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This historical tidbit depressed me- about Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia -link
| German pumo | 06/14/26 |
| German pumo | 06/14/26 |
| And what ur doing right now? It's illegal. | 06/14/26 |
| German pumo | 06/14/26 |
| German pumo | 06/14/26 |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:09 PM Author: German pumo Imagine an America where even redneck states like Georgia wanted their best and brightest leading them and where men like that had 15 kids:
Richard Brevard Russell Sr. yearned to restore the family’s name and fortune, and for a time it seemed he would do so. Tall and handsome, a brilliant student at the University of Georgia, from which he graduated at eighteen with a command of five languages, including Latin and Greek, he graduated from law school at nineteen, almost immediately won a reputation as a young lawyer of “remarkable ability,” and was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives at twenty-one as its youngest member.
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The second move was made necessary by the number of Russell children; Ina was to spend much of the first twenty years of her marriage pregnant; she would eventually give birth to fifteen children, thirteen of whom grew to maturity.
Caro, Robert A.. Master of the Senate (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Years of Lyndon Johnson III (p. 165). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. |
Date: June 14th, 2026 7:35 PM Author: German pumo One of the best parts of this LBJ bio are Caro's chapters talking portraying great men of history I didn't know much about, like Russell or Coke Stevenson, former Texas governor.
The notion of "honor" is a joke these days, but to these men, it was like their religion. They clearly saw themselves as part of a natural aristocracy and were obsessed with how they would be remembered after they were gone. And they lived like it.
Of course, you also had complete scoundrels like LBJ, but at least he played his scoundrel games at a really high level. Not like these low-rent con artists like Trump we have today. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 9:55 PM Author: And what ur doing right now? It's illegal. Lol at thinking Trump is scummier than LBJ.
The lesson of the Caro books is that "noble" bros like Coke Stevenson and old school senatemos like Russell get fucking rolled by modern ruthless operators like LBJ and RFK and even by hucksters like Pappy O'Daniel and McCarthy. |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 10:01 PM Author: German pumo Yeah, that's pretty clearly the direction of history and the universe as a whole - entropy wins out over order in the end, 100% of the time. But I'd rather wake up each morning and see Coke Stevenson or Richard Russell in the mirror than LBJ or McCarthy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874278&forum_id=2Reputation#49939245) |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 10:34 PM Author: German pumo I actually think about this shit a lot. There was really only a brief period in history, maybe a few centuries and almost exclusively in the Anglo-Saxon world, in which elite white men like the dudes who wrote the Constitution had some "dream" that honor would prevail in the end. Churchill was kind of the last hurrah of that.
It all proved to be BS in the sense that it didn't withstand the forces of history and entropy, but that doesn't stop me from being nostalgic for it and enjoy reading about the Robert E Lees and Churchills of history. |