#J. Edgar Hoover

[real-george-harrison]

wHy wOnT yOu GeT baCK wItH PaTtIe??!!WHAT DID SHE EVER DO TO YOU. HOOVER WILL HEAR ABOUT THIIISS

Getting the FBI involved in such a matter is ridiculous.

[milkyway-gaily]

J. Edgar

I'm more than devastated. It is incredible. I cried for more than 30min.

You'll learn why Hoover was controversial but at the same time you'll understand and accept how he was. The old-age makeup can be cringy and it does take some time to get used to but the relationship between Hoover and Tolson is just deep felt. I didn't quite enjoy the slow pace and music but in the end they really made sense to me.

How can anyone love another person like Tolson did!?!? The best part, he's portrayed by Armie🙏

\\Armie looks immaculate in vintage fashion//

My fav Armie film aside from U.N.C.L.E.(and CMBYN!)😭🙏

[muined]

Presenting the best of John Goodman as Clyde Tolson (and Kelsey Grammer as J. Edgar Hoover) in the very silly 1994 radio-musical J. Edgar! I also made a video with the best bits from the musical overall, here. If you want to download the full recording from LA Theatre Works, you can do that too. It's a Harry Shearer project and it has a bunch of Simpsons cast members and some early Simpsons energy, but, part and parcel with that, some racist voices, and also just a lot of songs that aren't specific enough to the characters or, you know, listenable. So I felt compelled to make an abridged version for my own pleasure.

And Clyde is by far the highlight! Goodman brings so much to him and it's such a bizarre, cute take on the character - like, for some reason he's clingy and dramatic, he's got baby fever, he's turned on by Hoover's coldness, he's really enthusiastic about doing menial henchman-y tasks for Hoover, he calls Melvin Purvis "Princess Luncheon Meats." There's a breakup arc for no reason except to give Clyde a parody of Rose's Turn. Goodman is doing kind of an old-timey singing voice. It's great.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

John Knefel at MMFA:

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and others in MAGA media have recently praised disgraced Sen. Joe McCarthy and his blacklists, a tactic that Project 2025 partner organization the American Accountability Foundation is attempting to bring to the White House should Donald Trump win in November. According to The Associated Press, AAF is planning to create and publicly post a list of “100 names of government workers to a website this summer to show a potential new administration who might be … ripe for scrutiny, reclassifications, reassignments or firings,” with a focus on “those in senior executive positions who could put up roadblocks to Trump’s plans for tighter borders and more deportations.”

The plan is reportedly underwritten by a $100,000 grant from conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation as part of Project 2025, its far-reaching and extreme effort to provide policy and personnel recommendations for a potential second Trump administration. One of Project 2025’s top priorities is the implementation of “Schedule F,” a scheme to remove job protections from federal workers by reclassifying career staffers as political appointees — a direct attack on federal unions that could be used to fire civil servants deemed insufficiently pro-Trump. AAF is one of more than 100 conservative organizations on Project 2025’s advisory board, and its initiative — synergistically dubbed Project Sovereignty 2025 — is the latest broadside against the 2.2 million people who work for the federal government. The AP article notes that the group’s list of what Heritage referred to as “anti-American bad actors” echoes the blacklist era of McCarthy, the disgraced anti-communist crusader whose name became synonymous with one of the most repressive periods in U.S. history.

[...] Project 2025’s Schedule F and AAF’s proposed blacklist are clear, direct descendants of the literal McCarthyism that MAGA media figures are so quick to praise. The McCarthy era saw massive purges of left-wing federal employees as part of the Cold War’s rightward shift in national politics, halting the potential for American social democracy and helping to plant the seeds for the neoliberal turn of the 1970s and the ensuing rise in inequality that accompanied it. McCarthy and fellow anti-communists like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover also directed their oppressive tactics toward gay people — and those suspected or accused of being gay — who worked for the federal government during a period known as the Lavender Scare. McCarthy “directly linked homosexuality and Communism,” depicting gay people working in government as a national security threat. Historians estimate that between 5,000 and 10,000 federal workers were forced to resign during this period, often behind closed doors for fear of their gay identity — real or perceived — becoming public.

American Accountability Foundation, a Project 2025 partner, will enact a McCarthyist purge of the civil services if Donald Trump wins election again.

[politicalrpf]

Various cards of Richard Nixon's friends and family, by Norman Friant and Peter Green, 1971.

[dropboxofcuriosities]

J. Edgar Hoover portant un masque de Mickey Mouse lors d'une soirée du Nouvel An.

[oldshowbiz]

Those who shout about "law and order" are frequently law breakers themselves; Criminals with political power.

[loveboatinsanity]

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Currently thinking of a Kill Bill fic where

Lee Harvey Oswald was the first member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (thinking maybe his codename would be "Caspian cobra" Because Soviet)

D. B. Cooper was Bill himself

[famousborntoday]

John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of...

Link: J. Edgar Hoover

[cannedpoo]

J. Edgar Hoover New Years Eve., 1938

[muined]

I never see this discussed but Hoover and Tolson literally wore matching (moonstone?) rings on their ringfingers, all the way through the '70s

[happilylostinwords]

"Gangster Hunters: How Hoover's G-men Vanquished America's Deadliest Publ

It’s been 90 years since John Dillinger was gunned down outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. Give or take a few years, it’s been 90 years since Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bonnie & Clyde were gunned down. All were bank robbers, some were kidnappers, and some were far more bloodthirsty than others. And 90 years later, these thieves and robbers are fully part of…

[politicalrpf]

1969 political cartoon of Richard Nixon, by Pat Oliphant.