I have nothing to say, because the greatest President in the history of this country already said it, and said it better than any of his successors ever could. Herewith, some excerpts from that marvelous speech.
We meet to celebrate the birthday of America. The coming of a new life always excites our interest. Although we know in the case of the individual that it has been an infinite repetition reaching back beyond our vision, that only makes it more wonderful. But how our interest and wonder increase when we behold the miracle of the birth of a new nation. It is to pay our tribute of reverence and respect to those who participated in such a mighty event that we annually observe the 4th day of July. Whatever may have been the impression created by the news which went out from this city on that summer day in 1776, there can be no doubt as to the estimate which is now placed upon it. At the end of 150 years the four corners of the earth unite in coming to Philadelphia as to a holy shrine in grateful acknowledgment of a service so great, which a few inspired men here rendered to humanity, that it is still the preeminent support of free government throughout the world.
It is not so much, then, for the purpose of undertaking to proclaim new theories and principles that this annual celebration is maintained, but rather to reaffirm and reestablish those old theories and principles which time and the unerring logic of events have demonstrated to be sound. Amid all the clash of conflicting interests, amid all the welter of partisan politics, every American can turn for solace and consolation to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States with the assurance and confidence that those two great charters of freedom and justice remain firm and unshaken. Whatever perils appear, whatever dangers threaten, the Nation remains secure in the knowledge that the ultimate application of the law of the land will provide an adequate defense and protection.
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
We are obliged to conclude that the Declaration of Independence represented the movement of a people. It was not, of course, a movement from the top. Revolutions do not come from that direction. . . . The Continental Congress was not only composed of great men, but it represented a great people. While its Members did not fail to exercise a remarkable leadership, they were equally observant of their representative capacity. They were industrious in encouraging their constituents to instruct them to support independence. But until such instructions were given they were inclined to withhold action.
Placing every man on a plane where he acknowledged no superiors, where no one possessed any right to rule over him, he must inevitably choose his own rulers through a system of self-government. This was their theory of democracy. In those days such doctrines would scarcely have been permitted to flourish and spread in any other country. This was the purpose which the fathers cherished. In order that they might have freedom to express these thoughts and opportunity to put them into action, whole congregations with their pastors had migrated to the Colonies. These great truths were in the air that our people breathed. Whatever else we may say of it, the Declaration of Independence was profoundly American.
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
American birthdays on this auspicious day include an American whose book was typeset in red; an American to whose memory we should all drink; a brilliant and very, very American composer; my choice for the best president that the US ever had; an inventor who was even better than Edison; (((our))) true contribution to American culture; a true American who is Zardoz’s spirit animal; the female Donald Trump; the most American playwright; the father of the funniest looking billionaire in America; one of the Americans who ruined our National Sport; a great American songwriter who worked in a truly American genre; and finally, an icon of American capitalism.
Links almost seem an anticlimax after a speech like that.
(((We))) appreciate your concern, Adolf.
Being anti-communist is partisan. Got it.
Looking at the photos, he does not seem to know how a desk works.
The lack of self awareness by both the writer and the subjects is hilarious. Bye, we won’t miss you.
“Look, we’re commies. Deal with it.”
Are Queers For Palestine going to be excluded from the next “Gaza flotilla?”
Give us enough grift and we’re cool with that.
It’s long, but it puts the fashionable “genocide” thing into perspective. TL,DNR: Progs are ignorant, the press is even more ignorant.
A true American, and another July 4th birthday boy, playing in a truly American art form. I can’t think of anything better than this for a celebration of America.
So… OMB said essentially the same thing that Silent Cal did a century earlier, though nowhere near as eloquently.
I wonder what the Grauniad’s framing of Coolidge’s speech was in 1926?
Let’s make it no longer extraordinary to attack communists.
Well, the Guardian and the Democratic Party are both strong supporters of communism so in a way they are right.
‘Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent’
As it was on January 6.
That wasn’t Righteous!
/prog
Looks like patriotic dissent is back on the menu boys!
My yellowed copy of the Declaration hangs by the door.
Take a bunch of mostly progressive ideals and rank states on those ideals.
Progressive states generally rank higher. What a shocking result.
Yeah, as soon as I saw MN as number 1, I could only guess at the levels of BS there.
The lack of self awareness by both the writer and the subjects is hilarious. Bye, we won’t miss you.
Maybe you should have kept a job in the productive sector.
But USAID didn’t involve things like actual… labor.
Hey those bags of cash were heavy!
They should cheer that on because the US is a hellhole, right? In fact, after decades of broadcasting to the world how horrible the country is, it is remarkable that so many people even want to get here by any means legal or otherwise.
rns
Turns out, tens of millions of our new dreamers aren’t innately capable of much other than being vote fodder for Democrats, welfare leeches, scammers, and petty criminals.
And Happy Birthday to Popo, too!
My parents attended high school with the pair of them. Small world.
After decades of skinsuiting erstwhile-respectable institutions, Democrats are finding out what it’s like to be the host.
Survival instincts are kicking in, but the genie is out of the bottle now.
I am at my moms place and holly crap its raining. But at leadt it cooled, 18c in the afternoon in july is amazing.
News you can use:
GO HARD OR GO HOME England stars would be allowed to use VIAGRA to help them rise to World Cup altitude levels amid Mexico fears
The mechanisms of this are really interesting to me. Why would this be so?
My first instinct is that more blood flow to carry more oxygen would be needed…. so higher blood pressure would seem to be a good thing, not a bad one.
But then again, blood pressure is relative to ambient pressure… so “normal” blood pressure regulations in the body might produce high blood pressure at altitude….
Or maybe the low BP results in loss of fluid, increasing concentration of RBC?
Somebody who knows more and can expound on this, the science nerd signal is alight!
Viagra was developed when Pfizer were looking for a drug to treat angina. It wasn’t the most effect treatment in trials, but male patients reported the side effects of getting erections, so they had a drug to market for a different condition.
Aha!!! There is a *really* good science reason.
Viagra is a vasodilator. It opens up blood vessels and allows more blood flow.
Meanwhile, high altitude hypoxia causes vasoconstriction specifically in the lungs, directing blood flow elsewhere in the body. This also restricts the ability of the heart to pump blood in the pulmonary circuit on the right side of the heart.
So, by relaxing the vessels in the lungs, it allows blood to flow more freely and faster.
Totally makes sense.
Top Gear taught us this many years ago.
Sean… great memory. I had totally forgotten about that. Of course, they didnt explain the mechanism. But apparently it is a standard treatment for preventing HAPE. (high altitude pulmonary edema)
I leaned something today! So cool. Probably never gonna use that knowledge. But still….
I also learned that my spell-check automatically changes Viagra to Diagrams.
I remember that “Top Gear” episode too. It was a pretty good one.
Another remedy for altitude: Coca Tea. The real stuff. I drank a lot while I was in Ecuador many years ago. I was above 8000 feet about the whole time I was there. It helped, and tasted good.
The “Palestinian” population has been growing rapidly over the last decades. I wonder if there are more of them now than when the genocide started?
In Gaza, about 200,000 more. Jews suck at this genocide thing.
Delivering food, water, medical care and electricity to the people trying to exterminate you and somehow being the ones accused of genocide is peak Jewish.
I’m going to go there: The Israeli government wants the Palestinian threat to continue so that they continue the grift of American tax dollars coming into Israel (and their pockets) going.
How could they stop the Palestinian threat?
In my lifetime they have offered everything the Palestinians asked for *except* ceding control of all of Jerusalem and “right of return”(which would destroy the israeli state). They even offered holding out the temple mount as a sort of sovereign religious zone controlled by no one group.
Facts on the ground have changed quite a bit since then, yet the position seems to have hardened into “cede all of Israel”. I really have no idea how to not have that threat continue.
How could they stop the Palestinian threat?
Stop sucking at the genocide thing.
But that would stop the grift. The right people need to get paid.
DEG, you do understand that it’s basically a pass-through to subsidize US defense contractors?
I daresay I understand Israel and Israelis a bit better than you do (most of my family lives there) and can safely say that none of them want the conflict to continue. The problem is (and this is alien to non-Middle-Eastern minds) ending the conflict will be far more brutal than the current reality. And that, our idiot media notwithstanding, is politically unpopular in Israel, which has a more Western attitude about war and governance.
I think I need to be a little less snarky.
I fully believe that if the US cut the money off, the Israelis would solve the Palestinian problem. Which would almost certainly be genocide given past history of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
Israelis haven’t solved the problem because the people that matter over there have figured out that the status quo means they have a way to fleece the American taxpayer.
I really don’t care about the Israelis and Palestinians and the rest of the Middle East beyond that they are stealing American money and tying up American troops in the region. The US government needs to cut the money off and pull troops out, then let the chips fall where they will. But that won’t happen. Because the right people in the US are getting paid when Middle East recipients of that money use some of it to buy weapons from the US.
DEG, you do understand that it’s basically a pass-through to subsidize US defense contractors?
I do. I see our messages crossed.
I know you know more about Israel than me, but I have difficulty believing that there are no grifters in Israel making money off of US aid.
Except that the Islamic hatred of the US is NOT dependent upon our ties to Israel, so we will have to deal with it regardless. Subsidizing the US defense industries by giving aid to Israel is offensive to many, and I get that and even sympathize, but we’d be spending the same money, or possibly more, having to replace the basing, intelligence, and forces Israel currently provides.
One thing the links make clear…
Sticking their nose in american politics is incredibly important to British journalism.
Why is it that highly partisan hit pieces and spin are so important to a foreign newspaper and a foreign government news source?
I mean, I get covering US trade policy debates, or US politics from the point of view of which candidates or parties are good for my non-US country, but why in earth would they cover things like New York mayor likes Somalians? How is that at all relevant to their audience?
Why do they care so much about what a governor in Minnesota is saying on a daily basis? Why do they even know who he is? I dont know who the Mayor of Birmingham is. Dont care either.
It is almost as if there is some single mind behind media coverage throughout the west, deciding what the world needs to be thinking and how society needs to be run. And that mind thinks calling out communism is evil. And promoting communism is good.
It do be dat.
There is a Narrative and every word must support it. Britain is gone and so is much of the West but there is still some resistance to the Narrative in the US so it must be condemned.
I find the “Far Right” label fascinating. Globally they label anyone populist as a far right fascist, and tie them to Hitler.
Decades ago I accepted this uncritically. What do I know of leaders in Turkye or Brazil? But then they said it about Trump and Milei. I may not know much about world leaders, but I do know for sure that neither of these people remotely qualify as far-right or fascist.
So there clearly is some sort of global narrative that is being centrally controlled. I know this because these are opinions or observations that have absolutely no grounding in reality.
“Fascist” just means “wrongthinker” now.
Tying their enemies to “Hitler” must be some weird attempt at keeping people from noticing that their leftist Jew-hating beliefs align pretty closely with his.
::British press observes domestic conditions in UK:: “Look! Over there!”
Finally Ferrari listens to customers and releases a manual transmission.
Wait, WTF? It’s the perfect follow up to the Luce. Two for two Ferrari.
Ferrari Revives the Gated Shifter with the New 12Cilindri Manuale
That commitment to The Suck is commendable.
Well HB america I spose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3N9pYZSIpI&feature=player_embedded
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am I the only one who thinks it’s funny that the US national anthem has the words ‘rockets’ and ‘bomb’ in it?
It’s almost like it was a war poem or something.
We should have a machine gun on our flag.
Like Mozambique?
Also… the salient observation is that the tune is based on a British pub tune that was based on older Irish drinking songs.
“Your national anthem is about how a fort, and therefore your nation stood up under attack” doesnt really bight that hard. But “your anthem is a drinking song from the pub” is pretty informative.
Instead of quiet reverence and solemn observance of the all-powerful state or ruler that so many nations have, our anthem is an upbeat tune that proclaims, “Fuck yeah! America!”
In honor of the day, here is the greatest song about it, written by one of the great American bands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLInAn1LwZU&list=RDBLInAn1LwZU&start_radio=1
No, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58
If one of these songs isn’t Choctaw Bingo, you’re both Eurofags.
I’ve never agreed with someone’s musical taste more.
::quietly slips this one in::
OK, I will play
https://share.google/47rqB1q5cJuhoQ1BP
I’ll stick with the 16 year old American composer.
👍👍
Current favorite after-work pastime is sitting out at Tranquility Base (back patio) drinking cold beverages and listening to old episodes of Tom’s “Buried Treasure” show on the dedicated SiriusXM channel.
I accept your reply, Teds, and yours also, Cyto and Beau.
I have never been so disappointed by a women wanting to slip one in, GT.
For those with a “Dont Tread on Me” attitude
https://youtu.be/ruNrdmjcNTc
Or maybe this
https://youtu.be/nvlTJrNJ5lA
Hey, Mamdani….
https://youtu.be/uIxBmyRQlwQ
Ah, screw it.
Full send
https://youtu.be/EKyA3x_yh9A
More on the South Korea/Starbucks kerfuffle:
Seoul high school baseball team faces probe over ‘Starbucks’ chant during game against Gwangju side
As a non-Korean, I find this hilarious.
As a non Korean, I find everything about this inscrutable.
Well, that is certainly a slanted take on this.
Speaking of slanted takes
https://youtu.be/Z7ALqOts_4Y
“Racism” in comedy doesn’t cut like the lefties think it does.
So what is everyone drnking?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/cantina+st+silvestro+rsrv+docg+barbaresco+piemonte+italy/2016?srsltid=AfmBOoqct2gIYD6E4_2tnQAI9UgslyF7zb7T6JcCGyFz6gvSLFujcoGc
I will be controversial and say i like barbaresco
What in the world would be wrong with Barbaresco? Great region, great wines.
Drinking ‘Murrican today, of course; going to an annual July 4th party at the home of one of Prime’s friends. 2019 Weis Riesling Winzer Select K, 2019 Forge Cabernet Franc Willow Vineyard, 2018 Dr. Frank Blanc de Blancs.
I have identified the perfect feteasca. 16.9 alcohol 24.monthe oak extra jammy
Spud will be pleased.
Fee Fi Foe Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman! On the 4th we celebrate with a very thin watery red.
Well, coffee now. Later in the day will be some Social Experiment from Santa Fe Brewing (Mrs. Dean’s summer favorite) and maybe one o’ them Gin Rickeys.
Barbaresco is nice, but there’s a better Piedmonte wine that will Barolo over it every time.
Coffee right now, but a hefe later at the block party.
Audi finally says the quiet part out loud.
Audi Says Markets Are Too Different for a ‘Global Car’ to Work
And really it’s the Chinese, US and European markets. China is basically unique in its preferences. Europe and the U.S. are similar in design, but not powertrain. If the EU didn’t demand EVs and emissions compliant engines the US and EU would be mostly the same vehicle.
Well, except that most of the US loves a huge truck or a really big car. Not only isnt this popular in Europe, you can’t really drive these vehicles in much of Europe. They just dont fit.
Oh, it is, but they are not allowed to afford that much gas.
They killed the A4 and turned the A3 into a Kia. 🤬
If they would just make their cars in a way that allows me to work on it myself, that would go a long way.
Germans love to design an engine bay that requires 2 hours of disassembly to change a spark plug.
If sparkplug needs replacement, time for examination, cleaning, and evaluation of all other parts is come. Only lazy Americans would not appreciate the wisdom of placing spark plugs so that the other operations would be required to reach them
After 250 years the American Dream is surviving, but only just
The fate of the dream rests on whether pie can find a bottle of good whisky to bring back home.
If you’re outside of Canada less than 48 hours, you’ll have to pay duty to bring it in. Somewhere north of 70%, probably.
Unless you buy it at the duty free store, but then you might have to stretch your definition of “good”.
Canada sounds retarded… I can i assume strech it to 50 hours
one of the lucky 50,000 granted a US visa through a scheme known as the diversity visa scheme that the US government had begun in the 1990s.
Because of course they did. Every day, I find myself more sympathetic to Pat Buchanan.
This Fourth of July, I’ll do like millions of other Americans and get in the water.
I am heading to the beach shortly. Go ‘merica!
That’s a lot of words for Calvin Coolidge.
That’s hilarious.
Oh, go fuck yourself. You and your kind loathe America and have publicly stated as much on many occasions.
Asshole.
It’s not really a sacrifice when you sacrifice other people…
TL;DR
I thought he was called Silent Cal.
I recently read Cal’s “Autobiography”
/Stares at the unread 400 page bio of Coolidge on the shelf
Realizing crime is bad has been my biggest political growth the last 5 years
Even if we spent more on enforcing fair evading than we get on missing fairs, that would be fine. People seeing people regularly jump fares without consequences makes people angry and more conservative
https://x.com/LinkofSunshine/status/2071594788231454883
Crime bad. Whod ev thunk it
“Richard Dreyfuss’ ex-wife demands futuristic sex toy after running out of men in Idaho”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/03/us-news/richard-dreyfuss-ex-wife-demands-love-robot-after-running-out-of-men-in-idaho/
STIJLTH
She ran through all the men in Idaho?
Styx – Mr. Roboto
どうもありがと Mr. Roboto
どうもありがと Mr. Roboto
また会う日まで
どうもありがと Mr. Roboto
秘密を知りたい
Well, I guess we know about the Dreyfus affairs now.
The Somalis didn’t invent Minnesota fraud but they quickly adapted.
That’s going to leave a mark.
Establishment Dems have no one to blame but themselves for allowing that trash to take over their party. The “tidal wave of socialism” that they are freaking out over is just a result of the fact that they are so empty of substance that most of their voters could not be bothered to show up and support them on primary day.
Unfortunately, they are likely to show up on general election day and put the pinkos into office.
Worse, they have specifically fomented the unrest that the communists have been using because they thought it would undermine Trump. Well, it did. But look what came in while you were holding the door open.
Isn’t it Türkiyayish or something now? Do better, The Advocate.
Definitely racist. Or something
Gaycist?
They didn’t want the competition for their bath houses.
Gay Cruise Ship Song
It does?
I can’t believe two celebrities married each other. That’s never happened before.
You know, if the DSA has one great achievement, getting ride of James Carville could be worth it.
Man, I hate the fucker.
People are calling it the most Guardian headline of all time
https://x.com/LeoKearse/status/2073017372504432890
The sad thing is that western civilization is losing in a war with these people.
Until next week.
America 250 titties on Silicone Saturday!
https://archive.is/EquZT