Posted on 11/26/2020 9:13:54 AM PST by simpson96
As every public school child knows, the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621, when our Pilgrim forefathers took a break from slaughtering Peaceful, Environmentally Friendly, Indigenous Peoples to invite them to dinner in order to infect them with smallpox, before embarking on their mission to fry the planet so that the world would end on Jan. 22, 2031. (Copyright: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
Consider this description of the Pilgrims' treatment of the Indigenous peoples:
"They were the worst of conquerors. Inordinate pride, the lust of blood and dominion, were the mainsprings of their warfare; and their victories were strained with every excess of savage passion."
Except that's not a description of the Pilgrims' treatment of Indigenous peoples. It's a description of some Indigenous people's treatment of other Indigenous peoples, written by the late Francis Parkman, Harvard professor and the world's foremost Indian scholar.
The Wampanoag, who joined the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving, had a lot to celebrate. Contrary to Hollywood's American-hating rendition of "Pocahontas," in which the Indians feared the "White Demons," the Wampanoag were thrilled with their well-armed white allies, who helped them repel the hated Iroquois and Narragansett.
The whole reason the Wampanoag were clustered so close to the coast where the Pilgrims encountered them was that the Iroquois had "pursued them with an inveterate enmity. Some (Wampanoag) paid yearly tribute to their tyrants, while others were still subject to their inroads, flying in terror at the sound of the Mohawk war-cry."
Parkman describes a typical Iroquois celebration following one of their attacks on their fellow "Native Americans" (an absurd term, inasmuch as no Indians were "native" to America because there was no "America" until white Europeans got here and created it):
"(M)en, women and children, yelling like fiends let loose, swarmed out of the narrow portal, to
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Why does Ann Coulter remind me so much of George Soros?
Two of Chief Massasoit's sons joined the English, taking on English names and converting to Christianity. The Pilgrims and Wampanoag got along very well and made a peace treaty and stuck to it for many years.
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Just tuned in to Rush. Hope Limbaugh will repeat his Wednesday broadcast today Thanksgiving Day on the history of the Pilgrim feast he had done the day before.
I remember reading of one account where a tribe wiped out its neighbor, but three or four managed to escape to the west. Rather than rest on their laurels for a job well done, they pursued the survivors hundreds of miles to the west where they found them disguised as members of the tribe sheltering them. Of course they killed them.
Indians were feared, lethal enemies who deliberately aimed to strike terror in their victims. Attitudes towards them only began to change when their attacks faded into distant memories. This happened in New England in the early 1800s, but much later out West. Then they became the ‘Noble Savage”.
I would place Ann on the post-election "conservative" spectrum to the left of Laura Ingram and Lou Dobbs but to the right of Tucker.
She was mocking the lunatic, hate-America Left’s narrative on Thanksgiving.
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You have poor judgement?
You mean when Ann Coulter said she was happy Trump lost?
Even though he won?
“Why does Ann Coulter remind me so much of George Soros?”
One possibility is that you’re delusional...
But when I think of Ann Coulter, it reminds me of George Soros.
It’s as though she’s been assigned a narrow portion of the Soros agenda. Coulter’s assignment, directed by Soros or by one of his demons, is to break down MAGA by targeting what the deep state thinks is a vulnerability in the thought process of some of the conservative base.
Then why does Ann Coulter constantly try to attack what she thinks are weaknesses in the MAGA movement?
In a wide-ranging speech that reached far beyond the event’s proposed topic of immigration, the political commentator explained to a socially-distanced crowd of 97 people why she believes the 2020 U.S. presidential election has produced “the best of all possible outcomes” for conservatives.
“The reason I’m very happy that [President] Trump lost – and lost narrowly – is that a second term of Trump would have killed us,” Coulter said.
“What we want, and what I think we can get in four years, is Trumpism without Trump,” she said. ...”
“It’ll be a lot easier to push Trumpism without Trump,” Coulter predicted.
“I’m glad he lost,” she continued. “I’m glad it was very, very narrow. And I’m glad we seem to have held the Senate. … And we have definitely held the House [of Representatives]. That means they [Democrats] couldn’t do anything terrible.” ...”
“Coulter defined “Trumpism” as America taking care of its own people first.
“The left behind, the working class, the middle class — they want jobs, they want safe neighborhoods.
They don’t want to have to keep paying taxes for English as a Second Language classes and to pay for emergency rooms with a lot of illegal immigrants coming in with many … health problems,” she said.
“We have to take care of our own first. That’s Trumpism. ...”
Coulter didn’t define Trumpism. Donald Trump did.
When she thought she could harm Trump’s chances for reelection, Coulter put out a lot of noise about the wall not being built. About a year ago, something like that.
It was obvious what she was doing then based on the timing of her complaints.
She of course also was a big Romney supporter. Obviously
NOT a good indicator of where she is coming from.
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