Examples of Insurgencies (1800-1900)

This week...I spent several hours looking up various insurgencies.....within the US...from 1800 to 1900.   Oddly,  I came to 10 examples. 

1. Gabriel's Rebellion (1800): This involved a black blacksmith slave....named Gabriel...who'd planned out a large-scale slave uprising in Virginia to seize Richmond and end slavery.  This failed because of a warning getting out, and the whole thing was suppressed.  Gabriell ended up being hange.

2.  Igbo Landing (1803): A group of Igbo captives from West Africa, upon arrival in Georgia.  Onboard the vessel...they overpowered their captors on the slave ship and chose mass suicide by drowning rather than submit to enslavement.  

3.  Chatham Manor Rebellion (1805): This involved salves from Chatham Manor in Virginia.  A brief take-over occurring....leading to locals in confrontation.

4.  German Coast Uprising (1811): The largest slave revolt in U.S. history, where hundreds of enslaved people in Louisiana marched toward New Orleans (armed). A  city militia stopped the insurgency.

5. George Boxley Rebellion (1815): A white abolitionist, George Boxley, conspired with a group of slaves in Virginia to launch an armed revolt. This ultimately failed.

6.  Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy (1822): Slave-carpenter Denmark Vesey organized a planned insurrection in Charleston, South Carolina, involving thousands to seize the city and escape to Haiti.  Before the insurgency took off....word  got out.

7. Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831): Led by slave-preacher Nat Turner.  This violent uprising in Virginia saw rebels kill dozens of white people before being defeated. 

8.  Dorr Rebellion (1842): A political uprising in Rhode Island led by Thomas Dorr against the state's restrictive voting laws, resulting in armed clashes and a brief rival government. (Nothing to do with slavery).

9.  John Brown's Raid (1859): Abolitionist John Brown led a multiracial group in seizing the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.  This was supposed to lead to  a national slave insurrection, but it was quickly put down. 

10.  Wilmington Insurrection (1898): A white supremacist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, where armed mobs overthrew the elected multiracial government, killed some local black residents, and briefly seized power. 

Yeah, and I'm working on ten from 1900s to 2000.

The 'Flee-Virginia' Chatter

 This week....all the taxation gimmicks were laid out for the state legislature in Richmond.  Having read the list....if all pass....if you were already in the poverty-class, you might be safe.  If you were making $60,000 to $130,000....you probably need to find $1,200 minimum in your budget...to cover new state taxation. To be honest....it might come closer to $2,000 more that you require.

As a fed-retiree who might have a fed-pension deal....drawing $50,000 on top  of your social security?  Well...you probably won't have the cash flow to absorb the loss of $1,200.

So...I'm of the mind that this was geared to 'chase' or encourage 100,000 Virginia folks to exit (rather shortly....like before late-summer).

Do Democrats grasp this? I'm not sure.  I'm not even sure that they knew themselves that 40-odd new taxes would be invented.

If the 100k do exit....will the remaining folks cover enough of the tax revenue lost that things continue on into 2027?  This might be an interesting question to ponder.

West Virginia getting the bulk of the exit folks?  I'm of the mind that VA-retirees will mostly settle in Florida, with the folks still working in DC/Arlington....probably ending up mostly in West Virginia.  Oddly, some may find a cheaper lifestyle...moving  across the river....into DC itself.  

Something I'm Wondering About

It came up this week....with another batch of emails from Jeffrey Epstein released.

Here in the middle of one batch....Jeffrey reportedly ordered thirty separate DNA test kits from 23andMe.  Oddly.... enough that the company itself reached out to ask why, but never got a clear answer. And  yes, he got the 30 kits.

I pondered this.

Did he hand the kits to random people? Was there some plan to connect the 'dots' on several folks?  

Just pretty weird. 

Three Humble Thoughts

 1.  Don Lemon convictable?

Look....if they show he was actively part of some Antifa network....knowing that....buddy-buddy with such members, and they told him they had a operation at the church, then Don is super-STUPID, and convicted of 'something'...getting a year or two in some fed-prison.

But if he shuts up.....says nothing....then I doubt he is convicted or does jail-time.

The most that folks can say at the end-point....Don was just awful stupid.

2.  The 'Fort Sumter-Moment'. 

I've pondered over this moment  to start the Civil War. I have three scenarios in my mind:

-  Arrest of Minnesota Gov, Lt Gov, AG, and a dozen others....ALL on Somalian fraud issues...would trigger Antifa to go into maximum attack status.

- The FBI raid in Atlanta...over the voting ballots.  I expect a 90-day review.....then 'all-hell-breaks-loose'....with Grand Jury summons, and likely a hundred county/state officials charged-up.  This would whip Antifa into a frenzy to defend the crowd.

- Finally, at some point in 2026, I expect former President Obama to be summoned to a grand jury.  I expect him to either say 'no'....or to depart the US for the UK (never returning).  It's possible that his detention/arrest...would spark the Antifa-Fort Sumter action.

All of this possible because a minimum of 20-million Americans are in hardcore denial over facts?  Yeah....that's the key factor leading you to a Fort Sumter moment.

3.  I noted this AM.....a New York jury has awarded Fox Varian a total of $2 million after it found her psychologist and surgeon liable for medical malpractice related to a mastectomy at age 16.  This was all going down a path to being a transman.

Over the next five years....I expect at least a thousand of these to occur, and dozens of hospitals will be in a spiral financially....unable to survive.