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The Fourth and What It Isn’t

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It’ll be the 4th of July in a few weeks, so it’s a good time to talk about what it’s supposed to mark as opposed to what they want us to think it marks:

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38 COMMENTS

  1. At an interstate highway rest area my wife and I stopped at yesterday, the parking spot up front closest to the entrance was reserved for the state Highway Patrol, and another half dozen spots up front were reserved for VETERANS. The signs didn’t say whether that included veterans of the IDF.

  2. “As an 11 year old in 1976 I remember the Bicentennial like it was yesterday. A year long celebration of our history, rights, and traditions. What a glorious time to be alive”

    What Norm said..

    This was a BIG deal back in ’76

    A really nice place full of really cool people.. it used to be.

  3. As an 11 year old in 1976 I remember the Bicentennial like it was yesterday. A year long celebration of our history, rights, and traditions. What a glorious time to be alive.

    It felt like a great blessing being born in America. As opposed to some drab and dirty fly laden shit/hole in some turd world vomitorium. Through my young eyes America looked ascendent. All her roads, and her best days seems to stretch out before her. The reality of the thing was, her best days were probably already well behind her.

    The fourth of July means freedom and liberty. Calling it Fourth of July though is problematic. Somehow the most important holiday of the country has been turned into a simple number within a month. A respectful shout out to Confucius, and the calling of things by their proper name, the holiday should absolutely go back to Independence Day.

    The day, whatever it is called is supposed to be synonymous with freedom and liberty. Two things the founders got right, and were pretty adamant about. The freedom and liberty parts are given little consideration among the noise of the current thing. Over the years the day has been turned into less and less of a celebration than the year previous. Less of all the good things that remind us of the uniqueness of our history. The sentiment behind our great holiday is ebbing away.

    The day has become a superficial celebration of consumerism. And even that has faded as the years roll by. Less hotdogs, less beer, less scantily clad women waving flags and shooting guns. I no longer see the happiness I grew up with. BBQ, family, friends, time spent outside doing cool stuff. That world seems to have disappeared.

    Low life communist pieces of shit have captured our former Republic all without firing a shot. Still, we have much too be thankful for. We can rejoice foremost in the knowledge that we are NOT Ole Blighty. We can celebrate that our freedom is underwritten by a document which contains some of the wisest sentiments ever expressed by the collective mind of men, then transcribed from pen to parchment. There is no ambiguity in this for those of us who hold no ill will toward this country.

    The freedom to speak freely, no matter how mean spirited, reprehensible, vile, or deplorable the words may be, is the root of what fourth of July means to me. It is, after all the first amendment in the Bill of Rights. Being favored as first, one must imagine the men who wrote the document found this to be fundamentally important.

    Free speech no longer exists as intended by our countries founders. It is gone. In the fifty years since I first began to understand these traditions, we can now no longer speak freely. We are now regulated by low quality, petty gatekeepers under the guise of disinformation, tolerance, inclusion, and safe online spaces. Whatever TF those are.

    Through the mists of time, the genus of the men who wrote the document shows, even today. By searing the first two amendments of the Bill of Rights into the collective consciousness of the nation, they assured we would always retain some level of freedom. Imprinting this on the common man from the start, guaranteed liberty would reverberate for generations.

    It was a once in a millennium act. A unicorn of sorts, by serious, sane, and rational men, celebrating the idea of liberty. It is a tie that binds. A part of our common cultural heritage we all share. Ours is a country founded on a bloody and violent revolution. Could it be time for another one? I say it is entirely possible. We who remember are akin to the pilot light, waiting to be re-ignited once more in the minds of our countrymen. Viva America, long live Independence Day.

    • Morning, Norman!

      This was excellently said. Like you, I remember 1976 and what America was like at what was probably just shortly after its apogee – which I will say was July, 1969 (the year Apollo 11 launched). From that year onward, the slide began. But it was slow, at first so it was harder to discern. But it was gathering momentum. Still, it was a wonderful time to be alive and young. You and I and others who were fortunate enough to have experienced growing up before the Safety Cult and all the other mental illnesses percolated upward know just how fortunate we were. That time – that feral time – is gone now. I hear The Boys of Summer in my head. Henley was spot on.

      • Thanks Eric,

        Didn’t realize how nostalgic I could get when the indica is involved. Henley was spot on. Guess I should just let it go.

        • Hi Norman,

          Yup. If you haven’t heard it, Henley did an acoustic version of this song a few years ago live on Stern’s show. It’s a poignant bookend to the original.

          • Thats a superb version of that song. The piano makes a huge difference. Way, way better than when we saw him at State line, Nevada 20+ years ago. Thanks for that.

  4. The Fourth of July is a farce. We celebrate our revolutionary heritage when the colonists shot the King’s troops dead for trying to take their guns away. Now we have whores like Spanberger taking them away and we accept it.

    99% of Americans today would be Loyalists. The 1% (or less) who would be actually willing to do what the militias did at Lexington and Concord are “domestic terrorists.” Fusion centers and data centers and ALPERs and Flock have them triangulated 24-7. Every now and then the three-letter agencies fabricate some sort of entrapment scheme against a couple of them for propaganda purposes.

    The Leviathan federal government, the FIRE economy, the imperial presidency, militarized SWAT teams in MRAPs, and the ZOG military drone-striking hapless chumps in the desert makes George III and his Redcoats look positively benevolent by comparison.

    “Free country,” my ass. Americans were free from 1781-1860. They have been slaves ever since. They are kept quiescent, like the prison inmates they are, with junk food, sportsball and porn, while the Panopticon tracks their every move.

    Fuck the Fourth.

    The American Revolution was a one-off (almost miraculous) historical event, it will never be repeated. Not in this country, anyway.

    Like every country founded in revolution — France, China, the USSR, etc. — after the revolution is over the New Boss is the same as the Old Boss, and it is time to crack down on the uppity plebes and take their guns away.

    I won’t be celebrating the Fourth.

    Neither will Vicki Weaver.

  5. I found a second vote.gov — and it’s registered to the White House…But in the certificate logs, underneath the studio’s unannounced sites, was a working preview of vote.gov, built inside the studio’s staging environment, behind the same Cloudflare login, isolated deliberately. The certificate appeared on April 10, 2026. Weeks before that certificate appeared, this administration signed an executive order requiring DHS, the Social Security Administration, and the SAVE program to construct a federal citizenship-verified voter list, with a deadline of ninety days from signing. That deadline is weeks away. When the order was challenged in federal court, the Department of Justice told the judge the agencies named had not yet begun preparation and were still in the deliberation phase.

    The certificate is dated April 10. DOJ told a federal court the infrastructure does not exist. Both of those cannot be true. Either DOJ lied to a federal judge, or the studio is building a replacement for the country’s voter registration site without telling the agencies whose work it would replace. There is no third option.

    While I was finishing this piece, I typed passports.gov directly into my browser, just to see what was there. A sign-in page came up: enter your email and we will send you a six-digit code. No State Department seal. No agency name. No privacy notice. Just a black button that says Send code. The owner of passports.gov is the Executive Office of the President, White House Office. The State Department does not own this domain. The security contact field is blank. The first certificate was issued May 5, three weeks ago. Based on what I can see in the staging environment, the next step will ask Americans to upload their passport photo through a White House-controlled website, on the same Cloudflare account, by the same people, with no privacy notice on file. A passport photo is biometric quality. Linked to your identity through Login.gov. Collected through infrastructure the White House owns, sealed from public view. They are building it this week.

    “…What this office is doing is taking the parts of the federal government that touch you directly, your prescription, your voter registration, your passport, your federal login, out of the agencies that legally own them and rebuilding them on White House infrastructure. Vote.gov belongs to the Election Assistance Commission, and the studio built a copy. Passports belong to the State Department, and the studio is building a replacement this week. Login.gov belonged to GSA, and the studio’s guy runs it now.

    Trump has said publicly that this infrastructure is for other presidents, and he is right about that. It is the one thing in this story I take him at his word on. The infrastructure outlasts him. Whoever wins in 2028 inherits the websites, the vendors, the data, and the hardware, sealed and waiting.

    “There is a gold three-dimensional eagle on the homepage of TrumpRx, clutching a ribbon in its talons. You are looking at the eagle. Something is being built underneath the government you think you have, on infrastructure you cannot see, by people who answer to no one, collecting everything.”
    https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

    • All the better reason to Just Say No to voting going forward. It will change absolutely nothing and if one needs to upload biometrics to do so NO FUCKING THANKS.

      The Orange Douche is the Trojan Horse to herd “conservatives” into the digital prison. The SAVE act so many of the bleat about as being necessary to stop “voter fraud” is the instrument of their destruction. Honestly, it will be hard to muster any sympathy for that level of gullibility.

  6. in july 4th marks the 250th anniversary of the creation
    of13 unique countries which were called states at the time

    The United States had a temporary, informal central government in 1776 known as the Second Continental Congress. The United States officially established its first central government on March 1, 1781, when the Articles of Confederation were fully ratified by the states.

    Because this initial system proved too weak, the modern, powerful federal government officially began operating under the U.S. Constitution on March 4, 1789.

    • “Because this initial system proved too weak. . .” -Richard Greene

      Yup, that’s the narrative we’re fed from elementary school on. You’re a good soldier parroting this through adulthood. “Too weak” for what? The fact is the Articles of Confederation would not allow the well connected to control the populace and create an empire. The constitutional convention was a coup. I never agreed to it and the Articles were never actually dissolved. That said, I have to admit the subsequently-ratified Bill of Rights has been a very helpful bulwark.

  7. This is for, Steve, and all those who oppose the two state solution @23:20 latest Iranian lego video on the World Cup @ 24:43 “FOR HIND” @25:27 “SUMUD” (“steadfastness,” “resilience,” or “stayers”. Rooted in the Arabic verb samada—meaning to brave, defy, or withstand—it represents a steadfast, defiant perseverance in the face of oppression.” As in “The Global Sumud Flotilla is an international movement of coordinated, nonviolent action, by land, sea and across borders, working to end Israel’s illegal siege.”)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqHfKebFrO8

  8. Ah, the Fourth Of July! Time once again to go shit on the graves of those cargsuckin mercenary pricks who took up arms against people whom they didn’t know, nor who had ever done them or theirs any harm, all in the name of serving those who enslave us. Take the lives of innocents and even sacrifice your own so that the tyrants can have even more power and extend their tentacles around the world instead of merely our own country. I have to start eating for the occasion so that a signatory few recipients of the Hershey Piece[sic] Prize will receive their well-deserved steamers.

  9. It is called the “4th of Jew lie” for a very good reason. US Amerikans will falsely celebrate the “patriotic wars” like WW2, for freedom when in fact the wars were fought for Jews.

    FDR was a Jew who got us into WW2 to help the Jewish banksters defeat Germany.

    The Iraq wars were fought based on the 9-11-2001 false flag. No A-rabs were even involved, it was a Israeli job all the way. The A-rabs were the patsies. This means the Iraq wars were not patriotic, the US armed forces were used like toilet paper for Israel.

    So, all these 4th of July parades are lies supporting the dominance of Israel over Amerika.

    It is time to wake up and smell the Gelfite fish stinking our nation to the heavens.

    • Seems like just yesterday that Donnie Fubar was saying he’d sign a deal with Iran in two or three days. Obviously his patience has worn out:

      ‘The U.S. military said Tuesday it has begun strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic.

      ‘The helicopter went down after ‘colliding’ [sic, LOL] with an Iranian drone, according to a U.S. official. It wasn’t clear whether the collision was intentional, and official statements only said the crash is under investigation.’

      https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-updates-06-09-2026

      Feelin’ good about having filled my tank at a rapacious $4.59/gal this afternoon.

      • Jim – all the Orange man talk of a deal is utter rubbish, Iran is not even talking to Trump, Trump is gas lighting you if you believe it. Trump is a liar. He just makes shit up. He is telling everyone a story of negotiations when there are none going on.

        Nearly everyday Iran even officially says no negotiations are happening. All these journalist crowd around Trump and ask about negotiations when it is only a false narrative.

      • So Iran strikes a legitimate military target (a helicopter that got too close-if it was even struck by Iran and didn’t just crash due to incompetence) gives the Orange Turd a reason to get his panties in a bunch and lash out indiscriminately. I am just so sick to death of this occupied country and the USA! USA! military worship of a certain segment of its citizens. This is nothing new but in the last 25 years reached insanity levels.

        I have reached the point of no return. Fuck the 4th.

    • If you want a read how far gone Amerika is, look no further than the current President who associates 100% support for Israel as ultra patriotism. On Trump’s Truth Social page, his avatar is his fat orange face draped in the American flag colors.

      Only the most stupid Christians and Magatardturds would think fighting wars as a slave class for Israel is patriotic. Israel attacked the USS Liberty and tried to kill all onboard. Israel did 911 and got the US fighting it’s enemies in the M.E. Israel is a threat to us, Israel could cause the end of our nation. Supporting Israel is not patriotic, it is not just really dumb, it is a deadly mistake – yet it is happening because of widespread belief in the Jew Holy Babble.

      • At one time, I sported vanity license plates which read: SEA SEED
        I still have the actual CA plates, but no longer wish to display anything which will make my vehicle stand out from the crowd. That includes bumper stickers.

  10. July 4, 1776 was a case of colonies seceding from their home country master.

    Never did the Founders imagine their fledgling thirteen sovereign states — which Lincoln bludgeoned into a single, hideous United State — getting subverted and assimilated into a distant west Asian colony, barely the size and population of New Jersey.

    But here’s how our dismal plight looks 250 years later, to three different political factions:

    https://tinyurl.com/ekhs3npk

    Celebrate the Fourth of July: tell a vet returning from defending Israel, ‘Fuck you for your disservice — remember the USS Liberty, traitor.

    • Please prepare for a solemn Fourth of July bris:

      ‘In order to integrate the US and Israeli militaries completely, all military men who haven’t been circumcised will need to go under the knife or be dishonorably discharged. Only then will the two nations be truly joined at the foreskin, albeit a smaller one.

      ‘Scott Bessent has already been appointed chief of the new Federal Bureau of Foreskin Removal (FBFR) with Marco Rubio the undersecretary. In an unexpected bipartisan appointment, Pete Buttigieg has been appointed chief quality inspector.

      ‘Trump has announced that instead of cutting a ribbon to open the new headquarters building, he will cut the foreskin of a high ranking official, whose name is to be announced.’ — anonymous [598] @ unz.com

      All well and good — but who’s the rebbe who will do the cocksucking kikesucking? Or will Donnie repeat the homoerotic stunt he performed on Bill Clinton at Jeffrey Epstein’s soirée, now that he’s joined Chabad?

      • There’s a Jewish boy named Cohen in Mobile
        There’s a Jewish boy named Cohen in Mobile
        There’s a Jewish boy named Cohen
        To the Christian church he’s goin’
        Since his foreskin started growin’
        In Mobile

    • As a vet myself you would never catch me dead in a parade, because I am fully aware how I was duped by church and state to foolishly be used as a pawn in wars for Jewish domination.

      At no time in my Catholic upbringing, 12 years of Catholic school, did a single nun or priest inform me that the Jews were the deadly threat to our freedom.

      At no time in my 10 years in the USAF did a single officer, enlisted, or any course material ever inform me that Israel is the #1 threat to the USA and the Republic and Constitution.

      I have learned, on my own, that the peoples of the United States are dumb as rocks, unable to figure out such a simple thing of who the real enemy is, unable to process information like 911 was an Israeli job, the the Holy Bible is a Jewish hoax, that the Holocaust is another Jewish hoax.

      On my own I figured out that fat bastard John Hagee and all the Presidents since JFK are in on the Jew scam. Not a damn thing to celebrate on the Fourth of Jew LIES.

      • Hi Jack,

        It’s not so much that they (Americans) are stupid. It is that they are stunted. The difference is important. A stupid person is born that way; it cannot be helped. A stunted person is made that way – as by the government’s schools. Their purpose is to cripple a kid’s ability to think so that he never develops the capacity. There are lots of very smart people who cannot think. I learned this early on.

        • They/we are in fact INNOCENT, like children. Most fail to understand, most fail to question the things they were taught by family, church, school, when they had no basis to reason from.

          It is a journey of a lifetime to overcome that programming and stop seeing things through a simple pre-provided lens. Most don’t ever start that journey.

          Hating Trump or trashing veterans is a simple answer.

          I will celebrate independence day for what I believe in, not for propaganda. I will stand for the flag but not salute it to honor all those who sacrificed for an ideal. Though I prefer the Gadsden flag or the battle flag of the confederacy.

        • Guam will tipover and capsize

          “U.S. Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) made the statement that the island of Guam might “tip over and capsize” during a congressional hearing on March 25, 2010.The incident took place during a House Armed Services Committee hearing concerning the military budget and a proposed buildup of U.S. forces on the Pacific island.

  11. Unlike Mike in Boston and Swamprat, although Trump is a weeping pustule on the ass of our country, he’s the natural progression to which we’ve been heading since the Articles of Confederation were trashed and replaced by Hamilton’s Revenge, aka the Constitution.

    I wish I had the answer but, so long as you have an institution, GovCo, that is a perfect instrument for sociopaths, authoritarians and tyrants this is what you get.

  12. July 4th is a national day of mourning as far as I’m concerned, maybe crack open a beer and reflect upon everything we’ve lost in my 78 years here. The only thing worth celebrating will be when Treasonous Trump exits the living, preferably by hanging for treason, but even that is too much to hope for.

  13. it’s quite interesting that no one is really even talking about the “democracy” being 250 years old.

    Trump has ruined any sense of national unity and purpose. Many presidents have, but this guy is particularly egregous.

    • Democracy, mob rule, communism, are thousands of years old. The USA was carefully designed to defend against democracy.

      It didn’t work, the only defense against democracy that man has come up with is private ownership, which involves nobility/ruling kings. A king who has a proprietary interest in his kingdom wont betray or destroy it

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