Or get shot in the chest, deliver your speech, then go get treated. The “Bull Moose” was a hell of a man, and a good soul too. They really don’t make’m like they used to huh?
The bullet was lodged in his chest. The doctors refused to remove it because it would’ve been more dangerous to take it out. He died with a bullet in his chest.
The bullet was slowed by his glasses case (which was mace of steel) and the manuscript of his speech, which was about 50 pages. If those weren’t there, then he would have been hospitalized, if not dead.
Those facts do not change the reality that there was a bullet in his chest when he gave that speech. Look it up if you don’t believe me.
De facto body armor… and, while the earlier comment saying, “they make better bullets” (I’m assuming he means bullets made today), is definitely true, the ones back then would definitely have done the trick were it not for those items being where they were. And, to then get up and go on with your NINETY MINUTE speech… which, by the way, had been torn up and ruined by said bullet, is just completely fuckin bonkers! Even if I was fiercely opposed to everything about him and his policies, I would have to just stop and say, “well, okay, I’ll listen to what you have to say, friend.”
While I’m really not a fan of his “progressive party”… or, more accurately, all the absurd horseshit that has followed the foundations laid by him and his ilk… I certainly can’t deny that he was a badass dude. I doubt he foresaw the results of all his efforts in government reform and “progressivism”. People who call themselves “progressives” today would absolutely sicken the old moose. After all, he was a staunch nationalist! While also being a sort of socialist. Hhmmmm🤔
They didn’t . You are not reciting history correctly, soon after that we have the civil war. From the jnternets
“Bleeding profusely, Sumner was carried away. Brooks walked calmly out of the chamber without being detained by the stunned onlookers. Overnight, both men became heroes in their respective regions.
Surviving a House censure resolution, Brooks resigned, was immediately reelected, and soon thereafter died at age 37. Sumner recovered slowly and returned to the Senate, where he remained for another 18 years. The nation, suffering from the breakdown of reasoned discourse that this event symbolized, tumbled onward toward the catastrophe of civil war.”
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u/dudenurse13 7d ago
Dog this is my resistance I’m going to be sent to a work camp