🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Double Shot of Badass Americans: Thomas Custer
Did you know George Armstrong Custer had a brother?
And that he was the first soldier in American history to earn the Medal of Honor twice?
And that he earned them just three days apart?
In April 1865, 20 year old Tom Custer was riding with his older brother George’s cavalry, hammering the last fragments of the Confederate army in the final death throes of the Civil War.
On April 3 at Namozine Church, Virginia, Tom led a lightning charge straight into a strong Confederate barricade of wagons and fence rails.
Under blistering fire he spurred his horse, leaped the obstacle in one bound, crashed through the enemy line, spotted the color bearer of the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry, ripped the battle flag right out of the man’s hands, and fought his way back through the swarm of Rebels with 14 prisoners in tow.
Medal of Honor.
Three days later at Sailor’s Creek, he did it again, only more savagely.
Charging the Confederate works under heavy fire, Tom leaped his horse over the barricades into a storm of bullets.
A round smashed through his face.
His horse was shot dead beneath him.
Bleeding badly, he stayed on his feet, killed the enemy soldier trying to stop him, seized two Confederate battle flags, and kept fighting as thousands of Rebels began throwing down their arms around him.
He grabbed a loose mount, rode back to his brother George, waved the captured Confederate battle flag, and shouted, "Armstrong, the damned rebels shot me, but I've got my flag!"
Tom then tried to turn his new horse around to charge back into the fray.
George actually had to order a subordinate to place his own brother under arrest just to force him off the battlefield and into a surgeon’s tent.
It was the only way to stop him from fighting.
Medal of Honor, again.
He survived the war, only to ride once more, this time to the Little Bighorn in 1876, where Tom died fighting on Last Stand Hill next to his brother.
Thomas Custer is an American Badass 🇺🇸
Libertarians saw Trump say he’s very libertarian
Saw Trump praise Milei’s “beautiful philosophy” as being MAGA
Saw Jordan Peterson articulate voluntary hierarchy as the ultimate ethic.
And traded it for…
Calling MAGA a pedophile cult
Working with Democrats
Ceding philosophical ground to Alexander Dugin and National Socialists to team up against Israel.
…Not sure that’s the best way to convince people to be libertarian or get libertarian policy wins.
President Warren G. Harding gives his Inaugural Address to a massive crowd at the Capital, 1921.
In it, he called for a return to normal ways. After World War I and a wave of civil unrest Americans wanted an end to Progressive overreach and Wilson's League of Nations. Harding pushed isolationism, fiscal responsibility, economic recovery, and rejecting permanent foreign entanglements.
It was exactly what a nation tired of war wanted to hear.
Completely abolish the entire current system. Give the money back to the communities. School was not fully compulsory in the US until 1918.
Education could be far cheaper & more effective than $14,000/student per year that produces functional illiterates with graduation brawls.
The real story of Paxton’s senate trial: The House had impeached based solely on the recommendation of a committee stacked with the disgraced Speakers’ allies, and without hearing testimony or taking evidence. A majority of senators rejected a motion to dismiss that they could have easily granted if they were trying to “save” him. Then they proceeded to a trial where the evidentiary basis for the charges was found to be so weak, some of Paxton’s fiercest opponents even voted to acquit.
Today, we remember a legend.
On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.
Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.
He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.
Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.
Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸
May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.
@RedEaglePatriot@theliamnissan Stephen F. Austin was born in Virginia
Davy Crocket was born in what is now Tennessee (it was still a territory then.)
Even outside of our founders, Ted Cruz was born in Canada ffs.