Posted on 09/27/2022 2:18:52 PM PDT by Borges
JimRob and I were on the Prodigy boards together and we spoke on the phone about his Free Republic as it was all coming together. I got on the beta site before it went live. Honored to have been here since the very beginning.
Obviously, one of my favorites...
In today’s tyrannical society, he would be the number one rabble rouser...
Although, in today’s environment, it would be impossible to foment a revolution to attain individual freedom & liberty...
King George is probably spinning in his grave, upset that he didn’t have the same kind of indolent & servile serfs that the country has now... He’d still be king...
I always considered Rush Limbaugh to be our contemporary Samuel Adams.
He did marry into the family.
Sam Adams was a great man. He ran the Committee of Correspondence before the war to inform all patriots throughout Massachusetts about Liberty and about British military operations. Probably no one influenced opinion like he did. Unlike his cousin John, Sam’s heart remained in Massachusetts rather than on a Federal level. After the war I believe he served 10 two year terms as governor of the Commonwealth. It is hard to imagine a patriot of his courage and fortitude anywhere today within the formerly great Bay State.
When I studied Sam there was one fact that bothered me. He took care to see that all of his of his correspondence was destroyed at the time of his death. Does anybody know why? I don’t but wish I did. America and our founding principles would have benefited from more information about him.
Why did all those men have white hair at that time?
If I didn’t hate the beer, I’d be raising one in a toast to him now.
....and he still votes Democrat......................
Most successful people are jerks.......................
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
— Samuel Adams, speech to Second Continental Congress on August 1, 1776.
I am successful, not a jerk.
I don’t mean ‘successful’ like ‘comfortable’ or ‘well-off’ successful.
I mean ELON MUSK level successful, Henry FORD successful, Howard Hughes successful, Jeff Bezos successful, and yes, even Mark Zuckerberg successful. They are/were all ‘jerks’ to their employees and competitors and even friends. They had to be to get where there were/are......................
Agree. I quit working 3 years ago. To me that’s success.
I think the worst of the mentioned businessmen was Henry Ford, a total jerk and an anti-Semite on top of that....................
I think the worst of the mentioned businessmen was Henry Ford, a total jerk and an anti-Semite on top of that....................
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Did not know that.
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