158 years ago at this hour the largest artillery barrage in the history of the Western Hemisphere was underway in preparation for the Confederate Infantry Assault against the entrenched Union positions on top of Cemetery Ridge. (1)
At 2:00pm (est) 15,000 Confederate Soldiers stepped forward on a one mile uphill death march. They were a sea of humanity that spanned more than one mile across. Under the command of MG George Pickett the Confederate force had been ordered by Robert E Lee to smash the Union Lines
at the center. The Union Commander, General George Meade, had anticipated Lee’s attack and was ready. Within the next hours we will pass the exact moment of anniversary that denotes the high water mark of the Confederacy, the penetration of Union lines at the Bloody Angle. (3)
The Confederate assault was repulsed and entire units were completely annihilated. The war would go on for two more long years of killing but the dream of a North American autocratic slave nation died on that hill under a righteous rain of lead, metal and death. 50 years after
that day, on July 3, 1913 Confederate and Union veterans, old men, recreated the events of that day. Union veterans cheered on the old Confederates and when they reached the top of the ridge they embraced in a spirit of national reconciliation. All nations have their
myths and legends; America is no different. The American Civil War killed 750,000 people in a nation of 34 million. The myth of the “Lost Cause,” the idea that their was nobility, moral purpose and justification for a war fought in the name of slavery began at the surrender
ceremonies in Appomattox when the 8 times wounded hero of Little Round Top, BG Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin ordered the victorious Union Army to present arms and salute the defeated Confederates as they passed in review. The Country healed by expulcating itself from the causes of
the war; slavery by pretending it was about something else and that there was honor in the Southern cause. That great national lie was paid for by black Americans, they were written out of the story and consigned to live in a violent, racist, apartheid South for another 100 years
We have multitudes of unfinished business in this country around the issues of race and freedom because of our attachment to the myths of our forefathers. It is time to let them go and address our history with honesty; there is room for both pride and grief. Once again we
live in a time of danger, a time that requires moral clarity around what it is we face. Once again, in our land, we see the forces of bigotry, authoritarianism and oppression on the March. They call themselves Patriots. Beware.
Remember, it wasn’t until I/6/21 that the Confederate Battle flag finally breached the US Capitol. It’s our turn now, all of us, to stand on the line, at our times proverbial Cemetery Ridge and defend this American Republic from traitors to its’ democratic principles
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“What are the chances that Kevin McCarthy’s current supporters will become exhausted of voting for him as his vote count attrits ballot by ballot by ballot? Answer: extremely high.”
“How many of the 45 freshman Republican members are prepared to sit on the House floor waiting to be sworn in for days, weeks and months? Answer: not many.”
I understand the political point here but I think it’s time to take some extremists off the table forever politically. Trump is on the edge of indictment and charging uphill at DeSantis who may or may not be able to hold the top.
2/ The loony tunes in the Freedom Caucus know they won’t have the votes to elect Jim Jordan. They are just extorting @GOPLeader and his thug lobbyist @JeffMillerCA2TX who threatened the @USChamber and demanded the firing of CEO Suzanne Clark. They want concessions and control.
3/ @GOPLeader will give it to them and set up the conditions for more national vandalism. Kevin McCarthy is utterly unfit to hold a US Constitutional office and be in the line of immediate succession to the Presidency.
@JeffMillerCA2TX is the 2020’s version of Manafort, Davis, Stone and Abramoff in Washington DC. He is protected by the DC access media like a white rhino on an African game preserve. @politico was celebrating him on election eve. This is how it works. Immunity for tips.
2/ @JeffMillerCA2TX was one of Trump’s biggest bundlers and is @GOPLeader best friend. When @GOPLeader’s speaker campaign was collapsing on the eve of the @SpeakerRyan era I was asked to meet @GOPLeader in a Denver hotel to help save his faltering bid. It was too late.
3/ @GOPLeader had a congressional relations problem that couldn’t go away. @JeffMillerCA2TX is McCarthy’s lobbyist thug who routinely tells Members how to vote. It’s an open secret that would have been front page news ten years ago. Today, he’s in business with the people who
Why have you refused to endorse @MikeLeeforUtah. He is a colleague and fellow Republican?
The answer is:
@MittRomney is a man of principle. he knows Lee is unfit because Lee tried to overthrow the US Government. He will not support him. Good.
2/ How did @MittRomney arrive at his current position of neutrality between a seditious US Senator @MikeLeeforUtah and an American Hero and Patriot @EvanMcMullin?
How important is magic letter R to @MittRomney? Would he remain neutral if @HerschelWalker were the R Utah nominee?
3/ Assuming @MittRomney would not remain neutral in a contest between @EvanMcMullin and @HerschelWalker can Mitt explain the difference between Walker and Lee besides all of the abortions? What is it? Literacy? Can we know?
2/ Does Ohio want to elect a weirdo to be in the US Senate? It doesn’t
When a candidate like @JDVance1 is closing his campaign saying @TimRyan is going to steal the children and do sex changes on them it usually means the candidate like @JDVance1 is losing. JD=Fake Charity
3/ I wanted to personally vouch for @TimRyan who knows my kids. I just asked them if they are worried he is going to kidnap them and do sex change surgery on them like @JDVance1 said. They aren’t worried at all. They said @JDVance1 is a weirdo and asked if they would still call
.@MichaelDell. This quote is from a TR speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne. It was titled Citizenship in a Republic. @elonmusk doesn’t measure up. At all.
This is the famous quote from a deep speech. You are applying it in a fortune cookie manner to a current event. Bad take
2/ Elon is in business with the Chinese and Saudi’s to undermine the American way of life. That is who owns this platform. This platform @Twitter can be used for the cause of democracy insurgency aimed at undermining the stability of its assaulters starting with @elonmusk
3/ @twitter isn’t the town square. It’s a cesspool. It is a platform of division and hate. It should be used to undermine the Saudi and Chinese regimes and expose their American agents. The platform is the weakness. The defense of democracy requires toughness and conviction.