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Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and (from 1865) the general-in-chief of Confederate forces, neither owned slaves nor inherited any, thus it is not correct to assert that he “freed his slaves” (in 1862 or at any other time). — https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/confederate-history-slave-ownership/
The article goes on to explain that as executor of his father-in-law‘s will, he freed slaves belonging to his father-in-law.
Okay, how long until Snopes gets cancelled?
How interesting it would be to hear Lee and Grant having an open and honest conversation about the slaves they and/or their wives and in-laws owned and how they handled it all. Naturally as major players their involvement and experiences are well scrutinized. We’re told that Grant, who ordered tens of thousands of soldiers (white and black) to their deaths in an extremely bloody civil war could not bring himself to order his slave to do any work. There ought to be statues to honor such a kind slaver!
And surely he wasn’t the only slave owner (white or black) who was strongly inclined not to abuse or mistreat his/her valuable human property. Unfortunately not every failed farmer gets a chance and has the skills to have such successful second and third careers as Grant.
One of my favorite tropes on the right is the idea that any day now people on the left are going to be tearing each other apart. I expect to riding to my re-education camp and over hear the dulcet tones of JPod talking about how any day the left will tear themselves apart and have a civil war and oh boy here it comes any day now.
Real soon.
Its going to be epic….
In surveys they have discovered people on the left feel it is perfectly fine for parents to fill out their voting ballots for children who are too busy for politics and send it in. People on the right respond that it is a major breach of the ballot to do that for their child. So…look for big youth turnout in mail in ballots that is even more one sided than normal. Honestly, voting age should be 35.
Listening again, I’m reminded of JPod’s… “screed?”… over Trump’s opposition to vote-by-mail since he believes that will make it harder for older people to vote for Trump, since they will be afraid to vote in person because virus.
But that ignores the likelihood that many of these old peoples’ mailed-in ballots will either be made into Biden votes, or somehow not counted for one reason or another.
There’s that. But also Democrats wish to flood the zone with mail-in-ballots, sending them out en masse to people who might not even have requested any. And because the voter rolls are full of people who have moved or died, some addresses can end up with half a dozen ballots, making it very easy for someone to fill out multiple ballots.
Democrats also create pre-filled ballots for people to just sign and return, and they use the elderly or mentally disabled that way.
Then of course some people request absentee ballots and they never get them. I’m still not sure who ended up with my ballot from April, although the Wisconsin Elections Board claims one was mailed to me. (The Wisconsin elections board is controlled by Democrats! Surprise!) And there were multiple reports of bins of ballots discovered weeks after the election, though the reports didn’t clarify whether they were on their way out to voters and never arrived (like mine) or completed and on their way back (meaning votes that were never counted).
Given the number of discovered ballots long after the results were finalized, I pretty much consider our April elections this year to be completely invalid. I’m pretty sure previous elections in this state are likewise invalid. Especially the one that put Tony Evers into office due to 50,000 ballots “discovered” in Milwaukee after Milwaukee reported that all their votes were counted. But Scott Walker was ahead by about 12,000 votes, so more votes had to be discovered. And lo and behold, look! A mysterious bin of ballots showed up in Milwaukee!
Any conservative telling you that mail-in-voting is perfectly safe and we should totally have mass mail-in-voting in November is actually a Democrat operative gaslighting you.
Turns out, the easiest way to fix a mail-in ballot election is simply to throw away some of the envelopes coming from Republican districts.
Postal workers are overwhelmingly Democrats; all you need is a few corrupt or fanatic ones.
According to the NY Post, this has been going on for decades.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/think-talk-of-voter-fraud-is-bunk-read-this-confession-and-think-again-opinion/ar-BB18Anj1?ocid=uxbndlbing
Actually, ballots that never made it to the voters were also votes that were never counted.
Another thing that really bugs me is that, apparently in some states at least, a mail ballot takes priority over an in-person vote. So if the Dems “harvest” your mail ballot and send it in all “properly” filled out – THEIR way, of course – and maybe because you didn’t receive your mail ballot or because you never even ASKED FOR one, you vote in person… well guess what, that doesn’t count! The fraudulent mail-in ballot counts!
Thank you for that article, I sent the whole text to several friends and relatives, in case they couldn’t be bothered to look it up themselves.