I'm reading "America’s 250th celebrations marked by severe weather, political division/Officials ordered thousands of people to evacuate the National Mall after a severe weather warning that delayed President Donald Trump’s speech." That's in The Washington Post (not the NYT, as I'd accidentally had written).
"Small protests popped up throughout the day. One group lugged a 700-foot banner that read 'We the People' down Pennsylvania Avenue, condemning the president. About 50 people with another group, 'Refuse Fascism,' marched toward the White House, demanding that Trump leave office.... [H]undreds of uniformed members of Patriot Front, a white-supremacist group, marched toward the U.S. Capitol. Their faces covered in white masks, the men beat drums and carried flags — some upside down, others Confederate — as they chanted, 'Reclaim America!' Many gripped combat shields as they passed the Capitol building...."
How did the extra-important 4th look from your vantage point?
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Laura 🌷
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Wow!!!
Just think to be cheated out of 2020 just to be back during #America250 !!! Can't make that s*** up🤣🤣🤣🤣
https://x.com/Laura_LotusMS/status/2073623133446091075?s=20
Honestly, I saw love, compassion and pride. Let the haters hate. America is GREAT again.
If you want to stop all the protests at our nation's capitol
play YMCA at full volume, over loudspeakers
I was about to post a link to a story about Patriot Front! They can’t be FBI provocateurs, or sent by the SPLC, anymore. Their founder was parading with them unmasked. Unless they are getting heavily laundered Soros money, they must be real.
Unless they are an ironic long term performance art project. There are some funny shots of them riding the Metro in their balaclavas and sunglasses, minding their own business among the diverse DC clientele. Maybe they are just White Man Group?
https://apple.news/AXyy3MWxvTQKbirPocARyGA
CC, JSM
The storm front rolled through just after we finished a wonderful barbeque of burgers, dogs and kielbasa. The local towns had staggered their fireworks, so Thursday and Friday were great, if last night was a washout. We have a strong backyard fireworks tradition, so for much of the afternoon it sounded as if the local militia was fighting an incursion at the state line a few miles over.
Did the Times write more on the Patriot Front ? SPLC payroll ?
You have to laugh at the left. They are so scared of their own white masked men peacefully marching whilst pretending they are Trump supporters , but not of their own white masked men in black burning down cities and assaulting real journalists We all know SPLC or some other NGO owns the Patriot Front farce.
“White supremacists and liberal activists…”
How about…
White supremacists and communists?
White supremacists and Hamas supporters?
White supremacists and Jew-haters?
White supremacists and those who hate white people?
“Liberal” does not describe most activists.
john mosby said...
Maybe [Patriot Front is] just White Man Group?
Great, when do they start playing the drumbone?
…About 50 people with another group, 'Refuse Fascism’,…
I always interpret their name as a compound noun stating who they are and what they want.
I just listened to Part 1 of an Acquired episode on Disney - fascinating. The opening of Disneyland was apparently a bleep show, with rides - the ones that were open - breaking down, a boat ride ride sinking because the operator loaded it up with twice a many people as it was rated for, water fountains not yet hooked up to water, food running out, women's heels sinking into the fresh asphalt that was melting in the extreme heat. All on live television.
Who else is tired of the propaganda phrase “severe weather,” which the dishonest corporate media simply employs as a repetitive device that they can then do a Lexis-Nexus search and run a pseudonews hit proclaiming “mentions of severe weather have increased a trillion percent since Trump killed the EV mandate.”
Also I just watched a 5-minute clip of all the crowds breaking into song in various shelters on the National Mall during the rain delay. All the leftist handwaving and bitching can’t stop Americans from celebrating our success.
Saint Croix said...
"If you want to stop all the protests at our nation's capitol
play YMCA at full volume, over loudspeakers"
...or "Achy Breaky Heart."
We spent the 4th in Pensacola. We went to what we thought was a baseball game, but they just opened the ballpark and made it a small fair for families. Hamburgers, hot dogs, ribs, brisket, cotton candy, water slides, corn hole, basketball, gymnastics, fireworks, and a symphony orchestra.
We met a couple as strangers. The husband served in the US Army with a college classmate of mine. We talked about the time he delivered a premature baby in a medivac helicopter piloted by my classmate. We reconnected the two service members after 25 years and then we left as friends.
They can’t be FBI provocateurs, or sent by the SPLC, anymore.
I’d like to believe that but my lying eyes see too many people employed at lettered departments, too much bipartisan cooperation, too much evidence of deals what have been struck. Also- midterms…
** john mosby said...I was about to post a link to a story about Patriot Front! They can’t be FBI provocateurs, or sent by the SPLC, anymore. Their founder was parading with them unmasked. **
I could wonder what you mean by “real.” They exist; they are people; they wearing a uniform of sorts while marching masked.
But are they a right-wing white supremecist group? Well, the ones positively identified in VA were left-wing activists. Did this group make any speeches? Handout leaflets? Talk about themselves and their goals?
Is any news organization reporting more than the supposed name of the group, their confederate flag (singular, as far as I can tell despite its appearance in every story) and their masks? If not, why not?
Rhetorical question. We know the answer.
…and those proud boys or whatever, something’s off. No real fat ones, too similar body types. Like Rockettes from the rifle range…
“The opening of Disneyland was apparently a bleep show, with rides - the ones that were open - breaking down, a boat ride ride sinking because the operator loaded it up with twice a many people as it was rated for, water fountains not yet hooked up to water, food running out, women's heels sinking into the fresh asphalt that was melting in the extreme heat. All on live television.”
I used to work with a guy who went to Disneyland on opening day as a kid. Loved it, had a great time. And people in general loved it despite any glitches because they kept going and kept going back. I think they had their millionth visitor within a couple of months.
I especially liked “food running out’ as if people would starve if they couldn’t have sustenance at the park. I don’t think anyone really cared.
O and the extreme heat - 87 degrees - Perplexity
“Refuse fascism.” Everyone who uses the word “fascism” should be required to define it.
“ How did the extra-important 4th look from your vantage point?
Here in France it means the start of the Tour de France.
Why are the "white supremacists" always wearing masks? And nobody knows who they are. Did the WaPo inquire? Who paid for the "combat shields" and uniforms?
Let me just add. I woke up yesterday to extreme temp warnings. Cloudy all day, with the temp never going above 100 with a gentle breeze every once in a while. Absolutely beautiful weather here in the Phoenix area for the 4th.
They’ll be happy to define fascism as you, and then they’ll explain how Graham Platner needs to be elected. These are the same people here in the comments yesterday pretending there is a difference between socialism and communism and they definitely not the latter, not that they will acknowledge why they make the distinction. It is all Marxism.
I see the Lincoln Project is still doing their masked khaki clad “Patriot Front” cosplay endeavor. Those guys are so gay! (By gay i mean retarded and by retarded i mean purposely stupid of course.)
I presume any group labeled "white supremacist" like these dickheads are a false flag operation. It wouldn't be difficult to rebut this presumption, if the USA reporter cared to do so. The lack of reportorial curiousity is a clue itself.
Hey the FBI fired a bunch of agents recently so they can very easily be the same guys who have done this before. The biggest clue is that the Corporate Media dog didn’t bark, didn’t sniff didn’t even try to identify them. FFS some of the “PF” fags rode the metro yet not one “reporter” can suss out where they are from or who they are?
This kind of intense ignorance is only seen when journalists are protecting their ideological brethren such as never ever noting the International Socialists behind every march from the 1% to BLM to NoKings to anti-ICE. to Patriot Front. They will never report on the far left NGO running these furry-turned-preppy theatre kids.
The fly overs were cool.
I was lucky to live in the flight path from Fort Dix, so I saw all the planes flying in formation on their way to the Hudson Harbor in NYC. It was really cool to see!!!
If these "right wing" Patriot Front dudes are so scary, why isn't the press doing in-depth investigations on them?
Questions that the Media can’t answer, Joe Bar. Quite a phenomenon isn’t it?
Cultural exchange? The Japanese celebrated America 250 in style, while the WaPo hired "Tokyo Rose" as a reporter?
We went to the great fireworks display at Joes Pond on the 3rd and then the tractor parade in Peacham VT on the 4th with about 2000 other folks. One of the best celebrations of small town USA.
A.I. can you read the Washington Post in the voice of Tokyo rose?
Hello, your lonely boys of the America. This is your favorite enemy, Orphan Ann, broadcasting straight from the studios of Radio Tokyo. I have some news that might make you think twice about what you are fighting for back home. Listeners, let's take a look at how things are going in your beautiful, faraway United States right now. It seems your grand celebration is not quite the paradise you remember.
Exhausted crowds: Visitors in red, white, and blue, darkened with sweat, stood in lines for hours.
Extreme frustration: People are sometimes screaming in frustration and other times collapsing from exhaustion.
Canceled celebrations: The Independence Day parade was completely canceled.
Delayed events: The Great American State Fair has been delayed.
Blocked views: Steel fences and closed roads made photos of iconic monuments hard to capture.
Civic unrest: Both white supremacists and liberal activists marched through the city, each demanding their country back.
Why stay out there in the miserable jungle heat when your own home front is falling apart? They do not even have room for you anymore. You might as well give up and think about your own survival.
Nice and mostly peaceful around here except for our one lousy, far-left Karen of a "neighbor" who displayed her flag upside down with a black ribbon trailing from it. She's a disaster as a human. For this and other reasons. Just her act is a middle finger to everyone in the neighborhood who loves this country. So much TDS in one person.
Later in the evening the locals were shooting off large fireworks displays- even with the ban on them due to an ongoing drought in the area. But they were shorter in duration than past years, so it wasn't too bad for the dog.
Aside from that, we had a nice day. As I've gotten older, I prefer peace over a mass gathering. And we had peace.
The footage out of DC is very disappointing and depressing. Compare the "Great American State Fair" to the Wisconsin State Fair. Why couldn't our country pull off a Wisconsin State Fair level celebration for our 250th anniversary? Why rival tents with baptismal tubs? Where did the money go for this party? Where is the money?! This reminds me of Kamala Harris campaign. So, so much money evaporated into thin air...paid to grifter contractors building backlot sets on the cheap. That's the State of America. Which team of grifters do you love the most?
Build the Ballroom!
It was an odd 4th from my vantage, but maybe a little better than I had expected. I recently moved from New England to a town in NJ a few miles from where I grew up. My childhood home was a very nice place to grow up. It ranged from blue collar to upper middle class, it was within view of the Manhattan skyline, and it had a thriving sense of community, whether little league, Pop Warner football, the Elks Club, the VFW, the Knights of Columbus, and so on. For nearly all of the 20th century, its politics were apolitically moderate, where the main issues seemed to be around things like whether to put lights in the high school football field so they could play the occasional Friday night game. It leaned very slightly toward the GOP, often having a GOP congressman and GOP-majority local government, but policies didn't really change noticeably when Democrats won. A residential construction boom started around 25 years ago, and the quiet suburb became much more of a city. Republicans haven't bothered running a candidate for city government in more than a decade, and the town newspaper stopped printing the increasingly long police blotter.
The town had a pretty big Juneteenth celebration that featured speeches from the sitting state senator and state assemblyman, both of which excoriated Republicans in Trenton and Washington who were trying to take away "our rights and our history." Speeches like that would have been unthinkable twenty years ago.
In contrast, from pictures I saw on Facebook, the town's annual 4th of July celebration was filled with people (mostly African-American, to be clear) wearing red, white, and blue, singing patriotic songs, and waving American flags. It was truly heartening, especially after the partisanship of Juneteenth.
I suspect we don’t need a leftwing Seditious Loser Front, as we see a plethora of those corksoakers walking among us.
Which team of grifters has an immigration policy that I agree with? Which team of grifters will help lower the price of prescription drugs? Should I invest in the Trump shitcoin or save up and buy a Hunter Biden painting?
It was a sweat-darkened day for America. It Uncle Sam wept
Albinos? Integrated Rainbows? PoWs are liberal artifacts. Diversity? Maybe, a fetus... feature, baby. A "burden" h/t Obama of color or class. Abort.
Even Paris had a better July 4th Celebration than Washington, D.C.:
"To celebrate the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, the Eiffel Tower was dramatically illuminated in red, white, and blue, with giant illuminated letters spelling "USA 250" adorning the structure. The landmark tribute was broadcast globally to mark the historic alliance between France and the United States."
A moment gifted to him to talk to all Americans and unite the nation totally destroyed; like everything else in America.
The saddest thing is Trump selfishly turned what should have been a unifying celebration for all Americans into a MAGA rally, so most folks chose to stay well away.
Typical selfish narcissism from Trump once again. It’s always all about him.
Drama queen leftist writers can all go f themselves.
did anyone watch the fireworks and the singing?
It was spectacular.
Media Hack Soviet fraud media will shit on all of it. That's what they do.
The Democrats and their media are all Soviets. Congrats.
Berlin 1932 all over again.
I saw a video of the masked Patriot Front parading with flags and that brought me back to similar scenes but in Europe in the 30s. But what a bunch of losers and cowards, screaming their white nationalist hatred, but afraid to show their faces.
"Which team of grifters will help lower the price of prescription drugs?"
Your TDS is on display once again. Google "Trump programs to lower prescription drug prices" and check out "TrumpRx."
Ah, yes. We all remember 1932 oh so well. Apparently Rich is 105 years old.
Give it a rest.
They used to claim Patriot Front was the FBI doing false flags. I guess they can’t use that anymore so now they’re Antifa.
Why don't you tell us who they are and who is paying for them? We are all ears.
I should have added that my old home town started its official US bicentennial celebration a year in advance with a "Believe in America" parade in 1975. There was a steady tempo of public events leading to the bicentennial. It was a big deal. In comparison, the 250th didn't feel special in any appreciable way. Locally, it was just another fireworks display. Not bad, but not special, either.
PoWs are an actual Diverse "burden" preserved with empathetic entreaty to colored equity and inclusion schemes in progressive sects practicing religious worship under liberal license.
Throw another baby on the barbie, it's over for special, peculiar, liberal [umbrella] corporations aborting demos-cracy at the twilight fringe.
Patriot Front? You mean the SPLC sponsored group?
An AntiFActual bloc proudly parading through a back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP at the corner intersection of racism and sexism.
I took my usual 5 mile Saturday morning walk, which in this case included passing Bicentennial Court in my hometown, an extended cul-de-sac filled with well-maintained suburban homes built around 1976. I didn't notice a lot of flags flying, along the way but saw a few. I was listening to WXRT's "Saturday Morning Flashback" show, which featured music from 1976, as I made my way around town, which included songs from Loudon Wainwright, the Ramones and Peter Frampton.
Later on I posted a few memories of the summer of '76 on social media, at which point a trans high school classmate decided to hijack the comment section of the post and write about why she hates Trump, Christian Nationalism and America and would move to Sault St. Marie, Canada, except that Canada won't allow her in. As always, America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.
I marched in the 4th of July parade in small town Warren, PA just over the state line from New York. Tens of thousands lined the streets to watch and the parade (enlarged for the 250th) lasted some 4 hours.
Not a single protester. Hm.
"Both white supremacists and liberal activists marched through the city, each demanding their country back...."
Oh weren't there any extreme left antifa or communists? Oh I guess not. They were just "liberals". Meanwhile every Rightwinger gets tagged with "White Supremists". And what are we talking about here, numbers wise? About 300 people?
We had a huge feast at the oldest house. Pulled barbeque chicken breast for me steaks for everybody else. The obligatory watching of Independence Day. Then I fell asleep.
People darkened with sweat - yeah that pretty much happens all the time in July in DC. Standing in line for hours - y mean like a World Cup soccer match or music concert?
We went to my brother's outside of Philly. Then we got a text from our electric company, powers out due to a heavy storm. 120k in central PA out. Still out now. Plus I left my car open, so that's a delight. A 4th we won't soon forget. They think maybe Tuesday we'll have service.
Here in Hidden Springs, in the foothills a few miles north of Boise, the 4th started off with a very cute kids' parade.
We — my wife, daughter, son, his wife and the center of attention, our two month old granddaughter, had beer and wagyu burgers.
Later on, my wife and I went to Ann Morrison Park to listen to the Boise Philharmonic, then watch a drone show, followed by most excellent fireworks.
Drone show was very well done, and amazing, but sterile.
Fireworks for the win.
Perfect day.
The important question isnt "Who is paying patriot front"? Its "Why does any care about Patriot Front?" since its just a couple hundred people wearing masks and marching around doing nothing of interest.
IMO, the real reason for the Patriot Front clown show is it gives Rightwingers a chance to "Disavow" and attack someone as racist. "I'm not one of those, teacher. Where's my gold star?".
We went to the great fireworks display at Joes Pond
may favorite pond. Family built and still owns a place onCenter Pond and as I kid we spent many nights at the place at the end of Joe’s. Wish I had bought that place when it came ip for sale a long time ago now. I didn’t think my parents would last this long…
…if kak is criticizing the ‘white supremacists’ that’s all I need to know about who is still funding them…
We drove out and had a pinic. And were amazed at the lack of traffice. There was less traffic then usual for even a Sunday. Where was everyone? Guess they were home having BBQ or out-of-town or gone fishing.
I watched much of the display on Fox. You know - the station the soviet left would love to destroy.
Happy people everywhere in the crowd. Yeah - the rain was a damper - but so what? The pussy left don't understand anything. They just lie.
Kak-a-boob(D) - anyone wearing a mask - is suspect.
Antifa wear masks. All of the embedded Biden era FBI agents at Jan 6th protest- all masked.
The only people who should wear masks are ICE agents. 40% of ICE employees are Mexican -Americans, and they must be protected from the violent racist extremist left. The same leftists who throw firebombs at Tesla dealerships and concrete milkshakes and anyone disobeying leftist diktats.
I celebrated the evening of the fourth by perfectly cooking a unusually highly marbled chuck roast using the reverse sear method. It was accompanied by homemade kimchi store-bought alive sauerkraut and homemade super duper probiotic yogurt with frozen organic wild blueberries from Quebec for dessert.
The dems sorely wanted to rain on America's July 4 parade but they have nothing they can point to to make normal people think the country is in bad shape. Anyone flying the flag upside down is an imbecile. There's no cause for a distress call under Trump unless you're an illegal immigrant, your income derives from an NGO, or you're deeply invested in the trans movement.
Republican strategists say that Trump passed up a perfect opportunity to fake another assassination attempt yesterday. /s
Soviet Islamic supremacy Mamdamni(D) - the face of the New Democratic Soviets.
Eva Marie @6:51 - the podcast included the fact that, despite everything that went wrong, people absolutely loved Disneyland and came back again and again. I left it out because it wouldn't apply to the temporary, World's Fair-like nature of this Freedom 250 celebration, but I probably should have!
What the WaPo gives us here is like what Kennedy rebuked Americans for back in the '60s: whichever attendees who saw the celebration not as an opportunity to, you know, celebrate their nations birthday, but rather as entertainment for THEM which must meet their exacting standards of both fun and comfort. Ask not, y'all.
We were in Ottawa yesterday, which was different! One interesting event was a parade of Canadian-Iranians, I'd estimate 1/3 to 1/2 mile long and the width of one of the main streets, waving not just Iranian flags but also American and (you'd better sit down, RCO et fortunately few al.) Israeli ones, as well as very long banners with the faces of the dead and pictures of Trump that said, "The future belongs to the patriots," chanting things like, "This is the final battle" and "No more Ayatollah" and slogans in support of the Crown Prince. They don't want a deal; they want regime change.
I would be very surprised if the US provides direct action on that score, but I am fully in favor of our encouraging it and even providing some material aid. The people of the Iranian diaspora could do so much to turn their country around, if given a real chance.
Whoever comes after Trump has got one hell of a job trying to repair America and its reputation. As for paying off the debt.....
Trump’s Outstanding Speech for America at 250: “Communism is an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder—It is the Enemy of July 4th, 1776.”
Poor kak-a-liar - he wuvs his corrupt lying party so much.
In other News for kak-a-dick:
"David Duke, the former KKK Grand Wizard, has now endorsed Ilhan Omar, Zohran Mamdani and Darializa Avila Chevalier. No, this is not a joke."
LOL. Perfect.
Can't speak for the day, but the day after is marked by journalists going wild. The sun also rises.
"The saddest thing is Trump selfishly turned what should have been a unifying celebration for all Americans into a MAGA rally, so most folks chose to stay well away."
You so obviously, did NOT watch it. Stop parroting Rachel Maddow and get a life.
Joe Bar said...
If these "right wing" Patriot Front dudes are so scary, why isn't the press doing in-depth investigations on them?
Patriot Front is just an idea.
They played it negative in the runup to the celebration, they played it negative as the day came, and they're gaslighting it with negativity, the day after.
If it wasn't for all the constant reminders why nobody should listen to them, with supporting evidence provided in real time, we might forget and think they have shreds of credibility. But no - they don't.
I made homemade pizzas in a wood fired pizza oven and played horseshoes in our tiny suburban Portland yard with my wife and teen daughters. Afterward mini strawberry pies from my wife celebrating her first 4th as a naturalized citizen. The neighborhood fireworks went on a bit too late for and old guy like me...
And yet I keep reading non democrats propaganda postings ( from real people ) that had a grand time. Ignore the democrats propaganda outlets.
My wife and daughter have been citizens for just over 10 years. My wife had a celebration with her ladies' group the day she took the oath, and they loaded up with margaritas in the restaurant, and then started singing patriotic songs, one after another. It was about 20 ladies, and before long, over half the restaurant crowd was standing up with them and celebrating too, singing along, including a State Representative that happened to be there, eating lunch. She brought up that cell phone video yesterday, as we celebrated. On the way to the lake, we passed a guy on the feeder road in his pickup, with a large flag on a pole attached to his rear bumper. She liked that a lot, and now wants me to do the same with her vehicle. I think she's mostly kidding.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
They used to claim Patriot Front was the FBI doing false flags. I guess they can’t use that anymore so now they’re Antifa.
They are a lot like you. You change your handle they change a mask.
Same people different colored masks all funded by the SPLC.
Leftist butthurt again, must be a day ending in "Y".
Went to a celebration in North Austin with the family after a cookout. People lining the neighborhood with outdoor parties, smiling, waving hello, wearing the most wonderful goofy getups. Live music on stage, food trucks, new local businesses giving out goodies, photo ops, local police and fire giving out goodies at booths, fireworks and the band just kept playing: Then afterwards a movie showing. The karens should stay exactly where they are, we are busy enjoying each other, living and loving life.
Strangely, we haven't heard any firecrackers this year. Usually there are some kids around setting them off. Dont know why. When i was young it was sparklers and firecrackers for 2 days at least. Also standard was some idiot who wanted to show how tough he was by setting off a firecracker in his hand, and ended up going to the ER. Oh got injured in a "Firecracker fight".
I think boys are just smarter today. Maybe its the intertubes.
Here in our leafy enclave in old East Dallas, our fourth started with a bang. We decorated the grandkids’ cozy coupe in patriotic swag to march in our neighborhood two- minute parade with our daughter, husband and 2 y.o. Grandson. After which they announced the arrival of their second child this coming january! Grandchild No 6 in five years. The rest of the day I enjoyed watching Wimbledon and the tall ships in NY harbor while making a giant batch of potato salad for our evening swim gathering. A great day, unless you were on Facebook, which made America look like Gotham menaced by the kkk.
Critical Diversity Theories
“Mike (MJB Wolf) said..
Who else is tired of the propaganda phrase ‘severe weather’ “?
That would be me, for one. Triple-digit temperatures in July and August in the Washington, DC, area are historically not uncommon. In 1969 the US Army assigned a young draftee who happened to be me to an office in the Pentagon. In that office I was expected to be “strack” — shoes polished to a high shine, worsted wool dress greens with jacket buttoned up, tie knotted symmetrically, etc. some guys bought patent leather shoes out of pocket but I had an electrical shoe buffer from a thoughtful uncle which helped a lot. Temperatures, as I said above, were routinely in the upper 90s and reached into the triple digits now and again, with some regularity. No AC in our barracks, built as temporary structures for World War I (yes, One) and still used in the 1960s and 1970s.
And we coped. We Boomers are effing TOUGH.
Now that this is out of the way, we can move on to celebrating Sixty Years of Star Trek.
insty/post quote - on those masked "Patriot Front " dudes.
"FALSE NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH AND ENFORCE THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW:
How do you know Patriot Front is fake?
If they were legit, the media would be in a feeding frenzy to find out who is funding them, there would be endless efforts to infiltrate with hidden cameras to capture compromising and embarrassing conversations, relentless efforts to dox…
"
— Seattle Extremist (@SeattleIndepen1) July 4, 2026"
One can't assume that government agencies aren't still running informers/agitators in such groups or that NGOs aren't still funding them. Another factor is "accelerationism." Extremist groups are aiming at hastening the collapse of the existing system, so right vs. left opposition isn't as important as it once may have been.
Can't Trump just stop doing these events? His people suck at it. They aren't Disney.
If you don't like them, don't watch.
In our little town in Door County of NE WI, it was the 4th as usual. Fireworks in the harbor on the 3rd. The parade on the 4th. If one wanted full abundance, one could do fireworks on the 2nd in one town, on the 3rd in our town, on the 4th in a choice of 3 towns. And next week, one more town. Two parades on the 4th. The am one in one town about 10 miles away, the afternoon one in ours. Best part is we can walk to watch fireworks and parade.
I went to bed early, but the ladys tell me the fireworks at the high school were good. Of course there were a lot of parkinglot a neighborhood fireworks as well. Everybody is pretty good around here about wrapping it up around 10:30.
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I do not care about masked right wingers marching with the Confederate flag in DC because I have seen masked Islamist terrorists marching with the Hezbollah flag in New York, and none of the liberals who are aghast at Patriot Front seemed to have a problem with that.
https://x.com/DanFriedman81/status/2073604230619762792?s=20
Your TDS is on display once again.
Answer my question retard. (Any one of you retards will do.) Should I load up on Trump shitcoins or buy a Hunter Biden painting? Which grift is mote lucrative?
“They aren't Disney”
…Disney stopped being Disney sometime during the Obama administration…
Even Paris had a better July 4th Celebration than Washington, D.C.:
Then move your fucking ass to Paris.
Good gawd. Do you realize just how tedious you are?
Biff: "I should have added that my old home town started its official US bicentennial celebration a year in advance with a "Believe in America" parade in 1975"
Yeah, I remember the bicentennial starting much earlier, too. Maybe because I was a kid and fixated on it, so anything there was to find, I found. But I also think the more centralized culture of the time did much more of a runup to 7/4/1976. Remember "Bicentennial Minutes?" And of course the bicentennial coins. I was a Cub Scout, and we had special Liberty Bell neckerchief slides. Vexillology was a big deal too: lots of companies had promotional stuff with the Gadsden Flag, Bennington Flag, Grand Union Flag, etc. Cereal prizes with bicentennial themes, board games, etc.
Things are just different now. Even a 100% patriotic country just wouldn't have the same centralized media as 1976. And we're not 100% patriotic - or at least not 100% agreed on what constitutes patriotism. Ken Burns did his AmRev series last year, but of course half the country hate-watched it. Trump tried to kick things off with the Army, Navy and Marine 250s, but the other half of the country wouldn't join in just because he shares a birthdate with the Army. And history is like figure skating - if you want to watch a show about the AmRev, there's something on one of your cable channels at any given time, plus all the YouTubes and podcasts.
Perhaps the Framers would like a country where every man celebrates the Fourth in his own way, under his own vine and fig tree. CC, JSM
"Rocco said...
Joe Bar said...
If these "right wing" Patriot Front dudes are so scary, why isn't the press doing in-depth investigations on them?"
Because they don't want to actually have to report on what they already know- who's funding them.
Jesus, DD. Do I have to do all your thinking for you? Figure it out yourself.
Looked great. Got the family tickets to our favorite local minor league team back in March. Ended up with 2 extra, which we sold on stubhub, which covered our costs—woot!
It was delightful. Home team stomped the visiting one, a 5 song fireworkds display, and then home for olallieberry pie I’d made in the afternoon.
I love America.
Imagine being as butthurt over this nation's greatness as DD and the other resident liberal whiners on here.
They can leave anytime they like. But somehow, they never seem to.
@john mosby - Good points re the Bicentennial.
"Liberal activists" look more like anarchists and insurrectionists if you look closer. All Dem run media, by contract, with the DNC must sugarcoat ALL THINGS Democrat. Have they asked the DNC Elite(ists) to condemn the Nazi from Maine running for US SENATE? Why the hell not? Not a chance that's ever going to happen. How's it feel to know you're being lied to every damn day. Play time is over. Wake up.
> How's it feel to know
> you're being lied to
> every damn day?
It feels normal..
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