Let me briefly explain why the Rumble videos appear in a delay compared to YouTube and the podcast platforms:
I always try to upload everything I possibly can in the highest quality image format that I can. This can be a pain in the hootchie cootchie, because increased video quality formats means increased video upload times. Still, for long-term posterity, I believe it is the only way to do things.
However, Rumble is in its fledgling stages. It offers the very best of the internet because it is committed to not censoring content. I want to support Rumble and I hope you will support Rumble - in fact, I long for the day when YouTube goes out of business and people will first think of Rumble than any other video platform when they get the idea to search for something. I want to support free speech to the best of my ability and contribute to that movement in every way possible.
But the reality is that we ain’t there...
The school textbooks tell you the settlers crossed the Atlantic for religious freedom.
Some of them did, partly. What the textbooks leave out is the thing that sits in the actual letters, in the sailors' accounts, in the merchant pamphlets circulating in English ports from the 1580s onwards: a major reason people came to America was the wild game. Meat you could take. Meat nobody owned. Meat that walked into camp.
For a population legally separated from the animal for five hundred years, this was the whole pitch.
Consider what they were leaving.
A family in a Devon cottage in 1618 eats pottage. Oats, barley, an onion, whatever greens grew near the back door. No meat in it this week. No meat in it last week. There will be meat in it on Christmas Day, God willing, if the chicken is still alive by then. The deer in the forest at the end of the lane have been the king's property under the Forest Laws since 1066. Taking one is a hanging offence. The father has never taken one. His father never took one. The institutional...
