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Social Meme Thread v.89: Putting the Hi in Ohio. . .

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Fluffernutter said:
Behind a paywall.

What are the cliffs?

Is it about Ted Kennedy primarying Carter?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory#2023_New_York_Times_revelations

What happened next Mr. Barnes has largely kept secret for nearly 43 years. Mr. Connally, he said, took him to one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal.
William J. Casey, the chairman of Mr. Reagan’s campaign and later director of the Central Intelligence Agency, briefing him about the trip in an airport lounge.

Mr. Carter’s camp has long suspected that Mr. Casey or someone else in Mr. Reagan’s orbit sought to secretly torpedo efforts to liberate the hostages before the election, and books have been written on what came to be called the October surprise. But congressional investigations debunked previous theories of what happened.

Mr. Connally did not figure in those investigations. His involvement, as described by Mr. Barnes, adds a new understanding to what may have happened in that hard-fought, pivotal election year. With Mr. Carter now 98 and in hospice care, Mr. Barnes said he felt compelled to come forward to correct the record.

“History needs to know that this happened,” Mr. Barnes, who turns 85 next month, said in one of several interviews, his first with a news organization about the episode. “I think it’s so significant and I guess knowing that the end is near for President Carter put it on my mind more and more and more. I just feel like we’ve got to get it down some way.”​
 
jrams said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory#2023_New_York_Times_revelations

What happened next Mr. Barnes has largely kept secret for nearly 43 years. Mr. Connally, he said, took him to one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal.
William J. Casey, the chairman of Mr. Reagan’s campaign and later director of the Central Intelligence Agency, briefing him about the trip in an airport lounge.

Mr. Carter’s camp has long suspected that Mr. Casey or someone else in Mr. Reagan’s orbit sought to secretly torpedo efforts to liberate the hostages before the election, and books have been written on what came to be called the October surprise. But congressional investigations debunked previous theories of what happened.

Mr. Connally did not figure in those investigations. His involvement, as described by Mr. Barnes, adds a new understanding to what may have happened in that hard-fought, pivotal election year. With Mr. Carter now 98 and in hospice care, Mr. Barnes said he felt compelled to come forward to correct the record.

“History needs to know that this happened,” Mr. Barnes, who turns 85 next month, said in one of several interviews, his first with a news organization about the episode. “I think it’s so significant and I guess knowing that the end is near for President Carter put it on my mind more and more and more. I just feel like we’ve got to get it down some way.”​
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From campaign chairman to director of the CIA.

Wow.
 
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HARRISON_3 said:
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LMFAO I hope that’s real!

I saw that girls blog doing the rounds and MY GOD! What a dick. “I felt so alone while everyone else went on trips I’d told them I wasn’t interested in going on” “while i was as always invited to get togethers and breakfasts I prefer to be alone and have always given them a firm NO not interested, when I heard they all had a great time I couldn’t help but feel there was a anti North American sentiment prevalent within the campus”

I will shit on any nation including my own in the meme thread but thank god this weirdo doesn’t represent the majority of US students travelling through Europe.






 
ICHEERTHEBULL said:
LMFAO I hope that’s real!

I saw that girls blog doing the rounds and MY GOD! What a dick. “I felt so alone while everyone else went on trips I’d told them I wasn’t interested in going on” “while i was as always invited to get togethers and breakfasts I prefer to be alone and have always given them a firm NO not interested, when I heard they all had a great time I couldn’t help but feel there was a anti North American sentiment prevalent within the campus”

I will shit on any nation including my own in the meme thread but thank god this weirdo doesn’t represent the majority of US students travelling through Europe.






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I was an administrator at an international school years ago.

One day, I got a call from the study abroad office of a local university. They were hoping that I could find some volunteer opportunities for the American university students that were enrolled for the semester.

Their concern was that the American college students wouldn't go out on the trips or explore the country. They simply used it as a time to get drunk either in their dorms or in the local establishments. Their sense of adventure ended once they arrived on campus.

I declined to find volunteer opportunities for the students they were trying to push off on me.
 
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Fluffernutter said:
I was an administrator at an international school years ago.

One day, I got a call from their study abroad office. They were hoping that I could find some volunteer opportunities for the American university students that were enrolled for the semester.

Their concern was that the American college students wouldn't go out on the trips or explore the country. They simply used it as a time to get drunk either in their dorms or in the local establishments. Their sense of adventure ended once they arrived on campus.

I declined to find volunteer opportunities for the students they were trying to push off on me.
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Well I didn’t want to say it lol! It’s something I don’t understand. It’s really sad when you sit back and think about it. As I said it’s not all of them, I’ve met American students all over Europe. Why the hell would you chose to do a semester or even a year in another country and not see any of that country.

I wish I was in a position to be student studying abroad with volunteering opportunities. Youth is a waisted on the young as they say.







 
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