The entire National Mall fireworks show in about a minute, seen from the webcam at the top of the Washington Monument starting with the B1 Lancer flyover.
Tulsi Gabbard just described the actual operating system of Washington and it’s somehow even dumber and more insulting than the conspiracy versions.
She needed one printed document for a 10 a.m. Oval Office meeting with the President. A mid-level staffer ... detailed from another agency ... decided he didn’t like what was on it, printed it anyway, then locked it in his desk and refused to hand it over. Her chief of staff went down. Her general counsel went down. Both got told to pound sand until the guy’s real boss at his home agency finally gave permission.
That’s the “deep state.” Not some secret society in a basement. Just some nobody with a desk drawer and a God complex who genuinely believed his personal veto outranked the Director of National Intelligence and the elected President of the United States.
This is what Gabbard means when she says they “thrive in the gaps between elections.” The voters pick a direction every four years. The permanent class decides which parts of that direction are even allowed to reach the Resolute Desk. They control the files. They control the information flow. And they’ve been doing it across administrations for decades because the only thing they actually answer to is each other.
The rest of us are just supposed to pretend the elections are real while these people quietly decide what the winner is permitted to know and act on.
Watch her whole speech if you want the full savage version. But the core truth is brutally simple: America votes. Then the people nobody voted for decide what happens next.
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History is more than just the documentation of events.
It is a reminder of heritage, identity, and the sacrifices made by the forefathers of a civilization to create a better world for their children and children’s children to live in.
The practice of honoring such history, even if it isn’t your own, is one that allows for the understanding of greatness and the value of sacrifice to permeate your being.
Of course, history will also show that humanity has always made mistakes, and that humanity will likely continue to do so.
Nevertheless, you mustn’t loathe nor be ashamed of those mistakes; instead you are to learn from them, in order to avoid their repetition.
The loathing of one’s own history and the desire to forget it become the source of immense internal and external turmoil that, if allowed to continue and spread, can decimate a civilization.
This is why the keeping and remembrance of history’s greatest moments is important, for a civilization must never forget what it is and what it stands for.
Props to @SecDuffy for launching investigations into these dangerous, reckless practices. It's simply astonishing that the IL SOS office gave truck drivers licenses to these individuals:
These non-citizens, many of whom don't speak or understand English, now sit behind the wheel of 80,000 pound trucks on our highways. The audit found that CDLs were issued to noncitizens who did not even identify a country of origin.
Another illegal immigrant with a state-issued commercial drivers license killed a PA state trooper last week.
A reminder that the Illinois Secretary of State has issued at least 10,000 non-domiciled CDLs since 2023. A DOT audit found at least one in five did not meet federal guidance--meaning they were illegally issued.
Only a matter of time before a similar tragedy happens here.
🇺🇸 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: The United States of America has broken the WORLD RECORD for the largest fireworks show in HISTORY
"BEST FIREWORKS SHOW, EVER! President DJT"
47 and Melania were spotted watching the ENTIRE THING with patriots on the National Mall all the way up to the end
850,000 SHELLS. Last year's DC 4th of July show was a mere 20,000
GOD BLESS THIS AMAZING COUNTRY! 🇺🇸
🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Johnson has just informed Sen. Mike Lee the SAVE America Act *WILL* be forced into the base text of the NDAA, which puts massive pressure on the Senate to pass it once the House sends it over
GREAT NEWS! Thank you MAGA Mike!
MIKE LEE: "He assured me that MIRV process will guarantee the two bills are merged and received in the Senate as one bill, with the SAVE America Act in the base text."
"@SpeakerJohnson is as committed as ever to ensuring it becomes law, including keeping it on the NDAA (a “must pass” bill) as it comes over from the House to the Senate, and fighting for it thereafter."
All hands on deck for secure elections 🇺🇸
@BasedMikeLee
President Trump posted this today… consider the context, the timing… and that Big Beautiful Golden Eagle he posted on the White House
I have a feeling… we’re in for quite a few surprises July 4 and beyond…
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🔥🚨 AMERICA! — A spectacular display featuring 2,500 drones illuminated the sky over North Richland Hills, Texas, as part of early celebrations for America’s 250th birthday.
The patriotic show created stunning images of a rocket, a bald eagle, and George Washington, giving local families an impressive preview of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The Washington Monument will once again be lit up from July 1–5. 🇺🇸
Back by popular demand, it's one of many @Freedom250 celebrations on the @NationalMallNPS this week as America turns 250.
America’s illegal immigrant population increased by at least 4,900% and our national debt increased by 11,000% in the last 50 years.
Immigration is everything.
🚨 THE COLLEGE BRAINWASHING MACHINE IS PRODUCING SOCIALIST VOTERS
Highly educated elites and wealthy limousine liberals are the fuel behind this DSA surge.
They sat in fancy classrooms never learning what real communism actually delivers, poverty, tyranny, starvation, and failure everywhere it’s been tried.
Instead, they get Marxist professors pushing “equity,” open borders, and “eat the rich” while those same elites fly private and hoard wealth.
Meanwhile, working Americans see the results: skyrocketing costs, crime, and chaos in blue cities run by these ideas.
Colleges aren’t educating, they’re indoctrinating. Time to defund the radical factories and teach real American history again.
Today's birthright citizenship ruling by the Supreme Court is the most egregious, lawless violation of our most crucial sovereign power as American citizens:
To determine who becomes one of us.
There is no chance in hell we fought a civil war and enacted the 14th amendment to give birthright citizenship to the kids of birth tourists, terrorists, human traffickers, temporary visitors, and other illegals.
After today's abomination of a ruling, Chinese birth tourists can simply give birth to their kids in America, immediately return to China, never step foot in America again, mail in from China their kids' ballots into American elections when they turn 18, and collect social security and other benefits of American citizenship the rest of their lives.
Ask this dispositive question:
If American Indians didn't have birthright citizenship under the 14th amendment, how the hell do Chinese birth tourists?
They simply don't.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who auditioned as the next Scalia, shamefully put their vanity over our country.
This is the ultimate betrayal.
Chinese birth tourists fly in, have a baby, fly home, and never come back.
That child gets a Social Security number and gets to vote.
It will mail ballots from China.
It will collect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
All the benefits with none of the allegiance.
That is not what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended.
They wrote it to give citizenship to the children of freed slaves. Not to hand it out to the world.
Thanks for having me, @AndrewKolvet.