Murica Day 2023

Drunken boat crashes, starting wildfires with wayward fireworks, charcoal burning everywhere … I get all that. It’s our country’s birthday, so let your freedom flag fly.

But no one can explain to me why millions of people watching “athletes” stuff dozens of mystery meat-filled casings wrapped in disintegrating water soaked buns down their pie hole is patriotic.

 

“Albatrosses for some, miniature American flags for others.”

 

I'm not sure we truly achieved our freedom as a country until the Treaty of Ghent was signed to end the War of 1812, and England finally agreed to permanently leave us alone.

 

Yeah, but the Philadelphia 12ers just doesn't cut it.

 

The actual vote to declare independence was July 2. Shhhhhhhhhhh. Don't blow the minds of the non-readers.
It wasn't completely unanimous.
12 for, 0 against, 1 abstention (NY).

 

Hey, let's not forget that North Carolina adopted the Halifax Resolves on April 12, 1776, telling King George to pound sand.
That's #Murica

 

Also, don't blow the minds of the non-readers that the only difference between the heroes of 1776 and villains of 1861 was the outcome and who wrote the history. #crossthread 1863

 

Why is America awesome? Because of guys like this.
Got bitten by a rattlesnake when he was 11, walked four miles to a Boy Scout first aid station, and recovered without treatment. Lifelong interest in snakes is sparked. He eventually opens a snake farm in Florida, but not before working a while as an airplane mechanic and at a speakeasy, and rooming with a moonshiner.
At the snake farm, he starts experimenting on himself with snake venom. He's bitten by damn near every kind of poisonous snake at one time or another, a documented 172 times in all over the course of his life. In the 1960s he actively started injecting himself with venom to build up an immunity — a process he continues for about 40 years.
When local doctors couldn't obtain anti-venom for snake bite victims, he donated his own blood as a substitute.
Bill Haast died in 2011, at the age of 100, as an American badass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haast

This segment was filmed when he was 88.

 

Made me laff.

 

That video is laughable wrasslin' bullshit.
And you buy into that laughable wrasslin' bullshit?

Love to hear you explain the how and the when and the why.
How does such laughable wrasslin' bullshit enhance your life?

 

Most great civilizations have a shelf life of about 400 years, right?

If that's the case, are we not about done?
Hope like hell we're not, but doesn't history tell us otherwise?