The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 04, 2023 11:02 AM (T4tVD)

2 Those words were written when?

They seem so current

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (1n+EO)

3 Well done CBD !

Posted by: JT at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (T4tVD)

4 This was read on the steps of our Church yesterday, just as it was in then.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (eOEVl)

5 It is STILL great to live in the greatest, most blessed country on earth. We will shake off all the evil that confronts us. Our current situation cannot stand

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (flINI)

6 Not so fast!

Posted by: Hawaii Judge at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (i7ze5)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

8 Yes we'll done, now off to read the content

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (xhxe8)

9 Noice......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Is everybody grey/white headed...or wearing wigs?

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

11 Look at leaders then and compare them to our leaders of today.

My how far we've fallen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

12 Long ass movie review Mr. Jefferson.

Posted by: Montec at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (KcUCT)

13 We are lesser sons of greater sires. Our Fathers would have been shooting people already.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (Qn59F)

14 After what this country's become, we owe the Brits an apology. They were benevolent rulers compared to the home grown tyrants we have now.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 04, 2023 11:05 AM (ROgbH)

15
CBD, you've got that wrong.

It's "When in the Corks of Human Events..."

Yeeesh!

and on the 4th of July!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 04, 2023 11:05 AM (fb7jX)

16 Seems like every year about this time I go down the reading rabbit hole on the enlightenment, the transition in thinking between the 1600's and prior, generally. It's inspiring for a while, and then I realize we ain't in Kansas anymore, Toto.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 04, 2023 11:05 AM (4780s)

17 #unfollow @king_george3 @england
LOL! 💩

Posted by: Were it written Today at July 04, 2023 11:07 AM (DgGvY)

18 Interesting that the bill of rights address most of these line items of the bad shot the king did.

Posted by: Montec at July 04, 2023 11:07 AM (KcUCT)

19 Well, I'm off. Must head to a local home improvement store to get some supplies to make headway on the bathroom I tore apart yesterday. Installing new flooring, vanity and sink.

Will be celebrating later and postponing the work till tomorrow.

Carry on. Blow things up where you're allowed. Stay safe. Pray for America. Things are getting interesting, to say the least.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 04, 2023 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

20 At least we have a good example to build on when the rebuilding starts.
Might want to put away a few hard copies.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 04, 2023 11:08 AM (4780s)

21
[PhD Thesis Committee:] "Denied! Smacks of white religio-cisheteropatriarchical privilege & supremacy. Next candidate?

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:08 AM (ul9wx)

22
The content seems vaguely familiar.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 04, 2023 11:09 AM (enJYY)

23 He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

See!?!?! Trump is literally King George! The Founders (spit) wanted unlimited immigration AND naturalization, and the racist Republicans keep fighting it!!!

Posted by: Retarded Leftists at July 04, 2023 11:09 AM (NCgXW)

24 Happy 4th ! Local rag has a hit piece on the American flag saying it is seen as oppressive and divisive to some and talking about the "other" flags having as much importance to some.. We can't even have one day without this socialist shit... The comments were a sad testament to the indoctrination going on in the Country

Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2023 11:09 AM (bs+z0)

25 After reading through that, what more really needs to be said?

*LET THE REVOLUTION COMMENCE!*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 04, 2023 11:09 AM (BpYfr)

26 225ish years isn’t bad historically speaking. We had a good run but nothing lasts forever. America died somewhere around 2010. Obama’s election wasn’t the disease it was one of its many symptoms.

Posted by: Montec at July 04, 2023 11:09 AM (KcUCT)

27 Not so fast!

Posted by: Hawaii Judge at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (i7ze5)

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"The Founding Fathers have no standing. Next!" -- SCOTUS 2020

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:10 AM (ul9wx)

28 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 04, 2023 11:10 AM (DhOHl)

29 For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
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Woohoo! Quebec gets a shout-out!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 04, 2023 11:11 AM (Vwz3I)

30 What a great set of ideas! We need something like this.

Posted by: Weasel at July 04, 2023 11:11 AM (RG6z4)

31 Is everybody grey/white headed...or wearing wigs?

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

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Duh. How do you think the subsequent Wig Party got its name?

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:11 AM (ul9wx)

32 They are wearing wigs, the tradition at that time. Looking at their average age they were quit young, much younger than we tend to think they are. Probably because of the white wigs.

Posted by: Colin at July 04, 2023 11:11 AM (2DV6+)

33 Thanks, CBD. These words will always be relevant because we will always have to push back against the totalitarian impulse.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 04, 2023 11:11 AM (CiQt2)

34 Not so fast!

Posted by: Hawaii Judge at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (i7ze5)

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"The Founding Fathers have no standing. Next!" -- SCOTUS 2020

Now, now. Can't we all get along and split the difference?

Posted by: Dread Justice Roberts at July 04, 2023 11:11 AM (eOEVl)

35 Crap, that paper's due tomorrow?

Posted by: Tom Jefferson, July 3, 1776 at July 04, 2023 11:12 AM (4I/2K)

36 We are lesser sons of greater sires. Our Fathers would have been shooting people already.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (Qn59F)

The Federalist Papers' answer to concerns about the federal government getting tyrannical was 'You have guns and are free men. Given that, why would this even be an issue?'.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 04, 2023 11:12 AM (nC+QA)

37 He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

Always my favorite bit.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 04, 2023 11:12 AM (GzDfN)

38 The Country was divided into thirds in regards to declaring Independence from the King. One third was fully on board with declaring independence and fighting a war while one third were firmly against going our own way and sided with the crown and the final third were indifferent to the whole thing and pretty much sat it out waiting for the dust to settle.

If Britain had not had problems on the continent and in India they would have crushed the rebellion like a bug.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 04, 2023 11:12 AM (ncXxy)

39
In considering the previous thread, if Andrew Breitbart PBUH were Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence would be composed of merely two sentences.

Fuck You. War.

I vote this to be the next Declaration.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 04, 2023 11:12 AM (x0n13)

40 They are wearing wigs, the tradition at that time. Looking at their average age they were quit young, much younger than we tend to think they are. Probably because of the white wigs.

Posted by: Colin at July 04, 2023 11:11 AM (2DV6+)

It's July..."hotheads" wasn't a figure of speech.

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2023 11:13 AM (AwYPR)

41 If Britain had not had problems on the continent and in India they would have crushed the rebellion like a bug.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 04, 2023 11:12 AM (ncXxy)

Don't forget the help from the French

Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2023 11:13 AM (bs+z0)

42 "... mankind ..."
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There's the problem right there, says every "progressive."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 04, 2023 11:13 AM (odVni)

43 10 Is everybody grey/white headed...or wearing wigs?
Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (AwYPR)
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Dipping snuff and rockin' the false teeth! --- Hunter

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 04, 2023 11:14 AM (CiQt2)

44 What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too! Get it?

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at July 04, 2023 11:14 AM (4I/2K)

45 I question the historical accuracy of the painting. That John Adams looks nothing like William Daniels.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2023 11:14 AM (xTRSc)

46 35 Crap, that paper's due tomorrow?
Posted by: Tom Jefferson, July 3, 1776 at July 04, 2023 11:12 AM (4I/2K)

"Oh mah gawd! I freed the WHAT?!"

- - Firesign Theater Routine

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 04, 2023 11:14 AM (x0n13)

47 What a great event to note in our long, twisted history. We're not the same as then and never will be again. The Civil War also forever changed America. Next up was WWII.

Nostalgia will never bring it back, but we can keep these globalists, these socialists, from their little shit storm and further influence if we want to. But we have to take it. Take it all.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 04, 2023 11:15 AM (KVGVf)

48 "What a great set of ideas! We need something like this!"

Good one.

Posted by: Ju at July 04, 2023 11:15 AM (aTmM/)

49 45 I question the historical accuracy of the painting. That John Adams looks nothing like William Daniels.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2023 11:14 AM (xTRSc)

He left out the Captain Nice costume . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 04, 2023 11:15 AM (x0n13)

50 I question the historical accuracy of the painting. That John Adams looks nothing like William Daniels.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2023 11:14 AM (xTRSc)

or Jack

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2023 11:15 AM (AwYPR)

51 "One third was fully on board with declaring independence and fighting a war while one third were firmly against going our own way and sided with the crown and the final third were indifferent to the whole thing and pretty much sat it out waiting for the dust to settle."

Not unlike the issue of African slavery in 1860.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2023 11:15 AM (DhOHl)

52 Beautiful. You cannot read that and not feel it.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2023 11:15 AM (e4fEA)

53 Happy 4th ! Local rag has a hit piece on the American flag saying it is seen as oppressive and divisive to some and talking about the "other" flags having as much importance to some.. We can't even have one day without this socialist shit... The comments were a sad testament to the indoctrination going on in the Country

Ours had something similar. Digital commies.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 04, 2023 11:16 AM (Xrfse)

54 Happy 4th ! Local rag has a hit piece on the American flag saying it is seen as oppressive and divisive to some and talking about the "other" flags having as much importance to some..

There's the door.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2023 11:17 AM (eOEVl)

55 What a great event to note in our long, twisted history. We're not the same as then and never will be again. The Civil War also forever changed America. Next up was WWII.

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Marbury vs Madison was what, the early 1800s?

I'd suggest the republic barely made it 25 years before the courts decided to seize power.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:17 AM (nMXLX)

56 53 Digital commies.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 04, 2023 11:16 AM (Xrfse)

I saw Digital Commies open for the Gang of Four and New Order at CBGB in '82.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 04, 2023 11:17 AM (x0n13)

57 14 After what this country's become, we owe the Brits an apology. They were benevolent rulers compared to the home grown tyrants we have now.
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Not to mock you guys...

"[Mather Byles] is known for saying "Which is better -- to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away or by three thousand tyrants one mile away?" A variation of the quote is spoken by Mel Gibson in The Patriot.

Byles died in Boston on 5 July 1788, aged 82."

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 04, 2023 11:17 AM (Vwz3I)

58 A touching tribute to our Founders and the many men that sacrificed for our freedoms.

https://tinyurl.com/yckmar36

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 04, 2023 11:18 AM (oOJdr)

59 What were the “other flags”? Tranny flag I assume was one.

Posted by: Montec at July 04, 2023 11:18 AM (KcUCT)

60 Many of those charges can go right back upto the new Declaration

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2023 11:18 AM (xhxe8)

61 Happy 4th ! Local rag has a hit piece on the American flag saying it is seen as oppressive and divisive to some and talking about the "other" flags having as much importance to some..

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Yes, let's have that discussion.

Which one is it "freedom" to burn?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:18 AM (nMXLX)

62 59 What were the “other flags”? Tranny flag I assume was one.
Posted by: Montec at July 04, 2023 11:18 AM (KcUCT)

Yes

Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2023 11:18 AM (bs+z0)

63 Let freedom flow!

Fox News
@FoxNews
California reparations task force calls to ban police from enforcing public urination laws

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 04, 2023 11:19 AM (FVME7)

64 From the Le Figaro article on the rioting in France:

Allah Akbar! We are Muslims, if the police kill us we have the right to kill. It is written in the Koran!

The French: Great. We've been thinking "it's been a while since we had a good crusade."

https://tinyurl.com/mryt4xt5

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2023 11:20 AM (eOEVl)

65 What were the “other flags”? Tranny flag I assume was one.
Posted by: Montec at July 04, 2023 11:18 AM (KcUCT)

Yes
Posted by: It's me donna

Hammer and Sickle

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 04, 2023 11:20 AM (FVME7)

66 I clicked the google doodle...from the synopsis on the sidebar..."When is the 4th of July"?

I just can't...

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2023 11:20 AM (AwYPR)

67 California reparations task force calls to ban police from enforcing public urination laws
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Peedom!!!

Posted by: zombie william wallace at July 04, 2023 11:20 AM (Vwz3I)

68 Flappr put out a dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence. It's pretty bad-ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69FGU2JxXlw

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 04, 2023 11:20 AM (98o/I)

69 He has sent hither swarms of degenerates to groom our children into sexual depravity, mutilate their genitals, and cruelly take from them their souls and their posterity.

Posted by: David French and pseudo-conservative faggit approved at July 04, 2023 11:21 AM (dE+9W)

70 If this isn't already happening I predict it will soon enough; tourist busses to "rural America" to see quaint 4th of July celebrations. City dwellers taking photos of the "natives" with flags, sparklers and whatnot. For an additional cost they can sample "BBQ and picnic food" in an authentic setting and watch fireworks from an airconditioned bus at a safe distance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 04, 2023 11:22 AM (Q4IgG)

71 Fox News
@FoxNews
California reparations task force calls to ban police from enforcing public urination laws

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"Okay black people, listen up. We don't expect much, but we need you to feed yourselves, okay?"
RACIST!!!
"Fine. How about you pay for your own housing?"
RACIST!!!
"Oh-kay. Uh... Pass math and english tests?"
RACIST!!!
"Dang. Okay. How about... Oh! I know! You don't piss in the street in public places!"

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:22 AM (nMXLX)

72 I've got a book that's in very good condition in my mini library that was printed in Philadelphia about that time. Its a book that people migrating west would have taken, since it covers a lot of medical things that were know at that time.

Posted by: Colin at July 04, 2023 11:22 AM (2DV6+)

73 You could say this about Joe Biden:

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice

"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution"

"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people"

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 04, 2023 11:23 AM (i7Q7S)

74 He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless BLM and Antifa Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all buildings, businesses, homes, ages, sexes and conditions.

Posted by: Just a minor modern update at July 04, 2023 11:23 AM (dE+9W)

75 Look at leaders then and compare them to our leaders of today.

My how far we've fallen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)
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[This scene from the 1994 film Quiz Show" -- especially the last line -- has always stuck with me:]

Charles Van Doren: Have you heard, Dad, there's this,uh, congressional committee...
that's, um, well, they're investigating the quiz shows?

Mark Van Doren: Yeah, I read that. What's it about exactly?

CVD: Well, evidently, a certain of the contestants were given the answers in advance.

MVD: Cheating on a quiz show, it's like plagiarizing a comic strip.

CVD: Well, at any rate, it seems the committee wants to call me to, uh, uh, testify.

MVD: Oh, I've testified before. Funding for the arts. It's nothing.

CVD: I think this is a little different. You'll run circles round them.

MVD: It's not exactly Jefferson and Lincoln down there any more.

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:23 AM (ul9wx)

76 A station here is selling gas for $1.776 today. Oh, boy, has that screwed up traffic!

Posted by: t-bird at July 04, 2023 11:23 AM (bt2PN)

77 You could say this about Joe Biden:

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice

"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution"

"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people"

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It's not Biden, though. It's the government. Not some "deep state" either, just plain old everyday government.

It's right there in black and white, too:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

It's pretty neat to recognize that the farther you get from the Constitution the worse everything gets.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:25 AM (nMXLX)

78 For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

January 6 political prisoners, anybody?

Posted by: Another modern update at July 04, 2023 11:25 AM (dE+9W)

79 CBD, you've got that wrong.

It's "When in the Corks of Human Events..."

Yeeesh!

and on the 4th of July!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 04, 2023 11:05 AM (fb7jX)
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And during Sloth Month?

REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:25 AM (ul9wx)

80 Back in Houston (blue as it has become), the Houston Chronicle (as blue as you could want) published the Declaration of Independence every July 4th. Here in Colorado (Californicated as it is) apparently that is not a thing among the daily papers.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 04, 2023 11:26 AM (K58O6)

81 Ay plegli ianectu flaggen, tupep like for stahn.

Posted by: Cloud William at July 04, 2023 11:27 AM (Qn59F)

82 Biden would never have fit in with that group of men. If he contributed anything worthwhile to the document, it would have been erased before finalized.

Posted by: Colin at July 04, 2023 11:27 AM (2DV6+)

83 They are wearing wigs, the tradition at that time.

Pretty strange custom, now that I imagine putting a creepy hood of hair on my head. Did you then wear a hat on top of that when you were outside?

Posted by: t-bird at July 04, 2023 11:27 AM (bt2PN)

84 This country died when Bob Keeshan and Fred Rogers passed on.

Posted by: Zombie Chuck McCann at July 04, 2023 11:27 AM (T0tUU)

85 >>>If this isn't already happening I predict it will soon enough; tourist busses to "rural America" to see quaint 4th of July celebrations. City dwellers taking photos of the "natives" with flags, sparklers and whatnot. For an additional cost they can sample "BBQ and picnic food" in an authentic setting and watch fireworks from an airconditioned bus at a safe distance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

>Ha! "Safe" means nothing when we come for your women! Not everybody gets the Alec Baldwin treatment.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 04, 2023 11:29 AM (KVGVf)

86 For you Freedom lovers, The Chive has a collection of scantily clad patriotic girls and memes. NSFW.

https://tinyurl.com/TheChive4th

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2023 11:29 AM (4I/2K)

87 Happy Independence Day, y'all!

Posted by: Bert G at July 04, 2023 11:29 AM (VARTN)

88 AMERICA, F YEAH!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 04, 2023 11:29 AM (avru5)

89 Not so fast!
Posted by: Hawaii Judge at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (i7ze5)
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"The Founding Fathers have no standing. Next!" -- SCOTUS 2020

Now, now. Can't we all get along and split the difference?
Posted by: Dread Justice Roberts at July 04, 2023 11:11 AM

Everything the Democrats pass is allowable, because of the general welfare clause in the Constitution!!! We only want to help people, even if they don't understand it!

Posted by: Retarded Leftists at July 04, 2023 11:29 AM (NCgXW)

90 They are wearing wigs, the tradition at that time.

Pretty strange custom, now that I imagine putting a creepy hood of hair on my head. Did you then wear a hat on top of that when you were outside?

Posted by: t-bird

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It was probably a thoughtful consideration for others. Showers weren't common, folks wore hats outside, sweaty, greasy hair, etc.

Put a wig on (another cover, the equivalent of a hat, which back then people had sense and respect enough to take off indoors) and everyone looks a bit nicer.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:30 AM (nMXLX)

91
The French: Great. We've been thinking "it's been a while since we had a good crusade."

Where are the Charles Martel, Roland, and Holgier Danois of today?

Posted by: Fox2! at July 04, 2023 11:30 AM (4GxJn)

92 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,

And there's your Right to Life right there.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at July 04, 2023 11:30 AM (45fpk)

93 The country's collapse began when they cancelled Sky King.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 04, 2023 11:31 AM (FVME7)

94 They are wearing wigs, the tradition at that time.

Pretty strange custom, now that I imagine putting a creepy hood of hair on my head. Did you then wear a hat on top of that when you were outside?
Posted by: t-bird at July 04, 2023 11:27 AM (bt2PN)

They cut their hair very short because of the lice.

Posted by: Cloud William at July 04, 2023 11:31 AM (Qn59F)

95 I like the part about the King being a butt pirate

Posted by: REDACTED at July 04, 2023 11:32 AM (us2H3)

96 And there's your Right to Life right there.
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We can't even be allowed the liberty or pursuit of happiness parts. There's no way they're giving up killing babies as sacrifices to their black gods.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:32 AM (nMXLX)

97 I believe judges and maybe lawyers in certain courts in the UK still wear the wig.

Posted by: Colin at July 04, 2023 11:33 AM (2DV6+)

98 Everything the Democrats pass is allowable, because of the general welfare clause in the Constitution!!! We only want to help people, even if they don't understand it!
Posted by: Retarded Leftists at July 04, 2023 11:29 AM (NCgXW)

Also the Good and Plenty clause!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2023 11:34 AM (4I/2K)

99 believe judges and maybe lawyers in certain courts in the UK still wear the wig.
Posted by: Colin at July 04, 2023 11:33 AM (2DV6+)

Because of the lice.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 04, 2023 11:34 AM (Qn59F)

100 98 Everything the Democrats pass is allowable, because of the general welfare clause in the Constitution!!! We only want to help people, even if they don't understand it!
Posted by: Retarded Leftists at July 04, 2023 11:29 AM (NCgXW)

Also the Good and Plenty clause!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2023 11:34 AM (4I/2K)

I fucking hate licorice.

Posted by: Vile, at July 04, 2023 11:35 AM (dE+9W)

101 You know, the thing.

Posted by: Brandon at July 04, 2023 11:35 AM (eHovo)

102 Is it a movie thread yet?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2023 11:36 AM (DhOHl)

103 Seems like every year about this time I go down the reading rabbit hole on the enlightenment, the transition in thinking between the 1600's and prior, generally. It's inspiring for a while, and then I realize we ain't in Kansas anymore, Toto.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 04, 2023 11:05 AM (4780s)

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[Hey, where did you get that cool, futuristic era hash?]

So, recently I've been hearing & reading a lot of criticism from some conservative thinkers -- especially in their Substacks -- of the Enlightenment, its philosophers/thinkers, and "classical liberalism."

Haven't really studied the debate, but I think the argument is that the "Age of Reason" attack on religion and morality created the rationalizations which now have led to the idiocy & insanity & destruction of The West that we're presently witnessing.

As a former libertarian who grows orders of magnitude socially conservative with each passing year, I can find some sympathy with this argument. But still, you'd almost need a total alternate history timeline to see what would have become of The West otherwise.

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:36 AM (ul9wx)

104 Is it a movie thread yet?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2023 11:36 AM (DhOHl)

100 comments: boobs
200 comments: gubs
300 comments: movies

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 04, 2023 11:37 AM (Qn59F)

105 You know, the thing.
Posted by: Brandon at July 04, 2023 11:35 AM (eHovo)

Much more concise.

Posted by: LASue at July 04, 2023 11:37 AM (Ed8Zd)

106 "Oh mah gawd! I freed the WHAT?!"

- - Firesign Theater Routine
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Family Guy:

Abraham Lincoln to neighbor in HOA: "Yeah, I noticed your grass is getting a bit too long, man."

Neighbor: "Yeah... I used to have a guy for that. Dick."

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 04, 2023 11:37 AM (kjOVp)

107 somehow they left out the part about backing Ukraine to the hilt

Posted by: REDACTED at July 04, 2023 11:37 AM (us2H3)

108 hahahaha, apparently an ancient black woman possibly did invent eating licorice.

That's hilarious.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:38 AM (nMXLX)

109 Black, repulsive, makes you want to puke.

Posted by: But enough about Lizzo - oh you thought I was still talking licorice? at July 04, 2023 11:39 AM (dE+9W)

110 Abraham Lincoln to neighbor in HOA: "Yeah, I noticed your grass is getting a bit too long, man."

Neighbor: "Yeah... I used to have a guy for that. Dick."

--

In case you didn't hear, the Martha's Vineyard people didn't ship all the illegals off the island.

The wealthy white people kept four. For roofing, lawnwork, etc.

This is not a joke.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:39 AM (nMXLX)

111 Also the Good and Plenty clause!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2023 11:34 AM (4I/2K)

I fucking hate licorice.

Posted by: Vile, at July 04, 2023 11:35 AM (dE+9W

Once upon a time there was an engineer
Choo Choo Charly was his name we hear
He had an engine an he sure had fun
He used Good N Plenty candy to make his train run.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 04, 2023 11:39 AM (GzDfN)

112 Good N Plenty sounds like a good title for a pron flick.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 04, 2023 11:40 AM (Ro3yS)

113 omehow they left out the part about backing Ukraine to the hilt

Support is implied in the "when in the Course of Ukrainian events" clause.

Posted by: t-bird at July 04, 2023 11:40 AM (08CnU)

114 "DeSantis sent two flights of illegal migrants in September from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, sparking backlash from immigration activists, the local community and a Texas sheriff, who transported them away with the help of the Massachusetts National Guard. The remaining migrants are working in the area for local residents, according to the NYT.

Deici Cauro, 25, is one of the migrants who “quietly” remains on the island, the NYT reported. Cauro, who is from Venezuela, is now working on the island as a landscaper.

Cauro is also joined by her brother Daniel, 29, and her cousin Eliud Aguilar, 28, who are working in painting and roofing, according to the NYT."

https://tinyurl.com/29jja476

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:41 AM (nMXLX)

115 In my reading up through the Napoleonic era hats were as necessary for wear as your overcoat even in the summer.
The wig thing still is beyond my comprehension.

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2023 11:41 AM (xhxe8)

116 Good N Plenty sounds like a good title for a pron flick.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 04, 2023 11:40 AM (Ro3yS)

Yep.

Posted by: Plenty O'Toole at July 04, 2023 11:41 AM (AwYPR)

117 What a great event to note in our long, twisted history. We're not the same as then and never will be again. The Civil War also forever changed America. Next up was WWII.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 04, 2023 11:15 AM (KVGVf)

Churchill noted in his history of WWII that the Japanese found, to their chagrin, that it was much easier to enrage the American people than to cow them. I suspect that is why our ideological enemies have done everything they could since then to change our national outlook.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 04, 2023 11:42 AM (nC+QA)

118 @amuse
@amuse
SOURCE: The small bag of cocaine found in the White House Library just happened to be in the same room where Hunter Biden used his laptop. Immediately following the evacuation the Secret Service assumed it belonged to Hunter. The White House attempted to discredit reports from the Hazmat team that the ‘unknown substance’ was cocaine. The Secret Service did not collect fingerprints from the bag as they knew Hunter had left it behind.

https://tinyurl.com/4uwhw9n2

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Lots of other amazing coincidences at the link.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 04, 2023 11:42 AM (FVME7)

119 So, recently I've been hearing & reading a lot of criticism from some conservative thinkers -- especially in their Substacks -- of the Enlightenment, its philosophers/thinkers, and "classical liberalism."
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Calvin sucks but Hobbes is fine because tigers are great!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 04, 2023 11:42 AM (Vwz3I)

120 God Bless America, the greatest country ever created.

God forgive us for allowing it to be destroyed.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 04, 2023 11:42 AM (N1tpc)

121 Mike and Ike - ghey pron film with Michele Obama and Dwight Eisenhower lookalikes.

Posted by: Special Dark, at July 04, 2023 11:43 AM (dE+9W)

122 The possibilities!

Posted by: Special Dark, Cookies and Cr�me, HoHos... at July 04, 2023 11:43 AM (dE+9W)

123 He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

Some y'all boys gonna hafta chaw on that'un a hwoll.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (4PZHB)

124 Oh the possibilities!

Posted by: Special Dark, Cookies and Cr�me, HoHos... at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (dE+9W)

125 Through God's Grace, we will reclaim this nation. Happy 4th everyone.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (utTGw)

126 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 04, 2023 11:10 AM (DhOHl)

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When we moved into our home in rural Northern AZ a decade ago, found a large rock with a hollowed-out, bowl shape -- much like the old ancient Natives would have used to grind corn and the like. Very cool.

So now the wifey will often fill it with water, and sure enough birds frequently visit it to bathe and get a drink (when it's not frozen in the winter).

BTW, high temperatures here yesterday:
Phoenix - 113.
Cottonwood & Sedona - 108.
Prescott - 98.
Flagstaff - 90.

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (ul9wx)

127
I believe judges and maybe lawyers in certain courts in the UK still wear the wig.
Posted by: Colin

Rumpole

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (63Dwl)

128 Churchill noted in his history of WWII that the Japanese found, to their chagrin, that it was much easier to enrage the American people than to cow them. I suspect that is why our ideological enemies have done everything they could since then to change our national outlook.
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Cow-irkers??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (Vwz3I)

129 116 Good N Plenty sounds like a good title for a pron flick.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 04, 2023 11:40 AM (Ro3yS)

Hunter has entered the chat

Posted by: REDACTED at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (us2H3)

130 You know what's weird about liquorice?
It isn't liquor-ish.

Posted by: Im pun it tee at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (DhOHl)

131 For you Freedom lovers, The Chive has a collection of scantily clad patriotic girls and memes. NSFW.

Powerline Week in Pictures. SFW.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxje8uy

Posted by: Oddbob at July 04, 2023 11:45 AM (nfrXX)

132 Calvin sucks but Hobbes is fine because tigers are great!

We rate this

[ x ] true

[ ] other than true

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 04, 2023 11:45 AM (GzDfN)

133 Duh. How do you think the subsequent Wig Party got its name?

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Speaking of which, haven't seen commenter "whig" around in awhile. Hope he's doing well -- maybe just busy -- since he has informed us that he has some health issues.

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:46 AM (ul9wx)

134 125 Through God's Grace, we will reclaim this nation. Happy 4th everyone.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (utTGw)

If that's what we're depending on then we're definitely over as America. But happy 4th to you too!

Posted by: Spoiler: Godot never shows up at July 04, 2023 11:46 AM (dE+9W)

135 This country died when Bob Keeshan and Fred Rogers passed on.
Posted by: Zombie Chuck McCann
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And Big Brother Bob Emory for those growing up in the Boston area. I saluted and said the pledge of allegiance before the Flag and a picture of General Eisenhauer everyday at lunch time when I was mumbly mumbly.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 04, 2023 11:47 AM (4780s)

136 Speaking of which, haven't seen commenter "whig" around in awhile. Hope he's doing well -- maybe just busy -- since he has informed us that he has some health issues.

--

He was on Sunday's gun thread being awesome.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 04, 2023 11:47 AM (nMXLX)

137 Just call me Buck Naked.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 04, 2023 11:47 AM (DhOHl)

138 The declaration is still the best FU MF’ers ever written.

Posted by: 13times at July 04, 2023 11:49 AM (0Z82p)

139 Speaking of which, haven't seen commenter "whig" around in awhile. Hope he's doing well -- maybe just busy -- since he has informed us that he has some health issues.
Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:46 AM (ul9wx)

whig was on the gun thread Sunday giving us some knowledge on gun things, he seemed good.

Happy 4th Y’all!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 04, 2023 11:49 AM (R/m4+)

140 Look at leaders then and compare them to our leaders of today.

My how far we've fallen.

What you say I not get it.

Posted by: JOHN FETTERMAN at July 04, 2023 11:49 AM (2znMt)

141 In the last few weeks the Biden administration has brought us topless tranny twerking on the White House lawn and cocaine in the White House library.

That's some serious norm restoration.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2023 11:49 AM (ZLI7S)

142 I love liquorice, the real kind not that fake strawberry stuff

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2023 11:49 AM (xhxe8)

143 They have quartered us indoors indefinitely.

They have sent the plague bearers from our borders to every town and hamlet(almost).

They have come for our children.

They have suspended due process by skin color.

They tax us with misrepresentation.

They rule via regulatory statutes that the very sea, air and land are ultimately for the benefit of New London et al.

By every means they have applied the law unjustly to benefit personal dynasties.

They allowed women to vote and they took our beer.

Posted by: Big Jake Parks at July 04, 2023 11:50 AM (tF/Gf)

144 Just call me Buck Naked.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 04, 2023 11:47 AM (DhOHl)

How about Granola?

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2023 11:50 AM (AwYPR)

145 The country's collapse began when they cancelled Sky King.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I
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Penny. Excuse me while I retire to my room for a bit.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 04, 2023 11:50 AM (4780s)

146 The declaration is still the best FU MF’ers ever written.
Posted by: 13times at July 04, 2023 11:49 AM (0Z82p)

Greatest Dear ~~John~~ George letter of all time.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2023 11:50 AM (4I/2K)

147 Carpenters' Hall. located in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, reopened July 3, 2023 in time for July 4th after Christmas Eve (2022) arson.

Carpenters' Hall was the site of the First Continental Congress. It's the building where delegates such as George Washington, John Adams, and Patrick Henry developed a plan for America's independence. It's said it's where the United States was born.

Inscription over south doorway of Assembly Room: Within these Walls Henry, Hancock, & Adams inspired the Delegates of the Colonies With Verve and Sinew for the Toils of War

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect & speeds the security clearance process at July 04, 2023 11:50 AM (GshMh)

148 Just call me Buck Naked.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 04, 2023 11:47 AM (DhOHl)

How about Granola?
Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2023 11:50 AM (AwYPR)

oops that's Bare Naked

Posted by: BignJames at July 04, 2023 11:51 AM (AwYPR)

149 130 You know what's weird about liquorice?
It isn't liquor-ish.
Posted by: Im pun it tee at July 04, 2023 11:44 AM (DhOHl)

it contains no liquor or rice, so whats the deal ??

Posted by: REDACTED at July 04, 2023 11:51 AM (us2H3)

150 Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

- 2023

Posted by: BurtTC at July 04, 2023 11:51 AM (B9rZS)

151 145 The country's collapse began when they cancelled Sky King.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I

when Ward stopped being hard on the beaver

Posted by: REDACTED at July 04, 2023 11:52 AM (us2H3)

152 Not so fast!
Posted by: Hawaii Judge at July 04, 2023 11:03 AM (i7ze5)

Go perform an anatomically impossible sexual act upon yourself, your honor! Multiple times. And one more time. For our amusement.

Posted by: The Founders at July 04, 2023 11:52 AM (Zvtjl)

153 The United States of America, 1776 - 2020.
Rest in Peace.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, gainfully employed again! But buy ammo at July 04, 2023 11:52 AM (xcxpd)

154 Powerline Week in Pictures. SFW.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxje8uy
Posted by: Oddbob

Powerline won't load on the Brave Android browser any more. Haven't been able to see Week in Pictures for a couple of months now. It just keeps reloading the "Checking to see if your browser is secure" page.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 04, 2023 11:53 AM (kjOVp)

155 Yep, we've been here before. I do not have the necessary perspective to determine if things are worse now, but it sure seems that way. It's tougher to throw out oppressors who live among us than ones who are headquartered an ocean away.

Posted by: Emmie -- ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP by July 7, please! at July 04, 2023 11:53 AM (Emce2)

156 I have a hard time celebrating this holiday anymore, don't mind me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 04, 2023 11:53 AM (xcxpd)

157 Don't even want to imagine what is going on in the WH. A veritable Den of Iniquity.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 04, 2023 11:54 AM (Xrfse)

158 JJ’s comment above on Andrew Breitbart’s version of the declaration made me laugh! I was only dimly aware of Breitbart’s work before he died… I’ve since come to realize his death was a huge loss. He got IT. I’ve never looked into it, but I’m aware there are some who believe he was murdered by TPTB as he was a real threat to them. What does the horde think about this theory?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 04, 2023 11:54 AM (xT8gx)

159 "The Founding Fathers have no standing. Next!" -- SCOTUS 2020
Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:10 AM (ul9wx)

FOAD!!

Posted by: The Founders at July 04, 2023 11:54 AM (Zvtjl)

160 There is a video on the term butt or buck naked, didn't watch it so don't know which is correct.

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2023 11:54 AM (xhxe8)

161 thru the 70's and early 80's, I would go to London and Europe 4-5 times a year, for 3 weeks at a time

it was profitable and the flights were great (1st class, Braniff)

but I was always really happy to come home

Posted by: REDACTED at July 04, 2023 11:55 AM (us2H3)

162 For those of you who thought our Flaming Rainbow military couldn't get any worse . . .

https://tinyurl.com/mpzhtdws

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 04, 2023 11:55 AM (FVME7)

163 93 The country's collapse began when they cancelled Sky King.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 04, 2023 11:31 AM (FVME7)

And his niece, Penny.

And Songbird/Songbird II

Posted by: Fox2! at July 04, 2023 11:55 AM (4GxJn)

164 Hammer and Sickle
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 04, 2023 11:20 AM (FVME7)

Messy way to cut off a dick, but if it's all you got, it's all you got.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2023 11:56 AM (f98yK)

165 Happy 4th to all. I have been quiet of late but still lurk regularly. I am working 7 days a week, but looks like I will be able to get to TxMoMe again this year.

Posted by: Ruthless at July 04, 2023 11:56 AM (AxfGE)

166 160 There is a video on the term butt or buck naked, didn't watch it so don't know which is correct.

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2023 11:54 AM (xhxe

An African warlord took that name. Count Dankula did a Mad Ladd about him. The guy is a preacher now or some shit.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 04, 2023 11:57 AM (98o/I)

167 157 Don't even want to imagine what is going on in the WH. A veritable Den of Iniquity.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 04, 2023 11:54 AM (Xrfse)

Joe and Hunter went to Camp David on Friday.. Looks like he left his cocaine at the WH...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2023 11:57 AM (bs+z0)

168 I'm beginning to think that Prince Harry and his hootchie mama are a spec-op to undermine our sense of freedom and to kowtow the masses into believing the UK and EU should be our thought leaders. Harry and Meghan. Like JFK and Jackie.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 04, 2023 11:57 AM (KVGVf)

169 39.
In considering the previous thread, if Andrew Breitbart PBUH were Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence would be composed of merely two sentences.

Fuck You. War.

I vote this to be the next Declaration.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 04, 2023 11:12 AM

Aye. With you on that.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect & speeds the security clearance process at July 04, 2023 11:57 AM (GshMh)

170 The country's collapse began when they cancelled Sky King.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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The handwriting was on the wall when they switched The Songbird from the Cessna T-50 to the Cessna 310B. I recall the cultural shock I felt as a kid.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 04, 2023 11:57 AM (gUQwJ)

171 What does the horde think about this theory?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 04, 2023 11:54 AM (xT8gx)

I think he was murdered, but he was living rather hard (frenetic activity, little sleep) which helped camouflage the murder method.

Posted by: Emmie -- ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP by July 7, please! at July 04, 2023 11:57 AM (Emce2)

172 Mike and Ike - ghey pron film with Michele Obama and Dwight Eisenhower lookalikes.
Posted by: Special Dark
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Acid washing the imagination now.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 04, 2023 11:57 AM (4780s)

173
Make America American Again!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at July 04, 2023 11:57 AM (lCaJd)

174 In fact it was the original Mad Lads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfz4Eiz5cDg

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 04, 2023 11:58 AM (98o/I)

175 What a great event to note in our long, twisted history. We're not the same as then and never will be again. The Civil War also forever changed America. Next up was WWII.

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Some might argue that the Vietnam War had even more damaging effects (long-term).

Again, would be interesting to see an alternate universe timeline had Kennedy lived and pulled advisors out of there ... or the Gulf of Tonkin Deep State Op not occurred.

Would we still have had the 60's counter-revolution? Probably, as the Marxists had taken over the colleges -- both as professors and students -- and would have fomented their nihilistic destruction under one or more other guises (which in fact they're doing today via the Cult of Woke).

Posted by: ShainS - Algorithmic Discrimination, Data Inequity/Disparity Mitigator AI Bot at July 04, 2023 11:58 AM (ul9wx)

176 What does the horde think about this theory?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 04, 2023 11:54 AM (xT8gx)

Never could decide. There were a number of weird coincidences around his death, and he'd just *really* ticked off Obama's ghost writer (the Weather Underground terrorist). At the same time, it's pretty clear from photos shortly before that he really did have significant serious health issues.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 04, 2023 11:58 AM (nC+QA)

177
Powerline won't load on the Brave Android browser any more. Haven't been able to see Week in Pictures for a couple of months now. It just keeps reloading the "Checking to see if your browser is secure" page.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 04, 2023 11:53 AM

Won't load for me either. It's just a bunch of images. Basic HTML stuff. Or it should be.

Powerline - learn to code. Simple stuff. Whatever you're trying to accomplish is losing you views.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 04, 2023 11:59 AM (enJYY)

178 I am working 7 days a week, but looks like I will be able to get to TxMoMe again this year.

Posted by: Ruthless at July 04, 2023 11:56 AM (AxfGE)

Look forward to seeing you there.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 04, 2023 12:00 PM (nC+QA)

179 AB taking over Wiener's press conference was a highlight moment!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2023 12:00 PM (4I/2K)

180 Great Men and documents.

But let's not pretend the envisioned nation is gone.

How many local, state, and federal laws and regulations do you suppose there are?

Land of the free is a myth. And it gets worse every year.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at July 04, 2023 12:00 PM (giver)

181 I've always assumed Breitbart was assassinated. Very fishy circumstances.

Posted by: Ruthless at July 04, 2023 12:02 PM (AxfGE)

182 If you told me the WH had open trays of cocaine on tables I wouldn't doubt it.

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2023 12:02 PM (xhxe8)

183 Happy 4th

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 04, 2023 12:02 PM (BRHaw)

184 As for Andrew Breitbart (PBUH)...the Right has lost a lot of powerful leaders in the past 20 years. We know the CIA had a 'heart attack gun' so it's not impossible the Deep State is removing players. But we don't just contend with flesh and blood adversaries either.

God watched over fools, children and the United States of America for a long time. Now I suspect His hand has been withdrawn and the bad guys are running up the score.

Just my $.02

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 04, 2023 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

185 179 AB taking over Wiener's press conference was a highlight moment!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2023 12:00 PM (4I/2K)

/adjusts tinfoil hat to jaunty angle

Wiener... Clinton Crime Gang... Clinton Body Count...

Posted by: davidt at July 04, 2023 12:03 PM (SYTee)

186 If Britain had not had problems on the continent and in India they would have crushed the rebellion like a bug.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 04, 2023 11:12 AM (ncXxy)

Don't forget the help from the French
Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2023 11:13 AM (bs+z0)

Oh, right. If the United Kingdom hadn't over-extended itself with its imperialist ambitions, it could have crushed the rebellion "like a bug". Not likely. And the French wouldn't commit to an alliance until the US could prove itself as an effective military force. The victories at Trenton and Princeton were a good start, but Saratoga was the decisive evidence that guaranteed French intervention.

Posted by: mrp at July 04, 2023 12:04 PM (rj6Yv)

187 Angelo Codevilla was another good guy who died under somewhat strange circumstances….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 04, 2023 12:04 PM (xT8gx)

188 Signers facts and figures spreadsheet.

https://tinyurl.com/rx8ts68u

Posted by: javems at July 04, 2023 12:04 PM (AmoqO)

189 What does the horde think about this theory?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Nah, sometimes people just die. Even those you like.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 04, 2023 12:04 PM (4780s)

190 Powerline - learn to code. Simple stuff. Whatever you're trying to accomplish is losing you views.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Yeah, I can get memes anywhere. Besides, Ann Barnhardt's are always way harder-hitting.

And I ain't switching browsers. And I ain't reading Powerline for the writers.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 04, 2023 12:04 PM (kjOVp)

191 Yep, we've been here before. I do not have the necessary perspective to determine if things are worse now, but it sure seems that way. It's tougher to throw out oppressors who live among us than ones who are headquartered an ocean away.
Posted by: Emmie -- ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP by July 7, please! at July 04, 2023 11:53 AM (Emce2)

Not an ocean away, but it seems to me DC and related municipalities are not local. And when I moved to Colorado, neither was Denver. Now that I'm in Arizona, and the people who stole this most recent election are ruling from Phoenix, it's not as far away as I would like, but it is very much an ocean's worth of difference between them and us.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 04, 2023 12:04 PM (CXjkn)

192 11 Look at leaders then and compare them to our leaders of today.

My how far we've fallen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

Point of clarification: We don't have leaders today. We only have politicians.

Posted by: Brandon at July 04, 2023 12:05 PM (eHovo)

193 Powerline grabbed an image I made of a side-by-side mugshot of Andy Kaufman and Adam Schiff. Then, maybe two months later, Rush mentioned the image -and likeness -between the two on his show.

Posted by: 13times at July 04, 2023 12:05 PM (e8iei)

194 I am convinced Angelo was murdered

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2023 12:05 PM (xhxe8)

195 wutz the big deal over doing crack in the WH ??

Posted by: Billy Clinton at July 04, 2023 12:05 PM (us2H3)

196 Joe will go for sympathy

"I'm a crack addict"

Posted by: REDACTED at July 04, 2023 12:07 PM (us2H3)

197 >>Point of clarification: We don't have leaders today. We only have politicians.

We have Trump and like him or hate him he has created a movement that is unlike anything we have seen in a long time. That's why they want to destroy him.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2023 12:08 PM (ZLI7S)

198 Angelo Codevilla was another good guy who died under somewhat strange circumstances….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 04, 2023 12:04 PM (xT8gx)

He was a brilliant and incisive writer and a great American. RIP.

Posted by: mrp at July 04, 2023 12:08 PM (rj6Yv)

199 That's some serious norm restoration.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2023 11:49 AM (ZLI7S)

I can't believe that there are still people who think Trump was too uncouth and Bidens are classier than Trumps.

Posted by: Emmie -- ArkanOklaMoMe RSVP by July 7, please! at July 04, 2023 12:08 PM (Emce2)

200 Adams

“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty.

“It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

“You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 04, 2023 12:08 PM (BRHaw)

201 JJ’s comment above on Andrew Breitbart’s version of the declaration made me laugh! I was only dimly aware of Breitbart’s work before he died… I’ve since come to realize his death was a huge loss. He got IT. I’ve never looked into it, but I’m aware there are some who believe he was murdered by TPTB as he was a real threat to them. What does the horde think about this theory?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 04, 2023 11:54 AM (xT8gx)

I don't put anything past them. It's possible. But there haven't been a lot of other suspicious deaths among the patriot class. I don't know, maybe they limit their assassinations, for that very purpose, so people just assume it was natural.

But they managed to kill two Kennedy bros a few years apart, as well as taking out MLK, so I don't know. Maybe. That's as far as I can say.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 04, 2023 12:09 PM (5eROT)

202 Willie Nelson became a folk hero after smoking a joint on the roof of Carter’s White House.

So there’s that.

Posted by: 13times at July 04, 2023 12:10 PM (e8iei)

203 Love this picture. It's the screensaver on my computer.

Posted by: bluebell at July 04, 2023 12:11 PM (pTb/Z)

204 God Bless America.

I hope we can continue to say that in the next 100 years.

Posted by: Czech Chick at July 04, 2023 12:12 PM (S2FnF)

205 "... a Republic, if you can keep it..."

Posted by: setnaffa at July 04, 2023 12:12 PM (rZVTl)

206 >>I can't believe that there are still people who think Trump was too uncouth and Bidens are classier than Trumps.

The power of the media to set narratives with the masses is one of our biggest problems. Trump is over the top brash and obviously has an ego the size of Mars but he is by the accounts of people who know him best very kind and generous in his personal life.

Joe is the closest thing to white trash we've ever had in the White House. A true garbage person and so is his entire family.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2023 12:12 PM (ZLI7S)

207 Willie Nelson became a folk hero after smoking a joint on the roof of Carter’s White House.

So there’s that.
Posted by: 13times at July 04, 2023 12:10 PM (e8iei)

After Elvis joined Nixon's DEA as a Special Agent.
ThankYouVeryMuch

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2023 12:12 PM (4I/2K)

208 11 Look at leaders then and compare them to our leaders of today.

My how far we've fallen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 04, 2023 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

Point of clarification: We don't have leaders today. We only have politicians.
*********
We have neither leaders nor politicians. We have opportunistic vultures, only interested in enriching themselves and their families, at our cost. Bring back term limits!

Posted by: Grateful at July 04, 2023 12:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

209 There was an actual series of North Vietnamese attacks made in retaliation to the presence of U.S. vessels and villages in South Vietnamese controlled islands off of Haiphong harbor being used to base small boat attacks and S.O.G. type operations - every one of which was eventually compromised in North Vietnam.

It was the ridiculous cover story used to mask the reality of special operations and the RVN aggressive actions to combat the communists that became the basis for Congress forfeiting their war making power to LBJ and was the real Tonkin Gulf scandal.

Posted by: Big Jake Parks at July 04, 2023 12:13 PM (tF/Gf)

210 The Founders would have been shooting our current crop of "Betters" in the face years ago.

It's time to flush DC and every state capital and start over, with our founding docs reinstated as if new.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 04, 2023 12:14 PM (IMj0f)

211 Joe is the closest thing to white trash we've ever had in the White House. A true garbage person and so is his entire family.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2023 12:12 PM (ZLI7S)

Ahem!

Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton at July 04, 2023 12:14 PM (PHmov)

212 Joe is the closest thing to white trash we've ever had in the White House. A true garbage person and so is his entire family.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2023 12:12 PM (ZLI7S)

Ahem!
Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton
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The trend is disturbing.

Posted by: From about that Time at July 04, 2023 12:16 PM (4780s)

213 The big dummy has arisen.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2023 12:17 PM (ZLI7S)

214 NOOOOOD FRANCE

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 04, 2023 12:17 PM (VWp7G)

215 The Founders would have been shooting our current crop of "Betters" in the face years ago.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 04, 2023 12:14 PM (IMj0f)

Which is why the Federalist Papers are no longer mentioned in school, much less the required reading they were at one point.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 04, 2023 12:19 PM (nC+QA)

216 Beau 2.0 is really lucky to be alive right now. Imagine how difficult it would be to have him dosed by one of his drug whores with a fatal dose of fentanyl?

Beau 2.0: KIA at the White House.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 04, 2023 12:20 PM (KVGVf)

217 Joe is the closest thing to white trash we've ever had in the White House. A true garbage person and so is his entire family.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2023 12:12 PM (ZLI7S)

Ahem!
Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton at July 04, 2023 12:14 PM (PHmov)

Whew!

Posted by: Andrew Jackson at July 04, 2023 12:21 PM (4I/2K)

218 I read the whole thing, and lamented the lack of like and share buttons, in this one instance.

I will like and share it in other ways!

Posted by: Parker at July 04, 2023 12:22 PM (hJWil)

219 100 comments: boobs
200 comments: gubs
300 comments: movies
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400 comments: movies, boobs, guns

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 04, 2023 12:23 PM (Zvtjl)

220 This fetching young lass named Linda with an awesome set of pipes is glad.

So glad.

https://youtu.be/ZrtMQ3N4OyI

Posted by: Living in the USA at July 04, 2023 12:25 PM (DhOHl)

221 These words are as pertinent now as they were on this day in 1776. I fear the significance of them will be lost, due to the grievously educated American youth taught to hate their nation and it's unique culture.
If only we had men in Congress of such steal as in 1776. Too many just want to go to D.C. and get rich, leaving their ethics at the door.
We cannot stand if this keeps up. The center will not hold!

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