Thank you @macdad25 .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Trump-elected-rioting-letting-fireworks.html
From a position of unprecedented weakness, Trump is now fighting back with his clunky but undeniably effective triple whammy ‘America first’ fist of patriotism, toughness and common sense.
Or rather, he’s being hauled off the ropes by his opponents losing their minds.
This insanity has reached its peak over the past few days as protesters set about destroying monuments to some of America’s most beloved historical figures.
In Portland, Oregon, they draped an American flag around a 100-year-old statue of the first president, George Washington, set it on fire, pulled the statue down and then urinated on it.
They said they did it because Washington owned slaves.
That’s true, he did.
But he was also one of the Founding Fathers who established the United States of America with a determination to eradicate slavery, which then happened.
In San Francisco, protesters vandalized a statue of another former president Ulysses E. Grant, the man who led the Union Army in defeating the Confederates in the Civil War.
Again, they argued he was a slave owner.
And again, that’s true.
But Grant was gifted one slave, despised the whole concept of having one, and let him free within a year. He then wiped out the Ku Klux Klan by pushing legislation through Congress to prosecute them. And he appointed African-Americans to prominent government roles.
In another part of the same Golden Gate Park, hundreds more protesters tore down statues of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to 'The Star-Spangled Banner', because he too owned slaves.
This, again, is true. But he also represented a young Black man suing Georgetown College for his freedom in the 1830s.
And he wrote America’s National Anthem!
In Philadelphia, the statue of abolitionist Matthias Baldwin was attacked and sprayed with words like ‘colonizer’ and ‘murderer’.
Yet Baldwin was a very outspoken critic of slavery, fought for African-Americans to have the right to vote and founded a school in the city for black children.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Trump-elected-rioting-letting-fireworks.html
From a position of unprecedented weakness, Trump is now fighting back with his clunky but undeniably effective triple whammy ‘America first’ fist of patriotism, toughness and common sense.
Or rather, he’s being hauled off the ropes by his opponents losing their minds.
This insanity has reached its peak over the past few days as protesters set about destroying monuments to some of America’s most beloved historical figures.
In Portland, Oregon, they draped an American flag around a 100-year-old statue of the first president, George Washington, set it on fire, pulled the statue down and then urinated on it.
They said they did it because Washington owned slaves.
That’s true, he did.
But he was also one of the Founding Fathers who established the United States of America with a determination to eradicate slavery, which then happened.
In San Francisco, protesters vandalized a statue of another former president Ulysses E. Grant, the man who led the Union Army in defeating the Confederates in the Civil War.
Again, they argued he was a slave owner.
And again, that’s true.
But Grant was gifted one slave, despised the whole concept of having one, and let him free within a year. He then wiped out the Ku Klux Klan by pushing legislation through Congress to prosecute them. And he appointed African-Americans to prominent government roles.
In another part of the same Golden Gate Park, hundreds more protesters tore down statues of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to 'The Star-Spangled Banner', because he too owned slaves.
This, again, is true. But he also represented a young Black man suing Georgetown College for his freedom in the 1830s.
And he wrote America’s National Anthem!
In Philadelphia, the statue of abolitionist Matthias Baldwin was attacked and sprayed with words like ‘colonizer’ and ‘murderer’.
Yet Baldwin was a very outspoken critic of slavery, fought for African-Americans to have the right to vote and founded a school in the city for black children.
