# ![@lyndonbajohnson Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1211823086401572864.png) @lyndonbajohnson Lyndon Baines Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson posts on X about money, os, in the, united states the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"The motherfucker got caught on tape calling half the country leeches. He couldn't get out of his own way. And the Bain Capital business You can thank Newt Gingrich for that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1483141380281184261)  2022-01-17T18:17Z 14.8K followers, [--] engagements


"To give you a sense of how big a figure Tom Terrific is in Mets history. he broke in with [----] Mets (the franchise's 6th year in existence). He last played for the Mets in [----]. He played for Boston in [----] and faced the Mets in the last World Series they won. -OS The Mets say that Tom Seaver's widow Nancy and daughters Sarah and Anne will be in attendance for the Tom Seaver statue ceremony before their home opener on Friday. Steve And Alex Cohen will also be present as will Mike Piazza. The Mets say that Tom Seaver's widow Nancy and daughters Sarah and Anne will be in attendance for the Tom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1513602255462797315)  2022-04-11T19:37Z 14.8K followers, [--] engagements


"The problem for Biden's coalition is it requires the actions of a loopy old New York real-estate huckster who's been kicked off social media to hold it together. and folks have short memories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1515774300304949253)  2022-04-17T19:28Z 15.4K followers, [--] engagements


"A New York Democratic Party sign for Kennedy and LBJ at Madison Square [----]. -WJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1516797887287549953)  2022-04-20T15:16Z 14.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Collect stamps. I'd have more respect for you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1529224581420314624)  2022-05-24T22:15Z 14.8K followers, [--] engagements


"1960. Sam Rayburn nominates Lyndon Johnson for President at the Democratic National Convention. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA) seconded the nomination. -WJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1564642907386175489)  2022-08-30T15:55Z 14.8K followers, [--] engagements


"You joke but there's only two places in the world you'd find a truck with Blue Lives Matter Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees decals in the back window -- and that's Texas and Suffolk Co. NY. -OS We wanted to know why crime in New York City has become such a big problem. So we talked to three unvaccinated Ted Cruz supporters at a LongHorn Steakhouse in Plano. We wanted to know why crime in New York City has become such a big problem. So we talked to three unvaccinated Ted Cruz supporters at a LongHorn Steakhouse in Plano"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1588226033739759618)  2022-11-03T17:46Z 14.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Allan Shivers' [----] election shenanigans -- a quest to have the DNC adopt a two-thirds rule requiring the Democratic nominee to secure a delegate supermajority and effectively giving the South a veto on nominees. Meant to deny Adlai Stevenson the nomination. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1604512195563425796)  2022-12-18T16:21Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements


"This office is closing down for the first night Hanukkah. We wish happiness and -- most importantly -- safety to all our Jewish readers in Texas and wherever you are. Chag urim sameach. -WJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1604624399541440513)  2022-12-18T23:47Z 14.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Ted Cruz's theory of how you win the GOP nomination-- be a punch-able asshole -- wasn't wrong. He fell short because he was only the second most punchable asshole in the race. Ted could've been the nominee in [----]. His mistake Clutching his pearls when Trump made the ugly comment about his wife. Ted should've said something even uglier about Trump's wife. That's how the Republican voter thinks. Ted could've been the nominee in [----]. His mistake Clutching his pearls when Trump made the ugly comment about his wife. Ted should've said something even uglier about Trump's wife. That's how the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1616578763675795456)  2023-01-20T23:29Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements


"National Health Insurace had been a part of the Democratic Platform since Truman. Ronald Reagan on the payroll of GE in the early 1960s was part of a televised campaign against elderly care (Medicare). -WJ Jimmy Carter campaigned on National Health Insurance. Ronald Reagan snickered in the background in the [----] Presidential debates when President Carter mentioned it https://t.co/HA6FFfaVnR Jimmy Carter campaigned on National Health Insurance. Ronald Reagan snickered in the background in the [----] Presidential debates when President Carter mentioned it https://t.co/HA6FFfaVnR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1627149718982692870)  2023-02-19T03:34Z 14.8K followers, 17.7K engagements


"@btx91 We pitched them idea before and they turned it down and then one of their staff writers repackaged our idea into half-hearted opinion piece. Fuck those people. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1630359132497739777)  2023-02-28T00:08Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Lyndon Johnsons *actual comment* to Joe Califano on the issue of banning the sale of handguns was that the only people who want to buy hand guns were compensating for. well you can finish the comment from there. -OS @lyndonbajohnson I just wish you would actually defend LBJs position instead of cringey shit posting. I dont have strong opinions on gun control but take the guns away is an extreme position that warrants defending beyond dick size jokes. And buying a handgun is not obsessed with guns. @lyndonbajohnson I just wish you would actually defend LBJs position instead of cringey shit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1645892097814286339)  2023-04-11T20:50Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"As requested a start of a huge thread of things to read instead of Vol. 1&2 of Robert Caro: we'll take the issues in order -OS PATH TO POWER has a gut-wrenchingly bad "history" of Texas and the Hill Country that was dated even in [----]. Want good history of TX Start here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1669705486755569664)  2023-07-13T17:49Z [----] followers, 37.3K engagements


"@LuisBalbino @realBerniecrat @f_cramer34 Miranda set out to lionize one of New York's overlooked founders and picked the wrong guy. But we guess John Jay makes for a less compelling musical. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1670605034055237632)  2023-06-19T01:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@kwakara91 @f_cramer34 Carl Schurz lived long enough to be a real turd. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1672505272974147584)  2023-06-24T07:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@rambler_atx This very true. And also only something "elites" care about. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1674516025075720197)  2023-06-29T20:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"These days most community colleges boast published research faculty. An elite university has never materially meant less than it does now. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1674543641006686213)  2023-06-29T22:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"It's all nonsense anyway. More so than ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1677542301894160385)  2023-07-08T05:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It'd be weirder if he was on the beach with a shirt on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1677842850078228480)  2023-07-09T01:21Z [----] followers, 11.8K engagements


"Those copper pit mines in Butte not only electrified half the country they spit out [--] of the best Senators of the 20th Century -- Walsh Murray and Mansfield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1677919247580774401)  2023-07-09T05:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Burton Wheeler was also a Butte guy. His Progressive Era politics aged poorly in the 1940s but he was a lion in the '20s. A thorn in Harding and Coolidge's sides exposing Tea Pot Dome. He was accused of being a Communist. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1677919249141051397)  2023-07-09T05:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"These sort of things really do hurt Cruz. He plays the heel because it's all he's good at but he'd rather be loved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1678214853528371200)  2023-07-10T01:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The amount of chatter on background to the press that happens as a matter of routine these days. I'd have fired everyone over it. The press is not your friend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1678442047437512717)  2023-07-11T02:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Define "most progressive." Because While Texas has always had a liberal tradition that has rarely held the upper hand to the forces of cotton railroads and oil. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1678642104761737216)  2023-07-11T07:51Z [----] followers, 13.1K engagements


"Funny story -- The Market Revolution by Charles Sellers was initially going to be the Oxford History Volume on the Early Republic/Jacksonian period. It was rejected by the editors for being too complicated hence What Hath God Wrought was born. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1678970229961965568)  2023-07-12T03:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"RFK has a certain entitled naivete in [----]. He expects the red carpet to he rolled out for him. He got bent out of shape when the AFL-CIO spurned him because they had their man and that man was Humphrey. He was also a less credible antiwar candidate than McCarthy. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1680664896592125952)  2023-07-16T19:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Another reason RFK likely could not have won the nomination was party rules were against him. After a circus convention in [----] the party changed how delegates got pledged to try and guarantee a first ballot victor. There has been only one brokered Dem convention since. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1680962038514720768)  2023-07-17T23:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Say you don't know anything about the History of Coahuila y Tejas without saying it. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1683625865253384192)  2023-07-25T00:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Elon's business plan is like buying the Ford Motor Company canceling the F-series trucks and then renaming the company "%""  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1683718726225391616)  2023-07-25T06:00Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"We would describe the arc of Ted Cruz's career as a "reverse Pappy O'Daniel." (O'Daniel went from radio host to conservative darling Ted has gone from conservative darling to podcast host). -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1684279617899708417)  2023-07-26T19:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Pittsburgh becomes the 4th largest city in the country on all purely pierogi and pilsner driven economy. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1687960138001367040)  2023-08-05T23:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Buffalo Bills are the richest team in football have won [--] Super Bowls in a row. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1687960397091831808)  2023-08-05T23:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"#OTD August [--] [----] President Johnson signs into law the Voting Rights Act of [----] giving DOJ the authority to sue states for racially discriminatory voting practices and creating a system of oversight for election laws in jurisdictions considered frequent offenders. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1688232940776329216)  2023-08-06T16:57Z [----] followers, 10.9K engagements


"LBJ grew up near the bottom of a world set up for the old boy bosses to go hog wild. A world he wasn't supposed to be able to hit escape velocity from. Gets at both sides of him -- the hubris that he alone could escape the compassion that anyone should be able to break free. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1688595956852244480)  2023-08-07T17:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I think probably the only time there could have been a socialist revolution in this country is during the Depression and Democrats saved capitalism from it and beat Hitler and Tojo too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1688732860813824000)  2023-08-08T02:04Z [----] followers, 60.5K engagements


"A socialist revolution in the US probably had its highest degree of likelihood in [----] right at the trough of the depression. A fascist revolution became more likely after the New Deal started and would've been funded by the DuPonts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1688884406834880512)  2023-08-08T12:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One of the few times Lyndon Johnson met with Ronald Reagan [----]. Afterward Johnson supposedly commented to staff that Reagan was "the dumbest governor in these United States." -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1688954198535155720)  2023-08-08T16:43Z [----] followers, 91.2K engagements


"That's not much of a prediction. If Biden wins in [----] Democrats will have held the WH for [--] of [--] years. Which has been hard for either party to do since WWII. Logic would suggest [--] years in the wilderness would likely be waiting. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1689115982575325184)  2023-08-09T03:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Feinstein just makes Barbara Boxer's legacy look that much better -- kicking in Carly Fiorina's teeth in [----] and then riding off into the sunset in [----] with her dignity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1689429597308256257)  2023-08-10T00:12Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements


"Something we do adore about Milwaukee is that every summer weekend there's some festival that is more or less a flimsy pretext for drinking beer in park. And it's wonderful. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1689674272724115456)  2023-08-10T16:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""Everyone I knew was against the war in Vietnam" is a frequent Boomer refrain. Of course by their own recollection [---] mil people attended Woodstock and every desegregation order was opposed by a single sheriff and toothless old basset hound. so memory be a fickle thing. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690190772581154817)  2023-08-12T02:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"You probably can and should take 1960s polling with a grain of salt but LBJ's approvals had already tanked in [----] well before the War in Vietnam is broadly unpopular. Pretty big matzo ball hanging out there as for what *caused that.* -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690197456078700545)  2023-08-12T03:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"1968 is about Civil Rights. [----] was about the New Deal. It's really not anymore complicated than that. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690232248673423360)  2023-08-12T05:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"What's interestin @NateMaconStan is that Old Left commentators still engaged in [----] like Murray Bookchin (who was one of the UAW Strike radicals from 1945/46) are begging SNCC and SDS to hold together on class solidarity; so *they* could see race was ripping it apart. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690235779581169664)  2023-08-12T05:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's really stark when you talk to some of the old Black Guys who were in the movement after [----] -- they have the most anger over how Black Power was rejected by White liberals and radicals. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690237138745393152)  2023-08-12T05:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This may thin out some of our Boomer readership -- but it's telling that so many White men of a certain age believe that JFK and MLK were killed by the CIA rather than confronting the reality that both were murdered by. *one of their peers acting on his own.* -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690242971139002368)  2023-08-12T06:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"And there's a ripple effect to this. The History Department was not included in this review -- *but* WVU is currently a Ph.D. granting institution in History hard to see how that is maintained into the future *once it no longer has a languages department* -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690394226096328705)  2023-08-12T16:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Pentagon Papers concluded: A) South Vietnam would've never existed without Ike's initial intervention in the Geneva Agreement. B) South Vietnam couldn't continue to exist without continued US support. C) The war was unwinnable if you couldn't knock out Hanoi. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690458891094511616)  2023-08-12T20:23Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Fast forward then to [----] and McMaster breezes by all the Pentagon Papers' conclusion (though he cherry picks the findings) to argue that Vietnam was winnable if politicians (LBJ) hadn't micromanaged the Army. That's a pretty radical and self-serving retelling -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690458894374502400)  2023-08-12T20:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The embedded reporting wasn't necessarily all that more expansive in Vietnam than it had been in WWII (less censorship but not no censorship). The difference really was that in [----] Tet brought the war to all the journalists' hotel rooms in Saigon. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690463157762805760)  2023-08-12T20:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Johnson expressed that he'd never personally never put to rest questions about Oswald's foreign connections. In the next breath he reaffirms the competence of the Warren commission. To infer from that that he believed there was some sort of cover-up is idiotic. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690536985465679872)  2023-08-13T01:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The land is stolen from Mexico indeed. But the culture is its own thing. German Czech Tejano Black Texan Pakistani Hindi West African all blended into a weird mix. Texas sucks. It's also awesome. Have to be able to comprehend both or you don't get it. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690607417300582400)  2023-08-13T06:13Z [----] followers, 13.8K engagements


"Everyday Ron DeSantis loses ground to people I've never heard of and will have forgotten ever existed by March"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690852136303697920)  2023-08-13T22:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"We're steaming toward a Biden-Trump rematch that only the grim reaper could prevent and so they're searching for something to talk about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690872499091709952)  2023-08-13T23:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"You sir win all the merit points for getting our Denny Rehberg joke. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690896722736951296)  2023-08-14T01:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's remarkable how the bio of every MT Democrat is "he climbed out of the Continental Pit to become a union rep and Senator." Whereas the MT GOP is "he was known for owning the Great Falls Steak 'n Shake drunk driving and telling a Black Senate Page to 'get over' slavery." -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1690918592018055171)  2023-08-14T02:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The kid with the red beard is singing "Hillbilly Elegy" and Chris Murphy fell for it like Ron Howard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1691159939715338244)  2023-08-14T18:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""Rich People North of Richmond" just makes us think about how desegregation broke White Southerner's brains and we're still living the aftermath. As younger scholars we thought about Southern History through the lens of economics as we get older -- nope it's psychology. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1691271799277752320)  2023-08-15T02:13Z [----] followers, 21.6K engagements


"And the inescapable fact is there literally nothing a Nothern liberal could offer the Southern reactionary to win him over. No amount money job training programs could win him over. The Southern reactionary just wants to take everything away from Black people again. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1691273209390223360)  2023-08-15T02:18Z [----] followers, 16.7K engagements


"The lesson of Southern History is that if you saw the South's retrograde racial caste system as an economic problem that could be fixed by growth like the Liberal Republicans and New Dealers did all you'll create is a wealthier place with a retrograde racial caste system. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1691275502638563328)  2023-08-15T02:27Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements


"@Svrdm3626 @SageOfTime1 @Thorongil16 Texas [--] would need to grab a lot more of South Houston and a hell of a lot less of Katy for that to really be possible. There was always less difference between Moser and Fletcher than advertised. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1691583524518699457)  2023-08-15T22:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Svrdm3626 @SageOfTime1 @Thorongil16 If you had a Lizzie Fletcher-type sitting in Garcia or Green's district-- that would be a lot more of a problem than her holding down the historic River Oaks Country Club racists' seat. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1691584455595491467)  2023-08-15T22:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The short history of TX-07 is that it was created by the VRA as a White district bounded to S and E by opportunity districts. After [----] the GOP has sort of abandoned it (stuffing some of its former Republican votes in TX-38) but its not a totally safe seat. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1691594956194877813)  2023-08-15T23:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"While I don't think Fletcher needs to go if she can't hold off a two-bit primary challenger as a [--] term incumbent she has no business in congress anyway. Self-correcting issue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1691866217257292238)  2023-08-16T17:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This bizarre claim comes from a universe of Texas idiots like Barr McClellan (a lawyer and father of W's press secretary) and Robert Morrow (the former Travis Co. GOP chair) who've been laughed out of every serious venue where they've ever tried to peddle their shit. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1692011880867360964)  2023-08-17T03:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Polling suggests it's good for him to demonstrate he has half a testicle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1692040325609492793)  2023-08-17T05:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Last long weekend here before the semester starts. Classes prepped we're taking a drive to Jackson MS for BBQ. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1692212431680942224)  2023-08-17T16:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"9 hrs Austin to Jackson. Worth it. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1692213048612729322)  2023-08-17T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Really the difference between a Western and Southern State. A fed highway in Montana gets repaved and painted every year. The median of a LA highway hasnt been repainted since [----] because the highway funds buy every parish commissioner a new F-250 every year. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1692231182736331025)  2023-08-17T17:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If you really wanted to stir the pot you'd toss out there that it sure looks like the RNC is actually doing for Trump what people accused the DNC of doing for Hillary -- rolling out a red carpet for a coronation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1692369165804241068)  2023-08-18T02:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sam Ealy Johnson Jr. was a fascinating figure in TX History. He was a podunk district rep but gained notoriety in [----] for speaking up against the Klan and the lynch mobs and then for challenging the Klan to "meet him on his porch" when they tried to shut him up. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1692941127593177125)  2023-08-19T16:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's funny to read with hindsight all these Texas lefties from the 1910s who thought the oilboom at Spindletop would create a socialist utopia of plenty. Wow boy. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1692969060537954567)  2023-08-19T18:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In general Robert Caro writing about Texas is like a 1980s male screenwriter trying to a write a role for a woman. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1693017572889825512)  2023-08-19T21:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@LuisBalbino Well now we're several thousand couterfactuals deep. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1693022219109114214)  2023-08-19T22:08Z 14.8K followers, [---] engagements


"What I'm saying is if you're the Governor of South Dakota your job is to cash the federal checks shut the fuck up and keep the blood alcohol below .16"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1693812047207690619)  2023-08-22T02:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It predates emancipation. Southern slave masters constantly entertained fever dream fears that abolitionists and free Blacks conspired against them. go back to the Revolutionary Period they fear the British Empire as an "outside agitator" -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694099066886537280)  2023-08-22T21:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The GOP was once the grand party of intellectuals and ideas Great ideas Like *checks notes* privatizing nuclear fission for profit What could go wrong -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694106561939923250)  2023-08-22T21:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One of the main ideas we've tried to express in the [--] years that we've been here is that had Republicans (even the allegedly liberal ones) been the dominate party in the mid-twentieth century they'd have killed us all and harvested our organs for profit. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694107556266824046)  2023-08-22T22:01Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The difference between NC and TX is the TX conservatives are just more explicit with the racism and antisemitism. In [--] the Regulars campaigned on "Keep the WHITE in Old Glory." In '48 Hugh Roy Cullen runs ads in the Houston Post telling voters to "reject the 'Jew Deal'." -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694125897664581850)  2023-08-22T23:14Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@PseudoVoegelin (Which is why the Montana Power Company was pushing up daisies within [--] years of being deregulated) -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694208705707880520)  2023-08-23T04:43Z 15.2K followers, [--] engagements


"The GOP was given one crack to show the country its spin on the New Deal in the 83rd Congress. They spent it red-baiting the Army and blackmailing a WY Senator into killing himself. And so they were not given the House again until that generation of American voters died. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694233587388756251)  2023-08-23T06:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Seriously Holy Shit. If you were [--] (voting age) in [----] you were [--] by the time Republicans regained the gavel in the House. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694235123409915927)  2023-08-23T06:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@George851554471 @JosephNewDeal Ike came from a family of Republicans he wasn't ever going to be a Democrat and Truman ended up hating his guts. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694235465111507392)  2023-08-23T06:29Z 14.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@un_a_valeable The pattern in the Southern state conventions from [----] to [----] becomes really predictable -- We're the (insert name of splinter faction here) Democrats The Real Democrats We are proud to announce our endorsement of (insert name of Republican here) for president -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694243560667697484)  2023-08-23T07:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One of the luxuries of winning the power struggle is killing your opponent on your timetable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1694423707588952526)  2023-08-23T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The GOP is a working class party in the sense that they support grinding some of the older workers into a fine paste that can be marketed as affordable food for younger workers. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695199924646789475)  2023-08-25T22:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"After his first term he basically rarely found more legislative success (just like Obama) he failed spectacularly on numerous occasions -- AND HE FUCKING SIGNED AN EO INTERRING US CITIZENS BECAUSE THEY WERE JAPANESE. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695283493780000793)  2023-08-26T03:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"At the same time that FDR was boarding up the windows to keep Jews fleeing Europe from getting into the US LBJ a pissant freshman congressman was working on a bill to resettle as many Jewish refugees as possible in TX. US immigration policy isn't an excuse for FDR. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695290260425445596)  2023-08-26T04:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"When FDR was part of Harvard's board of directors in [----] he helped institute an admission quota to discriminate against Jews. This shit is literally in his Wikipedia its so common knowledge. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695294634937782583)  2023-08-26T04:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"FDR was an extremely good president. One of maybe [--] or [--] who did something of real lasting worth to the country and humanity. That doesn't mean however we must pretend he farted rainbows and all his faults were because of exogenous factors. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695304515396767821)  2023-08-26T05:17Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@BillHarshaw Oh boy. Doesn't help your argument. Because when he was in the board of directors at Harvard he'd spearheaded a policy to discriminate against Jews at Harvard and as president he instituted a ban on giving emergency visas to Jewish refugees. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695483967565160480)  2023-08-26T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@kwakara91 No not at all The list of presidents who didn't privately harbor prejudice against the US's historically subaltern is just an extremely short list (basically Obama). -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695484667657355716)  2023-08-26T17:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"At no point have we argued that FDR was bad or should be vilified. Our point is that you maybe shouldn't just wisk over the fact that his views of Jews are pretty troubling if read in the original German. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695488169582449141)  2023-08-26T17:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@NoahMF @historyiscool__ Not in an official state capacity. Those were all considered goodwill missions. The first official Israeli state visit where Israel was Hosted at the WH for a state dinner was [----]. Truman was adamant that his visits be unofficial. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695530864434716764)  2023-08-26T20:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Literally everyone listed here contributed to Vietnam. Truman let the French back into Indochina as noted by the Pentagon Papers S. Vietnam couldn't have existed without Ike's intervention and JFK put the first combat troops in country and the Navy in the South China Sea. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695656770935431374)  2023-08-27T04:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The United States has French people who make French food. When France gets a guy from Fort Worth who can BBQ a brisket get back to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695685374410940847)  2023-08-27T06:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If Biden can win another term by some act of God hang to the Senate and then land the plane on child tax credits and some other things he's in Truman/LBJ territory. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695943710628864453)  2023-08-27T23:37Z [----] followers, 16.1K engagements


"After the first sentence there your tweet just turned into fog horn noise like the adults in "Peanuts" -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695944260128751914)  2023-08-27T23:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AmericanAccolon @NateMaconStan (They were supposed to be in Moscow before it snowed)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1695987063806374139)  2023-08-28T02:30Z 14.9K followers, [--] engagements


"When the French can make something with tripe or beef tongue that's actually good get back to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1696339411632341244)  2023-08-29T01:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The parking lot of that bar has [--] Dodge Rams parked in [--] spaces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1697109155520115014)  2023-08-31T04:48Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"It's because of this myth that Social Studies textbooks should be full of names like Lulu Belle White and those names should be hammered into school children's heads. You have a whole [--] generations before you get to MLK and without them there would've been no MLK. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1697738025009057882)  2023-09-01T22:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@arsetechnica [--] had been coming since [----]. Too many clipboard brains in the Democratic Party who can see the obvious -- you've won Blacl voters from the GOP with the New Deal. You won't keep them with the New Deal alone. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1697848253415379297)  2023-09-02T05:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Ike acted in Little Rock because Faubus forced his hand by abusing the national guard. He acted to protect the powers of the POTUS. Evidence Every other governor who resisted a desegregation order in 1956/57 got away with it and Ike didn't lift a finger. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698023529130688965)  2023-09-02T17:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The saddest genre of tweet is the "no Eisenhower is good on Civil Rights 101st Airborne" Reply guy tweet. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698025108953051260)  2023-09-02T17:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Surely African American voters recognized Eisenhower's grand achievements no After all a majority of them were still registered as Republicans in the 50s and they responded to Ike's obvious spine on Civil Rights by *checks notes* voting overwhelmingly Democratic. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698038851183202615)  2023-09-02T18:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The classic article is the one actually on Little Rock in the aftermath in [----] and [----]. Think it's by David Chapell. (The historian not the comic). Achieve the minimum amount of integration necessary. -OS @lyndonbajohnson The focus on Ike and Little Rock in US history classes is dumb. They should focus on stuff like massive resistance in Virginia. Shows seggie extremism and how public school-loving whites shaped the post-Brown settlement by accepting limited integration to keep schools open. @lyndonbajohnson The focus on Ike and Little Rock in US history classes is dumb. They should focus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698043214026936395)  2023-09-02T18:40Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The North while King and SCLC March in the South 1955-1965 vs. The North when King and SCLC show up on their doorstep in [----]. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698055957245264096)  2023-09-02T19:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@anvilwalrusden Right. And jury trials was the issue at the center of it. Because Johnson wasn't going to get Russell to agree to not organize a filibuster against the bill if it jury trial regulations. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698101929409118410)  2023-09-02T22:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ElderLaFollette Lower and working class African Americans switched their registrations alot faster than the "Middle Class establishment." -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698189431943930273)  2023-09-03T04:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


""I loved my time at Notre Dame. But it's a university. I want to win football games so I came to LSU a glorified summer camp with a football stadium." -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1698507473626259691)  2023-09-04T01:25Z [--] followers, 31K engagements


"At all but for maybe [--] universities the athletic department is just a gigantic money pit and the arguments to defend them on the grounds that they raise enrollment are most just a rorschach in which people see what they want to see. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698511960000602553)  2023-09-04T01:43Z [----] followers, 15.4K engagements


"You won't find any of us at any Burn ever because none of us need to see some granola-ass Gen X'er hanging dong. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698564884357578942)  2023-09-04T05:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"None of us are going to a burn because if we need to alter our state of mind we're going to do it with alcohol in a dingy pit of a bar that hasn't passed a health inspection without bribery since [----] like patriotic Americans. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698568354967998688)  2023-09-04T05:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@braddeltan That maybe happens at Texas. It sure as shit isn't the case at any smaller school. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1698610022404526122)  2023-09-04T08:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Not remotely true. NY and CA are just more expensive. But take it from people who've lived in both and own property in both -- NY isn't looking to nickle and dime like TX is and the other difference between NY and TX is you visibly see the service benefit if what you pay. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699095681238220941)  2023-09-05T16:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It is hilarious the thing that stands between Texans and horrible destructive public education policy is Texans' love for those Friday Night Lights. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699212152605757544)  2023-09-06T00:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Matt Schlapp definitely has a "dark Uber account." -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699224555233890748)  2023-09-06T00:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bentsen is always remembered for his Quayle takedown but have always thought Molly Ivins had the better line. "if you put that man's brain in a bumble bee it would fly backwards" is just such an inspired line. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699255830913089689)  2023-09-06T02:58Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements


"It's Indiana. Half the politicians are dogs and cats who've ceremonially been made mayor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699263311307501924)  2023-09-06T03:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It speaks to both the lasting power of Ivins and the poverty of Democratic politics in TX that probably half the county parties in the state call their big annual fundraiser the Molly Ivins Dinner. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699263777676386806)  2023-09-06T03:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The thing to remember here with Paxton is that folks who blew the whistle on him weren't liberal do-gooders. They were and are right-wing nuts. Paxton pushed it too for for *their* tastes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699511345446891841)  2023-09-06T19:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In TX in [----] desegregation was a hot topic -- whether Eisenhower would enforce it whether Shivers would comply. Ike chose not to enforce it. Shivers chose fight for segregation. It payed political dividends for Ike and the Shiverscrats. They won by more in [--] than [--]. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699576655642059212)  2023-09-07T00:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The rise of these white moderates the literal white moderates criticized by MLK six years later in his letter from Birmingham Jail actually *slowed school integrations.* They brokered deals to "integrate" white high schools with small numbers of hand selected black kids. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699577837835931908)  2023-09-07T00:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The purpose here was to take pressure from the NAACP off of the school districts by showing that the white community leadership could deliver *some integration* without wholesale caving to court orders or inviting federal enforcement pressure. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699578184860135719)  2023-09-07T00:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"David Chappell writes extensively about these negotiated and limited desegregations that happen across the South in [----] and about the "white moderates" who sought to achieve "the minimum amount of integration necessary." -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699579369847468451)  2023-09-07T00:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The reality for most Black Texans is that their school districts remained segregated until well into the 1960s and even the 1970s until the power of federal law enshrined in the CRA of [----] *compelled* their integration. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699579706679460274)  2023-09-07T00:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Going to be awkward when you've got Texas women climbing over the fucking buoys in the Rio Grande to get healthcare in Matamoros"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699599033436688782)  2023-09-07T01:42Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements


"This is a picture of Mansfield HS after a white mob blocked its integration in [----]. Notice the effigy in the background. Or if Traces of Texas was tweeting this "Boy howdy look at them nice people having so much fun Mansfield TX [----]. Wonder what they're talkin' bout" -Os"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699634624538747093)  2023-09-07T04:04Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Honestly took the kind of meek incremental we have to partner with private capital liberalism of Bill Clinton behind the shed and shot it. Obama tried to break away but COVID buried it. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699647107093631113)  2023-09-07T04:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Every time we see news involving the mayor of New York our minds just drift to the opening stanzas of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism where he laments that Americans who once boldly constructed the continent now fear to govern New York. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699844683164479607)  2023-09-07T17:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sifting through stuff as we update an online Texas History class. A shareworthy gem about race civil rights and East Texas here. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699923168549368123)  2023-09-07T23:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Principle 1: ideally never have to make a decision. Hope it resolves itself in the space of [--] to [--] holes. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1699953996960600425)  2023-09-08T01:13Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Actually LBJ had [--] Democratic Senators. But [--] of them voted to the right of Mitt Romney and probably 35-40 of them were to the right of Joe Manchin. -OS @lyndonbajohnson Trying to imagine a world where Biden has [--] D senators @lyndonbajohnson Trying to imagine a world where Biden has [--] D senators"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700020292251189475)  2023-09-08T05:36Z 14.8K followers, 11.9K engagements


"The difference in gov't between [----] and [----] -- [----] gov't was a Rube Goldberg machine that a master like LBJ could make work where others couldn't. In [----] gov't is two elephant seals beating the christ out of each other for territory. Weight matters skill doesn't. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700227919778287759)  2023-09-08T19:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's not hard to wrap your brain around the fact that Democratic Senate Caucus in the 89th Congress was more conservative than the 117th. Joe Manchin understands Black and gay people are in fact people something which hadn't dawned on 70% of Democratic Senators in [----]. -OS @lyndonbajohnson @rebels2008 I find that to be highly doubtful. @lyndonbajohnson @rebels2008 I find that to be highly doubtful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700236254002946249)  2023-09-08T19:54Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"There were always going to be limits to how popular Biden is looked at on his own terms. He's lost primaries before and not for no reason. His popularity has always been based on comparing him to the filled diaper he'll be running against"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700245430267736073)  2023-09-08T20:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Trump ran a very good campaign in all the important ways in [----]. He ran a very bad one in [----]. It was bizarre. The next one will be even more bizarre and that's not priced into the polling yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700246360082010318)  2023-09-08T20:34Z [----] followers, 13.1K engagements


"Avoiding as much triteness as this platform forces -- priority [--] is Senate reform. The remedy to an overactive judiciary is a functioning legislature -- the VRA would still be fine if congress had passed new preclearance formulas. 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700309244946293184)  2023-09-09T00:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Every once in while we can convince ourselves of the continuing value of the Senate. But only when we're really drunk and mad at the world. -OS @lyndonbajohnson eventually it'd be great to make the Senate irrelevant but bar that actually make it work is good @lyndonbajohnson eventually it'd be great to make the Senate irrelevant but bar that actually make it work is good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700310672167367154)  2023-09-09T00:50Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The only good historian's work Robert Caro ever did is in Vol. [--] making the correct claim that the Senate has been completely pointless but for [--] brief periods in US History. One required Civil War. One required the Great Depression the most recent required Lyndon Johnson. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700312374731780302)  2023-09-09T00:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Asking if LBJ knew the rules of the Senate better than Biden is like asking if Einstein understands quantum physics better than a 10th grader. For one the Senate rules were *more complicated* in the 50s/60s than they became by the 70s. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700416447774597299)  2023-09-09T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The slip up here John is an insult to the entire Texian way of life. What are you An agent of the Kremlin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700616302006522033)  2023-09-09T21:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@arsetechnica It wasn't just about knowing the rules it was about working within them (and around them). They didn't govern with just a backslap and determination neither. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700621344365285825)  2023-09-09T21:24Z 14.8K followers, [--] engagements


"This is my impatience with football -- when we have to committee hearing on whether it was a catch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700650271905288520)  2023-09-09T23:19Z [----] followers, 12.7K engagements


"It's Texas-Alabama. The only people not watching it are Reds and Oklahomans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1700660062937632881)  2023-09-09T23:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Can trace the change in my mother's handling of the seder ritual. The "next year in Jerusalem" toast became perfunctory and meaningless about [--] years ago disappeared from the program altogether about [--] years ago. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1701033051927585036)  2023-09-11T00:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"There were New Yorkers who died alone in their apartments bodies not found until days later but yeah sure masks on toddlers. "Oh the humanity." -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1701428012560830669)  2023-09-12T02:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Fun fact -- since we do have a Jets fan or two in this office (God help them) the kid who won it for the Jets on the punt return Xavier Gipson is from Dallas and played his college ball for good old Stephen F. Austin University. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1701439628106928492)  2023-09-12T03:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"California's Bear Flag is from a secession movement (from Mexico) concurrent to the US-Mexico War of 1846-1848. If you want to argue that's it connection to White Supremacy then it's odd to single out the Bear Flag and not include the Lone Star Flag which *started* the war. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1701585229557682291)  2023-09-12T13:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Some news. We have set up the President at the other place. All his messages here will go there too. For now we will run this in parallel. And you will see no disruption to service here. -WJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1701796870509457687)  2023-09-13T03:16Z [----] followers, 17.5K engagements


"People with degrees in German literature become international business people and state department employees. Exactly the sort of thing taxpayer dollars should invest. People who've read one particular German book probably not in the original German become MS Republicans. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1701806638871507312)  2023-09-13T03:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Chris Hooks said it in the TX Monthly and he's essentially correct that the Paxton trial is a product of the TX GOP feeling firmly entrenched enough in their power to fight with each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1701972287094771905)  2023-09-13T14:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I've said it before but it's a another signal the GOP gets a lot worse before it gets any better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1702038715265167752)  2023-09-13T19:17Z [----] followers, 37.8K engagements


"If you've observed American politics armed with a brain the recent lesson is clear: govern how you want because it's going to be a coin flip in [--] states that decide it either way. "Biden over-interpreted his mandate. His brief was to end the dark carnival of Trump and lead US out of pandemic. What followed--profuse spending subsidies on a scale that might scandalize a Gaullist--allowed Rs to draw a link btwn admin & rising prices." https://t.co/5MhVnuJh3P "Biden over-interpreted his mandate. His brief was to end the dark carnival of Trump and lead US out of pandemic. What followed--profuse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1702159899327676883)  2023-09-14T03:18Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"As Abe Fortas would put it -- he faces three counts of having the wrong last name. The DOJ is independent full of motivated young line prosecutors looking to make a name for themselves. Thems the breaks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1702384418898293009)  2023-09-14T18:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Lyndon Johnson holds court with the press in the oval after threatening George Wallace with the active duty call-up of the Alabama National Guard during the Selma Movement. March [--] [----]. -WJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1702841394102997445)  2023-09-16T00:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's one thing if you get asked to leave the Barber of Seville. But Beetle Juice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1702857012076257291)  2023-09-16T01:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"To an extent the wedge for Texas suburban men is: A) you can get a divorce and never talk to your daughter again or B) hold your nose and vote for Democrats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1703124034110537815)  2023-09-16T19:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"McCarthy's never white-knuckled nothing across the finish line. Not even is own"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1703584862748196997)  2023-09-18T01:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The N Word was probably the password to the front doors of a Harvard Secret Society JFK belonged too. Rich Irish and from Boston. JFK probably said the N word more than your average president. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1703765158185639979)  2023-09-18T13:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Comparing Pelosi and McCarthy isn't fair. It's saying the Ford [---] has more pulling power than a sewing machine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1704198021221863469)  2023-09-19T18:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The GOP has always meant the " Free Labor" and "Free Men" parts of Free Soil Free Labor Free Men quite literally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1704231845460582524)  2023-09-19T20:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The GOP line on slavery in 1856: "men must be free" The GOP line on every labor strike since: "what do you people not understand about men being FREE" -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1704235021668679682)  2023-09-19T20:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Not a defense of McCarthy -- but if the whipping Democratic Caucus is like herding cats then whipping the Republican Caucus is like herding rabid meth-addicted raccoons. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1704238519667847621)  2023-09-19T20:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A long gov't shutdown and an impeachment vote would be quite the opening salvo in the House GOP's bold "nuke us American public we dare you" election strategy. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1704241710937563363)  2023-09-19T21:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Slightly off screen Tim Scott's campaign coordinators for MI WI and PA were seen hanging themselves. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1704244073811337321)  2023-09-19T21:20Z [--] followers, 13.5K engagements


"Kirk is really just speaking here to the rage felt by the middle-aged car dealer from Wichita Falls whose daughter went to UT-Austin and has barely spoken to him since"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1704558582417535285)  2023-09-20T18:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Pelosi let it slip a couple times toward the end in a way she never would have early on. Still Pelosi and Rayburn at their sloppiest were better Speakers than the GOP has fielded in [---] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1704987377595191703)  2023-09-21T22:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sometimes we think about the fact that there's been [--] GOP speakers since [----] and only [--] Democratic Speakers since *1940* -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1704990459649482953)  2023-09-21T22:46Z 14.8K followers, 15.6K engagements


"An under-emphasized point in the history of the New Deal Coalition is that a considerable amount of the South effectively ran a dress rehearsal for the Dixiecrat Revolt in [----] with the outcomes of the war in Europe and the Pacific still fairly in doubt. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1705110699469328719)  2023-09-22T06:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The encapsulation of the Great Society is Stevie Wonder blowing the roof off of Sesame Street. featuring our life long personal hero -- the kid on the top railing just *feeling* the music. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1705318003036794880)  2023-09-22T20:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Dallas is far better prepared for a world after oil than Houston is. but its status as a regional financial hub will mean it will always have terrible politics and more than its share of kooks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1705318868678320447)  2023-09-22T20:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Score at the Half: Texas [--] Your Problematic Youth Pastor's Alma Mater (Baylor) [--]. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1705753951637766563)  2023-09-24T01:20Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Football players hawking beer and pharmaceuticals is hardly a new-fangled thing. He's selling COVID shots now when he retires it'll be balding creams viagra and icy hot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1706099781888544805)  2023-09-25T00:14Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Reagan was not bright but he was also not lazy either intellectually or politically. He'd internalized his message about the roles of government and private enterprise and could convey it in a way that indicated he felt it in his bones. A lost art on the right. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1706510297647739006)  2023-09-26T03:25Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements


"It's a hell of thing for a President to join the picket. Unthinkable for Wilson and FDR. Neither Truman or myself would've been comfortable with it either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1706778654259445968)  2023-09-26T21:11Z 15K followers, 24.4K engagements


"LBJ is a large part of the reason why there were ever arms reductions treaties. He was the first to pump the breaks on the nuclear arms race. This is like not even a remotely debated fact. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1706783488786288918)  2023-09-26T21:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I think 70-80% odds McCarthy's speakership lasts about as long as the shutdown. Hard to see how that knot untangles. Not impossible. Hard to see. His only hope is some of the nuts feel enough heat to pass a Republican bill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1707585513136230548)  2023-09-29T02:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This district is now defunct and he's been pushed up moreso into Montgomery Co. At the time though this was basically a legal "White opportunity district" because it was surrounded by other VRA districts. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1707918023128948822)  2023-09-30T00:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"USC is a true PAC [--] football team in that their offense can score in 1o seconds and their defense can surrender points in [--] seconds. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1708200820972347579)  2023-09-30T19:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bowman probably wouldn't be in Congress if Engel had cared to come back to the Bronx and cut a ribbon on a bus stop at some point in the last [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1708525587432689678)  2023-10-01T16:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"We are believers that Presidents should have long public service records. But it's also empirically obvious that the escalating cost of running for office enforces a gerontocracy. LBJ was elected to congress at [--]. His whole public life was over [--]. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1708704759094354355)  2023-10-02T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"His first congressional run -- which was funded by Lady Bird's parents -- probably cost about $2K. (About $43K adjusted for inflation pretty much the cost of car. Elections have become ridiculous money pits) -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1708705674224341420)  2023-10-02T04:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The death of the Dems old upland cotton subsidy coalition and also a forgotten arena of massive resistance -- Lubbock TX just literally *never* integrated. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709065635651543341)  2023-10-03T04:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Wielding the knife is one thing; Pelosi was an expert but Jeffries has proven a quick study. Wielding the whip in the majority is entirely another thing at which Pelosi was also an expert and Jeffries untested"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709261101102199045)  2023-10-03T17:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'd say the vote to oust McCarthy probably helps in a Trump district"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709267003427487755)  2023-10-03T17:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I think of Pelosi as the best qualities of Rayburn and O'Neill. Rayburn's feel for the game and O'Neill's sheer force of will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709274295665410442)  2023-10-03T18:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Al did this during the initial speaker votes. He does it everytime there's a roll call vote. In a career he's told the history of Black Texas and Black Houston from the floor of the House. It's what he does take it or leave it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709313242848194958)  2023-10-03T21:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"For half the holdouts and Gaetz especially it was about making McCarthy walk through the paddle line before they let him have it. If you remember Gaetz made McCarthy go through it one last time when everyone thought it was finally cinched. Just to get one more pound of flesh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709449703421628638)  2023-10-04T06:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Gaetz's fate might be sealed by the ethics probe either way. He's leaving a turd in the upper deck on his way out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709451165434261711)  2023-10-04T06:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"For my nightly scotch I was still chuckling over the fact that Bob Good had the balls to come to mic and tell his caucus he rolled McCarthy for his wallet and could've taken his wrist watch too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709451893062139940)  2023-10-04T06:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If McCarthy had any dark money friends he's been deleted from the contacts after today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709452498589606242)  2023-10-04T06:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Where Scalise went wrong was claiming he had no baggage. His caucus loves the baggage. He couldn't hold a candle to David Duke with these people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709684110619242705)  2023-10-04T21:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I can promise you these things are remembered and when they're back in the minority Patrick McHenry will have to ask the janitor in the Cannon Building for the keys to his office in the sub-basement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709767215560491085)  2023-10-05T03:07Z 14.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Democrats spent the entire weekend on the talk shows repeating that their votes were for sale. That's how it works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709801316556402770)  2023-10-05T05:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The reality is that what Democrats would've wanted from McCarthy was a longterm CR that would've taken the GOP's budget leverage or the ability to introduce legislation and either concession would've effectively ended Kevin's speakership anyway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709803312017457457)  2023-10-05T05:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This is exactly correct. Additionally by this point Ike had checked out entirely and was no longer picking up the phone when Martin Luther King called. -OS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lyndonbajohnson/status/1709932709416681474)  2023-10-05T14:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

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