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1. Retired Spook June 22, 2026 / 8:43 am

   It’s going to be interesting to see how historians write about this particular period, particularly if the massive global political re-alignment that appears to be underway continues. I kind of wish I was 20 years younger, because the next decade or two are going to be a fascinating time to be alive.
2. Retired Spook June 22, 2026 / 10:45 am

   Glenn Beck told this story on his radio show this morning, and, as we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this great Republic, I think it’s worth repeating. It’s a miracle we ever became a nation.
   • Amazona June 22, 2026 / 12:12 pm

     I heard that show and, as usual, was impressed by Beck’s historical knowledge.

     I still think Hugh Hewitt ought to replay that old July 4 show he did several years ago featuring a man who detailed the many examples of what he could only describe as divine intercession which repeatedly saved the Revolution. That, and Beck’s show, would be powerful accounts of the miracle that is this great nation.
     • Retired Spook June 22, 2026 / 12:19 pm

       There are many such stories; this is one of my favorites. Divine Providence did, indeed, play a pivotal roll in the birth of this nation.
3. Retired Spook June 23, 2026 / 8:15 am

   Robert Malone nails it:

   Dr. Robert W. Malone

   June 23, 2026

   

   As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, a familiar chorus has emerged. We are told that the celebration must be “reimagined,” “broadened,” “corrected,” or “fixed.” The argument is that America’s history has too often been viewed through the lens of its achievements, with insufficient focus on its failures. Left-leaning media and academics argue that the nation’s anniversary should become an exercise in national self-flagellation rather than national celebration.

   I disagree.

   A quarter millennium is not the moment for a nation to apologize for its existence. It is the moment to remember why that nation exists at all.

   A USA Today article published yesterday, titled “A growing movement aims to fix America’s big birthday celebration,” tells the story before the argument even begins. We are informed that “a growing movement aims to fix America’s big birthday” and that activists are “pushing back” against “splashy celebrations” of America’s 250th anniversary.

   Of course <sarcasm>, Phaedra Trethan, the author of the article, had this to say about the 250th celebration on her Facebook page this week:

   

   Cultural Marxism

   The 1619 Project, launched by The New York Times Magazine in 2019, seeks to reframe American history by arguing that the arrival of the first African slaves in Virginia in 1619 should be regarded as the nation’s true founding. The project contends that slavery and its legacy are not peripheral features of American history but are central to understanding the country’s institutions, economy, culture, and politics. The thesis is that the founding of the nation was actually when the first slave was imported into the British colonies in 1619.

   The project represents a revisionist interpretation of American history. It elevates America’s “original sin” above its founding ideals and presents a distorted picture of the nation. It minimizes the significance of 1776, the Declaration of Independence, and the constitutional principles of liberty, self-government, and individual rights that have inspired reform movements throughout post-Enlightenment history. In this view, the project seeks to teach younger generations that the United States is fundamentally defined by oppression rather than by the continual expansion of freedom and opportunity. A twisted example of progressive activist evil.

   So, evidently, the USA Today article was written from the perspective of a true believer of the 1619 Project. USA Today argues that we need to “fix” our history.

   Fix it?

   America’s birthday does not need fixing. It needs remembering.

   There is something revealing about a class of people who look at the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and see, not a miracle of human liberty, but another opportunity for correction, scolding, and grievance management. (emphasis – mine)
   • Amazona June 23, 2026 / 10:33 am

     I think we need to start emphasizing that one of the greatest things about this nation is the freedom to leave. While countries adored by the Left have always forced people to stay, building walls and fences to keep them IN, this country offers the liberty to choose where to live.

     When people do nothing to add to the value of a nation but spend their lives denigrating it, tearing it down, trying to deny its virtues and successes, they really should find someplace that meets their standards of acceptability and move there.

     I would advocate for, and vote for, bills that forgive all taxes in the year preceding a move to another nation. I would even vote to give a subsidy to cover moving expenses.
   • Amazona June 23, 2026 / 1:21 pm

     Many years ago, when the vitriol and vicious hatred from the Left was less intense than it is now, I observed that the Left actively recruits people with personality disorders and keeps them in the fold by reassuring them that what society has always told them were problems—–paranoia, rage, negativity, hostility—-are really proof of intelligence and virtue and moral superiority.

     As I have watched the Left expand its policies of hate and resentment and blind fury I realize that I underestimated the scope of these personality disorders, and the vulnerability of those who exhibit them to manipulation into overt violence and blatant rejection of the rule of law. I have moved from thinking there is a genetic predisposition to negativity (nourished by a movement that validates this and promotes it) to thinking it might be even more malignant than a mere inclination toward a darker worldview.

     I now see this as a moral cancer that eats away at the foundation of decency we used to take for granted. This driving need to express hate and resentment is simply impossible to comprehend by people who do not share it. It ranges from the petty—-keying Teslas, flouting hateful bumper stickers, marching with signs rife with ad hominem attacks on people, rage-posting on blogs—to the truly malignant, expressed in destroying symbols of our country and engaging in elaborate libels designed to portray it in the worst possible light.
4. Retired Spook June 23, 2026 / 10:33 am

   I’m not a big fan of the Federal Reserve, but Alan Greenspan was one of the best Fed Chairmen in my lifetime. RIP Mr. Greenspan.
5. Cluster June 24, 2026 / 8:11 am

   It is sad to see NY falling prey to inexperienced young brown communists. How anyone can vote for a young brown, completely inexperienced communist is beyond me particularly considering the depth of history we have to look back on. How did Chavez do in Venezuela? How about Castro in Cuba? More annoying is that they and their campaigns are ridiculously child like. Everything is going to be free, everyone is going to be happy, and criminals will stop committing crimes. It’s a child like delusional utopia and people actually vote for that shit. Thank God I am old.
6. Cluster June 24, 2026 / 8:18 am

   We were on the move when JD Vance was on the View, so we taped it and watched it last night, and it really was a contrast on how parents think versus how children think. I don’t know how anyone can listen to those women and you can be sure this was my last time. Whoopi and Sonny accused JD of erasing black history and marginalizing black people without one single example … just feelings. Ana Navvarro accused JD of targeting brown people for deportation and “ripping children out of homes”. At one point, JD was accused of abusing thousands of illegal immigrant children, to which JD accurately stated that 300,000 children are still missing from the border chaos of 2021-2024 … the View hosts wanted no part of that conversation.

   Don’t ever watch The View. It will make you want to leave America.
   • Retired Spook June 24, 2026 / 8:35 am

     I caught a short segment of The View several years ago, like you because someone (I don’t remember who) was on that I admired. What a vicious and ignorant bunch of harridans. My eyes started to bleed, and I turned it off. Never again. You do have to wonder about the mental state of people who watch it regularly.
     • Cluster June 24, 2026 / 9:35 am

       I am exhausted at the level of complaining so many Democrats engage in. It’s non stop and mostly delusional and irrational, and if it continues, it will lead to violence.
7. Cluster June 24, 2026 / 10:16 am

   I have to admit that I have been enjoying some of the soccer matches. That Haaland kid from Norway is an amazing player and fun to watch. Soccer is still no match for the NFL though. Go USA
8. Retired Spook June 24, 2026 / 11:09 am

   I think Democrats are beginning to awaken to the fact that when you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. Next thing they’ll learn (too late) is that you can vote Socialism in, but you have to shoot your way out.
9. Retired Spook June 24, 2026 / 11:20 am

   Per Jeff Childers this morning regarding the growing schism in the Donkey Party:

   They call it “civil war.” We’ve called it the Democrats’ polycrisis. The details of the disputes might be fascinating to political insiders, but are hard to differentiate if you’ve never been a liberal. Basically, the DNC Establishment (which they call the “moderate wing”) is trying to steer the party toward the center —pro-market, pro-Israel— assisted by its donor-consultant class and the blue oligarchs, aiming for practical high-tax policies and proving-by-doing that progressive ideas can actually work, notwithstanding the evidence.

   Meanwhile, the DSA and aligned groups are eat-the-rich, defund-the-police, pro-Palestine, trans-everything populist progressives of the Zohran Mamdani stripe. The two sides are incompatible.

   Maybe we’ll get lucky, and they’ll end up killing each other. That seems to be their go-to strategy with political opponents with whom they disagree.
10. Retired Spook June 24, 2026 / 12:38 pm

    This is the kind of action many of us had hoped would occur under Trump 2.0 (per Robert Malone’s post this morning):

    The Department of Justice recently announced what it describes as the largest healthcare fraud takedown in American history. Federal prosecutors charged 455 defendants across the United States in connection with more than $6.5 billion in alleged fraudulent claims involving Medicare, Medicaid, and other government healthcare programs. That amounts to over $ 14 million bilked from the Federal government per defendant. The perpetrators include physicians, pharmacists, healthcare executives, marketers, and individuals linked to organized criminal enterprises. They involved scams that not only harmed patients, but in at least one case, actually killed a patient. Authorities seized hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, luxury assets, and other proceeds tied to the schemes

    The numbers alone are remarkable. Healthcare fraud has long been understood as a significant drain on public resources, but even seasoned observers were surprised by the scale of this operation. U.S. healthcare fraud has become a major focus of international cartel activities, akin to the illegal drug and human trafficking sectors. Yet the arrests themselves may not be the most important aspect of the announcement. What caught my attention was the growing role of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in developing new tools to identify and prevent fraud before taxpayer dollars leave the Treasury, and the implications of this approach in future applications across the entire Federal funding enterprise.

    Glenn Beck mentioned on his radio show this morning that the life of the Medicare Trust Fund would be doubled just by eliminating fraud, without ANY action by Congress.

    On the flip side, Social Security runs out of money in 7 years, and no one in Congress seems to be the slightest bit concerned. I’d like to see tar, feathers, and rails brought back into common use if they don’t get together and fix it.
    • Cluster June 25, 2026 / 11:03 am

      We are learning that much our $36 trillion national debt …. Is the result of fraud. What a shame
11. Cluster June 25, 2026 / 10:05 am

    Import the third world, become the third world.

    New York City is a major gateway for legal immigration to the United States, with a long history of international immigration and a diverse economy that attracts foreign-born residents. Additionally, the city’s right-to-shelter law and its multicultural environment make it a welcoming place for immigrants

    37% of NY’s population is foreign born. Additionally, another 9% of NY’ers are Muslim. Democrats are becoming a clear and dangerous anti American party.
    • Retired Spook June 25, 2026 / 10:39 am

      Democrats are also rapidly becoming an endangered party, fighting among themselves, unable to convince wealthy Liberals to donate money to them, and completely irrelevant WRT policy.

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