We have seen an abundance of ignorance concerning history and the nature of our government from those on the left, but we may have an ignorant hot take of all time from former Obama official Brandon Friedman.
Friedman was a deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
He also co-founded a tea company. But he doesn’t know much about the government, the IRS, the Civil War, or Republicans.
Republicans don't just hate the IRS because it pays for things like highways and social security. There's history here. They hate what it represents. The IRS was created in 1862 specifically to fund the Civil War, to end slavery and to burn white supremacy to the ground. https://t.co/zWg9IRti1v
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 28, 2022
Friedman perversely declared:
Republicans don’t just hate the IRS because it pays for things like highways and social security.
There’s history here. They hate what it represents. The IRS was created in 1862 specifically to fund the Civil War, to end slavery and to burn white supremacy to the ground.
Now, don’t be fooled by this blatant stupidity. The IRS does not “pay for things like highways and social security.” Taxpayers do.
And social security is money of a different color and it is our own money, supplemented, of course, by the pyramid scheme, but that story is for another day.
Further, many highways are paid for by state and local monies. Not to mention that everyone on all sides of the aisle dislikes the IRS for very valid reasons.
Americans don’t like the government sticking their hands in [our] wallets and taking so much of what [we] make. It’s one of those few things that unites us all.
Plus, let’s also talk about why conservatives have a particular reason to dislike the IRS—namely the targeting scandal under Barack Obama, the same guy Friedman worked for.
Republicans were the anti-slavery party. Lincoln—a Republican—created the IRS to help pay the expenses of the Civil War. And then it expired after ten years.
It was 1913, under democrat Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, and the 16th Amendment which provided for the taxing of incomes.
So, attacking Republicans over the IRS is idiotic.
It’s because of Republicans that slavery was defeated. Democrats were the ones on the wrong side here.
And no, no one on the planet thinks that the mission of the IRS is about “burning white supremacy to the ground.” That is some kind of twisted take.
Friedman finished off trying to argue that “Abolish the IRS” was a call for insurrection.
"Abolish the IRS" may sound like an innocuous anti-tax message, but it's literally a call to defund the U.S. military. The same military that crushed secessionists the first time. It's a fundamentally anti-government message. The insurrection continues.
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 28, 2022
Oh, my, the looniness there makes my head hurt. Not to mention the military existed before the IRS and it’s been the left that has been attacking the military and calling to defund it for decades.
Is he saying not supporting the IRS is racist and insurrectionist? Why, yes, he is.
Now, what’s concerning is the Obiden Regime is littered with former Obama people like this knucklehead Friedman.
This certainly is one of the reasons we have such a mess there now—the ignorance/gaslighting about even such basic concepts as inflation and recession is shocking.
But unfortunately, he’s a perfect example of the communists in control who will say anything, no matter how wrong or stupid, simply to attempt to justify their narratives and their grab for control.
Is this not yet another example of the corruption and stupidity with which We the People are battling?
Soon retribution will be for We the People to enjoy.
God speed to Conservatism.
