So so tired of all the gaslighting ⚔️

Former teacher turned paralegal. Mother of Cats 🐈 and a dog 🐶. OR to CA to OR to TX. WOMEN’s water polo player 🤽🏻‍♀️and a bit into lifting 🏋🏻‍♀️.

[So so tired of all the gaslighting ⚔️ @jdoan52]

@Fashionably84 @DavidWolfe That’s exactly what I did.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

A real and important question is how we can get normal Democrats and independent voters to see the real things the crazy Democratic Party is actually doing and to believe that it's really happening.

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: "This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, for civilization itself."

[So so tired of all the gaslighting ⚔️ @jdoan52]

@Gothamist So?

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

Socialists don't want to actually solve any problems.

They need the problems in order to criticize America and gain power.

Their goal is to make America worse so there is a justification for a complete socialist takeover.

It is astonishing to me that people cannot see this.

[So so tired of all the gaslighting ⚔️ @jdoan52]

@AAGDhillon @mrddmia @CivilRights @TheJusticeDept You hiring any paralegals? 😬

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

To make clear how critical this right is, think about it this way: if you cannot go to school, get a job, enter public spaces, or utilize public transportation or commercial airlines if you refuse a medical procedure the government requires, then you basically have no rights. You become a prisoner in your own home, unable to get an education, earn a living, or participate in civil society. That is why the right to choose whether to get a medical procedure, without any coercion, is a fundamental right.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

This American experiment cannot survive if one class swears an oath to defend the Constitution while another seeks power by demanding it be dismantled.

Communism must be stopped.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Since 2023, I have kept the same pinned post because I feel that post (the one discussing "my side of history") is the most important sentiment I have ever posted on this platform.

For the short-term future, however, I am changing that pinned post to this one, because it is of such crucial importance to our nation's survival.

Here goes.

The Democrat Party is in the process of being taken over by the Democrat Socialists of America (the "DSA").

The DSA is an explicitly Marxist organization.

Marxism has impoverished more people and genocidally murdered more of humanity than all other ideologies ever to exist in human history combined.

It is a grotesque form of evil that is wholly incompatible with the Constitution of the United States of America.

Marxism in all its forms must be reviled and publicly treated with the same disdain with which intelligent adults view Naziism, pedophilia, serial murderers and cannibalism.

Do not back down. Each and every time you encounter Marxism in any of its forms, please call it out for the evil that it is. It is a rapidly metastasizing cancer that can only be defeated by public awareness.

Thank you.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

It's OK to love America.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

You've probably heard this before, but it's always worth repeating. Something extremely cool about the "Star-spangled Banner," the American national anthem, is that it asks a question, and it's the question at the heart of everything in the American worldview.

"Oh, say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight's last gleaming..."

So the anthem begins with a question and a scene. One man, a patriot, is asking another man, another patriot, "can you see it?" at sunrise after a long, dangerous night.

The "it" in question is going to be revealed to be the flag, our "star-spangled banner," which they had last fully recognized and honored as the sun set, daylight failed, and night crept over them the evening before.

Can you see it? Say! Can you see it?!

IS IT STILL THERE?!

"Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming..."

Here we find that the "it" is in fact the flag, our star-spangled banner, and we learn why the question is being asked.

The flag is described as having flown and streamed gallantly over ramparts of war through a perilous fight. All could have been lost. The flag, and even the fledgling country for which it stands, one nation under God and indivisible.

Say! Can you see it? Now that the light is back?

IS IT STILL THERE?!

"--And the rockets' red glare,
The bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there!--"

They could see it through the battle in the light of the rockets and bombs that threatened them, here and there in quick glimpses. But it was still there throughout! But now? At dawn?

Say! Can you see?

IS IT STILL THERE?!

"Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?"

The urgency is palpable with every refrain. They have to know. It's the first thing they must know as the sun begins to light the sky, even before it rises.

IS IT STILL THERE?!

Say! Say!! Can you see? Can you see it?!

At the heart of every American beats the fundamental truth and reality that what we have here is precious, that it's worth fighting for, to the death if necessary, and that it's fragile. That at any moment it can be lost. That we have to remember to look for it because last night might have been the night in which it failed.

Every day, every year, every generation.

The American fight for freedom, to live in self-governance within ordered liberty, is ongoing and never-ending. The price of the land of the free is that it must be the home of the brave. We have to defend it, defend it, and defend it again, against all enemies foreign and domestic, because what we have is amazing, rare, fragile, and worth every cent of treasure, every drop of blood, and every risk to our sacred honor to protect it.

Our anthem is not a declaration. It is not a proclamation. It is not a statement.

It is a question.

Every time we sing our wholly unique national anthem, we as American ask the question again. IS IT STILL THERE?! Are we still America? Does that star-spangled banner yet wave?

Because it's a question, the answer is not known. It is not a guarantee. It cannot be taken for granted and isn't. And what an honor to ask and take up our part in the story, in the American Experiment, in the greatest country the world has ever known.

For tonight, the last night of our first 250 years, as the sun gave way to twilight's last gleaming and darkness overtook our land once again, the answer was still yes. We can see it even tonight in the red glare of rockets, with small bombs bursting in air, fill the sky with the noble tribute of fireworks once again.

And we all ask ourselves, will it still be flying at dawn?

This is what it means to be an American.

Happy 250th, America! Now for many happy returns!
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[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Just to clear the air: I’m a MAGA (Make America Great Again), Conservative, but that doesn’t mean what a lot of you apparently think it does. Let’s break it down, because I’m tired of being told what I believe and what I stand for. Spoiler: not every Conservative is the same, but most of us I know share these same principles.

1. I believe America should never depend on another country for energy, protection, or basic supply and demand. We are strongest when we build, produce, and protect things right here in the USA.

2. I believe America must put itself first. We cannot pour from an empty cup. Our country should prioritize our own people before trying to save the world.

3. I believe America should stay out of endless foreign conflicts. We are not the world’s sugar daddy, and we shouldn’t act like it.

4. I believe no foreign aid should be given until every veteran at home is taken care of.

5. I believe immigrants make America stronger — when they come legally. If your first act in this country is breaking the law, you aren’t an upstanding citizen.

6. You can marry who you want. I may not agree with your lifestyle, but your life is not mine to judge, I leave that to God Almighty. That being said, I am a Christian and suggest everyone read and follow God's word.

7. I believe men are men and women are women. Surgery or hormones don’t change that. Men should use men’s bathrooms, and women should use women’s bathrooms.

8. I believe schools are for education, not indoctrination. Kids should learn math, history, reading, and science - not political propaganda. They should not be taught they were “born in the wrong body” or pushed into gender delusion.

9. I believe America is in a mental health crisis. Mental health care is real, it matters, and it desperately needs to be addressed.

10. I believe guns aren’t the problem - people are. Gun control only infringes on constitutional rights.

I’m a Conservative because I believe in faith, family, freedom, and personal responsibility. I don’t want a government that controls every aspect of our lives - I want a government that protects our rights, secures our borders, defends our freedoms, and then gets out of the way. We are strongest when Americans take care of America first, when families are supported, when our veterans are honored, and when our children are given truth, not propaganda. I love this country, and I believe it’s worth fighting for 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

🇺🇸 America doesn't apologize for existing. We don't grovel for radicals. We stand.

Your rage is our resolve. Your hatred is our fuel.

This is our flag. This is our country. And we're not going anywhere.

To all the haters: CRY HARDER!! 🇺🇸

source: @_pinholster (ig)

[Audra Worlow 🇺🇸 @audrawrongspeak]

There is so much that has already been said about women and girls sports but something I finally noticed today is the lack of seriousness with which this is discussed.

These pro-trans organizations and politicians talk about women’s sports like one would speak about picking up the hobby of knitting, or playing tea party with their peers.

When in reality, women’s sports, just like men’s, is highly competitive.

Women train their entire lives to play at the highschool and college level.

They get up early. They hurt themselves. They eat right. They keep their grades up.

They compete for scholarships so that way they don’t have student loans.

They play professionally, and even try out for the Olympics.

This isn’t some poor innocent kids who just want to play on the playground with the other kids and have fun.

This is serious, and actual money and entire futures are at stake.

And every time a man is allowed on the women’s sports team, they take a spot from a woman.

It shouldn’t matter about athletic advantage.

What matters is that this funding, and those spots, are for women and girls.

And no man or boy should be able to steal funding, scholarships, or opportunities away from women with his presence.

And personal beliefs about who his peers are and who he is should be of no consequence.

We are not our beliefs about ourselves. We are simply ourselves.

This infantilization of women’s sports is just another aspect of the misogyny surrounding this topic in the first place.

And the fact that his beliefs are given any consideration whatsoever is yet another example of the misogyny surrounding this topic.

[BostonWriter @bostonwriter]

If this sort of thing doesn’t stop you in your tracks and make even the slightest twinge of pride rise in your soul… well… I feel sorry for you.

[XX-XY Athletics @xx_xyathletics]

Proper headline: Supreme Courts upholds women’s rights in 27 states.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Communism 101:
Betray people and say it was someone else's fault.
Tell them their sense of betrayal is legitimate, then point to the wrong cause so you can keep doing it.
Lenin called this "accelerating the contradictions."

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Justice Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor ruled against women having equal protection under the law.

Liberal women, yet again, prove to be the biggest hurdle women face.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Disappointed to see this using the “conservative pounce” formulation.

I’m Gen X. All of us, including liberals like me, were there when we watched a nation filled with brilliant people put its best minds to making socialism work. It was an unparalleled disaster — not just economically, but environmentally, and certainly from a human rights perspective as well.

The fact that we now have people on both the right and the left who think Lenin was on to something, or that “real socialism has never been tried,” is mind-blowing. It represents a massive generational failure of our K–PhD system. They didn’t learn the history, philosophy, or economics that would have prevented them from falling for the same midwittery that too many of our grandparents fell for.

Sure, it sounds nice. Utopia always does. But it was a colossal disaster that we must not repeat.

So no, Axios. The news isn’t that the GOP is sounding the alarm. It’s that more genuine liberals aren’t.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

If Barb McQuade is unhappy about this case, that’s the best possible indicator that the Constitution won today.

Also, I greatly enjoy the way she pretends that the unelected bureaucratic Leviathan of the federal administrative state is “independent” of the iron rule of the Democrat Party.

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