#grant is a lil guy
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he (Johnson) when he doesn't get a second term and needs a scapegoat
"You know very well, sir, for you were familiar with my views while I was President, what my estimate of [Ulysses S.] Grant was, and I don't know anything that has since occurred that has caused me to change my mind the slightest. I know Grant thoroughly. I had ample opportunity to study him when I was President, and I am convinced he is the greatest farce that was ever thrust upon a people. Why, the little fellow -- excuse me for using the expression, but I can't help pitying him -- the little fellow has nothing in him. He hasn't a single idea. He has no policy, no conception of what the country requires. He doesn't understand the philosophy of a single great question, and is completely lost in trying to understand his situation. He is mendacious, cunning and treacherous. He lied to me flagrantly, by God, and I convicted him by my whole Cabinet; but that even would have been tolerable were it the only instance, but it was not. He lied on many other occasions.
I tell you, sir, Grant is nothing more than a bundle of petty spites, jealousies and resentments. And yet they say Grant is a second Washington. Only think of it, when you compare him with Washington or Jefferson where is he? Why he is so small you must put your finger on him. He, a little upstart, a coward, physically and intellectually, to be compared to George Washington! Why, it makes me laugh. I have more pity for the man than contempt, for I have no spite against him. But I fear for the country when such a man is likened to the father of his country. Why, just look at the inaugural of Washington. He speaks about his fear and trembling in accepting the Presidency, even after all his experience and success. But this little fellow Grant, an upstart, a mere accident of the war, a creature without the ability to comprehend the philosophy of a single great question, says in his inaugural, 'I know the responsibility is great, but I accept it without fear.' Is that like Washington or Jefferson? Pshaw! It's monstrous to think of.
Grant, I tell you, sir has no ideas, no policy. Why, Washington considered that a man's greatness was measured by his morality, by the standard of his soul. And I have always considered that the more soul a man had, the more developed the soul or intellect within him, the more Godlike he became. But, sir, Grant has nothing. Physically and mentally and morally he is a nonentity. Why, sir, his soul is so small that you could put it within the periphery of a hazel nutshell and it might float about for a thousands years without knocking against the walls of the shell. That's the size of his soul.
Just look at the man sitting at a Cabinet council. He has no idea, no policy, no standard, no creed, not faith. How can he guide the people? How can he impress any great improvements or moral ideas upon the nation? He has no object to look forward to, no leading aim to draw the people towards any particular end. He sits there with his Cabinet. One member has bought him a house in Philadelphia, another has given him $65,000, another has given him a carriage, and so on. It is degrading to the office of President of the United States to have such a man there.
They talk about his generalship. Well, he was a mere incident of the war. Men and arms were supplied in abundance, and his forces were so massive that they simply crushed out the rebellion. It would have been done had Grant never been born. Therefore he was a mere incident. But the little fellow has come to think he is somebody really. I can't help pitying him when I think how well I know him and what an infinitesimal creature he really is."
-- Former President Andrew Johnson, delivering a scathing attack on President Ulysses S. Grant, shortly after Johnson left the White House, during an interview with a correspondent from the New York Herald, June 27, 1869
#he's just jealous because everyone loves grant but hates johnson#“the little fellow” aww i am using this now#at least i can agree with johnson on something lol#ulysses “little fellow” grant#ITS PERFECT#grant is a lil guy#the girls are STILL fighting#andrew johnson#ulysses s grant#us grant
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Deviates to wear colorful shirts.
#detroit become human#connor rk800#idk i just really like it in fics ive read where connor just adopts funky shirts into his wardrobe#i used to read fics before i played the game and i never really understood it but i always was like hell yeah lil guy wear colorful shirts!#and then i played it and i was like ohhhhh i see the appeal of letting funny lil deviant pick a wardrobe item that he likes#i think its good enrichment for the dpd enclosure to let him wear a bright shirt#granted most fics i read didnt really actually FOCUS on that they just had like#a line about how he wears shirts hank would approve of and no one else and im like ok idk what that means (and now i do)
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this is what happens when you put me in a latin lesson
#I DREW THE GUY again. he’s just rlly fun to draw 😭#i edited it a lil bit at home but 90% of that i did in school <33#the outsiders obc#the outsiders#the outsiders musical#the outsiders broadway#the outsiders ponyboy#ponyboy curtis#brody grant#outsiders musical#outsiders fanart#ponyboy fanart#harvey and the crayons
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MAN... i usually really try not to let engagement numbers get to me but... gotta admit this does feel a Little Bad. 😔
#rimi talks#and nobody do that ''you never know how many of those people silently loved it!!!1!'' thing because i don't care <3#people who do not comment are not real to me. i do not wish to make up a guy.#and i know this is also partly on me for not updating this fic in literally a year but STILL. feels a lil bad.#like. not hugely. it's whatever. but a lil bit.#not in a ''my writing is bad and no one likes it!'' way but in a ''man i kinda feel taken for granted'' way.#alas. whatever. its not like i am physically capable of not writing bc if i stop writing i'll explode but. SIGH
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Also sorry the fact that Laszlo designed the gay pride float and his entire float concept was just. Gizmo.
#granted he was too busy with science and beach days to do much more#still. he volunteers to make a float for best friend/boyfriend seanie and goes aaaaaahhhh easy#stick a sign on the boy and we're off#in a house full of pansexual vampires guillermo is still the gay guy 💛#he's their lil gay guy your honour!!!!#sean: hey we need a gay pride float#guy who's done nothing but think about guillermo for the last week: hmmm this is giving me gizmo vibes#wwdits#wwdits spoilers#mr. bees speaks
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The New Titans (1988) or Roy Harper and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Horrible Teens (and Kyle)
#yes horrible twice.#roy harper#kyle rayner#grant emerson#tara markov#bart allen#jarras minion#just to make it clear who all those lil guys are alsdkjf.#new titans#the new titans#would anyone like a badly-made meme.
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Gratitude time
#today im doing it because it's easy and im overflowing with thankful things#very often i do it because it's hard#probably good to remember it CAN be easy#anyway#thankful for my team im gonna be travelling with and the enciuragement they are#its good to remember i am not on this ceazy ride alone#thankful for a genuinely good rich fulfilling day of class/prep#and the stories of God’s amazing provision from an incredible middle eastern guy who shared with us#and for the moroccan lady i met who now somehow is cooking us lunch tomorrow so now i get to try moroccan food#and her hospitality#and for a good comfy bed and the gift of a private room this qeek#and wifi cuz hey that's a bonus (not to be taken for granted this next month)#and a remarkable number of solutions for dumb lil problems#and for the fact that my goodby with The Boy tonight (the big goodbye. for 8 months)#which both of us were dreading because yknow the Big Sad#didnt actually hit either of us emotionally while we were together#which was such a gift. we got to spend 3 hours together just being peaceful and present and having good conversations#and thinking about how to do dating well this year#and praying together#and it was just. so good#and i am so so glad i get to date him this year and share this crazy thing with him even though itvis gonna be really really hard sometimes#and he made me a bracelet to take with me 🥺
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THIS IS GONNA SOUND SO MEAN BUT WHY DO U LIKE RYO AOKI/MASATO
masato hot
#snap chats#just like me... heh ... my ac has been broken all month im melting for the love of god send an iceberg im begging you#him turning into aoki is incredibly funny to me like jesus christ. what a lack of self love does to a mfer#but anyway 1.) please do not yell i scare easy 2.) meaner has been said its ok 3.) very reasonable to ask why anyone would like aoki#and 4.) to be Cereal he's inch resting to me. also his speech to ichi at the end hit a lil close and i was reminded of high school#5.) i really like his eng dub voice sorry im american. BUT HIS JP VOICE IS EXCELLENT TOO IM JUST SAYIN#rgg doesnt give an Exact on his disability so looking into lung diseases/conditions has also been interesting#esp post-lung surgery cases and care too so i thank rgg for the opportunity to do some reading#i also do In General just like cases of someone wanting to be loved and changing drastically to get it only to still be unhappy#granted. he sucks so LMAO can only have so much sympathy but it's still interesting to watch#the arakawas is also a part of why i like him because they all work as a big machine. if that makes sense#like the arakawas in general are such an interesting bundle i love all of them a lot because of what they mean to each other#in the case of aoki none of them mean anything to him at most resenting arakawa and despising ichi#meanwhile sawashiro's just. There LOL im so sorry king thats the truth of it all ... i love you tho ...#oh but back to aoki. i also really like politican characters- or at least characters who can have a 'public' persona#its fun thinking about what they have to do mentally to present themselves in public versus when they can 'be themselves'#like aoki's 'intro' scene where he's pleasant to his secretary and then a second later is conniving with ogasawara... peak i fear#OR THEEEE CAR PARK ONE i love that scene so much ...#very fun.. aoki being a politician just makes it infinitely funnier like guys we gotta bully the governor#plus i live and breathe by a glass analysis/comparison a twitter mutual of mine did ... i love glass imagery .......#uhhhh is that all ... idk prob im literally sweating my skin off i cant think right. my clothes are sticking to my skin i hate summer#i dont hate summer im so sorry i didnt mean it .... summer is beautiful .. i just wish this heat wasnt murdering me
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next // previous
july 13, 2021 8:00 a.m. magnolia park
grant's workout playlist (i guess): song #17
slaughterhouse - motionless in white 🎵
#ts4#the sims 4#sims 4#sims 4 story#sims 4 storytelling#ts4 screenshots#simblr#hlcn: everything the stars promised#we love a happy grant montage#he's just a guy smiling and going on a lil jog and messing around with a soccer ball to his angsty music#grant's music: KILL EM ALL KILL EM ALL NO SUCCESSORS#grant passing by strangers on the trail: hiya!! beautiful weather eh? stay cool - have a good day!!#holocene.docx#holocene.png#hlcn: grant
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like obviously everybody is entitled to their own opinions and faves (specially on such a rich podcast like wolf 359) but it genuinely always surprises me that eiffel's and minkowki's relationship isnt waaaaay more popular than it is bc to me they're just, they're Everything
#and i dont mean just romantic (even though i 1000% ship em) like their friendhsip is SO important and so good#they're so fucking good you guys#and yeah yeah i get minkowski and lovelace or eiffel and hera or whatever but. WHERE is the love for eiffel and minkowski? my beloveds?#statement ends#wolf359#granted its been a while since ive been on the tag so i might b (hopefuly) mistaken#(love doing a deep dive per year and rb everything til i find the last post i saw lmao :') )#but gosh... i miss em.... gotta relisten for Them ;_; (and hilbert a lil bit)
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In other news
#ihnmaims#am ihnmaims#electric dreams#electric dreams 1984#edgar electric dreams#my binge of ‘evil’ ai content finally yielded a positive result#granted I’m still not free from obsessing over a glorified computer monitor#but at least now it’s just a lil guy instead of incredibly fucked up big guy#character development at its finest#allied mastercomputer#i have no mouth and i must scream
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ok but i love drawing human connections actually
Nex & Nathan (@bluecoolr-main)
Alt! Skulk & Patron (@solmints-messyocdiary)
Anon & Milo (@slaasherslut)
#original character#oc art#friends ocs#tumblr moots#nex grant#nathan todd#alt tl skulk#the patron#anon#milo vess#this is only the begining btw#im collecting my moots lil guys
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I love Chris so much you guys.
#detroit become human#gavin reed#chris miller#neither of them is my overall favorite but i do really super love chris - hes up there#also i went into playing this knowing one (1) thing and that was you get to knock gavin out cold in the evidence locker#thats the only thing i knew about this game#ive read some fanfic (before i played the game) and i appreciate that the fics i read that had chris in them#were all like youre the straight friend or just youre the only straight i like#almost unanimously ???? like ? hes got a son and i like that you (fandom) allowed him to be a wife guy#chris was chill and i appreciate that#i missed a lot of the interactions and i messed up a lot somehow though i thought i was being nice and good#shocking no one my favorite guy is a side character and not one of the protags#i want to draw him but i couldnt think of anything dialogue wise for him and i really wanted to draw Stupid Men#and for my run at least im like wow gavin isnt even that bad of an antagonist lmao#like granted i never had a coworker aim a gun at me but i have been threatened for a stabbing before so#anyway sweats nervously at posting dbh content after being known for ... not that sort of game#good lord the stress i felt every interaction that i got an affection down ?? my otome exp is only positive reinforcement signs#where you get lil blossoms or hearts when you make the correct route choice and get nothing if not#the red downs were awful
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i'm in the middle of watching the iz halloween special and what the actual heck, membrane??? not believing dib about aliens is one thing, but this??? this world is so messed-up jdhgjkfhk
"so i find you here, son. oh, i suppose it was only a matter of time" way to support your son smh. he's showing more concern for his freakin science tools than his kids
#iz#invader zim#halloween#dib invader zim#professor membrane#bad parenting#sorry guys#membrane's not a good parent#invader zim gaz#iz dib#iz dib membrane#poor dib#ngl if i was in that kid's position i would probably go a lil crazy too#granted he's already a bit mad on the whole#but that's okay#everyone else is just...#concerningly oblivious and/or ridiculously stupid#or gaz#iz professor membrane#iz gaz membrane#halloween special
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"tell you what," quinn whispers, past midnight during the first night he spends at sam's house, "if I ever betray you, you can punch me." sam smiles and thinks that quinn could never do anything that would make sam want to punch him.
#lil drabble for you guys that I didn't feel like putting on ao3 cause it's so short#too short even for me#inspired by that one scene in book one where sam punches quinn for betraying him#(and EVEN THEN it was to convince drake and them that quinn hadn't betrayed them. EVEN THEN sam was‚ in a way‚ protecting quinn)#the gone series#gone series#gone michael grant#gone drabble#sam temple#quinn gaither#quam
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Me thinks that Charlie should also join the Foolgetta family. Not even being adopted into the family, we know how that goes, but just someone who hangs around them. Probably lives in Foolish’s basement without him knowing/wanting it
Q!Charlie has lost everything important to him and just wants anything, anything to make him feel something again. And maybe that anything will be a silly family with an egg that will kill him on sight <3
Also with Foolish telling Charlie that he needs to just get his grove back, I think it would be cute and lets be honest needed for him to see that he still has people around him that are willing to show that love to him :]
No it’s not Juanaflippa or Mariana, but it’s still something to help him ground himself while he’s still trying to deal with these loses. ALSO since Roier is there Charlie has close contact with a therapist which will be nice
#qsmp#foolish gamers#slimecicle#foolsgold duo#cheese rambles#i know Leo will probably hate him and everything he stands for but ALSO hes just a lil guy#he can help Foolish with builds (he’s constantly falling)#and Leo with tasks to feel something again with an egg (he’s singing Juanaflippa again)#like I know Foolish says he’s not good with words but I think he’d be a good support system to Charlie#he cares about his friend and wants to help him on his feet#granted he’d probably try to make Charlie someone else’s problem first but he’ll get there <3#yes i’m delusional#yes I’ll be sad if this doesnt happen#and i know it wont#i exist#<\3
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