#Taylor Administration

[deadpresidents]

"Although I have never had the pleasure of a personal acquaintance, nor can I flatter myself that you have ever heard of me before the late convention, yet as I feel quite acquainted with you from a general knowledge of your widely extended reputation, and as our fellow citizens have seen fit to associate our names for the next Presidential contest, I take the liberty by introduction of enclosing a copy of my acceptance of the nomination...I should be happy to hear from you."

-- Millard Fillmore, writing to General Zachary Taylor with his acceptance of the Whig Party's nomination to be Taylor's running mate in the 1848 election. Not only had Taylor and Fillmore never met before becoming running mates, but they'd never even corresponded prior to this message sent by Fillmore.

Suggesting that Taylor may not have heard of him before the 1848 Whig Party Convention that nominated them wasn't an act of false humility on Fillmore's part. Considering Taylor's complete lack of political involvement prior to his own nomination for the Presidency -- the General had never even voted prior to the 1848 election in which he was a candidate -- he genuinely probably had no clue who Fillmore was until the Whigs chose him to be Taylor's Vice President. In fact, the Whigs weren't entirely sure what political party Taylor supported (if any) when they nominated him as their Presidential candidate.

The first time that Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore actually met one another in-person was at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. in late-February 1849, just a week before they were to be inaugurated -- and nearly four months after they had been elected President and Vice President.

[my-midlife-crisis]

FLASHBACK

To the times Marjorie Taylor Greene HECKLED President Joe Biden

and was NOT kicked out for her rebellion

and

but, why didn't he kick her out?

[onlytiktoks]

[ngdrb]

Because of the Republicans, the Orange Sphincter and his buddies JD and Elon, (and their Project 2025 agenda) our country has turned into a real shithole. Way to go Republicans ... useless asshole motherfuckers!!!

[naughtynanzhu]

I hate her so much I can't believe this lmao

[ladybugmania]

To Trump and his bootlicking Degenerates

Oh, what a majestic display of synchronized sycophancy we witnessed this week, a true masterclass in political yoga, with every spine bending backwards in perfect harmony to kiss the royal ring and the orange-tinted posterior. Congress looked less like a governing body and more like the cast of a reality show called America’s Next Top Bootlicker.

Such heartfelt praise! One might think Trump had single-handedly cured disease, ended war, and invented gravity, rather than, you know, threatened democracy with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball dipped in spray tan. But hey, who needs integrity when you’ve got a front-row seat to the gilded circus and a chance to be patted on the head by the Great Pumpkin himself?

And as the curtains fell on this week’s grotesque theatre, one thing became crystal clear: we’re not watching politics anymore, we’re watching a cult talent show where the prize is Daddy’s approval and a future Cabinet spot in the Banana Republic of MAGAmerica.

These aren’t leaders. They’re meat puppets mouthing praise like wind-up toys, each trying to out-grovel the next with the desperation of a televangelist in debt. And all for a man who treats loyalty like toilet paper, used, flushed, and forgotten.

So here’s to the bootlickers—may their tongues cramp, their spines stay missing, and their legacy be etched forever in the footnotes of history under “Useful Idiots: See Also, National Embarrassment.”

It's not governance, it’s group therapy for narcissists, and the only thing more inflated than the egos in the room was the collective delusion. Bravo, bootlickers. Bravo.

[spaghettiandart]

Taylor and her eldritch buddy

[skull-pun]

I guess tolerance, nonviolence, equality, kindness, self-esteem, and the importance of appreciating cultural diversity are all considered "anti-American" now huh?

[political-us]

[dryococelas01]

She let me hit it because I get involved in a lot of conflict, use her powers in interesting ways, am very controlling and modified my brain to develop a closer connection to her, giving myself brain damage in the process.

[myhateforcaffinekeepsmealive]

Taylor 🤝 Victoria in seducing their shard.

[innominaterifter]

I like little references in my everyday look.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

David Bauder at AP:

The Associated Press sued three Trump administration officials Friday over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal judge to stop the blocking of its journalists. “We’ll see them in court,” the White House press secretary said in response. The lawsuit was filed Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., 10 days after the White House began restricting access to the news agency. It was assigned to U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump nominee. The AP says its case is about an unconstitutional effort by the White House to control speech — in this case not changing its style from the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” as President Donald Trump did last month with an executive order.

“The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government,” the AP said in its lawsuit, which names White House chief of staff Susan Wiles, deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich and press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “This targeted attack on the AP’s editorial independence and ability to gather and report the news strikes at the very core of the First Amendment,” the news agency said. “This court should remedy it immediately.” The Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, speech and religion and bars the government from obstructing any of them. Leavitt said that she learned about the lawsuit Friday while driving from the White House to an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “I wanted to get the White House counsel on the phone before taking this stage to see what I can and cannot say but, look, we feel we are in the right in this position,” she said. “We’re going to ensure that truth and accuracy is present at that White House every single day.”

Trump directly cited AP’s editorial decision

In stopping the AP from attending press events at the White House and Mar-a-Lago, or flying on Air Force One in the agency’s customary spot, the Trump team directly cited the AP’s decision not to fully follow the president’s renaming. “We’re going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it’s the Gulf of America,” Trump said Tuesday. This week, about 40 news organizations signed onto a letter organized by the White House Correspondents Association, urging the White House to reverse its policy against the AP. They included outlets like Fox News Channel and Newsmax, where many of the on-air commentators are Trump supporters. “We can understand President Trump’s frustration because the media has often been unfair to him, but Newsmax still supports AP’s right, as a private organization, to use the language it wants to use in its reporting,” Newsmax said in a statement. “We fear a future administration may not like something Newsmax writes and seek to ban us.” While AP journalists have still been allowed on White House grounds, they have been kept out of the “pool” of journalists that cover events in smaller spaces and report back to its readers and other reporters. The AP has been part of White House pools for more than a century. The lawsuit said the AP had made “several unsuccessful efforts” to persuade the administration that its conduct was unlawful. Julie Pace, AP’s senior vice president and executive editor, traveled to Florida this week to meet with Wiles.

On Friday, the Associated Press (AP) filed a lawsuit in AP v. Budowich against three Trump Misadministration II officials (Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, and Taylor Budowich) over the blocking of its journalists from newsgathering duties covering the White House over its refusal to bend to Tyrant 47’s “Gulf of America” executive order.

[onlytiktoks]

[trans-queen-administrator]

Taylor being paranoid about her passenger is such a fun character trait. Like none of her friends really seemed to give much of a shit when they learned about passengers from Bonesaw, but Taylor consistently notes the times her passenger acted without her consent, she tries to talk with it, communicate with it, just anything to learn what this thing that can control her without her say wants with her. One of my favorite little details is that during the timeskip this was the focus of a lot of her therapy sessions with Yamada, trying methods like hypnosis to communicate. I think part of it is that she's inherently just paranoid about the fact that this thing is helping her sometimes and she doesn't know why and she HAS to figure it out because no one would help out of the kindness of their heart, and another part is just that she can't bear to not be in control and this is something that threatens that in a very ominous way.

Another aspect of her paranoia towards her passenger is that she doesn't want to take blame for her own actions I think. During the Behemoth fight when her ally tried to shoot Phil Sē, she pulled the gun off target with silk and got him killed. She's the one who pulled the string, but because she's genuinely unsure if it was her being wary or her passenger setting up the string she settles on the second option because it absolves her of the possible blame or need to admit she's paranoid and ready to betray people in an instance. When Glenn shows her the video of her being the most terrifying fucker in existence she ignores how horrifying she is and fixated on how her passenger moved her, and then she doesn't have to think about the fact that she'd fit right into the ranks of the Slaughterhouse Nine because well, she can blame her passenger and focus on that instead. This applies to other people too, she sees Lung not using his power and thinks that maybe he's concerned about his passenger like she is. She projects hard onto Sophia in my opinion when she says that she got violent because of her passenger. If this person she doesn't like isn't to blame for everything she inflicted on Taylor, the surely Taylor can't be blamed for the violent steps she took to take over a city. It's another way she rationalizes everything to herself, if something is so bad that she can't justify it immediately there's always the excuse of "my passenger made me do it." But crucially, Taylor ends up being aware of the fact that she's doing this during Gold Morning.

And I think it's really good that this is something she grows and accepts about herself. It's wonderful growth for a character who's so often too stubborn to move herself forward. She's generally more in touch with her passenger during Gold Morning, like the time when she thinks that her and her passenger were in agreement in wanting to hurt Scion on the oil rig. No one else in Worm really seems to accept their passengers, Riley is questioning how much of herself has been subsumed by it, Eidolon is always annoyed it doesn't give what he wants, and most other people don't even know about them. But Taylor forms a bit of a symbiosis with hers after a long time rejecting it at every turn. I think this quote really sums up her feelings towards the end.

And by towards the end I mean like, at the very end, because immediately after this thought she becomes Khepri, and yet another fucking theme and character trait cumulates and reaches its peak with Speck. God damn what a good arc. The blur between Taylor and her passenger that she always feared is finally an actual thing consuming her, and she can finally communicate with her passenger as well. I do wonder what this is like on her passengers end. It's clearly down for the idea of killing its maker, and it's heavily implied that her passenger does care and doesn't want to actually leave Taylor as a husk (too lazy to get the quote because I've been typing for 45 minutes but Contessa remarks upon the administrator claiming everything about her until there's nothing left and she feels fear that she thinks is from both her and her passenger. 30.7 I think, near the end). But there's still so much about Taylor's passenger that's unknown. Was communication something it may have wanted when Taylor kept trying to communicate, but doing so required punching holes in the connection that would lead to more bleed through and functionally destroy its host? Did it slowly grow to care for Taylor more than the cycle, or was it always wanting to fight Scion? Did Taylor's autistic swag convince a multidimensional alien made of crystal to rebel? Is Queen Administrator trans? Idk how to end this post if it's not obvious, sorry.