Hillbilly Hannah

Holistic, Homesteading, Homeschooling, & History- loving Hillbilly Momma.
Proud daughter of Dixie!

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@GardensR4Health My husband and 3 others cleared and repaired a bridge in Johnson County, TN that was washed out on both sides, 8-12ft deep. It would’ve taken the govt months, at best, to restore access, but toxic hillbilly masculinity got it done in one day!!!

[Porter Stansberry @porterstansb]

As we approach our 250th anniversary, I believe it's worth noting that our government is only actually 165 years old.

The American Republic established in 1776 ended in 1861.

The Civil War cost almost a million lives: one out of every five white men of military age in the South and one out of every ten in the North. It destroyed virtually all of the wealth in the South — a 90% reduction to per capita GDP. The South would not recover economically until 1950.

But the real cost of the war wasn't economic. It was political.

The Civil War destroyed the Federalist system that our founders built to ensure the central government's power remained genuinely limited. Not limited by the goodwill of its legislators, which is no limit at all, but limited by the existence of rival sovereign States, which could restrain the central government and each other through competition.

After 1865 the only real limit to federal power was the self-restraint of the men in office. And that didn't last for long...

But, before we look at the long-term impact of America's first war of aggression, let us dispel a critical myth: that the Civil War ended slavery. Slavery was ending because of technology and economics. And it would have ended just as surely if no war had ever been fought between the States.

Britain abolished slavery, without a war, throughout its empire in 1833, freeing some 700,000 people in the West Indies alone. France abolished slavery in its colonies in 1848. Russia — the most backward great power in Europe — emancipated some twenty-three million serfs in 1861, the very year of Sumter. The Netherlands freed the slaves of Surinam and Curaçao in 1863. Across the entire industrializing world, unfree labor was abandoned within a single compressed generation. And, in no other great nation, was war required.

In America, slavery did not end because of General Grant and the boys in blue. It did not end because of a moral awakening. The cause was economic.

Chattel slavery extracts muscle power from human beings. Therefore, slavery only makes economic sense if muscle power is the binding constraint on production. Once machines had multiplied the labor output of muscle by hundreds of times, slavery was not only immoral but inefficient. In an industrial economy a slave costs more than he yields. As a result, capital flees from slavery into factories. All over the world. And even in the South.

Slavery ended everywhere at roughly the same time for the same reason: innovation and economics. It would have ended in the American South regardless of who won at Gettysburg. Even Brazil, the last holdout in the Western hemisphere, freed its 725,000 slaves with the Golden Law of 1888. No war was required: slavery was no longer productive.

With apologies to the celebrants of Juneteenth, slavery was not legally abolished in the United States until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in December 1865. The institution died, not because of the war, but because the world had entered the machine age.

The unnecessary destruction of half of our country and almost a million people wasn't the greatest tragedy of the Civil War. The greatest tragedy was the loss of Federalism and the hard-won liberty Americans won in the Revolution.

The Civil War destroyed the federal structure of the American republic, in which the several States were sovereign in their own spheres, with genuinely different legal systems, cultures, and traditions. The national government was beholden to the States, with only limited and enumerated powers.

The clearest proof of this change lies in our language. Before 1861, the United States was a plural noun. Men said the United States "are." After 1865 our country became singular. The United States "is."

The doctrine that a state could check the central government — by interposition, by nullification, in the last resort by departure — died at Appomattox, and with it the last structural brake on the power of the federal government died too.

The framers had not relied on parchment to limit the government they created. They relied on competition. So long as the States were genuinely sovereign — so long as a man oppressed in one State could remove to another, so long as the national government had to reckon with twenty or thirty rival centers of authority each jealous of its own jurisdiction — the central government could not easily grow into a Leviathan. The States were not administrative subdivisions. They were the Constitution's immune system.

What followed the Civil War was America's first empire -- in the South. And Empire's require a strong central government. Thus began a long erosion of the line between the citizen and the State, and between private institutions and public power.

Twelve years after the war, the Supreme Court considered whether a State could fix by law the prices a private grain warehouse charged its customers. The owners argued it was a taking of their property without due process — that what a man does with his own property, and what he charges for its use, is rightfully his own affair. The Court disagreed. Chief Justice Waite ruled that when private property is "affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only," and may be regulated by the government for the common good (Munn v. Illinois, 1877).

That was the end of private property in America. After all, if the national legislature may decide which property is "affected with a public interest," and may then dictate its prices and uses, there is in principle no property the government may not control.

Justice Stephen Field saw it and dissented with prophetic fury. The doctrine, he warned, "is nothing less than a bold assertion of absolute power by the State to control at its discretion the property and business of the citizen." A legislature that could fix the uses and prices of property "against the consent of the owner" could "deprive him of the property as completely as by a special act for its confiscation or destruction."

New York City's landlords are finding out the truth of this reality. They believe they own their properties. But they are about to find out otherwise, as rents will now be controlled by the mayor, who is a communist. This will spread. A communist ruling over all of America is only a matter of time. Why? Because the law provides an unlimited incentive for such power. There is nothing in America the government cannot take from you. Nothing.

The proof of the unlimited central authority was established in blood. The courts followed where the armies led. And the first American Empire — the North's conquest of the South — led to more such military adventures, which continue to this day.

In its first century, the United States heeded its founders' warnings against entangling alliances, a large standing army, and foreign military adventures. But the creation of the massive Northern army created its own momentum. Only 20 years after Reconstruction, the country clamored for another Empire and war against Spain. America became an imperial power, with possessions from the Caribbean to the far Pacific — Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines.

The consolidated nation that emerged from the Civil War was the precondition for the American Empire that emerged in 1898. Power flows to the center, and the center's reach has no natural boundary.

The Leviathan must be fed.

In 1913, every American became a direct serf to the national government: The Sixteenth Amendment gave the federal government the power to tax incomes directly. The size of a government is set, in the end, by the size of its revenues. The income tax removed the ceiling.

The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified the same year, provided for the direct election of United States senators. Under the original Constitution, senators were chosen by the state legislatures. This was the last vestige of State sovereignty. It could not be allowed to stand. The Senate stopped being the guardian of federalism.

And… then… with these Constitutional impediments finally vanquished, you saw Leviathan act to ensure its permanent dominance: it would control the money supply.

In December of 1913, Congress created the Federal Reserve System. The power over money, which the Constitution had strictly withheld from the central government, was enshrined into law. Income tax, a central bank, and the removal of the states from the Senate — all in one year.

The Revolution that began in 1861 was complete. America's Empire had begun.

Munn established that the government may dictate the use of private property. 1898 established that the consolidated nation would project power without limit beyond its borders. 1913 established the revenue, the money power, and the removal of the states from their guard post. The 1964 Civil Rights Act expanded this dictatorial power into every private transaction in America.

Government of the people, for the people, and by the people has been destroyed.

We now live in an Empire, not a Republic.

The Civil War didn't free any slaves; it enslaved all of us.

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@Darth_Fidelity @hsakotc11 Our mascot was also the rebels. The flag was at every ballgame, on lunch trays & wall murals. We even had a black quarterback! We had no issues until 1999 when a parent from another team raised a stink. The flag was completely removed within a few years.

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@BrionMcClanahan Just some dope!

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

A lot of Americans remember Sears as a dying store in a half-empty mall.

That’s not what Sears was.

Sears was how American factories entered ordinary houses. Kenmore in the kitchen. Craftsman in the garage. DieHard under the hood. Coldspot humming in the corner. Lawn tractors in sheds. Socket sets in drawers that nobody was allowed to lose.

It was basements, workbenches, catalogs, part numbers, repairmen, delivery trucks, credit accounts, and old men who could hear a washer struggling before it finally quit.

A kid could flip through the Wish Book and learn what adulthood looked like. Tools. Appliances. Work boots. School clothes. A bicycle. Sometimes even a whole house ordered by mail and built piece by piece after the materials came in by rail.

That was the part Sears understood. America was full of people trying to build stable lives with practical things.

Then the practical world got replaced by a disposable one. The catalogs vanished. The stores hollowed out. Manufacturing moved overseas. Repair got expensive. Replacement got cheap. The people who knew how everything worked got older, retired, or died, and a lot of what they knew went with them.

People call it the death of a department store.

I don’t.

Sears was one of the last national systems that still assumed ordinary Americans should know how to maintain the world around them instead of just replacing it. That’s the strange poverty nobody talks about now.

Not having fewer things. Having more than ever and understanding almost none of them.

[Cassie Clark @dogwoodblooms]

Let’s talk about transplant fatigue, y’all.

The South is suffering from it BIG time.

Why?

Hundreds of thousands of folks have moved South from all over the country in the last twenty years.

The result?

👉🏼A higher demand on homes/land that’s resulted in price increases and rising taxes
👉🏼Environment destruction
👉🏼Competition for local employment
👉🏼Political extremism
👉🏼Social ideology extremism
👉🏼Cultural destruction

Think that’s all? It’s not.

We put up with being called rednecks, hillbillies, and hicks. We wave at folks who don’t wave back. We open doors for people who don’t bother to say thank you. We pull over for funeral processions and watch folks speed through. We hear people complain about us day in and day out - in public, often in front of our children.

And when we speak up, we’re called rude. It’s hinted that Southern hospitality doesn’t exist.

Reality check: No one is going to go out of their way to respond to rudeness with kindness. Southerners aren’t door mats. We live by an honor code. You break that code, and we’re happy to show you our raising.

Does that mean Southern hospitality doesn’t exist? Of course not. Southern hospitality is very real. But it’s reserved for people like Chef Joel. We’re kind to those who find value in our way of life and love it here. The ones who don’t want to change us. The ones who want to assimilate.

If you’re offended by that, it’s not the locals who are the problem.

It’s you. 💁🏼‍♀️

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@Michael_Yon You’re welcome! Good luck!

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@southernzoomer1 @ConfederateShop I homeschool, and these are good books I used for my upper elementary boys when we studied the war.

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@thispostisbased @AppyOrtho @MarshaBlackburn It’s not personal. Nobody views you as an enemy, but we also don’t necessarily want to be your Promised Land. It’s your family times a thousand. The influx of people is downright destroying the beautiful East TN county I grew up in.

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@AppyOrtho @MarshaBlackburn I’m also a homeschooling East TN native with deep roots in this region. Almost every homeschooler I’ve met isn’t from here. Even though, we align with them on many issues, the dynamic interacting with them vs our native TN neighbors is just different.

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@Drempts @RepThomasMassie Google Kings Mountain dude. We hillbillies come from those men.

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@JohnnyReb1989 My husband is also a Lee descendant. Richard Lee I , the Immigrant, is his 10th great grandfather & then he descends from Elizabeth Betsy Lee. Robert E Lee is his 4x cousin 7 times removed!

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@adamhuver @helios_brah Interesting. High carbs are just not worth it for me!

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@adamhuver @helios_brah Well I feel validated! 😆I’m 44, T1 34 years. I eat the same, keep insulin on board very low, also get lots of sunlight and don’t get crazy swings either. The T1 community is oblivious to the EMF issue from what I see in various groups. I worry for them! 😔

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@helios_brah @adamhuver Also a T1! I’ve been on the fence about CGM for years. A1c under 7 for 20yrs w/out CGM. I used to be EMF sensitive & went down that rabbit hole. So, it’s fry myself w/CGM vs better blood sugar control and maybe less complications? No win it feels like!

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@EternalVigilan6 @RonPaul Yes, ours as well!

[Hillbilly Hannah @hthfarm]

@DesertRox1 @RonPaul He would absolutely hand you your butt in any debate! Go watch his sermons at Liberty Fellowship Montana and find out for yourself.

[OpenVAERS @OpenVAERS]

Tylenol is a force multiplier.
MTHFR is a force multiplier.
Deficient microbiome is a force multiplier.
Deficient mitochondria is a force multiplier.

Spreading shots out is a force divider.
Reducing shots is a force divider.
Delaying shots is a force divider.
Removing heavy metal adjuvants from shots is a force divider.
Dividing up group shots is a force divider.

You know what removes risk entirely?

Not Vaccinating.

We delayed, spread out, reduced and never gave Tylenol. Varicella vaccine has no heavy metal adjuvants and is a single vaccine. Boom PANS.

The vaccine themselves break the immune system. Period. You cannot "trick" Mother Nature.

[Kim Iversen 🇺🇸 @KimIversenShow]

Tyler showed up to campus wearing a maroon shirt and shorts, then they claim he changed into dark clothing while on the roof then changed again and somehow transported a fully assembled rifle - hidden in his tight jeans. Oh and why don’t the images the FBI released look like the suspect? Because they used AI to “enhance” them they said.

So basically the dark clothing guy might not be Tyler at all… but at this point law enforcement is all in on this one theory and can’t admit anything otherwise without looking completely inept. Tyler with the trans lover = perfect patsy.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

An obvious effort to silence eyewitnesses and control the narrative: