Open Thread

The funniest thing, ever, would be the USA winning the World Cup. But, be that as it may: we’re close to 250!

We here on the MAGA side are enjoying ourselves immensely. We’re not dooming. We’re no worried. We’re not apologizing. We’re just having some fun! It is summer time! It is our 250th anniversary! We’re riding a tide of victory in war and peace.

Democrats? They’re going full communist. This is the natural progression of things – inevitable, really, since McGovern got the Democrat nomination in 1972. Gotta keep in mind that McGovern was the darling of those whom Mayor Daley smashed heads in 1968. They let the radicals in…and the radicals just keep taking more and more space. Democrats should have kept smashing heads. But, too late now. They’ll go into November – and very likely into 2028 as well – making ritualistic statements about freeing Palestine and asserting their support for They/Them.

Officially the Democrats are still set to win. We’ll see. The only thing they have going for them is historic precedent – in terms of money and broad based appeal, the GOP has it going on.

Oh, and Tim Walz pardoned a guy who raped a child just so ICE would have a harder time deporting him. This is the sort of thing the GOP will emphasize going into November…likely starting with ads during the World Series.

9 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook July 3, 2026 / 7:54 am

    There are lots of differences between Republicans and Democrats, but this is one of the most stark.

    Fewer than half of Democrats are proud to be American citizens, according to a new poll released ahead of the U.S.’s 250th anniversary.

    In the NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll, 45 percent of Democratic respondents said they are generally “very proud” or “proud” of being American. Fifty-five percent of Democrats in the poll said they are generally “not too proud” or “not proud at all” of being American.

    In contrast, 93 percent of Republican respondents said they are generally “very proud” or “proud” of being American. Only 7 percent of GOP respondents said they are generally “not too proud” or “not proud at all” of being American.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster July 3, 2026 / 8:52 am

      That’s an alarming poll that could have consequences.

      Happy Fourth everyone …. I am busy most this weekend and may forget so wanted to put it out there now. What a fabulous country we are Blessed with.

      Which makes it very sad to see ungrateful, lazy, and entitled children who expect something for nothing being elected to Congress. DSA is a CANCER. Even James Carville and Bill Maher are considering leaving that party. These mid terms will decide if we move forward as a free country, or if we move forward towards war. That’s the decision.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 3, 2026 / 10:57 am

      The GOP nominee in 2028 will say over and over again the America is the greatest country on Earth.

      The Democrat nominee will not be able to say that – the party would split.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster July 3, 2026 / 11:12 am

        James Carville and Bill Maher have already indicated they may leave the party. Donny Deutsch said yesterday that Democrats “have gone off the rails” ….. if Democrats don’t win the mid terms, there will be a bloodbath revolution in that party. Pass the popcorn

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 3, 2026 / 11:28 am

        I think this year will be crucial – if the Democrats can buffalo the American people sufficient to gain a Congressional majority, then we might be in some serious trouble. But if the Trump-GOP effort to expose the Democrats for what they’ve become works, then we’ll see a sold GOP majority…and that will cause a civil war among the Democrats.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 4, 2026 / 1:02 pm

        This is interesting, but it still lacks the power of an actual public analysis of the core structure of the Democrat Party. It’s still just Identity Politics. It’s still just emotion-based, a little temper tantrum exhibition of “I don’t like this guy any more”.

        If a victory for us is based on ignorance on the other side, I’ll take it, but I still think we will gain more if we start to force Democrats to skip over the high school popularity level of what they call “politics” and deal with the reality of their chosen political model.

        Once again, we as conservatives have managed to miss a great opportunity. We are all giddy about how long the fireworks will last, etc. but we have missed the chance to point out that the reason we have the fireworks, the reason we are talking about a big celebration, is to honor the decision to reject government by a Central Authority and place it in the hands of the people—and that the Democrat Party is the modern incarnation of the effort to move control of the government away from the citizens and back into a massively powerful Central Authority controlled by a few elites.

        That should be the underlying message of every mention of why we celebrate July 4. Unpack the Declaration of Independence. Examine the Constitution. It all started with rejection of central authority and putting the citizens in control of the government, and the Democrat Party is wholly focused on moving that power back to consolidating it in the hands of elites who then impose their power on the citizenry.

        We’ve had six months in this year to establish and repeat the message that we are celebrating not just a document but its underlying message that the nation must be governed by the people, not by a cabal of powerful elites—and that the sole underlying purpose of the Democrat Party is to return power to a central authority. It might not be identified these days as a monarchy, it might have hijacked the phrase “democracy” to hide its true identity, but its true agenda is to shift authority away from the few delegated responsibilities stated in the Constitution, to reject the restrictions explained in the 10th Amendment, and to shift power away from the states and the people and into the federal government.

        I like a good fireworks show as much as anyone, but to me it’s kind of like celebrating Christmas because of Santa Claus instead of focusing on the real meaning of the holiday.

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook July 3, 2026 / 12:43 pm

        and that will cause a civil war among the Democrats.

        I hope it’s the shooting kind. I hope Democrats figure out which end of the barrel the round comes out of, learn to shoot and kill each other off. That’s the best thing they could do for the future of mankind.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 4, 2026 / 1:03 pm

        I’m hoping a lot of the campaign material for the election will feature the comments by foreign visitors about their experiences here and their repeated observations that this is the greatest nation on earth.

  2. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook July 3, 2026 / 2:23 pm

    I wish I could be there. (hit-tip – Jeff Childers)

    But the centerpiece of the entire 250th celebration will be the fireworks show. Pyrotecnico, the company putting on the display, will launch more than 850,000 pyrotechnic effects from 10 launch sites — spanning the National Mall, West Potomac Park, and eight barges floating in the Potomac River — in a show lasting about 40 minutes. (Only 20,000 shells are normally launched in previous 4th of July shows.)

    40 minutes is double the length of a typical National Mall show and 50 times the usual shell count. Freedom 250 is aiming for a Guinness World Record (the current record was set in 2016 by a Christian megachurch in the Philippines that fired 810,904 fireworks in an hour). Tomorrow’s show will be visible across the entire D.C. region, and you can watch it on Freedom250.org’s livestream.

    In sum, tomorrow’s celebration in Washington is designed to be the most elaborate Fourth of July in American history — a full-day program of parades, military aviation, patriotic music, presidential remarks, and a fireworks show that organizers intend to literally set a world record, all set against the dramatic backdrop of the nation’s most iconic monuments.

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