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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Not only did he help overthrow the British government, he even set aside electoral votes that were challenged when he was Vice President and President of the Senate. As a result of his doing what Pence refused to do, Jefferson became out third President!
Yay!
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He's amazing. He ought to work on Wall Street picking his favorite stocks which then could be shorted to great advantage.
Or be kept as a contrarian sage for the government where every piece of advice he gives is inverted and implemented.
Al has always been overrated. As far as being a reverend, phooey.
Side splitting ignorance and irony all rolled into one scrawny, giant headed, black mouthpiece.
OK - this one is better than “Guam is going to tip over.”
this is FU FUnny right there.
well done.
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