Doomers must have mental whiplash at this point.
1. China kicked out of Panama
2. Venezuela secured and friendly without a war.
3. EU and Canada whimpering like babies
4. No Russian tanks rolling across Germany or the rest of Europe.
5. No ww3
6. China in a major deflationary event
7. Taiwan still free from China
8. Gaza ceasefire
9. Israel still standing
10. BRICS on the back foot.
11. Right leaning goverments being elected across central and south America.
11. Iran military defeated
12. The men who ordered the deaths of thousands of America
Soldiers in Afghanistan and iraq sleeping with 72 goat virgins.
12. Strait opening back up.
13. No forever war in Iran
14. No boots on the ground in Iran
15. No US recession
16. Gas prices falling
17. Oil prices falling
18. Jobs expanding
19. Flyover country is booming
20. Lower taxes
21. Secure southern border.
22. Deportations continuing
23. No empty shelves or empty oil tanks.
24. SPR isnt running dry.
25. Barnacles didn't end the world.
26. Trade continues with tariffs
27. Fraudsters being arrested
28. Millions no longer on food stamps
29. Redistricting happened
30. Gop tightened up the mid term races
31. Trump still in office.
32. ICE and border patrol fully funded for the rest of Trumps term.
33. Stock markets at record highs.
34. Do I need to go on? There are about 100 more domestic policy issues I could list...
And it hasn't even been 2 years.
At this rate, the doomers are going to need even more intensive mental health care.
@RamboVanHalen Literally a day after the peace deal is announced lol. You’re following the wrong people, bro, there are significant wins practically every day.
3-400+ years ago, carve a country out of a wilderness, win two world wars, you know, easy stuff that they in no way intended to be the inheritance of their biological descendants, they wanted it to be a fucking bazaar for all the detritus of the entire globe
Today, May 14th is the true birthday of America, as it was on this day in 1607 the first English settlers to succeed in creating a colony planted root here. July 4th in Philadelphia, is when we declared our sovereignty, but it was in Jamestown, Virginia that America was birthed.
It was today in 1607, 419 years ago, that America's story truly began
104 brave and intrepid adventurers landed on a peninsula jutting out into the Chesapeake and the James River, and named it Jamestown, after their King James I
What followed was a desperate fight for survival. The hundred-odd men had chosen a location that was defensible--which helped with the near-constant Indian attacks--but that was, because of its location near so much quite stagnant water, the most pestiferous and febriferous hell imaginable. It was a near-perfect breeding ground for malarial mosquitoes, caused massive cholera outbreaks, and was otherwise a hellish spot to undergo the "Seasoning" period that long killed five out of every six new arrivals in Virginia. Yet further, few of the men who arrived were farmers--most were either second sons, tradesmen, or London's poor--and so growing food proved to be a challenge, a problem not helped by the new environment
And so the starving men held on as fever and ague wracked their bodies, as Indian arrows plunged into them from behind the tall grass, as an accidental fire burned their homes and storehouse in the height of winter and plunged them into desperate starvation. Meanwhile they found nothing of value that economically justified the colony's existence
It was a horrible period, and the little settlement barely managed to hang on for year after year, desperately battling deadly fever and murderous Indians--often at the same time--in a bid for survival
And they did it for their God and country. They saw it as their duty to bring the bright light of Protestantism to a New World that knew only the worst sort of paganism and the bloody cross of Catholic Spain. Still in the Elizabethan mind, they set about correcting that by planting a colony of their own that would take their faith and their rule to the New World...and hopefully make a profit, somehow, in so doing
For that they clung to life and fought on, and with John Rolfe's bringing of Spanish tobacco to the colony, then peace to it with his marriage to Pocahontas, the colony caught its stride and rocketed upwards in prosperity and settlers
Out of Jamestown came America, and that story began today, all those centuries ago
Los Angeles is approximately 40% foreign born
Imagine an army of the people in LA invading Idaho and Wyoming and you’ll understand the basic population dynamics of the war between the states
It was a revolt of the founding stock against the transformation of the country
American must be understood as its own ethnos. You’re not a mutt, you’re not English-Irish-French-Italian-Polish-Scottish-German because you’ve got fractions and percents of each. You belong to your own ethnic group unique to this continent distinct from all others. Theodore Roosevelt understood this well.
“The children and grandchildren of the men who came here from England, Ireland, Germany, France, Scandinavia, and the rest of Europe have become Americans—a new race, with a new ethnic type, and they are no more Englishmen or Germans or Scandinavians than the descendants of the Norman invaders of England are Frenchmen.
The frontier conditions made a new race. The stern struggle with the wilderness and with wild men welded together the descendants of many European stocks into one people—the American. Out of the crucible of the wilderness came a new ethnic type, hardy, self-reliant, democratic in instinct, and with a continent for its inheritance.”