Smoky Shots

Wildlife/Nature Photographer. 18. Have a great love for the outdoors and effective conservation of habitat. Isaiah 40:31

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Mamdani: "Immigrants built NYC"

The immigrants in question…

[Mrs B @attackdogX]

There are 10 Muslim mayors in America.

There are 92 Muslims serving on city councils across America.

There are 33 Muslims in state houses of representatives.

There are 13 Muslims serving as state senators.

There are 4 Muslims serving in the US House of Representatives.

Any number above 0 is too many.

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

“This is so stupid”
>look inside
>accurate analogy

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Good men must die, but death can't kill their names.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

SWITZERLAND: A Muslim woman was fined 100 Swiss francs ($126) for wearing a burqa, which was banned in the country via referendum.

She contested the charge, claiming ‘Islamophobia’, and then her fine increased to 1,000 Swiss francs ($1,260).

[Smoky Shots @SmokyShotsPhoto]

@wearabletechadv @sferr82 @DingleMcDangel @__0HOUR1_ No clue who those are, but the Covid vaccine is useless. You can still get Covid, still carry it, and still spread it. I’m a healthy 22 year old, survived the super duper scary sniffles twice just fine and still haven’t died yet of it. 98-99% survival rate.

[Smoky Shots @SmokyShotsPhoto]

@ClaimedKootenay @superpotroast @RpsAgainstTrump No one will take us seriously til Europe is left to fend for itself again.
#EndNato

[Smoky Shots @SmokyShotsPhoto]

@sferr82 @wearabletechadv @DingleMcDangel @__0HOUR1_ 8th booster says everything. Settle down before the Australian government forces you into a covid camp

[Caleb Hull @CalebJHull]

England has zero stealth bombers which means zero ability to dispute that red card

[Tim Anderson @AssocAnderson]

Last year, about 1,500 Virginians died from accidental falls. During the same period, Virginia recorded 1,237 firearm deaths, including 730 suicides and 475 homicides.

Yet Richmond’s priority was banning the future sale of many common semi-automatic firearms and magazines over 15 rounds. Meanwhile, a hand-cranked Gatling gun remains legal because it is not a semi-automatic firearm.

Less than 15 people died in Virginia from rifle homicides. That means you have 100x higher chance of dying from tripping over your shoelace or falling off a ladder than being killed by an AR15.

Democrats are not serious.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Biden-Harris sent forklifts to open the border when Texas built a razor wall.

Never forget this treason:

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

This should be embarrassing for The Democratic Party.

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The average national constitution lasts about 19 years. The United States has used the same one since 1789, which makes it the oldest working national constitution on Earth.

That gap is the anomaly the original post is talking about. Since 1789 the world has produced close to 800 national constitutions, and only about half of them lasted past 19 years. France is the sharpest contrast. It started at the same line as America, and since then it has gone through five separate republics, two empires, a couple of monarchies, and at least fourteen constitutions. It is on version five right now, written back in 1958. The next-oldest national constitution still in use belongs to Norway, and it only dates to 1814, a full 25 years behind.

Most attempts at a lasting written government fall apart inside a single generation. America's has held through a civil war, two world wars, a depression that put about a quarter of workers out of a job, and 27 amendments, without ever being thrown out and started over.

About 4% of humanity lives inside US borders, and they produce close to a quarter of the world's economic output measured at market prices. The American economy is bigger than the next three put together, China and Germany and Japan combined. Eight of the ten biggest public companies on the planet, ranked by market value, are American. US stock markets alone hold a little over 40% of all the equity value on Earth.

None of that was ever the default setting for human societies. For most of recorded history the normal ending was collapse, conquest, coup, or a slow decline into something you would not recognize. Stable money, peaceful handovers of power, and courts that last longer than the people who built them are the rare exception, not the normal starting point.

When a system runs this smoothly for this long, the stability starts to feel like gravity, like the normal way things are. The historical record says the opposite. What looks completely ordinary from inside America is one of the least likely things a large group of people has ever built and kept going.

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 LOS ANGELES BANNED FIREWORKS.

Thousands of residents lit them anyway.

Sometimes, governments discover that you can ban an activity...

But you can't ban tradition.

🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day

[Julie_married_to_Thomas_but_not_a_Thomist @gmk_julie]

My favorite thing about 4th of July is tyrannical local governments saying “No discharging of weapons and no Fireworks!!” and the tax paying citizens who pay their salary saying “Thank you for reminding me this is America. This is my front yard actually and I’ll invite all my friends to celebrate in it”

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

It must suck to have to pretend to be mad at this

[Jimmy Nova @JimmyNova]

lol Ketel not even being an alternate is kind of a joke though

[X @X]

250 looks good on you, America 🇺🇸

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Canadians booed the American flag before the U.S. opened its World Cup campaign. On America’s 250th birthday, Canada’s tournament came to an end with a 3-0 loss to Morocco.