School House Rock - Government - No More Kings

[@gustavogomez8541]

2:50 "Nobody's gonna tell us what to do." Sums up America perfectly.

[@user-nj1zu2nf1x]

And now people love being told what to do and love telling others what to do. What they can say and what they can't say, Even what they are allowed to think lol People have lost it

[@esmewvimes2901]

These bring back such great memories of eating cereal on the floor in our pj's, promising not to spill. It was the only time it was allowed. Oh, and when the TV Guide said Wizard of Oz was on we could eat, sitting on the floor, mom made popcorn and sometimes we got to have Shasta soda, too. We usually got to v do the same at least once on nights during Xmas cartoons all painstakingly highlighted and triple checked by the eldest, moi. Typically Xmas Eve on Sesame Street, then later for a Muppet Xmas Carol. Sorry. Good memories. 😊

[@RobertMcClain-k5s]

GYATT

[@kattelyn92]

I can't wait to show my kids these videos someday

[@177SCmaro]

Colonies: "No more kings, George". Starts an insurrection, fights a revolution war of independence United States: "Hey, George. Wanna be a king? No? Well, I guess we'll just start a government that is fundamentally and functionally the same as a king but with many kings and we'll have a suggestion box called "voting" for the subjects to give them the impression their wishes and freedom matter".

[@user-nj1zu2nf1x]

And let's enslave those dark people while we're at it and make them do free labor for generations

[@user-nj1zu2nf1x]

But don't forget all men are created equal, ;-)

[@mattthiesmeyer3010]

I have always loved this, Sadly they teach better than many of our schools today

[@The_Big_Bad_Rice_Wolf]

Pilgrims: could you help us run it till it’s grown? King: **inhales chicken**

[@wealthychef]

Pilgrims: fine, we'll just use slaves.

[@artbyvince]

These cartoons and their music were brilliant!

[@fjccommish]

The colonists needed imported goods. Their beef wasn't just the tax, but the fact that they had no representation in GB. In the long run it turned out they didn't need the British.

[@pugrebellion305]

listened to this in school 3 years ago, heard someone who had a similar voice sing and ploopidy ploop I'm back.

[@RowBadMovies]

Love how people overly criticize this. Given that these used to be commercials, they go a LONG way. A modern cartoon would never show the actual geography of the colonies, much less put history to music. But, OKAY, go on arguing on how they are propagandists because they didn't fit a American History till 1865 class into 3 minutes for kids.

[@avagodfrey7910]

Yeah, the king was being unfair.

[@gokuplaysgames8626]

my childhood

[@locma9958]

i love all the song that they made

[@bowling123ism]

Love these

[@FakeWonder]

The colonists weren't mad because of the financial burden of the taxes themselves, they were upset because they were taxed by a Parliament in which the colonists had no say, hence "No taxation without representation". Furthermore, the colonists felt that they were entitled to "life, liberty and property". Taxation without representation was theft and therefore denied the colonists right to property. Trust me, I got a 5 on the AP US History exam

[@user-nj1zu2nf1x]

Well, no. That's even more simple than the song. These disgustingly wealthy landowners didn't want to pay taxes so they got the poor people riled up to fight a war for them

[@tinyylane7505]

I love School House of Rock. I learn more from movies and videos instead of teachers. Do they still show this to kids now?

[@MsKingMRE]

Tinyy Lane I use these in my 4th grade class all the time... They love them!

[@-.rory.-]

Yes they do my teacher showed us this before

[@dorkydrummer95]

Actually England was taxing the colonies less then they were taxing the people who were actually living in Britian, and the only reason they were taxing the US was because the colonist had gotten into the French and Indian War further putting Great Britian into debt to save the colonies butts.

[@fjccommish]

What were the reasons? The colonists' reasons were that they were tired of the British government raising taxes on them and treating them poorly in other ways. They fought a war, and America won. The colonists created a Constitution and concept for a nation that led America to become the most prosperous nation in the world. That isn't biased. That's history.

[@shamgar001]

The song certainly oversimplifies, but because it treats the revolution as exclusively related to taxes, rather than numerous other rights violations perpetrated by the crown, such as letting British troops write their own search warrants.

[@gravitytwo4088]

Yes, taxes was just one thing of many. And to give context about the taxes, with the video showing King George surrounded by tons of coin, he had just spent a ton of coin fighting the French in the colonies to keep the colonies from being taken over by the French. He was looking to tax the colonies to get some of that money back. He should've just sold some crown jewels!

[@gnomechonky]

Well, at least now we have taxation with corporate representation.

[@talon115]

Too cool!

[@fr.johnwhiteford6194]

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Virginia had already established a colonial legislature. This video would lead you to think that Massachusetts was the original colony.

[@avagodfrey7910]

Oh well, what're gonna do.

[@carlpaolino6034]

Cool and good song

[@PartnershipsForYou]

the name of the cartoon that plays before No More Kings is Little Twelvetoes

[@luzkraus4270]

yes youtube recommend this its been 10 years

[@Ravenchamp1]

the king needs an orthodontist

[@mitchellslate1249]

No more Governments, Politics, Taxes, and Legal Changes. Instead, a Permanent Singular Law and Moral Code for Natural Rights and Equality.

[@lastritesread]

Lol @ 2:45 "gonna elect a President!' "He's gonna do what the People say!"

[@robincrook5630]

LOL...hey, it COULD happen one day.

[@mysterion3182]

That's what I thought. Still waiting for a president who will do what the people say.

[@mitchellslate1249]

Tear down all government! One Race, One Family, One People, One Nation, and One Law...permanent, fixed, unchanging Moral Code and the Protection and Equality of all God-given, Natural Rights.

[@pugrebellion305]

"He even has the nerve to tax our cup of tea" Time to become independent I guess.

[@travellightly100]

Thanks for posting!!

[@speed7exc]

The best thing Britain could have done was give the colonies parliamentary representation. In the end they decided to, but they'd dragged their heels for so long it was too late. If they were a bit quicker on the uptake, I can imagine a much bigger United Kingdom than the one we know today.

[@gravitytwo4088]

King George was a lousy King. Some say he was crazy.

[@TheAsylumchild]

"That's called Taxation without representation" which means "we were pirates and smugglers and England taxed the crap out of us to make us behave and we said 'no'"

[@avagodfrey7910]

That last line didn't make sense.

[@beatrizreyesdg]

i lo ve these vida!!!!!

[@hsmfan071]

I guess you're right. That makes more sense. Thanks!

[@dorkydrummer95]

true also it's a teaching aid for American children which makes it understandable why it's bias and whatnot

[@dorkydrummer95]

actually i'm a 16 year old girl who's never smoked in her life and is on schedule to graduate early from her high school. It's not nice to judge someone just because you don't agree with a simple statement. Oh and I prefer creating my own music rather then listening to fm crap thank you very much

[@Stupiddumbhead]

Uhhhhhh

[@seekingwhim]

Talk about "The Minor Vote - Children's' Rights & Influence", searchable on Facebook. No adult-hitlers in a world of collectively-bargained innocence!!

[@avagodfrey7910]

Yeah nobody's gonna tell us what to do.

[@evianmason1630]

Im so glad Great britian Did not rule Our country

[@avagodfrey7910]

Mhmm.

[@captainjules6033]

The historian in me: well, I mean, the king did need to raise taxes to recover from the expenses of the 7 Years’ War, which was fought (in large part) to protect American colonists from France. It’s not really unfair to expect them to foot the bill for it. Also, the Americans had been living under what historians call “salutary neglect”, which the colonists ruined for themselves. The kid in me: 🎵🎶🎵ROCKIN AND A ROLLIN, SPLISHIN AND A SPLASHIN OVER THE HORIZON WHAT CAN IT BE🎵🎶🎵

[@richardburt9812]

wow. you are a true Tory!

[@captainjules6033]

@@richardburt9812 HA! Actually proudly a green but facts are facts

[@susanmckenzie5700]

Did you know the colonists were not allowed to settle on, use or occupy the land acquired in the 7 years war?

[@captainjules6033]

@@susanmckenzie5700 yeah but the proclamation of 1763 is more complicated than “the Brits just didn’t wanna give the Americans their due”. For one thing, the reason that happened was because the colonists had just fought a war with a ton of native people and disallowing further expansion was supposed to (and did) ease tensions between natives and colonists. Also, why does it matter? The biggest win of the 7 Years’ War for the British colonists was no longer having a hostile and competing empire right next door, the land itself wasn’t that big a deal, most of the land the Brits already was still undeveloped

[@dorkydrummer95]

Yes, being taxed causes social instability but England itself was in a economic depression and needed the extra income. The colonist were taxed significantly less than those in English borders and were only being forced to pay the raised taxes because of defiance against the Crown to not pass into French territory after the French and Indian war though population growth had increased exponentially. We, as Americans, don't like to teach that in all we caused the tyranny by creating border wars.

[@gravitytwo4088]

Nope, we didn't "cause the tyranny", as the British crown had a long long long history of tyranny before this. I get that they wanted their money back from fighting the wars, but that's no excuse for tyranny. King George was just a lousy King, as others have gone before and figured these things out to be more into justice minded. They did give us the Magna Carta. (And note that Democrat judges are squashing principals in that treaty, prinicples that go back to Rome - they are denying Trump "Client/Attorney" priviledge (privacy between a client and his lawer). We are in a banana republic now, with kangaroo courts - don't vote Democrat!

[@richardburt9812]

GREAT! I think school house crock would have. been a better title. but that is a cavil.

[@jdziedzic11]

now we get to "elect" our king (overlords), what a novel idea

[@riceballz6051]

jdziedzic11 dumbass

[@dorkydrummer95]

It doesn't expand on Great Britain's reason's for putting restrictions on the colonies and only takes one point of view, which I guess it is suppose to do considering it's a teaching aid for American children, but still.

[@mastermonarch]

the tea tax was implemented to pay for the french and Indian war that was started by colonies and England had to pick up. Death and taxes can't be avoided

[@gmccord1970]

+mastermonarch Yeah, GB had this "well, you kind of owe us for the war YOU guys started." And of course the colonists were like "hell no we don't!"

[@blin762]

2:20

[@xDreamMonsterx]

How did I get from the song Ponponpon to this e.e

[@YarnKilla54]

Love this! Too bad Biden doesn’t represent this President “ for the people”. FJB!

[@PHybrid.]

My teacher ms biglari played this in social studies

[@luzkraus4270]

man 2:19 it's not tea its blood

[@barryffay]

Sorry I clicked on this. Nice try, Matt...

[@pnkpanther3000]

Amanda you could explain why you think this version isn't right, by that I mean your referral to Great Britain putting restrictions on colonies....please by all means elaborate! If you haven't read in you AP class by now, nobody likes to be taxed to death, and tyranny is always something to avoid... So that in of itself is the reason for our break from the crown and mother land....

[@spencermccarthy5157]

Why couldn't they understand that it's NOT right to force other countries to be like theirs?

[@salvatoreshiggerino6810]

Just like the FBI today. Out with the old and in with the...old.

[@marybello4421]

me to so cache

[@salvatoreshiggerino6810]

They conveniently left out the part where they started a four century and counting occupation of someone else's land.

[@savagetv6460]

the Indians did not own the land. they didn't have nations and killed each other over land. indians were not innocent libtard

[@savagetv6460]

also once the pilgrims came the vast majority of natives were wiped out by diseases dude. basically by the time the country was founded most if not all of the natives had died from sickness around the lands of the original colonies and most of the east coast. just stop, you're clearly an uneducated shit

[@AtomicHotpocket]

My teacher showed me this im in 8th grade

[@bruh-lt5bi]

sorry lol

[@MultiAnimationdude]

You seriously need to do a better job of pre-upload editing.

[@gainorwood1716]

but... it's not a free country i dont get this video??????????????

[@dorkydrummer95]

I'm your sister? When did this happen....

[@fjccommish]

Please expound on that.

[@wadesternator4787]

If anyone watched this now they would be triggered

[@kobrazak]

Of course this video is oversimplified. It's/aimed at children, that's there audience. Obviously, they're not going to mention taking over someone else's land and forcing them to give it up.

[@hsmfan071]

Couldn't the colonists have just not bought the British goods? Like couldn't they have boycotted them completely? If the colonists didn't get any goods from Britain, then the British couldn't tax them right? Didn't the colonists make their own goods anyway?

[@minecraft5557]

It happened 300 years ago,its over.

[@JugheadObama]

Yep. Commieobama bot.

[@dorkydrummer95]

I never noticed before how biased School House Rock was until now that i'm an AP U.S History and we watched some of these lol

[@wbm3787]

Well duh! Patriots are biased by definition.

[@morglostick]

Eeh. Electoral college, much? The people don't elect the President.

[@lrdazure]

freedom is dead.

[@avagodfrey7910]

Don't say that!😡

[@el8812]

obama wuz here

[@gravitytwo4088]

A Grandmother in her 60's was sentenced last week to 15 months in jail, previously had an ankle monitor on her while she was confined to house arrest for 2.5 years before initually spending 6 months or so in jail AND has now been told she will forever be on the "terror watch list" as a terrorist ("domestic terrorist"). Yes, she is offically a terrorist according to the USA federal government? Her crime? She went to protest at the Capitol on 1/6/21 and then walked into the Captitol (also called "The People's House") for 20 minutes and then left. She never touched anyone (except for the natural "touching in a crowd") and she didn't hurt anything or anyone. Through tears, she and her family begged the foriegn-born, Obama-appointed district D.C. judge to NOT give her any further punishment, but the gave her 15 months in jail. We are a Stalin-like banana republic with kangaroo courts now.

[@se7enei8htnin97]

Don’t forget what the pilgrims did to the Native Americans, this part is whitewashed

[@fuzzipariah]

From the beginning the pilgrims worked with the native tribes. Then the tribes were invited to the first Thanksgiving.

[@Nderak]

down with the tyrant king george

[@jacobleinberger4160]

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[@seyebye]

you are my sister 8')

[@Hmmmst]

They forgot native wars, slavery, and the cutting off of hands etc., but pretty good I guess

[@shipcaption]

free country my ass

[@danielferstendig]

First republican

[@soultaker2254]

Too bad they forgot to add the part where they make the articles of confederation and each state was on the verge of going to war with each other.

[@wealthychef]

Hilariously idiotic cartoon about a fake history that never happened! I remember watching these and thinking I was "learning."

[@Keegeth]

I feel like im 8 again!

[@heatherfelton2039]

Lol

[@KarenRiffe]

Looks as though we will be "free" the obama way. Which really sucks. We need to get him impeached so things will get better. My opinion

[@avagodfrey7910]

Obama belongs in the White House, not Trump.

[@alfredashford5924]

I know the king was an asshole...but now that democracy is dead here, perhaps we would have been better with Britain, or a monarchy at least.

[@mattthiesmeyer3010]

How would you say our representative republic is dead ? It is working just the way it should

[@telstar68]

This cartoon makes Trump look worse than he actually is. Democratic conspiracy.

[@blin762]

2:19

[@blin762]

2:18