Posted on 08/05/2022 1:36:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Terrible vibes go with that watch.
Creepy, but who cares?
It’s not like Hitler is getting the money.
I’m tired of outraged people.
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Me too. I’m outrage that they are demanding that this family donate something worth 1 million dollars to a museum.
If they want to sell it, it’s their right. If you want it in a museum, you buy it and donate it.
You've got the wrong map, you silly leg-before-wicket English person.
Worse! Amber Heard. Or Anita Hill.
You wouldn’t have had much fun in Stalingrad, would you?
Too bad it wasn’t the “Von Stauffenberg Edition”.
I first st read the headline as “Hunter’s watch” and thought I’d read that the Chinese bought it as anither bribe
I don’t like the sound of ‘ese ‘ere ‘Boncentration Bamps’!
Did Trump or DeSantis buy it?
I thought that AH stood for A$$ Hole.
History ain’t always pretty. Lessons learned. Do not secret them away. Any wonder there are holocaust deniers out there?
And destruction of history!
Without artifacts\evidence history devolves into a “story”.
Did anyone have to hide the watch up their ass for any length of time?
You guys share the gold star for the week. What a double hoot!
In the 1930s my great-uncle (My grandmother’s brother) owned a small gas station/diner North of Birmingham. The Chicago and St. Louis mobs used to send runners down to the Miami mob along that route. Phones could be tapped, and mail intercepted so they used couriers.
My uncle had a man pull in one day with a flat tire and overheating engine. He’d already had a flat so he was down two tires. Back then oil had to be changed every 600 miles. He needed an oil change, some other minor repairs on his car, two tires, and a replacement rim for the one he’d been running with a flat. It took them until the next day to get the wheel. So he ate dinner at the diner and stayed in the guest room.
They could not take a check from an Illinois bank for the repairs. So he paid about half with cash and swapped my grand uncle a fancy Swiss gold pocket watch, and a 38 Smith and Wesson Model 10 revolver for the balance and promised to pick them up and pay the tab on his way back.
The guy never came back and my great uncle became the proud owner of a really nice Swiss watch and revolver
Later on, the guy was arrested and they saw who he was. My great uncle owned Machine Gun Kelly’s watch and revolver.
If only he had the provenance.
You can believe it or not.
I read “Hunter’s watch.” Which only mildly surprised me.
with an estimated price of two to four million dollars.And it sold for 1.1 mm.
Pieces like this are life changing. Many years ago there was a “World War 2 through Russia eyes” exhibit in San Diego. It was a collection of WW2 artifacts including Hitler’s globe, desk, Stalin’s overcoat, various Nazi and Soviet items. It made that history real. I even read a good bit of Mein Kampf and remember Hilter writing about using teachers and heroes in ways that could have been written about Democrat politics and strategy. It was one of those nothing new under the Sun moments.
WW2 was my parents’ and their parents’ war but closer to my lifetime than my childhood is to millennials’ yet even then it wasn’t personally connected to me. That’s why statues and artifacts like this must be preserved so conversations can start and connections can be made. The Left sees a statue of Robert E Lee or Fr Junipero Serra and must destroy (yet banning books is bad?) whereas people on the conservative side will talk about the history, the good and bad. They want to learn from it. The Left wields it like a weapon for power and control.
It’s why the black community is still such a mess. The Left trains them from birth to think of themselves as second class, victims, unable to achieve and think for themselves, they are constantly reminded not to step out of line and that’s reinforced by the community culture and it reflects the plantation. They are conditioned to be dependent. It’s dehumanizing and borne of the same corrupt thinking that powered the Democrat slave trade and Jim Crowe.
You cannot grow if you cannot let go.
Doesn’t mean you forget, it means you move on to bigger and better things.
MAGA/America First welcomes everyone. Trump broke new ground with minorities and threatened the status quo. He dared challenge the orthodoxy that you vote Democrat “or you ain’t black” and yet Covid Joe is in the White House with his prop as number two. The red, white and blue is all inclusive. That’s the promise of America and the American dream. We don’t need fifteen flags and redundant holidays. We find common ground and don’t need to tear at each other to achieve.
Trump understood and spoke often about winning and he wanted everyone to benefit from his policies from low unemployment to the opportunity zones to demanding a fair deal for Americans in international trade and drug costs, an immigration policy that protected and benefited America, to the criminal reform and efforts to make peace around the world through engagement with North Korea and the Abraham accords in the Middle East and many other things. A man of the People, Trump was an existential threat to the gravy train of the political class and their corporate and media allies. He was the exact opposite of a fascist demonstrated in no better way than how Covid response was run by the states and coordination supported by the feds.
I agree. Want to SEE history...warts and all.
IIRC...knew someone who had one of Hitler’s cars many years ago. Not because he was a sympathizer. Not at all. It was part of history and a collectors item.
I used to wheel and deal in antique jewelry. Most of the pieces I bought (and still own) I have no idea of ownership history. Just period pieces and the admiration of the artisanship.
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