One of the most misunderstood facts is that the US was founded with abundance, whereas it was in fact built from scratch.
At the time of founding, Britain was the greatest nation governing the Seven Seas, while China was at its height with total land dominance in the East under the Qianlong Emperor.
The usable land of the US at founding was much smaller than that of either nation. The 13 colonies spanned 430K square miles, while Britain governed 2.5M square miles and China owned 5M square miles of territory.
The trade and economic volume of the 13 colonies was minuscule, consisting mostly of raw materials that barely registered on the charts. Combined, the 13 colonies produced $4B GDP, while Britain made $350B and China $2.5T in today’s dollars.
In other words, the 13 colonies were less than 0.2% of the world economy and much smaller than that of many African nations today.
The wealth of the US was not inherited but earned through survival and competition against stronger nations. Most people who came here brought nothing but empty hands yet built an empire from the ground.
This is something that people who inherit great resources from parents and ancestors cannot understand—like most nations in Europe and Asia, where wealth was dominated by inheritance, not earned. They mistakenly believe what we have now is a privilege. The trees we enjoy today were planted and nourished with sweat and blood by previous generations so that we could cut the wood for warmth.
Be a tree planter, not a wood chopper. Plant your tree today. 🌱
There are people who think that Obama and Mamdani were organic candidates who worked their way up from nothing in order to make the country better.
Look at Andy Kim, Mikie Sherrill rinse and repeat.
None of these people ever had jobs outside the government or politics.
🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...
...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY
He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."
His name is Rishi Sharma.
He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.
He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.
He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...
...FOR FREE
So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.
Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.
He does it out of pure gratitude.
In his words:
"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."
As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:
"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."
THAT is America.
250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...
God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
250 years ago our founders enshrined the fundamental truth that “all men are created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among those, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as the bedrock of our nation. It's up to us to uphold our God-given freedoms, and to stand firm against those who seek to undermine them. Have a safe and happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸
@AboHassan1219 The taqqiya of all this is so incredibly obvious. You are based in USA, but the literal header across your socials is "My (true) identity is my homeland." This is written in Arabic.
We...see you, man. I will not be lectured about "war crime" by 10/7 supporters. :)
Every single thing that World Cup tourists are amazed by in America is under threat from Mamdani and his band of commies. Their stated goal is to make our society more like Europe.
Hello Mr. Clinton,
I'm not going to extend to you the courtesy that your paragraph about lawfare extends to Trump supporters. Because I've studied enough of you, to know what you are truly about.
You were President during the post-Cold War sugar high. I have it thoroughly documented that you and your administration met with George Soros frequently, and in short term changed your policy positions to fit whatever George Soros proposed.
Which was: continuous military intervention all over the world. Starting with the bombing of Yugoslavia. You were the original neoconservative. Madeline Albright used "open society" phrasing in communicating your foreign policy documents. You are a part of the long string of failures of nation-building in the name of democracy, the Western interventions that resulted in millions of mass migrants overwhelming our borders, artificial famines, and us building the infrastructure that enabled China to take over the Africa continent and extract African resources for themselves.
But. Most of all. Those of us -- and there are a good deal many of us -- who have been ruined by lawfare. @GenFlynn sacrificed everything. @JeffClarkUS has had his life ruined and is still rebuilding. At the end of the day, only one President has been the subject of repeated assassination attempts and eighty-plus indictments - and it's President Trump. Not anyone in your orbit.
Seriously, Bill. What do you think when you see that a Democrat gets indicted by a grand jury, and a judge inevitably overturns that indictment on grounds that nobody has heard of? "Oh wow the judges are so wise and saw right through a jury of peers! And that wisdom coincidentally happens to always fall on party lines!" Give me a break.
Every single one of us on the right-wing side knows that when your side regains power, your side will turn the full might of lawfare on us. You will cheer on mass incarcerations. You openly brag about that. You even toe the line of threatening to jail current military members if they don't refuse orders from Pete Hegseth.
You are the evil one here. You cheer on the burning of our cities. You cheer on lawfare of Republicans. You never apologized for the millions of lives disrupted all over the world. You never say a word about the billions or even trillions of dollars that have been robbed by your friends through corrupt NGOs.
The fact that none of you are in jail, proves that we are the powerless ones here. You're just afraid that someone sees you for you who are, and you secretly know that image is ugly.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy 250th America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
What a great day to celebrate the people that got us here.
This short film is my family’s story… from Massachusetts in the 1600s to heading west on the Oregon Trail in 1852.
This is American Exceptionalism. No apologies. All grit. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It is unbelievable to me that our Founding Fathers were able to defeat the British Empire, write the Constitution, and build the greatest nation on Earth, yet Republicans in Congress can't even muster the votes to pass a bill that would help secure our elections and preserve the very nation our Founding Fathers built.
🚨 THIS 103-YEAR-OLD WWII HERO JUST REMINDED US WHAT REAL AMERICAN FIRE LOOKS LIKE!
Watch this living legend who served in Germany get absolutely lit up on the 250th anniversary:
“We GOT IT! Today, I am just so happy, ALL THE PEOPLE, the land to be free! To be here and to LOVE AMERICA, I love that!”
That pure, unfiltered joy for freedom — that’s the spirit that beat tyranny overseas and built the greatest nation in history. While some try to divide and rewrite everything, heroes like this cut straight through the noise and speak the truth we all feel deep down.
This is the America we protect. This is the love that keeps liberty alive.
With the 4th of July comes fireworks, and with fireworks comes ShotSpotter going crazy.
When the cops respond, just be honest with them and let them know it's fireworks so they can get back to handling real emergencies.
They called it a “costume.”
Fetterman wears hoodies. Ilhan waves foreign flags. Pride gets a full celebration.
But real American pride? Banned.
This is what they think of our country. DAMN DEMOCRATS
California is trying to pass a billionaire’s tax.
Believe it or not, Gavin Newsom will VETO it.
He knows billionaires will just move out of California.
Instead he wants a nationwide billionaires tax.
That way billionaires have nowhere to go.
Newsom is SNEAKY.
@Mick_O_Keeffe In the U.S. we call them the AWFLS (Awfuls) “Affluent White Female Liberals.” They have suicidal empathy and are the cause of a lot of our problems.
We know why they’re here. Has nothing to do as far as helping them out. We’re using them and they’re using us. Win/win for both sides, lose/lose for the honest American citizens