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you know the thing....
“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.”
Well, hells bells, that didn't include black men sold on the slave market, did it, Tom? Jefferson had slaves, all his life. He did the fashionable thing, freeing them after his death. Hypocrite much? Not really, he was avante garde for his day. But what about this idea; "the pursuit of happiness"... what was he talking about? First of all, he changed Locke, the original read, "Life, Liberty, and Land" ... so he takes away the land before we even conquered it... and that was his take on it, European man came here and conquered, I guess that's why the Spanish called them conquistadors. But what the hell is "the pursuit of happiness"?
In this framework, I believe it means the right to work. If you have a better take, I'm all ears.
America was certainly not the beginning of capitalism, but it was the first place where it became holy ground. You have an unalienable right from the Almighty to earn a buck in this land... or at least you used to have that right, but I guess, not anymore. We aren't in Kansas anymore, Toto... I don't recall any flying monkeys in Kansas, or talking scarecrows, or work place lock-downs for a stinking virus. Did you know that the guy wrote that crazy nightmare story as an allegory to reinstating the silver dollar? follow the yellow brick road; mint the silver dollars the same way we minted gold dollars... the mantra of turn-of-the-century Democrats. Did you know you could stake a claim for a mine based purely upon having got there first? Did you know you could take silver out of the mine and bring it to a minter and mint your own silver dollars? That's why they killed the silver dollar, because scarcity is sacred to any currency and we hit the mother lode in Wyoming; the biggest silver vein in the history of the world. Did you know the guy was a German man named Thaler, moved to Spain, minted the Spanish galleons of silver and put his name on each coin... Thalers... the Spanish are going to pronounce that "dollars". The English heard the Spanish and wrote what they heard in English, transliteration... happens all the time, Joshua becomes Jesus, it is the same name.
America means land of corn. Corn is what the natives taught us to plant. Wheat is from the old world. Wheat is water intensive. We grow more wheat than any nation on earth, we grow as much wheat as the rest of the world put together. We do that because we can. The Mississippi watershed contains as much water as the rest of the world's rivers put together. That's why we are rich. But when you are rich, especially if your riches are wheat, that's when the Romans come and steal your riches; because they have to feed their armies... just ask Egypt.
We have an unalienable right to work. "Unalienable" means you can not take away the right, it comes from God. We hold these truths to be self-evident... self-evident means they come from God. When you take away the right to work, you are fighting against God. According to Thomas Jefferson... who had slaves, and those slaves were some of the best wood workers of all time; skilled craftsmen, the best at their trade, not just for their period, for all time. Why wasn't it evident to Tom that his slaves had an unalienable right to freedom?
We just lost the republic. I don't know what the hell this place is anymore. It sure isn't America. Law is executed by command of the Governors, it isn't even written down; we've gone whole hog medieval, this isn't Marshall law, Marshall law is written down, this is the word of the king, hell, even that is written down, this is the command structure of a general in battle, this is Sherman marching through Georgia, whatever he says to burn, you burn it. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be damned, this is war.
War against our own. Not against a virus, you can't fight a virus, that's just stupid. Who are we fighting? Small business. You know, the non-essential guys, the little guy, the ones that work for a living. The ones we tax to death. The ones we run out of business when they get to be too big. Those guys, they are the enemy. And what about their rights? Their unalienable rights? Well, hells bells, they have the right to shelter in place, they have the right to go buy food, but they don't have the right to go to work and make money to buy that food. And how will they pay their rent and mortgages? They won't... and what happens next? riots, revolution, rape, crime galore, you name it. As soon as the money runs out. And the money will run out... unless you think Congress is going to pass out a trillion a month until the economy comes back. And what makes you think the economy is coming back? Once they take away your job, it gets onboard a flying monkey and gets locked in a castle with a wicked witch. And if you want your job back, you are on your own, those good witches sit on their asses and do nothing for you... it's the same old story... that's why the silver dollar never came back, even with half the politicians in DC fighting for it. Once you travel over the rainbow, you and your little dog are fvcked, and we just traveled over the rainbow.
“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.”
Well, hells bells, that didn't include black men sold on the slave market, did it, Tom? Jefferson had slaves, all his life. He did the fashionable thing, freeing them after his death. Hypocrite much? Not really, he was avante garde for his day. But what about this idea; "the pursuit of happiness"... what was he talking about? First of all, he changed Locke, the original read, "Life, Liberty, and Land" ... so he takes away the land before we even conquered it... and that was his take on it, European man came here and conquered, I guess that's why the Spanish called them conquistadors. But what the hell is "the pursuit of happiness"?
In this framework, I believe it means the right to work. If you have a better take, I'm all ears.
America was certainly not the beginning of capitalism, but it was the first place where it became holy ground. You have an unalienable right from the Almighty to earn a buck in this land... or at least you used to have that right, but I guess, not anymore. We aren't in Kansas anymore, Toto... I don't recall any flying monkeys in Kansas, or talking scarecrows, or work place lock-downs for a stinking virus. Did you know that the guy wrote that crazy nightmare story as an allegory to reinstating the silver dollar? follow the yellow brick road; mint the silver dollars the same way we minted gold dollars... the mantra of turn-of-the-century Democrats. Did you know you could stake a claim for a mine based purely upon having got there first? Did you know you could take silver out of the mine and bring it to a minter and mint your own silver dollars? That's why they killed the silver dollar, because scarcity is sacred to any currency and we hit the mother lode in Wyoming; the biggest silver vein in the history of the world. Did you know the guy was a German man named Thaler, moved to Spain, minted the Spanish galleons of silver and put his name on each coin... Thalers... the Spanish are going to pronounce that "dollars". The English heard the Spanish and wrote what they heard in English, transliteration... happens all the time, Joshua becomes Jesus, it is the same name.
America means land of corn. Corn is what the natives taught us to plant. Wheat is from the old world. Wheat is water intensive. We grow more wheat than any nation on earth, we grow as much wheat as the rest of the world put together. We do that because we can. The Mississippi watershed contains as much water as the rest of the world's rivers put together. That's why we are rich. But when you are rich, especially if your riches are wheat, that's when the Romans come and steal your riches; because they have to feed their armies... just ask Egypt.
We have an unalienable right to work. "Unalienable" means you can not take away the right, it comes from God. We hold these truths to be self-evident... self-evident means they come from God. When you take away the right to work, you are fighting against God. According to Thomas Jefferson... who had slaves, and those slaves were some of the best wood workers of all time; skilled craftsmen, the best at their trade, not just for their period, for all time. Why wasn't it evident to Tom that his slaves had an unalienable right to freedom?
We just lost the republic. I don't know what the hell this place is anymore. It sure isn't America. Law is executed by command of the Governors, it isn't even written down; we've gone whole hog medieval, this isn't Marshall law, Marshall law is written down, this is the word of the king, hell, even that is written down, this is the command structure of a general in battle, this is Sherman marching through Georgia, whatever he says to burn, you burn it. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be damned, this is war.
War against our own. Not against a virus, you can't fight a virus, that's just stupid. Who are we fighting? Small business. You know, the non-essential guys, the little guy, the ones that work for a living. The ones we tax to death. The ones we run out of business when they get to be too big. Those guys, they are the enemy. And what about their rights? Their unalienable rights? Well, hells bells, they have the right to shelter in place, they have the right to go buy food, but they don't have the right to go to work and make money to buy that food. And how will they pay their rent and mortgages? They won't... and what happens next? riots, revolution, rape, crime galore, you name it. As soon as the money runs out. And the money will run out... unless you think Congress is going to pass out a trillion a month until the economy comes back. And what makes you think the economy is coming back? Once they take away your job, it gets onboard a flying monkey and gets locked in a castle with a wicked witch. And if you want your job back, you are on your own, those good witches sit on their asses and do nothing for you... it's the same old story... that's why the silver dollar never came back, even with half the politicians in DC fighting for it. Once you travel over the rainbow, you and your little dog are fvcked, and we just traveled over the rainbow.