Civil War historian here when you fly the Confederate flag in your political rallies in 2024 you are announcing that you are a traitor to the American republic and uphold human bondage.
I have news that the wrecking crews were on site today at the Arlington Confederate Monument. Thank you Republicans like
@RepMikeRogersAL
for overriding
@realDonaldTrump
's veto of the bill that created the "Naming Commission" and led to this atrocity.
The assertion that no Confederate soldier was ever tried for treason is untrue. Two were. They were both found not guilty in court, meaning that anyone who labels secession "treason" is making an ahistorial and false statement according to U.S. common law.
Sally Hemings, the woman Thomas Jefferson enslaved.
She was called his "mistress," but how can you be a mistress when you were enslaved, a child, and could not consent? Had absolutely no choice?
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When the left starts saying "this looks staged" or "It sounded like a bb gun", remember that these are the people who say things like "I am for banning fully semi-automatic guns", that an "assault rifle" weighs as much as "10 moving boxes" and shoots ".50 caliber" bullets, etc.
In 2014, Jon Stewart had Judge Andrew Napolitano on his Daily Show to talk about Lincoln and the War.
Napolitano was forced to "debate" Abraham Lincoln and a panel of "esteemed" historians: Eric Foner, James Oaks, and "Twitter Historaian" Manisha Sinha.
Napolitano argued that
The cause of the War was Lincoln's desire to "preserve the Union." Secession was not an act of war. Southerners were not subjects of King Lincoln's realm.
As for this book, it's massively cherry picked. For example, Dew mentions Clopton's visit to Delaware once. Why? Because it
I know lots of people who follow me know this book but, if not, it leaves no doubt that the cause of the Civil War was the protection of slavery, its expansion, and the white supremacy it structured. It is about 150 pages long and, truly, leaves no room for Lost Cause bullshit.
His biggest flaw was launching a war that resulted in the deaths of nearly 1 million Americans while trampling on the Constitution. When conservatives figure out Lincoln isn't their guy, we can move forward. 1860s Republicans literally called their opponents "conservatives."
I have Pres. Lincoln as our second greatest president after Washington. Literally saved the country from splitting in two.
Became a Christian in 1863, contrary to idiots who deny this.
His biggest flaw was showing mercy to the DemoKKKrat Party, which he should have banned.
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State electoral college incoming.
Any state-level GOP that is not working to push this is not to be taken seriously.
One city has no right to rule an entire state.
We've gone from debates between John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster to
@aoc
and
@laurenboebert
, the former exemplified by grand rhetoric, wit, and legal knowledge, and the latter by larpy, vapid, shrill high school debate club drama.
Democracy.
"Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is disappointed by the monument’s removal, said Macaulay Porter, a spokesperson, who disclosed plans for its relocation but said the park would be a “fitting backdrop.”"
Another joke. Youngkin did nothing to stop it when he had the chance.
It was? When? I know, when Kentucky still had slave auctions in November 1865. Or New Jersey still had de-facto slavery in December 1865? Delaware as well. Or when the North admitted the illegal State of West Virginia as a slave State during the War? Or when Lincoln told Stephens
@BrionMcClanahan
The "Righteous Cause"? You deny the fact that the Union federal government was committed to the destruction of the institution of chattel slavery?
You are not simple. You are very, very well read on this topic. You know that you are a sophist. You know that the truth is
I am not "angered by Israel" (nor am I a libertarian). The problem is American commitment to a foreign policy that has resulted in "blowback" over the last several decades and the resulting deaths of thousands of Americans. Israel is not part of the U.S. Nor is Ukraine, Taiwan,
@BrionMcClanahan
Brion I'm honestly asking why it is that libertarians seem to always get really angered by Israel? I agree with libertarians in a lot of conservative issues but I honestly don't know why they don't seem to like Israel. I don't think it means they think hamas is good. Explain?
When no one was arrested for doing this to Confederate monuments and was even supported and cheered by those in power, it opened the door to continued acts of vandalism by leftist dopes. We all knew it would not stop at Confederate monuments.
Because Republicans allowed for the Naming Commission to be inserted into the bill and then voted to override Trump’s veto after he explicitly called out that part of the bill.
@BrionMcClanahan
@RepMikeRogersAL
@realDonaldTrump
I simply don't understand blaming Republicans for the actions of leftists that were tearing down Democrat monuments
Democrats destroy everything even their own history
this isn't a GOP issue
"Bad History Takes" with a bad history take (as usual). Go figure.
Article 1, Section 9(4) of the CSA Constitution only applied to the Confederate GENERAL government, not the States. Even the so-called Southern history "expert" Stephanie McCurry concedes this point.
States in
If they cared about states' rights, the Confederate Constitution would have allowed states to outlaw slavery. Instead Article 1, Section 9 (4) reads: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in n*gro slaves shall be passed." 4/
Grant is vastly overrated by "conservatives." You want the real most underrated president in American history?
John Tyler, and it's not even close.
In fact, Tyler is the BEST President in American history if we measured by fealty to the oath of office.
BREAKING: New polling shows that not only has Kamala Harris taken a commanding lead in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, she has now taken the lead in Arizona and Nevada. This is huge.
Boebert not only embodies democracy, but as a divorced, scantily clad, vulgar, tattooed, loud mouthed, opinionated, belligerent, powerful, self-made, bossy, independent woman, she embodies 3rd wave feminism.
In other words, she’s a Yankee.
A reflection at Lincoln Memorial after a day of peering into the personal lives of those who fought to destroy slavery and save the nation; “It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work, which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”
Progressives loved uncontrolled executive power when:
1. It targeted their political opponents. (FDR, Truman, Johnson, Obama, Biden)
2. Ruled with "a pen and a phone". (Every Democrat since Wilson)
3. Launched a drone strike on an American citizen without due process. (Obama)
4.
Yesterday, I wrote a piece for the Abbville Institute titled "Blame Republicans", and I included VDH in that piece because of his propensity to scribble worthless pieces like this.
The first line is a blatant lie. The rest is an incoherent tirade against (bad) Democrats in favor
Ballot Banishing And Our New Leftwing Confederates
In the election of 1860, southern Democrats in 10 states of the soon-to-be formalized Confederacy made it almost impossible for their own voters to cast ballots for Abraham Lincoln for President.
In that sense, the Left in
On the anniversary of Stonewall Jackson's death, a Virginia school board has voted to restore his name to a local school..."give them the bayonet; and when you charge, yell like furies!"
No US President will write a book like this again. Jimmy Carter is the last of the [r]epublican presidents. This day was going to come, sooner rather than later, and regardless of his politics, Carter is a good and decent man, the embodiment of a Southern gentleman.
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged Sen. Stephen Douglas to seven 3-hour debates in congressional districts throughout Illinois. Lincoln was the Republican nominee, Douglas the Democrat nominee for senator. Even though the state legislature selected the senator, the two
"While I hear it said everywhere that slavery is dead, I cannot learn who killed it. No thoughtful man could contend that Lincoln's proclamation...liberated a single slave....The President did not pretend to abrogate the Slave Laws of any of the States." Thad Stevens, 1865
@BrionMcClanahan
Slavery was a crime against humanity, Lincoln put an end to it.
He wouldn't get to be the hero he was if there wasn't a crime against humanity happening. Who's really to blame for this figure becoming popular?
Jen Psaki explains the downsides to Biden quitting the campaign, "It would mean also a couple of thousand party insiders would be empowered to make a choice on the nominee, not the millions of Democratic primary voters who already cast their ballots."
John Fetterman is a middle aged, tattooed, slogan chanting, sloppy dressing, unserious midwit.
In other words, he is the byproduct and full expression of American democracy.
"GOP opposition" is a joke. The only reason the "Naming Commission" existed is because Republicans like
@RepMikeRogersAL
included it in the NDAA and then fought to override Trump's veto. Rogers should be primaried and booted from the House.
“Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to be removed despite GOP opposition”
It took 2 years for Fox to finally quote the law accurately. It may be too late. Removal is illegal. The world should have known for years!
#CancelCulture
Just as not every slave was free on June 19, 1865. There were still slave auctions in Kentucky in November 1865 and Delaware, Kentucky, and New Jersey did not end slavery until December 1865.
@realmichaelseif
Because the emancipation proclamation did not free all slaves, it only freed the slaves in the confederacy, and had no bearing on slaves in border states
Modern Historians often peg the importance of tariffs in the sectional conflict to post-bellum "Lost Cause" propaganda. In other words, they made it up in order to deflect the importance of slavery in the lead up to Secession Winter. Is this true?
Southerners did discuss slavery
BREAKING: The Biden administration is removing William Penn from his home in Philadelphia and replacing it with Native American history.
Welcome Park is a park on the grounds of Penn's home in Philadelphia. Penn is the founder of Pennsylvania. He created the colony as a haven
I'll address
@JDVance1
's VP speech next week on my show, but I'll just say that it was remarkable to hear any current politico even remotely challenge the "proposition nation" myth.
A note:
I lived in the South for ten years. I enjoyed my four years in Charlottesville, three years in Knoxville, and three years in Spartanburg.
The vast majority of whites in the South do not buy Confederate heritage claptrap.
The irony of the iconoclasts' pledge to make "swords into plowshares". That has already been done, as literally evidenced by the Arlington Confederate Monument, so says Brion McClanahan, at the Abbeville Blog:
Untrue. The largest slave owner in Delaware was a pro-Lincoln Republican. The most prominent pro-Southern figures in DE did not own slaves, James Bayard and Thomas Bayard foremost among them.
But Lincoln and the Reps considered those States to be "Union" States, thus the "North"
This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever read.
In response to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Confederacy announced that they would immediately enslave not only all *free Blacks* in the South but would do the same to any *free Blacks* they captured *in the North.* 1/
In June 1822, Denmark Vesey was arrested for plotting to lead a slave rebellion in Charleston, SC. Vesey was a "free man of color" and had for years built a prominent carpentry business in Charleston. He recruited several slaves to help, and had a well planned organization and
>War hero. Handed his sword to Congress, refusing a crown and throne, despite being begged to be King
vs.
>Corrupt Lawyer. Seized more power than the King of England: Income Tax, The Draft, and IRS paid for a Civil War he helped engineer, which killed more Americans than WW1 & 2
No one calls you a "presentist" for calling Confederates "traitors". That is an emotivist statement rather than a historical fact. You are a "presentist" because you foist modern social constructs onto historical events and people without understanding or context, like this post.
On Calhoun's birthday (1782), here is the best line from any of his speeches: "I am a conservative, and because I am a conservative I am a State’s rights man."
Yes. 60 percent of the Untied States considered Lincoln to be unfit for the presidency in 1860. Those numbers would have been higher in 1864 had the South still be part of the United States.
Lincoln and his Republican thugs had 30K NORTHERN civilians arrested and imprisoned