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WestlinnDuck
WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,825 Standard Supporter
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But to a leftard, the truth is just a post modern inconvenience. To the left, its not about rights and individual power, its about government power to oppress as long as they are the oppressors. To the left, the Declaration of Independence is hate speech and should be amended to become the Declaration of Dependence.

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About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

—Calvin Coolidge, Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,406 Standard Supporter
    Just got sprung.
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,501 Standard Supporter




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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Coolidge is the greatest president this nation has ever had.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    RaceBannon said:

    Americans are the ones, Trump added, "that put up the Hoover Dam, laid down the highways, and sculpted the skyline of Manhattan.  We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream — it was called: Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert; who built up Miami from the Florida marsh; and who carved our heroes into the face of Mount Rushmore.  Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the Internet.  We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American astronauts on the Moon — and one day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars."


    DIVISIVE

    I heard Muslims invented the zero though. Without the zero, none of that is possible.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,187
    RaceBannon said:

    Americans are the ones, Trump added, "that put up the Hoover Dam, laid down the highways, and sculpted the skyline of Manhattan.  We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream — it was called: Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert; who built up Miami from the Florida marsh; and who carved our heroes into the face of Mount Rushmore.  Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the Internet.  We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American astronauts on the Moon — and one day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars."


    DIVISIVE

    Clearly a dark and divisive speech filled with racist dog whistles.
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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,209
    SFGbob said:

    RaceBannon said:

    Americans are the ones, Trump added, "that put up the Hoover Dam, laid down the highways, and sculpted the skyline of Manhattan.  We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream — it was called: Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert; who built up Miami from the Florida marsh; and who carved our heroes into the face of Mount Rushmore.  Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the Internet.  We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American astronauts on the Moon — and one day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars."


    DIVISIVE

    Clearly a dark and divisive speech filled with racist dog whistles.
    Nah. He’s just saying “You didn’t build that.”

    Hard to imagine anyone objecting.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,205 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    RaceBannon said:

    Americans are the ones, Trump added, "that put up the Hoover Dam, laid down the highways, and sculpted the skyline of Manhattan.  We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream — it was called: Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert; who built up Miami from the Florida marsh; and who carved our heroes into the face of Mount Rushmore.  Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the Internet.  We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American astronauts on the Moon — and one day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars."


    DIVISIVE

    Clearly a dark and divisive speech filled with racist dog whistles.
    Nah. He’s just saying “You didn’t build that.”

    Hard to imagine anyone objecting.
    Is hard to be as stupid as you are?
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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,209
    I forgot you were old enough to have settled the Wild West, Race.

    You did build that.
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,501 Standard Supporter
    RaceBannon said:

    HHusky said:

    SFGbob said:

    RaceBannon said:

    Americans are the ones, Trump added, "that put up the Hoover Dam, laid down the highways, and sculpted the skyline of Manhattan.  We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream — it was called: Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert; who built up Miami from the Florida marsh; and who carved our heroes into the face of Mount Rushmore.  Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the Internet.  We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American astronauts on the Moon — and one day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars."


    DIVISIVE

    Clearly a dark and divisive speech filled with racist dog whistles.
    Nah. He’s just saying “You didn’t build that.”

    Hard to imagine anyone objecting.
    Is hard to be as stupid as you are?
    HH is a natural.
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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,209
    “This land has a name today, and is marked on maps. But, the names and the marks and the maps all had to be won, won from nature and from primitive man.”

    Thanks Race!
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,205 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    I forgot you were old enough to have settled the Wild West, Race.

    You did build that.

    How hard is it to be as stupid as you are?
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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,209
    RaceBannon said:

    HHusky said:

    I forgot you were old enough to have settled the Wild West, Race.

    You did build that.

    How hard is it to be as stupid as you are?
    too derivative
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,843 Swaye's Wigwam
    so let's put it in a song

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9EHmvN8wp8
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  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288




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