Posted on 08/03/2023 7:53:04 PM PDT by lowbridge
MSNBC host and race-baiter Rev. Al Sharpton is a little confused about why the Founding Fathers are famous and what Americans celebrate every year on July 4.
“One day, our children’s children will read American history, and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could stay in power? That’s what we’re looking at,” Sharpton said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We’re looking at American history, and how it will play out is going to be very important.”
His comments are in reaction to former President Donald Trump’s third and latest indictment, this one related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Contrary to common belief, Biden’s Department of Justice is not charging Trump with inciting an insurrection — something he has already been acquitted of by the U.S. Senate. Instead, the DOJ is prosecuting him for stating that the 2020 election was rigged — an opinion shared by many and one that’s protected under the First Amendment.
Presumably, Shapton was confused over the actual charges in the indictment and was trying to make the point that the revered Founding Fathers would never try to “overthrow the government,” as Trump supposedly tried to on Jan. 6, 2021.
Of course, the Founding Fathers did try to “overthrow the government,” and they were successful! The American Revolution — a bloody war to overthrow tyrannical British rule in the colonies — is the reason the United States exists today. Every year on July 4, we commemorate the signing of the historic Declaration of Independence, when the 13 colonies formally announced that they were breaking away from British rule and declaring themselves free and independent.
Amazingly, no one on the “Morning Joe” panel seemed to notice Sharpton’s egregious misunderstanding of American history.
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“Of course, the Founding Fathers did try to “overthrow the government,” and they were successful!”
Of course. If you succeed you are a founding father, if you fail you are a war criminal.
We just need to make sure President Trump succeeds this time.
Eff this banana republic.
Democrats are overthrowing the government in front of our very eyes. This is going to get a lot worse. Our mortal enemies are watching this banana republic crumble.
Can you imagine Martin Luther King Jr owing millions in unpaid taxes?
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Well, yes. Yes I can. Considering he died very young, age 39. He did not have time like Al Sharpton had to grift millions of dollars in unpaid taxes.
The Stupid, it ... Well, you all know ...
What a stupid chit! I’m sure everyone at MSNBC didn’t understand Al’s mistake. Do they ever think about our Founders? Or the reasons they revolted? Or compare those reasons to today?
This was copied from the Bee, right?
I have to ask ... Does EVERY Democrat in Congress, and indeed the entire country, approve of the incredibly juvenile, clueless, brainless crap they’ve been foisting on the country for years now? Do they, and their bought-and-paid-for media, think all this embarrassing BS the best they can do?
I wont continue reading authors who pander to stupid people.
Its like the morons who put the big red or yellow circle on images to help people find the punch line....
Next!...
Does that racist moron not read any history whatsoever?
Jefferson would have been among the first to encourage a revolt against what the communist kleptocrats have done to his/our Republic.
Sharpton's probably getting his take on history from that idiot drama queen 'historian' Michael Beschloss.
Mr. Sharpton, Thomas Jefferson DID overthrow his government. The government that Thomas Jefferson overthrew, the goddamned British Empire, was the mightiest military force in its day. Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers stuck a knife in the British Empire’s motherf%#@&king eye.
Except He Did Al.
Well Al, he did.
The idea that Trump or protestors tried to “overthrow the government” is predicated on the existence of a deep state that holds absolute authority.
......Thomas Jefferson did overthrow the government.....
Every item they lay on Trump... it is THEY who are the guilty ones.
We are going to have a hallelujah celebration after November election.
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