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I haven't seen it yet but I'm told that the film portrays him as a middle class social climber who is looking to strike it big as a land surveyor. That ain't accurate. The man was born into the wealthy landowner class

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Washington’s father died while he was young and is mother did not remarry. They had land but were hardly wealthy. In fact Washington wrote about the families financial distress when he was 15 years old. His formal education had stopped before that. He did in fact make it big as a land surveyor and his relationship with the Fairfax family allowed him to move up the ladder as a surveyor much more rapidly than was the norm. Washington’s land wealth came as his survey jobs grew.

The movie is fairly accurate in its portrayal of his lot in life at a young age.

SFP, I am curious...

Which media outlets do you trust and why?

After all that we have seen or the last decade or so, I, for one, am quite skeptical of any reporting by the MSM, regardless of whether they are left or right leaning. This is especially true when it comes to any reporting regarding Trump.

You have put forth that you believe the CBS reporting consistently here. Why do you have so much faith in what they report?

Nice picture. It could be a slide shown tonight, along with others.

Here is the issue for Trump....After almost 6 years of talk, he finally has a chance to present concrete evidence that fraud took place (which anyone with a modicum of deductive reasoning knows happened).

This is his shot. He has to show exactly how the fraud occurred.

If he can't do that, he is spending political capital that he can't get back.

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Are you willing to state right now that this report he is talking about (the full reading of it will apparently happen next Monday

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What are you talking about? Next Monday?

Are you refencing the post that Trump made in 2023? Is there another post regarding next Monday I am missing?

You missed a few talking points.

Do better.

Many didn't like his politics but at least it appears he wasn't getting rich of Americans.

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they alleged the 30 06 his head would have been completely blown off

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Who alleged this? Completely inaccurate.

She might want to quit her job in protest as her employer celebrated the 4th of July with flags and programs on television.

A little more nuance is needed when trolling. 2/10.

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Was she in imminent threat of bodily harm or death when she shot him?
If he was advancing on her in an aggressive manner, yes. Was he is the question. Not if she was justified IF he was.
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Did he have a weapon?
Not required to meet self defense standards, IMO.Correct. But if definitely would help her defense if he did.
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Who instigated the confrontation?
Important to determine.
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Did he approach her car at the beginning of the argument and threaten her?
More important if he continued to approach her car and threaten her. Definitely important but helps her case if he began by approaching her with threats. On the flip side, if she instigated the argument, returned to her car and got the gun, and continued the argument, one could argue she escalated the situation.

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Looking at several videos that have been posted, it seems both were being extremely stupid. It does not seem to be a shut and closed case either direction imo. However, I lean towards she will get prosecuted because it appears she escalated the situation and when she pulled the trigger he was a car lengths away, not moving aggressively or fast at her, and thus she was not in imminent threat of bodily harm or death.

This will be interesting to see what happens.

Hopefully people will learn to just let things be and not get engaged in petty disputes that lead to death.