Jimmy

Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

July 4, 1776 -- The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

July 3, 1776 — With independence approved, Congress turned to Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, spending nearly the entire day revising the document line by line.

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@TheGameVerse They’ll care and change their decision if we impact their profits. But if people don’t stick to what they’re saying then yea they won’t care

[Alt Gary Busey @ncirish2002]

250 years ago today in this very room, the world changed

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1776, the United States was actually born. Not July 4. July 2. That's the day the Continental Congress voted to break from Britain, and John Adams was so certain of it that he predicted July 2 would be the great American holiday forever. He nailed everything except the date.

The vote came down to the wire, and one man had to ride through the night to save it. Delaware's delegation was split, one for independence, one against, which meant the colony's vote canceled itself out. The tie-breaker, Caesar Rodney, was 80 miles away in Delaware. He got word that he was needed and rode all night through a summer thunderstorm, sick and in pain, boots and spurs still on, and made it into Philadelphia just in time to cast Delaware's vote for independence.

The other holdouts fell into place too. In Pennsylvania, the men most opposed, including John Dickinson, deliberately stayed away from the chamber so their colony could swing to yes. South Carolina came around for the sake of a united front. When the roll was called, twelve colonies voted for independence and not a single one voted against. New York simply abstained, waiting on permission from home.

And so, on July 2, 1776, it was done. The colonies had legally, officially declared themselves free. The next day Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that this day "will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival," with "pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations." Fireworks and all. He was describing the Fourth of July two days early.

So why do we celebrate the 4th? Because that's the day Congress approved the final wording of the document explaining the decision, the Declaration of Independence. The vote to be free happened on the 2nd. The paperwork got finished on the 4th, and history remembered the paperwork.

The country was actually born in a rainstorm and a roll call on July 2, thanks in part to one sick man who refused to let a tie decide the fate of a nation.

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@TheGameVerse A disc. No paywall content. Normal $70 price tag

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@SleeperNFL It’s funny because he won’t be on that team either😂

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@TheGameVerse Switching to pc in 2028 for me

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@ESPNNFL @minakimes If you take Josh Allen out of Buffalo then Buffalo is weak. See how stupid this argument is? Hypotheticals are pointless conversations lol

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@coreynorris44 @SleeperNFL @BoltUpYo @SleeperAZCards

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

After Japan’s devastating loss… Brazil fans and Mexico fans made sure this guy was in good spirits

The beautiful game

[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.

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

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[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@BreakingKevin I had an offer sent to me a few days ago of Trey benson jauan Jennings and a 27 2nd for breece hall. Rejected it immediately. Might as well hold and have him be an anchor

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@TheGameVerse The one that’s sold as a disc

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@jojoe_009 @TheGameVerse No it’s not lol resident evil does tho

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@TheGameVerse @REDACTEDSpider As long as I can buy it as a disc

[Jimmy @jsiefert8]

@YattedRambo @FFDynastyDog @amzzznation I wouldn’t bother going back and forth with this guy. You gave great reasons and are right. He’s just doing this for engagement lol

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

These firefighters spent the day fighting wildfires in Spain when they found a deer stranded in the forest.

This is how they responded.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Eyes Up, Guardians 🇺🇸