Francesca

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

I wanted to sit with the Mamdani July 4th comments for a while before reacting to them.

I think here is my ultimate problem: (And it's not a perfect metaphor, but I think it's a basically accurate one) An immigrant-- especially one who comes from neither a European nor a Christian background like Mamdani, has to come to America like a new Christian comes to Christ.

You make your spiritual breakthrough when you understand that you are bringing nothing to the party. It's not "Jesus+my awesome works"-- it's just Jesus-- he already did everything. You just need to show up and honor him.

Nothing in the background of someone like Mamdani contributed in a meaningful way to the building of America from a small set of colonies hugging the Eastern seaboard to the greatest and most powerful nation the world has ever seen. That's not a moral or personal flaw of Mamdani's. But it is what it is.

My family has been here since the mid-to-late 19th century-- far less time than some and with far less distinguished contributions than others-- but enough time to have contributed to a meaningful way to the building of modern America.

I still absolutely "didn't build that" myself but I'm the rightful inheritor of some of those who did. Mamdani is demanding to share in and even define my inheritance--an inheritance that just doesn't belong to him.

Mamdani's been a citizen for less than a decade. He has nothing to add to the understanding of America. His job right now is just to show up and honor it-- not to formulate new doctrines about it's meaning.

In a few generations, his story and the story of his family may well be part of a new American story-- but he's not there yet, and there are no shortcuts to getting there. That's hard-- personally and on the ego. And not too many immigrants are capable of it-- which is why we need a closed border right now. But in theory, I can welcome someone from any background capable of accomplishing that very difficult task.

As Stephen Tonsor once memorably said in a different context:

"It is splendid when the town whore gets religion and joins the church. Now and then she makes a good choir director, but when she begins to tell the minister what he ought to say in his Sunday sermons, matters have been carried too far.”

Mamdani hasn't even joined the church yet.

And he's trying to tell the pastor what to say in his Sunday sermons.

And that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A German soccer fan who flew to the USA but was fearful about coming because of news about criminals and people being mean...

...breaks down into TEARS, live on air saying he has FALLEN IN LOVE with America after a random man named "Bob" in Boston gave him a ride home after he was stuck at a game with no way back to his hotel

The German soccer fan's name is Sebastian, he said after meeting Bob, he extended his entire trip.

He said leaving America will hurt worse than watching Germany get knocked out of the World Cup.

"I fall in love with America. I'm sorry, it's just so emotional. Americans are not rude... if we are together, we can achieve great things."

THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

My mother still cries about it.

Forty years later, she'll be sitting at the table, and her eyes will fill, and she says the same words she's said my whole life: "We had everything. We lost it all. And we couldn't give you children anything."

Mom, I have told you a thousand times — and I will tell you a thousand more. You gave me the greatest gift a parent can ever give a child. You gave me America. Nothing else matters. Nothing else even comes close.

Let me tell you what she means.
In Iran, we did have everything. My father spent thirty years helping build a nation — its cities, its schools, its roads, its hospitals. We belonged to a Jewish community that had lived on Persian soil for 2,700 years. We had a home, a history, a name that meant something.
And then, almost overnight, we had a target on our backs. Bullets cracked over our roof. Cars burned in our street. My father became a hunted man for two unforgivable crimes: he had served his country, and he was a Jew.

So he did the only thing a father can do. He sold everything we owned for whatever he could get, gathered his wife, his mother, and his four little boys, and he ran. Thirty years of a man's life's work — surrendered at the door, in exchange for our lives.

We were the lucky ones. That community was once a hundred thousand souls. Most never got out with what we did. Some never got out at all.

We carried away only what no regime could confiscate — our faith, our language, our poetry, and each other. And after a few years finding our footing, we came here. To America. To the one country on earth that looked at a family fleeing a regime that hated it… and opened its arms anyway.

We arrived with empty hands. And that is the wound my mother has never let go of — that after all they'd had, they gave us nothing.

But Mom, you don't understand what you gave me.

You gave me a country where I could pray out loud without fear. Where I could speak my mind. Where a penniless refugee kid could become a physician, a scientist, an author — where the only ceiling was how hard I was willing to work. You didn't hand me an inheritance. You handed me something no fortune in Iran could ever have bought: the freedom to build a life without looking over my shoulder.

That is a love only an exile understands. Not the calm, comfortable patriotism of someone born into safety — but the fierce, protective, almost desperate love of someone who has watched a homeland turn on its own people and knows, in his bones, how quickly it can all be taken away.

And that is exactly why I will never stay silent.

When you have watched a revolution promise heaven and deliver a prison — when you've seen radical Islamists and the intoxicating lies of socialism hollow out a great nation from the inside until it devours its own children — you do not take a single hour of American freedom for granted. And you carry one holy fear: watching it happen again.

I did not flee that fire to sit quietly while anyone strikes the same match under the country that saved my family. You do not escape the thing that destroyed your first home only to welcome it into your second. I love America too much — and I remember far too much — to let that happen without a fight.

So I spend my life trying to be worthy of the gift. Through medicine. Through science. Through my words. By defending the freedoms that saved us — free speech, free thought, the God-given right to choose — with everything I have. This country once invested in me with no expectation of return, only trust. I have been repaying that trust every day since, and I will until my last breath.

So this is my answer, Mom.

You did not send me into the world with empty hands. You placed in them the freest, most generous, most extraordinary nation in the history of mankind.

You gave me America.

And I will spend the rest of my life proving it was more than enough.
Happy 250th Birthday. 🇺🇸

God bless the United States of America. 🗽

#ModehAni

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

I’m 70 years old. My father was US Air Force. So was I. We’ve been fighting our nations wars for 60 years.

Mamdani immigrated here and became a legal US citizen in 2018.

How dare a communist Ugandan lecture ME on what it means to be an American! He has no clue and he’s destroying NYC. He’s trying to destroy America.

My pissed off meter just maxed. Circuit breakers are popping,

Eff off, @NYCMayor. You’re in way over your head “American.”

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

You can call me any name you want.

I just want my children to grow up in a country that they recognize.

Every parent & grandparent needs to read this.

[Francesca @Francesca082424]

@nypost @mkolken He’s a Pelosi. They’re exempt from following the law!

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

Former Democrat staffer for Elizabeth Warren, Calla Walsh, attends Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral in Tehran, declaring him to be the greatest leader of her life.

[Summer @EclipeByDeath]

This is what the Supreme Court just did.

Hospitals in border states are now openly advertising “birth packages” to people in Latin America — up to $5,000 — so foreigners can fly in, give birth here, and secure U.S. citizenship for their child.

Meanwhile, Stephen Miller called the SCOTUS ruling exactly what it is:

“This is absolutely a deep knife wound in the heart of the American republic. There is no possible reading of the 14th Amendment that applies to foreigners with foreign loyalties, foreign citizenship, foreign obligations, foreign everything. If your ruling requires you to suicide your civilization, your reading of the Constitution is wrong.”

They just made American citizenship something you can buy with a plane ticket and a hospital stay.

This is how you destroy a country from the inside — one anchor baby at a time.

[Francesca @Francesca082424]

@visegrad24 Why doesn’t he pray for people to not try to skirt the law?

[Francesca @Francesca082424]

@JessicaTarlov For all your faults, we change the channel when you’re on any program!

[Francesca @Francesca082424]

@jacktronprime @JessicaTarlov Nor will I

[Francesca @Francesca082424]

@JessicaTarlov @Logically_JC So that’s two people!

[Francesca @Francesca082424]

@khnh80044 Pure love!

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

Lincoln is the best part of this …

MERICA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

What an absolute joke this guy is. A clown.

[Francesca @Francesca082424]

@GovPritzker Why don’t we have a booth at the Great American Fair? You hate Trump so much you refuse to celebrate the country and the state you govern. Pathet!c!

[Francesca @Francesca082424]

@Sergie_Oh @sochie23 @SecAFOfficial Or a father who showers with his daughter

[Francesca @Francesca082424]

@DerekDriverBand @mkolken Good luck❤️

[Derek Driver 🍺🏆 @DerekDriverBand]

I am in the process of getting residency in the great USA, and if that happens I wouldn't even think of flying the Canadian flag in my yard. I may have a small one beside my bed or in my office to remind me of where I came from, but I guarantee you, in my front yard will be one big ass American flag waving in the wind. God bless the United States of america, the greatest country on Earth.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

I finally figured out what's wrong with "everything."

It's a system problem. The introduction of Trump into the system(s) broke almost everything, and in multiple ways.

The fake news created a White Supremacist hysteria, which led to the Fine People Hoax and the George Floyd Hoax, which led to massive DEI, which led to massive systemic incompetence in all of our systems at once.

Add wokeness and cancelation and we can't discuss the issue, much less fix it. That's a system problem. The corrective mechanism (free speech) has been removed.

On top of that, the Trump experience has made it clear all of our government systems are corrupt. They probably always were, but as long as we didn't notice, things limped along okay.

Now we notice.

Now we don't accept "the science" we know is corrupt. We don't accept the omnibus bills we know are corrupt. We don't accept the foreign wars that look sketchy. We don't accept elections we can't fully audit. We don't trust the news, for good reason. We don't trust our intel services to not be agents of one party. And we see the justice departments weaponized.

While all that happened Soros found a way to take control of all American systems via funding of non-government entities and integrating them into the American systems.

But at the head of the snake is the fake news and fake science. There is no correcting mechanism.

The X platform is the only counterforce, and that's why the crooks are trying to take it out, and Musk at the same time.