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Maybe trump can start a go-fund me?

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 7:45 pm By: big bob

Free speech is a core value of American democracy. Lose it, and we lose our democracy. The left doesn't care, as they want an authoritarian government anyway.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 2:22 pm By: Conservative Voter

CV: If Mr. Trump had gotten busted for leaking classified emails from an unsecured server to our enemies, and then deleting those subpoenaed emails, which at its core is public property, and then destroying all devices used to store and disseminate said subpoenaed emails, even as President, Mr. Trump would have been indited by this corrupt Biden DOJ on enough charges that these non patriot Leftists would have put him away for a thousand years minimum.

What a difference a name makes to the corrupt, non patriot Left. We must save this Representative Republic by destroying all that is corrupt, and that needs to begin NOW.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 2:12 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Indeed, billionaire rich white boys are at such a disadvantage.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 10:44 am By: Big Bob

This sounds like a 10 year old's tantrum no wonder people are losing faith in the Republicans party the dumb Republicans who elected him in the first place are responsible for our country going down. I have voted in the past I believe in it but of course it does not always go the way I want or would like but that is my opinion

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 11:43 am By: Lynn

Doubling down on ignorance, Bolshevik Bob? Twenty percent of southern blacks prior to the War Between the States were free blacks, and ten percent of those free blacks owned slaves themselves. And in most southern states, free blacks had more rights than free blacks in many northern states due to the racist "Black Codes" enacted by many northern legislatures.

While 80% were slaves who had no control over their lives, the 20% who were free could do what they wanted, and many of them chose to join the Confederate army or navy. Here is Beaufort County, we had two thriving communities of free blacks prior to the war.

The only instance I have read of where slaves fought in battle involved several slaves of General Nathan Bedford Forrest whom he took with him to handle duties around the camp. After a while, they asked him to be allowed to ride into battle, and the General agreed. The slaves fought so well that after the battle, he gave them their freedom, and they immediately enlisted as regular cavalrymen.

You are dumb as a brick, Bobbie. All you know is your stupid far left narrative which is very often just wrong.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 10:09 am By: John Steed

I've been off Google for quite a while too. I usually use Duck Duck Go. I'll give Brave a look.

On a side note, I've sort of made a game out of reading those disclaimer warnings on Youtube sites. They're kind of funny, but in a very dark and disturbing way.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 9:24 am By: Charles Hickman

There is a clear double standard in our "justice" system when Democrats can drum up Stalin Show Trials in four places against their top political enemy, but genuine criminal scandals of their own leaders are swept under the rug. Democracy is dead in America unless that stops real soon.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 9:06 am By: Conservative Voter

I quit using Google a few years ago. Brave is my go too.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 7:31 am By: PK

Your ignorance knows no bounds, Bolshevik Bob. Twenty percent of southern blacks in 1861 were free blacks, and ten percent of free blacks owned slaves themsellves. Indeed the percentage of slave ownership was somewhat higher among free blacks than among southern whites. In Beaufort County, there were two main communities of free blacks in 1861, Keysville, north of Washington, and a farming area of small farms east of Bath. Some were quite succesful in beuiness such as the free black man who owned a shipyard on the Washington waterfront. You are the one putting black people down by writing them off as all being slaves. They weren't.

A remember an article in Confederate Veteran magazine some years ago profiling one black Confederate hero, Moses Dallas, who prior to the war had been a free black man with a lucrative and challenging occupation as a river pilot guiding ships in and out of the port of Savannah. When the War Between the States came, Dallas enlisted in the Confederate navy and received an officer's commission. He was serving on the ironclad CSS Savannah, flagship of the Savannah squadron, when he and other officers on that warship decided to take the battle to the yankee blackade in an unconventinal way. With his detailed knowledge of the river and estuary, Dallas was one of the principle planners. They picked out a yankee warship on blockade duty, the USS Waterwitch, and romwed out in three small boats, boarding and capturing it in a surprise night time attack. It was the only capture of an enemy warship by boarding from small boats in the whole course of the war. Unfortunately, Dallas, who commanded one of the boats was killed in action before the ship was subdued.

Since regiments were organized on both sides by states rather than national governments, policies on free blacks serveing in the Confederate army varied somewhat by state. One very unfortunate example was in Louisiana, where the free black community organized a regiment for Confederate service when the war broke out but were turned down by the state government. Insulted by that rejection, after the nankees captured New Orleans, they offered their regiment to the north, which accepted their service.

Your narrative is not based on history. It is based on ideoloy, Bolshevik Bob, and it is totally ignorant.

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 6:43 pm By: John Steed

Enslaved people cannot consent to anything. Black confederate solders (if they existed and for the sake of argument lets say yes) were indeed not acting by free will. That argument doesn't hold water.
Neither does the other point you make about how most white southerners were all about the "war between the states", and slavery wasn't a big deal. Total BS. Proof? 100 years of Jim Crow. And that's not history. We lived it and did it.
Some are attempting to do it again by white washing history.
Man up and do the right thing.

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 3:51 pm By: Big Bob