trivia time who was FDR's first vice president?
No, he didn’t. FDR was a major reason Dixiecrat “segregationists” turned Republican in the first place.
Implementing wildly popular public policy is the one instance in which compromise is completely unnecessary, and it’s utterly craven to misrepresent it as otherwise in this moment in time.
Implementing wildly popular public policy is the one instance in which compromise is completely unnecessary, and it’s utterly craven to misrepresent it as otherwise in this moment in time.
January 12, 2026 at 8:11 PM
trivia time who was FDR's first vice president?
This is a good time to revisit my seminal 2022 piece on the long-running war between gold-obsessed propertarians and the Federal Reserve. The DOJ action against Powell is revenge for FDR’s 1933 Executive Order 6102.
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Paranoia on Parade | Washington Spectator
How reactionary grievances have helped bring America’s democracy to the brink of collapse
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January 12, 2026 at 2:36 AM
This is a good time to revisit my seminal 2022 piece on the long-running war between gold-obsessed propertarians and the Federal Reserve. The DOJ action against Powell is revenge for FDR’s 1933 Executive Order 6102.
washingtonspectator.org/paranoia-on-...
washingtonspectator.org/paranoia-on-...
More people need to read/listen to FDR's fireside chats.
January 13, 2026 at 1:28 AM
More people need to read/listen to FDR's fireside chats.
Never forget FDR's famous battle cry of 1941: "Herr Hitler ran on improving the German economy, and he declares war on us to distract from his failures. The German people have noticed that the Mark buys them less and less gasoline with every passing month."
January 11, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Never forget FDR's famous battle cry of 1941: "Herr Hitler ran on improving the German economy, and he declares war on us to distract from his failures. The German people have noticed that the Mark buys them less and less gasoline with every passing month."
Contrast the bluntness of this pamphlet with the handwringing and pivot-to-kitchen-table approach from Democratic elites today.
FDR’s government trusted Americans to be smart and adult.
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FDR’s government trusted Americans to be smart and adult.
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January 9, 2026
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.
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January 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Contrast the bluntness of this pamphlet with the handwringing and pivot-to-kitchen-table approach from Democratic elites today.
FDR’s government trusted Americans to be smart and adult.
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FDR’s government trusted Americans to be smart and adult.
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I think the problem is that history remembers Lincoln's Gettysburg and FDR's December 7th speeches. But it doesn't remember the hundreds of other speeches necessary to get to that point.
January 11, 2026 at 3:34 AM
I think the problem is that history remembers Lincoln's Gettysburg and FDR's December 7th speeches. But it doesn't remember the hundreds of other speeches necessary to get to that point.
You know if you want to revisit FDR’s New Deal, we’ll have to make sure that this time it’s for EVERYBODY, right?
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 AM
You know if you want to revisit FDR’s New Deal, we’ll have to make sure that this time it’s for EVERYBODY, right?
Yes? FDR's threat to pack the court is a load-bearing element of the modern American government.
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Yes? FDR's threat to pack the court is a load-bearing element of the modern American government.
Nationalization of oil didn’t happen during WWII (even though FDR’s Secretary of Interior Ickes did want to do it).
It didn’t happen during the oil crises of the 1970s.
And I thought it was a right-wing talking point that it was what misguided democratic socialists wanted.
But now…
It didn’t happen during the oil crises of the 1970s.
And I thought it was a right-wing talking point that it was what misguided democratic socialists wanted.
But now…
BRENNAN: Do you want to own portions of oil companies?
CHRIS WRIGHT: That's certainly a very real possibility
CHRIS WRIGHT: That's certainly a very real possibility
January 11, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Nationalization of oil didn’t happen during WWII (even though FDR’s Secretary of Interior Ickes did want to do it).
It didn’t happen during the oil crises of the 1970s.
And I thought it was a right-wing talking point that it was what misguided democratic socialists wanted.
But now…
It didn’t happen during the oil crises of the 1970s.
And I thought it was a right-wing talking point that it was what misguided democratic socialists wanted.
But now…
It's common to FDR's rhetoric well into WWII!
And it's not wrong!
see, e.g., this from a 1943 speech in Ottawa: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
And it's not wrong!
see, e.g., this from a 1943 speech in Ottawa: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
It's common to FDR's rhetoric well into WWII!
And it's not wrong!
see, e.g., this from a 1943 speech in Ottawa: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
And it's not wrong!
see, e.g., this from a 1943 speech in Ottawa: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
Are you sure that the term "Dixiecrats" was ever used during FDR's lifetime?
January 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Are you sure that the term "Dixiecrats" was ever used during FDR's lifetime?
FDR's 'fireside chats' were how he sold his policies to doubtful Americans -- and it worked brilliantly. Dems have run away from this style of politicking -- to the detriment of the party and the nation.
January 13, 2026 at 1:15 PM
FDR's 'fireside chats' were how he sold his policies to doubtful Americans -- and it worked brilliantly. Dems have run away from this style of politicking -- to the detriment of the party and the nation.
FDR's first Veep, Cactus Jack Garner, was an asshole. Classic Dixiecrat dickhead.
But he did leave us with a memorable phrase. The Vice Presidency was "not worth a bucket of warm spit."
But he did leave us with a memorable phrase. The Vice Presidency was "not worth a bucket of warm spit."
January 10, 2026 at 6:28 PM
FDR's first Veep, Cactus Jack Garner, was an asshole. Classic Dixiecrat dickhead.
But he did leave us with a memorable phrase. The Vice Presidency was "not worth a bucket of warm spit."
But he did leave us with a memorable phrase. The Vice Presidency was "not worth a bucket of warm spit."
FDR's Labor Secretary Frances Perkins happened to have been in the area that day & saw the women jumping to their deaths to escape the flames. She later argued that the New Deal with its labor protections began the day of the Triangle Fire. www.hbomax.com/movies/trian...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
FDR's Labor Secretary Frances Perkins happened to have been in the area that day & saw the women jumping to their deaths to escape the flames. She later argued that the New Deal with its labor protections began the day of the Triangle Fire. www.hbomax.com/movies/trian...
*curtis yarvin voice*
when we look at the jews in fdr’s circle
when we look at the jews in fdr’s circle
January 7, 2026 at 8:01 PM
*curtis yarvin voice*
when we look at the jews in fdr’s circle
when we look at the jews in fdr’s circle
FDR's Second Bill of Rights:
Employment
An adequate income for food, shelter, and RECREATION
Farmers' rights to a fair income
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Decent housing
Adequate medical care
Social security
Education
It's never too late to expand our hopes and horizons :)
Employment
An adequate income for food, shelter, and RECREATION
Farmers' rights to a fair income
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Decent housing
Adequate medical care
Social security
Education
It's never too late to expand our hopes and horizons :)
January 10, 2026 at 3:19 AM
FDR's Second Bill of Rights:
Employment
An adequate income for food, shelter, and RECREATION
Farmers' rights to a fair income
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Decent housing
Adequate medical care
Social security
Education
It's never too late to expand our hopes and horizons :)
Employment
An adequate income for food, shelter, and RECREATION
Farmers' rights to a fair income
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Decent housing
Adequate medical care
Social security
Education
It's never too late to expand our hopes and horizons :)
“When Mamdani declares, ‘This new age will be one of relentless improvement,’ he echoes [FDR’s] claim, amid the desolation of the Depression, that ‘the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.’”—Corey Robin
Democratic Excellence | Corey Robin
Zohran Mamdani has introduced several changes to American politics—joining ideological maximalism to policy minimalism, crafting a winning political
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January 13, 2026 at 3:24 AM
“When Mamdani declares, ‘This new age will be one of relentless improvement,’ he echoes [FDR’s] claim, amid the desolation of the Depression, that ‘the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.’”—Corey Robin
Carney’s plan is effectively a 🇨🇦 version of FDR’s New Deal, & we all know how that worked out. The ND resulted in a huge, educated, healthier & far safer middle class, that could look forward to even better lives for their kids.
It also resulted in a very angry ‘elite’ class, who hated sharing.
It also resulted in a very angry ‘elite’ class, who hated sharing.
January 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Carney’s plan is effectively a 🇨🇦 version of FDR’s New Deal, & we all know how that worked out. The ND resulted in a huge, educated, healthier & far safer middle class, that could look forward to even better lives for their kids.
It also resulted in a very angry ‘elite’ class, who hated sharing.
It also resulted in a very angry ‘elite’ class, who hated sharing.
today I learned that the Tennessee Valley Authority was just one step in FDR's plan for total world domination
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
today I learned that the Tennessee Valley Authority was just one step in FDR's plan for total world domination
Quick question: what the FUCK?!?
January 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Quick question: what the FUCK?!?
FDR's actions in 1936 were why African Americans began moving into the Dem party, but as late as 1960, neither party had given the impression as being more supportive of them across the country.
It wasn't until passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that opinion on that had changed.
It wasn't until passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that opinion on that had changed.
January 12, 2026 at 8:52 PM
FDR's actions in 1936 were why African Americans began moving into the Dem party, but as late as 1960, neither party had given the impression as being more supportive of them across the country.
It wasn't until passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that opinion on that had changed.
It wasn't until passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that opinion on that had changed.
Can’t help but juxtapose this with the MAGA people who’ve spent the last few days saying “international law is fake because no one enforces it.” FDR’s like, no, WE enforce it, unified by the power of right.
January 8, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Can’t help but juxtapose this with the MAGA people who’ve spent the last few days saying “international law is fake because no one enforces it.” FDR’s like, no, WE enforce it, unified by the power of right.
That’s really interesting how people gloss over FDR’s racism and the fact that right after signing the so-called emancipation proclamation which didn’t liberate all enslaved people and maintained the legality of enslaving incarcerated people, Lincoln held the largest mass execution in US history
January 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
That’s really interesting how people gloss over FDR’s racism and the fact that right after signing the so-called emancipation proclamation which didn’t liberate all enslaved people and maintained the legality of enslaving incarcerated people, Lincoln held the largest mass execution in US history
The co-founder and CEO of The Federalist is accusing the Trump-appointed 250th commission of being “stupid communists” because they mentioned FDR’s Four Freedoms speech which was famously memorialized by that noted communist, Norman Rockwell.
January 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
The co-founder and CEO of The Federalist is accusing the Trump-appointed 250th commission of being “stupid communists” because they mentioned FDR’s Four Freedoms speech which was famously memorialized by that noted communist, Norman Rockwell.
another informative episode of "A closer look" with Seth Meyers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxYF...
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January 11, 2026 at 11:26 AM
another informative episode of "A closer look" with Seth Meyers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxYF...
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