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(17,595 posts)for their crimes
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 1, 2022, 07:57 PM - Edit history (1)
One of my great greats and so forth was a Tory. He got out of town one jump ahead of the tar and feather corps and made a run for the border. My grandfather was Canadian.
Another third were revolutionaries and the rest hedged their bets.
erronis
(15,241 posts)And then they came for us.
Wednesdays
(17,362 posts)"The bottom line is that although significant divisions existed in America during the Revolution, the Loyalists never coalesced into an opposition group with the same strength as the Patriot cause. John Adams pointed to one legacy from the Loyalist population when he told Thomas McKean, 'Divided we ever have been, and ever must be.' When you wonder if America is 'divided' today, its good to remember that weve been that way since the beginning."
duhneece
(4,112 posts)
post WW II
I read about 30% of Americans are racist.
Is one third of humanity just assholes?
Irish_Dem
(47,026 posts)30% of humans are amoral.
BComplex
(8,049 posts)I was laughing at your post before I even realized whose post it was!!!
wryter2000
(46,039 posts)She says her grandmother was a fascist until the day she died.
wnylib
(21,447 posts)of Germans after the war insisted that they never supported Hitler. If they were all telling the truth, he would never have received all the votes that he got.
But that was only when asked by outsiders. Among themselves, I suspect that they lamented his demise.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So her tweet is not only a joke!
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)OMGWTF
(3,955 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)lame54
(35,287 posts)highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)He lost the White House, the Senate and the House. He really DID make America great again!!!!!
XacerbatedDem
(511 posts)I gotta remember that one!
Roc2020
(1,615 posts)before we can accurately say what's gained or loss. The darkest of endings nothing will matter
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)Probably couldn't find trump's without Stormy's microscope. Something about 'shrooms and couple of peas.
H2O Man
(73,537 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)wryter2000
(46,039 posts)Malcolm Nance said Ukraine can win this.