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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · Jun 3

If you'd like to give me money:

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · Jun 3

I wish I had money.

It wouldn't fix everything but it would give me the safety net and capability to work towards fixing things.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 1d

Our power got shut off for a bit this morning, my mom had to borrow some money from her ex but we got it back on. If anyone can help us a little to get through the rest of the week (this week's paycheck is mostly a rent paycheck too), it's really appreciated.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 1d

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

The vice president didn't even have an official residence until the 1970s, and Gerald Ford didn't get to live in it because he kinda immediately then became president, and Nelson Rockefeller, being a Rockefeller, also had little use for the new residence, preferring his own.

Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

Spiro Agnew resigned as vice president not long after his and Nixon's 1972 reelection, after which he was replaced by Gerald Ford.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

FDR had three vice presidents, with John Nance Garner serving for his first two terms, Henry Wallace for his third, and Harrry Truman for his brief fourth.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

Schuyler Colfax was replaced with Henry Wilson to be Grant's reelection running mate. Garret Hobart died in office, and Theodore Roosevelt became vice president upon William McKinley's reelection.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

John C. Calhoun resigned towards the end of Jackson's first term, having been replaced by Martin Van Buren as his running mate. Hannibal Hamlin was replaced with Andrew Johnson as Lincoln's running mate in the 1864 election.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

Aaron Burr was replaced as Jefferson's running mate in the 1804 election with George Clinton. Both of Madison's VPs, George Clinton and Elbridge Gerry died in office.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

Presidents Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Franklin Roosevelt, Nixon, and Trump all had more than one vice president, with Cleveland and Trump being due to their respective nonconsecutive two terms.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

George Clinton and John C. Calhoun are the only VPs to serve for more than one president, with Clinton serving as VP for Thomas Jefferson's second term and most of James Madison's first term. Calhoun served as John Quincy Adams' VP and for most of Andrew Jackson's first term.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

John C. Calhoun and Spiro Agnew are the only vice presidents to have resigned from the office.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller are the only vice presidents to have assumed the office via the conditions of the 25th amendment following its adoption.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

Vice Presidents who assumed the presidency following a President's death also meant the vice presidency remained vacant until the next election, again, until the adoption of the 25th amendment (before which the speaker of the house was next in line for the presidency).

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

Vice Presidents George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, William R. King, Henry Wilson, Thomas A. Hendricks, Garret Hobart, and James S. Sherman all died in office...and before the 25th amendment, this meant the office remained vacant until the next election.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

John C. Breckenridge, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Al Gore, and Kamala Harris are VPs who ran for president but didn't win (I'm only counting the major party nominees, but if I wasn't Mike Pence would technically count, for his brief 2024 campaign).

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

And then there's Gerald Ford who assumed the presidency following Nixon's resignation (Ford is also the only president who wasn't elected to either the presidency or vice presidency, having assumed that office via the circumstances of the 25th Amendment).

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

Tyler, Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, and Lyndon Johnson were all VPs who assumed the office following the death of the president, with Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman and LBJ all going on to be elected to their own respective terms in office.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, Nixon, Bush Sr, and Biden are the only VPs to have been elected president following the end of their predecessor's term (although both Nixon and Biden were elected years after their respective terms as VP had ended).

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 11h

It really is absurd.

It's a nothing job, it kinda belongs to two branches of govt, for the longest time it wasn't even a cabinet level position, but you're also viewed as the heir apparent to the presidency, but your best chance at becoming president is if the president dies.

Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 12h

I think about the vice presidency probably more than most people.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 12h

I think about the vice presidency probably more than most people.

Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 14h

He's not even considered a member of Washington's cabinet. And so considering all of that, it's funny that thr job exists at all. It's funny to me anyway.

Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 14h

Been watching the John Adams HBO series...it's funny to me that the vice presidency exists at all...beyond just the basic requirement of succeeding then president if he dies and the largely ceremonial president of the senate title, even Adams acknowledges its a nothing job.

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 15h

Oh I haven't seen it either but I think James Gray directed it

Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 15h

Off the top of my head that Lost City of Z film

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Jake Brannan @jakebrannan5499.bsky.social · 17h

John Adams fucked