NC Renegades

And be sure to wear the American flag like a hijab. That'll be fun for the other side… pic.twitter.com/M93YznkT6l

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 28, 2017

Our enemy today is within our borders. It is a federal government which has usurped power, overthrown our Bill of Rights, stolen our Liberty and transformed the people into wage slaves. While there may be no political solution, I do believe that the people who still believe in our forefathers’ values and founding principles are our only hope. Texans once believed enough in these values to join the Union. Will you take a knee or stand and fight?

David DeGerolamo

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h/t Carolyn U

As the British discovered trying the quell the American rebellion, it’s difficult to fight the natives on their own territory, even when many of them are on your side. The US faced the same situation in Vietnam, its difficulty magnified because Americans were of a different racial stock than those they subjugated.

Also unlike the British, the Americans were perceived—even by their ostensible allies—as another in a long line of imperial conquerors that stretched back to Chinese domination during the first millennium. Belying US rhetoric and propaganda, industrial warfare and atrocities destroyed South Vietnam and killed or alienated many of the South Vietnamese whose freedom we were supposedly defending.

To defeat a local population when much of it wages guerrilla war or covertly supports those who do, the invading power has to kill most and terrorize the rest.

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The University of North Carolina’s championship-winning men’s basketball team won’t make the customary visit to the White House, a team spokesman said Saturday.

The Tar Heels attributed the decision to scheduling difficulties rather than political animus for President Trump. But the announcement came on the same day that Trump rescinded Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry’s invitation to the White House in response to the NBA star’s reported hesitance to make the trip.

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UNC players were ‘fine with going,” according to the team, but coach Roy Williams was non-committal when the topic was raised in April. “[T]he office of the presidency of the United States is the most fantastic place you can be,” Williams said. “But let me think on it.”
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