Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Dec 23, 1962: British Face Atomic Facts
The British are facing the sobering fact that their country is not rich enough to have a militarily useful nuclear force...neither can the French.

One remotely possible use for the weapons would be in a game of "nuclear chicken."

"Only the American taxpayers seem rich enough to be willing to pay for a real nuclear defense."




Dec 23, 1962: Ho-ho-ho, did you know Santa Claus: A Native Product
Professor Charles W. Jones says: "Ours is not the European saint, but an American commodity which we have exported to the whole world. It was left to the free-thinking, mischievous minds of the post-Revolutionary patriots to create a new Santa for the new world. Yes, there is a Santa Claus, but he was made in the USA." Interesting story with a twist...



Tamanend, an 1817 wooden sculpture by William Luke, was the figurehead of the warship USS Delaware. The ship burned during the American Civil War, but the figurehead was rescued and put on display at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In the 1930s, a bronze replica was installed on campus in front of Bancroft Hall, where each day the Brigade of Midshipmen forms for Noon Meal Formation. One of the most cherished traditions at the academy is the painting of the statue in the days before football games or other prominent events. The original figurehead is in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum.

Tamanend ("the Affable" c. 1625 – c. 1701), historically also known as Taminent, Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle (Pùkuwànku) clan of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the founding peace treaty with influential Quaker William Penn.

Also called a "Patron Saint of America", Tamanend represented peace and amity, and became a popular figure in 18th-century America, especially in Philadelphia. A Tammany society founded in Philadelphia holds an annual Tammany festival. Tammany societies (Tammany Hall being the most well-known and influential) were established across the United States after the American Revolutionary War, and Tammany assumed mythic status as an icon for the peaceful politics of negotiation. Because of Philadelphia's prominence during the American Revolution and subsequent decades, Tammany soon became a national symbol throughout much of the newly formed country.

The Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order, was a fraternal, patriotic and benevolent society founded in New York City in 1786. It became the main local political machine of the Democratic Party and played a major role in controlling New York City and New York state politics. Though initially an independent social organization, at its peak, Tammany Hall became synonymous with the New York County Democratic Party. Politically, its members were Jeffersonian republicans opposed to the Manhattan aristocracy.

By 1798, the Society had grown increasingly political and supportive of the Jeffersonian republican cause. One of the city's leading politicians, Aaron Burr, saw Tammany as an opportunity to counter the Society of the Cincinnati, a fraternal organization largely populated by supporters of Alexander Hamilton and the Schuyler family. Through Burr's influence, Tammany emerged as the center of Jeffersonian politics in New York City. Burr used the Society, along with his own Manhattan Company, as a campaign asset during the 1800 presidential election and he became the third US Vice President in 1801-05. After Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, he was forced to leave politics in shame. Depending how you read into US political history, Burr may have done America a favor by killing Hamilton.

Tammany Society was a powerful political organisation of New York City, whose ostensible objects, on its formation in 1805, were charity and reform of the franchise; its growth was rapid, and from the first it exercised, under a central committee and chairman, known as the "Boss," remarkable political influence on the Democratic side. Since the gigantic frauds practised in 1870-1871 on the municipal revenues by the then "Boss," William M. Tweed, and his "ring," the society has remained under public suspicion as “a party machine” not too scrupulous about its ways and means. The name is derived from a celebrated Indian chief who lived in Penn's day, and who has become the centre of a cycle of legendary tales.

As the immigrant population of New York grew, Tammany Hall became an important social and political organization, for Irish Catholic immigrants in particular. Following the 1854 mayoral election and the resulting mayoralty of Fernando Wood, Tammany Hall controlled Democratic Party nominations and political patronage in Manhattan for over a century through its organized network of loyal, well-rewarded, and largely Irish Catholic district and precinct leaders. It also gained support from the New York City business community for its efficient, if corrupt, solutions to problems.

The Tammany Hall organization was also a frequent vehicle for political graft, most famously during the leadership of William M. Tweed, whose 1873 conviction for embezzlement gave the organization its national reputation for corruption. In the following decades, many reformist New York politicians developed national reputations opposing or criticizing Tammany influence, including Samuel J. Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, Thomas E. Dewey, Jacob Javits, and Ed Koch.



After decades of grift, corruption, election rigging, and changing demographics in Manhattan, the society was finally dissolved in 1967. Today the Freemason arch building is home to PETCO. LOL! Democrats have not changed in political corruption shenanigans in NYC, only the names have changed.

Thomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".

"I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures."

— On the political cartoons of Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, as quoted in "Article IV: An Episode in Municipal Government" by Charles F. Wingate in The North American Review (July 1875), p. 150


It has been estimated that during his reign of corruption, William Magear 'Boss' Tweed (1823–1878), the “Tiger of Tammany,” and his political cronies stole $200 million (the equivalent of about $3.5 billion in today’s money) from the taxpayers of New York. Tweed was convicted of 204 counts, but he escaped from custody and fled to Spain, only to be recaptured by Spanish officials who, relying on a Nast cartoon, recognized him. Tweed was brought back to New York City, spent some time in prison, and died in Ludlow Street Jail, New York City's Federal prison in 1878.

Boss Tweed appears as an antagonist in the 2016 novel Assassin's Creed Last Descendants, where he is the Grand Master of the American Templars during the American Civil War.

Despite "The Man Who Stole New York City" he was gifted a giant tombstone and buried in the prestigious Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, New York City. Democrat filth at its finest.



Netflix documentary: Breakdown: 1975 (2025) - An essay on the year 1975, looking at the classic movies all released in that year. Narrated by Jodie Foster. Not a bad docu.



Ford’s campaign manager, James A. Baker III (a Texan who later served as President George H. W. Bush’s secretary of state) found the commercial “nutty, absolutely screwy” and said, “You can’t make a reference to Dallas that way without losing the state of Texas.”



Never Aired Ford 1976 Campaign Ad, Courtesy of Ford Presidential Library: Ford's team hoped the commercial would show that their man had closed down the bad thirteen years that led from JFK's assassination to Vietnam and Watergate. But a secret focus group found the ad too shocking and emotional. The commercial was kept in a vault and never aired. (Cherry bomb @ 2:37)




'Tis the season for FESTIVUS. This year's waste report tallies an UNBELIEVABLE $1,639,135,969,608. This 19 page report on grift, fraud & abuse will boil your blood...



THE FESTIVUS REPORT 2025


I can't believe it's not butter...



Who developed this technique you might ask...


Fischer–Tropsch process




Extremely rare copy of Dr J. Taylor's banned cover version of the favorite holiday classic "White Christmas" (1965)