The Democratic Party has been split between two major caucuses for the last 55 years, the Progressives, and the New Democrats. New Democrats were founded in the 1970s with the belief that the failure of Democrats to win in 1972 was because they were too liberal under Johnson, so they moved the party in a …
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Presidents who have not run for reelection
Almost every President in history has run for a second term. This is common knowledge, but there are a few presidents who have not been their party’s nomination in the general election following their term. 3 President have chosen not to run before the nomination James Polk – pledged to not run for reelection in …
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Insane visa policy edge cases
Monagesque in France If you are a citizen of Monaco, you have freedom of movement in Metropolitan France, but not the rest of the Schengen Area or EU, where you can travel for 90 days in a 180 day period without a visa. There is basically no way to check that a Monagesque citizen has …
So who was Hindenburg
Let me tell you about a man who was moderate in his political views, cared about democracy, proposed breaking up old medieval estates so the former peasants could own their land for the first time in history, and believed strongly in compromise. Read the section on Hindenburg’s second presidency from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg#Second_presidency Hindenburg was not …
Yes, it’s a big deal
https://apnews.com/article/biden-cancer-prostate-be18c98abe341cd91277e1d3b75d5cd5?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us So apparently Biden has prostate cancer which has metastasized to his bones. Not only that, but this bombshell hit today too: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/may/18/biden-book-health-original-sin So not only does Biden have rapidly advancing prostate cancer which I’m guessing he had while he was president and kept a secret from the public while running for president, but many …
Russia running out of weapons
I think this summer is going to be marked by Ukrainian victories, as long as the calls for ceasefires from Moscow end. Ever since Ukraine took the Kursk region Moscow has been calling for ceasefire after ceasefire, which they consistently break. Moscow does not want a ceasefire, they want Ukraine to cease firing. But this …
Balkanization of Russia
Start by reading this article: https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/experts/2022/04/7/7137272/ History of the North Caucasus Eras: • Pre-historic Iranian and Turkic cultures • Scythians: 900 BC – 300 BC • Sarmations: 600 BC – 500 AD • Huns: 370s-469 • Khazars: 650-969 • Cumania: 900 – 1241 • Mongols: 1238 – 1502 • Ottoman Empire: 1476 – 1774 • …
How this madness will end
42 percent of American farm workers have no work authorization, because they cannot get it. The United States sets quotas on how many people can get work visas, far below the number needed to fill the available jobs. This leads not to American workers working on farms but to poorly educated migrant laborers filling the …
World political regions
I’m thinking about why I focus so much on Europe, since there are so many other parts of the world to explore, but I always come back to reading about the politics of Europe. But why? Why not Africa? Why not South America? Let’s explore the world by looking at regions. I will use the …
A trillion dollar budget cut
Congressional Republicans are saying they want to extend the Trump tax cuts at the cost of $5 trillion over 4 years or $1.25 trillion per year. How can they offset these tax cuts with spending cuts? They also want to increase military expenditure. Using the Fiscal Year 2024 as our baseline… how could they cut …