The Deuce: Y'know because the Hoover laissez-faire "Just figure it all out on your own" ....

PSA: A 20 part docuseries on WW2 with Tom Hanks starts tonight - Stu May 25, 2026, 18:53:16

I’ve been watching the PBS FDR doc - Jackie Yesterday, 8:38:43
- Is that the Ken Burns "The Roosevelts" of is there a new one? - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 15:37:36
  - I need to read a bio of Eleanor at some point - DT Yesterday, 17:51:35
- I feel like the experience of the last generation makes FDR look even better - DT Yesterday, 9:29:25
  - Because we won the war and the Depression eventually ended, his elite rep is secure - Potomac Yesterday, 9:44:58
    - Trump would give Hitler England in exchange for Northern Ireland - Stu Yesterday, 12:52:06
    - why is camps in quotes?* - torinese Yesterday, 12:47:43
      - because I dislike how "camps" was used in these contexts - Potomac Yesterday, 15:33:40
    - This is like the opposite of “other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?” - DT Yesterday, 9:50:59
      - Lincoln can shake off almost anything people want to complain about* - Potomac Yesterday, 12:08:31
      - Oh no, not an administrative state! - Jackie Yesterday, 11:20:27
        
        You don’t need a large administrative state to have generous social welfare* - Potomac Yesterday, 17:55:53
        
        Y'know because the Hoover laissez-faire "Just figure it all out on your own" .... - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 15:39:03
    - I remember watching Grandma Walton bitterly complaining whilest listening to "that man" on radio* - Stu Yesterday, 9:47:54
      - I know my grandfather hated the confiscation of gold* - Potomac Yesterday, 12:09:49
        
        I have one gold coin my grandmother refused to relinquish* - Stu Yesterday, 12:49:48
I am bummed I can't watch this.* - Carl Spackler May 25, 2026, 21:53:04
- Sorry to say I find it disappointing. They skip over many important developments - Stu Yesterday, 5:12:56
Given our current Nazi problem, I don’t think that the greatest generation should carry that - ATL May 25, 2026, 21:20:32
- Their youngest member turns 102 this year. What are you expecting them to do?* - complainant May 25, 2026, 23:59:54
  - It’s ATL’s idea of a ‘joke’.* - Stu Yesterday, 4:26:26
Saw Pressure this afternoon. Excellent movie about 72 hrs leading up to D Day - bjl63 May 25, 2026, 20:16:31
Who’s airing it?* - bjl63 May 25, 2026, 20:09:57
- History Channel* - Stu May 25, 2026, 20:13:25
  - Turns out aliens and Bigfoot played a much bigger role in WW2 than I had realized.* - DT Yesterday, 4:31:27
    - Funny and naive DT* - LWillhite Yesterday, 12:37:42
It’s also the 25th anniversary of the release of Band of Brothers. - VIV May 25, 2026, 19:12:03

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