THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
The Yanks discover Manifest Destiny
Chapter 27
Meanwhile, the Yanks kept adding more new states, which was going so smoothly and quickly that the Yanks decided it meant something.
2What it meant,
3aThe way the Yanks looked at it,
4Was that the United States was kind of bsupposed to own all of North America,
5cFrom sea to shining sea,
6No matter who got in the way.
7And so the Yanks wound up rediscovering the ancient Roman idea of dappropriating,
8eWhich is another way of saying that if a bunch of Yanks have moved in someplace and put up some buildings and signs, then obviously the Yanks must own it,
9Regardless of what any piece of paper says,
10fEven if it’s a treaty signed by the U.S. government.
11This important new Yank principle was called gManifest Destiny,
12Which can be roughly translated as “Get the hell out of our way!”
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