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#Elonald #HerbertHoover #Trumpstein sucks harder than a 120v shop vac on 220v.

Committed war to coverup #EpsteinFiles

Destroying the Whitehouse, parks, and anything else he touches.

Food prices skyrocketing.

Fuel prices skyrocketing.

Subservience to Putin and Netanyahu.

#TotalEpicFailure #TACO

#Elonald #HerbertHoover #Trumpstein sucks harder than a 120v shop vac on 220v.

Committed war to coverup #EpsteinFiles

Destroying the Whitehouse, parks, and anything else he touches.

Food prices skyrocketing.

Fuel prices skyrocketing.

Subservience to Putin and Netanyahu.

#TotalEpicFailure #TACO

#HerbertHoover
#Hoovervilles
#Screwworm
#GoldSprayPaint

#HerbertHoover
#Hoovervilles
#Screwworm
#GoldSprayPaint

The resemblence is uncanny. #DonaldTrump #HerbertHoover

The resemblence is uncanny. #DonaldTrump #HerbertHoover

Trump shifts his tone on Jimmy Carter while grappling with Iran, inflation and his own legacy

WASHINGTON – Jimmy Carter used to be one of President Donald Trump ’s favorite political t…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AndrewJackson #BarackObama #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #Elections #FranklinD.Roosevelt #george-w-bush #HerbertHoover #Iran #JimmyCarter #JoeBiden #JohnathanAdler #OliviaWales #Politics #RonaldReagan #TheodoreRoosevelt #Washingtonnews #WilliamMcKinley
https://www.newsbeep.com/649617/

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Letter (1928-06-14) to George Moses

More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/34175…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #humility #advancement #America #AmericanDream #bootstraps #entitlement #nomination #opportunity #presidency #ragstoriches #selfimprovement

“The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding”*…

As Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr put it, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (“the more things change, the more they stay the same”). Case in point: Derek Thompson reminds us that about 100 years ago, America was obsessed with technology, immigration, women, work, and money. Sound familiar?

[Just over] one hundred years ago, on September 26, 1929, President Herbert Hoover gathered a group of social scientists at the White House. He asked them to begin research on the most detailed report ever produced on the state of the nation. Four years later, running more than 1,500 pages long, Recent Social Trends was published, offering an unusually granular look at life in the mid-1920s.

The document is almost entirely forgotten. But today, for America’s 250th birthday, I’m blowing the cobwebs off this sucker and taking readers inside its yellowed pages for a look back at what life was like in the U.S. exactly 100 years ago, when the U.S. was celebrating its sesquicentennial anniversary…

And what a look it is…

… Imagine that you are the typical American in 1926. You are a white 26-year-old. (In 2026, the median age is 40.) Since most immigrants have been male, we’ll say you’re a guy. Your name is John. Born in the first term of William McKinley’s presidency, you are raised on a farm without flush toilets or electric lighting. Too young to fight in World War I, you come of age alongside a generation that sees war in Europe as a “useless colossal blunder,” in the words of historian David M. Kennedy. Your life—indeed, your entire generation—is shaped by several notable developments: education, urbanization, automation, and women’s rights. You are the first person in your family to finish high school.

At 19, you move from the countryside to an urban apartment, as one small drop in the migratory flood from farm to city. Jobs in manufacturing and retail are easy to find. They’re also easy to lose. Temporary unemployment is the norm. You earn $100 a month and put some away for a rainy day, confident that the bustling city will provide another job in a few months. (Unemployment insurance does not exist; neither does Social Security.) In the evenings, you “radio”; yes, it’s a verb, too. Every weekend, you visit a cineplex, where the movies are black-and-white and silent. Sometimes, you down a few prohibited cocktails and go dancing with flappers. Several times a week, you drive around in a black Model T.

The year 1926 has been good to you. City life is a blur of high-velocity machines—cars, assembly lines, and radio broadcasts—and you sometimes miss the ancient rhythms of your farmland home. One year from now, Charles Lindbergh will shock the world by flying across the Atlantic. In two years, at 28, you’ll be married. In three years, you’ll have a baby. And in four years, in 1930, just months after the biggest stock market crash in American history, the world as you know it will be over…

Thompson goes on to unpack the details of the economy and employment, the migration from farm to city, the extraordinary centrality of the automobile, changing mores and gender roles, the primacy of literature and the rise of radio, and so much more. He concludes…

The authors of Recent Social Trends were astonishingly prescient about the direction of technology. In one paragraph, they somehow anticipated the rise of audiobooks, YouTube, Netflix, smartphone cameras, musical software, ubiquitous air conditioning, and the electric battery revolution:

It may be that the world will find much use for talking books; school and college students may listen to lectures by long-running phonographs or talking pictures; moving pictures may be transmitted by wireless into houses; seeing with that new electric eye, the photo-electric cell, and recording what is seen, appear to have almost unlimited applications; new musical instruments different from any now in use may be given to us by electricity; the production of artificial climate may become widespread; an efficient storage battery of light weight and low cost might produce changes rivaling those of the internal combustion engine. And these are only a few of the myriad possibilities from new inventions in the future!

In an equally oracular section, the authors predicted the emergence of remote work and declining geographic mobility, anticipating that “the transmission of goods, of the voice and possibly of vision may act as a retarding influence on human mobility in the future and may cause a development of more remote and impersonal direction and controls.”

But the social scientists did not see these trends as altogether good. They worried that modern life, defined in equal parts by urbanization and technology, obliterated people’s values and their sense of self. Even as they gawked at the increase in patents—which grew more than 20-fold between the 1850s and the 1920s—they worried that a growing number of discoveries would bring “problems of morals, of education, of law, of leisure time, of unemployment, of speed, of uniformity and of differentiation.”

Social scientists of the 1920s saw machines pushing workers off of farms and competing with workers in manufacturing plants. How long, they wondered, until they would replace human workers in all tasks? “A larger proportion of work by machines, and a smaller proportion of human labor, is to be expected in the future,” they wrote. “There are indeed a few cases of wholly automatic factories and automatic stores and many automatic salesmen.” It is extraordinary to read these fears and not reflect on the AI jobs panic of the present, while also marveling at the thousands of occupations that are possible today precisely because machines made old jobs obsolete.

The dawn of the age of the machine drove us mad. Physicians of the day warned that the frail human mind was no match for the car, predicting at the time that “diseases of the wheel” would afflict the youth who rode bicycles and cars without restraint. It was not entirely obvious that they were wrong. In Germany, the number of patients registered in mental hospitals grew from 40,375 in 1870 to 220,881 in 1910. Over the same period, the share of patients admitted to general hospitals for illnesses of the nervous system rose from 44 to 60 percent.

Most perceptively, social critics of the age recognized that the urban-technological revolution of the early 20th century—what we might even call “modernity”—transformed not only our minds but also our values. Machines and systems that pulled Americans off the farm, away from the family home, and into churning markets of people and products threatened to replace the Judeo-Christian values that had bound the country for centuries with a new system of values dictated by markets. In 1903, the sociologist Georg Simmel anticipated the anxieties of the Twenties—ours and theirs—when he observed that in cities “money takes the place of all the manifoldness of things” and becomes “a common denominator of all values.” Money “hollows out the core of things, their peculiarities, their specific values, and their uniqueness and incomparability in a way which is beyond repair.”

One hundred and twenty years after the publication of that essay, the Wall Street Journal asked thousands of Americans what values were still important to them. While a declining share of Americans endorsed the worthiness of patriotism, religion, community, and children, the share who said “money” was “very important to them” went up. It sometimes seems as if markets and money are the last value standing, the final common denominator beneath all human endeavor.

On its 250th birthday, the U.S. similarly defines itself through markets. Those famous words of Calvin Coolidge, America’s president in 1926, could just as well serve this American president and this American moment: “The chief business of the American people is business.”…

Eminently worth reading in full: “America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are,” from @dkthomp.bsky.social.

You can find the full text of Recent Social Trends in the United States- Report of the President’s Research Committee on Social Trends, from the collection of the remarkable Prelinger Library, at the invaluable Internet Archive: Volume 1 and Volume 2.

* Will and Ariel Durent, The Lessons of History (in which, also: “Progress is an improvement in the means that we use for achieving the same old ends. I sometimes wonder if the progress is only of means without any progress in ends.”)

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As we hear the echo, we might recall that today marks the anniversary of a signature advance during the period covered by Recent Social Trends in the United States: on this date in 1928, sliced bread was sold for the first time, by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

For more on this seminal development, see “What was the best thing before sliced bread?“

source

“The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding”*…

As Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr put it, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (“the more things change, the more they stay the same”). Case in point: Derek Thompson reminds us that about 100 years ago, America was obsessed with technology, immigration, women, work, and money. Sound familiar?

[Just over] one hundred years ago, on September 26, 1929, President Herbert Hoover gathered a group of social scientists at the White House. He asked them to begin research on the most detailed report ever produced on the state of the nation. Four years later, running more than 1,500 pages long, Recent Social Trends was published, offering an unusually granular look at life in the mid-1920s.

The document is almost entirely forgotten. But today, for America’s 250th birthday, I’m blowing the cobwebs off this sucker and taking readers inside its yellowed pages for a look back at what life was like in the U.S. exactly 100 years ago, when the U.S. was celebrating its sesquicentennial anniversary…

And what a look it is…

… Imagine that you are the typical American in 1926. You are a white 26-year-old. (In 2026, the median age is 40.) Since most immigrants have been male, we’ll say you’re a guy. Your name is John. Born in the first term of William McKinley’s presidency, you are raised on a farm without flush toilets or electric lighting. Too young to fight in World War I, you come of age alongside a generation that sees war in Europe as a “useless colossal blunder,” in the words of historian David M. Kennedy. Your life—indeed, your entire generation—is shaped by several notable developments: education, urbanization, automation, and women’s rights. You are the first person in your family to finish high school.

At 19, you move from the countryside to an urban apartment, as one small drop in the migratory flood from farm to city. Jobs in manufacturing and retail are easy to find. They’re also easy to lose. Temporary unemployment is the norm. You earn $100 a month and put some away for a rainy day, confident that the bustling city will provide another job in a few months. (Unemployment insurance does not exist; neither does Social Security.) In the evenings, you “radio”; yes, it’s a verb, too. Every weekend, you visit a cineplex, where the movies are black-and-white and silent. Sometimes, you down a few prohibited cocktails and go dancing with flappers. Several times a week, you drive around in a black Model T.

The year 1926 has been good to you. City life is a blur of high-velocity machines—cars, assembly lines, and radio broadcasts—and you sometimes miss the ancient rhythms of your farmland home. One year from now, Charles Lindbergh will shock the world by flying across the Atlantic. In two years, at 28, you’ll be married. In three years, you’ll have a baby. And in four years, in 1930, just months after the biggest stock market crash in American history, the world as you know it will be over…

Thompson goes on to unpack the details of the economy and employment, the migration from farm to city, the extraordinary centrality of the automobile, changing mores and gender roles, the primacy of literature and the rise of radio, and so much more. He concludes…

The authors of Recent Social Trends were astonishingly prescient about the direction of technology. In one paragraph, they somehow anticipated the rise of audiobooks, YouTube, Netflix, smartphone cameras, musical software, ubiquitous air conditioning, and the electric battery revolution:

It may be that the world will find much use for talking books; school and college students may listen to lectures by long-running phonographs or talking pictures; moving pictures may be transmitted by wireless into houses; seeing with that new electric eye, the photo-electric cell, and recording what is seen, appear to have almost unlimited applications; new musical instruments different from any now in use may be given to us by electricity; the production of artificial climate may become widespread; an efficient storage battery of light weight and low cost might produce changes rivaling those of the internal combustion engine. And these are only a few of the myriad possibilities from new inventions in the future!

In an equally oracular section, the authors predicted the emergence of remote work and declining geographic mobility, anticipating that “the transmission of goods, of the voice and possibly of vision may act as a retarding influence on human mobility in the future and may cause a development of more remote and impersonal direction and controls.”

But the social scientists did not see these trends as altogether good. They worried that modern life, defined in equal parts by urbanization and technology, obliterated people’s values and their sense of self. Even as they gawked at the increase in patents—which grew more than 20-fold between the 1850s and the 1920s—they worried that a growing number of discoveries would bring “problems of morals, of education, of law, of leisure time, of unemployment, of speed, of uniformity and of differentiation.”

Social scientists of the 1920s saw machines pushing workers off of farms and competing with workers in manufacturing plants. How long, they wondered, until they would replace human workers in all tasks? “A larger proportion of work by machines, and a smaller proportion of human labor, is to be expected in the future,” they wrote. “There are indeed a few cases of wholly automatic factories and automatic stores and many automatic salesmen.” It is extraordinary to read these fears and not reflect on the AI jobs panic of the present, while also marveling at the thousands of occupations that are possible today precisely because machines made old jobs obsolete.

The dawn of the age of the machine drove us mad. Physicians of the day warned that the frail human mind was no match for the car, predicting at the time that “diseases of the wheel” would afflict the youth who rode bicycles and cars without restraint. It was not entirely obvious that they were wrong. In Germany, the number of patients registered in mental hospitals grew from 40,375 in 1870 to 220,881 in 1910. Over the same period, the share of patients admitted to general hospitals for illnesses of the nervous system rose from 44 to 60 percent.

Most perceptively, social critics of the age recognized that the urban-technological revolution of the early 20th century—what we might even call “modernity”—transformed not only our minds but also our values. Machines and systems that pulled Americans off the farm, away from the family home, and into churning markets of people and products threatened to replace the Judeo-Christian values that had bound the country for centuries with a new system of values dictated by markets. In 1903, the sociologist Georg Simmel anticipated the anxieties of the Twenties—ours and theirs—when he observed that in cities “money takes the place of all the manifoldness of things” and becomes “a common denominator of all values.” Money “hollows out the core of things, their peculiarities, their specific values, and their uniqueness and incomparability in a way which is beyond repair.”

One hundred and twenty years after the publication of that essay, the Wall Street Journal asked thousands of Americans what values were still important to them. While a declining share of Americans endorsed the worthiness of patriotism, religion, community, and children, the share who said “money” was “very important to them” went up. It sometimes seems as if markets and money are the last value standing, the final common denominator beneath all human endeavor.

On its 250th birthday, the U.S. similarly defines itself through markets. Those famous words of Calvin Coolidge, America’s president in 1926, could just as well serve this American president and this American moment: “The chief business of the American people is business.”…

Eminently worth reading in full: “America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are,” from @dkthomp.bsky.social.

You can find the full text of Recent Social Trends in the United States- Report of the President’s Research Committee on Social Trends, from the collection of the remarkable Prelinger Library, at the invaluable Internet Archive: Volume 1 and Volume 2.

* Will and Ariel Durent, The Lessons of History (in which, also: “Progress is an improvement in the means that we use for achieving the same old ends. I sometimes wonder if the progress is only of means without any progress in ends.”)

###

As we hear the echo, we might recall that today marks the anniversary of a signature advance during the period covered by Recent Social Trends in the United States: on this date in 1928, sliced bread was sold for the first time, by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

For more on this seminal development, see “What was the best thing before sliced bread?“

source

@gooba42
I'd add:

No evidence #HerbertHoover was a Child Sex Trafficking #pedophile, either.

@gooba42
I'd add:

No evidence #HerbertHoover was a Child Sex Trafficking #pedophile, either.

#DisasterDon told reporters at the G7 that he is ending his War with #Iran b/c he doesn't want to go down in history beside #HerbertHoover.

No chance of that.

Hoover was a war hero, flying aid packages into Germany after WWI, and (STUNNINGLY) selected A NATIVE AMERICAN as his VP (the highest office any NatAm has ever held.)

Despite economic disaster, he still won 40% of the popular vote in 1932 vs #FDR.

No Don, you'll be WELL BELOW Hoover in the history books as #WorstPotusEver.

#DisasterDon told reporters at the G7 that he is ending his War with #Iran b/c he doesn't want to go down in history beside #HerbertHoover.

No chance of that.

Hoover was a war hero, flying aid packages into Germany after WWI, and (STUNNINGLY) selected A NATIVE AMERICAN as his VP (the highest office any NatAm has ever held.)

Despite economic disaster, he still won 40% of the popular vote in 1932 vs #FDR.

No Don, you'll be WELL BELOW Hoover in the history books as #WorstPotusEver.

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

In the Middle Ages it was the fashion to wear hair shirts to remind one’s self of trouble and sin. Many years ago I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The President differs only from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1929-12-14), Gridiron Club, Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.

More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/10950…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #humility #mortification #penance #president #reminder #repentance #sinfulness #trouble

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

In the Middle Ages it was the fashion to wear hair shirts to remind one’s self of trouble and sin. Many years ago I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The President differs only from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1929-12-14), Gridiron Club, Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.

More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/10950…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #humility #mortification #penance #president #reminder #repentance #sinfulness #trouble

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

   The very basis of Representative Government is a two‐party system. It is one of the essential checks and balances against inefficiency, dishonesty, and tyranny.
   An organized, effective opposition which insists upon disclosure of the facts and submits them to the anvil of debate is the one safety Representative Government has.
   Moreover, the people must have alternative programs of action upon which they may decide at the ballot box.
   Beyond this, any party in power accumulates barnacles and deadwood which can only be rid by a change in administration.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1951-08-01), “On the Two-Party System,” Utah Republican Outing, Salt Lake City, Utah

More info about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/78694…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #alternatives #democracy #innovation #opposition #partisanship #party #politicalparty #progress #twopartysystem #voting #representativegovernment

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil. Or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior. Or by cynical acceptance of dishonor. These evils have defeated nations many times in human history.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)

More info about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/78658…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #complaisance #cynicism #danger #decline #dishonor #evil #scandal #threat #nationalsecurity #nationalstrength

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

   The duty of public men in this Republic is to lead in standards of integrity — both in mind and money.
   Dishonor in public life has a double poison. When people are dishonorable in private business, they injure only those with whom they deal or their own chances in the next world. But when there is a lack of honor in Government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
   Some folks seem to think these are necessary evils in a free government. Or that it is smart politics. Those are deadly sleeping pills. No public man can be just a little crooked.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/18705…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #badgovernment #cleverness #corruption #freegovernment #goodgovernment #government #graft #immorality #integrity #morality #necessaryevil #politics #publicfigure #publicservice #publicservant

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

Ours is a land rich in resources, stimulating in its glorious beauty, filled with millions of happy homes, blessed with comfort and opportunity. In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity, and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1928-32)
Speech (1929-03-04), Inaugural Address

Seven months before the Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression.

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/17215…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #hubris #nationalstrength #optimism #pride #prosperity #nationalism

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope that the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny that he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, President of the US (1928-32)
Memoirs: Years of Adventure, 1874–1920, ch. 11 “The Profession of Engineering” (1952)

Sourcing, extensive notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/77615…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoover #herberthoover #engineer #engineering #error #exposure #failure #mistake #reputation

Since DJT has said he doesn't want to be another Herbert Hoover, let's start referring to him as Donald "Herbert Hoover" Trump. #HerbertHoover #DonaldHerberttHooverTrump #Stockmarket #tariffs

“All this suggests a failure to look around corners — which is hardly new in the American presidency. #HerbertHoover signed the #Smoot_Hawleytariffs in June 1930, thinking they would help create jobs, then went fishing. They instead accelerated the #GreatDepression.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/trump-tariffs-global-trade-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Historian #HeatherCoxRichardson with a typically timely, crucial, & interesting history lesson…
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-28-2024
#1929StockMarketCrash #GreatDepression #HerbertHoover #FDR #NewDeal #SocialSafetyNet #WWII #fascism #DwightEisenhower

Historian #HeatherCoxRichardson with a typically timely, crucial, & interesting history lesson…
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-28-2024
#1929StockMarketCrash #GreatDepression #HerbertHoover #FDR #NewDeal #SocialSafetyNet #WWII #fascism #DwightEisenhower

@theusasingers
AN INTERESTING STATISTIC:

While #HerbertHoover's #GreatDepression was devastating and he ended up only winning 6 states in 1932, he STILL won 40% of the popular vote nationally.

It's entirely possible #Harris could end up with a map looking more like #Carter's 1976 win over Ford, SO many of those wins could be narrow 1% victories that #TheOrangeToddler could tie up the results with Recounts & Court battles for months. 😒 (map: Yes, Ford took CA and Carter took Texas.)

@theusasingers
AN INTERESTING STATISTIC:

While #HerbertHoover's #GreatDepression was devastating and he ended up only winning 6 states in 1932, he STILL won 40% of the popular vote nationally.

It's entirely possible #Harris could end up with a map looking more like #Carter's 1976 win over Ford, SO many of those wins could be narrow 1% victories that #TheOrangeToddler could tie up the results with Recounts & Court battles for months. 😒 (map: Yes, Ford took CA and Carter took Texas.)

Trump says he hopes economy crashes in next 12 months: ‘I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover’

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4396467-trump-says-he-hopes-economy-crashes-in-next-12-months-i-dont-want-to-be-herbert-hoover/

#TrumpEconomyCrash #HerbertHoover #USPolitics #EconomicForecast #PresidentialRemarks #CampaignNews #Politics #News

Trump says he hopes economy crashes in next 12 months: ‘I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover’

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4396467-trump-says-he-hopes-economy-crashes-in-next-12-months-i-dont-want-to-be-herbert-hoover/

#TrumpEconomyCrash #HerbertHoover #USPolitics #EconomicForecast #PresidentialRemarks #CampaignNews #Politics #News

THIS #GOP controlled #CONGRESS NEARLY TIED THE RECORD OF *THE LEAST PRODUCTIVE CONGRESS IN HISTORY since #HerbertHoover. #DoNothingCongress https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-this-congress-is-pitiful-historically-weak-output-from-a-vital-institution-199993413869

THIS #GOP controlled #CONGRESS NEARLY TIED THE RECORD OF *THE LEAST PRODUCTIVE CONGRESS IN HISTORY since #HerbertHoover. #DoNothingCongress https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-this-congress-is-pitiful-historically-weak-output-from-a-vital-institution-199993413869

30th #POTUS #CalvinCoolidge on his successor and fellow #Republican #HerbertHoover : "For six years that man has given me unsolicited advice – all of it bad." 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge#CITEREFFerrell1998

The #GreatDepression began during Herbert Hoover’s lone term as President. 🤷🏻‍♂️

30th #POTUS #CalvinCoolidge on his successor and fellow #Republican #HerbertHoover : "For six years that man has given me unsolicited advice – all of it bad." 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge#CITEREFFerrell1998

The #GreatDepression began during Herbert Hoover’s lone term as President. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#Drag #History : On April 7, 1918, the Society page of The #SanAntonio Light newspaper, excitedly announced a “Womanless Wedding” featuring a cast of the #Texas city's most prominent citizens in an all-male production. “As the name implies, the entire bridal party will be made up of men and it is whispered that the bride, a fairy-like young thing tipping the scales at 300 pounds or thereabouts, will be costumed in marvelous fashion. There will be bridesmaids galore and dainty little girls to strew posies in the path of the blushing bride.” Partaking in the drag were prominent local politicians and businessmen, architects and even the city's top funeral director. Performed at Beethoven Hall on the first day of the city's annual Fiesta celebration, the occasion attracted important #GOP dignitaries such as President and Mrs. #WoodrowWilson, Mr. and Mrs. #HerbertHoover, and General Jack Pershing . Womanless Weddings were apparently a popular #gender bender fundraising gambit held throughout Texas

#Drag #History : On April 7, 1918, the Society page of The #SanAntonio Light newspaper, excitedly announced a “Womanless Wedding” featuring a cast of the #Texas city's most prominent citizens in an all-male production. “As the name implies, the entire bridal party will be made up of men and it is whispered that the bride, a fairy-like young thing tipping the scales at 300 pounds or thereabouts, will be costumed in marvelous fashion. There will be bridesmaids galore and dainty little girls to strew posies in the path of the blushing bride.” Partaking in the drag were prominent local politicians and businessmen, architects and even the city's top funeral director. Performed at Beethoven Hall on the first day of the city's annual Fiesta celebration, the occasion attracted important #GOP dignitaries such as President and Mrs. #WoodrowWilson, Mr. and Mrs. #HerbertHoover, and General Jack Pershing . Womanless Weddings were apparently a popular #gender bender fundraising gambit held throughout Texas

10/23 Republican and northerner #WarrenGHarding won in 1920, promising a "return to normalcy" after WWI.

The #Roaring20s were years of wealth and Wall Street. Even the growing oil industry was still primarily a northern thing (Pennsylvania/Appalachian Basin). #CalvinCoolidge's 1924 campaign slogan was "Keep cool and keep Coolidge."

The Republicans were sliding towards conserving the status quo! Republican and northerner #HerbertHoover won in 1928 hoping the good times would keep rolling.

A post on then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover's "The Home as an Investment" remarks.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/herbert-hoovers-better-homes-remarks-the-home-as-an-investment/

#history #ushistory #herberthoover #betterhomes

https://archive.org/details/occupationofhaiti

The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 by Hans Schmidt

Topics
#Haiti, #Ayiti, #unitedstatesofamerika, #slavery, #whitesupremacy, #history, #neocolonialism, #antiblackness, #colonialism, #Caribbean, #USMarines, #Marines, #UnitedStatesMarineCorps, #Citibank, #genocide, #counterinsurgency, #racism, #guerrillawarfare, #WoodrowWilson, #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt, #HerbertHoover, #CalvinCoolidge, #WarrenGamalielHarding, #laborhistory

Table of contents:

Frontmatter
Foreword (Stephen Solarz, page ix)
Acknowledgments (page xvii)
1 Introduction (page 3)
2 Haiti before the Intervention (page 19)
3 The Decision to Intervene (page 42)
4 The Interverntion (page 64)
5 The Marines Take Charge (page 82)
6 Reorganization and Rationalization (page 108)
7 Racial and Cultural Tensions (page 135)
8 Uplift—The Prospects (page 154)
9 Uplift—Success and Failure (page 174)
10 Strikes and Riots (page 189)
11 Withdrawal (page 207)
12 Epilogue (page 231)
Notes (page 239)
Bibliography (page 285)
Index (page 299)