Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "TheDC Shorts" channel.

  1.  LeJon Brames  NO!!!! He was a man that was a product of his times. Our ancestors did terrible things because of the realities of life as they had to live it. Not just Columbus but YOUR ancestors as well. It's not written down in history books because your ancestors, like mine, didn't do anything extraordinary, never changed the course of history in great leaps like Columbus did. However, if we were to get into some kind of time machine to examine what our ancestors have done or believed, we'd be amazed to find out just how horrible they were at times. This young man hasn't even began to live his life, yet he sits in judgement over those that he doesn't fully understand, that none of us will fully understand. What he's doing is exactly what some of the worst of moralists have done. He's dismissing people as evil when he has no right to do that. Also, he's taken the first step in dismissing that individual, Columbus as an example, and wanting to erase that person from history. That is the intermediary step to the one where we erase those, who are living today, that we feel might share similar views and lives to the one we've vilified in history. That's how the horrors start. It is the attempt to eradicate the evil around us when the evil that we should be eradicating is the evil that lies within us. Recognise that and you recognise the lessons of history.
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  2.  @naturalwitch1359  These people are teaching the kids to hate and she's not to expose them to the school board? "All cops are bastards"???? Really???? But don't tell anyone which teacher is telling the kids that. That's against the rules. I just love how teachers can say and do anything that they want and no one is to find out or speak about it. I suppose if a teacher slapped your kid in the face it would be against the rules to tell the school board about that, too. What a pathetically spineless position to take.
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  3.  @aofnyc  She's an American. PERIOD. Only the bigoted would add descriptives to that fact.
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  4. 7th Day Calvary Baptist church Because we live in a civilized country where we care about one another....that's why. You could wake up tomorrow, walk out the door and collapse with a brain aneurysm and spend the next three months in hospital with a coma. Then its medication and rehab and surgery and multiple doctor visits and spend the rest of your life in a wheel chair...but it's fuck you...look after yourself. That's not the kind of country I want to live in and it's part of my investment in a comprehensive health care system that looks after all of us, not matter who we are or what happens to us. Don't think it can't happen to you. It happened to my brother in law, a brick layer and a healthy, incredibly strong young man. If it does happen, hopefully not, would you have the integrity to refuse the help of your fellow citizens because it goes against what you believe? I'd rather doubt it. It has always amazed me how the right wing Americans profess their Christian values and yet are so miserly about helping those in need.
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  5. She's blaming Trump for her own hatred.
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  6. 7th Day Calvary Baptist church Our free health care sucks? Maybe to those who have lots of money and think their miserly ways should be the law of the land. Most Canadians, myself included, realize that there will never be a perfect system. However, it is comforting to know that every citizen can visit a doctor and not worry about how they are going to eat tomorrow and never have to forego a visit to the doctor for their child because they don't have the cash.
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  7.  @BanTheCrookedBlueLine  The "support racism" angle. If you have no real argument just scream racism until you're blue in the face. You do realise that you're just corrupting that word until it has no meaning, don't you. I'm getting to the point of just saying "Yeah...so what? Let's talk about the topic on hand now"
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  8.  @skootergirl22  A miscarriage happens when the baby dies due to spontaneous death and then the mother miscarries the dead child. A mother will not carry a dead baby. The miscarriage is a survival response. The what-ifs are a little tiring. Medical emergencies are a lot different than elective abortions because the parents don't think that they're ready to be parents or they want a career. That's not an medical emergency.
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  9.  @Heatherly3102  I think he's poking fun at these activists who have no idea of the realities of life. A bigger percentage of the world's population were starving to death 60 or 70 years ago than now, or at least before the Covid breakout. More people came out of abject poverty, in the first 20 years of this century than at at other time in human history. It took governments to put the brakes on that. It's activists, like the ones that are being profiled in this video, who will cause way more intense suffering if they get their way. You can't just change the world on a say so. They'll end up doing the same things that happened in Mao's China or Pol Pot's great agrarian society. Great intentions......horrific results.
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  10.  CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH  I'm sure that most of those in control had no idea what he was going to say. Also, if teachers and staff are penalising students for their beliefs, that's NOT equality. I will also add that the reason that he's leaving that school is for that very reason. He knows that this speech wouldn't make his stay at that school a pleasant one in the future. When everything becomes about race, resentment will build. It becomes a race to who's the most oppressed. Blacks will claim slavery, Latinos poor economic opportunities, natives the loss of land, Asians and how they were treated and whites......YOU shutup. It's ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!! Yeah....that should lend itself to peace and harmony in the school and society. When you base an education and a social structure on past grievances and resentment, you'll have a fractured and angry society. It's an horrific path to take and it's a path that has ended in horror throughout history.
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  11. @Youtube Veterinarian If you're going to sit around and wait for someone else to look after you.....GOOD LUCK. It's not going to happen.
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  12.  @finster1968  We keep fighting....that's what we do. Maybe we are late to the fight but that doesn't mean that there's no fight in us. This evil madness will only succeed if good people give up. We do what this young man just did.
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  13.  @spikefivefivefive  I studied the same course when I was in college back in the late eighties. It was nothing like that. I'm hoping that this teacher was fired after those reviews.
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  14.  @johnbrown2163  A regular super villain, that's what you are. Sort of like Sauron in "The Lord of the Rings" or Lex Luthor. You must be a blast at parties.
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  15.  @WickedGaming005  Candace Owens? A Hitler apologist? You're not talking about that clip that Ted Lieu used to smear her are you? I challenge you to find where, in that clip, that she showed any kind of support for Hitler or that Nazi regime. It doesn't exist. Ted Lieu was being intentionally obtuse and then Nadler accused Ms. Owens of calling Lieu stupid, which she clearly never did and then dismisses her with a wave of his hand like she was a bug hovering over his head. It was a disgusting display, all around.......but, go ahead and try to spin her comment as Pro-Hitler. This I got to hear. I'll even post the clip for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX89pxjQeQU
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  16.  @Mathew_Thomas  Wouldn't the people in California and New York love that. Then the US would be a dictatorship, being ordered about by the people of 2 or 3 states. States rights.....that's what the Civil War was about, not just slavery. Take away the rights of the smaller states and you're asking for trouble.....AGAIN.
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  17.  @excalibur5434  The Taliban are NOT Al Qaeda. They have supported Al Qaeda in the past but they are a different group. Trump was willing to listen to them talk but when they showed their true colours, he said "NO WAY". You don't negotiate peace with your friends. You negotiate with your enemies. That is, you do if they show that they truly want peace. The minute they show they can't be trusted, you stop talking......just like Trump did. The first step program is NOT a "get out of jail" program. It's there to help those prisoners who have shown that they want to change their lives and to help them reintegrate into society in a positive way. It's not there to release those who are involved in gangs and illegal activity in jail. Sentencing has been to arbitrary and it's pointless to keep a guy in jail who is getting older and has separated himself from the real troublemakers in prison. Of course, when you're filled with anger and resentment, you'd never see that.
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  18.  @justinlloyd3  I suppose it would have been better if the cops had just left the scene and let the fight play out to its conclusion. If someone gets seriously hurt or even killed, what's it to the police? None of their business....right? Those girls are no more than a pair of loud mouthed little brats. Act like a child and you get treated like one. Oh yeah, creating a disturbance is AGAINST THE LAW.
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  19.  @ryaj2356  Of course shutting down speech has always been an issue. That's why there's Constitutional law against it. People will rob you too, in spite of laws making it an illegal act. You've made a spurious point and means nothing.
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  20.  CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH  Forcing people onto reservations was a racist thing to do. He's speaking out against racism. If the school can tell him to be quiet because he's white and you think that this is the right thing to do, then there's nothing wrong with forcing people onto a reservation, either. It's the rule of power. The school has the power to shut this white kid up and the US government had the power to put the Comanche nation onto reservations. Either you agree with the misuse of power or you don't. This young man doesn't think one should misuse power by using race as a criteria. Neither did the Comanche while they were being forced onto the reservation. Only hate and revenge would justify that kind of misuse. If you support that kind of hate, don't be upset and angry if a greater power defeats you. Someone has to win.
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  21.  CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH  Talking to you is like talking to a 4 year old. You have NO idea what I'm talking about and the simplest of concepts are WAY beyond your comprehension. This is a pointless conversation.
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  22.  CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH  I don't even know what you're right about. I know that it was wrong to force a group of people onto a reservation. I'll concede that. However, I know that they don't have to stay there. I know that for a fact. So, now that this has been settled, why would a continuous harangue of white folk, well over 100 years ago, make things better today? It would no different than me, yelling at Germans, because the Nazi soldiers near starved my mother to death. THE WAR IS OVER!!!! It serves nothing to hate them over it. In fact, I've worked with guys who were in the SS. We both acknowledged what happened and how horrible it was and it's OVER NOW. Time to get over the bitterness, anger and resentment. It helps no one. Not the Comanche, in your case, or my relatives on my mother's side, in my case. It just prolongs the angst. Unless this is what you want...I guess go for it but don't expect people to take it because they won't. But, I'm sure that I'm right about you. You have NO idea what I'm talking about. You're just angry and you don't want to let go of it. Why a person would want to live like that is beyond me.
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  23.  @johnbrown2163  It's a good thing that you're not disgusting, isn't it? We need people like you, all nice and perfect, to show the world how to live in peace and harmony. I can feel the love with every denigrating insult you've thrown out there. Every comment you've made has drawn the world in a little closer. A few more epithets, and world peace should be finally realised. Keep up the good work.
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  24. @Tala K Bus drivers are contributing members of society. It's a job. They get paid. They pay taxes and they're entrusted with getting our kids to school and home safely. You've just displayed a disgraceful tendency towards career elitism. Having said that, this bus driver should be fired for what she did to this kid. She had no right to do that. She didn't treat him that way because she's a lowly bus driver. She did it because the MSM has made it acceptable to behave in this manner, the prime example being the way the MSM denigrated Nick Sandmann for wearing a MAGA hat and supposedly smirking.
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  25. @Tala K I'm a farm boy and for years I spent over 2 hours on the bus to get to school. That poor bus driver spent 5 hours, every day, driving a busload of close to 40 howling kids. Most of us have it easy compared to that. Why would he exacerbate the situation by losing it over a stupid hat? The driver has enough problems without adding to it by anointing themselves the political conscience of a bunch of 12 year olds. That's nuts. Who wants a nut for a bus driver?
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  26.  @Mathew_Thomas  Saying that the Civil war was about slavery sounds so much better and virtuous than admitting it was about states rights. You can point at villains and assure everyone that you weren't one of those. I'm against slavery....today. I can't talk about the beliefs of me, had I lived 200 years ago. No one can. However, that doesn't take away the fact that a large country most have regional representation, not one based on population density. How long would Alaska or Hawaii stay in the Republic if New York were telling them of the realities of life in those states? Not long, I'd bet. That's why each state should have a say in the Republic, so each state's realities are fairly represented and not just assumed by the population centres. I live in a rural area and have all my life. The biggest complaint the locals have are about the big city folk moving in, with their romanticised view of country life, and then tell us how we should live. That's an encapsulated example of state's rights.
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  27.  @blahblah1826  It's indoctrination when there is an agenda driving it. They just don't want the students to see the other "side" of the story. They want them to see that story in racialised terms, creating a dividing line between the "good" race and the "evil" race and that this dividing line still exists today. They're telling one segment of the student population that another segment of the population is at fault for any failures that they might have. They want a demographic to acknowledge their privilege and to accede those privileges to those that are deemed oppressed. That's NOT being open minded or using critical thinking. That's creating a division through a specific way of presenting a narrative and by the actions of that school board, it's not open to debate. When something is not open to debate, critical thinking is suppressed and openness is openly shut down.
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  28.  @blahblah1826  In Pennsylvania, there is a book being read to 7 and 8 year olds, called "Not My Idea". This book talks about a little girl who calls her mother a liar and that her teachers are telling her the truth. They're trying to create a rift between parents and their children. The book then finishes off with a picture of a contract and says, quite explicitly, that white people have made a deal to get their privilege and free land. A hand is reaching for the contract and one can see the cloven hoofs and forked tail of the devil, implying that whites have made a deal with Satan. This is teaching about equity? You've either had the wool pulled over your eyes or you're flat out lying. This is a flat out racialized ideology that came out of critical theory and was devised by the followers of the Frankfurt School, a Marxist group that came from Germany and who were supported by that "humanitarian" Joseph Stalin.
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  29. "A story about whiteness"....doesn't sound racialized to me. LOL. There is an extreme implication that human history isn't about how we have frailties and strengths. This implies that human history is a struggle against "whiteness", an indirect way of saying that humanity has struggled against a certain demographic that believes in their own superiority. That this is inherent to that demographic and it is the duty of education to ensure that the "whiteness" of that demographic is properly addressed before that culture of superiority is installed in them by their parents. There was once another ideology that taught that a certain group controlled the economy and the banks, to the detriment of ordinary people. That ideology developed into the most horrific period in human history. When you centre on the identity....WHITENESS.... or Juden....and the negative aspects of a specific group, you invite resentment and then retaliation. To teach a little kid, with a subtle implication that there is something inherently wrong with them, is horrific beyond imagination and I'm appalled that you and those like you can't see that. It has been done before with results that have directly impacted the lives of my family and I will resist it with everything my old body can muster.
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  30. 7th Day Calvary Baptist church Jesus said "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what it God's"  Doesn't sound as if he was appalled at all.   40,000 Canadians went to the United States for health care for a myriad of reasons, including the one that says that he who is willing to pay the most gets served first.  Heartless and based on the cash system.  I'd say Jesus would be appalled at a system that favours a person because of his wallet and not his need.
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  31. Here's a clown talking about hate and racism, all the while hating on Dinesh, a non-white immigrant. He makes a lot of sense.
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  32. Anyone who feels that they are owed something for the horror that their distant ancestor lived through, would only squander those reparations away. The young man in this video, who doesn't want reparations, has more integrity in his little finger, than anyone with his hand held out. He appreciates his life and what his ancestors went through. The person with his hand out is only looking to get free money and using the backs of his forebears for financial gain. That's how a spoiled and entitled child behaves. Any person that would take, what rightfully belongs to their ancestors, has no self respect and have no real value for what his ancestors had to live through and that will translate into not fully valuing what reparations would give them. Within 5 years, half of them will be broke.
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  33.  @y3llowpersuasionz18  Read "Not My Idea". A children's book being taught in Pennsylvania schools. It ends with a contract that strongly insinuates that white people have made a deal with the devil. The picture shows the contract and behind it we can see the cloven hooves and forked tail of the devil. This single page demonstrates the heart of CRT. It's divisive and hateful and can only bring extreme anger and resentment. In another part of the book, the little 7 year old protagonist challenges her mother. She's angry over a statement that her mother made about not seeing skin colour. She calls her mother a liar and says that she DOES see it and screams at her the question "Why are you lying to me?" It's pitting the child against her parents and reinforcing the idea that the school is the ultimate authority and parents are not to be listened to. It brings us one step closer to children snitching on their parents. This isn't the only part of the book that justifies children defying their parents and lets the child know that the school has their back. Any ideology that centres on race is appalling. I thought we got rid of the KKK and Jim Crow. This is bringing us back to a time when race and skin colour defines everything about a person. If you approve of it, you'd have fit in just fine with the times before the Civil Right's Act.
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  34.  @zenithperigee7442  What a silly argument. This happens all the time. The police show up at a dispute or they pull someone over. The cop asks the person to do something and they refuse. They argue and argue and ARGUE. I don't know how many times this has to happen and people have to be told. Just DO WHAT THE COP ASKS. Wait until he asks you a question. If you don't want to answer, take the 5th but if the cop asks you to keep your hands in sight, KEEP YOUR HANDS IN SIGHT. The officer has every right to expect to work in a safe environment, just like any other profession. If the cop does wrong, get a lawyer after the fact and have him charged or even sue him/her. But no. They gotta argue and scream and act the fool and then are all upset when they're arrested for resisting arrest. How many times does this have to happen before they get it? My Gawd....people are so stupid. It's like stepping into a bear trap. You don't need hindsight to tell you that it's a stupid idea.
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  35. I don't remember ever seeing a group of people that obsessed with race and ethnicity. Then that pretentious display of Spanish. That was cringe worthy.
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  36. You idiot. He was talking about that certain point in time. The drugs were there and belonged to someone and he didn't want them to know that he was the one that reported THAT specific cache of drugs. As time goes on, the danger involved with those specific drugs diminish.
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  37. George Carlin was a funny man but he's a hypocrite. He was worth 10 million bucks when he died, yet he was born to an alcoholic father, who deserted the family when George was very young. His mother raised him by herself, during WW2 when there was no welfare system like there is now. In other words, Carlin grew up in poverty. Carlin is the poster boy for the American Dream.
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  38.  @devinmichaelroberts9954  "Rules of decorum" translate to "rules that won't allow you to criticise us". This Brit just explained case law which says that criticism could even be caustic yet still be lawful. This was an open meeting and ordinary citizens were there to speak. That is their right. The president had no right to shut down their speech because it went against his ideals. That's unconstitutional and he can't hide behind "rules of decorum" to enforce compliance to the narrative.
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  39. I remember another time in American history when an identifiable group were not allowed entry into public places. Strange thing is, the people in this video would talk about those days as a disgraceful time in American history. Their lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  40.  @beardham  They fought a WAR to end slavery. Over 300,000 people died in that cause. Jim Crow is over. Has been for 57 years, likely BEFORE you were born. Everyone knows about it. There's even a special day set aside for the man who led the fight to end it. Maybe you've heard about him. Dr. Martin Luther King???? Ring a bell????? NO ONE IS UPSET ABOUT THAT. That's your own foolish way of rationalising telling kids that their race is their defining characteristic. That if you're black, those white classmates are part of the establishment that will keep them down as adults. That all cops are murdering bastards. YEAH.....that upsets me. It should upset any rational human being.
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  41.  @unclesparechange647  She wouldn't have worked in a place that would make martinis. I'm thinking more of a beer and tequila bar.
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  42.  @akosritter9088  Why do you have to send your kid to a BIG company to get an education. A small, one-roomed schoolhouse could do the same thing. That's how I was educated. A very small school organised by like minded parents. It was a private school. It sounds as if you'd prefer government propaganda. Yet it's government propaganda that was at the heart of almost every war over the last 100 years. Governments have cause more death and destruction than any other entity on the planet.
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  43.  @derickartis3780  Which would mean that you're not on welfare so his comment wouldn't apply to you, would it?
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  44. Look at the kids playing communists. Ain't they cute? Just so adorable. Anyone caught hissing gets sent to the Gulag. First one there's a rotten egg. I'll bet their parents are SO proud. LOL.
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  45. If the right is so racist, bigoted and violent, why is it that it's the left that are violently attacking and bullying people, even children? Worse.....why isn't MSM calling out these violent bullies? Could it be because CNN and the rest of the left wing media are encouraging this behaviour and are cheerleaders for those bullies? "When I see that hat, I am TRIGGERED"....a quote from a CNN pundit, talking about the Covington Kids. It's why they're being sued for 275 million dollars. It's the left that has become the violent ones.
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  46.  @FreedomFighter2112  I get it. You're a TROLL. The most despicable creature on the internet. Please go away until you have something of value to say.
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  47.  @iLLWiLLTheMiCK  My God.....you're the dumb one. She said that Hitler was more than a Nationalist. She gave reasons, IN THAT CLIP, why his type of nationalism was a problem. His penchant for expansion and his desire to turn everyone into Germans (that explains the hatred for Jews). You're just as dishonest, in your assessment, of what she said as the Democrat representative. Also, she said what she did about black people because she was accusing him of trying to alienate her from the black community by showing her to be a Nazi sympathiser. She said that he thought black people were that stupid that they would accept any statement about her, even if that statement was distorted or taken out of context. Basically, that blacks were too stupid to do any fact checking about her. Your bias is twisting your concept on what was being said to fit your narrative of ALL right wingers of being NAZIS. You'll twist anything to fit that belief.
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  48. She was accused of endorsing Hitler. If you can show how what she said endorses Hitler and why she is a big admirer of that maniac, then I'll agree with you but you won't be able to, unless you do what this Lieu did. Take things out of context and present it as the full narrative. In other words, you'd have to be dishonest.
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  49. Lemon couldn't get the pastor to smear Trump so he tries to smear the Pastor. When that didn't work, he went back to smearing Trump. I guess it's better to criticise the president and this Pastor than to see if there was anything he could do to help alleviate the problems in Baltimore and the other inner cities. Those who can.....do. Those who can't.....criticise. Thanks for the criticism, Don. That should help the rat problem in Baltimore.
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  50. Well, buddy. This is your 15 minutes of fame. I'll bet it isn't what you imagined when you set off on your social justice journey. "The world she's a changing" LOL.
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  51. Did she endorse Hitler or not? Give a reference to that site so we can all watch that entire clip and show us exactly where, in that clip, she endorses Hitler.
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  52.  @johnpeterson2391  Don't tell me about Hitler. He invaded the Netherlands, even though they declared neutrality and ground the Dutch under the Nazi boot. My mother almost starved to death because of that bastard and my uncle spent 3 years in a Nazi POW camp. What Candace said was that if his only concern was to make Germany great, that wouldn't have been a problem. Becoming great doesn't mean you must kill people, at all. It means becoming the best that one could be. Killing people isn't great and YOU know damn well Candace wasn't saying that he had to kill people to make Germany great. She made it quite clear that his desire to expand and force everything to subjugate to the Germans, in essence to become German, was the problem. German expansion couldn't happen without killing. German superiority was all about killing. She's basically saying that Hitler distorted the meaning of the word "Great". She made it quite clear that there was a problem with Hitler's version of "great". No one was talking about Americans of the past. That's what YOU introduced to the conversation. We're talking about today and what Candace meant when she was talking about Hitler. Her intent was quite obviously distorted and YOU know it. Why would a black woman endorse white supremacy. It's ridiculous. This is the same left wing attitude that calls Ben Shapiro and Dave Ruben Nazis. It's illogical and ridiculous. One doesn't have to become dishonest to call out white supremacy. That's what Lieu was doing and it's a disgrace.
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  53.  @blahblah1826  Then why would the NEA, the largest teachers union, vote to teach, using CRT as a guide even if the state government mandates that it's illegal? If it's "bulux" then the very teachers, who espouse that ideology, are full of it as well. https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/we-need-teach-truth-about-systemic-racism-say-educators This is from the Union's website. If they say that they're going to do it, I believe them and you should, too.
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  54. If this lawyer can get him off, she's made the career move of her life. I just don't see how she's going to do it, though. Unless it's an insanity plea. Even that might not work although it's the only chance he has, as far as I can see.
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  55.  @jenwendy7  You really want your kids being indoctrinated into an ideology? What if the teacher was a Catholic, telling kids that they're evil if they don't believe in God? Would that upset you? I've a feeling that it only bother you if it's the ideology that YOU dislike. If it's the approved dogma.....go for it. The lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  56.  @alejandror3277  A fairly poor one but easy to understand. The "Demos", referring to the Democrats, are full of "crap". "The Democrats are full of crap" becomes the Democraps. A bit juvenile, maybe but has an air of truth to it.
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  57.  @grahamyates2490  Columbus set into motion a defining moment in human history.....arguably one of the most defining moments in history. The fact the he went through all the work, the pleading of his case to different governments, the privations and enemies he made in Europe, his dogged determination to go to eastern Asia by sailing west was a momentous undertaking. That he even got the ships to do what he was proposing was quite a feat. When he found the islands in the Caribbean, that was the beginning of a new era for all mankind. Everyone of us has been affected by what was set in motion that day. We can quibble about his motives but the fact that he had the courage, determination and fore sight to accomplish this is why he is being elevated to a hero's status. However, he was human, as well. That means that he had faults, like you, like me, like everyone else on this planet. He had to fight the inner demons just like the rest of us do. In spite of that, he was still one of the most important people that has ever lived. I can't speak for the young guy's motives, either, but what I do know is that his questioning is always the first step to vilification. It's not the questions in themselves but the tone of those questions. He clearly doesn't see Columbus as a hero and can't understand why we'd honour his great accomplishment.....because it IS a great accomplishment. When describing Columbus to someone who has never heard of him before, it's that accomplishment that you describe. You don't start off by talking about his faults. He's remembered by his great discovery. The rest is details that describes the humanity that was in him. If you ignore the discovery, you're erasing this aspect of history because without his voyages, Columbus would just be another forgotten individual, like the rest of us.
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  58.  @grahamyates2490  John Cabot acted in response to what Columbus had done. It was Columbus that had formulated the idea the one could get to Eastern Asia by sailing West. He was the one that went looking for sponsors and finally convinced the Spanish to back him up. The entire trip was the brainchild of Columbus and no one else. Without that, there would have been no Cabot or Henry Hudson or any of the other men who sailed west. It was the vision of Columbus that set everything in motion and changed the world. It's not just the courage. A suicide bomber doesn't change the direction of history. Every single man that landed in Normandy on D-Day is a hero due to their courage but we don't honour each individual soldier because individually they didn't change WW2 but they did collectively. Columbus changed the course of history due to his vision and courage and determination. Not ONE sailor on those 3 ships would have sailed had it not been for Columbus. That's what makes him unique. This was his voyage, his plan, his battle to fund the voyage, his determination to get support and then to see the entire enterprise to its fruition. That's the type of fortitude that very few people display in life and is the hallmark of success. Was he a saint? Of course not. No more than those men that landed in Normandy. I'll wager some them were deplorable human beings but they faced something horrible and did it. Columbus opened up to the rest of Europe to fantastic new opportunities. Cabot was just one on many that responded to what Columbus had shown possible.
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  59. And......Jim Acosta replies. NO.....We don't want to address the issues that the American people care about. We want to flog this dead horse. If we did what's best for the US, Trump will get the credit and we DON'T want that. So, we'd rather hold the country to a standstill than allow Trump to get any accolades at all. If it means another 10 million illegal immigrants, so be it. Who cares about the deplorables of middle America and the inner city? I got my cushy job.
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