#romney

[deadmotelsusa]

No, this isn’t a postcard from the 60s. This is a room at the Koolwink Motel in 2024.

Unlike most of the motels featured in my posts, the Koolwink is alive and well and has been operating under the same name since 1936. Nestled in the hills of Romney, West Virginia, the motel buildings, office and rooms are a time capsule of the past. Each room is perfected with wood paneling and original midcentury furniture. The motel’s logo (Mr. Koolwink) has been featured on the motels signs, notepads, mugs and mints for the past 6 decades.

The Koolwink opened in the 30s by Nora and Henry Cline. In the 1950s, Wallace and Pauline Mauk purchased it from his great-aunt Nora. Today, it’s owned and operated by Wallace and Pauline’s daughter Kay and her husband Robert. Kay was kind enough to chat with me and share some history of the motel as well as a few older photos - if you look closely at the black and white shot, you can see Kay and her twin brother Jay as toddlers!

It’s so clear that this property has been well cared for. Our room was clean, affordable and gave us the exact experience we were looking for. The Koolwink’s website describes their motel as “a modern facility with a retro feel,” which is exactly what it is. I really loved my stay there. Kay left me with a hug and a “come visit us again soon.” I will definitely be back.

#not a dead motel #koolwink motel #romney #west virginia #midcentury motel #almost heaven

[artschoolglasses]

Lady Altamont, George Romney, 1788

#lady altamont #George romney #romney #1788 #1780s #1700s #18th century #portrait #painting #art

[azspot]

During the 2012 presidential campaign, when I obtained and posted a secretly recorded video of GOP nominee Mitt Romney deriding 47 percent of Americans as shiftless freeloaders who don’t “take personal responsibility and care for their lives,” I assumed this scoop would have an impact on the election. With President Barack Obama and the Democrats striving to define Romney as an out-of-touch plutocrat who made millions acquiring companies he could break up or downsize—which meant throwing employees out of work—here was hard-and-fast evidence, in his own words, of a demeaning attitude toward nearly half the country. And, indeed, this revelation did shake up the race and place Romney on the defensive in the final stretch of the campaign. But what I didn’t think about at the time was how this story might affect Romney personally. Now we know. According to Romney’s own account, revealed in a new book out this week, the 47 percent exposé sent him into an emotional tailspin and caused him to ponder dropping out of the race.

#romney #election2012

[porterdavis]

Exactly! Stop idolizing Romney for stating the obvious. He's still a reactionary conservative.

Almost as ridiculous as calling Liz Cheney a hero. She's still a monster.

#romney #liz cheney #salon

[vincentreproches]

#affiche #1968 #etats unis #usa #romney

[icterid-rubus]

Failed my one goal for the fiber festival: don’t buy anything. Got some Navajo Churro roving, 90% Alpaca/10%merino blended batt, and two more bags of Romney roving.

I got this exact Romney a year ago, but the booth sold it at a 50% discount and it felt too good to be true, so I only got a little in case it was moth infested or something. But no, completely fine wool, and I kicked myself for not cleaning her out. She had the same discounts so I got twice as much today.

Also, I brought my whidbey bag (got a lot of compliments on it hehe) to carry everything and got to tell the Shaggy Bear Farms owner that I’d made it from Zinnias wool. That was a very satisfying conversation.

#wool #wool roving #wool batt #Navajo churro #Romney #alpaca #fiber festival #for the last two months I’ve been counting down the days to the festival and then I went and forgot about it until this morning

[detournementsmineurs]

"Portrait of Anne Rodbard, Mrs Blackburn" by George Romney, 1787-88.

#peinture #style #dentelle #xviiie siècle #Rodbard #Blackburn #Romney

[republikkkanorcs]

🤢

#Romney #traitor trump #melania trump #republican assholes

[debrink]

Dungeness

By the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

~ N. Cramer Roberts (British, 20thc), circa 1928

#Dungeness #Romney #N. Cramer Roberts #1928 #deBrink #Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway

[reading-writing-revolution]

Pretty weak plea overall, but good hearted. I think that defines Mitt Romney - weak but good-hearted.

"President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust. A return of Donald Trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable. Congress is particularly disappointing: Our elected officials put a finger in the wind more frequently than they show backbone against it. Too often, Washington demonstrates the maxim that for evil to thrive only requires good men to do nothing."

#politics #denial #hope #romney #republicans #decisions #democracy

[sspacegodd]

Ronmey and Santorum together in biblical times.

#romney #santorum #rightwing #republican

[artschoolglasses]

Jane Maxwell, Duchess of Gordon, with Her Son George Duncan, George Romney, 1778

#Jane Maxwell duchess of gordon with her son George duncan #George romney #romney #1778 #1770s #1700s #18th century #painting #portrait #art

[azspot]

One Republican congressman confided to Romney that he wanted to vote for Trump’s second impeachment, but chose not to out of fear for his family’s safety. The congressman reasoned that Trump would be impeached by House Democrats with or without him — why put his wife and children at risk if it wouldn’t change the outcome?

Romney: A Reckoning

#romney #trump

[tylerschap]

Republican & Democrat Podiums

The Republican File includes...

Eisenhower Nixon 1960 Goldwater Nixon 1968 Nixon 1972 Ford Reagan 1980 Reagan 1984 Bush 1988 Perot Dole Bush 2000 Bush 2004 McCain Giuliani Romney Palin Trump 2016 Trump 2020 Trump 2024 Trump Christmas Ivanka Trump The Democrat File Includes... Kennedy LBJ Humphrey McGovern Carter 1976 Carter 1980 Mondale Dukakis Clinton 1992 Clinton 1996 Gore Kerry Obama 2008 Obama 2012 Clinton 2016 Biden

DOWNLOAD BOTH HERE: http://simfileshare.net/folder/204542/

#sims #sims 4 #simscc #sims 4 custom content #republican #democrats #eisenhower #nixon #goldwater #ford #reagan #bush #Perot #Dole #mccain #romney #trump #palin #JFK #kennedy #LBJ #humphrey #mcgovern #carter #mondale #dukakis #clinton #gore #kerry #obama

[pscottm]

#rich people's yacht money #Romney #gop #politics #greed #taxes #senator #republican #rich people

[mfb1949]

#mitt romney #romney #2012 election #iowa caucus #iowa straw poll #2011