#The Roosevelts

[diioonysus]

old money families of the gilded age

#they 100% profited off of other people's poverty and lives #plus there's the guy who essentially created walmart in there #old money #gilded age #the vanderbilts #the duponts #weren't they keeping it in the family? #the rockefellers #fuck them #the astors #the mellons #the morgans #the dukes #the roosevelts #the hearsts #1800s #19th century

[deadpresidents]

In 1979, Alice Roosevelt Longworth was a long, long way away from her days as a wild child -- in every sense. But a wild child she had been. In her heyday, she could generate more newspaper print than her father, if she cared to. And this when her father just happened to be the President of the United States. She tipped off newspapers about where she'd be and what she'd be up to, then pocketed the cash for the info. Of course she did it to stick a finger in his eye. Of course she did it to get back at him for not loving her the way she needed.

She was born before women could vote, before cars were invented, before electricity lighted homes. She was brilliant before women were allowed to be brilliant. She was beautiful, rich, and privileged. But she was also shy and so learned how to control the media from offstage.

She carried a dagger, a snake, and the Constitution in her purse and became the first woman to drive a car forty-five miles an hour. When her father told her she could not smoke under his roof, she climbed to the top of the White House and smoked there, on the roof.

Coming of age when birth control was a matter of rhythm, she said, "Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." Which included sex. When she was a teenager, her stepmother, Edith Carow, begged her husband, then the Governor of New York, to send his daughter to a boarding school because "she had the habit of running the streets uncontrolled with every boy in town." The wild child straight-out told her father, "If you send me, I will do something that will shame you. I tell you, I will."

-- White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America (BOOK | KINDLE) by Shelley Fraser Mickle, Imagine! Books/Charlesbridge Publishing, 2023

#Alice Roosevelt #Alice Roosevelt Longworth #Theodore Roosevelt #The Roosevelts #Roosevelt Family #History #Presidents #First Families #First Daughter #White House Wild Child #White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America #Shelley Fraser Mickle #Imagine! Books #Charlesbridge Publishing

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

#kai rambles #so like #i enjoy ships and learning about them and looking at them but like #i dont really care for warships #i dont hate them viscerally like i do cruise ships but i never really care for them #apart from the ones that were just like either ridiculously designed like the hms captain or the vasa or the novgorod #or the ones where just insane shit happened like with the william d porter #like this isnt even the extent of the porters unfortunate incidents like shr was sank by a kamikaze attack that MISSED #but somehow ended up below the ship and exploded and just like yeeted the porter out of the water #william d porter #uss william d porter #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #warships #again warships are really not my thing but god some of them are so fucking funny #uss iowa #fdr #franklin d. roosevelt #this suddenly got so many notes in like less than 24 hours what the fuck #shipposting

[perfectfeelings]

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#Eleanor Roosevelt #motivation #quotes #poetry #literature #relationship quotes #writing #original #words #love #relationship #thoughts #lit #prose #spilled ink #inspiring quotes #life quotes #quoteoftheday #love quotes #poem #aesthetic

[batcavescolony]

Zeus: POSEIDON CONTROL YOUR CHILD!

Poseidon: I can do one of two things. I can be the God of the Sea or I can control Perseus Jackson. I cannot possibly do both.

#based on a Teddy Roosevelt quote about his daughter #I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. I cannot possibly do both. #incorect quote #pjo #percy jackson #perseus jackson #teddy roosevelt #rick riordan #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo poseidon #pjo zeus #sally jackson #incorrect pjo quotes #i thought it fit #chb #alice roosevelt #alice roosevelt longworth

[davidcashuk]

Theodore Roosevelt made this entry into his diary on Thursday 14 February 1884 - the day his wife and mother both died!😔💔

#theodore roosevelt #teddy roosevelt #usa #history #bereavement #diary entry #sad quotes #loss #wife #mother

[fashionsfromhistory]

Ball Gown

Driscoll (United States)

c.1900

Gift of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1976

The MET (Accession Number: 1976.134.14a, b)

#ball gown #fashion history #historical fashion #alice roosevelt #evening dress #1900s #1900 #united states #driscoll #silk #off white #turn of the century #the met #i'm curious if this is one of her debut dresses #certainly tracks timeline wise

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us supreme court #2022 elections #2022 midterms #us congress #us house of representatives #us senate #biden administration #rep. alexandria ocasio cortez #new york #us history #President Franklin d. Roosevelt #president abraham lincoln #abortions #abortion bans #roe v. wade #scotus #us politics #news #twitter #tweet #2022 #progressives #progressivism #democrats

[bruciemilf]

IMAGINE AN AU WHERE THOMAS AND MARTHA COME BACK TO LIFE??? No magic explains it. No science CAN.

Tim is wrecking his brains trying to find a logical, sane reason as to why his dead grandparents (who aren't dead - for the time being) are currently sitting in the living room, eating Alfred's cookies, and looking around for Bruce

" Chum?! Chum! It's dad! Come here! Who's this in our living room?"

" Bruce! Mommy's home! I'm sorry for being gone for so long, but that movie was just so long, I-"

Tim freezes. They think Bruce is still eight.

And Bruce walks in; drawn by the noise and Alfred's attempts to sit the pair down.

More wound than man, drowning in a dark shirt and sweatpants, eyes punched purple and dark red and bruised to hell and back;

His arm is broken, his leg too, and Tim knows for a fact he shouldn't be walking around with those five broken ribs. But God, - he's never seen his dad look so tiny before; So glassy-eyed and shaken.

For the love of all that's holy let Martha Wayne gently frame Bruce's face with her hands and stare at him, dusting off time with her eyes, and let Thomas do the same.

"...Mama?"

" ...BRUCE?!"

LET THOMAS AND MARTHA BE PROTECTIVE AS FUCK OVER THEIR SON! LET THEM MEET THEIR GRANDKIDS! Let Thomas " Catch These Hands" Wayne and Jason " Catch This Murder" Todd BOND.

" Look, I know what you're going to say, Gramps. I shouldn't blame dad for not wanting to kill Joker,"

" Yes, but that's behind us, big guy"

" And that murder isn't the answer and that I should just move on, but,-"

" Oh, no! That guy's a monster and we need to put him down. What's his address?"

GIVE ME BRUCE AND MARTHA PLAYING PIANO TOGETHER WHILE CASS FORCES DAMIAN INTO A DANCE WITH HER! GIVE ME MARTHA MAKING DICK BLUSH BY ASKING ABOUT " this pretty Kori girl in your phone"

Most importantly, give me Thomas and Martha Wayne trying to convince Bruce to give up Batman. Thomas says it'd be an easy enough job, someone else can do it! Bruce pouts, " Try doing it, then"

Thomas almost breaks his back by pretending to be Batman for like a night and becomes the new meme of Gotham when he steals a shotgun from Alfred and just patrols with it

#thomas wayne has teddy Roosevelt vibes no i will not elaborate #bruce wayne #thomas wayne #martha wayne #jason todd #dick grayson #tim drake #damian wayne #batfam #batfamily #alternative universe #dc #dc comics #text #text post

[sir-buddy]

Sometimes I think I'm funny.

#are you guys excited for Barbie? #art #my art #night at the museum #natm #movie theater #barbie #barbie movie #larry daley #jedediah smith #gaius octavius #nick daley #teddy roosevelt #sacagawea #atilla the hun #christopher columbus #cavemen #civil wars guys #the minis all share two seats

[nightvaleofficial]

#wtnv #welcome to night vale #quotes #eleanor roosevelt

[shwarmadillo]

nobody is doing it like jess and brennan

#‘I’m gonna bring back the teddy like I’m fucking roosevelt’ HELLO????? SHE IMPROVED THAT???? #dropout #make some noise #jess mckenna #brennan lee mulligan #also the slow zoom kills me every time lololol #story time is boring time

[deadpresidents]

PLEASE settle this debate between me & my friend! Was Eleanor Roosevelt a blood relative to Teddy or was she related by marriage when she married Franklin????

Eleanor Roosevelt was Theodore Roosevelt's favorite niece. She was the only child of TR's only brother and, as President, Theodore Roosevelt gave Eleanor away at her and Franklin's wedding. Theodore and FDR were fifth cousins. So, not only was Eleanor also a blood relative of Theodore Roosevelt but she was a much closer relation to TR than Franklin was.

#Eleanor Roosevelt #History #Presidents #First Ladies #Theodore Roosevelt #Franklin D. Roosevelt #TR #FDR #President Roosevelt #The Roosevelts #First Families

[thoughtkick]

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#Eleanor Roosevelt #motivation #quotes #poetry #literature #relationship quotes #writing #original #words #love #relationship #thoughts #lit #prose #spilled ink #inspiring quotes #life quotes #quoteoftheday #love quotes #poem #aesthetic

[alwaysbewoke]

#history #us presidents #george washington #thomas jefferson #theodore roosevelt #abraham lincoln

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Theodore Roosevelt hired a milf to advise him on all his important decisions while he was president.

#dream #theodore roosevelt #potus #poltiics #president