One of the richest men in all of America signed the Declaration of Independence knowing it could cost him everything. Then he left home to serve, died far away in a borrowed town, and never came back. Meet Philip Livingston.
This guy was not a scrappy underdog. Just the opposite. He was born in 1716 into the Livingston family, one of the wealthiest, most powerful dynasties in colonial New York. Manor lands, a Yale education, and a shipping empire he built into one of the biggest merchant fortunes in New York City. He had everything the British system was designed to reward.
And he spent that fortune building things that still exist. He helped found King's College, which you know today as Columbia University. He helped start the New York Society Library. He helped create the New York Chamber of Commerce. The man was basically constructing the civic backbone of New York with his own money and time.
Here's the thing though. He was not some hothead revolutionary. He actually feared independence. He worried it would bring chaos and disorder, and he was cautious about the whole idea for a long time. This wasn't a man itching to burn it all down.
But when New York finally gave its delegates the go-ahead, Livingston signed. He put the name of one of the great fortunes in America onto a document the crown treated as treason. A rich man betting his wealth against the empire that made him rich.
And the war came straight for him. When the British took New York, they seized and used his properties. He started selling off his holdings to help fund the fight, watching the empire he'd defied pick apart the life he'd built.
Then comes the ending that gets me. His health was failing, and he knew it. Congress had been driven out of Philadelphia and was meeting in the small town of York, Pennsylvania. Livingston could have gone home to rest. Instead he told his family he probably wouldn't see them again, and he went to York to keep serving anyway.
He died there in June 1778, in the middle of a session of Congress, far from home. He's buried in York, Pennsylvania to this day. He never made it back to the New York he spent his whole life building.
A man who had every reason to stay comfortable and loyal, who gave his fortune and his final months to a country he wasn't even sure would work.
Philip Livingston. He died at his post, a long way from home.
My entire life, the left demanded we become more like Europe. Then our cousins from Europe came here and were stunned to learn that America is actually the best place on earth. There will never be another like it. We have to protect it at all costs.
A German soccer fan is brought to tears over how nice he’s been treated in America
He says he was afraid to come to America for the FIFA World Cup because European media portrays America as dangerous. He’s spent weeks in America and can’t believe how it’s the exact opposite
“I fall in love with this country, and this was so emotional. I even cried in the stadium”
“Following the German soccer team from Houston to Boston. Sebastian was afraid of coming over, saying that the news in Europe painted a picture of America being dangerous. But at every stop, from the moment he landed, he says everyone has treated him with kindness and respect and has not felt unsafe.”
“Americans are not rude. Germans are not rude. If we are together, we can achieve great things”
The media is the enemy of the people and it seems to be true everywhere
I looked into data and found the real problem
90%+ of the mainstream media in America is Left leaning
And in Europe, over 80%+ of their mainstream media is Left leaning
That’s the problem right there. Liberals are destroying societies with their control of the media
Merging your military with another country that has bombed one of your ships before and owns most of your legislators is not the way a serious sovereign nation should act.
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Lazy.
Fauci appears to have been the mastermind behind a crime against humanity. His pardon for any potential crime was signed at the 11th hour by the autopen. This stain on the world needs to be investigated by a third party and adjudicated by the Supreme Court. In the mean time, other countries should charge him with bio-terrorism, and the ICC should charge him with crimes against humanity, and states should make his life hell with civil offenses.
Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.
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Kind reminder that JB Pritzker (net worth $3.7 billion) is the same guy that bought a second multi-million dollar mansion next to his existing one, then had a contractor remove all the toilets / kitchen fixtures so the home could be classified as “uninhabitable” or “vacant” for property tax purposes.
A 2018 Cook County Inspector General report called it a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers. It noted the toilets were removed shortly before affidavits were submitted claiming the property had no functioning bathrooms or kitchen.
The irony of this privileged tax cheat creating a "privilege tax" on Bitcoin is truly incredible.
@RiggsBTC@WhiteHouse@POTUS@ufc Your first post about the fight claiming ‘they didn’t let them fight and it’s insane to do to a champion’ is what I replied to.
You replied in a pompous way, twice.
Congrats on being a bitcoiner. Faggot.
Constitution requires two-thirds vote from the Senate to bind us to another country.
They hid it in the bill because they knew it was unconstitutional.
It’s treasonous as far as I’m concerned.
Every single person who voted for this needs removed from office.
Sure, here's a concise hypothetical 10-point list based on historical patterns:
1. Policies favor foreign power's goals.
2. Foreign-linked individuals in power.
3. Media pushes foreign power's narrative.
4. Economy tied to foreign dependencies.
5. Dissent against foreign power censored.
6. National identity eroded in schools.
7. Threats from foreign power ignored.
8. Sovereignty given up via policy.
9. Defenses weakened for foreign benefit.
10. Control framed as positive progress.
Let me reframe this for you. This is the government questioning the government to see if the government covered up for the government in the Epstein files. Shockingly, the government told the government that the government did nothing wrong.