{"id":127,"date":"2019-04-21T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2019\/04\/21\/great-twitter-thread-on-april-19\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:30:06","slug":"great-twitter-thread-on-april-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Great Twitter Thread On April 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6272,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/t.co\\\/d6qlpRoavY&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231228123218\\\/https:\\\/\\\/t.co\\\/d6qlpRoavY&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 14:04:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 14:04:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6273,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/AsianJ86\\\/status\\\/1119223387619057665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6274,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/AsianJ86\\\/status\\\/1119227886345555968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231121073646\\\/https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/AsianJ86\\\/status\\\/1119227886345555968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 14:05:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 14:05:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6275,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/AsianJ86\\\/status\\\/1119237907066380290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6276,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/AsianJ86\\\/status\\\/1119240791514341379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231121091317\\\/https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/AsianJ86\\\/status\\\/1119240791514341379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 14:05:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 14:05:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6277,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/AsianJ86\\\/status\\\/1119241180586356737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI didn&#8217;t get to post this on April 19th as I was helping take care of my granddaughters while their parents were away. If you turn your head on a one year old who has learned to crawl, they are into everything!<\/p>\n<p>April 19th was the 244th anniversary of the &#8220;shot heard &#8217;round the world&#8221; or the Battle of Lexington and Concord. We should never forget that the battle began when authorities tried to confiscate firearms from men who decided they&#8217;d rather be citizens than subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this Twitter thread is brilliant. I&#8217;ll only excerpt a part of it but I&#8217;d encourage you to read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nOn this day in history, the 19th If April, 1775, a group of radical far right nationalists made up of mostly white cis males, likely radicalized by hate groups liberally utilizing printing presses to publish inflammatory anti-government rhetoric fired upon international peacekeepers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d6qlpRoavY\">pic.twitter.com\/d6qlpRoavY<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Sam-flammatory Rhetoric (@AsianJ86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsianJ86\/status\/1119223387619057665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nThe results of the initial skirmish resulted in 8 Lexington men killed and a dozen wounded. One international peacekeeper suffered an injury, a light wound to the thigh. The right wing activists should have know you cant stand up to the gubment, they have warships and cannons.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Sam-flammatory Rhetoric (@AsianJ86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsianJ86\/status\/1119227886345555968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nRight wing militia leaders having gotten their ducks in a row, advanced on the international peacekeeping force plundering Concord. With the peacekeepers disbursed throughout the city and the Right wing death squad acting en mass, they outnumbered the peacekeepers they encountered<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Sam-flammatory Rhetoric (@AsianJ86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsianJ86\/status\/1119237907066380290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nThe rest is history. Literally. The moral of the story being that even the most technologically advanced, disciplined, and powerful army in the world was successfully and soundly defeated by a force made up entirely of armed citizens.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Sam-flammatory Rhetoric (@AsianJ86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsianJ86\/status\/1119240791514341379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nLearning that their fellow citizens were being attacked by British forces, the right wing militia grew exponentially. British and American leaders were equally stunned by the numbers and enthusiasm of those who\u2019d take up arms and resist rather than lay back and think of England.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Sam-flammatory Rhetoric (@AsianJ86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsianJ86\/status\/1119241180586356737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get to post this on April 19th as I was helping take care of my granddaughters while&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,306,139],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-april-19th","tag-battle-of-lexington-and-concord","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11769,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/11769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}