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deadpresidents · 7 months

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"We thought at the beginning of this process that it was going to be in five or so days. I was down there with him in the hospital and then said goodbye. And then we thought it was going to be in that week that it was coming to the end. And it's just now been seven months." -- Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, on Carter defying expectations and living far longer than expected when he announced in February that he would forgo further treatment at hospitals and instead receive hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia. President Carter will celebrate his 99th birthday on October 1st.

#Jimmy Carter #President Carter #History #Presidents #Post-Presidency #Carter Center #Presidential History #Politics #Political History #New York Times #Peter Baker

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bargainsleuthbooks · 1 year

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The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt by Jeff Shaara #ARC #BookReview #StMartinsPress #NetGalley

I know a lot about #TheodoreRoosevelt so I was curious about an upcoming #HistoricalFiction book, #TheOldLion by #JeffShaara. How much was right and how much was exaggerated? You'd be surprised. #NetGalley #ARC #BookReview #TeddyRoosevelt #USPresident

In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do – he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history – Theodore Roosevelt – peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth…

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katnissandpeetamellark · 5 months

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More random Incorrect quotes 🫶

#Lucy gray Baird #Coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #tbosas #thg #hunger games #BOSAS #president snow #snowjanus #snowbaird #again I don’t ship things but I love interacting with all sectors of the fandom so ya I’m tagging ships LOL #BC also I know shippers find this sort of post funny usually as it’s light hearted. we all need lightheartedness in this fandom some times 😂#incorrect quotes

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directactionforhope · 27 days

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By the way, even if you fully plan to vote for Biden in November (because Trump would be worse and has declared that if elected he would ban Palestinians from entering the US x, x, x, x)...

You can and I would argue should call or email Biden or whatever other Democrats represent you and just straight up lie about it. Tell them "I'm a constituent, and I've voted for you in x number of elections, and thanks to your support for the genocide of the Palestinian people, I will never, ever vote for you again."

Politicians, Democrats, and especially Biden need a fire lit under their asses, because the vast majority of them clearly aren't going to do shit without one. Or, worse, be like Biden and actively be the reason that Israel can continue its genocide on a political, monetary, and military level.

Tell Biden and other politicians that you will never vote for them again. It doesn't matter if it's true. It will help pressure US politicians to stop this genocide, and therefore it's the right thing to do.

Obviously this also applies to other countries where politicians are supporting Israel's genocide, especially countries that have cut funding to UNRWA (list here).

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shaxza · 2 years

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bad week for PMs of island nations across the world

#EDIT >#i have been told that it wasn’t actually protestors who burnt the president’s house rather police #unfortunately tumblr doesn’t delete posts like twitter so i’m editing the tags #i should have put ‘the PM/president of sri lanka’s house is on fire’ instead #please do keep this in mind when you share the news! apologies again #world politics #current events #british politics #shinzo abe #uk politics #sri lanka #boris johnson #supernatural

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its-tea-time-darling · 5 months

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➸ The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) vs. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

Look at this. They're holding hands. I want them dead.

#baggage much mr. snow?#the hunger games #thg #thgedit #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #ballad of songbirds and snakes #corionalus snow #president snow #lucy gray baird #if you saw me post this 5 seconds ago and delete and reformat it again no you didnt #snow knows a thing or two about how pressure form the capitol can forge unlikely alliances... motivate people to rebel against the system..#also #isn't it kind of neat that the 'i want them dead'#is also kind of that he wants young snow and lucy to be dead? for them never to have happened etc...#lucky flickerman #the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds & snakes #the hunger games: catching fire #tbosasedit #the ballad of songbirds & snakes #the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy x snow #snow x lucy #snowbaird #coryo snow #my gifs #mine #gifhungergames

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emptyjunior · 6 months

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Still in hunger games analysis mode, do you guys ever think about what Seneca did Wrong. About where he failed at the job he was given.

Because I think what his true fatal flaw was, was he believed it. He believed in the game and all of the propoganda surrounding it.

And this was something that was bound to happen in Snow's kingdom eventually! He made citizens that were clueless and lost in his little cloud nine. You can't make killers out of your arrogant, privileged sheep population!

Seneca Crane believed that the games were about the great show, about making stars and entertaining the masses.

The cold truth that you and I and Snow are aware of, is that the games are one part of the great oppression machine. They're a good political tool to be in control of, they can be used as a punishment to target whoever you need to, you can manipulate the big show on screen in a crude mockery of what's going on in real life! You can crush the spirit of certain districts, you can keep other ones loyal to you. And the victors are an extremely valuable Product that you are endlessly creating, idols and mouthpieces for your horrible propaganda machine.

So that's what the games do! A good tool for a dictator to have, and if you're aware of all the context, then being in charge of them gives you a lot of power.

But Seneca?? Seemed to genuinely believe he was there to put on a big fancy show😭 He was so excited about it, he chatted to sponsors, he did the interviews, he picked themes😭

Like of course he gave Katniss a 12 after her stunt, he wasn't worried about the fire outfits or her popularity at All. Because he thought it'd be good ratings, and it was! That's what he thought the goal was: Get the best, most entertaining story possible.

All those talks in the Rose garden?

This was not Seneca checkin in with the boss, that was the boss saying Hey what the Fuck are You Doing.

Because Seneca truly did not understand at all! How dangerous it would look for someone from district 12 to rise up that fast! (And Snow most definitely understood Very Quickly because he has been dunked on before by a black haired girl from district 12😭)

But even after that Very explicitly clear talk, Seneca kept allowing Katniss chances to tell the Mockingjay story. Because he is a fool, who thought he was there to make tv😭 And did not realise that the silly story they tell in the games, has very real effects on the districts.

Like the metaphor for it could be you hire someone to make you maybe pro-military, pro-war, propaganda films, and that goes great for years until they get a few generations in and the new guys are like "oh we're just making popular films here right?" And let your direct rebel enemy, star in a touching depiction of how great rebellion is😭 And then your movie guy goes "how was that boss? Lots of people watched!" ☠️

#then movie guy head go bye bye #text post #seneca crane #Katniss Everdeen #peeta mellark #hunger games #president snow #ballad of songbirds and snakes #catching fire

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bisexualfbiagents · 4 months

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THE X FILES | Fox Mulder's Standup Comedy Demo Reel (part 1/?)

#the x files #txf #txfedit #xfilesnet #dailytxf #fox mulder #melissa scully #2x08 #one breath #comedianmulder #love this man and his incessant need to be snarky during such harrowing moments #if you saw me post this earlier with a typo NO YOU DIDNT #anyway what was i saying? oh yeah #really needed more of them together #coulda been president and vice president of the i love dana scully club

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the1weird1pencil · 8 months

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I've been playing Pikmin 2 for a while and this is what I gotten so far.

#pikmin #pikmin 2 #olimar #louie #president #red pikmin #doodle #digital art #honestly one of the hardest games i played on a wii #but i still enjoyed it #if i had to choose one of them it would be louie #why is this my most liked post on tumblr

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deadpresidents · 11 months

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It was a tremendous honor...but frankly bewildering. Why would an agency dedicated to intelligence name their headquarters after someone who celebrated his 75th birthday by jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at 12,000 feet?

Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Central Intelligence Agency naming their headquarters after former President (and former CIA Director) George H.W. Bush, who made seven parachute jumps after his 75th birthday.

Despite being wheelchair-bound with a form of Parkinson’s disease, President Bush’s final skydiving experience took place on his 90th birthday in 2014 near his family’s vacation home in Kennebunkport, Maine. When Mrs. Bush learned that the landing zone for President Bush’s parachute jump was the grounds of a nearby church, she only half-jokingly said, “Well, if it goes wrong, we’ll just carry him inside and have the funeral.”

#Barbara Bush #George H.W. Bush #President Bush #Bush 41 #First Families #Presidents #Politics #First Ladies #Post-Presidency #Central Intelligence Agency #CIA #CIA Headquarters #Bush Family

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finnicks-elbow · 5 months

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as a scientist, i can confirm i did not peer review those experiments

#the hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #tigris snow #president snow #thg #ao3 tags #ao3 posts #ao3 #mic #iz

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peetapiepita · 1 year

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Snow not believing Katniss was in love with Peeta is actually part of his character

Thinking back, Katniss' actions after the first game were as convincing as they can be when you don't see her inner monologue. She was only saying she was acting because she wasn't able to process her own feelings and Haymitch pretty much told her, "You're acting, girl, keep acting if you don't wanna get killed." That again put a strain on her and further complicated her feelings.

But if you think about it, she was banging on the door of the operation room when Peeta was being treated, acting hysterical; she kissed him for 10 minutes straight on stage and she was kind of into it; she was so upset about Peeta losing his leg that she cried on stage and hid her face in his shirt to the point HE had to console her about it; she was pretty much sitting in his lap throughout the whole interview.

That looks like a girl madly in love to me. Like, when did she ever give anyone any hint that it was fake? It was all in her head.

Still, Snow was convinced no one would love another person so much they'd rather die with them. Because he didn't think like that and he can't comprehend why someone would think like that.

I'm also wondering why Snow didn't assume Peeta was lying, too. We as readers know Peeta actually lies more than Katniss does and is good at it. Snow probably thought he was just someone waiting to be saved or something. Everyone underestimates Peeta as per usual. That's a topic for another day.

#the hunger games #hunger games #thg #everlark #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #president snow #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #top post #thg meta

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katnissandpeetamellark · 3 months

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Coriolanus x Text Posts 🖤

#Coriolanus Snow #Text Posts #incorrect quotes #The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes #BOSAS #TBOSAS #ABOSAS #Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes #President Snow #Funny #Funny text posts #The Hunger Games #Hunger Games #THG #THG Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes #Songbirds and Snakes #Twink Death

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textsfromthetva · 5 months

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Loki + tumblr [124/?]

#loki #mobius m. mobius #brad wolfe #president loki #he who remains #lokius #loki series #mcu #loki memes #lokiedit #text post meme

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cyarskaren52 · 23 days

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I read that earlier, shook my head in disgust & scroll on by

The folk behind her look just as through

She’s evil for that!

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timeturnerz · 5 months

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The Hunger Games, 2012 (Gary Ross) and The Hunger Games, 2008 (Suzanne Collins)

It's so interesting that, from the very beginning, Gale is established as someone who has a disregard for human life, and who does not truly view those different from him as "people." We see this here, where he dehumanises the children Katniss will have to fight in the Games. We see this in Gale's vocal resentment of Madge Undersee, in how he despises her for the privilege she was born with and grew up with.

This "us vs. them" infighting and mentality that Gale falls for (a mentality that the Capitol propagates, and that the Games act as a metaphor for) is one that eventually leads him to kill innocent children.

This thinking is also something Katniss must learn to break out of -- when she grapples with killing her opponents in the Games, who are truly just children, or when she realises "who the real enemy is" at the end of Catching Fire.

But Gale is unable to grow past this. He's willing to kill children (!) who are innocents, who haven't committed any crime other than being born in the wrong place at the wrong time -- just like Madge, who Gale despised in Book 1.

And Gale obviously DOES feel bad about "killing" Prim. But what's worse is the thought that, if it wasn't Prim who died, if it was just some random faceless people, would Gale still care?

I think Gale is a really interesting character whose development is so tragic yet still makes so much sense. It's a shame to see people write him off so quickly without seeing the analytical, thematic, and political value that we can gain by exploring his story and ideology.

#the hunger games #hunger games #gale hawthrone #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #catching fire #haymitch abernathy #mockingjay #thg #thg meta #the hunger games meta #primrose everdeen #interesting #finnick odair #long post #ballad of songbirds and snakes #president snow #lucy gray baird

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