Today We Remember The Big Man Clarence Clemons 🎷😔🙏🏻
January 11, 1942- June 18, 2011.
We Miss You Big Time, Big Man. 😔🎷🙏🏼
@clarenceclemons@springsteen#springsteen
When the crucial vote for independence was held on July 2, 1776, none of the delegates from New York voted for it. Because they did not have clear authority from the colonial government, they abstained and the measure passed 12-0, without New York voting. Instructions finally arrived on July 9, allowing the delegates to support American independence. When the final copy of the Declaration on Independence was produced in August, four men from New York signed it. See the signatures of these New Yorkers – and the 52 other signers – at the Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence in Constitution Gardens. #Freedom250
3 minutes ago these guys were telling us Iran’s missiles were an existential threat to America and cheerleading an insane, illegal, and destined-to-fail war to get rid of all their missiles.
Outrageous. Trump says Iran should be allowed to keep its ballistic missiles:
“If other countries have them, it’s a little bit unfair for them not to have some.”
Trump is incapable of shame—because shame requires introspection. But shame is an important emotional tool because it helps one calibrate away from terrible decisions. Without it, well…
The net result of a war that cost $60 billion, killed 13 Americans and thousands Iranian civilians, set off a new war between Israel and Lebanon, and caused massive U.S. inflation:
America agrees to give Iran billions in exchange for nothing.
A disastrous humiliation.
AYKM? John Adams.
Drove the continental congress to Independence.
Tapped Jefferson to write the declaration, they sold it.
Negotiated the Treaty of Paris, secured the first loans to the United States.
Father of the US Navy.
Drafted the concept of liberty into the Mass constitution so well, 2 slaves sued for their freedom under it and won, ending slavery in Mass.
Only founding POTUS to NEVER own a slave.
1st VP of the United States.
1st sitting President to lose power. Handed it over without incident, setting a 200 year precedent of a peaceful transfer of power when he could have chosen another path.
There is no more indispensable American. Washington won us the country and stabilized the experiment's beginning, but Adams gave it form and substance and - most of all - longevity.
Can I get an "Amen" from @AdamsMemDC?