Today, we remember a legend.
On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.
Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.
He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.
Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.
Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸
May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.
Long before your return to the presidency was ascendant, long before the betting markets were in your favor, there was one impediment that stood in your way. We all knew that J6 was a set-up. But we couldn't prove it to the liking of the establishment and donor class that was terrified to support you because of the public perception that you were an "insurrectionist." Tucker Carlson put his career on the line - and lost it - to take the J6 Tapes to prime time, against the wishes of the Fox News executives who put his head on a platter for it.
Alex Jones was one of the first voices to support you, back when the rest of us thought it was another one of his insane hot takes. But like so many of Alex's insane hot-takes, he turned out to be right. And so many of us, back then, were wrong. And since the beginning, he has served as your High Priest and Intermediary to America's Far Right, your most faithful subject. He became the target of the same Deep State and Intelligence apparatus that went after you. The same railroad they tied you to, they tied him. The same way, with junk lawsuits in which "the process is the punishment" meant to bankrupt him, shame him, and silence him. I don't have to convince you how that system works. You know. Personally.
Megyn Kelly did something that no other self-actualized, glass-ceiling-shattering "boss-babe" would ever do. And that is, despite vulgar attacks and an unnecessary feud of your making, she rose above personal attacks and supported you irrespective of personal disrespect. She could've been the Queen of Crossover Feminists, and had the Left's media apparatus ready to crown her head with a lifetime of media deals if she capitalized on that attention by returning her injury and insult into cold, hard cash. She turned it all down to support you. And support you, she has, out of nothing but the sheer, immovable power of her personal integrity.
None of these people who you've just attempted to savage needed the establishment media. None of them have "lost jobs" as though they had to rent their platforms. They made their own, survived the gauntlet of Beltway Journalism, and proved that they don't have to have a Network to have a following. They are all the New Media. They're the New Media who got you elected when the Establishment Media - Fox News included - gave you the cold, hard shaft. They didn't lose their audience. They gained followers. They built their own platforms by the sweat of their own brow and sheer tenacity of their will, the same way you built skyscrapers. Except they didn't borrow to do it. They paid as they went, out of their own pockets and by the currency of their reputation as people who tell the truth. And it's rewarded them well.
They didn't "turn on you." You turned on them, on all of us, and on yourself. You stabbed MAGA in the back. And now, your biggest supporters are the Washington parasitical filth who held their noses in your presence and sulked at your successes. That is, until you threw in your lot with them, against us. You went into the swamp to drain it. And it has swallowed you. You went to slay Leviathan, and have come back as its pet.
Two things make a man respectable. The first is telling the truth. We recognize your values were formed in Manhattan, and aren't exactly the same as ours. We know you cross lines we wouldn't in the truth-telling department. But until now, we could rationalize it all away by just saying, "It's a part of his negotiation." Or, "Deceit is acceptable in war." God knows, you've been in it. But this is different. You've now lied to US.
But the second thing that makes a man respectable is loyalty to the people who are loyal to him. And that's where you've made a tragic mistake in how you've treated these people, and more, like MTG. Each one of them has disagreed with your decision to break your promises to us. But they've all been loyal to you, even though your pride won't let you see it. They've prayed for your success, vouched for your accomplishments, and kept the wolves off your back day-in, day-out, despite their disagreements. And each one can look you in the eye and ask you the same question as the Apostle Paul, "Have I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?"
Turn back, Mr. President. While you can. Because right now, you act as though you can usurp the authority of God, and God will not be mocked. He's cast down kings before, and the writing is on the wall.
Mene. Mene. Tekel. Parsin.
Numbered. Numbered. Divided. Conquered.
As always I only support military action anywhere, in any context, if it directly serves the interests of American citizens. It’s troubling that the arguments we’re hearing for this war in Iran, including from Trump himself, seem to revolve primarily around “bringing freedom to the Iranian people.” As Americans, the freedom of Iranians is not our responsibility. If a single American life is lost in the service of that goal, it will be a travesty.
What nobody has even come close to sufficiently explaining is how this war will first and foremost directly benefit American citizens. That is a case that needed to have been made clearly and convincingly before this move, and it wasn’t. We’re also told how this will benefit Israel, and I’m sure it will. But Israel is not America. What does it do for America? How does it help us? That needs to be explained to us. And it isn’t “panicking” or demonstrating “disloyalty” to demand those very basic answers about how American tax money, and potentially American lives, are being spent.
We hear about the danger of a nuclear Iran, but that’s odd because we were told that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had already been set back decades. We hear that this war will be over quickly and easily because Iran is powerless, which I hope and pray is the case, and maybe it will be. But that’s odd, too, because if Iran is such a paper tiger then how were they a danger to us in the first place? It seems hard to argue both that Iran is an existential threat to the United States and that we can topple them in 20 minutes with no casualties or negative downstream effects.
Also the political calculation really matters here. A huge majority of American oppose this. That’s just a fact. If it costs Republicans in 26 and 28, then, no matter how things work out in Iran, it will not have been worth it. A free Iran at the cost of Democrat rule here at home is a bad deal. A free Iran for an unfree America would be just about the worst trade of the century.
I’m praying for our great country today.
Never appoint an ambassador who will go native. Arguing theology on social media against the local Christian church leaders to advance divine right claims of another country to the land is not whatsoever within the scope of the role of an ambassador.
Did Charlie Kirk’s assassin act alone?
Did Thomas Crook not have a social media footprint?
Did Brian Cole Jr. act alone, if he was involved at all?
Did Epstein kill himself?
Going after critics is not a sign of victory. It’s a sign of weakness and failure.
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The Middle Ground is Now a Killing Field
The Left has killed the last person interested in good-faith debate. The free marketplace of ideas is now closed.
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