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.
During interviews when Biden was President, his handlers would jump if he was asked something beyond the agreed upon, scripted questions.
Here's an example. After some of the softest questions ever, the host tried to sneak in a real question to Biden.
Please Marty, GROW A BRAIN! Mike Pence is trying to sell his stupid book and now going on every liberal show and saying things to…..HELP SELL HIS BOOK! Also, you CAN NOT call it an “iNsUrReCtiOn” when the whole purpose for Trump supporters being there were to hear evidence of election fraud when congress was confirming the results of the rigged election. . You know, the one where Biden kept on getting tons of votes at 4am until he broke the record for most votes ever received? Even more than Obama….who by the way oddly never congratulated Joe for that. Maybe it’s because they don’t wanna draw too much attention to the fact that a guy who came in fifth place in the Iowa caucus and then WORSE in the New Hampshire primary, somehow received more votes than anyone ever. Meanwhile, at the same time, President Donald Trump, who was running unopposed, set records for most votes, received in a primary running unopposed. Why did people rush into the capitol that day @MartyGriffinKD?? Did anyone shoot anything at the crowd? Were any feds in the crowd? Who set up the pipe bomb? So much left to be uncovered Marty.
I don't know what they've got in these performance enhancers, but I'm feeling pretty jacked up.
Try it yourselves, folks.
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@littlelou050@edokeefe@DrBiden@CBSSunday@JoeBiden She didn’t expect him to stumble like he did? Are you freaking serious? All the dude did for FOUR YEARS WAS STUMBLE. Whether it was over his words, or over his feet. You must have the IQ of a plant to still believe this stuff
@EricLDaugh Imagine telling someone 15 years ago that the College Football National Champion Indiana Hoosiers would be visiting President Donald Trump in his second, non consecutive term.
I’ve never noticed until today that Trump eats his taco bowls with just meat and cheese and a scoop of sour cream with a little bit of salsa. No rice, no lettuce.
@laurasgoldman Yet we were all called conspiracy theorists when anyone said it wasn’t the same Fetterman in 2023, after he came back from Walter Reed…..
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What the fuck is this? Can we please get some footage from inside the capsule while they're in space? Did they lose that technology too?
This is:
Matthew Perna (seen in a red sweatshirt) on January 6, walking peacefully inside the Capitol building for only 14 minutes to protest the overthrow of his government on November 3—after being invited in by Capitol Police, no less.
Matthew pleaded guilty to the initial charges, believing he would face 6–12 months in prison.
Only after pleading guilty did the domestic terrorists within the Department of Justice inform Matthew that they would seek a TERRORISM enhancement to his sentence, increasing his potential sentence to 9 years in federal prison.
Just four days after receiving this news, Matthew went into his garage, put a fucking rope around his neck, and hung himself.
In other words, they deliberately went after Americans and brought down the full weight of the U.S. government, including a death sentence, to prove a point—that November 3 was the ‘most secure election in U.S. history’.
Now you’ve got a judicial whore in a black robe who just slapped G’ddamn Ilhan Omar—Abdul Abubakar Ali—with a mere one-year sentence for MILLIONS in stolen tax dollars, after he lied about providing 1.3 million meals. And he’ll be out in just a couple of months for being a good felon.
So, the question is, where the fuck is the United States Justice System?
Damn you, the state media—every single one of you.