Awesome awesome post, maybe the best one you’ve done that I’ve read.
So true how many people came to America with nothing but the hope for freedom and a better life. No other nation in the history of the world comes even close to what America represents. And yet we are allowing the degenerates, scum, maggots - the worst of our society to tear this country down, and destroy it. Not just the Marxist storm troopers, as represented by BLM and antifa, but by the political class and the bureaucratic swamp. These monsters have to be rejected and resisted by using any and all means necessary. There is no room for any negotiation or compromise with them. They are the embodiment of pure evil. It does come down to the simple fact, it will either be us or them. There is no middle ground.
Thank you, Stan! Yes, I think it will be a long slog back to a semblance of what this country was meant to stand for. It's been slowly, but surely degraded over the years. It stuns me to hear/see what "regular" Americans think their "freedom" is about. It seems the whole country has lost the sense of what liberty is -- and is not.
My paternal grandmother was nearly sent back to Ireland in 1925, because she wore eyeglasses. I guess that the doctors performing the exams were feeling magnanimous that day.
My cousins were also thrilled to host my wife and I 3 times and met a couple of grandma's younger siblings. Like you, we saw the family farm and the house she grew up in was still standing, as a barn.
Our ancestors risked it all for a whisper of a chance at freedom for themselves and future generations. My parents and grandparents would be dismayed at what has come to pass.
I can only imagine what my parents and both sets of grandparents would be saying right now at what has come to pass.
I was awestruck, too, at having found relatives I did not know existed. Well, I figured I had Irish relatives, but end up finding them?? To see relatives of my grandmother with such a strong resemblance to her? Stunning...
As for my grandfather's Aunt Johanna, she did, unfortunately, have to return to Ireland and leave him behind. I learned through further research that at age 38, she passed away. Apparently from TB...TB. The disease of poverty, as it's called.
My grandfather, also from Ireland, left a sister behind. She lived in a "home" and was referred to by my grandparents as being "lame". What was wrong with her, I have no idea. My grandfather and his brother sent money back to her and probably to the facility sh lived in, allowing her to live a longer life than would have been otherwise possible. I seem to recall that she was still alive when I was a young teen in the early 80s.
I would guess that she would have met a similar end as your Aunt Johanna had they not specifically provided for her. Unlike most Irish Catholic families at the time, it was just the three siblings - their father passed away when my grandfather was only five.
Absolutely! If we are weaklings, then what was all that sacrifice about? Surely we can afford the same inconvenience in our lives to show some backbone? Critical thinking skills? To know that their suffering was only to bring about a generation that solely speaks idiot? No way. Granted, it is not yet the same as they suffered. YET. Having to wipe your ass with a corncob is not suffering. People need to put their lives into perspective and know that. My ancestors died for the freedom that I have today. I do not take that fact lightly. Amen STL! I am with you.
Excellent post SheThinksLiberty! My grandparents came through Ellis island from Ireland and Poland. They settled in Massachusetts. I recall driving through Cambridge in the summer of 2020 to go visit my niece in Arlington. My wife and I were headed to Maine for a vacation. We lived in Kauai, Hawaii at the time, otherwise known as "mask hell" - the last county in the USA to drop mask mandates. 99% of the people in Cambridge, regardless of what they were doing, were fully masked up. The compliance was worse than Germany in the 1930's. It's indoctrination. Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the author of "The Indoctrinated Brain" - an amazing book that shows the purpose of the spike protein - to overwrite the hippocampus with indoctrination messages and strip people of their unique, individual nature. The government idiots knew this way back when we had the original SARS. You can't make this stuff up. I no longer communicate with a group of people who were "friends" pre-2020; I cannot because they are amazingly stupid, in the groupthink-Bonhoeffer sense.
Thank you, Steve. So many stories of those who came here through Ellis Island...
Yes, MA was ridiculous. We made plans to leave for NH the day the notice went up on our condo building door about requiring snot pouches. I became so indignant, so outraged that we packed a bunch of stuff in both our vehicles, headed to northern NH, and never looked back.
Interesting that you mention friends with whom you no longer communicate. I had just mentioned this to my husband on Tuesday (?). We have experienced the same thing. Lifelong and those we knew from our near 30 years in MA. Another life ago...I hear you re the level of stupidity, and as I also notice, obstinacy. I simply cannot stand it. I have lost all patience for trying to share or show. Done, done, and...done.
Thanks again and as always for your kind words. STL
I wrote my comment before reading the others here, Im really glad to see you have many readers glowing with well deserved praise for your really great post!
Oh my God in heaven do I love this beyond almost anything I've read about those (hopefully) disgraced fucks who trembled with oh so much fear even as the weeks and then months passed with every chance for them to finally see it was all lie after lie after more lies, spewed from the mouths of total frauds or evil greedy imposters who would count their growing piles of Benjamins with dark yet glowing eyes, never seeming to pause and think, or know, or understand, or give a single fuck about the damage and destruction these greedy fucking clowns were visiting upon the untold millions of victims of their nonstop lies and greed, which made me always wonder which group I loathed more for the damage that either the fearful tiny little bleating sheep or the soulless evil perps have done, and are doing, to our poor little kids.
Thank you, Fred! I think my great enjoyment of your comment here may compete with your enjoyment of my post! I actually threw my head back laughing right in your first sentence. That part about the "disgraced fucks"? Yeah, I started laughing and had to stop reading for a sec...
I come out in the same place regarding the groups competing for our disdain -- the perps or the collaborators -- the bleating sheep as you call them. As I've said a thousand times, you're a-scared? OK, fine. Be scared. Whatev. Hide in your basement. Wrap your head in plastic, Crap your pants -- do WHATEVER -- but how DARE you demand that I or anyone do the same????!!!! Over an effing respiratory infection???? Wreck everything??? As I've also said a thousand times,
Epic piece, thank you. I was just looking out of the window of the cigar store where I work part time, gazing in the direction of the long gone tiny apartment building where my ancestors rolled cigars for a living in this city, 160 years ago. I have what I have because of THEM. Freedom is ours for the keeping!
Many thanks for your article, very interesting. On another matter whilst looking for those who have had similar issues to me, I noticed that you have had problems with liking comments on substack recently. I have had the same issue, I can like articles, including my own, but not comments when using the Brave browser.
However I have found I can like with another browser (firefox) on the same PC. Brave browser does not update unless one has Windows 10 and it is possible that is the problem.
I'm using the Brave browser right now on a Win 8.1 machine. Can't like your comment. Were I to go over to Firefox on this machine, I'd be able to like your comment--which I do, BTW! :)
Agree...It's the Brave browser and its unwillingness/inability to "play nice" with anything older than Win 10.
When I hear a certain group of people who have lived here in this country for generations and are now demanding reparations, I wonder if they truly wish their ancestors had never been sold into slavery so that they, their descendants, would now be residing in the land of their ancestors. We should all be thankful for the sacrifices are our ancestors had to make, whether willing or forced, so that we could enjoy the freedom, liberty and opportunities here.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence, like so many of our military veterans, willingly pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor while faced with seemingly insurmountable odds to obtain and secure our independence and freedom. We should all be so courageous.
Awesome awesome post, maybe the best one you’ve done that I’ve read.
So true how many people came to America with nothing but the hope for freedom and a better life. No other nation in the history of the world comes even close to what America represents. And yet we are allowing the degenerates, scum, maggots - the worst of our society to tear this country down, and destroy it. Not just the Marxist storm troopers, as represented by BLM and antifa, but by the political class and the bureaucratic swamp. These monsters have to be rejected and resisted by using any and all means necessary. There is no room for any negotiation or compromise with them. They are the embodiment of pure evil. It does come down to the simple fact, it will either be us or them. There is no middle ground.
Thank you, Stan! Yes, I think it will be a long slog back to a semblance of what this country was meant to stand for. It's been slowly, but surely degraded over the years. It stuns me to hear/see what "regular" Americans think their "freedom" is about. It seems the whole country has lost the sense of what liberty is -- and is not.
Indeed! Returning America to its promise is essential, and it is not for sale. 🇺🇸
RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!
I love this. And I'm right there with ya, shoulder to shoulder. xo xo xo
❤️ Thank you, my friend. :)
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Excellent post.
My paternal grandmother was nearly sent back to Ireland in 1925, because she wore eyeglasses. I guess that the doctors performing the exams were feeling magnanimous that day.
My cousins were also thrilled to host my wife and I 3 times and met a couple of grandma's younger siblings. Like you, we saw the family farm and the house she grew up in was still standing, as a barn.
Our ancestors risked it all for a whisper of a chance at freedom for themselves and future generations. My parents and grandparents would be dismayed at what has come to pass.
I can only imagine what my parents and both sets of grandparents would be saying right now at what has come to pass.
I was awestruck, too, at having found relatives I did not know existed. Well, I figured I had Irish relatives, but end up finding them?? To see relatives of my grandmother with such a strong resemblance to her? Stunning...
As for my grandfather's Aunt Johanna, she did, unfortunately, have to return to Ireland and leave him behind. I learned through further research that at age 38, she passed away. Apparently from TB...TB. The disease of poverty, as it's called.
My grandfather, also from Ireland, left a sister behind. She lived in a "home" and was referred to by my grandparents as being "lame". What was wrong with her, I have no idea. My grandfather and his brother sent money back to her and probably to the facility sh lived in, allowing her to live a longer life than would have been otherwise possible. I seem to recall that she was still alive when I was a young teen in the early 80s.
I would guess that she would have met a similar end as your Aunt Johanna had they not specifically provided for her. Unlike most Irish Catholic families at the time, it was just the three siblings - their father passed away when my grandfather was only five.
Thanks again for your post today.
As a society we have fallen so far. We have put our trust in people that are morally and ethically bankrupt. I don't see how this ends well...
We'll have to scratch and claw for every inch we gain back.
Absolutely! If we are weaklings, then what was all that sacrifice about? Surely we can afford the same inconvenience in our lives to show some backbone? Critical thinking skills? To know that their suffering was only to bring about a generation that solely speaks idiot? No way. Granted, it is not yet the same as they suffered. YET. Having to wipe your ass with a corncob is not suffering. People need to put their lives into perspective and know that. My ancestors died for the freedom that I have today. I do not take that fact lightly. Amen STL! I am with you.
Beautiful story, well written, keeps your interest . Thank you for the inspiration.
Excellent post SheThinksLiberty! My grandparents came through Ellis island from Ireland and Poland. They settled in Massachusetts. I recall driving through Cambridge in the summer of 2020 to go visit my niece in Arlington. My wife and I were headed to Maine for a vacation. We lived in Kauai, Hawaii at the time, otherwise known as "mask hell" - the last county in the USA to drop mask mandates. 99% of the people in Cambridge, regardless of what they were doing, were fully masked up. The compliance was worse than Germany in the 1930's. It's indoctrination. Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the author of "The Indoctrinated Brain" - an amazing book that shows the purpose of the spike protein - to overwrite the hippocampus with indoctrination messages and strip people of their unique, individual nature. The government idiots knew this way back when we had the original SARS. You can't make this stuff up. I no longer communicate with a group of people who were "friends" pre-2020; I cannot because they are amazingly stupid, in the groupthink-Bonhoeffer sense.
Thanks for the great post.
Peace.
Thank you, Steve. So many stories of those who came here through Ellis Island...
Yes, MA was ridiculous. We made plans to leave for NH the day the notice went up on our condo building door about requiring snot pouches. I became so indignant, so outraged that we packed a bunch of stuff in both our vehicles, headed to northern NH, and never looked back.
Interesting that you mention friends with whom you no longer communicate. I had just mentioned this to my husband on Tuesday (?). We have experienced the same thing. Lifelong and those we knew from our near 30 years in MA. Another life ago...I hear you re the level of stupidity, and as I also notice, obstinacy. I simply cannot stand it. I have lost all patience for trying to share or show. Done, done, and...done.
Thanks again and as always for your kind words. STL
Beautiful and resonant. A great lens - our ancestry - to view the current mess from. (Got grandparents that came here from Ireland too.)
So many important lessons found right in our own lineages and we don't have to go back that far, to see them. Thanks, SadieJay.
I wrote my comment before reading the others here, Im really glad to see you have many readers glowing with well deserved praise for your really great post!
Oh my God in heaven do I love this beyond almost anything I've read about those (hopefully) disgraced fucks who trembled with oh so much fear even as the weeks and then months passed with every chance for them to finally see it was all lie after lie after more lies, spewed from the mouths of total frauds or evil greedy imposters who would count their growing piles of Benjamins with dark yet glowing eyes, never seeming to pause and think, or know, or understand, or give a single fuck about the damage and destruction these greedy fucking clowns were visiting upon the untold millions of victims of their nonstop lies and greed, which made me always wonder which group I loathed more for the damage that either the fearful tiny little bleating sheep or the soulless evil perps have done, and are doing, to our poor little kids.
Thank you, Fred! I think my great enjoyment of your comment here may compete with your enjoyment of my post! I actually threw my head back laughing right in your first sentence. That part about the "disgraced fucks"? Yeah, I started laughing and had to stop reading for a sec...
I come out in the same place regarding the groups competing for our disdain -- the perps or the collaborators -- the bleating sheep as you call them. As I've said a thousand times, you're a-scared? OK, fine. Be scared. Whatev. Hide in your basement. Wrap your head in plastic, Crap your pants -- do WHATEVER -- but how DARE you demand that I or anyone do the same????!!!! Over an effing respiratory infection???? Wreck everything??? As I've also said a thousand times,
"𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆."
Epic piece, thank you. I was just looking out of the window of the cigar store where I work part time, gazing in the direction of the long gone tiny apartment building where my ancestors rolled cigars for a living in this city, 160 years ago. I have what I have because of THEM. Freedom is ours for the keeping!
Many thanks for your article, very interesting. On another matter whilst looking for those who have had similar issues to me, I noticed that you have had problems with liking comments on substack recently. I have had the same issue, I can like articles, including my own, but not comments when using the Brave browser.
However I have found I can like with another browser (firefox) on the same PC. Brave browser does not update unless one has Windows 10 and it is possible that is the problem.
I'm using the Brave browser right now on a Win 8.1 machine. Can't like your comment. Were I to go over to Firefox on this machine, I'd be able to like your comment--which I do, BTW! :)
Agree...It's the Brave browser and its unwillingness/inability to "play nice" with anything older than Win 10.
Thanks, at least we understand what is happening although it is very annoying.
When I hear a certain group of people who have lived here in this country for generations and are now demanding reparations, I wonder if they truly wish their ancestors had never been sold into slavery so that they, their descendants, would now be residing in the land of their ancestors. We should all be thankful for the sacrifices are our ancestors had to make, whether willing or forced, so that we could enjoy the freedom, liberty and opportunities here.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence, like so many of our military veterans, willingly pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor while faced with seemingly insurmountable odds to obtain and secure our independence and freedom. We should all be so courageous.
Thank you, J.R. Yes, a very familiar Irish prayer! What a blessing that they lived so long.