IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth
Did Trump just invent a new year-counting system, based on 1776? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I'm looking this up, and it appears that many previous executive orders have also used this.
Even Abraham Lincoln did it in the emancipation proclamation.
Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.
But the idea of an American calendar based on 1776 is still an awesome idea!
My buddy’s daughter got snippy with me this weekend saying Columbus did NOT discover North America. I didn’t argue with her cause I have no clue wtf she’s talking about. She’s a senior in high school so obviously she’s been brainwashed. Can someone educate me on what the Marxist argument is on Columbus? I’m lost.
It's all over the place, but generally it's just an effort to discredit what Columbus did by pointing out that Leif Ericson was there first. Of course, that doesn't make it less impressive, since it's not as if the Vikings told anybody. Columbus still was making a dangerous voyage that few others would try, and he's the one who actually "dis-covered" (as in, revealed to the Old World) the New World. Ericson may have been there first, but he left it "covered."
Alternatively, some truly wacky people try to claim that neither Ericson nor Columbus matter because the "Indigenous Peoples" discovered it first. Which once again, makes little difference, because those "discoverers" didn't maintain contact with the Old World.
But Indigenous implies that a people were from there. That pesky science shit that they keep hammering us with, saying the world only has “x, days/weeks/months/years left” also proved to date that no person’s were indigenous to the North American continent. Unless they are saying that if those people were “born here” thus making us all “natives/indigenous.” Either way we play it their heads fucking explode.
He didn’t have to cheat by taking the short route and hopping from settled island to island to get to Canada - which we all know isn’t North America, it’s South Arctic.
I can tell you that his political opponent of the day wrote a hit piece smear job on Columbus which is now brought up today by the left claiming he was a monster.
The legit one says that others crossed the Atlantic first, which is true. Here's a video on the Vikings, who definitely settled Greenland and may have frittered about in Canada:
Amusingly enough, the Vikings left Greenland at the end of the Medieval Warm Period, which is something "climate scientists" try to erase from the record in order to prove the global warming hoax.
(There's also St Brendan and other semi-mythical discoverers pre-Columbus, but the evidence for them is scant.)
The commie version is that the Americas were already discovered by the peaceful LGBTQ natives with their Green New Deals and peaceful protests etc., and Columbus merely introduced toxic masculinity and so forth.
Technically, Columbus never stepped foot on the actual North American continent.
No matter, the strategy of the Columbus Mission was to “prove” to the Muslims in Spain that God and Jesus was the true God. The New World discovery was a demoralizing factor. Records indicate that Columbus himself was in attendance when the Muslim Prince kissed the ring as part of the surrender.
The Vikings definitely made it along the Ohio River and had presence up the Great Miami River. Probably trade presence.
The DNA of the true Miami (Ohio) Indians should be studied for Viking influence.
Not all but a lot of them were very petty and fought wars over a simple bead. Some tribes were bloody savage others were nice but they were living like it was the stone age.
There was a viking named Eric the Red that i believe first found the North American contiinent. But Columbus was the first to spread word about it and led to settlers coming to the new land.
It's more complicated. Columbus knew of the Vikings, they were quiet, but not silent. The Vikings didn't believe they were in Asia. They didn't care. All they cared about was trade in lumber and ivory. Christopher figured that they must have been going way north of China. The story we have today was actually created by paleo-leftists during the 1800. Remember, they lionized him before they hated him.
Columbus faced repeat rejection in bid to attempt voyage West into uncharted seas.
The voyage considered suicidal by mariners of the time. When approved no one would join his crew, they had to enlist prisoners to find people willing to go.
At great personal risk achieved an impossible feat, discovering new land on the frontier. That's the value introduced by the fictionalized folkhero adopted by America. Take massive risks to try something new, innovate. To the early frontier life of the country Washington Irving fictionalized version of Columbus voyages resonated, resulting in Columbus canonized as folkhero.
Skim textbooks introduced to school kids around 1900 - 1920 and this is the value you see personified by the folkhero.
That's the value they're trying to erase when tearing down Colombus statues by nihilistic hyper focus on the flaws of reality. The communist insurgents won't engage on fictionalized folkhero, just hammer something they can libel and malign over and over again to taint the social fabric.
FUCK "INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY"
There are NO "Indigenous people" in America. No race started on the American continent. EVERYONE migrated here from somewhere else. There's a reason so-called "Native Americans" look Asian - because they are! Just asians that left asia 10,000 years ago
In commemoration of Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as “Columbus Day.”
Unfortunately, the channel's owner disavowed that video. He couldn't name anything in it that was wrong. Rather, he basically said that defending Columbus was unjustified because of all the bad things he brought to the natives regardless of his intent. Which, translated, means he got scared of the internet mob and they badgered him into submission.
Your comment confuses me. He didn't take the video down and he didn't identify any faults with it, but you claim that he "disavowed" it. What does that mean? If he gave in to the internet mob, he'd have taken it down, right?
He made another video called something like "Columbus in Context" where he basically said that although the first video was true, his arrival ushered in so much bad stuff that Columbus shouldn't be celebrated or defended.
Going to a locally-owned Italian restaurant tomorrow with my sister. Did the same last year and ordered a Margherita pizza, which was named for the queen of Italy when it was invented. Didn't like the overpowering flavor of basil, though, so I'll probably try something else this year. Happy Columbus Day!
Just imagine the feat of crossing the Atlantic with the technology available in 1492. Its really an achievement for humanity like the moon landing. We probably should make Armstrong day a thing too.
Probably not but I have to disagree. October doesn't have any holidays where I work. American's are the hardest working people in the world. We should get two days off every month.
Well I think that's a separate issue from what this "proclamation" is talking about. He is addressing the intentional destruction of our heritage, using revisionist history.
I still think all the hubbub over Columbus Day is a missed opportunity to remake it all as Leif Erikson Day. Kinda like how St. Patrick’s Day is St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo is basically Mexican St. Patrick’s Day, I think a Viking St. Patrick’s Day would be fun.
Did Trump just invent a new year-counting system, based on 1776? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I like it. Before Freedom (BF) and After Freedom (AF).
Happy 244 A.F.!
So just like there's no year 0 in Christianity (it goes from -1 BC to 1 AD), I think we're designating 1776 as year 1. Happy 245 AF!
That would make July 4th the American New Years Day
Yes! It makes more sense to celebrate for the greatest human revolution than it does to celebrate.. what exactly? Switching the calendar?
Save ourselves a bundle on fireworks if they're only once a year
45 ! 45ths President
I hate how academics try to call BC before common era
It's just another attempt to scrub our history away and remove all reference to God.
I like how AF is both After Freedom and As Fuck.
245? As is 2 terms for President 45? ;D
Definitely a plus.
We Should use this from now on.
I'm looking this up, and it appears that many previous executive orders have also used this.
Even Abraham Lincoln did it in the emancipation proclamation.
But the idea of an American calendar based on 1776 is still an awesome idea!
I love it!
Happy New World Diversity Day!
Celebrating Columbus bringing diversity to the New World.
That's a spicy-ah meat-a-ball-ah!
I'll have the tools and machines ready to mine salt!
Lib: columbus day, amirite?
Boss: so your good to work that day?
Lib: Hol' up.
Sounds like the idiots who would bitch about moving to Canada if Trump won, and still haven't left.
Happy Columbus Day ya lib fucks!
My buddy’s daughter got snippy with me this weekend saying Columbus did NOT discover North America. I didn’t argue with her cause I have no clue wtf she’s talking about. She’s a senior in high school so obviously she’s been brainwashed. Can someone educate me on what the Marxist argument is on Columbus? I’m lost.
It's all over the place, but generally it's just an effort to discredit what Columbus did by pointing out that Leif Ericson was there first. Of course, that doesn't make it less impressive, since it's not as if the Vikings told anybody. Columbus still was making a dangerous voyage that few others would try, and he's the one who actually "dis-covered" (as in, revealed to the Old World) the New World. Ericson may have been there first, but he left it "covered."
Alternatively, some truly wacky people try to claim that neither Ericson nor Columbus matter because the "Indigenous Peoples" discovered it first. Which once again, makes little difference, because those "discoverers" didn't maintain contact with the Old World.
He didn't discover it. It was already there. He just showed it to people that knew how to use it. We would still be living in teepees without him.
I just wanna point out the definition of discover:
dis·cov·er
Considering the guy thought he was in India, its safe to say he discovered it.
Thanks! The indigenous angle is what I figured she was playing but wasn’t completely sure. I went red when she got snippy so I left it alone entirely.
I like indigenous peoples who don't lose entire continents.
In America we celebrate winners. Not losers.
My leftist “friends” are losing it on me because I called it Columbus Day Hahahaha. They are comparing Columbus to Hitler. Unbelievable.
But Indigenous implies that a people were from there. That pesky science shit that they keep hammering us with, saying the world only has “x, days/weeks/months/years left” also proved to date that no person’s were indigenous to the North American continent. Unless they are saying that if those people were “born here” thus making us all “natives/indigenous.” Either way we play it their heads fucking explode.
He didn’t have to cheat by taking the short route and hopping from settled island to island to get to Canada - which we all know isn’t North America, it’s South Arctic.
White people bad. Savages without the fucking wheel, good. Basically.
Lefties actually believe this but unironically...
I can tell you that his political opponent of the day wrote a hit piece smear job on Columbus which is now brought up today by the left claiming he was a monster.
Figures. Anything to trash our country’s history.
Spain was and still is the monster. Columbus was in big trouble with the Queen. He was acting to save his skin.
Remember folks, it was and always has been the Democrats who abused the Indians. Ask any real Cherokee!
There's a legit and a commie interpretation.
The legit one says that others crossed the Atlantic first, which is true. Here's a video on the Vikings, who definitely settled Greenland and may have frittered about in Canada:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVZFYk-s8c4
Amusingly enough, the Vikings left Greenland at the end of the Medieval Warm Period, which is something "climate scientists" try to erase from the record in order to prove the global warming hoax.
(There's also St Brendan and other semi-mythical discoverers pre-Columbus, but the evidence for them is scant.)
The commie version is that the Americas were already discovered by the peaceful LGBTQ natives with their Green New Deals and peaceful protests etc., and Columbus merely introduced toxic masculinity and so forth.
Here's a debunking of that nonsense:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEw8c6TmzGg
"peaceful LGBTQ natives"
haha savage
Savage haha. I see what you did there.
Heh, indeed.
Technically, Columbus never stepped foot on the actual North American continent.
No matter, the strategy of the Columbus Mission was to “prove” to the Muslims in Spain that God and Jesus was the true God. The New World discovery was a demoralizing factor. Records indicate that Columbus himself was in attendance when the Muslim Prince kissed the ring as part of the surrender.
The Vikings definitely made it along the Ohio River and had presence up the Great Miami River. Probably trade presence.
The DNA of the true Miami (Ohio) Indians should be studied for Viking influence.
There used to be talk of blue-eyed Eskimos of Viking origin:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond_Eskimos
Contemporary scientists deny it but they would wouldn't they.
Not all but a lot of them were very petty and fought wars over a simple bead. Some tribes were bloody savage others were nice but they were living like it was the stone age.
There was a viking named Eric the Red that i believe first found the North American contiinent. But Columbus was the first to spread word about it and led to settlers coming to the new land.
Leif errickson. Son of eric
Thank you for the correction, its been so long since I had to remember any of that part of history.
Happy Leif Ericsson Day!
Hinga dinga durgin
The best part about being a Viking would have been the awesome name. Thanks for the response!
Unless you get stuck with "Boneless"
🤣
It's more complicated. Columbus knew of the Vikings, they were quiet, but not silent. The Vikings didn't believe they were in Asia. They didn't care. All they cared about was trade in lumber and ivory. Christopher figured that they must have been going way north of China. The story we have today was actually created by paleo-leftists during the 1800. Remember, they lionized him before they hated him.
This triggers the liberal
Columbus faced repeat rejection in bid to attempt voyage West into uncharted seas.
The voyage considered suicidal by mariners of the time. When approved no one would join his crew, they had to enlist prisoners to find people willing to go.
At great personal risk achieved an impossible feat, discovering new land on the frontier. That's the value introduced by the fictionalized folkhero adopted by America. Take massive risks to try something new, innovate. To the early frontier life of the country Washington Irving fictionalized version of Columbus voyages resonated, resulting in Columbus canonized as folkhero.
Skim textbooks introduced to school kids around 1900 - 1920 and this is the value you see personified by the folkhero.
That's the value they're trying to erase when tearing down Colombus statues by nihilistic hyper focus on the flaws of reality. The communist insurgents won't engage on fictionalized folkhero, just hammer something they can libel and malign over and over again to taint the social fabric.
Respond to them with, who cares what he did, still a great feat.
FUCK "INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY"
There are NO "Indigenous people" in America. No race started on the American continent. EVERYONE migrated here from somewhere else. There's a reason so-called "Native Americans" look Asian - because they are! Just asians that left asia 10,000 years ago
'Nuff said.
I think it would be hilarious if Trump made an indigenous people's day but made it in like April or something.
He can just designate April 1st as "Elizabeth Warren Day".
Needs to heavy troll her and appoint her chairman of the Indian day council or whatever.
Seconded.
How many do we need to start the petition?
Happy Western Civilization Day
And send this to your cuck friends tomorrow:
In Defense Of Columbus: An Exaggerated Evil.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEw8c6TmzGg
And a pox on "Knowing Better" for disavowing that video, even though he couldn't name any part of it where he was actually factually incorrect.
Great link. Thanks for letting me know about that YouTube channel.
Unfortunately, the channel's owner disavowed that video. He couldn't name anything in it that was wrong. Rather, he basically said that defending Columbus was unjustified because of all the bad things he brought to the natives regardless of his intent. Which, translated, means he got scared of the internet mob and they badgered him into submission.
Your comment confuses me. He didn't take the video down and he didn't identify any faults with it, but you claim that he "disavowed" it. What does that mean? If he gave in to the internet mob, he'd have taken it down, right?
He made another video called something like "Columbus in Context" where he basically said that although the first video was true, his arrival ushered in so much bad stuff that Columbus shouldn't be celebrated or defended.
Thanks for follow up. I'll check it out.
Now let's grind 'em into the dust on Mayflower Day (Dec 18th - 400 big ones this year). The winning never stops!
This is what truly won me over on Trump.
He continues to deliver consistently too.
Going to a locally-owned Italian restaurant tomorrow with my sister. Did the same last year and ordered a Margherita pizza, which was named for the queen of Italy when it was invented. Didn't like the overpowering flavor of basil, though, so I'll probably try something else this year. Happy Columbus Day!
ORANGE MAN ENDORSES WHITE SUPREMACY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Let's Take Back Columbus Day
I. LOVE. THIS. MAN.
What a President.
AWESOME. NOW VOTE!
Just imagine the feat of crossing the Atlantic with the technology available in 1492. Its really an achievement for humanity like the moon landing. We probably should make Armstrong day a thing too.
Well put!
REEEEEEEE
Leif did it for himself, Columbus did it for the world
Fuck yeah!!!
Happy Columbus Day Frens!
Am I the only 'pede who believes Columbus Day is just a stupid government holiday that only dead weight workers get the day off?
Nothing against Columbus or Italian Americans or discovery or whatever. I just think it's a useless holiday.
Probably not but I have to disagree. October doesn't have any holidays where I work. American's are the hardest working people in the world. We should get two days off every month.
Well I think that's a separate issue from what this "proclamation" is talking about. He is addressing the intentional destruction of our heritage, using revisionist history.
HEY, WHERE'S THE GULAG DOODLE? HE DESERVES ONE NOW!
For all of my Italian Friends out there:
COLUMBUS DAY FOREVER!
It’s my birthday and Columbus Day. I will always celebrate this holiday. Get wrecked libtards.
Absolutely beautiful. Happy Columbus Day! This should be stickied for 24 hours I think.
As an Italian American, I'm upset Amerigo gets nothing for actually finding this continent and not the Caribbean like Columbus did.
SMH, just placate the Italians with one day and not a month. Just like the Irisih and St. Patrick's, a single day to talk about heritage vs a month.
Ffs, I want some inclusion here. G.D. Am I alone on this?
I still think all the hubbub over Columbus Day is a missed opportunity to remake it all as Leif Erikson Day. Kinda like how St. Patrick’s Day is St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo is basically Mexican St. Patrick’s Day, I think a Viking St. Patrick’s Day would be fun.
Hell yeah! Take this day away from them and give it a MAGA meaning, that's my President!
I'm ordering a decent pizza tomorrow, and I never eat out.
My cuck city just voted to take down our Columbus statue. I'm really tired of these assholes.
Does this mean Maine has to stop calling it indigenous peoples day?
Columbus is overrated.
Hernán Cortés is my lad, he slayed heathens and didn’t afraid of anything.
just some salt on top... lol
How.
Schools are still fucking around
Lol my liberal friends are losing it over this. Bitching and moaning about all the “atrocities”.
This place eases my mind- Thank you all!