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"Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet" Hebrews 12:12

[LB @LbB35719]

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
~Calvin Coolidge
July 5, 1926

[LB @LbB35719]

@EWTNews I pray that he hasn't been bought off by the Global Marxist, because that is how he comes across.
The narrative Pope Leo is pushing gravely concerning. He is weirdly hyper focused on this one issue.
Praying for Pope Leo 🙏

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Opening our walls is neither a biblical demand nor sustainable approach to the duties we owe to our own citizens. God can love everyone from their own countries.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

As I predicted, the diabolical plan to force YouTube to show BBC news results in every person's feed is being branded as a "Media Literacy" initiative to give it political cover. Watch the vid below I did 3 years ago on this scam 👇

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

I can imagine a young person thinking she might be a great athlete. Or a writer of consequence. Or smart in business. Or a doctor and a healer.

But imagine a young person fancying himself the agent of social justice in our time. The avenger of our sins as a society.

Terrifying.

[LB @LbB35719]

@Pontifex Holy Father,
For the love of God please stop.

[LB @LbB35719]

Thank you Bishop Barron.
Just some quibbling thoughts. The American Revolution should be viewed as a war for Independence. Whereas the French Revolution was a Civil War meant to overthrow existing government. I dislike the word Revolution in both instances because it doesn't reflect the truth of the matter.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, while there are similarities between the French and American Revolutions, there is one massively important difference: The Americans, shaped by biblical convictions, grounded reason in God’s order.

[LB @LbB35719]

@ylecun @VoxJT @elonmusk @Devon_Eriksen_ Liberal democracy is retarded, that's why our founding fathers formed a Republic.
I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

[LB @LbB35719]

Democracy is mob rule, that is why our founding fathers created a Republic. You can take your *Democracy* and shove it up your ass.
I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

[LB @LbB35719]

@JamieBonkiewicz Both Democrats

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Until we have done absolutely everything to destroy Antifa I really don't want to hear a word about the dangers of Patriot Front

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

the more i learn about history, the more I appreciate America. America is actually an extremely cool and special anomaly in the timeline of civilizations. It's so successful that it's allowed the people inside it to lose touch with how bad things can truly be

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

God Bless America

[LB @LbB35719]

In every single photo the future Queen of England's face is covered by an American baseball cap and you don't find that odd, really? Every person except Kate is looking directly at the photographer. Kate's face is shadowed by an American baseball cap. Are American baseball caps the new Royal fashion trend? These photos were selected by the Royal handlers, maybe next time they highlight a story specifically about Kate they could show her face.

[LB @LbB35719]

@nypost SPLC paid actors. Staged photo.
Do better @nypost

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Do you know why I'm pissed off on this July 4th? Because I'm seeing the greatest country in the history of the world increasingly bathing in the infinity pool of parasitic suicidal empathy (as has occurred with much of the West). PLEASE activate your inner honey badger and defend American freedom. Do not take American Exceptionalism for granted. Fight! Fight! Fight!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

In a world of takers, be a maker. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇺🇸🇺🇸 Hell yeah!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[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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