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#thomasjefferson

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#Eilnachricht
#USpol #Grönland #Grossmachtpolitik

#Trump träumt sich ins 19. Jahrhundert zurück und will es dem großen Präsidenten #ThomasJefferson gleichtun, der im Jahr 1803 im #LouisianaPurchase von #Napoléon für 15 Mio. USD durchführte.
Er will sich vom #USKongress zum Kauf von Grönland ermächtigen lassen:

"H.R.1161 - Ermächtigung des Präsidenten zur Aufnahme von Verhandlungen über den Erwerb Grönlands und zur Umbenennung Grönlands in „Rot-, Weiß- und Blauland“.

congress.gov/bill/119th-congre

"I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating #library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen #books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time."

- #ThomasJefferson to John Wyche, May 19, 1809, from his papers at the Library of Congress

loc.gov/resource/mtj1.043_1155

Those #elite wielding #power must ever be reminded their power flows from the consent of the #people; whose might, when roused, flows over them like a flood.

The only defense the powerful have ever devised is division; pitting the #class that would drown them, against one another.

The only defense the people have ever devised is uniting to instill the fear necessary to ensure their #demands are met.

Say what you will about #ThomasJefferson, but he understood this explicitly.

loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/105

@punklawyer @spujb

I remember having a convo with this guy about how #ThomasJefferson had taken a teenaged girl as concubine, one who was his property as an enslaved person, and also the half-sister of his dead wife, later enslaving his own children with her.

His body language told me that this was painful information to hear, and also might have been the first time it was relayed to him.

Former President Donald Trump is now selling Bibles for $59.99, inscribed with the phrase "God Bless the USA" and accompanied by copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. But he's not the first U.S. ex-president to sell Bibles for his own purposes. After leaving office, Thomas Jefferson put together "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth” which was a private exercise undertaken to make sense of Jesus's teachings. The Miami Herald contrasts the two books, saying of Trump's Bible: “The use of flag imagery and political texts in conjunction with the bible suggests a dangerous politicization of Christianity and religion more broadly — the exact phenomenon that Jefferson feared.”

flip.it/isciDQ

#History #Politics #Trump #ThomasJefferson @histodons #USA #USPolitics #Religion