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Gaugamela

(3,403 posts)
3. I was hoping someone would organize and broadcast an all-star rock concert as an
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 05:23 PM
Monday

alternative to the moronic UFC match at the White House. But unfortunately it isn’t happening.

Volaris

(11,593 posts)
4. Were gonna celebrate at the end of the year when we kick this congress out,
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 05:24 PM
Monday

And drag these fucking vampires of OUR DEMOCRACY out into the sunlight where they belong. Every last one.

DFW

(59,937 posts)
7. As a human event, not as some patriotic stunt staged for future commemoration on some US Mint product
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 06:40 PM
Monday

Jefferson's first words of what was certainly one of his greatest (if not his greatest, hands down) piece of writing were:

"When, in the course of human events........"

Jefferson was not writing for some clown to make money on some commercial souvenir-selling enterprise centuries down the road. He was writing to deliver a justification for one of the most daring political moves/movements of the 18th century.

So, I'll be celebrating that very human event that inspired an armed insurrection that by no means was a guaranteed success at its outset. Five long years passed between Philadelphia and Yorktown. Very few of the men who had the guts to sign Jefferson's adventurous declaration lived to enjoy the fruits that the insurrection finally provided. Many, if not most were ruined. There is your courage and your patriotism. Jefferson knew it. Washington knew it. Adams knew it. Republicans will never know it.

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