Sunday, July 5, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Spent Sparklers and Fireworks

Bob Spencer at PJM thinks Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Outrages the Media Like Nothing Since the Days of Reagan. Wrong, they're way more outraged by everything and anything Trump does since he beat their anointed one, Hillary. I remember back to the days of Reagan; they were nasty, but not this nasty. Sundance hosts Secretary Rubio: “250 Years of America” “America has never been merely a proposition. It has always been a very real and living civilization. A unique and distinctive people, unlike any nation or people in the history of the world.” And Happy 250th Birthday America from the White House. At Data Republicans substack, On Our 250th Anniversary: The History Jefferson Warned Us Not to Forget "A Fourth of July reflection on what every American should study." History, especially the parts they don't want you to know. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, 'The Enemy of 1776': Trump Celebrates America 250 While Rebuking Mamdani. At No Pasaran! Trump's Outstanding Speech for America at 250: "Communism is an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder—It is the Enemy of July 4th, 1776."

Hat Hair cites CBS, A Look at 'the Good Stuff' About America. Maybe Bari Weiss is having some effect! BostonWriter@bostonwriter, "If this sort of thing doesn’t stop you in your tracks and make even the slightest twinge of pride rise in your soul… well… I feel sorry for you."

Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "Happy 4th of July, SPLC." Quote Mitchell Miller @mmillerwtop, "A group of masked men gathered at Union Station today and called for reclaiming the country and getting rid of immigrants. Some held Confederate flags. They have been marching across Capitol Hill."Steve Guest @SteveGuest, "Can’t wait to find out which left wing NGO is footing the bill for this nonsense." Quote philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_ "Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr" Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre, "Which woman was safer on the metro?" The black women between the PFers, or Iryna Zarutska? "Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch, "I just think it’s funny that the “Patriot Front” jabroneys are too embarrassed to show their faces carrying the American flag. Not very patriotic. Likewise, it’s funny that people who call themselves American patriots carry flags for a cause that sought to destroy America. But, hey, if they want to march in equatorial heat to be mocked by pretty much everyone that’s cool. I just don’t think they’ve thought through any of this very well." Quote Mitchell Miller @mmillerwtop, "The group marched away from Union Station, carrying various flags, including Confederate flags." Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "I’m entirely in favor of a law making wearing a mask in public without a documented medical reason a misdemeanor and believe such a law would have broad bi-partisan support. I want these guys unmasked as much as I want Antifa unmasked, no one ever wore a mask like this to do good. I want to know who they are as well, and who is paying for the 'uniforms.'

From Twitchy, 'You Showed Us EXACTLY Who You Are'! Zohran Mamdani Tries Again and NOBODY Is Buying It. Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "So Mamdani is now trying to clean up after himself following that horrifically hateful speech he gave. Yet he still cannot help himself. Even on his best behavior, with an army of advisors undoubtedly telling him not to further besmirch America on the Fourth of July, he still cannot resist dwelling on America’s flaws. ..." Quote Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor, "Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then. ... Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it." David Burge @iowahawkblog, "America is exceptional because the people who bitch about it the loudest refuse to leave." Nick Arama at RedState thinks Elon Decimates Mamdani's America 250 Speech With 1 Simple Fact - Then DeSantis Drops in Off the Top Rope. Elon Musk @elonmusk, "Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker." Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "NOW: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis NAILS IT PERFECTLY "When I see the Mamdanis of the world, they're basically offering these ideas, they claim they're progressive. They're really REGRESSIVE. These are things that the founding fathers REJECTED!" "Their ideas have FAILED throughout history. And we have a chance now with 250 to look back and say — we're inheritors of an awfully GOOD legacy. We got LUCKY to have founding fathers pledge their lives, fortune and sacred honor the way they did when they did it!"" Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug, "Turns out like all communists, Zohran lies and demands the people sacrifice while he is blasting the A/C in his office." Young Americans for Liberty @YALiberty, "Mamdani demands the peasants turn their thermostats to 78, cracks the A/C at City Hall to 63. Rules for thee, not for me! An absolute commie classic."New York Post @nypost, "Mandani's wife Rama Duwaji ditches America 250 bash for Islamic 'spiritual wellness' retreat in Spain https://trib.al/ehm1Vuk." TownHall's Scott McLallen reports Ellison's Independence Day Video Sparks Backlash Amid Pardon Scandal. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Minnesota AG Keith Ellison shares a message for 4th of July suggesting we import millions more foreigners and grant them citizenship This comes just says after he pardoned a foreign child rapist to shield him from deportation." James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames, "Amazing." Quote political jew @PoliticalJewTT, "David Duke, the former KKK Grand Wizard, has now endorsed Ilhan Omar, Zohran Mamdani and Darializa Avila Chevalier. No, this is not a joke."

Matt Margolis at PJM asks if you Need Another Reason to Loathe Michelle Obama? I can't say I really loathe her; I don't think about her all that much. Hannah Knudsen at Flopping Aces likes hos America 250 Exposed the Democrats: They Want to Rule a Country They Don’t Love. At Am Great, Roger Kimball tells a A Tale of Two Countries. "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." RazörFist @RazorFist, "Communism isn't popular. Never has been. Hence all Communist revolutions are spearheaded by a small number of academic elites, while the underlings—the ones who invariably perish in such a revolt—must be manipulated into participating with some other pet issue." Quote Count of Andria @RaymondBerengar Replying to @RazorFist, "The problem we have today is that, as ever, Communism is really, really popular... before it's implemented. You would think people would learn from history, but I can assure you, they don't." Steve Moore at Hat Hair tells us What England Can Teach Us About 'Democratic Socialism'. It's not democratic and it makes the common people lives worse.


Don Surber asserts Girls sports is for girls only, "5 middle school girls helped convince the Supreme Court to stop the transgender madness" while still allowing it, if that's what a state decides.

Althouse is amused by the usual suspects whinging about how bad July 4 celebrations are, now that Trump is in office, "Fireworks release tiny particles that can irritate lungs and trigger asthma attacks, along with gases like carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide..." "... and sulfur dioxide and metals including aluminum, manganese and cadmium, according to the American Lung Association. Even Freedom 250, the Trump-backed group that helped organize the event, acknowledged on its website that 'air quality will decline' and visibility 'may become compromised.'" and "Visitors in red, white and blue darkened with sweat stood in lines for hours, sometimes screaming in frustration and other times collapsing from exhaustion." ""The Independence Day parade was canceled and the Great American State Fair delayed. Steel fences and closed roads made photos of iconic monuments hard to capture. Both white supremacists and liberal activists marched through the city, each demanding their country back...." I'm reading "America’s 250th celebrations marked by severe weather, political division/Officials ordered thousands of people to evacuate the National Mall after a severe weather warning that delayed President Donald Trump’s speech." That's in The Washington Post (not the NYT, as I'd accidentally had written)." Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth, "A special Happy 4th of July shout out to the patriots at @JimmysSeafood who expanded their business this year by telling anti-American trash to go fuck themselves. This was one of my favorite X moments ever…"

Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "Finally, scientific backing to my long held belief that the Spanish aren’t real Europeans."

Hat Hair's John Sexton reports the NY Times Defends Organizer of 'Muslims Only' Swim Party. Some pigs are more equal than others.

At Twitchy, Variety: Rob Reiner Gets the 'Last Laugh' Against Trump With Secret Final Role. Sadly that may be his lasting legacy.

Hat Hair's Beege Welborn is laughing as Merriam-Webster - Yes, the Dictionary People - Dunk on the British: Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster, "Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776."

Stacy McCain discusses Our Patriotic Duty to Fill the Sky with fireworks. I hope his went off better than ours. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Slowly I Turn up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.
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