Open Mouth, Insert Foot

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Nikki Haley was asked at a NH town forum about what she thought the cause of the Civil War was.
She starts espousing the tired Noble Cause line - it was about freedom and people's rights of course.  Those rascally rebels were just trying to preserve their freedom!
She then asks the dude who asked the question about what HE thought the war was about.  He replied that he wasn't running for president, SHE was, so he wanted to hear her answer.
(This man needs to be in the press core!).

So someone asks "What about slavery?"  Well, yes that was a part of it of course, and slavery is a stain on our nation's history.  But it was about rights and freedoms really.

Her state (SC) was the first to secede, and in their justifying document, the first line clearly states that they are leaving to protect their rights - TO OWN SLAVES.

Jesus H Christ.


Of course this pales in comparison to Orange Jesus who is now claiming to know nothing of Hitler except that he was a 'Bad Guy'.
He's not mouthing the exact things Hitler said, or doing anything worthy of a comparison.  Not him.  No Sir.

[Dave's Not Here Man]

Speaking of opening mouth inserting feets- Do your remember the guy I used to post videos from, Beau Of The Fifth Column?

I really took exception to one of his videos and stopped following because he lost a lot of credibility with me. Apparently so did a lot of others, and he's since started at least one new channel that I ran into a couple of days ago. Check this out-




Much better to bring "receipts" (yeah it's one of the few modern # cliche's that I like) rather than just story-telling, which is basically what he started doing on the original and starting contradicting himself to the point of saying stupid shit.

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I know he only has 15 minutes, but he should have noted that this isn't distorted by historians, but by revisionists who refused to refer to the original documents.

But yes, people should listen to him read those opening paragraphs. Because those 'freedoms' and 'rights' were all about the freedom to keep enslaving Africans and their decedents.
And yeah, your pappy didn't own slaves, but he did fight for the right of rich white people to own them. And to give the devil his due, a lot of them had been brainwashed from birth to believe that as poor as they were, they were still better than any free black man. If they didn't fight, they'd be no better than those slaves by God!

But goddamn, I wish people could get through their thick-ass skulls that you can be brave, but still be totally fighting on the wrong side. I'm sure many Germans fought bravely during WWI and WWII as well - doesn't make them heroes.