%%Post image thumbnail below.%%  # Episode Overview > - **Date Aired:** [[12-28-2023]] > - **Title:** Revolutions & Resolutions > - **Episode:** 275 > - **Description:** The stage is set for 2024. In the year's penultimate episode of Big Dig Energy, let's take a look at what we can expect in the new year. > - **Link:** <https://rumble.com/v43w9oc-big-dig-energy-275-revolutions-and-resolutions.html> %%<https://historydraft.com/happened/what-happened/1-January/world>%% ## Replay %% Get embed URL then highlight and hit ALT + I%% <iframe src="https://rumble.com/embed/v41ax3x/?pub=6eeyh" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; "></iframe> <br> ## Greetings & Announcements 1. I anticipate not having a show on January 4th. It will mark one year since we lost my stepmom, and I plan to spend the day with my family. Thanks for your understanding. <3 ## Segments ### Boston Tea Party Terrorism Since we spent some of [[BDE274]] talking about founding stories of the country, and since the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party was on December 16th, I thought we might start with a review of this little number I saw after Saturday's episode: Archive: <https://archive.ph/xJN83>  > Two hundred and fifty years ago this week, a group of men descended on Boston Harbor, boarded three privately owned ships, and dumped more than 45 tons of tea overboard. They were upset about the Tea Act of 1773, part of a suite of taxes that the British Parliament used to fund the British governors in the colonies. The size of the tax wasn't the problem — the legitimacy of it was. The people who would soon become Americans resented being forced by a legislature they didn't elect to pay for leaders they didn't choose. > > The story of that night became lore — and the lore evolved into national myth. The Boston Tea Party has come to symbolize the revolutionary spirit that led to independence. It engraved the catchphrase "no taxation without representation" on the country's cornerstone and signified the embrace of democracy. > > Yet there's another version of the event, one less suitable for national mythology. A horde of White men disguised themselves as Native Americans — coppering their faces and donning headdresses in the same tradition that would lead to blackfaced minstrel shows decades later — to commit seditious conspiracy and destroy private property. The riotous mob trespassed on three ships and destroyed goods worth nearly $2 million in today's money — all because they didn't want to obey a duly passed law. > > Only one of these versions is central to our national identity. The other is swept under history's rug to prevent the colonists from being cast as common criminals hiding behind racist face paint. How a country chooses to remember a historic event, and the parts it chooses to forget, reveals its character. The event's characters matter, too. > > A nation's myths — exaggerated or imagined as they might be — shape its identity. Scholars claim these myths merge fiction and truth, transform incidents into parables, become sacred and resilient in the face of scrutiny, and influence personal and group behavior. If you want to know what a nation thinks of itself, listen to the stories that persist. And if you want to know whom a nation values, look to the heroes of those myths. ### Maine Blocks Trump From Primary Ballot From [Newser](https://archive.is/TuCzb): > Maine became the second state to bar Donald Trump from its primary ballot, when Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday that the former president does not quality to be a candidate because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. "I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment," wrote Bellows, a Democrat. "I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection." Trump can appeal the decision to Maine's Superior Court, the New York Times reports, and his campaign immediately said he'll do that. [PDF Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20231229021626/https://www.maine.gov/sos/news/2023/Decision%20in%20Challenge%20to%20Trump%20Presidential%20Primary%20Petitions.pdf) <div style="left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 60%;"><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=https://www.maine.gov/sos/news/2023/Decision%20in%20Challenge%20to%20Trump%20Presidential%20Primary%20Petitions.pdf" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> #### Shenna Bellows [Thread](https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIIKnow/status/1740542513554010227)  ### Current Ballot Status [Trump Is Back on the Colorado Ballot](https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/12/28/rick-scott-reveals-his-home-was-squatted-n2632958) [Minnesota Supreme Court Dismisses Suit Calling for Trump to Be Barred From Ballot.](https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/11/08/minnesota-supreme-court-dismisses-suit-calling-for-trump-to-be-barred-from-ballot/) [‘Louisiana Woman’ Suing to Keep Trump Off Ballot is Self-Described ‘Neo-Communist’ & Democrat Party Operative.](https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/12/28/louisiana-woman-suing-to-keep-trump-off-ballot-is-self-described-neo-communist-democrat-party-operative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=louisiana-woman-suing-to-keep-trump-off-ballot-is-self-described-neo-communist-democrat-party-operative) [Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Trump Ballot Ban Case Brought by Soros, Hamas-Linked Group.](https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/12/27/winning-michigan-supreme-court-rejects-trump-ballot-ban-case-brought-by-soros-hamas-linked-group/) %% FOOTER %% ---  --- ## Keep Digging %%Space%% ### Tags #Stream/BDE #Election2024 ### Footnotes & References