Daniel

[Daniel @Daniel037q]

@GOP_is_Gutless They build schools and hospitals on top of weapon bunkers.

[Daniel @Daniel037q]

@TheEXECUTlONER_ He balked

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

This guy wore a black silk glove on one hand for almost thirty years, and the reason why is wild. Meet Richard Henry Lee, the man who actually proposed American independence.

Quick correction to what most people think. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration. But he didn't propose breaking from Britain. Richard Henry Lee did.

On June 7, 1776, Lee stood up in the Continental Congress and laid down the words that started everything: "Resolved, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." That motion, the Lee Resolution, is the thing that forced the vote. Jefferson was then assigned to write up the document explaining why. So the order people skip is this. Lee proposes the divorce. Jefferson writes the letter. Without Lee's resolution, there's no Declaration to sign.

Now the glove. Back in 1768, years before any of this, Lee was out hunting on his own land and his rifle exploded in his hands. The blast tore four fingers off his left hand. For the rest of his life he covered the damage with a black silk glove. And here's the part I love. He turned it into a weapon. When he gave speeches, he'd gesture with that gloved, ruined hand, and people couldn't look away from it.

Because make no mistake, this man could talk. People who heard him speak compared him to Cicero, the legendary Roman orator. He was the voice in the room. His own brother Francis Lightfoot Lee, who also signed the Declaration, was the quiet one. Richard was thunder.

He grew up at Stratford Hall in Virginia, the same house where Robert E. Lee would later be born into the same famous family. He helped lead the colony toward revolution, served in Congress, later became president of Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and finished his career as one of Virginia's first United States senators.

A man with half a hand, who stood up and said out loud the dangerous thing nobody else would put in a motion, and changed the course of history with one sentence.

Richard Henry Lee. The man who moved that America should be free.

[Daniel @Daniel037q]

@BBGreatMoments Yes. Dickey was better that year.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 29, 1776, New Yorkers looked out at the water and saw a nightmare on the horizon. The British fleet had arrived, and so many ships filled the bay that witnesses said the masts looked like "a forest of pine trees" growing out of the sea. The timing could not have been more brutal.

This was the empire's answer to the rebellion, and it was overwhelming. The first wave of around 45 warships and transports dropped anchor off Sandy Hook and Staten Island carrying General William Howe and roughly 10,000 troops. Within days it kept growing. Then his brother Admiral Richard Howe arrived with more. It would eventually swell into one of the largest seaborne invasion forces of the entire 18th century, hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of professional soldiers and German mercenaries, aimed at one city.

Now sit with the timing. While that forest of masts was filling the harbor, delegates down in Philadelphia were in the final days of debating whether to declare independence. They voted for it on July 2 and signed off on the wording on July 4. So at the exact moment America was being born on paper, the most powerful military on earth was already anchored off its coast, getting ready to strangle it in the cradle.

The people of New York understood exactly what they were seeing. Alarm bells rang, panic spread through the streets, and soldiers sprinted to their posts to stare at a force they had almost no hope of matching. Washington's army was outnumbered, outgunned, and about to get badly beaten in the battles for New York that followed.

That's the part that gets lost in the fireworks every Fourth of July. Independence wasn't declared from a position of strength. It was declared with an enemy armada already sitting on the doorstep, knowing full well what was coming. They signed their names anyway.

[Lewis Miles @Maga4liberty]

A sitting Democrat just admitted it’s impossible to be a faithful follower of Jesus Christ and remain in the Democratic Party.
How far has the Democratic Party actually gone? 😡🔥
#DemExit

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Yep 😂🤣

[Daniel @Daniel037q]

@GlennReib Well said

[Glenn Reib @GlennReib]

Dear Sane Americans,

As we get closer to the 250th birthday of the greatest experiment in human liberty the world has ever seen, I’ve noticed something truly hilarious online. A certain subset of our fellow citizens, bless their fragile little hearts...has announced, with all the solemnity of a Victorian widow, that they will be boycotting America’s birthday party. Why? Because Donald Trump exists and breathes air. Apparently the country that survived actual wars, depressions, pandemics, and every flavor of political idiot for two and a half centuries suddenly becomes irredeemable the moment their preferred candidate loses. How noble. How principled. How utterly predictable.

These are the same people who spent four years telling us that “democracy dies in darkness” while simultaneously claiming half the country was a basket of deplorables. Now they’re ready to spit on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and every firework, hot dog, and bald eagle because....gasp, the wrong guy might be in the White House again. The Republic that outlasted King George, Hitler, and the Soviet Union can’t possibly survive another Trump term, so better to sit in the corner pouting than join the rest of us in remembering we’re still the last, best hope on Earth.

Well, here’s the good news, you delicate patriots-in-name-only: We don’t care if you celebrate or not. Really. Take your ball and go home. Spend the day doom-scrolling, stress-eating kale, and writing angry threads about how the country is “literally over.” We’ll be too busy grilling, laughing, and reminding ourselves that America was built by people with actual spines, not by fragile narcissists who treat politics like a high-school breakup. We wouldn’t expect less from you dolts.

The rest of us, sane Americans of every party, background, and region, will be celebrating anyway. Because this isn’t about one election or one man. It’s about 250 years of imperfect, rowdy, magnificent self-government. It’s about the radical idea that free people can govern themselves without asking permission from coastal elites, Twitter blue-checks, or anyone else who thinks they’re smarter than the Constitution. So go ahead. Sit this one out. History will barely notice your absence, and the fireworks will be just as loud!! Happy 250th, America! See you at the party! A Sane American who’s not letting children ruin the cookout.

[Daniel @Daniel037q]

@BernieSanders I believe in democracy. Only living legal citizens should be allowed to vote. You know your lying. You need the illegals to vote. Stop the nonsense.

[Daniel @Daniel037q]

@lippyent Love her in misery. She was so creepy

[June Juno Snowden @SnowdenJuno]

@catturd2 @sarahtexe

[Daniel @Daniel037q]

@ilovethehop @Milajoy @duckrow All your videos are garbage. Who researched this. The same scientist Biden did on covid. Was it Dr. Fauci? Please leave my country. Your ignorance is putting everyone in jeopardy.

[Brittany Hughes @RealBrittHughes]

Libs are legit mad that the World Cup has been a success. The disdain these people have for America is just unreal.

[𝔉🅰𝒏 Karoline Leavitt @WHLeavitt]

.@JakeLang rips into Dearborn’s Muslim mayor: “You marry 5 women, outnumber us, make our country look like the dumps you fled. We don’t want you here. Get out!”

Ban Islamic immigration and deport
Islamists?

A. Yep
B. No.

Via @ScooterCasterNY

[CeCe @cecegkh]

Socialist presidential candidate in 1944: ‘I no longer need to run… The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.’

Read that again.

73 years later… how’s that working out?
If this doesn’t scare you, you’re not listening.

When has socialism ever worked for the good of the people?

[Daniel @Daniel037q]

@RockNRoLL_85 You'll accompany me

[Frd🖤 @_Fb4167_]

@RockNRoLL_85 Still The Same.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Shut the front door. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[𝔉🅰𝒏 Karoline Leavitt @WHLeavitt]

Florida is removing all LGBTQ Pride murals from public spaces.

The world is healing.

Do you stand firmly with Florida?

A. Hell yeah
B. Nope