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ironman99

(160 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 03:43 PM 3 hrs ago

I am an atheist but...

I wish that George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and James Monroe would return to the White House and spend the next 5 days bitch-slapping the orange hell beast about why they went to war with King George III. Especially General Washington on why he did not want his image on any American Money.

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AverageOldGuy

(4,391 posts)
4. They all would be arrested
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 04:25 PM
2 hrs ago

After all they were born as British citizens, don’t have their papers, lock ‘em up.

Intractable

(2,605 posts)
5. They should explain why the rich founders wanted to steal land from the indians and keep black people as slaves?
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 04:43 PM
2 hrs ago

Whenever I do a deep dive into the Revolutionary War, I get disturbed.

Bev54

(13,563 posts)
6. Just dress some people up as them, Trump won't know the difference.
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 04:51 PM
2 hrs ago

Have them stand in the oval office so he can see them when he wakes up from one of his naps.

no_hypocrisy

(55,770 posts)
7. I wish it would be Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 04:56 PM
2 hrs ago

(Founder of American Atheists and Co-plaintiff with Edd Schemp).

My boss represented her on another legal matter. A real bitch on wheels.

Let her slap TSF around.

paleotn

(23,104 posts)
8. Well said. And GW could have become president for freaking LIFE but chose not to.
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 05:32 PM
1 hr ago

He was that popular and in a new nation who'd never known anything but a royal sovereign. But he said no. 2 terms and done.

Not a bad magnum opus for a guy who arguably started a world war at the tender age of 22 (Seven Years War - Jumonville Glen).

surfered

(15,142 posts)
9. They lived closer to the Reformation when Catholics and Protestants took turns persecuting each other depending upon
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 05:44 PM
1 hr ago

which religion the King or Queen favored. Separation of church and state seemed the sane way to go.

debsy

(1,102 posts)
10. Right?
Tue Jun 30, 2026, 06:05 PM
55 min ago

Seems like a reasonable request to me. Maybe they will hear you and visit him in his sleep 😂

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