Posted on 06/30/2019 5:12:36 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Remember how during the Obama Occupation everything that happened - according to the media - was “historic”?
Some things are more historic than others.
I’ll concede that the Obama administration invented hashtag diplomacy via the nascent Twitter platform,
U.S. Secretary of State Spokeswoman Jen Psaki, tweeting for world peace
President Donald J. Trump has taken it to the expert level.
After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2019
First U.S. sitting President to step into North Korea, in pursuit of restarting the nuclear weapons negotiations. Now that’s historic.
Obama, first sitting U.S. President to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for Winning While Black
I’m willing to let history determine what’s historic.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
trump playing chess, brilliant! driving a wedge between NK and china
My biggest fear is - who will be writing the history.
Historians write history by quoting each other.
Donald Trump on the other hand will rank with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. He will be known as one of America's greatest presidents. The man who Restored America.
Case in point is McCarthyism. Despite 'Blacklisted by History' and other sources trying to rectify things, the prevailing "history" is wrong.
Another case, perhaps entering its own "blacklisted by history" phase, is Watergate. The recent March Imprimis explains. Watergate trying to repeat itself with Trump...
“I’m willing to let history determine what’s historic.”
That’s a very nice sentiment.... as if “history” is somehow guaranteed to be honest, objective and agenda-free.
Unfortunately, today’s fake news becomes tomorrow’s fake history.
Who decides which versions of events - witness accounts, research analysis, evidence, etc.. - will be selected for inclusion in the history books of tomorrow and taught as “history”?
Are tomorrow’s history professors, scholars and researchers somehow immune from the Leftist agendas that produce today’s fake news?
I think not.
‘My biggest fear is - who will be writing the history.’
That is a very legitimate concern in our world!
“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished?”
1984 by George Orwell
Home Literature 1984 Characters Winston Smith
“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, and every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories.
Just in that one instance, in my whole life, I did possess actual concrete evidence after the event – years after it.” (2.5.14, Winston to Julia)
https://www.shmoop.com/1984/winston-smith-quotes-2.html
Yeah, I recall how the media breathlessly reported on Brak having “an historic poo”.
(Mild exaggeration, but not by much.)
Prizes are for losers. Winners dont need them.
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