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mobeau69

(12,183 posts) Sun Nov 16, 2025, 03:36 PM Sunday

"The American Revolution" starts tonight 8ET on PBS

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"The American Revolution" starts tonight 8ET on PBS (Original Post) mobeau69 Sunday OP

Got to wonder what old Stinky Pants will have to say about it on social media rurallib Sunday #1

"What a load of crap. He didn't show us ramming the ramparts or taking the airports." rsdsharp Sunday #2

I like your turn of phrase "commonist". Altho Jefferson may have considered himself a slight bit above that. erronis Sunday #3

rurallib

(64,415 posts)

1. Got to wonder what old Stinky Pants will have to say about it on social media

Reply to mobeau69 (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 03:51 PM

Sunday

tomorrow?

'That Thomas Jefferson was a commonist. He'd feel right at home in Mamdani's New York.

They should have stopped all illegals when they had a chance back then.......'

rsdsharp

(11,556 posts)

2. "What a load of crap. He didn't show us ramming the ramparts or taking the airports."

Reply to rurallib (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 04:01 PM

Sunday

erronis

(21,973 posts)

3. I like your turn of phrase "commonist". Altho Jefferson may have considered himself a slight bit above that.

Reply to rurallib (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 04:35 PM

Sunday

Yup - the whiteys sailing into the eastern shores of the Americas should have been met with deadly force. I mean it!

But the population pressures back in that "Olde Europe" and other places were going to prevail in the end. Just as they will in this country (USA) over the next few decades. And that is how it should be.

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