Well it’s not so much that he’s officially disqualified for his comments – it’s more that he couldn’t take the oath of office and remain consistent at this point. If he took the oath and then tried to push his anti-Muslim agenda he’d be up for impeachment for violating the First Amendment. At least that’s my understanding.
Loch Lochy. There’s a cute tradition with these stones. People pile them up and make a wish while doing so. After the pile has been destroyed by the weather, the next person has to rebuild it. .
Glencoe road.
Buachaille Etive Mor where they shot Skyfall..In love with the Highlands
This is what Scotland looks like in autumn, in particular the Isle of Skye and the West Highlands. The colors as well as the weather vary quite a lot at that time of year which makes the country even more exciting. Can’t wait to go back to see the beautiful scenery of Scotland once again.
ok here’s some facts about my guy baron von steuben
very dubious claims of
nobility. i’m too drunk and lazy to look it up right now but i’m pretty
sure he shouldn’t have actually been called a baron
anyway he served in the prussian army under frederick the great but he was discharged because of some big gay sex scandal
he spent a while in germany but – you guessed it – got into another big gay sex scandal
eventually
he realized his best option, to avoid prosecution for all these big gay
sex scandals, was to leave europe entirely and go to america where they
had way bigger fish to fry at the moment
so he’s recruited by
the continental army, with the assistance of a letter of recommendation
from ben franklin that HUGELY exaggerates his experience, probably
unintentionally (the french title “Lieutenant General Quarters Maitre”
was mistranslated as “lieutenant general” even though it really
meant “deputy quartermaster”)
so he rolls into america – first
of all, he’s arrested at the dock because he accidentally dressed
himself and all his men in red coats and everyone thought they were
british soliders. awkward
so once that’s all worked out, he rolls
into valley forge with his whole crew – like, several aides, a chef, his
dog, the whole shebang, and he’s greeted by an army of dudes who don’t
even have matching coats and haven’t showered in 10 years. these guys
are literally using their bayonets as cooking skewers, that’s how
piss-poor an army they are. steub is like “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?” he is so disgusted with them
so the steub starts devising a
bunch of drills for them to kick their ass into shape. the problem here
is, he doesn’t speak a word of english, so he generally conducts drills
by cursing at the soldiers in an incomprehensible mix of german, french,
and english, leaving his french-speaking aides (alexander hamilton and
john laurens among them) to translate for him
language barrier aside, everyone absolutely loves him. he’s such a dude. at one point in the war he holds a pantsless party, like, where you’re only allowed into the tent if you’re not wearing pants? flaming shots were served. this really happened i can source it if you want
literally america would not exist without this guy. the army was a fucking DISASTER before he showed up and taught them how to fight
anYywaY after the war he moves in with two of his aides/sugar babies, future senator william north and future state representative benjamin walker. the actual situation among these housemates is unclear but some of them were definitely banging each other. anyway, later in life he legally ADOPTS these two guys because he’s such a dedicated sugar daddy
he takes in a whole harem of hot young twinks including, at one point, john adams’ son and hercules mulligan’s son after the adamses try to break the two lovebirds up
he had no idea how to handle money and poor alexander hamilton had to manage all his finances and save him from bankruptcy lmao
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
A Middleground 