Wild Rusty Barstow

>Be Patrick Henry >born 1736 Virginia backcountry >no college, minimal formal schooling >self-taught lawyer grinding borrowed law books >brutal early life: store bankrupt, farm failed, tavern failed >married at 18 to Sarah Shelton >first wife suffered severe mental illness after children, died young >remarried Dorothea Dandridge >total ~16 children >1763 Parson's Cause trial, argues successfully against British law >wins big victory for local taxpayers >becomes overnight hero to ordinary Virginians >1765 House of Burgesses >Stamp Act speech >Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell >George the Third may profit by their example (meaning tyrants who abuse power get assassinated or executed by their own subjects) >speaker screams TREASON >Henry replies if this be treason make the most of it >chamber erupts >instant revolutionary legend >1775 St. John's Church Richmond >delivers Give me liberty or give me death speech against British rule. Colonies face a choice between freedom and slavery >Virginia convention votes to raise armed militia companies >Revolution effectively begins that day >Continental Congress delegate >pushes aggressively for independence >governor of independent Virginia twice >1787 invited to Constitutional Convention >refuses to attend. “I smelt a rat.” great line >1788 Virginia ratifying convention >leads Anti-Federalist fight >debates Madison relentlessly for days >opposes ratifying without protections >demands adding a bill of rights to limit fed power >opposes unlimited federal taxing power >fights against giving Congress broad direct taxes on citizens without strong limits or consent >fears even permanent federal army could oppress the people, fears standing army in peacetime >opposes president with king-like authority >warns against executive too powerful and unchecked >opposes federal government too distant from the people >fights centralized power far away ignoring local realities >his unrelenting pressure forces Federalists to promise amendments >Bill of Rights gets added to secure ratification >later opposes national bank and related financial schemes >opposes them as unconstitutional federal power grabs using vague implied powers >opposes debt assumption >opposed paper aristocracy >opposed consolidation of wealth in elite hands >squints toward monarchy >stays true agrarian yeoman >farmer family man suspicious of bankers and centralized elites >never sells out >dies June 6 1799 at Red Hill plantation >buried on his own land Leaves Behind: >liberty or death as the only acceptable stance >armed citizens as the ultimate check on tyranny >Bill of Rights as the critical barrier against federal overreach >permanent redpill on centralized power >no chains no submission >Give me liberty or give me death, still the hardest line ever spoken on American soil >Patrick Henry mogs eternal

The boomers have fried their brains with television grade progressivism.

A note to our groyper friends: People who promote Marxist policies should state their intention plainly so we can know if they are subversive or just stupid. The latter is forgivable I suppose. The former is not. If the goal is to get the less fortunate to share in some of the prosperity of those above them, then you’d never propose Marxist policies. If you just “want Marxism” then say that.

These are not extraordinary to anyone who understands basic economics. They are only extraordinary to commies and leftists who pretend economics doesn’t exist. AFUERA!

@ChrisPappasNH Anyone with a basic understanding of economics correctly predicted how the “affordable” care act would play out. They were right. ACA proponents were wrong. Have ACA proponents apologized? Have they acknowledged they were wrong? Do they understand why they were wrong?

The ACA was signed into law 16 years ago today, bringing health care coverage to millions of Americans. But now, 22 million Americans are struggling to afford health insurance because Donald Trump and Senate Republicans refused to extend the ACA tax credits, which could drive families into crippling debt. I won’t stand for these attacks because every American deserves access to high-quality, affordable health care.

Where do they even come up with these ridiculous nonsense lines? Under communism, your boss is the state. Yes, you have to obey the state or starve. Yes, you have to do hard, physical labor, or starve. What fantasy land are these people living in?

@tonyannett Let me guess, you’re a big MMT guy, maybe a Stephanie Kelton fan? 😂😂😂😂😂

Most over-rated economist of all time.

@ConceptualJames I don’t wanna see this guy anymore

@CoreyWriting This is the gender ideology equivalent on the right. Just deeply unserious, like children almost.

This is not a serious society.

This is flatly absurd. They are objectively low IQ. In order to believe in Marxism, one must be historically and economically literate as well as morally bankrupt. That said, public schooling is a socialist institution so it makes sense that they’re all socialist.

What’s the Hegseth lore? Besides him evidently being a boozebag. That’s someone I never took interest in. When the media acts in uniform with the far left to take these types of figures down, I tend to support them strictly out contrarianism. I never actually learned much about Pete tho.

@ianbremmer These are not extraordinary to anyone who understands basic economics. They are only extraordinary to commies and leftists who pretend economics doesn’t exist.

milei putting up some extraordinary numbers: argentina's inflation went from nearly 300% to below 40%. gdp up 4.4%.

@UBERSOY1 This is an awesome niche tweet

* @SpanbergerForVA hyping up the next illegal alien with 30 prior arrests to get released and stab an American at a bus stop.

@ClassicLearner What built Americas prosperity and historical dominance (you’d be touching on many areas, history, economics, etc)

What topics should every American history course cover?

@mehdirhasan What about what he said was unreasonable? I’d say this more depicts you against the Trump people

Are you stupid or just bigoted? 1) The old 'Islam isn't a race' line is dumb and lazy because Muslims are largely a racial minority in the West. 2) Cleese never demonized Christians in real life or suggested they're not part of Britain.

@Timcast Commie traitor

Trump wants to keep the US as the global hegemon and keep the world under the petrodollar But a new world order is emerging One that will cede power to several large nations.

@j_fishback >guy who doesn’t wanna pay for things that people in DC do >guy who wants to give teachers and young people money (It’s the same guy) I know the words are big but please at least try to read an economics book lil bro.

Gas prices are skyrocketing because of the Iran War. I am calling on Governor DeSantis to temporarily suspend the gas tax to save Florida families up to $6 every time they fill up. We shouldn’t have to pay more at the tank because of DC’s disastrous war.

I’m not even sure what this means. Anyone wanna take this one?

@ScottMcConnell9 @scottbe68160181 The guy who fell for and pedaled every single communist bullshit woke talking point and leftist hoax for the last decade? What?

@scottbe68160181 An antiwar Democrat, smart and not super woke.

My advice to Vance: Announce your support of 25th amendment transition. Say Chris Murphy or similar will be veep. Announce you will NOT be a candidate in 2028. Use your position, access to the media to explain why this is necessary. Don't resign.