Garrick Sapp

Southern history • Federalism • States’ Rights
Writer & veteran. Book on a lost tradition coming in 2027

“all we ask is to be let alone”

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

https://t.co/jiOsqLr5G5

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@WilliamE1863 @prageru LOL...Didn't Washington too?

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

19th Century Radical Republicans liked to throw around the traitor charge. Politics is a rough game. We all know no Confederate leader was tried for treason. Well, everyone but @pragerU and Allen Guelzo!

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@mlaney75 "emotion and hysterics" so true. Thanks for the laugh.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

Yes. I learned that from Lysander Spooner's Treason Number II which he wrote in 1867.

"The true and legitimate meaning of the word treason, then, necessarily implies treachery, deceit, breach of faith."

He of course was a Northern abolitionist arguing there was no treason.

[Peter Gibbons @mlaney75]

@ricksapp @prageru I like how you state that “there was no deceit or subterfuge.” That’s the key distinction whether we’re talking about treason in common parlance or as a legal matter. Lee was not conspiring with an enemy against the US. He had an impossible choice to make and prayed on it.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@WilliamE1863 I feel better. I was getting a lot of grief in the comments by someone who should be a kindred spirit. I am going to slightly modify a few things in the essay, but keep pushing.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

https://t.co/jiOsqLr5G5

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@WanjiruNjoya The key question. I have been thinking about that a lot today. Even explored it with Grok which was unsatisfying.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@Jeff_Davis1808 @prageru When trying to keep a video to 1 minute you can't really explore. But I did think of the irony that they had to pass legislation to give Lee's citizenship back. Under their theory he wouldn't have lost it, right?

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@Lorelei1861 I didn't know that. Great point. Crazy.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@springfielddmx @prageru For me it is Shelby Foote's the Civil War a Narrative. Then dip into other things including primary documents which are widely available. From what I can tell, people then gravitate to what interests them and read niche books and sources.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@WanjiruNjoya Too smart! Very good professor.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@ruwaromman Is this satire? If not, you are one of the dumbest women I've seen on this app. I would invite you down but you're so full of hate, I couldn't stand to be around you.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@trentengland Wow. Now lazy. We are actually on the same side. I looked. Can you provide the case citation?

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

Why the snarkiness? The compact’s own text says a state “may become a member of this agreement by enacting this agreement.” Eighteen states and D.C. have done exactly that. Article I, Section 10 forbids a state to “enter into” a compact without the consent of Congress, and they already have. The contingent clause only delays when it takes effect. Waiting until 270 just guarantees the fight happens in the middle of a presidential race. What are we waiting for?

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@SenWarren Is that the same as Congress owing the American people some answers?

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@AFpost She and her family are doing much of the damage. She needs to just move on.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@MattWalshBlog No that is stupid. China is laughing!!!!

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@OrthoAnglo81 Indeed. Thanks for reading.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

Look at this sad KKK march in Montgomery, Alabama in 1967. The U.S. Flags outnumbered the Battle Flag. According to the newspaper, both MLK and the Klan spoke that day in Montgomery.

The Southern Courier, December 16-17, 1967

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@Jeff_Davis1808 lol...my God! The historians are such liars!

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

@WanjiruNjoya @prageru Exactly. The bias would be comical if it were not so damaging because as Nathan Cofnas has found, on average conservatives are not that bright.

[Garrick Sapp @ricksapp]

Nationalists produce propaganda, not history. These two videos prove it. One elevates their man and the other is a hit piece on Lee, the Southerner.

@PragerU says they are for truth, American values, and morality. We say their history content falls well short. Let's debate.