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Juneteenth tomorrow

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  1. bwilson4web

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    I'm taking a day trip to Atlanta June 19th and return June 20th to also see the circus around the Presidential debate. Atlanta has a Civil Rights museum and they are planning a blow-out party: JUNETEENTH ATLANTA - Home
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    The end of slavery is celebrated June 19th when the last slaves were freed in Texas ending the root cause of the American Civil War. A war that started 164 years ago when Dixie decided they could not put up with the democratic election of Abraham Lincoln. But I will also see what museums might have records of Sherman's March to the Sea.

    Grant and Sherman defeated Vicksburg, surrendered July 4th, which divided the Confederacy into two parts separated by the Mississippi River. Sherman went East via Chattanooga to Atlanta and then split the Eastern Confederacy again. He burned and gutted the war factories and railroads which starved Lee's Army of Virginia.

    Today, we have people who seeks to destroy democracy, claiming 'we was robbed.' The same lie told in the 1860s. As Lincoln said:

    . . . from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

    I'm going to witness the indomitable spirit of Democracy against the Big Lie which sad to say, still lives in some..

    Bob Wilson
     
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    That was good. Like the President said, and it is obeying his oath to say, we have F-16’s.
     
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    After all....F-16s worked on the Taliban.

    @ Juneteenth.....
    I had to work that day because the outrage industrial complex hasn't added that particular portmanteau holiday to the list.
    Slavery ended.....WHEN?


    @ lies.....
    BIDEN: “The truth is, I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any — this decade — any troops dying anywhere in the world like he did.”

    Three new Gold Star flags have been unfurled this year and there's open warfare being waged in the Gulf of Aden
    Extra Credit for anyone who can find out how many Purple Hearts have been awarded.......
    ....THIS year.
    (HINT: don't look for accurate answers to the extra credit question from the Fourth Estate!!)
     
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    maybe we need f-17's
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    We need a replacement.
     
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    A summary of the lies:
    PolitiFact | 2024 presidential debate fact-check: How accurate were Joe Biden, Donald Trump?

    President Biden likely was saying no troops in a war, like korea etc. there are almost always troops dying of something somewhere. He wouldn’t write out the sentence he spoke, and was clearly flustered at his speech delivery. People like him who have overcome speech impediments always fear it will start and once the fear starts it is downhill. Too hard on him.
    President Biden had a bad night, but as far as debating, the one who lied like nobody’s business can’t be a “winner.” The other one is filled with self confidence that whatever he says has to be believed. That’s where the term confidence man, or con man, comes from. Never saw anyone that extreme in my life though. That he could say as President, not doing anything on Jan 6 except a few half hearted words after it was almost over, was all he could do, is not going to fly. But he says it with such confidence and bravado, some believe him.
     
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    You still don’t get what Biden meant about F-16’s and the people trying to stop the election results. It isn’t that hard and it has nothing to do with the Taliban. It’s the idea a group of election denying t supporters can overcome the US military. I thought the same thing. Where is the military? The cic was watching it on tv in the White House, doing nothing.
     
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    the military probably wants to stay out of these things, but if trump is elected, i hope they will remove him when he refuses to leave next time. because if they won't, all the f-16's in the world won't help.
     
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    Birth of Jesus day, Christmas, is it the exact day of record, which there seems to be none given the times, or is it the meaning?
    Let’s criticize Juneteenth, it wasn’t really the end, blah blah blah. Why are we really criticizing it? I don’t know, can only guess.


    That’s a real downer scenario, but not unlikely. trump supporters already are loving the dynasty idea. Barron turns 18 they fawn all over him. He’s so tall.

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