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Jenny Racicot, 41, told Politico that while she and Platner had been involved in an “on-and-off relationship,” in 2021 he allegedly “entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night” while intoxicated. Platner allegedly “forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop.” “I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” Racicot explained to the outlet. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.'”
So, a Nazi-loving Jew-hating rapist. As America's 250th birthday gradually recedes in the distance, I can honestly say I can't think of a more ideal presidential candidate . . . for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Khamenei Funeral: Loyalists Call for Killing of Trump, Vance, and Conservative Influencers “As they passed under a bridge, mourners hurled stones at a billboard hung from above showing U.S. President Donald Trump with a bullet aimed at his head.”
Meh, Graham cracka Platner is just another cardboard cutout Democrat Socialist, er Socialite. Shove his ass in a Cutlass Supreme and sink it off off the coast of Chappaquidick to see if he floats.
“Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw as the Democrat nominee for Senate and allow Maine Democrats the opportunity to choose a new candidate who can defeat Susan Collins,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chair Sen. Kristin Gillibrand of New York said in a statement. “The DSCC will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot.” Democrat Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren also joined the pile-on, saying in a statement that “the best path forward is for Graham Platner to step aside,” while Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote on X that Platner “must drop out” and that the party “should continue to stand with all survivors of sexual assault.”
A new YouGov survey found Democrats are more likely to view the Black Lives Matter flag positively than the American flag, with 74 percent expressing a very or somewhat positive opinion of the BLM flag compared with 72 percent for the U.S. flag. The poll also found ten percent of Democrats held a negative view of the American flag. Among Republicans, just ten percent said they viewed the BLM flag positively. The survey also measured reactions to other flags and symbols, finding only three percent of Democrats had a positive view of flags associated with President Donald J. Trump, while nine percent viewed the Confederate flag positively and 27 percent viewed the Palestinian flag favorably. The findings were released shortly after a Marist poll reported that fewer than half of Democrats said they were proud to be Americans, compared with 93 percent of Republicans. A 2025 Gallup poll similarly found a sharp partisan divide in national pride. YouGov surveyed 1,088 U.S. adults online between June 30 and July 2.
Before politics enters the room, prayers should. I can't read about a possible heart crisis or stroke without thinking of my father, who lived through a heart attack, suffered a stroke, and endured hard months before he died.
Families live inside those hours; they're not campaign props.
But McConnell isn't only a husband, father, and grandfather. He is Kentucky's senior senator, holding one of 100 seats in a chamber where every vote cast decides war powers, judges, spending, taxes, and the president's agenda. If he's recovering, Kentucky deserves to know enough to trust that recovery. If he's gravely ill, Kentucky deserves honesty without cruelty.
Conservative activist Laura Loomer and journalist Desiree Townsend claimed Monday that McConnell has been declared “brain dead,” citing unnamed sources. McConnell's office hasn't confirmed or denied that claim.
Mitch McConnell's record has to say the least been spotty at best when it comes to advancing an America first constitutional agenda and opposing the Democrat traitors who have run wild especially since the coming of Obama and well before that. McConnell and all the other elderly doddering career politicians on both sides of the aisle who enrich themselves via elective office are why we desperately need term limits, as well as the severest of penalties for graft. Public flogging perhaps.
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao traveled to Beijing just three days after her husband, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), was rushed to the hospital following an apparent heart attack that required CPR.
Nope, not a smidgen of a hint of corruption at all, eh? This would be the same China that's doing this... Between Chao, Swalwell, the late Feinstein whose lifelong chauffeur was a Chi-Com spy and how many others nationally and locally who are the same, as well as all the spies in our academic institutions and the private sector, it's a race o see who finishes us off first, them or the Muslims...
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has tracked Chinese nuclear and missile proliferation concerns across multiple decades and report iterations. The six editions examined here span the period from May 2021 through May 2026. Taken together, they reveal a consistent underlying pattern—Chinese government-level transfers have largely ended, but a persistent, arguably worsening problem of Chinese entity-level proliferation continues unabated—while the diplomatic and rhetorical framing around that problem has shifted considerably over time.
These transfers undermine the official Chinese position—namely, that China firmly opposes the proliferation of nuclear weapons, missiles, and related technologies/means of delivery and commits to rigorous export controls while balancing nonproliferation with the peaceful uses of dual-use technologies, especially for developing countries (see “China's Non-Proliferation Policy and Measures").
Have a good day,
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” Racicot explained to the outlet. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.'” (Dear Iran, I think we've found your ideal next president! - JJS) Report: Graham Platner Accused of Breaking into Woman's House, Sexually Assaulting Her
The elder Khamenei, who brutalized his citizens for decades as dictator, was eliminated in an American military action on February 28, as announced by President Donald Trump. The Iranian terror regime waited until the weekend of July 4, which marked the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, to organize massive nationwide events of forced mourning for the bloodthirsty ruler. Iran ‘Supreme Leader’ Skips His Dad Ayatollah Khamenei’s Funeral
Victor Davis Hanson: Mamdani’s Independence Day message says more about his own politics than the country that gave his family extraordinary opportunity. Mamdani’s Embittered Fourth of July Rant to America
The findings underscore the growing cultural and political divides in the U.S., particularly as the Democratic Party faces an internal transformation, with far-left socialist candidates gaining traction. The poll also coincides with broader trends showing declining patriotism among Democrats, as highlighted by a Marist survey indicating less than half of Democrats are proud to be Americans. Poll: Democrats Say BLM Flag Better Than USA.
Congress should pass it. Trump’s already bailed farmers out once since December 2025. He shouldn’t have to do it again just because Congress can’t get a tax bill across the finish line. Give farmers a customer instead of a check, feed America with American grown agriculture and create a whole new incentive structure that allows American family farms to thrive year after year. There’s a Bill in Congress That Could End the Farm Bailout Cycle.
Or at least that's the impression I got from a Monday morning New York Post exclusive detailing the showdown between Gracie Mansion and local retailers threatened by Mamdani's campaign promise to build and operate city-run grocery stores. New York Bodega Owners to City: Drop Dead!
On July 3, French Jews visiting Barcelona, Spain, left a synagogue after Shabbat services and dinner, identifiable by the kippahs on their heads. I recently wrote about a video showing passersby unleashing rage on a journalist holding an Israeli flag on the streets of Barcelona. What happened to two of the French Jews on their walk back to their hotel shows that the kippah can trigger similar unhinged responses. Barcelona Horror: Mob Chases French Jews Through City Streets
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Solar-powered black boxes have been installed in communities across the U.S. under the
guise of “public safety.” Yet, in true American
fashion, resistance is rising against what can only be described as the arrival of a full-fledged
surveillance state.
Flock Safety cameras, the most prominent brand in this AI surveillance space, are automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that
capture high-resolution images of every
passing vehicle. Flock and similar systems
now operate in thousands of communities,
with over 110,000 cameras mapped
nationwide, according to DeFlock, an
open-source project mapping license plate
readers. Surveillance State Has Arrived, And Masked Heroes Are Already Fighting Back
America can't win the AI race, rebuild manufacturing, or strengthen national security without abundant, reliable nuclear power—and SMRs offer the fastest path forward. Act Now to Solve the Data Center Power Problem
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of these people living and sh*tting on our streets, and you probably are too. It’s going to take some harsh measures to deal with the problem, but it’s a problem that has a solution, if only we had the political will to implement it. Outlaw Homelessness and Make Workhouses & Asylums Great Again
Johnson announced his plan to include the SAVE America Act in a budget reconciliation package alongside $350 billion for the Pentagon and other spending priorities. This move would be difficult to achieve since it would aim to bypass the Senate filibuster and require support from House Republican holdouts. Mike Johnson Has Plan To Pass Save America Act, But It Will Face Several Tripwires Along The Way
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Democrats who had previously pledged support for Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner have begun pulling their endorsements of the candidate following a new report of sexual assault from Politico. Democrats Stick The Knife In Graham Platner
UPDATE: In response to the claims, a spokesperson for McConnell said the senator continues to improve in the hospital and is working closely with his staff on “Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session.” Laura Loomer, Reporter Claim Hospitalized Mitch McConnell Is ‘Brain Dead’
The verdict will have significant implications for France’s political landscape, as the RN under either Le Pen or Bardella is currently leading French presidential polling by a significant margin. The attempt to ban Le Pen from standing is widely viewed as an attempt to prevent her from winning via legalistic rather than democratic means, similar to the efforts to bar Donald J. Trump from ballots or imprison him prior to the 2024 election in the U.S., and growing efforts to penalize Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage for a range of supposed administrative missteps in the United Kingdom. French Courts Set to Rule on Le Pen’s Appeal Against Election Ban.
For five years, Congressional reports have documented a troubling reality: Chinese entities continue supplying America's most dangerous adversaries. Chinese Nuclear and Missile Proliferation
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Kimberly Polk’s lawyers say the school district is making her mouth wrong-sex pronouns and hide from parents that their children are transitioning genders in school—in violation of her free exercise and free speech rights. Maryland Teacher Takes Gender Policy Challenge to Supreme Court
“This ideological capture has moved the Museum’s mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism that seeks to transform our country,” the report states. Smithsonian Leadership is ‘Extremist’ Says White House.
“Warning: The exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don’t want you to love your country.” That’s a disclaimer every entrance to the National Museum of American History ought to display, according to a new White House report excoriating the Smithsonian Institution and its flagship museum. Free the Smithsonian — and our history — from America-hating elites
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Starting at $509 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD, and limited to just one performance core (and four efficiency cores) it's not going to set the world on fire.
If you already have a bunch of DDR4 SODIMMs and are worried about the hardware around them aging out, this looks like a pretty good solution. Would handily beat my 5560U mini PC or my 11800H laptop.
Systems based on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB appeared last year priced around $2000. By cutting out the middle man AMD had managed to reduce the price to $4000.
[Isle of Reflections 10" x 13" Acrylic on basswood plank]
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The Quotes of The Day
Quote I
“We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans,” he said. “We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with callous dirt streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.” NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani
Quote II
The newly emerging socialists, like recent congressional nominees Darializa Avila Chevalier or Analilia Mejia, can never explain why their parents left socialist paradises in Latin America to come to cutthroat capitalist America. Victor Davis Hanson
Quote III
“Now, do I like their political position? Yes, I do. I believe that reproductive rights are a thing. And I think that they are obviously invested in women, and they should be. And that taking it from them was taking a right from women. And that’s the first time I’ve seen that done, except for prohibition. And I think it was wrong. But legally, I think it was the right decision.” Chris Cuomo
I hope you Morons had a great time celebrating our country's birth and independence this past weekend. In the event you had an accident or two, yours truly hopes you didn't need this medical care team.
Nude Recreation Week invites everyone to explore the benefits of naturism and body positivity, running from Monday, July 6 through Sunday, July 12, 2026. This week encourages shedding inhibitions along with clothes, promoting a natural and liberating lifestyle. Join the movement by visiting a naturist resort, learning about the community, or simply embracing self-acceptance.
Well here in the Frozen Tundra the deer and horse flies are as thick as thieves in Washington D.C. No way I'm going to embrace self-acceptance with those little blood suckers.
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As many of you know, I think the world of the late great Frank Zappa. Imagine if the Maestro had been alive for our recent 250th birthday. I wonder what beautiful piece of music he would have created. Because in 1975 he put out this wonderful song about our bicentennial in 1976. As a caveat, Zappa's "Bongo Fury" was my first Zappa LP I purchased as a teenager from a little shop called Pipe Dreams.
Hundreds of freedom lovers are rallying behind a US Air Force engineer accused of chopping down over a dozen AI-integrated surveillance cameras last year.
According to local channel WAVY, Virginia-based Air Force engineer and mechanic Jeffrey Sovern is facing 13 counts of destruction of property, as well as six counts of both petit larceny and possession of burglary tools related to the destruction of Flock license plate cameras.
These automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, are starting to blanket the United States, spreading across small towns and bustling cities alike by the thousands. While ostensibly framed as crime fighting tools, the AI-powered spy devices have raised significant privacy and social policy concerns, especially as innocent citizens get caught up in the dragnet. Like AI data centers, they’ve become a hot political issue at the local level, fueling public outrage and organized campaigns from coast to coast.
Maybe 2020 did plant some seeds of rebellion. Time will tell.
The Pilgrims stopped at Plymouth Rock because they ran out of beer. The U.S. Marine Corps was founded in a bar. One of the reasons Prohibition failed in in the United States is probably because this country was founded on and was fueled by booze from the get-go—and there just isn’t a lot Americans won’t do to keep the party going a little longer.
The best example of this might be the legendary Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, whose first order of business after famously taking Fort Ticonderoga from the British was to raid its liquor stores and “drink the place dry.”
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The Fabulous is a great cook. And often she will say, "Slow down and enjoy your meal." She's never met Florida Keys resident Kevin Renly.
A Florida man who finally captured the title at the World Famous Key Lime Pie Eating Championship said his winning strategy came down to eliminating the biggest obstacle first: the whipped cream.
Florida Keys resident Kevin Renly, 62, claimed victory at the annual Fourth of July competition in Key West after devouring a whipped cream-topped 9-inch Key lime pie in 59.6 seconds — all without using his hands.
Contestants were required to eat the pies without using their hands, though goggles and dive masks were allowed.
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The ONT Musical Interlude & Nothing To Eat In The House Emporium
July 6th, 2024 - Joe Egan
Scottish singer-songwriter Joe Egan died from a heart attack at a hotel in Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 77. Along with Gerry Rafferty, Egan was one of the two main members of the folk rock band Stealers Wheel, and co-writer of their hit song 'Stuck in the Middle with You'. The song was used in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 movie Reservoir Dogs, during the famous "ear" scene.
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July 6th, 2020 - Charlie Daniels
American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Daniels died age 83 of a hemorrhagic stroke. He is best known for his contributions to Southern rock, country, and bluegrass music and scored the 1979 number-one country hit 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2008, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016.
Man 'cut off his own penis and sliced throat’ after 'extreme' amount of meth
WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Man bled to death after cutting off his own penis with a pen knife wgho was on a fatal amount of meth during the horror, a medical report has discovered
On a happier note...........
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BREAKING: Mitch McConnell has passed away, according to a source close to the White House. - per Laura Loomer
Thanks to rickb223.
Trump spoke of God and against communism on July 4 which Axios thinks is just terrible.
Axios is one of those shills who would tell you Democrats are also opposed to communism. But when Trump speaks out against communism, it's just the worst thing for some reason.
I thought we agreed on this, Axios...?
Trump's God, guns and anticommunist Fourth of July
President Trump championed American military might, a Christian U.S. and his top legislative goal in a delayed Fourth of July speech from the National Mall, wrapping just minutes before the calendar switched to Sunday morning.
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Driving the news: Throughout the speech, Trump nodded to a modern-day battle against communism, a frequent element of his midterm messaging.
"We don't want communists in our country," he said. "Never worked, and it never will work."
Trump later added, "Communism is a loser, and it always will be."
Zoom out: The president's language was also markedly religious -- in line with the tone from the White House and its allies that has steered America's 250th birthday toward prayer and divine guidance, Axios' Russell Contreras reports.
"All over the world, they try and be like us, nobody can be like us, and with God's help, we will always be this, or even better," he said.
"As our Declaration of Independence tells us, we are all made in the image of one almighty God, and a communist will never say that, that's for sure," he added.
Speaking of July 4th: they had a Mostly Peaceful holiday in California.
Fourth of July descended into mayhem across parts of Southern California as unruly crowds overwhelmed packed-out fireworks displays, looted stores, ignited fires and saw cops charge on horseback.
The worst unrest erupted in Newport Beach, where Independence Day revelers poured into Orange County, choking traffic and triggering a police response as disorder spread near the pier.
Authorities ultimately shut down businesses from the Newport Pier to Pacific Coast Highway as officers moved in to restore order.
Officers were swarmed by hundreds of people who hurled bottles and other debris at them before the crowd turned on one another and began fighting.
Mounted officers rode horses into them to clear the area so additional arrests could be made.
Video from the scene also appeared to show the aftermath of the reported looting of a Pavilions grocery store in Newport Beach, with merchandise strewn across the parking lot while groups of people lingered outside the business, laughing and joking.
Newport Beach police with riot shields and bean bag rounds disperse a crowd on July 4th.
Eight people, including four children, were shot during a Fourth of July family barbecue in Brooklyn's Coney Island when a masked gunman opened fire on the group without warning, police officials said.
New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives are working to identify the suspect, who fled the scene on foot and remains at large, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference on Sunday.
"There is no place for this kind of violence in our city. We will not tolerate it. We will fight it with every single tool at our disposal," New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at the news conference.
A migrant driver of a semi-truck was arrested and charged with running down and killing a Chicago man who was trying to change his tire alongside a suburban highway late in June.
The accident occurred early in the morning of June 24 when 24-year-old Sebastian Stone pulled off to the side of I-80 near Torrence Ave. to change a flat tire. While in the process of changing the tire, Stone was struck and killed by a semi-truck, which did not stop after running him down, CWBChicago reported.
Police were called to the scene by witnesses, and officers found Stone dead on the side of the road.
Witnesses described the truck that struck the stranded motorist and gave police the license plate number, the name of the company on the side of the truck, and the truck's company ID number. By 9 a.m., police had confirmed the witness statements with license plate reader data.
Officials also confirmed that the semi was being driven by Kulgeet Kang, 34, whose name is of Punjabi origin and common among Sikh communities.
Further information on Kang's immigration status has not been released.
Investigators contacted the company Kang was driving for and informed them of the incident, and company officials called the driver on his cell phone to alert him that he was being sought for killing a motorist. Company officials told police that Kang answered the phone, but then allegedly hung up on his bosses without speaking to them. He then refused to answer follow-up calls.
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@maybedanielleee
This will be very interesting to follow.
> Death by hit-and-run --> semi-truck.
> Found the semi-truck, abandoned, at a truck stop near I-65/State Road 2 in Hebron, IN.
> The truck and trailer were towed for processing.
> The truck driver was not found with the truck.
> The truck driver may have been found.
> Person taken into custody.
"The driver, according to my sources, ditched the semi at a truck stop in Indiana and hours later showed back up to his company in Illinois, where he was taken into custody." -@CourtSpinelliTV
A Muslim murder-priest said this in Maryland, and no one is doing anything about it.
Yossi BenYakar
@YossiBenYakar
An imam in Alabama, Ragab Abdelmoneim of the Islamic Academy of Huntsville, openly told his audience that Muslims must be ready to sacrifice their lives through jihad in order to establish "the religion of Allah" in the United States.
He claimed that victory over America is closer than ever.
This isn't being preached in some remote village overseas. This is being said openly on American soil.
At what point does this stop being protected "religious speech" and become a national security threat?
How is he not arrested?
The trans community being "seen" more and more is exactly why it keeps taking more and more Ls. But that's a message that will never get through to Mad Scientist Fat Albert because his mane keeps blocking the signal. https://t.co/sPsr71WHQA
Graham Platner: Any Suggestion That I Strong-Arm Raped Someone After Bursting Into Her Home Uninvited Is Categorically False, But I'm Now Working Out a "Path Forward" from This Totally False Accusation
I'm sworn to secrecy and I can't prove any of this but:
- If what I heard is real, it's a problem
- I think he drops out if it's real, because he's already facing significant financial problems
- I doubt this is a smear, the GOP would want him to stay in
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡
@PollTracker2024
I've heard the allegation as well and Platner would have to drop out if confirmed by a reputable news outlet
(It's worse than the NYT story from last month)
So what is the allegation? It's not sexual assault back in his days at Hotchkiss boarding school.
Rather, it's an allegation of sexual assault just five years ago:
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
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BREAKING: Politico reports that a Maine woman who dated Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him almost 5 years ago despite her repeated objections.
"I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me," she said. "I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, 'This is no longer my choice.'"
Platner has immediately posted a video denying the allegations.
Extremely serious allegations here. The woman says Platner came to her house in 2021 despite her telling him not to. She claims he let himself in, was drunk, raped her over her objections, and ejaculated inside of her despite her telling him not to because she wasn't on birth control.
More:
Racicot said she was torn over coming forward in part because she agrees with Platner politically.
"One of the reasons I didn't come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person," she said. "I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person."
I'm sure we'll be told he's "grown a lot" and "matured" since.... 2021.
It was the Quarantine. We all got a little assault-y back then, huh?
POLITICO
@politico
1h
A woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her.
"I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person," she said of the Maine Dem, who has faced a string of scandals over past offensive online comments and accusations of mistreating women.
Platner responded: "These allegations are troubling, serious, and false. Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue."
POLITICO
@politico
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BREAKING: Graham Platner said he is "taking the time to reflect on the best path forward" for his candidacy minutes after POLITICO reported that a woman who dated him said he forced her to have sex with him, which he denies.
Robby Soave
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The sexual assault accusations against Graham Platner by Jenny Racicot are really quite severe. She says that he entered her home in a blackout state after she had definitively told him not to come. Then he forced himself on her. She cut off all contact afterward.
Barging into someone else's house really puts this in a different category. It doesn't leave room for mixed messages about given or withdrawn consent or something like that.
He can maintain he did no such thing, but I think a reasonable person would find that doubtful.
There was a report from Washington Reporter that said that Platner already decided to drop out:
Washington Reporter
@DC_Reporter
🚨A well-placed source told us that Graham Platner is dropping out of the Maine Senate race this week.
Note that Platner has yet to release his Q2 fundraising totals, a sign he may have underperformed expectations.
If true, that would explain the attempt to poll Maine to see the best replacement.
The accuser says she would not have come forward publicly now -- except that the NYT attempted to cover this up and sugar-coat his crimes, which outraged her into action. (She had spoken to them without giving permission to use her name.)
She'd told the NYT about the rape, but the NYT refused to report on it, instead spinning the charges as "he was a bad boyfriend."
So, in Platner’s accusers own words, she would probably not have come forward if the Times had played this one straight. Instead, it leaned into the implication that the claims against Platner were partisan and dismissible.
The politico story confirms that the NYT writers had the details of the sexual assault but chose to omit them and instead focus their article overwhelmingly on the claims from LF so that they can just be spun as a partisan attack.
It is worth noting that not only is this accuser someone with the same politics as Platner but she also has clear evidence referencing his behavior from years ago.
Cenk defending Platner even after the sexual assault allegation because Platner is critical of Israel is really a perfect encapsulation of his entire persona and ideology now. pic.twitter.com/Fgn3Z5CH3L
In just another regular reminder that this is the dumbest campaign in history, they're attacking Racicot as "coached and coordinated" by out of state establishment operatives.
James Gunn's Job Is Definitely At Risk as His Woke Partygirl Movie Supergirl Not Only Opens Worse Than Morbius, but Suffers Humiliating -73% 2nd Weekend Drop
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The movie never should have been made, period.
First of all, they just released Superman last year. Their follow-up is the Superman-knockoff character Supergirl, who has the same costume and same backstory (pretty much) and same powers. The only difference? She's a Strong Empowered Woman, and hooboy, people just can't get enough of those these days.
Even if you think Supergirl is a big enough character to do a movie about -- she's really not, she's a C level character -- surely you don't make a movie about this gender-flipped clone less than a year after the last Super-Family movie.
Worse yet, because Supergirl is so similar to Superman, and they were releasing the movie so close on the heels of Superman, they decided to completely change Supergirl's personality to make her seem different from her more famous Kryptonian cousin.
The Supergirl of the comics is the ultimate good girl. Just like Superman is a boy scout, Supergirl is a girl scout.
But they just did a movie about a Kryptonian boy scout so they changed Supergirl into a "messy," selfish, "trauma scarred" (can we stop making every character scarred by trauma) alcoholic party-girl. (Hollywood also doesn't like making morally good characters generally, and especially not morally good female characters, because women shouldn't do Emotional Labor for you Racists.)
So nothing like the actual Supergirl. And because alcoholic party-girls are usually -- sorry to be so direct -- promiscuous, this is the last movie a parent would want to take a young girl to see. That should be the target audience, parents bringing young girls to the movie to have a role model, but they made the character a substance-abusing partygirl so who's going to bring their daughter to that?
In fairness, Supergirl does pass out on a toilet (as one does) but doesn't have promiscuous sex with any rando dudes.
But that's not because she's moral. It's because all Empowered Female Characters must be lesbian-coded and have no sexual or romantic interest in males at all.
So again: Most parents will not want to take a young girl to see a movie about a drug-abusing lesbian.
So because Superman came out less than a year ago, they had to show that Supergirl isn't your grandfather's Supergirl by making her a grungy drunken whore.
If that's the only way to differentiate her from Superman -- then don't make the movie at all. It will be a disaster.
Which is what it was.
The movie made less than $38 million its opening weekend. Warner Bros kept lying and claiming that it made $38 million, but many disbelieved them, because they saw the daily numbers getting worse everyday. But Warner Bros. kept saying it made $38 million because they didn't want the real headline -- Supergirl made $37.1 million, less even than the disaster called Joker: Folie a Deux.
And while it opened so low you'd think it would have nowhere lower to go, you'd be wrong.
It also has a huge drop in its second weekend, one of the worst drops of any superhero movie.
'Supergirl' suffers catastrophic 73% drop, gets obliterated at box office by patriotic 'Young Washington'
Friday grosses plunged 80% in week two, with domestic totals stalling at $58.4M against a $275M cost
James Gunn was supposed to revamp and revitalize DC Studios at Warner Bros. The director of "Guardians of the Galaxy" would, in theory, bring the type of overarching creative vision that Kevin Feige had so successfully demonstrated at Marvel Studios.
Two movies into Gunn's vision of DC Studios, it's safe to say that this reboot has been an unmitigated failure.
The 2025 edition of "Superman" was, at best, a moderate success. While hardly the type of franchise-changing success the studio and Gunn hoped for, box office results and reviews were acceptable, if not a bit underwhelming. Thanks in some part to Gunn's bewildering decision to tell audiences that the film was about politics, calling the Superman character an "immigrant."
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Alcock spent most of the press campaign making herself as unlikeable as possible, insulting potential moviegoers, bizarrely claiming that audiences felt "ownership" of her body, then doubling down after the inevitable backlash. The trailers looked awful, with a predictably sloppy anti-hero feel, atrocious visual effects, and an uninteresting plot and villain.
Still, as recently as May, hopes were that "Supergirl" could make as much as $65 million in its opening weekend. In actuality? It made just over $37 million.
With an estimated production budget of around $175 million, and a massive marketing campaign that likely cost Warner Bros. at least $100 million, the film needed to reach at least $450-500 million globally to break even. That opening weekend, and an anemic international debut, meant it was tracking towards a significant loss. The only hope? That positive word of mouth would overcome the apathy towards the film's plot and the off-putting remarks from Alcock.
Well, we now have the second weekend box office data, and not only did word of mouth not help "Supergirl," it may have destroyed it.
Friday grosses dropped an astonishing 80.4% from opening day on June 26 to just $3.6 million. Saturday estimates are for just $2.6 million, another 77% drop, despite the Independence Day holiday. All told, it's a remarkable 74% drop from the first weekend to the second. Total domestic gross for "Supergirl" now sits at just $58.4 million. On a $275 million production, from a major studio, with a massive marketing campaign, and the creative backing of James Gunn.
If the third weekend has a similar fall, grosses would plummet to just $2.49 million. For an entire weekend. A film that needed to make $200 million+ at US theaters to break even may not even reach $80 million. And considering the woeful international numbers, it's going to cost Warner Bros. hundreds of millions in losses.
It its first weekend, this very female-skewing movie was attended by 59% men, and only 41% women and girls -- the very audience it was designed, theoretically, to appeal to.
The film received a "rotten" rating from the review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Ticket buyers were similarly unimpressed, giving "Supergirl" a B-minus grade in CinemaScore exit polls.
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Still, box office analysts on Sunday noted an uncomfortable truth: Female-led superhero movies have been rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so, perhaps reflecting a resurgent misogyny among the core fan base, which is largely male. Before its release, "Supergirl" became caught up in a now-familiar cycle of online abuse, with some fanboys attacking Milly Alcock's casting and appearance. Warner Bros. executives said they were surprised by both the ferocity of the backlash and its reach, believing the culture had evolved past that sort of campaign.
I repeat: 59% of tickebuyers were men. Yeah, a specific gender failed this film, and that gender was female.
I don't like Bill Burr, but this reminds me of his rant about women attacking men for not giving the WNBA good ratings: "You complained and complained so we gave you a stupid women's basketball league, and now you're telling us we have to watch it for you, too??!"
BTW: I don't mind Supergirl being a "girl boss" because, well, canonically she's one of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe, so it's not like they're reinventing the character (as they did with Captain Marvel) to make her a girlboss.
So the girlbosshood is justified... by the lore, at least.
But man oh man, are people just tired of girlbosses, whether justified by the lore or not. I hear Furiosa was pretty good, but people rejected it anyway.
We're just tired of it. Hollywood keeps making the same movie (basically) about the same female character (basically). How often do they think we want to keep seeing the same movie about the same unlikable bitch character?
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) July 1, 2026
Speaking of woke movies and woke marketing: Lupita Nyongo, an actual African woman playing the blonde Macedonian woman Helen of Troy, decides that now is the best possible time to attempt to #Cancel the author of The Odyssey, Homer:
"What 1 thing would you say to Homer?"
Lupita Nyong'o (Helen Of Troy): "How do you feel about the screen time given to women?"
I won't be seeing this. I don't think the film will lose money -- Christopher Nolan's fanbase is zealous and passionate -- but I do think this would-be blockbuster will be a bit of a disappointment, because we are just sick of it.
That was fake enough, but then the left amped up the hoax by arranging for a lone black woman to be photographed on a subway while surrounded by fake-menacing fake "Patriot Hoax" actors.
Note that she suffered no harassment or assault -- a far cry from other women that the left refuses to mention and in fact demands go without any murals to mark their deaths.
2. note that for all the oohhs & ahhhs induced by this image the woman in it has a 100% chance of getting off that train without being assaulted or robbed.
The Race Saint arranged to be photographed while being completely un-menaced by male models dressed as "hate" agents wasn't always so saintly.
She's a homeless woman with a conviction for indecent exposure. (Just the sort of person you could bribe with five dollars to sit on a particular subway car and look saintfully at the camera.)
Also, previous video of her shows her holding open her anus -- there's no delicate way to say it, sorry -- while screaming.
#grok
Yes, it is the same person. The woman in the viral July 4, 2026 Reuters photo on the DC Metro with Patriot Front members is Bernita Bowlding.
Multiple sources and social media discussions directly identify her by name and link to her Arlington County mugshot for indecent exposure from 2024.
Was the Patriot Front a menace to her, or was she a menace to them? I guess it depends on what she had for lunch.
In NYC, communist foreign invader Zohran Mamdani attempted his own hoax, putting out word that a man had gone into mosque with a weapon but was subdued by heroic, multicultural New Yorkers.
What he omitted: The "weapon" was a BB gun and the man holding it was himself a Muslim.
The man who stormed into a mosque in NYC yesterday with a BB pistol was a Muslim.
Important detail, as Mamdani’s post leaves the impression that this could have been a hate crime by a white person. pic.twitter.com/GJSfdws7iU
— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) July 5, 2026
This is exactly the way he played it when two Muslim terrorists attempted to detonate a bomb outside the mayoral mansion. The terrorists were trying to kill non-Mulsims protesting Mamdani, but Mamdani pretended the terrorists were white non-Muslims attempting to kill him.
And the media ran with this Better, More Impactful Narrative.
The North Charleston Police Department has released a statement regarding the viral video where several individuals can be seen assaulting officers in the Chicora-Cherokee community on Saturday evening.
According to their statement, the incident depicted in the video is the result of a neighborhood block party that escalated out of control leading to the arrest of several individuals and the recovery of multiple firearms and a makeshift spear. Three juveniles and one adult were arrested as a result of the incident.
The initial report states that officers responded to a neighborhood block party in the Chicora-Cherokee community after receiving reports of gunfire and individuals firing fireworks toward passing vehicles. Officers had reportedly met with event organizers earlier in the day to discuss the event and ensure that emergency vehicles could safely access the area if needed.
Upon arrival on scene officers met with attendees who stated that several people had begun discharging firearms at the event. In an attempt to safely disperse the crowd officers repeatedly made public announcements advising that the event had ended and that everyone should leave the area.
Despite those efforts, multiple fights broke out and additional gunshots were reportedly fired. Officers exited their patrol vehicles to intervene and separate the individuals involved in the fight. During the response multiple officers were physically assaulted, with two female officers sustaining minor injuries, the release states.
🚨 HORRIFYING: A female police officer was surrounded and beaten by a mob during a July 4 block party in North Charleston, South Carolina. Police say multiple firearms and a makeshift spear were recovered.
Below, a British female cop complains that the job of the police should be about "empathy" and not what it really is, which is using physical force to stop physically strong and violent men from hurting other people.
In her case, she and a partner were in an airport where a couple of Cultural Enrichers from the Muslim world were punching people randomly in the face. She approached one of the Cultural Enrichers with "empathy" and was punched in the face and fell to the ground with blood streaming out of her nose.
That's terrible, of course, but it was also terrible for her "partner," who now had to subdue the two thug invaders alone.
But she is very insistent that she did everything right, bringing "empathy" to a fist-fight, and it's the world who is to blame for this not working out the way she thinks it should have.
By the way, society is drowning in messages for young men that they should not attack people and should generally behave. The thugs that police officers, female and otherwise, are usually called to subdue are the aggressive, violent men who have ignored those messages their entire lives.
I don't know why this idiot think that if they hear the case for "empathy" one more time, this time from a woke white woman, the dime will finally drop and they'll understand that civilization requires civilized people.
I mean, obviously: She's claiming this because 1, she's woke, and 2, she is hilariously incompetent at the job she sought and which the woke Regime insisted on giving her. To hide the truth from herself -- that she has no business as a cop on patrol and is going to get herself or her partner or civilians killed with her "empathy" -- she shifts the blame and conjures a Fake Job she wishes she had, an imaginary job where violent young men just need to hear a woman scold them for the 1000th time to realize the path of the righteous.
Finally, this female cop in the UK saw three young black thugs first bait and harass, and then physically attack, a white kid.
She called upon her "empathy" to decide what to do, which was to arrest the lone white victim, putting her silly female hand around the white kid's throat and barking at him that he was under arrest for a breach of the peace.
She did nothing about the three black kids who assaulted him. That would be hard and quite outside her capabilities.
So she attacked the white kid who was already dazed on his feet from being punched in the back of the head when he was on the ground.
Because that's easy. And empathetic. And woke.
Just so we are all on the same page:
>White male surrounded by Black males >Black males ASSAULT White male on camera >White male gets arrested (???) >By White female cop (?!!) >Police ask for footage not to be shared
Graham Platner has canceled a campaign event for unclear reasons.
The cancellation comes as polls are testing other candidates against Collins, while rumors continue to circulate about a possible new scandal involving Platner.
The Maine Wire
@TheMaineWire
🚨🚨Graham Platner cancels MULTIPLE scheduled town hall events as progressive allies tease another scandal is about to hit his campaign.
Augusta town hall for last night - CANCELED
Gorham town hall tonight - CANCELED
Sanford town hall tonight - CANCELED
There are no other upcoming events listed on his FB page, or on Mobilize
Steve Robinson
@SteveRob
Wild rumors re Graham Platner circulating this morning...
Sources Downeast say Platner showed up for the 4th of July parade in Eastport but left early after getting struck in the face by a teen-tossed water balloon.😂
He was a no-show later that evening for the Machias parade.
Vermont's senior senator, a key supporter of Maine Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner, Sunday rejected the alleged hypocrisy of flying charters while blasting oil-executive salaries.
"Independent" Bernie Sanders' use of private jets for his political campaigns and tours has drawn scrutiny from critics who argue it contradicts his advocacy against corporate wealth and environmental issues.
In an interview on Fox News, Sanders pushed back on the apparent contradiction.
"You campaign and you do three or four or five rallies a week," he told Fox News anchor Bret Baier.
"The only way, the only way, you can get around to talk to 30,000 people."You think I'm going to be waiting around sitting on a waiting line at United? While 30,000 people are waiting? No apologies for that.
"That's what campaign travel is about," Sanders added. "We've done it in the past and we will do it in the future."
Sanders tried to argue that President Trump doesn't fly commercial while campaigning either, asking Baier, "When's the last time you saw Donald Trump during a campaign at National Airport?"
"But he's also not fighting the oligarchy," Baier replied.
So what's the Graham Platner scandal going to be about? I would guess that it's about him being expelled from tony boarding school Hotchkiss for sexually abusing a girl or several girls.
And I think, if it's anything less than that level of serious, it won't mean anything at all. They're already all-in for a Nazi and communist. Unless it's something that rhymes with rape, he's insulated against it.
A host of members from the cosseted Hollywood elites including Sarah Jessica Parker, Mark Ruffalo, Molly Ringwald, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Bradley Whitford released a joint July 4 video with author Timothy Snyder in an effort to challenge President Donald Trump on the day the nation paused to celebrate its 250th birthday.
They got Molly Ringwand and Sheryl Lee? (Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks, from 30 years ago.) What a coup!
They reportedly viewed their collective effort as "a call against tyranny" as Trump stood at the fore of his America 250 festivities and addressed the gathered tens of thousands and through them the country as a whole, as Breitbart News reported.
The Wrap reports how the sneering Hollywood effort went public with this claim:
"Two-hundred-fifty years ago, a revolutionary idea was born, not that freedom was guaranteed, not that democracy would take care of itself, but that ordinary people could govern themselves," Parker says in the 10-minute clip.
"Every generation since has faced the same question: What will you do when our country asks and needs something of you?"
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"To celebrate a rebellion is to know that, from a flawed world, we can make new things," Snyder wrote in his intro to the video release, per the Wrap report.
"We can hold on, we can find each other, and not just imagine but create a much better America. It is a special 250th -- it is ours."
The clip featured -- but was not restricted to -- those mentioned earlier as well as Lisa Rinna, Canadian Margaret Atwood, Tony Goldwyn and Leslie Odom Jr. declaiming the book's 20 lessons to stand against tyranny.
Wow, decrepit spinster Margaret Atwood showed up for a left-wing event? Now I'm impressed.
And some other people who haven't been relevant since 2002 as well. Astonishing.
Speaking of old lefties with dwindling relevance, the site's official pick for most overrated piece of shit "rocker" ever, Bruce Springsteen.
I'd rather let Gary Glitter babysit my kids than listen to this gravel-voiced Cookie Monster of MOR "rock."
Left-wing rocker Bruce Springsteen declared himself a "patriot" for trashing President Donald Trump. "I believe in critical patriotism," the "Dancing in the Dark" singer proclaimed.
"I believe in critical patriotism," Springsteen told PBS NewsHour in a recent interview, after being asked, "You said before that loving your country means telling the truth about it. How has that guided your work?"
The "Born In the U.S.A." singer, who was interviewed on the PBS special, Bruce Springsteen: Finding America in Song, added, "I believe that's the definition of a patriot, you know?"
I love that the only album/songs people can remember is the absolute turd "Born in the USA."
"That you love your country so much, that you are willing to look at it clearly, recognize its faults, encourage it to be a better place, and believe that you carry in your heart the country that is waiting," Springsteen said.
"I was very angry," the 76-year-old rocker said of his new protest song, "Streets of Minneapolis," which he wrote after the fatal shootings of ICE agitators Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and later performed at an anti-Trump "No Kings" rally.
"And usually, I write songs that have a lot of political implications, but very often are not directly political," the "Born to Run" singer added.
You're a moron.
Finally, archleftist and completely inadequate man Larry David produced a -- get this -- anti-Trump fake "history" series.
Rob Reiner was in it, in his last role. He played -- are you ready to laugh? -- George Washington, ranting about -- get this -- Donald Trump.
Barack Obama produced this POS. This is the show Michelle Obama forbade from featuring RFKJr's wife and Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star, Cheryl Hines.
Director Jeff Schaffer says Rob Reiner's final role as George Washington in Larry David's Obama-produced HBO show is Reiner's "last laugh" against President Donald Trump.
Rob Reiner -- who was killed late last year along with his wife, Michele -- filmed his final role a month before his death, portraying George Washington in Larry David's historical sketch comedy show, Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.
The late film director's appearance on the HBO show was kept a secret until the second episode aired on July 3, according to a report by Variety.
He died as he lived -- ranting obsessively and futilely about a man he'd never even met.
The show's director, Jeff Schaffer, told the magazine that the role allowed Reiner to get the "last laugh" against President Trump.
"It's coming out on Fourth of July weekend, and if it in any way spoils a sad octogenarian's weekend, then oh well!" Schaffer added.
Yeah I don't think it did.
The unbridled narcissism of these people. It's just a cult of self-worship.
Hello everyone! My goodness, I did not enjoy this very hot weekend. It's nice that it cooled down but I spent the weekend just laying around and checking a weather app to see when the heat would break.
How was yours? Any one have corn on the cob? I did. Dang corn on the cob is good.
THE MORNING RANT: Ford Rehires Engineers, Blames AI (not Its EVs Debacle) for Having Dismissed Them in the First Place
—Buck Throckmorton
There was some great news last week when Ford announced that it was re-hiring hundreds of engineers who were let go a few years back. Those engineers had been dismissed from their jobs for two reasons:
1) To free up cash for Ford’s ill-fated “electric vehicle transition.”
2) Ford thought it wouldn’t need them any longer. The childishly “green” great-grandson of Henry Ford, Bill Ford, along with Bill’s pet CEO, Jim Farley, didn’t think they’d need engineers whose area of expertise was gas-powered, internal combustion (“ICE” ) vehicles. In obedience to Bill Ford’s climate religion, Farley had committed the company to pursuing an all-EV future. He didn’t see the need to further develop ICE vehicles, nor to employ the engineers who could do so.
The EV transition has been a catastrophic failure, costing Ford more than $35 billion before the company finally canceled its flagship electric vehicle, the Ford F150 ConflagrationLightning.
As I documented several years ago, ”Ford is terminating valuable engineers and other personnel involved in traditional internal combustion car manufacturing, all in an effort to free up money for its cash-sucking EV boondoggle.”
The good news is that even though Bill Ford is a naïve nepot who fell under the spell of the climate doom cult, Ford’s customers and dealers are considerably smarter. Despite the massive losses Ford took trying to get consumers to take delivery of its EV offerings, there is virtually no price that could move the needle and make Ford’s EVs anything more than a low-volume gimmick. For Ford to survive, it had to turn its focus back to products that Americans will buy in mass-market volume.
It’s funny that Ford is blaming a failed reliance on artificial intelligence for the need to re-hire engineers, rather than blaming its commitment to EVs. Perhaps Farley and Ford feel that it is politically safer to blame AI than to blame their EV debacle.
Ford has rehired experienced human engineers to help address the shortcomings of artificial intelligence (AI) tools meant to tackle quality issues in the automaker’s production processes.
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“Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles…”
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“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high quality product…”
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[Ford’s VP of Vehicle Hardware Engineering] also noted that the AI tools lacked the training and expertise that veteran technicians have, and many of the company’s veteran technicians left Ford before their knowledge could be used to improve the performance of the AI tools.
The “EV transition” failed, and the American auto industry is now de-transitioning back to a focus on manufacturing (gasoline-powered) vehicles which Americans are willing to buy.
But for old times’ sake, here is an update on Ford’s misguided efforts to become an EV manufacturer. The sales report is out for last month (June 2026). It’s awful:
• Ford sold only 2,322 EVs, which represented just 1.3% of its total US vehicle sales.
• Those 2,322 EVs included discontinued F150 Lightnings, which Ford is practically giving away to make them go away. I’d call it a “fire sale,” but that seems a little insensitive considering the Lightning’s propensity to spontaneously erupt into flames.
• The 1,715 Mustang Mach-Es that we were sold represented a 32% decline from June 2025’s already abysmal numbers.
The next big milestone for Ford’s EV de-transition is for it to formally announce that manufacture of the Mustang Mach E is being terminated.
The many descendants of Henry Ford still hold a controlling interest in Ford stock. A Ford-family revolt against the destruction wrought by Bill Ford would also be in order.
Good morning kids. I hope you all had a wonderful, blessed and relaxing July Fourth Independence Day holiday weekend. In spite of all the challenges, and in reality existential threats that we face from those who seek to deprive us of that which our Founding Fathers fought and bequeathed to us 250 years ago, we're still here, keeping the faith and the flame of liberty alive as best we can. Sadly, the greatest existential threat that we face is from our mortal enemy from within. Our alleged fellow citizens of the left who in point of fact — considering their actions over our history and their perveted beliefs bout the legitimacy of our history, heritage not just since 1776 but the past 2,000 years of it — constitute a foreign national entity that exists within our midst.
“A combination of laziness, yes, and the liberal indoctrination that has been taking place in our education system for far too long,” Leavitt argued on X about the factors leading to the far left’s rise.
“There are far-left educators pumping students’ heads with garbage, convincing them that hard work and sacrifice won’t pay off down the road because they want them totally reliant on the government instead,” she wrote... “As the President has correctly warned, ‘communism is the enemy of free people everywhere. It is the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it is the enemy of July 4, 1776.’ ”
During her interview with Watters, Leavitt warned that a full-blown “communist revolution” was unfolding in Congress and called communism “the biggest threat” to America in 250 years. . . Trump warned about the rise of communism during his addresses at Mount Rushmore and the National Mall for Independence Day.
“Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We’re not going to let it happen,” he vowed Saturday.
This madness did not happen overnight but has metastasized over the course of several decades. While this cancer certainly existed 50 years ago at the time of the bicentennial, for the most part it was not in evidence from what I recall and the July Fourth holiday that year was even more patriotic and celebratory across the board than in any years before or since. And yet the Left is still on the march, and unless there really is a drastic sea change in our culture, I have a dread of what will happen in the coming years.
During his inaugural speech on Jan. 1, Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”It certainly feels warm these days.
As temperatures climbed during the heat wave that blanketed much of the eastern United States, the mayor took to social media with a familiar message from the government. “New York: it’s hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool,” he tweeted. “Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you’re not using, and unplug what you can.” This is the real face of the political left: Individual comfort and convenience should be subordinated to collective priorities, with government officials deciding how much energy ordinary people ought to consume. Over the pond in Europe, we are seeing the effects of that warm glow of collectivism in full force. Decades of climate policy, energy restrictions and cultural hostility toward air conditioning have left millions of Europeans sweltering without one of the greatest public health innovations of the modern age.
They are trying to stay cool with fire trucks spraying water in public squares and parks. Even hospitals and the homes of medically fragile individuals are overheating. It is hard to imagine a clearer illustration of the cruelty of collectivism in practice.
A healthy group of neighbors has decided that one disabled man’s ability to breathe comfortably matters less than preserving their preferred aesthetic and soundscape. They insist they are acting for the common good. The person who bears the greatest burden is the one least capable of bearing it.
And the price is being counted in bodies.
The only reliably cool buildings in parts of Paris are its morgues. Funeral homes and mortuaries in and around the French capital have been overwhelmed in recent weeks, with some running out of refrigerated space for the dead. France recorded roughly 1,000 excess deaths during the peak of the heat wave, most of them among the elderly.
As Europe and much of North America endured record heat in recent days, headlines quickly appeared claiming that the heat wave was "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change.
To many readers, that sounds like a conclusion drawn directly from observations. It is not. It is the product of a branch of climate research known as extreme weather attribution, which relies heavily on computer models rather than direct measurements.
This was not an isolated claim. Whenever a major storm, wildfire, flood, or heat wave occurs, similar headlines soon follow. We are told that climate change made an event "twice as likely," "35 times more likely," or even "virtually impossible" without human influence. These figures are widely repeated by politicians, journalists, and activists as though they were direct scientific observations. . . This does not mean that climate never changes. Of course it does. Earth's climate has always changed. The question is whether modern attribution studies can confidently separate natural variability from human influence to the extraordinary degree claimed.
Roger Kimball: On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, America’s story is cast as either triumphant inheritance or unfinished grievance, with no neutral ground in between. A Tale of Two Countries
Thad McCotter: American self-government endures only when citizens first govern themselves, making virtue—not politics—the foundation of a free republic. A Semiquincentennial Psalm
To love America is not to deny its flaws but to cherish its capacity for renewal. Love, in this sense, demands honesty. It requires memory. And it carries responsibility. To America, with Love: In Honor of Her 250th Birthday
America and Britain have often argued, but we have also shown the world that former adversaries can become allies without pretending the past never happened. Dear America, Happy 250th. No Hard Feelings!
In a late-night speech capping the semiquincentennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump invoked familiar themes of patriotism, bravery, and sacrifice to declare that the story of the United States of America is worth cherishing while being far from over. Trump Marshals Americans, Defiant ‘Spirit Of 1776’ In Speech Celebrating US’s 250th Birthday
Commemorating 250 years as a nation, we naturally reflect on Thomas Jefferson’s soaring words—but we should remember that it was George Washington’s deeds that led America to victory. America’s Indispensable Man
That is the version of July 4 most people recognize: flags out front, kids running around, food everywhere, and somebody inevitably arguing over food. Americans Celebrate the 250th With Pride (not that "pride" - jjs)
The growing number of H-1B renewals underscores the program’s vast scale beyond the annual visa cap, with significant negative implications for American workers, whose labor loses more value the more immigrants employers can import to work in their place. Critics of the H-1B program argue that the high number of renewals and exemption loopholes undermine the purpose of the cap. H-1B Visa Renewals on Track to Hit Record High Despite Trump Admin’s Efforts to Tighten Program.
Bon should not have been in this country. He flew into the United States through Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in July 2024, courtesy of Joe Biden's “humanitarian” parole program. The Department of Homeland Security later denied his bid for Temporary Protected Status. By June 2025, DHS had pulled his parole and told him to get out. He didn't go. Instead, he kept driving trucks on American highways. Illegal Immigrant Kills Pennsylvania State Trooper. Guess Who Let Him Into the Country.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
There was no doubt whatsoever that what he was saying was true, and that thirty-five years after the end of the Cold War, communism is indeed resurgent in the U.S. The establishment media confirmed this by falling easily back into its old Cold War habit of sneering at foes of communism as if patriots were fabricating the threat entirely, or at very least wildly exaggerating it in order to advance their own agenda. Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Outrages the Media Like Nothing Since the Days of Reagan
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America won't beat China by banning AI. We'll win by building the world's best open models and letting innovation—not government—lead the way. Don’t Ban Open Source AI. Beat China With It.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
“It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden (junta), and were in, or being sent to, prison, for ‘fixing their car,’” Trump wrote. “While I know this sounds ridiculous, it is nevertheless a fact, and part of the Weaponization and Stupidity that our Country had to endure during four long years of Sleepy Joe Biden. I AM SETTING THEM ALL FREE, RIGHT NOW!” Trump Pardons Defendants Convicted in Clean Air Act Cases, Cites ‘Right to Repair’
This is the real face of the political left: Individual comfort and convenience should be subordinated to collective priorities, with government officials deciding how much energy ordinary people ought to consume. Over the pond in Europe, we are seeing the effects of that warm glow of collectivism in full force. Decades of climate policy, energy restrictions and cultural hostility toward air conditioning have left millions of Europeans sweltering without one of the greatest public health innovations of the modern age. America learned long ago that air-conditioning saves lives. Why does Europe remain so stubborn about it?
As Europe and much of North America endured record heat, headlines quickly appeared claiming that the heat wave was "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change. Really? Climate Change Blamed in Heat Waves: Science or Simulation?
Outrage over the Texas State School Board of Education’s requirement that the Bible be included in the K-12 curriculum isn’t just anti-God, it speaks to a lack of understanding of what made the West great. Outrage Over Texas Teaching The Bible Is Anti-Intellectual
Academics in ivory towers have risen magnificently to the challenge of scrapping every visible vestige of DEI while mastering the art of rebranding. DEI's academic makeover
“To know America is to love America. When only 1 in 4 of our nation’s eighth graders is proficient in civics, that’s a failure we cannot afford to accept,” Savannah Newhouse, Education Department Press Secretary... Here’s How State, Federal Governments Promote Patriotic Civic Education
McMorrow declined to immediately endorse either of her rivals, Democrat Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a left-wing candidate backed by socialist Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Other Democrats, however, fear El-Sayed might lose in the general election. Struggling Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow Drops Out Of Senate Primary Race With Surging Leftist
“A combination of laziness, yes, and the liberal indoctrination that has been taking place in our education system for far too long,” Leavitt argued on X about the factors leading to the far left’s rise. “There are far-left educators pumping students’ heads with garbage, convincing them that hard work and sacrifice won’t pay off down the road because they want them totally reliant on the government instead,” she wrote. Karoline Leavitt has a theory on why her generation is going ‘communist’
President Donald Trump unveiled an executive order in March establishing a new task force focused on eliminating fraud nationwide. The order states in part that ongoing “failure to ensure sufficient Federal oversight to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse has allowed irresponsible State politicians to increase Federal spending in their own States, which has contributed to inflation for healthcare services, housing, utilities, and groceries.” (RELATED: ‘Plagued By Fraud’: RFK Jr, Dr Oz Say More Than 1 Million People Without Social Security Numbers Enrolled In Obamacare) Trump Vowed To Root Out Fraud In Healthcare. How’s It Going?
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The accompanying slideshow featured LEGO minifigures recounting coming-out experiences, including one character attending a Pride parade and another depicting a male character proposing to his boyfriend. LEGO Faces Backlash Over Pride-Themed Content Aimed at Kids
Bottle caps, harmonicas, pocket watches, and other historic artifacts are being reclassified as Native American funerary objects. History Reburied
I surmise that Christopher Gadsden’s Don’t Tread On Me banner is much more sophisticated than we previously thought. The Color Of Contagion
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A few years ago Microsoft went on a massive acquisition spree, throwing billions of dollars at individual studios with legendary game titles under their belts.
Since which time they ain't produced squat.
The only thing keeping them alive is Sony, which has challenged Microsoft in a race to the bottom.
No they're not. The projected and actual profits relate only to the semiconductor division of the corporate group.
On the other hand, they're expecting to make $200 billion this year. That puts Korean national plans for $1 trillion in tech industries into perspective.
Galileo was a NASA exploration spacecraft launched October 18, 1989, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on space shuttle Atlantis (STS-34). It crashed into Jupiter on September 21, 2003, after completing its primary mission, and three secondary missions.
Top 10 Science Results
• The descent probe measured atmospheric elements and found that their relative abundances were different than on the Sun, indicating Jupiter's evolution since the planet formed out of the solar nebula.
• Galileo made a first observation of ammonia clouds in another planet's atmosphere.The atmosphere seems to create ammonia ice particles of material from lower depths, but only in "fresh" clouds.
• Io's extensive volcanic activity may be 100 times greater than that found on Earth's.The heat and frequency of eruption are reminiscent of early Earth.
• Io's complex plasma interactions in Io's atmosphere include support for currents and coupling to Jupiter's atmosphere.
• Evidence supports a theory that liquid oceans exist under Europa's icy surface.
• Ganymede is the first satellite known to possess a magnetic field.
• Galileo magnetic data provide evidence that Europa, Ganymede and Callisto have a liquid-saltwater layer.
• Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto all provide evidence of a thin atmospheric layer known as a 'surface-bound exosphere'.
• Jupiter's ring system is formed by dust kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash into the planet's four small inner moons. The outermost ring is actually two rings, one embedded with the other.
• Galileo was the first spacecraft to dwell in a giant planet magnetosphere long enough to identify its global structure and to investigate its dynamics.
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My doctor told me I need to find a "low-impact hobby" to help me relax. I told him I've taken up professional napping.
He asked if I was getting any results, and I told him "I'm currently ranked #1 in the bedroom, but the competition from my cat is fierce. She has better form and doesn't snore as loud".
He didn't write me a prescription, but he did look like he wanted to join the league.
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A woman went to the doctor's office and was seen by one of the new young doctors. After about four minutes in the examiniation room, she started screaming and ran down the hall. An older doctor stopped her what the problem was, and she told him her story. After listening, he told her to sit down and relax in another room.
The older doctor marched down the hallway to the back where the first doctor was and demanded, "What's the matter with you? Mrs. Terry is 63 years old, she has four grown children and seven grandchildren, and you told her she was pregnant?"
The new doctor continued to write on his clipboard and, without looking up, said, "Does she still have the hiccups?"
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Godzilla, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot stomp on, courage to shoot them with atomic breath, and wisdom to do a big roar afterwards.
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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)
It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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Gentle Readers of these United Colonies,
In this most auspicious time when the Continental Congress hath declared these Colonies free and independent States, the fashionable world yet turns its gaze to the latest modes. Though the drums of liberty beat loudly in our streets, the ladies and gentlemen of taste continue to adorn themselves with elegance befitting persons of quality. News of the newest toilettes from London and Paris (and such as may be had from our own clever mantua-makers) arrives even amid these stirring times.
For the Fair Sex: The Graceful Polonaise and Towering Coiffure
The mode most admired this summer among ladies of fashion is the Robe à la Polonaise. The overskirt is looped into graceful swags by means of cords or ribbons, falling in elegant drapery over a contrasting petticoat. This creates a charming, picturesque silhouette, neither so stiff as the old sack-back nor so plain as the new English styles. Striped silks and floral chintzes are all the rage, as are light muslins for the warmer months.
Stays continue to mould the figure into the fashionable conical shape, while wide hips are supported by panniers or hip rolls (somewhat reduced from former years, yet still essential to the mode). A fine fichu of lace or muslin crosses the bosom, and large hats with wide brims shade the face most becomingly.
The hair, or coiffure, remains a subject of much discourse. Powdered white or ash, it is built high upon pads and frames, sometimes reaching extraordinary heights. Feathers, ribbons, artificial flowers, and even small ornaments are placed with artful care. A lady may appear a walking garden or a miniature ship at full sail, most becoming at assemblies and balls.
For Gentlemen of Fashion: The Frock Coat and Embroidered Waistcoat
Gentlemen of taste favour the frock coat of fine wool or silk, cut with skirts that fall gracefully. Beneath lies a long waistcoat, often richly embroidered in gold or silver thread upon grounds of crimson, blue, or green. Knee breeches, white silk stockings, and shoes fastened with handsome silver or paste buckles complete the toilette.
The hair is powdered and dressed in a queue or bag-wig, surmounted by the tricorn hat cocked with becoming smartness. Ruffles of fine linen at throat and wrist add the final touch of gentility.
In These Times of Liberty
While many worthy patriots now wear garments of good American homespun, plain yet honest and serviceable, the assemblies and levees of Philadelphia and New York still display the full splendour of European modes. A lady in her striped polonaise or a gentleman in his embroidered waistcoat lends grace and gaiety even to these momentous days.
Thus, dear readers, whether you celebrate independence with a glass of Madeira or attend a private ball, may your attire be as elegant as your principles are just.
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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the First July Edition? I told you it was coming, people! I told you, and dang if it isn't here!
Happy Birthday, America!! Did you have a fun and celebratory July 4th? Tell us how you marked the 250th in the comments below.
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
Revolvers get a bad rap, don't you think? Especially the snubby, which I am inclined to think is the revolver's highest form. Not sure why, maybe from watching too many cops 'n robbers shows, but I am pretty sure they're my fave.
Are they challenging to shoot? No, not really. Are they challenging to shoot well? I'd say not much more than anything else really. This is why we practice - that is to repeatedly do something that is challenging in order to become better at doing that thing.
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And finally we have a deranged lunatic and probable escapee from a mental institution:
I shot this at about 25 feet in double action. It's not difficult, because I have done it before. Like a bazillion times before. I have spent countless hours at the range shooting revolvers in double action. You can do this too!.
The secret that everyone seems to believe exists? Practice and fundamentals. That's it. That is the secret.
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Build an AR-15
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How Much?!
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Ax Weasel
Q: Weasel, how does a Winchester 1873 Work?
A: Glad you axed.
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Our Pal Bookkeeping
You know, I made a pretty good living at this.
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P-47 Unboxing: Assembly and Pilot Familiarization
OK. Your P-47 has been delivered. Let's unbox that rascal, put it together, and go flying!
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Highway Patrol!
This week's episode: Express Delivery!
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The Brain Eaters!
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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.
A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid
Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Well, a few days ago it was 103 degrees outside, and as an accommodation to the warmth I decided to have a Gin & Tonic as opposed to a Manhattan (stirred, you animals!) or a Martini, or an Old Fashioned.
But a typical G&T out of a bar gun is a crap drink. The tonic is too sweet, the lime is an afterthought, and it's mostly ice.
So...a good G&T requires a half a lime muddled on the bottom of the glass to get some of that delicious oil out of the skin and into the drink! Yes, they are monoterpenes (and some other stuff)...why do you ask?
And then no more than two parts tonic to one part gin. The name of the drink starts with "GIN!" It should taste of it.
And for f*ck's sake, use a fresh bottle of tonic. There is nothing worse than flat tonic water in a G&T.
Put it in a glass with some ice, but not a huge amount. Diluted G&Ts are sad and painful reflections of what the drink can be.
That is Misanthropic Humanitarian's weekly trolling. Although, to be fair, there are some dishes that don't look too bad at all!
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I had an impromptu Bourbon tasting this afternoon with some friends who stopped by...thus the abbreviated Food Thread. They brought a couple of bottles to taste, and the Old Ezra 7 Year was my favorite! Just delicious. Just enough proof to make it an adult drink, with some lovely and complex aromas followed by a delightfully smooth mouth feel. There was a delicate hint of sweetness, but definitely not enough to interest your kids. And that's good, because this stuff is nowhere to be found around here, so I will have to hunt for it, because it is definitely worth some legwork!
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A friend of my MiL made these for our Independence Day get-together. She is obviously a professional baker, and these were absolutely delicious, as well as looking spectacular! She uses a lot of butter cream rather than fondant, so the icing isn't quite as sweet as is typical. Wow, they were great!
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I hope all of you had successful food experiences yesterday, no matter what you ate. A massive Independence Day barbecue, or a quiet meal of microwave burritos eaten over the sink...it's all good!
America...Happy 250th Birthday!
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The garlic is harvested! And it looks...well...sigh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.
The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
The Declaration Of Independence Is As Important Today As It Was in 1776
—CBD
It is depressingly axiomatic that our current crop of pathetic, ahistoric, crass, rapacious, unpatriotic sub-wits in our government have no understanding the unique drive for freedom and liberty that animated our founders.
And what makes it worse is that they have no appreciation for what those men created: a template for the greatest country in the history of Man.
They think they can do better.
They are wrong.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Read the rest at the National Archives
The list of grievances is fascinating, and the number that can be directed at our own government and its unelected bureaucratic autocracy is startling. It also illuminates the unchanging drive for power, and the wisdom of our founders to recognize it.
The last one could describe the last two Democrat presidents!
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Sound familiar.
It is easy to dismiss the convulsions of our society as just another blip in the never-ending success of our glorious country. After all, America has survived 250 years, and the end result is absolutely amazing.
But the transportation, the technology, the communication that the United States has mostly created for the world has conspired to create vulnerabilities that are new, and we are unsure how to protect our wonderful country from the depredations of the rest of the world, and the enemies within.
Will we survive for another 250 years? That is up to us and our children and our grandchildren. I think that is the timeline for the survival of this great experiment.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click It happened one summer, it happened one time
It happened forever, for a short time
A place for a moment, an end to dream
Forever I loved you, forever it seemed
One summer never ends, one summer never began
It keeps me standing still, it takes all my will
An Update about Grammie Winger: She is doing poorly...she is in the hospital and is having a tough go of it. She would love to hear from you folks, so anyone who would like to contact her is welcome to her address! Please contact Bluebell at moroncookbook@gmail.com for her contact info. (I expect her local post office to be furious with us!) [CBD]
Podcast: Sefton and CBD commiserate about the NYC primaries and whether the contagion will spread, J.D. Vance is becoming a cypher, Texas Antifa gets a wake-up call, and more!
NEW: Just heard something extraordinary from a former White House official who worked with former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in Trump45's NSC: "McMaster had weekly phone calls with George Soros. We have no idea why." Neither could be reached for comment.
