It’s weird how Democrats always seem to find a reason to hate on America every July 4th, pretty much going back to the late 60’s, but, we see a lot more of this during the Internet era
‘It’s hard to be patriotic this Independence Day’
For many, the Fourth of July is synonymous with jubilation; fireworks, parades, hot dogs, and flashy displays of red, white, and blue. For others, it’s a day of reflection on the meaning behind patriotism.
This year, the Fourth marks the 246-year commemoration of the second continental congress passing the United States Declaration of Independence, repudiating British rule and advocating for equitable freedom. Often credited as being the essence of Americana, the Declaration of Independence fell short on its promise for some. Since its ratification, the document failed to include both the genocides of indigenous communities and those who were abducted and forced into American slavery, which until 1865, was still not federally illegal.
Sigh. Did Abigail Rosen at the at the Martha’s Vineyard Times actually read the Declaration of Independence? Does she understand it is not the Constitution? I’m pretty darned confident that I need not explain the purpose of either nor the differences.
The declaration challenged the King of Great Britain: “For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury,” one excerpt reads. “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people” — sentiments that even now, Americans can relate to with concern to the U.S. government.
We can relate to, because we see government taking power, assuming power, dictating power over the Citizens…oh, wait, that’s not what Abigail means as she posts from the uber-rich area of Martha’s Vineyard
Recent United States Supreme Court actions — the reversing of Roe v. Wade, and efforts to hinder climate change mitigation — add to local conversations, such as the Oak Bluffs select board’s refusal to acknowledge and raise the Juneteenth Flag, a symbol of African American independence.
Current affairs add weight to the already-troubled and solemn history regarding the relationship among the United States and indigenous and Black communities, and in turn, triggers some Americans to rethink the meaning of patriotism; some, declining to celebrate Independence Day altogether.
NAACP MV President Arthur Hardy-Doubleday told The Times that this year, finding cause to embrace and celebrate the holiday, is particularly challenging. “It’s hard to be patriotic this Independence Day,” he said, “given the recent decisions of the Supreme Court.”
Have you ever noticed that Conservatives never have a problem celebrating Independence Day, regardless of what’s going on? Regardless of which party has the White House? Of what the Supreme Court has ruled on? We’re always ready.
Echoing the sentiment, Martha’s Vineyard Diversity Coalition, via Sandra Pimentel stated, “While many of us who call ourselves Americans celebrate Independence Day with grateful delight, parades and fireworks, the recent reflection on our history and the truth that relates to it helps us to understand that Independence Day does not generate the same feelings of joy for all of us. The Martha’s Vineyard Diversity Coalition believes that we as a people have the capacity to fully understand the reality of our history and in the process of learning we can come together in a way that allows all of us to feel and experience freedom equally and together.”
Diversity? Only around 3.7% are black, 1.5% are Hispanic, around .3% are Asian. Most seem to be uber-white rich Democrats.
Of course, there are plenty more articles like this, and the Facebook and Twitter wankers are hating on it. Like this boob
We’re about to celebrate Independence Day — but Freedom is under attack by Republican leaders in states like Florida.
Banning books.
Restricting speech.
Making it harder to vote.
Criminalizing women and doctors.
It’s time to stand up. Don’t let them take your freedom. pic.twitter.com/cFI5UzgZzX— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 3, 2022
Ban books? Who was California governor in 2020? Restricting speech? Let’s start with looking at Democratic Party run schools. Harder to vote? Well, sure, if you aren’t eligible to vote. Abortion up to birth is still legal in California. California was one of the worst for lockdowns, closing businesses, and restrictions for the COVID era.
Happy Independence Day, everyone. I will be celebrating.
America was built for the European male. The Asian, African and Latin American had no concept of the ideas involved in establishing a republic. Individual Liberty was as beyond them as the moon.
Well said.
The question now is this.
Which culture will survive?
The American culture will survive. This is an open society with Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, whites, blacks, Hispanics, gays and straights.
Anyone whining that Americans from Asia, Africa or Latin America have no concept of individual liberty is living in the Bronze Age..
With open borders there will come a point in which the culture changes.
Happy Fourth of July to all the patriots out there.
To Rimjob, Happy F*ck the Fourth to you and yours.
#Liars&KiddieDiddlers
#LetsGoBrandon
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Happy Women’s Oppression Day to all you white christian nationalists out there!!
Freedom and Independence is under attack by nuGOPhers.
The real Independence Day is next November 8.
Friends of Rimjob celebrating “F*ck the Fourth”.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/4/23194354/highland-park-fourth-july-parade-gunfire
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How about some facts.
The so-called Native Americans came across the Siberia-Alaska land bridge and filtered down and across the continents. Among the things they are noted for is human sacrifice, slavery and cannibalism. Their societies/cultures ranged from hunter gather tribes in the north to feudal kings and peasants groupings in the central and south.
Everything was cool until the southern Europeans arrived. The southern Europeans were aggressive, had better weapons, including germs that the NA’s had never been around before. The result was conquest, settlement and a feudal society based on what they had in southern Europe resulting in land owners with peasants huddled around the Catholic Church. But the NA’s were better off. No slavery, no cannibalism and no human sacrifice.
Basically, nothing has changed to the south. They have gone from weekly revolutions to establishment of failed socialism experiments…Venezuela doesn’t have toilet paper or antibiotics and Honduras is the murder capital of the world. Their exports are bananas and people…..who have flooded into America to the tune of 15 million or so. When called out they riot and fly Mexico’s flag and demand the right to vote. They seem determined to establish what they, or their parents, fled from. Poverty, chaos, crime and dictatorship.
Later the northern Europeans arrived to the north. They were no better to the NA’s than their peers to the south. But they did have one thing the southern Europeans didn’t have. Budding democracy. They had the Magna Carta. The powers of kings were finite and the people were to have a voice.
“We the people….” Became real.
None of this is pretty. The NA’s lost. What the Europeans found were people who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, defend the land that they had taken from the previous owners.
We now find ourselves on the same page that was the Aztec’s. Do we want to defend and hold this land, this civilization, or do we want to surrender to the flood of people from the south and the flood of Muslims Obama and Hillary imported from the east?
Problem is we know the problem. We elect people who will fix the problem only to have the elections stolen and our problems worse than ever. We need action, coordinated action to solve the problems once and for all.
david,
Which election was stolen? Certainly not the 2020 presidential election. Only a person in a totally dissociative state would feel/believe that.
What “coordinated action” do you recommend? Shooting Americans celebrating Independence Day?
Mr tRump was contemplating martial law and hoped to barge into the Capitol building with the Jan 6 mob and DECLARE himself the winner! His co-conspirators were begging him for preemptive pardons.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck.
It is a duck.
Ducks are real, Mr Lewis, ducks are real.
There is no good evidence that the election was stolen.
If you believe the election was stolen you are mentally ill.
Hi James,
The “so-called” native Americans were the first humans to populate the Americas as early as 30,000 years ago, well before the land bridge became ice-free. Yes, they migrated from Asia, hypothesized over the land bridge but also likely by sea. How sophisticated were the European cavemen at that same time, where the native Neanderthals and the “so-called” native Europeans (from Africa) dominated? Not very.
Human civilizations first appeared in Asia and the Middle East as the last glacial age was ended. In the “fertile crescent” erstwhile Africans formed cities around growing and storing grains and using domesticated animals for labor and food. Eurasia had barley, two varieties of wheat, and three protein-rich pulses for food; flax for textiles; and goats, sheep, and cattle. Land trade gave them access to donkeys and horses. The East-West orientation of Eurasia enabled land trade and importantly transfer of crops from one climate region to a similar climate region in a similar latitude.
The diverse and intermixed Eurasians introduced communicable diseases to Africa and the New World killing as many as 90% of the native populations there (and in fairness, tropical diseases to Eurasians).
Over 1000 years ago a Chinese alchemist wrote, “Some have heated together the saltpeter, sulfur, and carbon of charcoal with honey; smoke and flames result, so that their hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house burnt down.” Voila, gunpowder!
Ironworking developed in the Caucasus and spread through Europe and Asia over 2000 years ago.
By the 1200s early versions (cannons and grenades) of modern firearms had spread from Asia to Europe, where they were further developed as weapons in the form of matchlock, wheel lock and flintlock firearms.
When Europeans ventured to the New World they carried firearms!
Your fear and hatred of Muslims, Blacks and Hispanics is evident and not very American. After all, we’re all immigrants. But the nuAmericanConservatives are by-and-large white Christian nationalists. My earliest ancestors were from northern Europe and also the Lenape tribe in south New Jersey. Of course, along the way were those from Central Europe and even from Central Africa. I suspect some of KY tribe held Black slaves that somehow contributed a trace of their DNA.
Mr Lewis typed: What the Europeans found were people who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, defend the land that they had taken from the previous owners.
What they found were early Americans who were to be subjugated by treaties, guns and disease.
Dearest Elwood:
The point is that the NA’s came from somewhere else. The conventional source is Asia, and some walked across and some took at boat.
And yes they did filter down the continent, fighting all the way as the new groups replaced the old. It’s a story as old as man.
And the NA’s lost when they ran into a civilization with better weapons and deadly diseases.
What we have to do is figure out if we want to keep what we have.
As for this BS from you, “Your fear and hatred of Muslims, Blacks and Hispanics is evident and not very American. After all, we’re all immigrants.”
“”Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” – Karl Popper
Dear Mr Lewis,
Yes, native Americans were nearly exterminated by the Europeans.
You call my calling out fear and hatred of the “other” as BS. For centuries, Americans have objected to Irish, Italian, Catholic, Jewish, free Africans, Asians, South Americans, Greeks, Turks, Native Americans, Caribbeans… you name it, the people here disliked new immigrants who spoke a different language, who practiced a religion different from Protestantism or were swarthy. It’s been that way a long time. All Americans are immigrants.
Do you feel that the Hispanic influence will somehow dilute “Americanism”? Or the few Muslims here will?
Currently, approx 14% of Americans are foreign born. 86% were born here. In the early 1900s approx 15% of Americans were foreign born. The low was 1970 when 5% were foreign born. Immigration has increased steadily since 1970. The fertility rate of US-born women has decreased over time.
Karl Popper said if we extend tolerance to the intolerant we will be destroyed. Do you agree that you are intolerant?
The shooter in Highland Park, IL is described as a white teenage male shooting from a roof with a rifle. He has not been captured but his rifle was recovered. The shooter is still considered armed and dangerous.
At least six are dead and at least sixteen hospitalized.
Highland Park is an affluent Chicago suburb, mostly white with a large Jewish population.
Dead Americans are a small price to pay for our Constitutional right to have military-style rifles to protect ourselves from teenage patriots with military-style rifles.
Freedom!!
The suspect in the shooting is Robert E. Crimo III, 22, of the area, believed to be driving a silver 2010 Honda Fit.
Elwood you are obnoxious and totally wrong about so many things. The 2020 election was undoubtedly stolen by the democrats. The AR 15 is not a military style weapon. And you are worthless.
Hi Joe,
Except for not having an auto option, AR-15s are indeed military style rifles. 5.56 NATO rounds etc. A low recoil, high-velocity round developed for killing soldiers. Sounds military to me. What is your argument against it being a military-style weapon?
No one with a lick of sense believes the election was stolen. Do you have a lick of sense, Joe?
Joe,
Don’t get sucked in. Elwood, real name Jeff, is our resident troll d a nasty piece of work. He has been prowling the site trying to get an argument going. Little that you say will influence his noble opinions. The condition is called moral narcissism. He is white and has pathetic white guilt. But exchange comments with him understanding you are wasting your time.
Joe,
Don’t get sucked in. David, real name Porter Good, is our resident trollcon and a lying dumbass. He is also a cyberstalker. He suffers from a serious dissociative disorder and actually believes, contrary to evidence, that the election was somehow stolen from Don Jon tRump, LOL. I know, stupid, right?
Joe, as Dave counseled, don’t bother with “debating” with ‘Elwood’. Just remember the old quote about arguing with idiots. “Don’t argue with an idiot, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
Most of us get drawn in from time to time, but Dave is correct. Don’t get your blood pressure up. Not worth it, no cheese in that hole.
Unk,
Just because you argue with opinions and lies instead of facts, and lose all the time, don’t give up. Learn from your failures!
Other than a couple of childish insults, Joe typed: The 2020 election was undoubtedly stolen by the democrats. The AR 15 is not a military style weapon.
As we pointed out, neither of these statements is supported by evidence.
Do you have anything to add?
The AR-15 is not a military style weapon and that is supported by the fact that not on military on earth uses it as its official rifle. Not one.
The fact that the democrats used every trick in the book to thwart any legitimate audit of the 2020 election is a pretty damn good indicator that if they had allowed an audit they WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE LIARS, CHEATS AND TRAITORS.
So as we75 million abused American patriots have pointed out both of those statements are supported by FACTS not censorship, gaslighting or flim flam legal maneuvers.
You have been bitch slapped. AGAIN! Racist.
FJB and Dowd.
L.G./Kye misses the “military-style” point.
AR-15 style rifles are the same platform as the military M4, except semi-auto rather than having selective auto or burst fire.
Same ammo (.223/5.56 NATO), same 3000 ft/sec muzzle velocity, same penetration at 500 yards, same effect on human tissue, low recoil and barrel shielding for rapid repeat shooting, light weight, short, maneuverable. They were designed and developed for killing humans.
Every close state vote was recounted (by law). Some multiple times. Arizona even had a right-wing “audit” and found no new tRump votes. So no, there is NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE that the election was stolen. Trump’s own DOJ and DHS found NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE. What we have here is an attempt by the right-wing of America to overturn an election in their quest for minority rule. In the background the right-wing is consolidating power at the state level knowing that state-level right-wing politicos can control the outcomes of elections.
Fuck you, L.G./Kye; you’re delusional like so many “patriots”.
What if the mass shooter in Highland Park purchased his rifle from his neighbor, Kyle Rittenhouse!
Hmmm. The description of the killer was a white guy, 18-20 year old with long dark hair. Maybe it WAS Kyle Rittenhouse!
Have they erroneously labeled him a racist white supremacist (who shot white guys) before having any facts? Then na, not Kyle…
Have you seen the guy? Liberal nut job written all over him. Also, clearly indicated he was going to kill but authorities too busy putting away conservatives that desire the truth of the steal.
Looks like your typical tatted-up meth head liberal.
Described as an aspiring rapper.
#LetsGoBrandon
#BelieveTheLie
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krazy tRump supporter…
Crimo is a violent tRumpster lightweight with a military-style rifle…
For so-called “patriots” the most disquieting fact might be that the ATF was immediately able to track the military-style rifle by its serial number! Maybe red state GOPhers can block serial numbers on firearms to keep the gubmint from tracking owners!! When the next Dem/Com is elected he/she will track gun-owning “patriots” and arrest them, load them on boxcars and ship them off to FEMA camps in Montana, just like Obama and Biden have done!!!
Anyway, Kyle is too busy developing his video shooting game where one shoots turkeys named after media outlets. Sigh.
Robert Crimo turns out to be another pathetic tRumpist obsessed with gun violence, i.e., an ammosexual. His father ONLY follows tRump on twitter. Young Crimo attended tRump rallies, was shown wrapped in a tRump fly and made several violent videos. On instagram he harangued liberals.
This guy was clearly disturbed yet had access to a military-style rifle.
Is this the start of the shooting war that so many right-wingers crave?
And yet every weekend hundreds even thousands of Americans mostly in black and poor democrat inner cities are slaughtered in the name of leftist ideology without so much as a whimper from their supporters. Yet find a nut case on the right and you manage to try and stereotype every patriot with your hateful repertoire of filthy neocommunist propaganda to instill the idea that killing and imprisoning conservatives or Christians or any Trump supporters is ok.
Let them run down Christmas parades, no problem. Let them burn cities and murder civilians and cops, no problem. Let them slander and imprison citizens who protest dubious elections, no problem. But when after being ignored, murdered at their own capitol protest, have their jobs stolen and their businesses closed, their property seized, and illegally held for a year and a half without trial when they start to revolt you call them names just to poke the tiger some more.
You are an anti American of the first order denying others the freedom you suck up like a leach while living off the labor of others, promoting the murder of pre natal babies, the twerking, teaching and grooming of sexual perversions to others children without their consent and deliberate demeaning of those less fortunate.
Did I mention you’re a filthy racist too? Well, you are.
CarolAnn,
Black on Black crime!! Thousands every weekend, she shrieks! 52 x 1000 = 52,000 per year! At least!! Fact: about 6000 Black Americans were murdered by firearm in 2020. You’ve exaggerated by a factor of ten.
Yet, for some reason, these terror attacks impact society more than Black on Black crime in inner cities. Because of this terrorist attack, several Independence Day celebrations were canceled. Connies blame The Media and the communist Agenda!!
Americans are rightfully reluctant to gather in public, in schools, at concerts, in groceries, in theaters, in parks, at parties, malls, college, church… almost all of these terrorist attacks are committed by white men using military-style rifles.
So since some 2,000,000 Americans died in 2001, the 3000 lost in the 9/11 terrorist attack was no big deal? Is that your reasoning (such as it is)?
We understand you’re upset, even hysterical. Right now we have a problem in America with disaffected young white American men deciding to terrorize other Americans by randomly murdering. Mass killing in America has become a terrorism mechanism in America.
Crimo advertised his ideas about mass killing on social media AND had access to military-style firearms.
At airports, we have to take off our shoes and belts, throw away our soft drinks at undergo searches to protect Americans from violent Muslims, as if the murder of a mere 150 on an airplane is more impactful than the “thousands” of Black men killed every weekend in America.
Why do you think America pays more attention to terrorist attacks than to day by day street homicides of Black men?
You communists won’t leave patriots alone even AFTER they are found not guilty. Yeah, that’s REAL American love persecuting an innocent man. Ya filthy commie pig.
FJB and you commie dogs.
Any American who supports a coup against the US is not a patriot.
That includes Don Jon tRump the most unAmerican, unPatriot of all.
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The Illinois GOP goobernatorial candidate, state Senator Darren Bailey (endorsed by tRump), said we should “move on and celebrate the independence”, but later ate crow saying, “I apologize if in any way we diminished the pain being felt across our state today.”
Stupid AND a coward! Perfect GOPher.
https://headlineusa.com/july-4-parade-mass-shooter-was-possible-antifa-false-flag/
#LetsGoBrandon
#BelieveTheLie
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No doubt Robert E. Crimo III was an FBI/CIA plant to further the Dem/Com plan to take military-style rifles from “patriots!” That’s what the conmenters at the Gateway Pudendum are typing. Your guns are all you have to protect you from Black and Hispanic shoppers, grade school kids and church goers!!
It’s a conspiracy/plot to give America to the chinese/commie/socialists! Time to lock and load, patriots. Time to lock and load…
Take your military-style rifles and venture into liberal territories like the lib/dem largely Jewish Highland Park, IL area and start killing dem/coms to Teach the libs a lesson!! Or gird your loins and march into a Black supermarket and start shooting people. Or lock and load and venture into a Wal-Mart filled with Hispanic shoppers and kill as many as you can. Maybe go to a synagogue and murder liberal Jews who support immigration reform. Even go to a school and shoot dozens of innocent children just to disrupt society.
Maybe you boyz have ALREADY started your cowardly civil war?
The lies and disinformation spread by the likes of Teach, tRump, right-wing morons and winger media are poisoning America. The typical winger inability to discern fact from fiction or lies from facts is flushing America down the drain.
Your hatred of your fellow Americans clouds your intellectual skills. YOU are killing America while blaming others.
Gays and trans are not killing America. School teachers are not killing America. Inflation is not killing America Black men are not killing America. Abortion was not killing America. Elections are not killing America. Voting is not killing America. Disney is not killing America. Taxes are not killing America. The EPA is not killing America. Hatred and lies, aided and abetted by social media, are killing America.