Party: Republican

Home State: New York

Term: 1901-1909

Roosevelt was an energetic personality, and it is clear with his opinions of other presidents. He harshly critiqued President Thomas Jefferson in his book ''The Naval War of 1812'' for shrinking the Navy when it would be needed. He called President Franklin Pierce ''a servile tool of men worse than himself ... ever ready to do any work the slavery leaders set him.'' About John Tyler he said: ''He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery, he was a politician of monumental littleness.'' Damn, Roosevelt roasting other presidents as if he were roasting meat.

DOMESTIC POLICY

Trust-Busting

The defining policy of the Roosevelt decade was trust-busting, a policy of breaking up monopolies. For those who might not completely understand all of these terms, a monopoly is when big businesses eliminate all competition to stay on the top. They stayed on the top by forming a monopoly, pretty much organizing how business will deal with competition. For those with more imaginative minds, it was pretty much a shield used by businesses. As for trust-busting, it was essentially an initiative to break that shield using various policies. In general, much of Congress was worried what to do since a lot supporting monopolies, believing it was necessary to have consistent top-tier businesses always succeeding.

Roosevelt was, at first, not that much of a trust-buster, but agreed to implement the idea as politician bugged him about it. Even though he became an avid and active trust-buster, he still had some criticisms. For instance, when the Supreme Court ordered the break-up of Standard Oil, in an antitrust lawsuit begun under his administration and completed under Taft, Roosevelt said:

“I do not see what good can come from dissolving the Standard Oil Company into 40 separate companies, all of which will still remain really under the same control. What we should have is a much stricter government supervision of these great companies, but accompanying this supervision should be a recognition of the fact that great combinations have come to stay and we must do them scrupulous justice just as we exact scrupulous justice from them.”

This is not to say Roosevelt was not a trust-buster, he absolutely was. His famous brawls with J. P. Morgan (Northern Securities Company) and John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil) are well remembered. He also won a few Supreme Court cases, such as [*Swift and Comp

A panorama of Hong Kong captured during the negotiations for the Treaty of Hong Kong.

The Treaty of Hong Kong

With most major powers having taken sides, the primary options for Treaty negotiation were Brazil, the British Empire, Egypt, or Belgium, with the British colony of Hong Kong being chosen after some debate, and negotiations would begin on the 5th of May, 1899.

The Japanese diplomatic delegation consisted of former Education Minister Ryuichi; former Foreign Minister Aoki Shuzo; Foreign Minister Komura Jutaro; former Ambassador to the United States Takahira Kogoro; Parliamentarian Inukai Tsuyoshi; former Prime Minister Itagaki Taisuke; former Foreign Minister Kuroda Kiyotaka; and former Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi, as well as a handful of minor diplomatic aids. Though not ultranationalistic, the Japanese negotiators were all supporters of expansion, yet chosen for their mix of pragmatic realism and support for further modernizations.The Siamese delegation was led by Foreign Minister and Prince Devawongse Varoprakar, Interior Minister Damrong Rajanubhab, and General Surasakmontri himself, while Black Flag Army leaders Tang Jingsong and Liu Hongfu were permitted to attend alongside declared Vietnamese Emperor Ham Nghi, while not being granted full recognition as a combatant; similar rules were imposed upon Russian observer Nikolai Golitsyn, German observer Theodor von Holleben, and the Korean delegation led by King Gojong himself. General Emilio Aguinaldo, Foreign Minister Pedro Paterno, Speaker of the Assembly Felipe Buencamino, and President Arsenio Cruz-Herrerra. The delegation was highly controversial, among the other delegations due to Japan's initial refusal to negotiate with the Philippines, and among Filipinos for the role the United States played in the selection of Houston allies Paterno and Buencamino, with many fearing that the annexation of the Philippines might be pressed at the negotiation table.

The Spanish delegation was small, including Conservative Party Parliamentarians Antonio Maura and Fransisco Silvela, as well as Radical leader Nicolas Sameron and former Prime Minister Emilio Castelar, who died several weeks into the talks. Finally came the American delegation. Led by Secretary of State Shelby M. Cullom, it included former Colorado Senator Henry Teller, a pro-Houston Farmer-Laborite; form

What the title says. A lot of the councils duties have been boiled down to a science today so let’s say pre-WW2, but if they were influential before and during WW2 that’s fine too. Here’s my picks

Hand: Charlemagne. Need I say more? Both one of history’s greatest military leaders and also its most efficient and innovative administrators.

Master of Ships: Horatio Nelson. Consistently kicked the ass of possibly the greatest military commander of all time at sea, even while greatly outnumbered, and was the main reason England was the only country in Western Europe Napoleon didn’t conquer.

Master of laws: John Stuart Mill. One of history’s greatest utilitarians whose belief in maximizing happiness led him to make some radical decisions for his time. A utilitarian is what Westeros desperately needs.

Grand Maester: Elihu Root. Secretary of State and War who was also Andrew Carnegies lawyer. He was a horrible person but an unparalleled advisor. Under a good king he could be useful.

>”considered to be the prototype of the 20th century political "wise man," advising presidents on a range of foreign and domestic issues”

Master of coin: Jakob Fugger. Medieval banker who by the end of his life had acquired 1/50th of Europe’s GDP.

Master of Whisperers: J Edgar Hoover. Built the FBI and ran it 100% unconstitutionally for 48 years. The amount of sensitive information about some the most powerful people in the world he gathered over his life is breathtaking

A Japanese artists rendition of the First Battle of Hawaii, the largest of the Pacific War.

The primary event of President Houston’s term was the Pacific War, which one may find in four parts:

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Aaron Burr Houston, 21st President of the United States.

Administration:

Vice President: William M.O. Dawson

Secretary of State: Shelby M. Cullom

Secretary of the Treasury: Seth Low

Secretary of War: Galusha Grow

Attorney General: Louis Brandeis (1897-1899 (resigned)), Henry Teller (1899-1901)

Secretary of the Navy: Henry S. Boutell

Secretary of the Interior: Joseph M. Carey

Postmaster General: Charles J. Bonaparte

Secretary of Agriculture: Mary Elizabeth Lease

Secretary of Labor: Terence V. Powderly

Houston's cabinet largely carried over from his first term and remained remarkably consistent, yet he brought in two leading members of the Farmer-Labor Party to form what was dubbed his "coalition cabinet" as the Pacific War raged: 1892 Farmer-Labor presidential nominee Mary Elizabeth Lease and former General Trades Union President Terence V. Powderly, with Farmer-Laborite Henry Teller replacing Louis Brandeis as Attorney General following the former's resignation.

[Praised as the most influential Secretary of State in American history, Shelby M. Cullom has presided over the Pacific War, annexation of Hawaii, and what some have labelled \"America taking its place among the Great Powers.\"](https://preview.redd.it/6q8qjs4tp2x71.png?width=1339&forma

Aaron Burr Houston, 21st President of the United States (1893-1897)

Administration:

Vice President: Richard J. Oglesby

Secretary of State: Nathaniel P. Banks (1893-1894 (died)), Shelby M. Cullom (1894-1897)

Secretary of the Treasury: John D. White (1893-1896 (appointed to the Supreme Court)), Seth Low (1896-1897)

Secretary of War: Galusha Grow

Attorney General: Louis Brandeis

Secretary of the Navy: Theodore Roosevelt (1893-1895 (resigned to take office in Congress)), Henry S. Boutell (1895-1897)

Secretary of the Interior: Joseph M. Carey

Postmaster General: Charles J. Bonaparte

Secretary of Agriculture: Watson Squire

Secretary of Labor: William M.O. Dawson

Houston disconcerted much of his party with his cabinet selections, selecting leading progressives for every office. 1864 Labor nominee and the founder of the Labor Party Nathaniel P. Banks was selected to serve as Secretary of State despite being 76 years of age, and he served until his death at age 78, after which he was replaced by Illinois Senator Shelby M. Cullom. John D. White, the fallen hero who had built the progressive faction of the party, was selected as Secretary of the Treasury and served until his 1896 appointment to the Supreme Court, after which he was replaced by New York Governor Seth Low. Galusha Grow, another aging progressive and a stringent expansionist, was chosen for the War Department, while 36 year old New York lawyer Louis Brandeis was plucked from obscurity to serve as Attorney General.

Theodore Roosevelt was Houston's initial Secretary of the Navy, yet stepped down to run for Congress, and was replaced by Henry Boutell of Illinois. Wyoming's Joseph M. Carey was selected to serve as Secretary of the Interior while French-American Marylander Charlie Bonaparte was given the Postal Service, 1888 Progressive Vice-Presidential candidate William M.O. Dawson was made Secretary of Labor and Washington Senator Watson Squire was chosen to serve as Secretary of Agriculture.

Nathaniel P. Banks, who founded the Labor Party, led the Workingman's Party in the House, and ran twice for the presidency was selected at age 76 to serve as Secretary of State.

Foreign Policy:

-An 1890 letter to a “Mr. Wang” deta

With the Farmer-Labor Party’s 1888 victory granting them only the second instance in American history of a party holding the White House for three terms, many Federal Republicans hope the term of Henry George may destroy Farmer-Labor as Franklin Pierce’s presidency destroyed the Democratic-Republicans. With the initial Federal Republican frontrunner, Josiah T. Walls of Florida, leaving the race following the discovery of the body of a murdered child in a closet in his home, for which his daughter has been charged, and personal accusations relating to the marriage of the then-43 year old Walls to the 14 year old cousin of his recently deceased wife in 1885. Thus, the race has opened to be the candidate to challenge the first openly socialist Farmer-Labor nominee.

Nathan Goff: Serving as the chief Senate advocate of the Federal Republican agenda during the first years of the George term, 49 year old former Virginia Senator Nathan Goff was the chief sponsor of the eponymous protectionist Goff Tariff presented by Federal Republicans to counter the Georgist de Mille Revenue Bill. Suspecting his defeat for re-election to the Senate, Goff sought the Governorship in 1889 and was initially declared the victor over Farmer-Laborite J.J. Quantz, yet in a decision even Quantz publicly disagreed with, the State Supreme Court removed Goff from office after 3 months on the grounds that the ballots in a single county had been mistyped as "Gof ." Yet. Goff's defeat has made him a martyr to some and Goff's campaign for the presidency has won the support of the contingent of the party some consider the successors to the old Federalists, such as Thomas B. Reed or William McKinley, and campaigns in support of protectionism, has endorsed Senator George Hoar's plan replacing the income tax with a national sales tax, strongly supports an expansion of the navy, and is a supporter of civil and voting rights legislation, having attempted to pass such legislation as Governor. Despite this, Goff has bucked many of his supporters by denouncing prohibition, which has won his campaign the support of Liberal Anti-Prohibition leaders, and has endorsed a plan granting every state a third Senator to be elected by popular vote as a compromise proposal on the issue of direct senate elections. Goff has endorsed the annexation of Hawaii as proposed by New York reformer Theodore Roosevelt.

Aaron Burr Houston: A delegation of tribal leaders led by Lakotan Sitting Bull have attended the co

Hi. I'm Florian, or Dan “The Man” Moody on the Discord server, and I'm here via someone else’s (Enderprophet's) account to explain the lore we've been working on for the United States of America in Red Flood. In recent weeks, we've been having serious internal discussions to flesh out the lore of the whole world, and while the job isn’t completely done, we have enough of a picture to explain what kind of USA you’ll be playing as when we get to 0.5, after France and company. With the current US content in the mod being a combination of inadequately-developed presidential trees and a “Collapse” plotline we stapled onto that, there is certainly a lot of confusion we have to clear up before we reveal our final plans in a later dev diary.

But first, we need to outline some of our priorities in working on the US update.

Development Philosophy and Plans

When we set out to rework the USA’s content, there were a few priorities and influences informing our decisions. In no particular order, they are:

1. America never joining the Great War is integral to the lore of the rest of the mod. This means we cannot use years of trench warfare as an easy plot device to shake up the political scene.
2. While American politics are likely to be less destabilized than continental European politics, we still want to provide players with unique and radical leaders, even if it requires certain decisions that might not have been the most likely path of history.
3. A USA that looks outward, especially under interventionist or expansionist leadership, is a serious obstacle to other regional development plans. European content, Asian content, Latin American content, etc. has fewer external factors and less annoying transoceanic warfare if the USA is preoccupied with internal politics or more likely to use Lend Lease than join an alliance.
4. While the current presidential candidates in the mod have very underdeveloped content – or just largely inaccurate, like Howard Scott – they are still largely pretty interesting for who they are or what their parties suggest about the American political scene. It would be nice to incorporate them into a more-fully-developed USA.

There are several directions we could take USA development in. We could tell a story about every presidential candidate in 1936 being doomed to fail to address a national crisis. We could have relatively peaceful US politics between the Republicans and Democrats that we know, but with complicated primary

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Characters

Narrator _____________________________
God’s voice (powerful, booming voice) _____________________________
Satan (wearing red shirt, black pants, maybe black vest; charming, & confident) _____________________________
Job _____________________________
Eliphaz the Temanite _____________________________
Bildad the Shuhite _____________________________
Zophar the Naamathite _____________________________
Elihu son of Barachel _____________________________
Job’s wife _____________________________
Servant 1 _____________________________
Servant 2 _____________________________
Servant 3 _____________________________

(Narrator walks onto the stage.)

Narrator: Job was a blameless man from Uz who feared God. He had seven sons and three daughters. He also possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 1,000 oxen, 500 female donkeys, and many servants. Now it happened that Satan came to present himself before the Lord, and the Lord said to Satan…

(We hear God’s voice from off-stage.)

God’s voice: From where do you come?

Narrator: Satan answered the Lord…

(Satan enters the scene.) Satan: From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it?

Narrator: And the Lord said to Satan…

God’s voice: Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth. He is a blameless man, who fears God and turns away from evil?

Narrator: Then Satan answered the Lord…

Satan: Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hand, and his possessions, and have increased his land. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.

Narrator: And the Lord said to Satan…

God’s voice: Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.

Narrator: So Satan went out from the presence of God.

*(Narrator and Satan leave stage from opposite sides. Job enters the scene. Everything seems fine when all of a

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Prior Part: 1900 Presidential Election Result; Douglass wins a second term.

|Charles R. Douglass, 25th President of the United States|

President Charles Remond Douglass's Cabinet:

Following the success of America's victory in the Spanish - American War, (Also known as the Caribbean War by some.) President Douglass easily won re-election in a practical landslide against the Republican Nominee of William Jennings Bryan who proved critical of President Douglass's position and true intentions, calling the Douglass Doctrine as 'another form of imperialism'.

And in some cases, he was right.

Following the signing of the treaties ending the war, the United States got most of the spoils, getting to puppet the newly created statues of Puerto Rico and the Philippines, whilst the CSA was granted 'supervision' over the other newly created Republic of Cuba.

The impacts of this among many leftist circles within the US began to shift the perception of Douglass from a noble reformer to 'another Imperialist', especially with the ongoing war in the Philippines under Aguinaldo's War. Never the less, President Douglass was sworn in on March 4th for his second term, truly marking his place in American history as not only it's first Black President, but also the first Black President to win two terms.

1901

Foreign Politics:

-When it'd come to foreign policy, Douglass's second term would quickly find it's self focused on planning out a post-war Douglass Doctrine whilst preventing the Confederates from potentially 'stepping

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

[Removed]

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

This is 1892, my apologies for making this typo again.

With the Farmer-Labor Party’s 1888 victory granting them only the second instance in American history of a party holding the White House for three terms, many Federal Republicans hope the term of Henry George may destroy Farmer-Labor as Franklin Pierce’s presidency destroyed the Democratic-Republicans. With the initial Federal Republican frontrunner, Josiah T. Walls of Florida, leaving the race following the discovery of the body of a murdered child in a closet in his home, for which his daughter has been charged, and personal accusations relating to the marriage of the then-43 year old Walls to the 14 year old cousin of his recently deceased wife in 1885. Thus, the race has opened to be the candidate to challenge the first openly socialist Farmer-Labor nominee.

Nathan Goff: Serving as the chief Senate advocate of the Federal Republican agenda during the first years of the George term, 49 year old former Virginia Senator Nathan Goff was the chief sponsor of the eponymous protectionist Goff Tariff presented by Federal Republicans to counter the Georgist de Mille Revenue Bill. Suspecting his defeat for re-election to the Senate, Goff sought the Governorship in 1889 and was initially declared the victor over Farmer-Laborite J.J. Quantz, yet in a decision even Quantz publicly disagreed with, the State Supreme Court removed Goff from office after 3 months on the grounds that the ballots in a single county had been mistyped as "Gof ." Yet. Goff's defeat has made him a martyr to some and Goff's campaign for the presidency has won the support of the contingent of the party some consider the successors to the old Federalists, such as Thomas B. Reed or William McKinley, and campaigns in support of protectionism, has endorsed Senator George Hoar's plan replacing the income tax with a national sales tax, strongly supports an expansion of the navy, and is a supporter of civil and voting rights legislation, having attempted to pass such legislation as Governor. Despite this, Goff has bucked many of his supporters by denouncing prohibition, which has won his campaign the support of Liberal Anti-Prohibition leaders, and has endorsed a plan granting every state a third Senator to be elected by popular vote as a compromise proposal on the issue of direct senate elections. Goff has endorsed the annexation of Hawaii as proposed by New York reformer Theodore Roosevelt.

Aaron Burr Houston: A delegation of triba