"In her letter written three months before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the wife of John Adams writes that
"in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. … That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute." What is much more rarely taught to schoolchildren is the reaction of John Adams, and no wonder, since it turns out to be… a bout of hilarity: "I cannot but laugh … Depend upon it, we know better than to repeal our masculine systems. Although they are in full force, you know they are little more than theory. We dare not exert our power in its full latitude. We are obliged to go fair and softly, and, in practice, you know we are the subjects. We have only the name of masters, and rather than give up this, which would completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat" "In practice, you know we are the subjects"! "
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"Let's take America's most famous president, and concentrate on two aspects — from 1860 and from 1858. Although the story of a little girl writing to Abraham Lincoln asking him to grow a beard is well-known (probably less so in today's school system), the content of the letter is clearly overlooked, as is its significance — which turns out to be: nothing less than astounding.
What does it say for women's oppression versus men's allegedly ignoring of the females in their lives when an 11-year-old Grace Bedell can write the following letter?
I will try and get the [all four of my brothers] to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President. The wives and the daughters can, and do, "tease" their husbands and their brothers to vote for their preferred candidate (and that only on the basis of their looks)?! Whether it is the women themselves voting or their menfolk following their instructions, what does that say for about their participation in the electoral process, not to mention about the independence of men along with the latters' alleged oppression of the female sex?!"
Trump can declare the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory just as readily as he announced a 20% tariff on all shipping through it. It’s unclear why he continues to find value in making declarations of no consequence. Unfortunate that his advisors are unable to stop him.
U.S. national debt nearly $40 trillion as deficits continue to grow ~ Just The News https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/us-national-debt-climbing-40-trillion-deficits-continue-grow
On a different tack, I often see or hear a statemen TTE that "You can vote yourself into Socialism but you have to shoot your way out."
But so far there's very little evidence that that's true. Certainly the USSR and WP countries had little gunfire as they shook off their Socialisms. The violence in Romania and former Yugoslavia was either elite faction fighting or pent-up ethnic score-settling or both.
In Latin America there have been turns to and from Socialism, but only some have been shooting affairs.
What's a good example of a country voting itself into Socialism and having to shoot its way out?
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"In practice, you know we [men] are the subjects [of] the despotism of the petticoat" (John Adams, 1776) (¡No Pasarรกn!)
"In her letter written three months before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the wife of John Adams writes that
"in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. … That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute."
What is much more rarely taught to schoolchildren is the reaction of John Adams, and no wonder, since it turns out to be… a bout of hilarity:
"I cannot but laugh … Depend upon it, we know better than to repeal our masculine systems. Although they are in full force, you know they are little more than theory. We dare not exert our power in its full latitude. We are obliged to go fair and softly, and, in practice, you know we are the subjects. We have only the name of masters, and rather than give up this, which would completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat"
"In practice, you know we are the subjects"! "
...
"Let's take America's most famous president, and concentrate on two aspects — from 1860 and from 1858. Although the story of a little girl writing to Abraham Lincoln asking him to grow a beard is well-known (probably less so in today's school system), the content of the letter is clearly overlooked, as is its significance — which turns out to be: nothing less than astounding.
What does it say for women's oppression versus men's allegedly ignoring of the females in their lives when an 11-year-old Grace Bedell can write the following letter?
I will try and get the [all four of my brothers] to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.
The wives and the daughters can, and do, "tease" their husbands and their brothers to vote for their preferred candidate (and that only on the basis of their looks)?! Whether it is the women themselves voting or their menfolk following their instructions, what does that say for about their participation in the electoral process, not to mention about the independence of men along with the latters' alleged oppression of the female sex?!"
"Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball sent a letter to Gov. Andy Beshear warning the state could lose federal funding if the governor doesn't join efforts to stop taxpayer fraud."
Incredibly, democrats believe that resistance to Trump requires them to acquiesce to criminal theft of public funds.
Trump can declare the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory just as readily as he announced a 20% tariff on all shipping through it. It’s unclear why he continues to find value in making declarations of no consequence. Unfortunate that his advisors are unable to stop him.
Of course, a matriarchal society led by men, equal and complementary.
Smart girl. She reconciled what ostensibly eludes contemporary activists. Equal and complementary.
U.S. national debt nearly $40 trillion as deficits continue to grow ~ Just The News
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/us-national-debt-climbing-40-trillion-deficits-continue-grow
๐๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐๐ต ๐ข ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ 30-๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต 5.22%, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐บ 25 ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด.
Gradually and then suddenly. Any amateur can bankrupt a casino. It takes a true stable genius to bankrupt the U.S.
Elvis Week again already. Where does the time go?
On a different tack, I often see or hear a statemen TTE that "You can vote yourself into Socialism but you have to shoot your way out."
But so far there's very little evidence that that's true. Certainly the USSR and WP countries had little gunfire as they shook off their Socialisms. The violence in Romania and former Yugoslavia was either elite faction fighting or pent-up ethnic
score-settling or both.
In Latin America there have been turns to and from Socialism, but only some have been shooting affairs.
What's a good example of a country voting itself into Socialism and having to shoot its way out?
Chile . . .
“ Gradually and then suddenly. Any amateur can bankrupt a casino. It takes a true stable genius to bankrupt the U.S.”
And that stable genius is Congress which has the power of the purse.
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