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Michael Andrews retweeted
Remarkable to consider. The tribes of the Migration Era that finally brought Rome to her knees and claimed her old colonies mainly came from this little area - and they also went North into Scandinavia and changed Germanic culture everywhere so that their god Woden became the main one even in the Viking Age.
-The Langobards who took Italy in 568 AD came from Jutland.
-The Saxons and Angles who took Britannia in 449 AD came from this area.
-The Franks who took Gaul between 486 and 507 AD originated in the Rhine-Weser region.
These people all spoke one language and worshipped the same gods, but the kings focused on one frenzied deity who brought them victory - Woden.
Not only did this swampy region produce the main characters of the Germanic world who introduced the new culture of runes, kings and halls- but they above all (with the help also of the Goths who came from Sweden) are responsible for reshaping all of Europe in the Migration Age - indeed the Franks practically invented the idea of Europe as we now know it.
Not a phenomenon from all Germania, not even all of the modern region of Germany - just this little circle.
Michael Andrews retweeted
In Virginia, Spotsylvania County’s Solar farm is the largest in US east of Rockies. 6,350 acres, with 3,500 acres covered in Chinese Jinko Solar panels. Over 1/2 the power goes to @Microsoft @Apple data centers
@GovernorVA & @vademocrats just green lit 300,000 more solar acres
Michael Andrews retweeted
Comment ne pas aimer le Royaume de France et vouloir son retour, tant son héritage a fait la grandeur de notre pays.
Michael Andrews retweeted
Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
Michael Andrews retweeted
Si les Massaï étaient remplacés par des Blancs, seraient-ils toujours des Massaï ?
Michael Andrews retweeted
A whole different world used to exist, as AJP Taylor wrote about in his Oxford History of England:
"Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state beyond the post office and the policeman…He could travel abroad or leave his country forever without a passport or any sort of official permission. He could exchange his money without restriction or limit. He could buy goods from any country in the world on the same terms as he bought goods at home. For that matter a foreigner could spend his life in the country without permit and without informing the police…All this was changed by the impact of the Great War…The state established a hold over its citizens which though relaxed in peace time, was never to be removed and which the Second World War was again to increase. The history of the English people and the English State merged for the first time."
If you want to learn about what the world was like in that era, if you want to know what sort of world used to exist, 1913 by Charles Emmerson is by far my favorite
Michael Andrews retweeted
Redskins 20, Eagles 6
BODY BAG PAYBACK
1990 NFC Wild Card Game
In the first of only two postseason meetings between the two NFC East rivals, Washington exacted sweet revenge for their brutal "Body Bag Game" MNF loss to the Eagles eight weeks earlier at The Vet.
Mark Rypien connected with Art Monk and Gary Clark for scores, while the Redskins defense stymied the dangerous Randall Cunningham — sacking him five times and intercepting him once.
Michael Andrews retweeted
Je vous souhaite à toutes et à tous une très belle et sainte fête de la Toussaint.
En ce jour solennel, l’Église célèbre la gloire de tous les saints, connus et inconnus, qui contemplent aujourd’hui la face de Dieu. Qu’ils soient pour nous des modèles de foi, de courage et de fidélité au Christ.
Prions pour qu’ils intercèdent pour nos familles, pour notre pays et pour tous ceux qui cheminent encore sur cette terre.
Que la communion des saints nous rappelle notre vocation première : vivre dans la foi, persévérer dans l’espérance et tendre vers la sainteté.
Saints de Dieu, priez pour nous !
Michael Andrews retweeted
When 80 years of White guilt and anti-Christian propaganda wears off and you remember who the fuck you are:
Michael Andrews retweeted
Royalistes, retweetez et likez ce post pour montrer que nous sommes nombreux !
Racontez en commentaire ce qui vous a poussés à devenir royalistes et ce qui nourrit votre attachement à la monarchie.
Faisons entendre nos voix !
Vive le Roi !
Michael Andrews retweeted
Voici la seule personne qui devrait être à la place de Macron : Louis XX, le seul à en avoir la légitimité.
Michael Andrews retweeted
Suite à ce tweet, j’aimerais vous expliquer pourquoi je hais la Révolution française de tout mon cœur.
Je hais cette Révolution pour ce qu’elle a fait à la France, à son histoire, à son héritage et à son peuple.
Je hais cette Révolution qui a conduit un roi à l’échafaud, une reine à l’humiliation et à la mort, et un enfant innocent à mourir dans des conditions atroces. Louis XVII n’était qu’un enfant. Il n’avait commis aucun crime, sinon celui d’être né fils de roi.
Je hais cette Révolution qui, au nom de la liberté, a instauré la Terreur, multiplié les exécutions et fait couler le sang de milliers de Français.
Je hais les persécutions contre les prêtres réfractaires, les religieux et ceux qui refusaient de renoncer à leur foi.
Je hais cette Révolution pour ce qu’elle a fait subir à la Vendée, à ces hommes, ces femmes et ces enfants qui se sont soulevés pour défendre leur foi, leur roi et leur mode de vie. Derrière les chiffres, il y avait des familles, des villages et des vies brisées.
Je hais cette Révolution parce qu’elle a voulu faire table rase de siècles d’histoire, renverser un ordre ancien et prétendre bâtir un monde nouveau en faisant disparaître tout ce qui lui résistait.
Et je hais surtout la manière dont on a parfois transformé cette période en récit héroïque, comme si la liberté proclamée suffisait à justifier les massacres commis en son nom.
La France ne commence pas en 1789. Son histoire est bien plus ancienne, plus profonde et plus grande que cette rupture.
Je refuse de haïr notre passé pour plaire aux vainqueurs de l’Histoire. Et je refuse qu’on me demande d’admirer ceux qui ont prétendu libérer la France en faisant couler le sang des Français.
Vive la France, son histoire et son héritage. Vive le Roi.
Michael Andrews retweeted
There is nothing to debate. There is nothing else to discuss. We don’t need to make reasoned, theological, or political arguments. This needs to be our default posture from here on out.
Michael Andrews retweeted
Robert E. Lee to Lord Acton, 1866:
"the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it."
He saw it coming.
Michael Andrews retweeted
It's a major black mark on the Catholic Church that we've allowed Fernando III of Castile and Leon (1199-1252) to be almost forgotten. He's one of the greatest men ever to pick up a sword—and a canonized saint.
Fernando never lost a battle. He took back more territory from the Moors than any other Spanish king during the Reconquista: Cazorla, Úbeda, Córdoba, Niebla, Huelva, Écija, Lucena, Oriheula, Murcia, Arjona, Mula, Lorca, Cartesian, Jaén, Alicante, and then Sevilla. Along the way he reclaimed the Bells of Santiago de Compostela taken by al-Mansur a couple centuries before. In battle he always took the lead, declaring he'd never expose his vassals to more danger than he exposed himself.
By the end of his campaigning only Granada remained, and they were paying tribute to Fernando. El Santo planned an expedition to North Africa to finish the job completely, but died before he could launch it.
And, like I said, he is a saint, known during his lifetime, as El Santo. Fernando often worried his men with his habit of keeping all-night prayer vigils before a battle. His efforts liberated countless Christians from Moorish and rescued souls from apostasy.
On top of all this, he was a great lawgiver, patriarch, and friend—really the complete man, not the kind you allow to be forgotten.
Art by Antonio Palomino—
