Posted on 12/26/2020 5:23:20 AM PST by MtnClimber
Remember-
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1341948611131822083
Seth Holehouse video link
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3918987/posts
We are living in a “made in China” world.
And the democrats played a big part in causing it high taxes regulations ...............................
It was interesting the First Battle of Bull Run. Brigadier General Irvin McDowell led 35,000 ill-prepared Union troops versus 20,000 Confederate troops led by General P. G. T. Beauregard who was camped at Manassas Junction, Virginia. McDowell was tasked with hitting the enemy quickly to put a quick end to the war that had started just two months prior at Fort Sumter. The North thought this would be easy too as both sides had ill-prepared soldiers to mount the fight. On July 16 Lincoln ordered McDowell to begin the offensive. As the troop marched so too did spectators and families who thought this was a day for a picnic.
On July 21 artillery began to exchange fire at Bull Run. 10,000 Union soldiers pushed back 4,500 troops across Warrinton Turnpike. Congressmen, reporters and other onlookers celebrated this as a victory but too soon as Johnston and Beauregard reinforced his troops near Henry House Hill.
Southern troops advanced and broke Union lines. In retreat the Union soldiers were met with onlookers in the way. While both sides were ill-organized with poorly trained troops that battle taught Lincoln not to underestimate his opponents. He never did so again.
The Civil War was ugly but advanced modern warfare in a lot of ways. One of those was to not underestimate the enemy by calling a battle in a war easy. Poorly trained volunteers or those without any training whatsoever led to the defeat of the North at Manassas.
The Civil War was not won easily. Any war or battle is never won “easily”.
Moloko Plus,
Please.
Did you watch it or are you just here to gaslight and throw shade?
I see President Trump using all he has, including his bully pulpit online, to get the truth out in spite of the massive efforts to stop him everywhere ... including here.
B/c here you are peeing in the tent with more criticisms and murmuring against President Trump!
If by their fruits ye shall know them, I’m guessing you’re CCP, too, is that right, “Jim”?
Are you getting paid for your posts?
I know that others do get paid ... they’ve admitted it in the past.
To them I say: ”For the love of money is the root of all evil.”
"The Great Skedaddle"...Too many Americans are engaged in another great skedaddle. The majority, thanks to generations parents uninvolved in their kids' educations, are too fond of the "good" life to give a damn about stolen elections and a decaying culture. Who will lead a renaissance of American founding principles. Trump may still be able to lead, but time is short. IMO, until a mass exit by solid conservatives form Rat run urban/areas takes place, discussion of an effective resistance to the left is highly problematical.
I don’t think our side will do shit.
God Bless President Trump.
We have failed him.
Somebody change my mind.
I am waiting for the fight to begin, bags and rifle packed.
There will be losses and victories. We don’t lose the whole war until we surrender which I am never doing.
There is ALWAYS good to do and we must do it as we have opportunity and ability.
Nor am I...I play a solitary game now, after years of local, active political involvement. My personal approach includes the following:
I’ll go as far as to say that had Lee either gone all in immediately at Gettysburg, or pulled out before it became serious, the south may have won the Civil War. Part of me roots for them (my hatred of federal power), but part of me understands the need for the US to remain strong as a single entity in a dangerous world. As Turtledove suggested in his altered history books, WWI, with a North American front, would not have been a good thing.
But the Feds got WAY too much power via winning the Civil War.
Our side is two camps, as I see it. The Christian camp, which will do nothing because they are constrained by the grace of God; and the pseudo-Christian camp, who will produce seriously dangerous men who WILL do something. The only question is, how many. Will it be another “Timothy McVeigh, or thousands of men ready to act out - with a plan - because they consider themselves patriots.
And I’m not sure I disagree with that thinking. But as a Christian I’m sort of like the Mel Gibson character in The Patriot*. I’ll get involved when it is defensive - directly.
*Yes, I know it’s fiction loosely based on reality. ;)
And Griswold was where we got the penumbras. The penumbras that eventually allowed the abortion decisions.
In 55 years we went from not allowing married couples to buy birth control all the way to allowing born-alive victims of abortion to lie there and slowly die.
You missed the point. The point was not to underestimate your opponent no matter how much you look down on them. And you have done both, looked down upon them and underestimated them. The real might of their force will not be known until it is shown. Just like it was at the first battle of Bull Run. You are blinded by your hatred for the Feds. The illustration had nothing to do with keeping America together or apart as I could have pointed to other similar battles throughout history, WWI and WWII aside.
I probably did miss the point. It was a really long post and I was in a hurry so I skimmed it and responded to what I thought was a general perspective you were trying to present. So I could be wrong. However, what you infer from mine likewise is missing my point. That’s okay, we don’t need to argue here. What’s going to happen is what was going to happen. I was just throwing out my thoughts on what’s Happening. I don’t teach university-level 19th century history so take what I’m posting with a grain of salt. :-)
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