You can turn of English subtitles and watch it again. It's a great episode, but without the subtitles, I would have been totally lost.

As I recall, almost the entire episode had subtitles. It's one of my favorites.

SOURCEs for this post were 'The U.S. Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom' by Keanu Sai PhD for NEA Today (National Education Association), published 10/01/2018
and
the book 'Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire' by Jonathan M. Katz

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Despite objections fr Sens & Reps the joint resolution got a majority vote & McKinley signed it into law. Many gov officials & constitutional scholars couldn't explain how a joint resolution had the extra-territorial force & effect of a treaty in annexing #Hawai’i, a foreign & sovereign state.

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Former insurgent, Sanford Dole became the first Governor of the Territory of #Hawai'i. Congressman Thomas H. Ball from Texas declared, “The annexation of Hawai’i …unconstitutional.” Senator Augustus Bacon from Georgia agreed.
ugly #American History
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit

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Facts: House Joint Resolution 259, 55th Congress, second session, known as the "Newlands Resolution," passed Congress and was signed into law by President McKinley on July 7, 1898 — the Hawaiian Islands were officially annexed by the United States.
#Hawai'i
ugly #AmericanHistory

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