“to bring one's beliefs out into the open... implied the truth one lived by was valid through and through and that its writ ran everywhere.” Derek Kidner
April 19, 1775
What made the farmers fight in 1775?
Judge Millen Chamberlain in 1842, when he was twenty-one, interviewed Captain Preston, a ninety-year-old veteran of the Concord fight:
@miles_commodore You mean they've changed?! 😄
The things you knew as a kid stick with you as the way things ought to be. I hate to admit it, but I still think of the Dodgers as belonging in Brooklyn! I hear LA Dodgers, and my first thought is still, wait, who is that?
230 years later and these words ring true;
“…unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
- George Washington 1796
🇺🇸America 250 movie list that shows off the best of our country: grit, innovation & undaunted courage. What am I missing?
• Glory
• Red Dawn
• The Patriot
• Saving Private Ryan
• Memphis Belle
• Last of the Mohicans
• Hacksaw Ridge
• We Were Soldiers
• Black Hawk Down
• Apollo 13
• The Untouchables
• Forrest Gump
• Unbroken
• Lone Survivor
• 13 Hours
• The Right Stuff
* Lincoln
• Band of Brothers (miniseries)
* Turn: Washington’s Spies (tv show)
#America250
I think after people are invested in someone, and then they're lied to, even though they know they're lied to, it's hard, if not impossible, to admit it, because if you admit it, you also have to admit, even if only silently, that you were taken in.
Pride gets in the way.
@GWOTMF Please define “spirit of listening” as it's one of those vague nice-sounding phrases w/o any definitive commitment to act.
I have no idea whom you think you're fooling w/this PR jargon. We've heard it all before.
This is the United States paying a terrorist regime through a proxy. The United Arab Emirates would not be giving this money to a terrorist regime without our permission.
@KickboxerEsq@GovRonDeSantis@ByronDonalds Excellent statement. "I wouldn't have qualified when I ran in '18." And he makes the point about candidates building coalitions, which has become a lost art the past few cycles.
The Florida GOP is running a blatant scam.
🚨NOW: Gov. Ron DeSantis pushes back on Florida GOP debate restrictions, saying party officials shouldn't decide who gets on stage.
@GovRonDeSantis: "I wouldn't have qualified in 2018. It's counterproductive when you try to engineer an outcome."
Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants.
According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet:
“These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country…. Whether it’s fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me. Guys like me, they built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining. They didn’t build anything, they couldn’t build anything.”