#franklin d. roosevelt

[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

[reality-detective]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

These folks look suitably grim as they listen to the election returns at the temporary "wigwam" in the 7th Avenue Armory on November 6, 1928. Governor Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic candidate for president, is seated in the second row, third from the left. He lost to Herbert Hoover by 17 percentage points. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the (successful) candidate to succeed Smith as New York governor, is in the first row, third from the left.

Photo: Associated Press

[thoughtkick]

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[deadpresidents]

Vice President Harry S. Truman playing the piano as 20-year-old actress Lauren Bacall looks on at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1945. Later in life, Truman would tell a biographer that: "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician -- and, to tell the truth, there's hardly a difference."

At roughly the exact same time, approximately 5,259 miles away from Washington, D.C., the big three Allied leaders of World War II -- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt (whose health was rapidly failing) -- were wrapping up their monumental summit at the Yalta Conference in Crimea to discuss plans for the post-war division and occupation of a defeated Nazi Germany.

Two months later, on April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt was dead and Truman succeeded to the Presidency after his brief Vice Presidency. Before April was over, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler were also dead, the United Nations had been officially established, Allied troops began finding and liberating concentration camps, and the war in Europe ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany in early May. All of these remarkable historic events occurred within a matter of weeks, and sometimes just a few days or even a few hours apart.

[barbossas-wench]

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[stay-close]

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[angelkeitai]

YOU. ARE. JOKING. THERES NO WAY. THERES NO WAYYYYYY

[god-breast-america]

Update im a genius

[tomorrowusa]

No, this election was not a landslide any more than the 2020 election was. Because California is still counting votes, Donald Trump could still end up with under 50% of the popular vote.

Now 1936 was a genuine LANDSLIDE.

To me, a landslide in a presidential election is +60% of the popular votes and +75% of the electoral votes.

[fdrlibrary]

It's National Dog Day! How could we pick just one to celebrate?

[surqrised]

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[loveboatinsanity]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The George Washington Bridge is formally dedicated by Gov. Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey, left, and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, right, as they cut the ribbon stretched across the bridge on the New York side, October 24, 1931. The world's longest suspension bridge (at the time) was built at a cost of $60,000,000 and linked Manhattan and New Jersey.

Photo: AP via the NY Daily News

[ted-calling-orson]

I would love to see more of your creations of the eared mvb sort... please 🙏

thank god I get to talk ab these

I started with T.R bc he’s my favorite and also bc I got pissed ab T.R Miku binder

the Harry Truman one was the most unserious one bc I was having a joke battle w/ a twitter friend

werewolf FDR (based on that one move) cut down below:

thank you🙏

[politicalrpf]

1982 political cartoon by Paul Conrad.