It was a year after HS, I was standing in my parent's front room and the TV was on. I remember I was in the middle of something - headed out to go somewhere? Meet someone? I don't remember any details. I just remember being frozen, staring at the TV. It didn't feel possible.
@WSJ@WSJFreeEx@WSJopinion@MattHennessey Big surprise. Major money publication sides against one of the few politicians who gave a fuck about the American people.
May 22, 1782.
On this day, a letter landed on George Washington’s desk at the army’s camp in Newburgh, New York. It was written by Colonel Lewis Nicola on behalf of a group of frustrated officers.
They were fed up with Congress, which had repeatedly failed to pay the troops. But the letter didn’t stop there. It went on to suggest that maybe America didn’t need to be a republic after all. Monarchs aren’t always tyrants, Nicola argued, and then dropped the bombshell: perhaps the new country should have a king, and there was no doubt who they thought that king should be.
It’s not hard to picture how this could have gone. A victorious general, beloved by his men and the public, with the power to take the crown if he wanted it. Plenty of men in history would have jumped at the chance. George Washington could have become King George I of the United States.
But he didn’t even entertain the idea.
Washington was genuinely horrified. He fired back a reply the same day, clearly shaken:
“Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing in the army… I must view with abhorrence, and reprehend with severity.”
In a scathing response, Washington told Nicola to drop the idea immediately and never speak of it again, for the sake of the country, for his own future, and out of respect for Washington himself.
In the end, there was only one man who could have sat on an American throne, and he wanted nothing to do with it.
That exchange, known today as the Newburgh Letter, happened exactly 244 years ago today. It’s one of those quiet moments that says everything about the kind of man George Washington actually was.
Says the useful idiot.
Imagine being one of these rabid party and/or candidate ride or die cucks - o easily spun up when someone (ANYONE) puts principles and ACTUAL American values above and before party and person - and then calling those who stand and stay firmly planted in defense of the Constitution "useful idiots". You've wholly and inexcusably misunderstood the meaning of the term.
@Ign_J_Reilly@TRHLofficial 🤣😅 STFU and just admit you don't actually follow politics. You're regurgitating the lies being pumped out by the current power holders. It doesn't matter who's in office, silencing the center and increasing the divide between the "left/right" is ALWAYS, the play.
@catturd2 Nice try you #twatwaffle POS.
Not being paid by the propaganda machine =/= "ZERO" influence.
Imagine being so deluded by your unearned inflated sense of superiority, that you genuinely believe posting up the talking points your employer assigned you is "influential" 😅🤣
Hi there friend. I’m the paid influencer you’ve been assigned here to tell you why kill switches, glyphosate, $3.5 trillion in spending, the Federal Reserve, foreign war, foreign aid, selling farmland to China, warrantless spying, and the Epstein files are all not that bad.
@amitylee13 This is textbook projection. Imagine being accused of taking money to promote a political candidate, by someone who's taking money to amplify propaganda points for a political party.
This pisses me off.
There it is folks. The dumbest shit you'll read all day.
I'm not suggesting anyone needs to, or should, simp for Israel.. but pretending like the Islamic state, and it's deeply rooted power centers all over the middle east, including Palestine "just want to be left alone" is some of the most intentional, radical stupidity I've heard you utter. .. and you've had some real doozies.
@sizzle_sarah@laurenboebert Because Massie stands for America and Americans, obviously.
So depressing to see so many "influencers" revealing their true colors. They were never America first. They were always "whatever I'm told and/paid to say first".
This woman talked about taking high doses of cinnamon and lifting heavy things to force a miscarriage, lost the baby, buried him in a shallow grave, then “mourned” him on Facebook and CNN is trying to make her a victim.