[MtnClimber]

We need a bull in the china shop to clean out wasteful government.

[Tennessee Nana]

LOL

All in the Family theme

:)

[Tax-chick]

“If Javier Milei can pull Argentina out of the red, we can do it here.”

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I respect President Milei’s efforts so far, but publishing, or even passing, a single balanced budget is only one step in the long, long road of committing a country to fiscal discipline. Government fiscal discipline must be based on personal fiscal discipline.

[Openurmind]

“If Javier Milei can pull Argentina out of the red, we can do it here.”

ABSOLUTELY! Those who say it is too late and never going to happen are part of the problem. Of course it can, but we need to crack down on unproductive spending, like going to the moon or mars and thousands of other useless unproductive projects and agencies. And get out of the war and nation building business.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Coolidge had help from Andrew Mellon, his Treasury Secretary.

Would/could a present-day President be able to count on a banker for that kind of support?

[escapefromboston]

Coolidge had a pet raccoon which automatically puts him in top 5 presidents of the 20th century

[Fiji Hill]

I Do Not Choose to Run--The Six Jumping Jacks (1928)

"I do not choose to run for president in 1928."--Calvin Coolidge, August 2, 1927

[rlmorel]

I am, personally, a huge fan of Calvin Coolidge.

I have read several biographies of him, and visited his museum and homestead at Plymouth Notch in Vermont, which is a great place to visit.

It was, even up to the time when Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President in 1923 by a kerosene lamp in Plymouth Notch when Warren Harding died, a place that still lived in the past.

One of the things about Calvin Coolidge that I greatly admire, is that he went his own way. He did not seem to care one whit about what people thought of his manner of speech or appearance. When he was President and would visit Plymouth Notch, he took part in the traditional farm chores. And in doing this, he would don the traditional garb that he had used his entire life working on the farm, as shown below:

His advisors were horrified that he would be shown in a way that made him look like a backwards hick, but Coolidge did not care since that had been how he had spent much of his life, and the photographers were always trying to get a picture of him like that.

And it wasn't about show, about getting the press involved for political purposes. It was about the farming and the work, which even as President, he felt compelled to (and wanted to) help out in. But what I admire about him by far, and it is not even close, is the famous anecdote about a dinner party he attended as President where he was seated next to a socialite who was determined to drag the notoriously close-mouthed President into a conversation:

WEALTHY SOCIALITE: Good evening, Mr President! My husband told me I wouldn't be able to get three words out of you during the entire dinner! What do you say to that?

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE: You lose.

That says volumes about who Calvin Coolidge was. He was extremely intelligent and driven, and had a healthy sense of humor, but...he didn't believe in using his speech as a way to ingratiate or elevate himself.

Biden can't speak intelligently, and for good or bad, Trump cannot bite his tongue (appropriate for THESE times we live in!) but Coolidge, well, they didn't call him "Silent Cal" for nothing.

Can you imagine: a politician who didn't want to speak, and especially, not to speak about himself? The Horror!

[Brian Griffin]

WIKI

The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia.

The WSPU membership became known for civil disobedience and direct action. Emmeline Pankhurst described them as engaging in a “reign of terror”. Group members heckled politicians, held demonstrations and marches, broke the law to force arrests, broke windows in prominent buildings, set fire to or introduced chemicals into postboxes thus injuring several postal workers, and committed a series of arsons that killed at least five people and injured at least 24. When imprisoned, the group’s members engaged in hunger strikes and were subject to force-feeding. Emmeline Pankhurst said the group’s goal was “to make England and every department of English life insecure and unsafe”.

On 13 October 1908, Emmeline Pankhurst together with Christabel Pankhurst and Flora Drummond organised a rush on the House of Commons. 60,000 people gathered in Parliament Square and attempts were made by suffragettes to break through the 5000 strong police cordon. Thirty-seven arrests were made, ten people were taken to hospital. On 29 June 1909, WSPU activists Ada Wright and Sarah Carwin were arrested for breaking government windows. They were sentenced to a month in prison. After breaking every window in their cells, in a protest they went on a hunger strike, following the pioneering strike of Marion Wallace Dunlop. They were released after six days.

The WSPU responded by organising a new and broader campaign of direct action. Once this got underway with the wholesale smashing of shop windows, the government ordered arrests of the leadership. Although they had disagreed with strategy, Frederick and Emmeline Pethwick-Lawrence, were sentenced to nine months imprisonment for conspiracy and successfully sued for the cost of the property damage.

Some WSPU militants, however, were prepared to go beyond outrages against property. On 18 July 1912, in Dublin Mary Leigh threw a hatchet that narrowly missed the head of the visiting prime minister H. H. Asquith. On 29 January 1913, several letter bombs were sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, and the prime minister Asquith, but they all exploded in post offices, post boxes or in mailbags while in transit across the country. Between February and March 1913, railway signal wires were purposely cut on lines across the country endangering train journeys.

On 19 February 1913, as part of a wider suffragette bombing and arson campaign, a bomb was set off in Pinfold Manor, the country home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lloyd George, which brought down ceilings and cracked walls. On the evening of the incident Emmeline Pankhurst claimed responsibility, announcing at a public meeting in Cardiff, we have “blown up the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s house”. Pankhurst was willing to be arrested for the incident saying “I have advised, I have incited, I have conspired”; and that if she was arrested for the incident she would prove that the “punishment unjustly imposed upon women who have no voice in making the laws cannot be carried out”. On 3 April Pankhurst was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude for procuring and inciting women to commit “malicious injuries to property”. The Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Bill was rushed through Parliament to ensure that Pankhurst, who had immediately gone on hunger strike, did not die in prison.

In response to the bomb Lloyd George wrote an article in Nash’s Magazine, entitled “Votes for Women and Organised Lunacy” where he argued that the “main obstacle to women getting the vote is militancy”. It had alienated those who would have supported them. The only way for women to get the vote is a new movement “absolutely divorced from stones and bombs and torches”.

On the evening of 9 March 1914 in Glasgow, about 40 militant suffragettes, including members of the Bodyguard team, brawled with several squads of police constables who were attempting to re-arrest Emmeline Pankhurst during a pro-suffrage rally at St. Andrew’s Hall. The following day, suffragette Mary Richardson (known as one of the most militant activists, also called “Slasher” Richardson) walked into the National Gallery in London and attacked Diego Velázquez’s painting, Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver. Her action stimulated a wave of attacks on artworks that would continue for five months. In June, militants had placed a bomb beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union

[MosesKnows]

President Coolidge crushes PROGRESSIVISM 4 July 1926

If all men are created equal, that is final.
If they are endowed with inalienable rights,that is final.
If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

[joshua c]

rand paul

[x]

For that to work, we’d need to have a country like Coolidge’s.

We don’t have that and we aren’t going to get it back.