#whig

[east-10th-mcdonnals]

#mcdonalds #mcdonald's #fast food #18th century #revolutionary war #american revolution #whig #george washington #cosplay

[radiofreederry]

I’m starting Whigblr

#whiggism #whig #whig party #william henry harrison #whh #tippecanoe and tyler too #1840 #whigs #will harrison #henry clay #the american system #internal improvements #anti-jacksonianism #parliamentism #tariff policy #protective tariffs #my post

[empirearchives]

Napoleon on the death of Charles James Fox

Context: Napoleon and Fox met in person during the Peace of Amiens. Fox was a radical British politician at the time and a strong critic of Britain’s wars against France

The death of Fox, Napoleon ever deemed one of the greatest of calamities. At St. Helena he said, “Half a dozen such men as Fox and Cornwallis would be sufficient to establish the moral character of a nation. With such men I should always have agreed. We should soon have settled our differences, and not only France would have been at peace with a nation at bottom worthy of esteem, but we should have done great things together.” Again he said, “Fame had informed me of his talents. I found that he possessed a noble character, a good heart, liberal, generous, and enlightened views. I considered him an ornament to mankind, and was very much attached to him.” And again he remarked, “Certainly the death of Fox was one of the fatalities of my career. Had his life been prolonged, affairs would hare taken a totally different turn. The cause of the people would have triumphed, and we should have established a new order of things in Europe.”

Source: The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte, by John S. C. Abbott

#John S. C. Abbott #John abbott #joseph Abbott #fox #Charles James Fox #abbott #Napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #napoleonic era #napoleonic #first french empire #19th century #french empire #france #history #french revolution #Bonaparte #Whig

[kramlabs]

“What’s the difference between Speaker Pelosi and Speaker Johnson? There’s not one.”

“The amendment – backed by an unlikely alliance of left-wing progressives and hardline conservatives – received 212 votes for and 212 votes against. However, Johnson used his tie breaking vote to defeat the amendment, ensuring that the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens can continue,,,”

https://www.rt.com/news/595836-us-fisa-vote-johnson/

#everything is fucking managed #whig #uniparty #empire of lies #fisa

[princetonarchives]

"Several of the students at Princeton College voted the Whig ticket in the recent election, as they had a right to. The Trenton Emporium taunts them with being ‘charity scholars, with having no interest in our institutions and soil;’ and, to cap the climax of its insolence and outrage upon common civility, this Loco Foco organ publishes the names of these students, that ‘our Democratic brethren may know them when they go out to seek employment’! "This is a fair specimen of Van Buren democracy throughout the Union. Intelligent, educated young men are to be proscribed--their names published on a Loco Foco black list…"

Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, October 25, 1843

#1840s #voting #Whig #Democrat #Princeton #town of Princeton #quote #Princetonquote #Martin van Buren #democracy #On This Day

[rosscountyhistoricalsociety]

One of the treasures in the collection of the Ross County Historical Society is a hand-painted banner on silk. In 1848, presidential candidate Zachary Taylor visited Chillicothe to campaign. The organizers of the event offered an incentive to the township which sent the largest number of people to the rally - this beautifully painted banner. The Whig organization in Liberty Township was the winner.

The image shows Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista, a conflict he won with a force of 5,000 men against an army from Mexico thrice its size. Across the bottom of the banner is painted his slogan from the battle. Standing beside Taylor is Colonel Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederate States of America, and Major William Bliss, the general’s chief of staff.

Unfortunately, the delicate condition of the original doesn’t allow it to be displayed at this time, so we had a replica made for display. That’s the one at the top of the first photo.

#zachary taylor #chillicothe #chillicothe ohio #battle of buena vista #mexican-american war #jefferson davis #william bliss #whig #presidential campaign #1848

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, the tenth Governor of New South Wales, was an aristocratic soldier and Whig politician, the grandson of one duke and son-in-law of another.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

#book quotes #killing for country #david marr #nonfiction #charles augustus fitzroy #governor #nsw #new south wales #australia #aristocratic #soldier #whig #politician #duke #well connected

[elimgarakdemocrat]

In the 2016 U.S.A. Election, Jennifer Laurent (W-CA) won a narrow victory over Frank O'Ryan (D-IL)

#politics #elections #2016 #alt history #alternate history #alternate election map #election map #map #2016 election #whig #whig party #alex jones #Charlie Baker

[mandrocles]

Neoliberalism in brief

Of the endless debate about what "neoliberalism" is, the important thing is in which essential way it differs ("neo") from classic ("whig", "libertarian") liberalism, and I think that can be answered briefly, as libertarianism mixed with rentierism:

Tight fiscal policy, loose credit policy.

Globalist "whig" on labour, goods and services markets but nationalist "tory" on asset markets.

Small government spending as to supporting people and industry, big government spending (including massive central bank intervention) as to supporting finance, real estate, military contractors.

The political background is that while classical liberals were in large part "new money" whig industrialists fighting "old wealth" tory rentiers, in the neoliberal era many industrialists are allied with rentiers because they have become in large rentiers themselves, having over time used "new money" to acquire "old wealth", so their interests are in part "whig" and in large part "tory", and this has allowed a resurgence of "tory" politics along the dominant "whig" ones.

«the Amstrad founder had given him tips on creating long-term wealth. “Lord Sugar said you make money from property and do business for fun. Many of our customers make money from property and I’d love to go into property development one day,” said Mr Wright.»

#neoliberalism #classic liberalism #whig #tory #rentierism

[olganmwriter]

#TuesdayBookBlog EAT THE POOR (GALBRAITH & POLE BOOK 2) by Tom Williams (@TomCW99) A supernatural mystery with a sharp sense of humour #RBRT

#TuesdayBookBlog EAT THE POOR (GALBRAITH & POLE BOOK 2) by Tom Williams (@TomCW99) A supernatural mystery with a sharp sense of humour #RBRT

Hi all: I bring you another book from Rosie’s Book Review Team that I discovered thanks to some of the reviews by other members. They were right! Eat the Poor (Galbraith & Pole Book 2) by Tom Williams Eat the Poor (Galbraith & Pole Book 2) by Tom Williams A werewolf is on the loose in London. Chief Inspector Pole, the vampire from the mysterious Section S, teams up once again with his human…

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#Galbraith and Pole #Humour #mystery #paranormal #police department #politics #social criticism #supernatural #Tom Williams #UK #Vampire #Werewolf #whig

[geekysteven]

[Image description Stock photo of two business type people shaking hands. Woman on the left has Liz Truss' face, man on the right has William Henry Harrison's face]

#uk politics #liz truss #william henry harrison #us history #fuck the tories #Fuck the whigs too #geekysteven

[surfer-osa]

Sono mesi che semino cuori nei posti che bazzico, prima o poi smetteranno di strapparli e le strade saranno veramente di tuttə.

Nel frattempo torno a casa con la compagnia degli Afghan Whigs.

"Follow me down to the bushes dear.

No one will know we'll disappear.

I'll hold your hand, we'll never tell -

Our private little trip to hell".

#percorsi #my photo #pride #afghan whigs #tonight

[deadpresidents]

And we now return to the real Shitshow at the Fuck Factory.

Fun fact: Mike Johnson can only afford to lose two Republican votes without needing the help of Democrats to save his Speakership.

Since the Fuck Factory's Shitshow is so...well...shitty right now, the Democrats will actually probably save the Speaker if the vote to oust Johnson goes to the floor. Now, I fully understand everyone who argues that Mike Johnson is terrible and creepy in a way that you're probably uncomfortable with articulating out loud, but actually finding a way to govern is a pretty good hand to play in an election year if you're a member of...you know...the government. Also, Democrats recognize that we have a Democratic President and a Democratic Senate (barely), and it is imperative to make sure that there's not another three-week void without the House of Representatives functioning. I mean, "functioning" is not exactly an accurate description of what the 118th Congress's House of Representatives does, but even though it is a gross, ugly, cancerous appendage it is still a Constitutional necessity.

#Shitshow at the Fuck Factory #Congress #House of Representatives #Speaker of the House #Mike Johnson #Speaker Johnson #Motion to vacate #U.S. House of Representatives #118th Congress #Constitution #Politics #And as always: off is the direction that Marjorie Taylor Greene should fuck #House Speaker #Bring back the Whigs

[bethanydelleman]

Hello! How are you?

I am reading about political parties during the Regency era and I have a question. Which of Austen's characters do you think are Whigs and which are Tories?

You really going to force me to relearn what Whigs and Tories were? Cruel, cruel nonnie. I'm going to cheat, this is from my favourite thesis on Jane Austen, Above the Vulgar Economy:

As Josephine Ross in Jane Austen: A Companion maintains,

The clear-cut distinctions of modern parliamentary politics had yet to emerge; and while the Whigs in the House of Commons tended to represent the interests of the aristocracy and upper classes, as well as expressing liberal ideals, the Tories – with their broad adherence to the more traditionally middle-class principles of upholding the Crown and keeping disaffection in check – were more identified with the landed gentry, and educated, but modestly situated, families such as the Austens.

At the time, the two party system was still evolving, and there was a great deal of dissention in the ranks. There were reactionaries, reformers and radical members in both parties. There were conservative, moderate and liberal Tories, and the Whig party was factionalized into Portland Whigs, Rockingham Whigs, Benthamites and Foxites to name a few.

Also, I have gotten the impression from reading other novels (eg. Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell) from the time that often people knew which party their family voted for, but knew almost nothing else. Something that totally still happens today!

Here is another great passage:

In fact, when Pride & Prejudice was originally written as First Impressions in 1796 and 1797, Austen‟s novel appears to have been taking a stand in favor of two controversial economic proposals being debated in the House of Commons and in the press, a national minimum wage and Poor Law reform, thus Pride & Prejudice was much more than a satire of manners but was also a political critique of Jane Austen's society. Both proposals were championed at the time by Tory Prime Minister William Pitt, the Younger and supported by liberal Tories and moderate Whigs. Both proposals were vehemently opposed by reactionary Tories and radical Whigs. The eligible bachelors in Pride & Prejudice are all associated with the Whig party, as is Lady Catherine de Bourgh, but the characters, like the Whigs in the House of Commons, have very different attitudes towards money and the working class.

Additionally, Austen's contemporaries would have known that Elizabeth Bennet's agricultural county, Hertfordshire, was, at least for the working class, the poorest county in England, just as Fitzwilliam Darcy's Derbyshire, financially stimulated by the Industrial Revolution, was the richest county, and Lady Catherine de Bourgh‟s Kent was a mixed county that varied enormously, from parish to parish, in prevailing wages and in treatment of the poor. The admirable Whig characters, like Fitzwilliam Darcy and Charles Bingley, are kindly and generous, while the radical Whig, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, is selfish and stingy, and George Wickham is simply an opportunist and a scoundrel. By its presentation of the different Whig characters, the text appears to be appealing to Whigs to be generous to the working class and encouraging Tories to look approvingly on those Whigs who are willing to financially support the poor.

Pride and Prejudice also includes a large number of characters who are servants, many identified by name. As most of them have no dialogue and do nothing to forward the plot, their presence in the novel at all may seem curious, but the depiction of the working class in Pride and Prejudice is more subtle to the modern reader than it would have been to Austen‟s original readers. The servants in Pride and Prejudice refute the assumptions of prominent Whig economists and politicians, Edmund Burke, Frederic Eden and Patrick Colquhoun, who depicted the lower class as ignorant, wasteful and immoral. Lady Catherine‟s financial neglect of the poor in Kent conforms to the economists‟ advice based on their assumptions that the working class was already adequately compensated for its labor and that poverty was the result of the irresponsible behavior of the poor. In stark contrast, Fitzwilliam Darcy‟s generosity to the poor in Derbyshire serves as a model response to poverty, and the general prosperity of Darcy‟s home county suggests that the solution to poverty is a combination of higher wages and liberal charity, exactly what the Prime Minister was proposing in 1797.

The general impression that I have gotten is that both Whigs and Tories were relatively ineffective. Anyway, a pretty clear answer for one character:

Pride and Prejudice‟s hero is almost certainly a Whig as well since the choice of the name, Fitzwilliam Darcy, is highly suggestive. Lord Fitzwilliam, later Earl Fitzwilliam, was from the north of England and, as historian William Hague describes him, one of the “Three great Earls of the Whig aristocracy”

Anywho, I'm not going to go through and sort them all since it seems fairly ambiguous who would be affiliated with which party. Also, almost everyone on earth holds some views that are extremely contradictory, so it's impossible to tell.

#question response #whigs vs. tories #someone with a better grasp on politics can answer this if they wish #I encourage everyone to read the extremely long thesis I'm quoting #It's amazing

[kramlabs]

*Militarized Index Funds descended from Anglo-American Whig Mercantilism may own the banks now. But the controllers of the index funds, the algorithms, the AI’s, the Market, the Banks—-are unified and manage it all

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*more on the Whigs

#central banks #rothchilds #war of 1812 #whig #whigs vs BRICS #debt trap diplomacy #war to prevent southern independence

[power-chords]

Obsessed with this Cleveland gig flyer from 1988, particularly the BONGWATER, COWS, and MY DAD IS DEAD lineup.

#and yes obviously the misspelled afghan whigs lmao.