Wes Wyleven

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Officially licensed Florida Man.
Former PNW Chapter President of N.O.M.A.A.M.
#STBR #SGBR ally fighting the good fight.
Stay Upstanding.

[Wes Wyleven @WesWyleven]

Happy Fourth of July.

[Wes Wyleven @WesWyleven]

@SupplantorX @SandyofCthulhu Hey man,
Don't lump Drop Bears in there with those...
They are real.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

Some think that monsters are European imports. After all vampires, werewolves, dragons; all are from the Old World.

But America has its own nightmares. Homegrown horrors from deep woods and lonely highways. Entities that shouldn't exist in the land of the free.

As the guy who designed Call of Cthulhu, I've spent decades turning folklore into games to scare players. Tonight I’m counting down 10 American "monsters", drawn from cryptids, myths, and outright terrors. They deserve a spot in your next RPG session; or your next nightmare.
1/12

[Wes Wyleven @WesWyleven]

This is a fine example of why the Founding Fathers, and most Americans for over two centuries had issues with Catholics.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

So Pope Leo XIV, despite his American origins and an invitation to today’s 250th US anniversary celebrations, said no

Instead, he went to Lampedusa 🇮🇹 — standing on a rock like a seagull, papal skullcap in the wind — to honor migrant victims and send a strong message to Europe…

[Gun Drummer @Gundrummer69]

Historically, accurate revolutionary war footage. Gun Drummer Independence Day

[Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 @TPointUK]

Somalian migrants have been caught cooking a dog in Ballymun, Dublin.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1778, a 25-year-old frontiersman conquered a huge chunk of what would become the American Midwest on Independence Day, and he did it without firing a single shot. Almost nobody knows his name, and he may have doubled the size of the country.

His name was George Rogers Clark, older brother of the Clark who would later lead the Lewis and Clark expedition. With only about 175 men, he made a grueling secret march through the wilderness to a French village called Kaskaskia in the Illinois country, then held by the British. He arrived at night on July 4 and slipped in completely undetected.

Here's the genius part. The village was full of French settlers, and Clark was carrying a piece of news they hadn't heard yet: France had just allied with the Americans against Britain. Instead of storming the place, Clark told them. He promised them freedom of religion and won over the local priest, Father Pierre Gibault. The stunned villagers rang the church bell in celebration, a bell now remembered as the "Liberty Bell of the West," and swore allegiance to Virginia. The next day his men took the nearby town of Cahokia the same bloodless way.

That quiet Fourth of July night helped pry the entire Illinois country loose from British control. When the war ended, American claims to the vast Northwest Territory, the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, rested heavily on what Clark had grabbed out here. One young man, 175 tired soldiers, and a well-timed piece of news, and the map of America changed forever.

[Arrogant Nation✌🏻 @FightOnRusty]

imagine being 1,099 years old and being lapped in every way by a country only 250 years old 🇺🇸

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Confused little homosexual Sneako:

"This is the Islamic Republic of New Yorkistan, Islam will be in every household, Inshallah, the whole world will become Muslim, welcome to Mamdani’s New York"

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

San Francisco (July 2) — A black man confronted a group of Trantifa militants who had surrounded and harassed a woman documenting a court hearing for two of their extremist comrades who allegedly attacked the public space during the Trans March.

[Radical Eyes @RadicalEyesUK2]

‘BRITISH’ POLICE OFFICER CAN BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH 😳

Call me crazy but I believe if you can’t speak fluent English, you have no right being a British police officer.

No wonder our police force is a total joke and laughing stock.

We have incompetent officers all over Britain and some of the incompetence leads to more harm than good. Or in some cases, the death of our own people and children… 🕊️

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: This German World Cup fan has gone famous for CRYING ON-AIR after he realized the anti-USA propaganda he was fed is WRONG — after an American man named Bob RESCUED him when he got stranded

"I was scared of the US...shootings, criminals."

"I've FALLEN IN LOVE with this country. This was so emotional. I even cried in the stadium." ❤️

Sebastian thought Americans were rude, mean and COLD

"Strangers offered him a ride to his hotel," after he was stranded with no way to get back!

"I LOVE USA...I had tears in my eyes."

The man even got more sad about having to GO BACK to Germany than his team, Germany, losing in the World Cup!

🇺🇸🇩🇪

PERFECT TIMING with America 250!

[Wes Wyleven @WesWyleven]

@TillaryMills @ianmiles Can you provide some examples?
News articles?
Police reports?
Bodycam footage?

[Wes Wyleven @WesWyleven]

Happy Birthday, America.
Here's to another 250 years of being Gods Chosen Nation.

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

No blackpilling. We have a country to save.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

Happy 250th Independence Day! 🇺🇸

July 4th, 1776:

56 delegates from 13 colonies signed the Declaration of Independence, formally breaking ties with Britain and proclaiming the birth of a new nation grounded in liberty.

Penned primarily by Thomas Jefferson, it boldly declared the self-evident truth that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This radical document ignited the American Revolution and became the moral foundation of the freest, most prosperous nation the world has ever known.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Happy Independence Day!

There’s a story from the end of the Revolutionary War I want to tell as we celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, and it’s one everyone in the world can learn from.

George Washington, at that moment, after commanding the American forces to victory, was the most powerful man in the new country. Many people talked about making him King of America.

Across the ocean, King George was sitting with an American painter, and asked what he thought Washington would do now that the war was ending. The painter said he believed he would go back to his farm.

The King said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

As the war officially ended, Washington came to speak to Congress and said, “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of Action.” He returned his commission they’d given him in 1775 - after more than 8 years of leading the Americans to victory without pay, and he was home at Mount Vernon for Christmas.

Of course, he was elected as our first President a few years later, and after two terms, showed the same selflessness again when he willingly gave up his power and went back to Mount Vernon again.

That’s true greatness. He had all the power in the world. But power, alone, does not make you great.

Washington’s greatness came from being a true servant - to a cause much bigger than himself. His greatness was his complete lack of selfishness.

The whole story of American Independence is a story of selflessness. It’s a story of people who set their self-interest aside and worked for each other.

We’ve all heard the line about “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Apparently, Ben Franklin might have actually never said that.

But that’s fine, because the same mentality is right there in the last line of the Declaration of Independence, published on this day 250 years ago:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

We mutually pledge to each other.

No one was in this alone. No one was in it for themselves. This was a group of people with different backgrounds who were in it for each other.

Today is a reminder: greatness comes from what we do for each other, never what we do for ourselves.

That’s a lesson that applies no matter what country you call home.

It’s a lesson that doesn’t require any law passed by a politician, because, let’s be honest, if you’re waiting for selfless politicians, I really hope you are not holding your breath.

All of us have the power to be there for the people around us. For our families and friends. For our neighbors. For everyone.

All of us can reach for greatness.

It’s as simple as looking beyond yourself, seeing past the mirror, picking your eyes up from your phone, and pledging to be there for each other.

Happy Fourth. May you all find your own version of greatness today by lifting each other up.

Lift up your neighborhood. Lift up America. Lift up the World.

[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 🇺🇸

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

"I am hunted like a fox by the enemy." A signer of the Declaration of Independence actually wrote those words. He moved his family five times in three months to keep them alive. Meet Thomas McKean.

McKean is one of the most important Founders you were never taught about, partly because he was too busy actually fighting to sit still for the famous painting.

Here's the setup. In July 1776, the vote for independence came down to the wire, and Delaware's delegation was deadlocked. McKean was one of its delegates, and he's the man who sent an urgent rider through a thunderstorm to fetch the third Delaware delegate, Caesar Rodney, for that legendary all-night ride that broke the tie and swung Delaware to independence. McKean helped make the yes vote happen.

Then, instead of hanging around Philadelphia to sign the pretty copy, he grabbed a musket. He took command of a militia battalion and marched off to actually fight the war he'd just voted for. Which is why, when almost everyone else signed the engrossed Declaration on August 2, 1776, McKean wasn't there. His signature got added later. In fact there's real evidence his name wasn't put on the document until years afterward, which can make him the last man to sign the Declaration of Independence.

And while he was out there, the British wanted his head. He was a marked man, a signer and a rebel officer, and they hunted him relentlessly. In 1777 he wrote to his friend John Adams the line that says it all: "I am hunted like a fox by the enemy." He described being forced to move his family five times in just three months, at one point stashing them in a little log house on the banks of the Susquehanna, only for them to have to run again.

Think about that. Not a general on a horse in a portrait. A husband and father dragging his family from hideout to hideout, staying one step ahead of soldiers who wanted to hang him.

He survived all of it. And then he just kept going. McKean served as President of Congress in 1781, meaning he was effectively leading the nation when the news arrived that Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown and the war was won. He later spent years as chief justice and then governor of Pennsylvania, and lived all the way to 1817, dying at 83.

A man who voted for freedom, fought for it with a gun, got chased across the countryside like an animal for it, and lived long enough to see the whole thing hold together.

Thomas McKean. Hunted like a fox, and never caught.