Matt

Detroit Sports Fan

[Philip Klein @philipaklein]

To put this in perspective, tonight Trump is planning to launch 850,000 fireworks, over 40 minutes, which is 10,000 fireworks every 30 seconds sustained for two-thirds of an hour. It’s gonna be lit!

[Gun Drummer @Gundrummer69]

These re-enactments are getting out of hand… #4thofjuly #independenceday

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

On July 4 2012 in San Diego, California, 7,000 fireworks accidentally went off all at the same time.

What was supposed to be a 17 min show, lasted just 30 seconds, thanks to a computer glitch

It is one of the greatest firework shows of all time

Happy 250th birthday, America 🇺🇸

[Kirk Herbstreit @KirkHerbstreit]

Happy 4th!! Best country in the world 🇺🇸

[AG @AGHamilton29]

This is undoubtedly the greatest country in the history of the world.

That doesn’t mean we are perfect, but the ideals laid out at our founding are worth defending and preserving for future generations.

Forever grateful to be an American.

Happy birthday, America!

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Happy 250th birthday to the greatest country that’s ever existed 🇺🇸

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

America rules. https://t.co/7QgNB3CXVJ

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"Jones Act opponents are using examples like that to lobby Congress to repeal the law, warning that the supply routes that have emerged over the past three months will disappear the moment the suspension ends. They are running up against lawmakers aligned with shipbuilding interests..."

Yep.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

All right Google, I’ll give this one to you. This is pretty great.

[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.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

The Economist's new BBQ Index tracks the prices of 10 American cookout staples across 25 cities, and this year's results are not good.

The grocery basket now costs $81, which is 12% more than a year ago and "the fastest annual increase in a decade"

[Ryan Hana @RyanHanaWWP]

Ken Holland STILL has his fastball.

[Thomas Drance @ThomasDrance]

Mike Grier frame mogging the other Pacific Division rebuilding teams like he’s an ASU frat leader.

[JeffMossDSR @JeffMossDSR]

Yzerman took Cossa over Wallstedt even though Wallstedt was the consensus #1 goalie in that draft.

Then the Wings didn’t like Cossa’a style and totally broke it down and rebuilt it and then they still didn’t like the result.

The guy never started a game in Detroit. Just a total failure by the organization on all levels.

[Matt @Squactus]

@united Never flying with you again. 6pm departure time delayed past 8:30pm out of O’Hare. Boarded at 5:30, you have not offered 1 customer water or snacks in the main cabin, cruel and awful service. I want a refund

[Matt @Squactus]

@CliffordAsness Thank you for everything you do Cliff, our country needs more people like you. 🇺🇸

[Clifford Asness @CliffordAsness]

One of the major problems with Trump has always been what horrors come AFTER him. I, and many others I know (not a unique insight of mine), have been worried about this since 2016. Trump has been a problem in so many ways. The now far further to the left (on socialism and anti-semitism) nuts in the democratic party running everything after him is doom, and Trump’s extremeness has opened the door to them.

Trump has allowed the left, through many actually terrible actions of his (law-fare for pure personal revenge, making republicans sign on to the litmus test lie that 2020 election was stolen, epic familial corruption making Hunter Biden look like a rank amateur) and yes also through an awful lot of unfair TDS (sometimes he really is joking and they pretend not to know, and many times they just make stuff up as they hate him — see “good people on both sides”), to move further and further to jew-hating socialism and soon communism. Yeah, some pedantic twit will always say “its not real communism you need to read the definitions like us learned ivy league idiots have, blah blah blah means of production blah blah blah” as they intellectually bully those who are actually correct in all practicality — the DSA is not yet openly proposing all of Cuban communism now, but if you doubt that this is the DSA’s end goal you have paid no attention, and controlling the means of production through regulation and taxation is, in fact, owning the means of production. Did I mention the jew-hating? Yes the right also has an insane broken jew-hating problem too, you know Tucker, and darling Nicky F, and Candace the special, and many others; but there’s great dispute about it intra-party on the right where on the left repeating the outright provable lies about genocide and apartheid is now a full on litmus test for a dem primary with little to no allowable dissension). Trump makes dissent about lies like the 2020 election punishable by excommunication. That’s gross. The left does the same thing with even more consequential lies and blood libels that have been disproven in the extreme. Then they repeat their lies over and over and use their ubiquitousness as some kind of polling proof that they’re true.

Hating and opposing Trump (have you seen their cookie cutter commercials? — every pissant dem candidate now just brags about “taking on Trump” which they generally did only in rhetoric filmed for TV) has become all they need to do while slipping in the the DSA/jew-hating horrific policies they want to install, and for many have always wanted to install but now see an opportunity.

For some on the left Trump hate been being sufficient for them to let them to be their disgusting (yes DSA socialism and jew-hate is disgusting) selves. For some, and I don’t know which is worse, they’ve just seen where their party is going and are joining the commie jew-hating marching band for their career advancement (e.g., Brad Lander is out front twirling his baton as he pulls gold teeth). Either way it appears to now be death in a dem primary to say “Hey maybe a giant wealth tax is a bad idea as there is zero evidence that this is our problem and everything we say about the rich not paying taxes is a lie” or “Hey, you know, all the evidence is that Israel is fighting as humane a war as any in history. What we or any western european country would’ve done to Palestinian civilians would’ve been way worse if Hamas killed as much of our population as they did of Israel’s and hid behind them — check out the allies bombing in WWII, and I don’t just mean Dresden, I mean allied bombing French civilians in Normandy during D-day in devastating manner, with pre-calculated giant casualty estimates (Google “transportation plan WWII”) sanctioned by de Gaulle who saw it had to be done becausnevil nazis were embedded amongst them — sound familiar? — war offers horrific choices but choices that nearly all others in similar situations have made way harsher than Israel.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

#USAUSAUSA

[Aaron Portzline @Aportzline]

Per @FriedgeHNIC, #CBJ GM Don Waddell / Zach Werenski will meet after this weekend's NHL draft to discuss his future in Columbus.

Lots of chatter out there among NHL clubs about his availability.

Waddell needs a clear picture, but you might prefer such a chat before the draft.