Brigadier General Stand Watie, a Cherokee leader, was the last Confederate general to surrender during the War of Northern Aggression.
He did so on June 23, 1865, at Doaksville in the Choctaw Nation, in what is now Oklahoma, about 75 days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.
Watie commanded the 1st Indian Brigade (including Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Osage troops) in the Trans-Mississippi Department. He was the only Native American to reach the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate States Army.
After Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered the main Trans-Mississippi forces on May 26, 1865, Watie continued operating with his remaining command until he agreed to a cease-fire with Union Lt. Col. Asa C. Matthews.
Joe Biden will be the first President not to build a presidential library.
He doesn't have the money.
No one is donating a dime.
Yet he got 81 million votes.
Yeah, right.
Guys, the details of the latest jihadist attack in Europe are psychotic.
Abdul Ballout was born in Berlin, but he left Germany for Lebanon.
Germany identified him as an Islamist threat, so they had him arrested in Lebanon and FLEW HIM BACK TO GERMANY to put him on trial for plotting terror attacks.
He was convicted and sentenced for terrorism offences in May 2026 but released on time served.
By July 2026 he was back on the streets.
German authorities told him to attend de-radicalisation counselling sessions.
He responded by carrying out a jihadist terrorist attack on a pride parade.
Paul Fussell termed this broad problem "prole drift" in his book Class, which is both a hilarious and extremely insightful work
By prole drift, he means the tendency of culture in "American democracy" to drift toward the preferences of the bottom of the barrel over time, away from high culture and towards whatever the prole class enjoys, likes, and does.
This can be seen in everything, from dress to public decorum, preferred forms of entertainment to profanity in public
We went from a society where men wore morning dress and suits to work to one where even the economic elite can rarely be bothered to wear a collar. We went from the sort of world where George Washington wrote a little book on how to behave decorously in public and studied it religiously, to one dominated by obese buffoons in Cookie Monster pajama pants talking on the speakerphone in airports. We went from Washington's troops performing Addison's Cato at Valley Forge and everyone reading for edification and pleasure to most Americans never reading a book after high school. We went from fines and ostracization for being "vulgar", to unrestrained vulgarity being seen as a sign of "authenticity" and thus praised.
All of that is prole drift. It happens because mass democratic society has made the setting and enforcement of standards impossible, even before the Civil Rights Act (though that indubitably worsened the problem by adding African prole culture into the mix). If told they ought behave differently, the "proles" can just vote to tax to death those telling them to be different. We saw this with FDR and the regime he created. Those above them don't want that, and so just go along with it and pretend to fit in in the hope that helps them avoid the expropriation problem.
Further, there is a general spiritual malaise attendant to mass democracy that lends itself well to prole drift. If one has to suck up to the worst among us to get elected and achieve anything of public note, it is difficult to remain cognizant of higher life and better things beyond that wretched horizon of Cheetos puffs and Kool Aid pineapple. It's easier to just clamber down and embrace the decline, becoming one with the surly and unruly mass that serves as the basis of democratic power. Prole drift naturally complements this.
This wasn't the case before death taxes wrecked the certainty and spirit of the upper class. In the Gilded Age, even manual laborers kept a suit so that they could be in their best on Sundays and show they too were part of society's upward trajectory. Now, no one does that, and most try to fit in with the bottom rung, listening to rap on a Bluetooth speaker while wearing pajamas in public.
We're all becoming chimps, for our world is one that deems becoming a chimp to be amongst the highest goods, and to be certainly more moral than the alternative of demanding excellence and striving upwards.
The entire Shiloh Hendrix affair is an example of the creeping Yookay-ification of America.
If there isn’t an aggressive push back now before it takes root, we are going to see cases like this increasingly weaponized against Americans by a system that would love nothing more than to use informal speech codes to buy itself a little bit more staying power.
Between this and the Daniel Penny ordeal, it’s obvious that the Left is actively trying to construct a two-tiered police system just like in the UK and many other European countries.
This has to be resisted now before we wake up one day and realize that people have become second class citizens in the very country their ancestors founded.
If you haven't read about the Weimar Republic, you need to. This is why hard workers who played by the rules ended up as charred Dresden Shrove Tuesday 1945 corpses because of the assholes on the both sides of extreemism. This never should have gone to trial
Wait... Shiloh was found guilty of naughty words, but the guy she said naughty words to raped a 16 year old girl and got away with it??
I can't take this shit anymore.
Burn it all down.
Don Lemon can raid a Baptist Church and shove cameras in peoples faces harassing them while they are trying to worship God and he's free.
Shiloh Hendrix said a six letter word to a creep at the park who was recording her and her child and she's convicted.
Justice is dead.