@Ragnarly@EchoesofWarYT My Dutch is 1630’s (provably, but possibly earlier), but we’re fairly confident the line was actually NW German and came over after a few decade layover in Utrecht. So much fun digging into it 😎
The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.
Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.
Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.
The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.
And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.
Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.
They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.
Boomers didn't take any risk whatsoever. Their parents fought WW2 and conquered the world. Boomers inherited the richest and strongest military empire in history. In a single generation, they imported 150 million foreign barbarians and offshored 90,000 factories.
Megyn sends a message to the Haitians who lost their TPS today:
"Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That's because we filled it with our work ethic, culture, and values. You being here only dilutes it for us... GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI!"
JOHN ADAMS: “The general Principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only principles in which, that beautiful assembly of young gentlemen could unite.. And what were these general principles? The principles of Christianity.”
*Adams = signer of the Declaration of Independence, 1st Vice President of the US, 2nd President of thr US
I think people subconsciously believe in a conservation law for human talent, like it's some irrepressible force that always finds an outlet. But selling off American manufacturing didn't create a generation of solo inventors, and Hollywood DEI didn't lead to an indie renaissance
You idiots devalued the fiat currency by 90-99% and now you're crying about why the Protestant work ethic has vanished when young men don't want to put in 10-20 hours of work to get what older generations earned in a single hour.
JD Hall appeared on Tucker Carlson saying that Muslims were "very kind" to Christians, didn't "tax churches," and even "took care of our holy sites."
In this brief video, I debunk these claims with the actual historical record:
Our founding fathers like John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington surely repudiated this "blood and soil" nationalism idea.
*opens writings of the founding fathers*
uh oh
*Frantically starts flipping though pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
Third world communists are the enemy. They've taken over our greatest American city. They're taking over one of our two major political parties. They hate this country. They hate white people. They hate our heritage and traditions. This is the fight. Get in the game or go away.
FDR is the most overrated president in American history and it is not close.
People treat him like a saint. The reality is he inherited a recession and turned it into the longest depression in the history of the developed world. Every other major economy on earth recovered faster than the United States did under FDR. Sit with that. We had the most resources, the most industry, the most capacity, and we recovered slower than countries that got bombed.
Unemployment was still 19% in 1938. Six years into the New Deal. Six years of "bold experimentation" and one in five Americans still could not find work.
Why? Because his policies were economically illiterate. The NIRA cartelized entire industries and made it illegal to lower prices during a deflationary collapse. He paid farmers to slaughter livestock and plow under crops while people stood in bread lines. He launched a war on business so aggressive that investment dried up because nobody knew what insane rule was coming next. Even his own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, admitted in 1939 that they had spent enormous sums and "it does not work" and that unemployment was as high as when they started.
Then in 1937 his policies triggered a second brutal crash so embarrassing the textbooks gave it its own polite little nickname, the "Roosevelt Recession," so they would not have to attach his name to the failure in the obvious way.
A UCLA study in 2004 concluded the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression by roughly seven years. Seven years of extra suffering sold to you as heroism.
So what actually saved the economy? Not the alphabet agencies. Not the fireside chats. A world war. Twelve million men shipped overseas and the entire planet's industrial competition reduced to rubble. That is the "recovery." That is the legacy.
Strip away Pearl Harbor and FDR is a guy who took a bad recession and stretched it into a decade of misery with bad economics and a cult of personality. He is not ranked on results. He is ranked on the luck of being in the chair when Hitler invaded Poland.
Greatest marketing job in the history of the presidency. Nothing more.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT THE LIMP BIZKIT WOODSTOCK THEORY?
Limp Bizkit performed “Break Stuff” at Woodstock 1999 and the young White male crowd erupted into riots, fires, and chaos.
The elites saw firsthand the dangerous mobilizing power of angry nu-metal music on White men. They didn’t like the possibilities that the White man could rise up full of anger. They had to stop us before we realised ourselves what we could actually do together.
They responded by pulling back support for those bands. In the 2000s the music industry shifted heavily toward promoting rappers and hip-hop.
The goal was clear, stop White male anger and prevent it from rising up against the system. Rock was deliberately sidelined. This was cultural control.
Gangsta rap is not authentic it's a carefully manufactured cultural product.
Most of them are actors: Tupac Shakur was a formally trained ballet dancer for christ sake and clearly homosexual... then he was repackaged as the archetypal street thug.
Rock music in the 90s was at its peak, sold most concert tickets, merch and when nu-metal emerged it began to mobilise disaffected young White men, channeled raw anger rooted in economic stagnation, family breakdown and cultural marginalisation into aggressive, communal experiences.
The "elites" who shape cultural production recognised the danger in this... unified anger among White men carried revolutionary potential if ever directed outward...
Rock was killed. By the early 2000s, the music industry completely pivoted toward hip hop and gangsta rap.
By elevating performative thug archetypes and sidelining bands that encouraged White male solidarity, the industry helped ensure that popular music remained a tool of pacification rather than awakening.
In short: rap is fake and gay