As I listen to Stars and Stripes Forever

[outside shooter]

Performed live by the Palm Beach Symphony, and following Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, featuring words from The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, inaugural addresses, and various other famous passages...

I am struck that the country is now for the first time as divided as it was in 1861. The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.

May we somehow preserve this grand experiment from those who actively seek to destroy it from within.

While lighting a sparkler, teach your child not to hate. Teach them that this is a dream worth keeping alive. Laugh with them, but cry too, for this fractured country fueled all too often by hatred such that our better natures are locked away.

 

[mcmurtry66]

Performed live by the Palm Beach Symphony, and following Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, featuring words from The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, inaugural addresses, and various other famous passages...

I am struck that the country is now for the first time as divided as it was in 1861. The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.

May we somehow preserve this grand experiment from those who actively seek to destroy it from within.

While lighting a sparkler, teach your child not to hate. Teach them that this is a dream worth keeping alive. Laugh with them, but cry too, for this fractured country fueled all too often by hatred such that our better natures are locked away.

You're an idiot

 

[Crayfish57]

Performed live by the Palm Beach Symphony, and following Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, featuring words from The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, inaugural addresses, and various other famous passages...

I am struck that the country is now for the first time as divided as it was in 1861. The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.

May we somehow preserve this grand experiment from those who actively seek to destroy it from within.

While lighting a sparkler, teach your child not to hate. Teach them that this is a dream worth keeping alive. Laugh with them, but cry too, for this fractured country fueled all too often by hatred such that our better natures are locked away.

''The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.''

Democrats are still the slavers, economic slavery. Look what they have done in just 18 months

 

[outside shooter]

I didn't expect laughter, even from those whose hearts are dark with hate.

Sad, hearing Lincoln's words, ringing in the air with history's full weight, yet so roundly ignored by those who foolishly claim his legacy.

 

[mcmurtry66]

I didn't expect laughter, even from those whose hearts are dark with hate.

Sad, hearing Lincoln's words, ringing in the air with history's full weight, yet so roundly ignored by those who foolishly claim his legacy.

You're an idiot

 

[IUCrazy2]

Performed live by the Palm Beach Symphony, and following Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, featuring words from The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, inaugural addresses, and various other famous passages...

I am struck that the country is now for the first time as divided as it was in 1861. The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.

May we somehow preserve this grand experiment from those who actively seek to destroy it from within.

While lighting a sparkler, teach your child not to hate. Teach them that this is a dream worth keeping alive. Laugh with them, but cry too, for this fractured country fueled all too often by hatred such that our better natures are locked away.

Pima County Democrats in to wish you a happy 4th.

 

[Hoopsdoc1978]

Performed live by the Palm Beach Symphony, and following Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, featuring words from The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, inaugural addresses, and various other famous passages...

I am struck that the country is now for the first time as divided as it was in 1861. The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.

May we somehow preserve this grand experiment from those who actively seek to destroy it from within.

While lighting a sparkler, teach your child not to hate. Teach them that this is a dream worth keeping alive. Laugh with them, but cry too, for this fractured country fueled all too often by hatred such that our better natures are locked away.

Dios mio, man.

 

[outside shooter]

Trumpers don't celebrate the 4th, they take the 5th.

 

[anon_mlxxvlbug9dpa]

Performed live by the Palm Beach Symphony, and following Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, featuring words from The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, inaugural addresses, and various other famous passages...

I am struck that the country is now for the first time as divided as it was in 1861. The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.

May we somehow preserve this grand experiment from those who actively seek to destroy it from within.

While lighting a sparkler, teach your child not to hate. Teach them that this is a dream worth keeping alive. Laugh with them, but cry too, for this fractured country fueled all too often by hatred such that our better natures are locked away.

Good grief. Grandstand much?

 

[anon_mlxxvlbug9dpa]

I didn't expect laughter, even from those whose hearts are dark with hate.

Sad, hearing Lincoln's words, ringing in the air with history's full weight, yet so roundly ignored by those who foolishly claim his legacy.

I think you think you sound smart in these faux-introspective soliloquies but you don’t. You sound like a partisan hack. Zero self awareness.

Right, it’s ONLY white supremacy seeking to destroy our republic - it’s not the Marxist a-holes that set off riots and poison the youth.

 

[VanPastorMan]

Performed live by the Palm Beach Symphony, and following Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, featuring words from The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, inaugural addresses, and various other famous passages...

I am struck that the country is now for the first time as divided as it was in 1861. The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.

May we somehow preserve this grand experiment from those who actively seek to destroy it from within.

While lighting a sparkler, teach your child not to hate. Teach them that this is a dream worth keeping alive. Laugh with them, but cry too, for this fractured country fueled all too often by hatred such that our better natures are locked away.

Are you calling for a new law making the abortion of white male supremacists legal? If you accidentally kill some non racists then that is the price for our grand Democracy!!!!!

 

[mcmurtry66]

I think you think you sound smart in these faux-introspective soliloquies but you don’t. You sound like a partisan hack. Zero self awareness.

Right, it’s ONLY white supremacy seeking to destroy our republic - it’s not the Marxist a-holes that set off riots and poison the youth.

He's one of the dumbest posters on the board. Hickory dumb.

 

[NPT]

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Pima County Democrats in to wish you a happy 4th.

Just shows how dumb they really are.. Delete it and think that is the end of it when anyone with common sense would know that someone already has a copy of it.

 

[NPT]

He's one of the dumbest posters on the board. Hickory dumb.

You really know how to insult a person. 😂 😂 Maybe they are having a dummy contest.

 

[i'vegotwinners]

I think you think you sound smart in these faux-introspective soliloquies but you don’t. You sound like a partisan hack. Zero self awareness.

Right, it’s ONLY white supremacy seeking to destroy our republic - it’s not the Marxist a-holes that set off riots and poison the youth.

Joe McCarthy and Rush Limbaugh salute you from the grave.

Vladimir send a thumbs up.

great job. you must be so proud.

those aren't light weights you're impressing.

 

[Bulk VanderHuge]

You really know how to insult a person. 😂 😂 Maybe they are having a dummy contest.

So, that's how mods get chosen.

(Uh, where's my badge?)

 

[Hoopsdoc1978]

He's one of the dumbest posters on the board. Hickory dumb.

You wouldn’t think a “former Republican” would be so dumb.

Then again, that’s probably why he’s a “former Republican”.

 

[anon_mlxxvlbug9dpa]

Joe McCarthy and Rush Limbaugh salute you from the grave.

Vladimir send a thumbs up.

great job. you must be so proud.

those aren't light weights you're impressing.

I’m trying to get on Vanguard’s good side

 

[mcmurtry66]

You wouldn’t think a “former Republican” would be so dumb.

Then again, that’s probably why he’s a “former Republican”.

Lol yeah. He posts like a 17 yr old girl who latched on to a new, cool way of thinking. Vapid.

 

[JamieDimonsBalls]

Trumpers don't celebrate the 4th, they take the 5th.

this is quite the pathetic thread you’ve got going

 

[hoosboot]

Lol yeah. He posts like a 17 yr old girl who latched on to a new, cool way of thinking. Vapid.

My goodness. My conservative brethren sure are getting defensive today. Looks like shooter must have struck a nerve. He even got Ranger to do a "poison the youth" post! 🤣

 

[All4You]

My goodness. My conservative brethren sure are getting defensive today. Looks like shooter must have struck a nerve. He even got Ranger to do a "poison the youth" post! 🤣

Heh, if you say so. For me, when Shooter posts yet another flail and fail threads like this one, all I see is...

 

[Bulk VanderHuge]

Heh, if you say so. For me, when Shooter posts yet another flail and fail threads like this one, all I see is...

Not that it's relevant, but I do like this scene, and you reminded me of it...

 

[anon_mlxxvlbug9dpa]

My goodness. My conservative brethren sure are getting defensive today. Looks like shooter must have struck a nerve. He even got Ranger to do a "poison the youth" post! 🤣

The difference is I acknowledge there is a white supremacy problem brewing in the US. But most here on the left would not acknowledge the no-longer-so-covert Marxist roots of all your causes célèbres that are equally or more destructive to a democratic republic.

 

[Bulk VanderHuge]

Marxist roots of all your causes célèbres

French? Okay, Lefty.

 

[hoosboot]

The difference is I acknowledge there is a white supremacy problem brewing in the US. But most here on the left would not acknowledge the no-longer-so-covert Marxist roots of all your causes célèbres that are equally or more destructive to a democratic republic.

After this, you should read a post from someone I highly respect.

I think you think you sound smart in these faux-introspective soliloquies but you don’t. You sound like a partisan hack. Zero self awareness.

Happy 4th, Ranger! Celebrate our great country and the grand possibility of not becoming the thing we complain about in others!

 

[IUJIM]

Performed live by the Palm Beach Symphony, and following Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, featuring words from The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, inaugural addresses, and various other famous passages...

I am struck that the country is now for the first time as divided as it was in 1861. The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.

May we somehow preserve this grand experiment from those who actively seek to destroy it from within.

While lighting a sparkler, teach your child not to hate. Teach them that this is a dream worth keeping alive. Laugh with them, but cry too, for this fractured country fueled all too often by hatred such that our better natures are locked away.

What an absolutely disgusting post.

 

[mcmurtry66]

What an absolutely disgusting post.

The musings of a moron. Just put it in its proper context

 

[hoosboot]

What an absolutely disgusting post.

IDK. Melodramatic...yes. Intentionally provocative...yes. Disgusting...🤷‍♂️.

Three good paragraphs I think most people would agree with (even if they are needlessly overfluffed) are undercut by two sentences stuffed with hyperbole in the second paragraph. Even the general idea there isn't so awful (that we are as extraordinarily divided as we've been in a long time), but the execution and the identity of the executioner made some folks defensive and self-conscious.

To be clear, white supremacists are a problem but they aren't the sole (or even major) source of our extraordinary divide, and the threat we face is some large degree short of the cannons at Fort Sumter.

Over-the-top...sure. Disgusting...meh.

 

[DANC]

Performed live by the Palm Beach Symphony, and following Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, featuring words from The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, inaugural addresses, and various other famous passages...

I am struck that the country is now for the first time as divided as it was in 1861. The slavers are gone, replaced with angry white male supremacists who pose no less a threat to our democracy than did the cannons trained on Ft. Sumter.

May we somehow preserve this grand experiment from those who actively seek to destroy it from within.

While lighting a sparkler, teach your child not to hate. Teach them that this is a dream worth keeping alive. Laugh with them, but cry too, for this fractured country fueled all too often by hatred such that our better natures are locked away.

And teach them how much this country sucks because of slavery. Teach them, if they're white, about how they're responsible and should stop clinging to the quaint notion that everyone is created equal - it only matters if every has the same stuff and their identity group gets equal power.

 

[IUJIM]

IDK. Melodramatic...yes. Intentionally provocative...yes. Disgusting...🤷‍♂️.

Three good paragraphs I think most people would agree with (even if they are needlessly overfluffed) are undercut by two sentences stuffed with hyperbole in the second paragraph. Even the general idea there isn't so awful (that we are as extraordinarily divided as we've been in a long time), but the execution and the identity of the executioner made some folks defensive and self-conscious.

To be clear, white supremacists are a problem but they aren't the sole (or even major) source of our extraordinary divide, and the threat we face is some large degree short of the cannons at Fort Sumter.

Over-the-top...sure. Disgusting...meh.

Ribbont, who obviously is from the far right side of the spectrum, offered what I would consider a good, thoughtful post about what the 4 th of July is, and as he says it, warts and all. Shooter is doing nothing but using the 4th to ruffle the feathers of people who think differently than him. Yes, I believe it to be disgusting, but appreciate your thoughtful post.

 

[DANC]

I think you think you sound smart in these faux-introspective soliloquies but you don’t. You sound like a partisan hack. Zero self awareness.

Right, it’s ONLY white supremacy seeking to destroy our republic - it’s not the Marxist a-holes that set off riots and poison the youth.

Well, he does have 4 degrees - 2 Ivy League.

He's the smartest guy in the room in all subjects.

 

[hoosboot]

Ribbont, who obviously is from the far right side of the spectrum, offered what I would consider a good, thoughtful post about what the 4 th of July is, and as he says it, warts and all. Shooter is doing nothing but using the 4th to ruffle the feathers of people who think differently than him. Yes, I believe it to be disgusting, but appreciate your thoughtful post.

And yet you thumbed up Ranger's post. 🧐

Happy 4th, Jim. Hope things are good with you and yours.

 

[IUJIM]

And yet you thumbed up Ranger's post. 🧐

Happy 4th, Jim. Hope things are good with you and yours.

Thank you, and to you as well.

 

[cosmickid]

And teach them how much this country sucks because of slavery. Teach them, if they're white, about how they're responsible and should stop clinging to the quaint notion that everyone is created equal - it only matters if every has the same stuff and their identity group gets equal power.

So in previous posts CoH (unintentionally) admitted that the Jan 6 riots included white Supremacists. And in a post above Ranger has even admitted that white Supremacy is a problem. So which white supremacists would you say agree with the notion that "everyone is created equal"? I mean by it's very nature the term "supremacy" would seem to imply the notion of "superiority", rather than equality...

So you don't think an issue like slavery should be taught? Are you on board with the educational movement in Texas to relabel slavery as "involuntary relocation"? Do you think it's important for people in Texas (and elsewhere) to realize that while we immortalize the struggle of the brave settlers at the Alamo, that the main issue between Texas and Mexico in 1836, just like the main issue between North and South (including Texas) some 30 yrs later was slavery?

 

[bawlmer]

What an absolutely disgusting post.

Nobody does disgusting like Lucy.

 

[DANC]

So in previous posts CoH (unintentionally) admitted that the Jan 6 riots included white Supremacists. And in a post above Ranger has even admitted that white Supremacy is a problem. So which white supremacists would you say agree with the notion that "everyone is created equal"? I mean by it's very nature the term "supremacy" would seem to imply the notion of "superiority", rather than equality...

So you don't think an issue like slavery should be taught? Are you on board with the educational movement in Texas to relabel slavery as "involuntary relocation"? Do you think it's important for people in Texas (and elsewhere) to realize that while we immortalize the struggle of the brave settlers at the Alamo, that the main issue between Texas and Mexico in 1836, just like the main issue between North and South (including Texas) some 30 yrs later was slavery?

Dumbass. I've said many times our entire history should be taught.

Don't be so ****ing stupid.

 

[mcmurtry66]

So in previous posts CoH (unintentionally) admitted that the Jan 6 riots included white Supremacists. And in a post above Ranger has even admitted that white Supremacy is a problem. So which white supremacists would you say agree with the notion that "everyone is created equal"? I mean by it's very nature the term "supremacy" would seem to imply the notion of "superiority", rather than equality...

So you don't think an issue like slavery should be taught? Are you on board with the educational movement in Texas to relabel slavery as "involuntary relocation"? Do you think it's important for people in Texas (and elsewhere) to realize that while we immortalize the struggle of the brave settlers at the Alamo, that the main issue between Texas and Mexico in 1836, just like the main issue between North and South (including Texas) some 30 yrs later was slavery?

I think people like you and shitter the blinkard are an albatross on black people. You bend yourselves into pretzels to find racism in everything and think half the nation are white supremacists. You. Are. Brainwashed. And you hinder progress. You ignore that 60 people were shot in one city while waiting with baited breath for a cop to act out of line, despite the ten million contacts a year cops have. You are removed from reality and you are more dangerous to America than any white supremacist.

Anyone with a brain knows blacks face challenges. That by virtue of slavery and oppression they were late to the economic dinner table and at best are still at the kids' table bc they haven't had the benefit of inter generational wealth. But guess what. So too does that hold true for whites. And guess what. We have a black vp. We've had a black president. We have endless laws and lawyers who work on a contingency basis looking for discrim lawsuits to help blacks and make a buck. We have black billionaires. Hell right here in the Midwest. I know one. He votes republican.

You and shitter don't level the playing field with your bullshit. You turn it into quicksand. Dumb and dumber.

Enjoy your 4th. America is a wonderful place with endless opportunities for all.

 

[anon_mlxxvlbug9dpa]

After this, you should read a post from someone I highly respect.

Happy 4th, Ranger! Celebrate our great country and the grand possibility of not becoming the thing we complain about in others!

Sniping complete. Rounds on target.

 

[anon_mlxxvlbug9dpa]

IDK. Melodramatic...yes. Intentionally provocative...yes. Disgusting...🤷‍♂️.

Three good paragraphs I think most people would agree with (even if they are needlessly overfluffed) are undercut by two sentences stuffed with hyperbole in the second paragraph. Even the general idea there isn't so awful (that we are as extraordinarily divided as we've been in a long time), but the execution and the identity of the executioner made some folks defensive and self-conscious.

To be clear, white supremacists are a problem but they aren't the sole (or even major) source of our extraordinary divide, and the threat we face is some large degree short of the cannons at Fort Sumter.

Over-the-top...sure. Disgusting...meh.

Huh, so your penultimate paragraph aligns with my sentiment but the sniped shots were fired nonetheless. Excellent.