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Did anyone else listen to NPR this morning as various people read aloud the full text of the Declaration of Independence?
When I turned on the radio, at first I thought they were talking about rumptydump:
"The history of the present [King of Great Britain] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, ... and destroyed the lives of our people
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us
a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism
A [Prince], whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
Really, could it BE more clear that rumptydump is UNFIT to be President by the standards of our own Declaration of Independence?
Time to start calling rumptydump "GeorgeIIIJr." Wonder if he has porphyria, too?
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Did anyone else listen to NPR this morning as various people read aloud the full text of the Declaration of Independence?
When I turned on the radio, at first I thought they were talking about rumptydump:
"The history of the present [King of Great Britain] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, ... and destroyed the lives of our people
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us
a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism
A [Prince], whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
Really, could it BE more clear that rumptydump is UNFIT to be President by the standards of our own Declaration of Independence?
Time to start calling rumptydump "GeorgeIIIJr." Wonder if he has porphyria, too?
I really don't like to burst your bubble but the Revolutionary War is not seen as that as thar important an historical event outside of the US and is largely ignored in terms of history. It's just seen as part of a wider struggle between Britain and France and a prelude to other more impirtant events such as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it." -----John Adams, letter to his wife Abigail, 1777
happy independence day, everyone. we, Americans, owe much to the bravery and sacrifices of our country's founders and our tremendous luck to be living in the most amazing country on the planet!
It's just seen as a footnote in history in most of the rest of the world.
I don't recall being taught muvh about it at school in England.
And why would you? That doesn't make it any less relevant to the history of the United States, the beginnings of which we celebrate today, our Independence Day. We get it. You're British. Of course the Declaration is of little consequence to you.
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The liberal disinformation campaign ramping up the BS and propaganda.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
That's the Dems today.
Many other identifiers consistent with the Dems.
" harass our people and eat out their substance."
That is the what Dems are all about.
Can you take a day off for once and just celebrate that we're all Americans?
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