashion with the British Legion, the corps that Tarleton commanded.  But the British Legion was never an irregular partisan unit, and though it carried out many daring raids, it was a mixed force of dragoon cavalry, light Infantry and small calibre artillery. Indeed, it was taken onto the British regular establishment in 1782, conferring on it official recognition of its prowess.  Vain as he was, Tarleton would have been horrified at any title like “raiders” that diminished his elite regiment to the periphery of “respectable” warfare. In this final ignominy, American historians have perhaps dealt him the lowest blow of all!

#american revolution #revwar #american war of independence #history #18th century #military history #banastre tarleton #tarleton #waxhaws #british legion

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WOMEN’S HISTORY † JOHANNA, HERTOGIN VAN BRABANT (24 June 1322 – 1 November 1406)

Johanna van Brabant was probably the eldest of the children of Jan III van Brabant and Marie d’Évreux, daughter of Louis de France, comte d’Évreux and Marguerite d’Artois. Her father, on the other hand, was a grandson of Edward I of England and Leonor de Castilla, through his mother, Margaret of Windsor. Johanna’s parents were also second cousins as Marie’s paternal grandmother, Maria van Brabant, was the younger sister of Jan’s grandfather, Jan I van Brabant.  In 1334, Johanna married Willem IV van Holland, the only son of Guillaume II de Hainaut and Jehanne de Valois and brother of Marguerite II and Philippa de Hainaut. Originally, during the Hundred Years’ War, Johanna’s father had been allied with the English and had intended to arrange for Johanna’s younger sister, Margaretha, to marry Edward the Black Prince, but the alliance unraveled and instead Margaretha married Louis II, comte de Flandre, whose people had tried to force him to marry the Black Prince’s sister, Isabella.

Meanwhile, Johanna’s husband, Guillaume, died in the Battle of Warns on 26 September 1345. They had been childless, so Holland and Hainaut both passed to his sister, Marguerite. In 1352, Johanna married a second time to Wenzel I. von Luxemburg, the only son of Johann der Blinde von Luxemburg by his second wife, Béatrice de Bourbon. Around this time, both of Johanna’s surviving brothers died, forcing her father to recognize her as his heir. However, Johanna’s brother-in-law, Louis II de Flandre, disagreed about the succession and invaded Brabant in 1356. Johanna and Wenzel were at first forced to sign over Antwerp to Louis but later managed to repel him with the help of Wenzel’s half-brother, Holy Roman Emperor, Karel IV. Afterwards, Wenzel developed a feud with Wilhelm II., Herzog von Jülich originally over mercenaries robbing Brabançon merchants in Jülich. Wenzel invaded Jülich, but Wilhelm allied with his brother-in-law, Eduard van Gelre (younger son of Reinald II van Gelre and Eleanor of Woodstock), and defeated Wenzel at the Battle of Battle of Baesweiler on 22 August 1371. Wenzel was captured and held prisoner for 11 months, which did nothing for Brabant. He died in 1383, possibly of leprosy, and was buried in Orval Abbey.

Johanna’s marriage to Wenzel had also failed to produce surviving children and her nearest relative was her niece, Marguerite III, comtesse de Flandre, so it was agreed that Brabant would pass Marguerite’s second surviving son, Antoine. Johanna died 1 November 1406 and was buried in Brussels though her tomb was not constructed until the 1450s by Philippe le Bon de Bourgogne, who have may have erected it as propaganda to symbolize his claims to Brabant.

#joanna of brabant #house of flanders #medieval #house of luxembourg #dutch history #belgian history #european history #women's history #history #women's history graphics #nanshe's graphics

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COINCIDENCES WRAPPED IN PROPAGANDA, YA THINK

COINCIDENCES WRAPPED IN PROPAGANDA, YA THINK

by guest blogger Chris Skodinski  1/29/2020 Joseph, Comte de Maistre (1753-1821), had this to say: “Until now, nations were killed by conquest, that is by invasion. But here an important question arises: can a nation not die on its own soil, without resettlement or invasion, by allowing the flies of decomposition to corrupt to the very core those original and constituent principles which make it…

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Tenemos todos los ingredientes en la mesa para poder empezar a trabajar, no hay nada más gratificante que amar, y eso nadie nos lo puede negar (Hacerlo, sería una gran estupidez) Pero, simplemente no sabemos qué amar. Todos, absolutamente todos (Y asumiré, obviamente, y con perdón de quién me lee, que tenemos claro a qué me refiero) Que hay una relación gigantesca, placentera y titánica a mantener, y dicha relación es otra cosa que la relación que hemos de mantener con nosotros mismos. Esa relación lleva a desarrollar grandes lazos con el Dios qué estamos destinados a ser. Y, si bien dicho trabajo pareciese no tener fin (Por qué, como tal, es un trabajo no tiene fin… Pero ¿Quién necesita un fin para tan gratificante camino?) Un amor desarrollado, formado y pulido por nosotros y para nosotros, nos lleva a elevar nuestra visión sobre nosotros mismos, la relación más importante es la nuestra, eso está claro… Podemos ser felices “Sin nadie” (Refiriéndome, específicamente a una pareja sexual o romántica) A nuestro lado, aquello es verdad.

Nadie niega que el amor propio, el altruismo y el “Egoísmo emocional” Debe ser para nosotros la meca de la creación de nuestras vidas.

Aunque, conforme veo la vida, me doy cuenta que existen muchos errores al respecto, tantos, que incluso me permiten dudar que aquello sea el camino verdadero (En contadas ocasiones la duda llega a ser tan grande, que me dedico a escribir centenares de palabras al respecto) Actualmente estamos plagados de aquella propaganda sobre el amor propio, de amarnos sobre todas las cosas, de querernos a nosotros mismos de tal manera que amar a otro no sea tan doloroso, ni lleguemos a colocarlo por encima de nosotros (Lo cual, me parece correcto, hasta cierto punto) Pero, siempre llegamos a un punto de estancamiento que simplemente no podemos escapar, y ahí es donde la propaganda tiene que reinventarse a vender su palabrería con diferente nombres.

Nos dicen, y nos ordenan (No encuentro mejor forma de expresarlo) que pongamos nuestro ser por sobra todas las cosas, alejarnos de lo que nos hace daño, no seguir a la autoridad, ir en contra de toda corriente o sistema, eliminar todo elemento que no nos agrade o nos perjudique. Pero, aun así, nos incitan a buscar la verdad. Y elevar la verdad por sobre todo. ¿Cómo podemos buscar o aceptar dicha verdad si preferimos alejarnos de ella? ¿Cómo podemos ser “racionales” ante los eventos si nos hacemos oídos sordos a los problemas apenas se presenten?

Definen la soledad como un modo de vida donde simplemente puedas prescindir sin problema alguno de cualquier persona o evento y los puedas pisotear. Donde cada elemento “En contra de ti” sea un enemigo, algo a lo cual huir y no escuchar, ver o hablar. Si dicho eslogan se tomara literalmente, viviríamos una época donde matar por placer, prescindir de nuestros propios hijos y condenar hasta la muerte por lo que nos venga en gana sea el pan de cada día (Esperen un momento…) Y seamos incapaces de sacrificarnos a nosotros mismos por algo que esté por encima nuestro. De afrontar con raciocinio y lógica, no dejándonos llevar por la emoción, todas aquellas adversidades, y que de hecho, hagan todo lo contrario a lo que deseamos, que pasen por encima de nosotros. Tenemos que ponernos por encima de todo, y, si el caso se da, pasar por encima de todo. Unos completos bárbaros actuales, incapaces de simpatizar con el prójimo, sumidos en nuestro propio egoísmo y temor a hacernos daño. Como bien dice Erich Fromm: “Vivir bien es vivir sin esfuerzo, y cuando no hay más remedio que esforzarse un poco, se cree, por decirlo así, que es algo pasado de moda”

¿Quién puede decir qué se siente completamente a gusto consigo mismo? ¿Quién puede decir, que no hay elementos de su vida que no desea cambiar? Tanto como si son estéticos como de personalidad. Sabemos, cuando nos vemos a nosotros mismos, que existen cosas que nos gustarían mejorar, cambiar o deshacer. Y aquello, constituye una falla enorme en ese sistema de “Aceptación” Que nos estamos formando. Y, si fuera poco, eso es condenante, es una reprimenda, es una blasfemia. ¡Horror! ¿Cómo podríamos querer cambiar algo de nosotros? ¡Debemos de aceptar que somos mierda y así seguiremos siendo hasta el final!

¿Y qué más doloroso que amar? ¿Qué más doloroso que desnudarse ante otro y qué vea como realmente eres? Abrir las puertas de tú corazón y tú alma para que alguien vea en ti a tú verdadero ser. TODO, tus fallas y virtudes, que vea, que hay más bajo esa máscara que tienes. Si somos incapaces de mostrarnos ante otro como realmente somos, en todo momento, sin miedo ni tapujos, en realidad, no nos amamos a nosotros mismos, no estamos conformes con nosotros mismos y, en realidad sentimos por nosotros todo lo contrario al amor. Es un esfuerzo muy grande, como bien dije: Amarse y aceptarse a uno mismo. Es un proceso que lleva consigo horas de dolor y recuerdos fatídicos, Pero necesario para comprendernos a nosotros mismos. Y aun así, no sabemos hacerlo (O más bien, no queremos) Aquello constituye mucho esfuerzo para “Tan poca recompensa” De alguna forma entendimos que amarnos a nosotros mismos implica, adular todos los fallos, todos los errores, no enmendarlos ni corregirlos, simplemente vivir con ellos y presumirlos, exaltarlos junto a nuestras virtudes. Y ponernos en contra de todo aquél que intente ayudarnos a mejorar. Esto no es amor, es narcicismo espiritual. Si bien, nos pudiéramos amar a nosotros mismos de la mejor manera, no tendríamos problemas en mostrar quién realmente somos ante el mundo, en decirles: “Sí, tengo errores, tengo defectos, pero no los enalteceré, no los adularé, los aceptaré y trabajaré en función a disminuirlos” Pero aquello resultaría muy doloroso, y no nos estaríamos amando a nosotros mismos según la propaganda actual. Estaríamos en contra de lo que somos, de quién “Verdaderamente somos” Y eso, no sería amarnos a nosotros por cómo somos. Vivimos bajo un régimen interno: “Soy lo que creo que soy, y quién diga algo, ha de ser eliminado de mi vida” Vivimos bajo miedo constante, de “no ser felices nunca” Y encontramos la solución más fatídica jamás creada: Yo por encima de mí. Todos necesitamos de todos, todos necesitamos de alguien, incluso el solitario necesita de la gente para sentirse sólo. Y eso es lo que estamos ignorando. Tal cuál dice André comte-Sponville: “Dos soledades que se protegen, se completan, se limitan y se inclinan una a la otra” Nos condenamos cuando decimos el tan temido pero gratificante “Te amo”, y sufrimos un calvario cuando decimos: “Soy tuyo” Aquello es equivalente a un problema psiquiátrico. O una blasfemia. Es imposible aceptar, por más duro que sea, que existen personas, que esté tan a gusto consigo mismo, con quién es, qué no tiene miedo de revelar quién realmente es ante nadie, y pueda decir, con la misma seguridad, que ama al otro como se ama a sí mismo. Que no tiene miedo de entregarse completamente. Que es capaz de sentirse tan propio en su propio ser como que su amado lo sienta. La frase, soy tuyo, es de un miedo casi irracional, lo sentimos como perder nuestra identidad, como ser necesitados de afecto, como si estuviéramos locos. Incapaces de hacernos cargo de nuestra felicidad. Y, en realidad, no es así o al menos, si lo intentas y dejas de atrapar propaganda de amor propio. Amarnos a nosotros mismos debe significar amar y aceptar quienes somos, ver lo mejor de nosotros mismos y trabajar para llegar a la mejor versión de nosotros mismos, requiere callarse, sentarse y pasar horas y horas hablando contigo. Requiere quedarse calmado, algo muy difícil para nuestros días ya que, como indica Erich Fromm: “Cuanto más débil sea el yo, más miedo tendrá a perderse en el no-yo en el acto de concentración. Por último, la concentración requiere actividad interior, no agitación, y esta actividad es infrecuente hoy, cuando la agitación es la clave del éxito.” Requiere dejar la rutina a un lado y sentarnos a hablar con nosotros mismos. Les aseguro, que será la conversación más grande que tendrás. Entendimos muy mal, la soledad y el amor propio no indican alejarse de otros, no indica sacar a todos de nuestra vida ni tampoco sumirse en un estado de resignación a nuevas experiencias. Porque “No son importantes para mí” Estar solos significa, encontrarnos a nosotros, estudiarnos, escucharnos, ser honestos con nosotros mismos y conocernos de tal manera, que seamos completamente transparentes para consigo mismo (No saben la cantidad de personas que se conocen tan poco ellas mismas) Y ser capaces de estar tan a gusto con nosotros mismos como estaríamos con los demás. Al estar tan a gusto con nosotros, al revelar a cada momento quienes realmente somos, al “Estar despiertos” Estaremos viviendo la eternidad prometida, de vivir cada día como si fuera el último, porque, para nosotros no habrá último día, si lo vivimos completamente honestos y a gustos con nosotros. Dejar entrar a la gente a nuestra vida y que vean quienes somos, y por qué somos así, y, al ver que nosotros nos aceptamos tal y como somos, y mejoramos lo que debemos mejorar. Ellos se sentirán a gusto con quién somos, nunca estaremos solos por que estaremos en contacto con nuestro verdadero ser, pero, sobre todo porque sabremos compartir nuestra soledad con todo el mundo sin intención de tomar o poseer. Simplemente existir en nuestra más alta versión de nosotros.

“Soy tuyo/a” No significa que estamos necesitados de amor, de compañía u que somos incapaces de hacernos cargo de nosotros mismos. Simplemente significa: Estoy tan a gusto conmigo, con compartir mi existencia contigo, que me siento seguro de entregarte todo quién soy y lo que soy, sin temores ni rencores. Por qué te amo, y no me importa nada más.

#reflexivo #apología #escrito #análisis #amor

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Comte Drama CD Translations, Track Five: A Night of Great Love

I'm not a professional yada yada yada, these are just my rough transcriptions of each track in the CD because I need fodder for my simping. More beneath the cut as usual. Also just a heads-up, this one's got spoice so it will be slightly nsfw (nothing too explicit but like, it's there).

The title says it all for this one (did I go soft? maybe a little bit don't look at me). Here we go!

Comte: We’re finally alone.  [KISS SOUND] Now you’re all mine…for putting up with it…I’d like you to praise me for not touching you until we got back to our room. From now on I’ll be doing away with the gentleman’s facade…and I’ll spoil you rotten. …I won’t hide it anymore. My feelings for you, my love, my instincts as a man…

What a way to start this track out like thanks I'm already inches from having my way with him, sweet words be damned.

"Praise me for not touching you until we got back to our room." DISAGREE YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN GROPING--

Mn [KISSES]…come now…say it. I told you long before what my name was… …That’s right. Good girl. My name, Abel, means void/emptiness… When my eternal life was at its most unbearable, I wondered at what an ironic name it was.  But now, when you say my name…I get the strangest feeling, one I’ve never felt before. At the very least, it feels more important/meaningful than before.

It seemed out of the question that I could ever love my name. …You changed everything. Not just my name. The meaning of the word eternity and future, and the joy of loving someone…you’ve taught me all the happiness of being loved. …So you must accept mine in return. Accept what? Of course…my love-- -----

These are all things that were revealed in the main story route, so nothing really new here. Love the good girl bit tho and 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭 "You've taught me all the happiness of being loved." AND I WILL FOREVER MUAH MUAH ABEL

(KISS SOUND) Tonight I intend to make you call my name until your voice is hoarse/wretched… (MORE KISSES) About vampires…no, I’ll teach you all about men. (why not BOTH--) I’ll teach you every pleasure you don’t know. There’s no need for fear, all you have to do is leave everything to me. Haah (KISSES MANY OF THEM)…everywhere I touch you, you react so sweetly… Sweet, gorgeous, and dense like a noble flower…it makes me want to steal you for my own right away…

Love that my only protest to all of this is "who says you're the only one gonna be doing any touching" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I waited nearly three years for you Abel don't try me rn

Also I know that last line is a bit strange, but that's about as much as I could decipher--it was one of those trickier lines that seemed to have a kind of metaphorical/idiomatic element to it. I think it might be speaking to the larger metaphor in Ikevamp of humans being like flowers who either wither or are eternally preserved basically, not unlike her wedding gift to him.

If I were to bite you here and now…in exchange for that momentary pain, you would know unimaginable pleasure. …What’s with that expectant gaze? Are you testing me? …What a naughty woman you are, to stir up a vampire--and a pureblood, no less. Are you…sure you’re ready for an endless life and endless pleasure? …Mn…haah (KISSES) …It’s all right. I don’t really want to bite you. …I just wanted to give you a little lesson on how dangerous it can be to toy with a vampire.

Respectfully MC is a stronger woman than me, if he pulled this shit on me I'd be a vamp tomorrow, we are not the same. Although in fairness I do appreciate that he respects her hesitation

(KISSES) Mn…ah…that was such…a cute sound you just made… Every time we kiss, you just get rosier and sweeter…Seriously, how far do you plan to test my limits before you’re satisfied? I’m burning up…I want to make love to you, be so deep inside you (and melt away)… Mn (KISSES)…ha…ah, the sweet scent is getting stronger… If we go on like this, I’m not sure I can play around much longer…I feel like I’m losing my mind. …You shouldn’t let a foolish man like me take advantage of you any further. For now, I’ll accept just this much.

Okay but like. Can we talk about that last line in the former bit and the first one in this bit because. MC do we have a kink for Comte being a little dark and sexy vampire hours? Because YEET SAME AAAAAAAAAAA

Consider me well and seduced, v hot for me 👀💅🏼 Although asjkhldgldsjhg this highkey makes me want to tease him so badly, he just seems so reactive

That last line I think was supposed to be an extension of the self-deprecation from the last track, and tbh it made me v sad :< don't fret Comte, I'm here because I wanna be ;-; nothing wrong with being a little needy

…I want you…I really want you…I mean it. …Touch me, and see for yourself. …You know what I mean, don’t you? My heart is racing, desperate for you. Unable to resist every flagrant urge, I take the woman I love… The more I touch your smooth skin, the more difficult it becomes to resist that pleasure… That’s why it’s so hard for me to hold back. 

Like. If I try to describe how this makes me feel all I'm gonna do is bark, so I'm just gonna spare y'all that--

Also dying at that bit where he goes "touch me and see for yourself" because. Come on. We all know what we were thinking. And he was like "See? My heart's racing" I BET IT IS, COMTE. I BET. IT. IS. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So now…mn…ahhh…haah… (I cannot convey to you the overwhelming eroticism of this voiced **cough** moaned **cough** line. It must be heard to be known and felt. --R.I.P Minnie, 2023) Instead of biting you, I’ll leave a sign of my desire here on your neck. …When we became lovers, you told me that you didn’t mind being beside me, even if I was hesitant. Trying to choose the right future, worrying until the last minute. Because if I do bite you, sink my fangs into this delicate flesh and grant you lifetimes…it’s something that only takes an instant. The moment I make up my mind, I can turn you right here and right now. To be with the woman I love whom I found in eternity, and to make her eternal with me…there is no sweeter temptation for me. But right now…I want to forget about the flow of eternity and indulge in happiness with you. …This time, let me give you a gentle kiss. (KISS) Mn…Even if I can suppress the bloodlust, I can’t hold back my love for you any longer. Tonight, I want to know every part of you more deeply than ever… I want to be deep inside you…I want us to seek each other and to make you mine. (GET IT TIGER) The night is still long. I’ll give you as much as you want, so that you don’t even have a moment to breathe.

More barking, also -> "To be with the woman I love whom I found in eternity, and to make her eternal with me…there is no sweeter temptation for me." this is what hope looks like. I'm gonna tell my kids this was the twilight saga KIDDING but fr 🙏🏼 my hopes and dreams epitomized.

#ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp comte #ikevamp saint germain #ikevamp mc #not incorrect quotes #honestly this one speaks for itself #just grab a glass of wine and enjoy yall #comte: but i need to hide the vampy qualities #me: DIAL IT BACK UP GET BACK HERE #there's just smth so...hm #how to phrase it #ambrosial? about him being gentle/considerate but then the vampire switch flips #I love it for me #he's so romantic but also so ungodly attractive idek what to say #my standards are in shambles #how does anyone compare to [gestures in comte's general direction] #comte propaganda #fangdad propaganda

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Jair Bolsonaro and the perversion of liberalism

IN JULY, AT a convention of his small and inaptly named Social Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro unveiled his star hire. Paulo Guedes, a free-market economist from the University of Chicago, has done much to persuade Brazil’s business people that Mr Bolsonaro can be trusted with the country’s future, despite his insults to women, blacks and gays, his rhetorical fondness for dictatorship and the suddenness of his professed conversion to liberal economics. At the convention Mr Guedes praised Mr Bolsonaro as representing order and the preservation of life and property. His own entry into the campaign, he added, means “the union of order and progress”.

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That prospect seems poised to make Mr Bolsonaro, a former army captain, Brazil’s president in a run-off election on October 28th. A survey by Ibope, a pollster, gives him around 52% of votes, to 37% for Fernando Haddad, his opponent from the left-wing Workers’ Party (PT); 9% of respondents said they would abstain. Mr Bolsonaro has benefited from a public mood of despair over rising crime, corruption and an economic slump caused by the mistakes of a previous PT government.

In the PowerPoint slideshow that passes for his manifesto, Mr Bolsonaro promises “a liberal democratic government”. Certainly Mr Guedes champions some liberal economic measures. He proposes to slim Brazil’s puffed-up, ineffective and near-bankrupt state through privatisations and public-spending cuts, and to undo the country’s serpentine red tape.

Yet Mr Bolsonaro’s words are often neither liberal nor democratic. He stands for “order”, but not the law. He urges police to kill criminals, or those they think might be criminals. He wants to change human-rights policy to “give priority to victims”, though presumably he does not mean the victims of extra-legal killings by police. He lacks a liberal regard for the public good in his plans to favour farmers over the environment and withdraw Brazil from the Paris agreement on climate change.

Whereas Mr Guedes proposes economic deregulation, Mr Bolsonaro wants moral re-regulation. He vows “to defend the family”; to “defend the innocence of children in school” against alleged homosexual propaganda; and to oppose abortion and the legalisation of drugs. As a congressman, he proposed birth control for the poor. He calls the generals who took power as dictators in Brazil in 1964 and ruled for two decades “heroes”. In July one of his sons, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is a congressman, said “a soldier and a corporal” would be enough to shut down the supreme court. (The candidate distanced himself from these “emotional” comments, saying “the court is the guardian of the constitution.”)

When Comte hijacked liberalism

The combination of political authoritarianism and free-market economics is not new in Brazil or Latin America. Indeed, Mr Guedes’s phrase at the convention harks back to the point in the history of Latin American thought when the notions of economic and political freedom became divorced. “Order and Progress” is the slogan stamped across Brazil’s flag. There is no mention of “freedom” or “equality”. The slogan was dreamed up when Brazil became a republic in 1889 under the influence of positivism, a set of ideas associated with Auguste Comte, a French philosopher. Positivists believed that government by a high-minded “scientific” elite could bring about modern industrial societies without violence or class struggle.

Positivism was little more than a footnote in Europe. But it was hugely influential in Latin America, especially in Brazil and Mexico. It combined a preference for strong central government with a conception of society as a hierarchical collective, rather than an agglomeration of free individuals. Positivism hijacked liberalism and its belief that progress would come from political and economic freedom for individuals, just when this seemed to have become the triumphant political philosophy in the region in the third quarter of the 19th century. According to Charles Hale, a historian of ideas, positivism relegated liberalism to a “foundation myth” of the Latin American republics. It was to be paid lip service in constitutions but ignored in political practice. In a sentiment to which Mr Bolsonaro might subscribe, Francisco G. Cosmes, a Mexican positivist, claimed in 1878 that rather than “rights” society preferred “bread…security, order and peace”.

The divorce between the ideas of political and economic freedom in Latin America was in part a consequence of the region’s difficulty in creating prosperous market economies and stable democracies based on equality of opportunity. But it has also been one of the causes of that failure.

Liberalism had struggled to change societies marked by big racial and social inequalities, inherited from Iberian colonialism, especially in rural Latin America. Liberals abolished slavery and the formal serfdom to which Indians were subjected in the Andes and Mexico. But the countryside remained polarised between owners of latifundia (large estates) and indentured labourers. Missing were yeoman farmers, or a rural bourgeoisie. André Rebouças, a leader of the movement to abolish slavery in Brazil (which happened only in 1888), envisaged a “rural democracy” resulting from “the emancipation of the slave and his regeneration through land ownership”. It never happened.

Positivists rejected the liberal belief in the equal value of all citizens and imbibed the “scientific racism” and social Darwinism in vogue in late 19th-century Europe. They saw the solution to Latin American backwardness in immigration of white European indentured labourers, which initially prevented a rise in rural wages for former slaves and serfs.

The ignored lesson of Canudos

The high-minded positivists who ran the Brazilian republic were humiliated by a rebellion in the 1890s by a monarchist preacher at Canudos, in the parched interior of Bahia in the north-east. It took four expeditions, the last involving 10,000 troops and heavy artillery, to crush Canudos, at a cost of 20,000 dead (some of the defenders had their throats cut after surrendering). Euclides da Cunha, a positivist army officer-turned-journalist who covered these events, wrote in “Os Sertões” (“Rebellion in the Backlands”), which became one of Brazil’s best-known books, that the military campaign would be “a crime” if it was not followed by “a constant, persistent, stubborn campaign of education” to draw these “rude and backward fellow-countrymen into…our national life”.

That was a liberal response from a positivist writer. Again, it didn’t happen. Veterans from the Canudos campaign would set up the first favelas in Rio de Janeiro, which soon were filled with migrants from the north-east. Their descendants may end up as victims of Mr Bolsonaro’s encouragement of police violence.

Liberalism never died in Latin America, but in the 20th century it often lost out. With industrialisation and the influence of European fascism, positivism morphed into corporatism, in which economic freedom yielded to the state’s organisation of the economy, as well as society, in non-competing functional units (unions and bosses’ organisations, for example). Corporatism, with the power it awarded to state functionaries of all kinds, appealed to many of the region’s military men.

That became clear when many countries suffered dictatorships in the 1960s and 1970s. The Brazilian military regime would intermittently adopt economic liberalism, especially under the aegis of Mario Henrique Simonsen, a brilliant economist (and one of Mr Guedes’s tutors). He twice tried to impose fiscal and monetary squeezes to curb inflation. His nemesis was Antonio Delfim Netto, who favoured expansion through debt and inflation, which would cost Brazil a “lost decade” in the 1980s. The dictatorship that Mr Bolsonaro so admires ignored Da Cunha’s plea: it left to civilian leaders a country in which a quarter of children aged seven to 14 were not at school. Only in the current democratic period, under the constitution of 1988, has Brazil achieved universal primary education and mass secondary schooling.

The exception to military corporatism was General Augusto Pinochet’s personal dictatorship in Chile from 1973 to 1990. Pinochet sensed, rightly, that corporatism would require him to share power with his military colleagues. Instead, he called on a group of civilian economists, dubbed the “Chicago boys” because several had studied at the University of Chicago, where the libertarian economics of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman held sway.

Trial and error from the Chicago boys

The Chicago boys applied these principles in Chile, whose economy had been wrecked by the irresponsibility of Salvador Allende, a democratic socialist overthrown by Pinochet. Their programme would eventually lay the foundations for Chile to become Latin America’s most dynamic economy at the turn of the century. But it was akin to a major operation by trial and error and without anaesthetic. They slashed import tariffs and the fiscal deficit, which fell from 25% of GDP in 1973 to 1% in 1975. They privatised hundreds of companies, with no regard for competition or regulation. Worried that inflation was slow to fall, they established a fixed and overvalued exchange rate. The result of all this was that the economy came to be dominated by a few conglomerates, heavily indebted in dollars and centred on the private banks.

In 1982, after a rise in interest rates in the United States, Chile defaulted on its debts and the economy slumped. Poverty engulfed 45% of the population and the unemployment rate rose to 30%. Pinochet eventually dumped the Chicago boys and turned to more pragmatic economists, whose policies contributed to Chile’s post-dictatorship prosperity.

Something similar happened in Peru under the presidency of Alberto Fujimori, who governed from 1990 to 2000. He sent tanks to shut down congress and pushed through a radical free-market economic programme. Again, that laid the basis for a dynamic economy but carried heavy costs. Mr Fujimori’s regime engaged in systematic corruption, and his destruction of the party system and of judicial independence had consequences that are still being felt. In Guatemala and Honduras, Hayekian anti-state libertarianism has led to dystopias from which citizens migrate en masse to escape from weak governments unable to provide public security or encourage economic opportunity (see article).

Mr Bolsonaro is a fan of Pinochet, who “did what had to be done”, he said in 2015. (This included killing some 3,000 political opponents and torturing tens of thousands.) So is Mr Guedes, who taught at the University of Chile in the 1980s, when the dean of its economics faculty was Pinochet’s budget director. Mr Guedes wants a flat income tax, a libertarian but not liberal measure. (Adam Smith, the father of liberal economics, favoured a progressive tax.)

So is Brazil in for a dose of pinochetismo? Mr Bolsonaro is not the army commander—indeed he was eased out of the army for indiscipline in 1988. And he is not a convincing economic liberal. At heart, he is a corporatist. As a congressman for 27 years, he repeatedly voted against privatisation and pension reform, and for increases in the wages of public servants.

Many of Mr Guedes’s proposals are vague, but sensible in principle and overdue. They include cutting the deficit and the public debt and reshaping public spending. Many of his proposed privatisations are necessary. As he told Piauí, a newspaper, Brazil is “paradise for rent seekers and hell for entrepreneurs”. He rightly wants to change that. But in many of these things Mr Bolsonaro may be his opponent. Mr Guedes may not last long.

Under a Bolsonaro presidency, Brazil could hope for a reformed, faster-growing economy and a president who keeps his authoritarian impulses in check. But there are plenty of risks. Perhaps the biggest is of illiberal democracy in which elections continue, but not the practice of democratic government with its checks and balances and rules of fairness. That could arise if a Bolsonaro presidency descended into permanent conflict, both within the government and between it and an opposition inflamed by Mr Bolsonaro’s verbal aggression. Frustrated, he might then lash out against the legislature and the courts. Separating economic and political freedom may seem like a short cut to development. But in Latin America it rarely is: the demand for strong government has vied with a persistent yearning for liberty.

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Everyone's Laughing At This Fox News Tweet About Trump's 'Weekend Working'

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Donald Trump visited a golf course for the 12th time in his nine-week presidency over the weekend, but Fox News saw events differently: 

News Alert: @POTUS spending weekend working at the White House. pic.twitter.com/kAtZVQE2Mr

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 26, 2017

Needless to say, folks on Twitter thought the network missed the cut on this one. 

Here’s some of the reaction: 

WHOA. This is a first for a U.S. President, right? https://t.co/TFdA6fdfnz

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 27, 2017

.@FoxNews fixed it for you pic.twitter.com/u5A1Y8gbJr

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews wow he only golfed for some of the weekend instead of all weekend gee whiz

— Lev Novak (@LevNovak) March 26, 2017

@pattonoswalt This is hilarious, because there are multiple reports thats not the case. https://t.co/JxulDuBqel

— emu (@Hrd_a_rumr) March 27, 2017

So much for Fox/Pravda spin that he spent the weekend "working." Honestly, I'm not sure what "work" is for Trump. Tweeting? https://t.co/21CxbzE9gC

— Rep. Jared Huffman (@JaredHuffman) March 27, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS Then why was he at his golf course in Virginia with cleats and golf gloves yet again? #FakeNewsAlert pic.twitter.com/IUIHxx5sUH

— Josh Sánchez (@jnsanchez) March 26, 2017

I find it simultaneously amusing, pathetic and telling that trump working is breaking news.And like everything else from Fox, it's a lie. https://t.co/OuUWJd5UGH

— FemDem2021 (@FemDem2021) March 27, 2017

He was at his golf course earlier today. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/2KSGl8qddr

— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) March 26, 2017

Check that. He went to his VA golf course to not only play golf, but to watch it on TV. What President has time to do that? @POTUS @FoxNews

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 26, 2017

.@FoxNews @POTUS "Working" pic.twitter.com/y8gH7QmAGa

— Jonathon Jackson (@jonathonj1970) March 27, 2017

@LeftofWherever Takes break from Florida Vacation to take vacation in Virginia https://t.co/p190A6pjJq

— The Pretender (@NewaHailu) March 26, 2017

No he didn't. But if he did is that really news? https://t.co/Fu1Uh4DEpU

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 26, 2017

Fixed it for you. @FoxNews @POTUS pic.twitter.com/rdBvn5eMLf

— david nuzzy nussbaum (@theNuzzy) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS That's a news alert? I thought that was part of the freaking job.

— Maria Langer (@mlanger) March 26, 2017

@pattonoswalt @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/duSXSvXlQD

— Adam Levermore (@lexigeek) March 27, 2017

@darth @FoxNews @POTUS That propaganda schtick isn't working so well. Hahaha.

— chkncharge (@chkncharge) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS you spelled GOLFING wrong. pic.twitter.com/es0Jbp5mrK

— Ryan Graney (@RyanEGraney) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS the fact that this is as News Alert now that Trump is POTUS is hilarious.

— JW (@JW_Ruhestand) March 26, 2017

1) Even if this were true, why would it be news? 2) Not even true. https://t.co/6oHfunGbMj https://t.co/zvOYcyWcmG

— Chuds MacKenzie (@ChudsMacKenzie) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews You know it's trouble when we need a report that our President will be working during this weekend. #DoYourJob

— Michael Murphy (@BreadTanner) March 27, 2017

@pattonoswalt Live shot of him working pic.twitter.com/Z8NWzxk1eB

— Rep. Jackie Sharp (@JackieSharp) March 27, 2017

@AdamParkhomenko sad how @FoxNews misspelled “Golfing” in this tweet #truth https://t.co/y7KSMdkXd0

— Jonah Rodriguez (@Jonah_Rodriguez) March 27, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS pic.twitter.com/sjJ4y71fKL

— DesertMan (@SouthOVegas) March 27, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS Golfing away from the White House is actually the opposite of 'Spending the weekend working at the White House.

— Paul Le Comte (@five15design) March 27, 2017

@CharlotteLathe1 @FoxNews @POTUS @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/GHis8ZXnh9

— Agent J ✌ (@JRemySmith) March 26, 2017

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Everyone's Laughing At This Fox News Tweet About Trump's 'Weekend Working'

Donald Trump visited a golf course for the 12th time in his nine-week presidency over the weekend, but Fox News saw events differently: 

News Alert: @POTUS spending weekend working at the White House. http://pic.twitter.com/kAtZVQE2Mr

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 26, 2017

Needless to say, folks on Twitter thought the network missed the cut on this one. 

Here’s some of the reaction: 

WHOA. This is a first for a U.S. President, right? https://t.co/TFdA6fdfnz

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 27, 2017

.@FoxNews fixed it for you http://pic.twitter.com/u5A1Y8gbJr

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews wow he only golfed for some of the weekend instead of all weekend gee whiz

— Lev Novak (@LevNovak) March 26, 2017

@pattonoswalt This is hilarious, because there are multiple reports thats not the case. https://t.co/JxulDuBqel

— emu (@Hrd_a_rumr) March 27, 2017

So much for Fox/Pravda spin that he spent the weekend "working." Honestly, I'm not sure what "work" is for Trump. Tweeting? https://t.co/21CxbzE9gC

— Rep. Jared Huffman (@JaredHuffman) March 27, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS Then why was he at his golf course in Virginia with cleats and golf gloves yet again? #FakeNewsAlert http://pic.twitter.com/IUIHxx5sUH

— Josh Sánchez (@jnsanchez) March 26, 2017

I find it simultaneously amusing, pathetic and telling that trump working is breaking news.And like everything else from Fox, it's a lie. https://t.co/OuUWJd5UGH

— FemDem2021 (@FemDem2021) March 27, 2017

He was at his golf course earlier today. @FoxNews http://pic.twitter.com/2KSGl8qddr

— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) March 26, 2017

Check that. He went to his VA golf course to not only play golf, but to watch it on TV. What President has time to do that? @POTUS @FoxNews

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 26, 2017

.@FoxNews @POTUS "Working" http://pic.twitter.com/y8gH7QmAGa

— Jonathon Jackson (@jonathonj1970) March 27, 2017

@LeftofWherever Takes break from Florida Vacation to take vacation in Virginia https://t.co/p190A6pjJq

— The Pretender (@NewaHailu) March 26, 2017

No he didn't. But if he did is that really news? https://t.co/Fu1Uh4DEpU

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 26, 2017

Fixed it for you. @FoxNews @POTUS http://pic.twitter.com/rdBvn5eMLf

— david nuzzy nussbaum (@theNuzzy) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS That's a news alert? I thought that was part of the freaking job.

— Maria Langer (@mlanger) March 26, 2017

@pattonoswalt @FoxNews http://pic.twitter.com/duSXSvXlQD

— Adam Levermore (@lexigeek) March 27, 2017

@darth @FoxNews @POTUS That propaganda schtick isn't working so well. Hahaha.

— chkncharge (@chkncharge) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS you spelled GOLFING wrong. http://pic.twitter.com/es0Jbp5mrK

— Ryan Graney (@RyanEGraney) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS the fact that this is as News Alert now that Trump is POTUS is hilarious.

— JW (@JW_Ruhestand) March 26, 2017

1) Even if this were true, why would it be news? 2) Not even true. https://t.co/6oHfunGbMj https://t.co/zvOYcyWcmG

— Chuds MacKenzie (@ChudsMacKenzie) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews You know it's trouble when we need a report that our President will be working during this weekend. #DoYourJob

— Michael Murphy (@BreadTanner) March 27, 2017

@pattonoswalt Live shot of him working http://pic.twitter.com/Z8NWzxk1eB

— Rep. Jackie Sharp (@JackieSharp) March 27, 2017

@AdamParkhomenko sad how @FoxNews misspelled “Golfing” in this tweet #truth https://t.co/y7KSMdkXd0

— Jonah Rodriguez (@Jonah_Rodriguez) March 27, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS http://pic.twitter.com/sjJ4y71fKL

— DesertMan (@SouthOVegas) March 27, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS Golfing away from the White House is actually the opposite of 'Spending the weekend working at the White House.

— Paul Le Comte (@five15design) March 27, 2017

@CharlotteLathe1 @FoxNews @POTUS @realDonaldTrump http://pic.twitter.com/GHis8ZXnh9

— Agent J ✌ (@JRemySmith) March 26, 2017

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Everyone's Laughing At This Fox News Tweet About Trump's 'Weekend Working'

Donald Trump visited a golf course for the 12th time in his nine-week presidency over the weekend, but Fox News saw events differently: 

News Alert: @POTUS spending weekend working at the White House. http://pic.twitter.com/kAtZVQE2Mr

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 26, 2017

Needless to say, folks on Twitter thought the network missed the cut on this one. 

Here’s some of the reaction: 

WHOA. This is a first for a U.S. President, right? https://t.co/TFdA6fdfnz

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 27, 2017

.@FoxNews fixed it for you http://pic.twitter.com/u5A1Y8gbJr

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews wow he only golfed for some of the weekend instead of all weekend gee whiz

— Lev Novak (@LevNovak) March 26, 2017

@pattonoswalt This is hilarious, because there are multiple reports thats not the case. https://t.co/JxulDuBqel

— emu (@Hrd_a_rumr) March 27, 2017

So much for Fox/Pravda spin that he spent the weekend "working." Honestly, I'm not sure what "work" is for Trump. Tweeting? https://t.co/21CxbzE9gC

— Rep. Jared Huffman (@JaredHuffman) March 27, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS Then why was he at his golf course in Virginia with cleats and golf gloves yet again? #FakeNewsAlert http://pic.twitter.com/IUIHxx5sUH

— Josh Sánchez (@jnsanchez) March 26, 2017

I find it simultaneously amusing, pathetic and telling that trump working is breaking news.And like everything else from Fox, it's a lie. https://t.co/OuUWJd5UGH

— FemDem2021 (@FemDem2021) March 27, 2017

He was at his golf course earlier today. @FoxNews http://pic.twitter.com/2KSGl8qddr

— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) March 26, 2017

Check that. He went to his VA golf course to not only play golf, but to watch it on TV. What President has time to do that? @POTUS @FoxNews

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 26, 2017

.@FoxNews @POTUS "Working" http://pic.twitter.com/y8gH7QmAGa

— Jonathon Jackson (@jonathonj1970) March 27, 2017

@LeftofWherever Takes break from Florida Vacation to take vacation in Virginia https://t.co/p190A6pjJq

— The Pretender (@NewaHailu) March 26, 2017

No he didn't. But if he did is that really news? https://t.co/Fu1Uh4DEpU

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 26, 2017

Fixed it for you. @FoxNews @POTUS http://pic.twitter.com/rdBvn5eMLf

— david nuzzy nussbaum (@theNuzzy) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS That's a news alert? I thought that was part of the freaking job.

— Maria Langer (@mlanger) March 26, 2017

@pattonoswalt @FoxNews http://pic.twitter.com/duSXSvXlQD

— Adam Levermore (@lexigeek) March 27, 2017

@darth @FoxNews @POTUS That propaganda schtick isn't working so well. Hahaha.

— chkncharge (@chkncharge) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS you spelled GOLFING wrong. http://pic.twitter.com/es0Jbp5mrK

— Ryan Graney (@RyanEGraney) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS the fact that this is as News Alert now that Trump is POTUS is hilarious.

— JW (@JW_Ruhestand) March 26, 2017

1) Even if this were true, why would it be news? 2) Not even true. https://t.co/6oHfunGbMj https://t.co/zvOYcyWcmG

— Chuds MacKenzie (@ChudsMacKenzie) March 26, 2017

@FoxNews You know it's trouble when we need a report that our President will be working during this weekend. #DoYourJob

— Michael Murphy (@BreadTanner) March 27, 2017

@pattonoswalt Live shot of him working http://pic.twitter.com/Z8NWzxk1eB

— Rep. Jackie Sharp (@JackieSharp) March 27, 2017

@AdamParkhomenko sad how @FoxNews misspelled “Golfing” in this tweet #truth https://t.co/y7KSMdkXd0

— Jonah Rodriguez (@Jonah_Rodriguez) March 27, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS http://pic.twitter.com/sjJ4y71fKL

— DesertMan (@SouthOVegas) March 27, 2017

@FoxNews @POTUS Golfing away from the White House is actually the opposite of 'Spending the weekend working at the White House.

— Paul Le Comte (@five15design) March 27, 2017

@CharlotteLathe1 @FoxNews @POTUS @realDonaldTrump http://pic.twitter.com/GHis8ZXnh9

— Agent J ✌ (@JRemySmith) March 26, 2017

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