Annie Taylor was a widow and needed money to support herself in her later years. She decided the way to get that money was to be the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
She tried sending her cat down the falls in a barrel first and her cat survived but had a bleeding head. Two days later, on her 63rd birthday, Annie climbed into a barrel and went down the falls with a pillow inside the barrel. She was picked up 20 minutes afterwards with a slight gash in her head despite the pillow. After the journey, Taylor told the press: "If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat ... I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall."
David Horowitz created the Annie Taylor Award which honors courageous people who despite danger do the right thing. In 2022 the award was given to a very brave man by the name of Brandon Straka. Brandon Straka tells his story below. He attended the protest on Jan 6 against what many people believe was an unfair election. He explains why the red wave that everyone expected, never came. Red is the color that represents Republicans and blue is the color that represents Democrats. In fact Republicans are usually represented by a red elephant and Democrats by a blue donkey. A cartoonist decided to represent them as animals and the symbols stuck.
There was widespread expectation that because of high crime and inflation when the Democrats were in control of the government the majority of voters would vote for Republican candidates in 2022. Polls that asked people who they would vote for found that the majority of people were planning to vote Republican. People expected a red wave of voting would carry Republicans to power. When the votes of the elections of 2022 were counted only a few Republicans won. We don't know if that is because the polls that asked people who they would vote didn't ask enough people or if there was voter fraud.
The leftist government of the United States went to war against Brandon. You can hear Brandon speak about it by watching the video below.
The U.S. government made war against Brandon and many other Americans who protested on Jan 6. There may be another war being made against Americans by a foreign country on social media.
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