News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
U.S.—Historians have introduced an interesting new theory: that the American Revolution would never have occurred if the colonists had access to Netflix.
The theory holds that if the American colonists had unlimited access to millions of streaming shows and movies, they would have just kinda accepted the British government’s tyranny.
“We now believe if they’d been able to just hang out in their houses and watch some crazy guy raise a bunch of tigers, the American colonists would have been cool with pretty much any tax the British could have levied,” said Dr. Patrick Molin, professor of 18th-century American history. “
Historians have reconstructed likely conversations the colonists would have had instead of declaring independence from Britain:
Thomas Jefferson: Hey, guys, this taxation without representation stuff is getting out of hand. Should we do something about it?
Sam Adams: Yeaaaah, nah. A bonus Tiger King episode just dropped and I am all ABOUT it.
Thomas Jefferson: Whaaaaaat!?!? Oh dang, sorry — hadn’t realized.
Benjamin Franklin: I’m gonna marathon that bad boy but gonna go fly this kite for a few, fam.
John Adams: Man, I wish they still had Battlestar Galactica.
Sam Adams: Yeah, seriously. Shame that fourth season was so bad though.
John Adams: Like, for real.
Go here to read the rest. Amusing ourselves to death.
Bread and circuses.
Standing up for Liberty is just so dang inconvenient. I mean, normally I would, but…
One of the devil’s strongest tools.
“We will all hang together or we will all hang separately.” Benjamin Franklin. as George III was hanging colonists on his ships in the middle of the ocean without trial. Taxation without representation in Parliament and quartering English soldiers in colonists homes without consent. Lest we forget.
My favorite is “The Spirit of 76”