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@RepBrandonGill Where do these outlandish ideas come from? Are these methods already established by another identifiable foreign group? Behaviour of elected officials aligned in service to foreign entities is called what again? And if they aid & abet in war crimes? x.com/AFpost/status/…

Europe has no-go zones in Paris and London. That’s our future if we don’t stop mass Islamic immigration.

"....Springfield, Illinois, 'the figurative Nazareth of the nation'...." "It also drove the political imperative to give to future generations, as Lincoln put it, a West that would be 'a clean bed, with no snakes in it'...." "But by century's end that vision had died an inglorious death. In the states of the former Confederacy, emancipated freedmen and freedwomen found themselves rigidly segregated and all but re-enslaved in an iron cage of law and custom known as Jim Crow. The West became not Lincoln's peaceable kingdom but a new war zone, where settlers and soldiers alike ruthlessly reduced the native peoples to immiserated isolation on ever-shrinking reservations. The greatest nation-building enterprise of them all, the transcontinental railroad completed in 1869, proved a feeble engine of economic development but a fecund breeder of financial and political corruption. In the rapidly industrializing and urbanizing North, the growth of behemoth corporations swamped the hope of Americans both native-born and newly arrived that they would lead lives of economic autonomy and personal freedom. State and federal troops closed the fist of federal power over hapless 'wage-slaves' in bloody clashes at places like Homestead, Pennsylvania and Pullman, Illinois. By century's end, a new class of hyper-wealthy industrial potentates cast their shadows across the land, wielding power unimaginable to previous generations. The Republican Party, once the vehicle of emancipation, free soil, and free labor, had become their obedient servant. By then, little was left of those once-cherished illusions about racial equality and self-determination for common people." "America did give birth to a new nation, but it was not the one they imagined. How the U̷n̷i̷t̷e̷d̷ ̷S̷t̷a̷t̷e̷s̷ at the end of the nineteenth century turned out to be so different from the country that Lincoln conjured and Republicans confidently set out to create is the subject of this book. (Matthew)Arnold's metaphor of gestation and birth imagined two discrete worlds, one quickening as the other died, but Americans had, unknowingly, conceived twins in 1865. The first twin embodied a world they anticipated emerging from the Civil War, and it died before ever being born. The second, unexpected, twin lived, forever haunted by its sibling. Americans have been of two minds of that surviving twin ever since. They have recognized that it carried some of the noblest instincts and ambitions of the triumphant republic even if these were more fully embodied by its vanished sibling: a world of equal opportunity, a uniform set of rights, and a homogeneous citizenship guaranteed by the federal government." ::The Republic For Which It Stands by R. White::

It's time to teach the meaning of respect and from where Life's Sustenance actually comes.

Massive 11,000-carat ruby discovered in Mandalay, says Myanmar bit.ly/4didhih