Today in Quaker Adjacent history.

RIP Queen Elizabeth II 👑

She Achieved Her Dream of Dying Before Being Seen in a Wheelchair ❤️ pic.twitter.com/pXixdgVt9L

— The Squeaky Wheel (@TheSqkyWheel) September 8, 2022

Quaker Adjacent Item 1

Rest in Peace Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022

Long Live King Charles III and Queen Consort Camila.

The Quaker adjacent piece: many better students of history than RantWoman can probably be way more articulate about the relation between King Charles II and early Quakers than RantWoman can even after a long-ago romp through Barclay's Apology.

Quaker Adjacent Item 2

On this date in 1974 President Gerald Ford unconditionally pardoned sort of kind of raised Quaker former president Richard Nixon.

Topical Twitter threads include whether or not the pardon was a good idea considering everything else that was going on and the example it set for The Former Guy, #POTUS45.

RantWoman's 30,000 feet view:

--Nixon won his second term by an electoral landslide and still, thanks partly to his own party losing faith in him, had the grace to resign less than two years into his second term.

--TFG lost the popular vote twice and the electoral college on his second go, and he is still blubbering to be let back into the White House.

--What would happen to election outcomes if every state ended Winner Take All electoral count designations and allocated electors proportionately to the ballots cast. RantWoman perfectly well knows the racist roots of the electoral college. As a lifelong Westerner, RantWoman is also prepared to argue why big sparsely populated resource rich states need a little bit of an edge compared to the massive coastal cities. Who knows whether one democratic electoral vote from deep read WY could ever be decisive, but RantWoman is definitely into Count all the votes.

--Nixon gets big points for the opening to China. Thankfully the US public also had the backbone to object to burglarizing the democratic party headquarters and then a massive coverup. As far as anyone knows, no scandals about classified documents. No whiff of any innuendo that he might be horsetrading secrets to who knows who all.

--How many ways, how many times is the Current #MarALago document dumpster fire far worse than what Nixon is accused of doing?

--There is some UGLY lack of awareness of history, misunderstanding, and mis-information about among some younger tweeters. NO, liberals hot about TFG are NOT just nostalgic for the 1970's

And how is your Thursday going?