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24 Feb, 12 tweets, 9 min read
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Please, just stop.



The US Marshalls were doing a "this day in history" tweet, because the history that happened on this day was history that their office played a role in. They got President Lincoln into Washington, safely.
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Any claim that tweet is support for any sort of insurrection is anachronistic for reasons that the office cites.



March 4 was the old inauguration day. Lincoln was sworn in on schedule. The schedule just changed in 1933, 72 years after Lincoln's election.
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Let's confirm that. Here's the amendment

constitution.congress.gov/constitution/a…

and on this page

archives.gov/founding-docs/…

we can find the date it was passed: 23 January 1933. So, almost 72 years after Lincoln's inauguration. Just a few weeks short.
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Though I haven't looked it up, given the way Lincoln's presidency ended (ahem!), I think I can guess why the marshals were sneaking him into Washington. So he wouldn't get shot by a supporter of slavery.

By a racist.
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Now how, please tell me how, you look at a commemoration of a mission to keep an anti-slavery president election (Lincoln) safe from harm back in 1861, and see any similarity at all between that and support for an insurrection seeking to unseat a recently elected president?
@PersianChickk @john_sipher I am at a loss. Especially because a lot of the people who want that insurrection are the kind of people who would seriously try to argue that when a cop kneeled on George Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 expletive deleted seconds, that this wasn't murder.
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Hard to get more racist than that, but I'm sure our edgelord friends are going to try, bless their souls (in the most Southern way). 😡
@PersianChickk @john_sipher In the future, @PersianChickk, please try to be more careful before you join a cancel mob. I saw the feeding frenzy. I intend to block the people in it. They didn't care about reality, they just wanted to flex their power.

This is not a good thing to be part of.
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Unroll (complete with that annoying typo I can't get rid of) at

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1364595…

and archived at

archive.is/HWs3H

on an archive that doesn't honor takedown requests. I've dealt with cancel mobs, before.
@PersianChickk @john_sipher The archived copy of my profile

archive.is/VWg4H

easily found through the Archive Today page for my ThreadReaderApp profile

archive.is/threadreaderap…

makes this easy to find for anybody who can remember a Twitter id (_centrism_).
@PersianChickk @john_sipher Easily found, and highly damaging to anybody who would false flag a tweet storm and then fib about the tweets that got deleted.

A small trick worth remembering in these censorious times.
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@JohnDellaporta @stoolpresidente @barstoolsports This is even better, and please pass it along ... I archived it.



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