>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

Total Boomer Luxury Communism is an existential threat to America. And this rhetoric below contributes to it. Democrats want to take ~$25 trillion more in taxes on from younger workers, just because they think retired millionaire households deserve $100k plus a year. Note the language: "your social security." Seniors, your social security doesn't exist anywhere. Your benefits are paid for by younger people's taxes, today. It's not "your social security" - it's "our payroll taxes." Further, Dems want to jack up spending on Medicare and Medicaid, which means tens of trillions more in additional taxes on younger workers. And we haven't talked about interest payments on the $39 trillion in national debt yet.

The economic illiteracy of the mainstream Democratic party - Warren, Bernie, Newsom, etc - is a false belief 10,000x as damaging as creationism. I’ll take the guy who believes in literal Adam but won’t destroy the system on which all modern life depends, thanks.

Women will vote to mass import rapists from the third world, virtue signal about how they’re more comfortable around Syrian and Sudanese “refugees” than they are with their high school classmates who still believe in having a country, and then go online to complain about how unsafe they feel going out at night.

RT @Indian_Bronson: Btw even China and Iran don’t do this. Only North Korea does this.

“Trump is making a mockery of the White House!” Same people

These people claim everything is too expensive but do everything in their power to keep the money printer going

Just imagine the pure, unmitigated seethe these people are experiencing. They missed their chance for the ultimate humiliation ritual. God knows what kind of freakshow the Harris regime would have put on; there are no words for how fat, gay, black, and trans it would have been.

the elon musk trillionaire discourse is giving me existential terror like there are actually just hundreds of millions of people in the west who think wealth is this *thing* that’s just *there* which people take from. these people will ruin our lives if we don’t deal with them

Personally, I am shocked.

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We’re so fucking back

I love that we’re the new Rome. Peace with Persia in the afternoon and a gladiator fight in the evening, all on the Emperor’s birthday. Another 1,000 years.

Communists in absolute SHAMBLES

This country is a dictatorship

Deport Ro Khanna

Every dollar Elon Musk has made is traceable. Every product sold, every service rendered, every government contract awarded, every share of stock bought or sold. It’s all on the record. You, on the other hand, haven’t built a company, invented a product, or created anything people willingly pay for. You’ve spent the last 14 years collecting a $174,000 Senate salary. Yet somehow you managed to buy a luxury D.C. condo, a $4 million Victorian mansion in Cambridge, and saw your net worth balloon by 150% to $12 million. Everyone knows where Musk’s money came from. The same can’t be said for yours.

Hello Senator.... This November it will be 50 years since you were first elected to Congress, so we want to be the first to say . "Happy 50th Anniversary of drawing a taxpayer funded salary." That is quite an achievement. In fact - you are 2nd longest-still serving member in Congress. It has been a long time since you held a private sector job. AND yes 50 years ago - in 1976 (it was America's Bicentennial that year) - people still punched clocks back then. The world has changed a lot. During your 50 years in Congress - you watched as the creators and inventors and producers changed the world, creating trillions in new wealth, millions of new jobs and dramatically raising living standards for everyone rich and poor alike. And for 50 years you have voted to raise taxes and regulate and oversee every move of the private sector. You have never created or invented or produced. Just taxed and regulated and outraged. But thank you for using the platform the "TRILLIONAIRE class" has provided to the entire world for free to tell us all how disgusted you are. We would never know otherwise.

The "you do realize" preface is classic overconfidence bias paired with the Dunning-Kruger effect. Limited knowledge creates a metacognitive blind spot—people can't accurately gauge their own ignorance—so they treat shallow or wrong takes as obvious truths and deploy the phrase to assert intellectual dominance.

What’s the psychological mechanism that causes people to say “you do realize” followed by totally incorrect information, when discussing a topic they don’t understand? @grok

Our enemies are extremely dumb.