Lindsay Bachman

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I cranked this article out late last night (I'm still jet lagging from my Norway trip) so I'm not sure that many saw it.

I'm reposting it now in the hope that it will gain better traction, as I believe it is some of my most important writing ever.

Happy 250th Birthday, America!🇺🇸🎆

[Liam Donovan @LPDonovan]

Begging DC people to let go for the next 30 hours or so and just let awesome things be awesome. You can resume griping and even questioning the use of resources starting July 5th. In the meantime just look to the skies and embrace that the orange man enjoys the simple pleasures.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Today is the first day of America's next 250 years. Let us all treat it as such! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

Happy 250th!!

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[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

The Sacred Fire Still Burns

Two hundred and fifty years after those words were spoken, the fire has not gone out.

It has been tested by war, by faction, by the slow corrosion of comfort and the sharper assaults of ideology that would rather manage men than trust them.

Yet it still burns.

On this July 4th, 2026...the quarter-millennium mark of the American Republic...the question is not whether the flame flickers.

The question is whether we still possess the will, the clarity, and the ferocity to tend it.

The Founders were not optimists in the modern, sentimental sense.

They were realists who understood power as a hungry, patient predator. They knew that republics do not die in a single dramatic collapse; they are eroded by the thousand small surrenders of men who prefer safety to sovereignty, who trade the hard discipline of self-government for the soft promise that someone else will bear the burden.

Washington’s “sacred fire” was never a metaphor for vague national pride.

It was a precise recognition that liberty is not a natural state.

It is an achievement that must be defended against the permanent human appetite for control...whether that control wears the mask of a king, a committee, or the administrative state that now claims to know our interests better than we do.

This Republic was engineered as a lethal trap for tyranny.

Its architecture...the separation of powers, the deliberate friction between branches, the Bill of Rights that treats individual sovereignty as non-negotiable...was not built for angels.

It was built for flawed, ambitious, often selfish men, because the Founders had studied every republic that had come before and watched them all devour themselves once power escaped its chains.

They gave us a machine that requires constant vigilance precisely because they understood that vigilance is the only thing that keeps the machine from becoming another instrument of domination.

On this 250th anniversary, as fireworks split the night and tall ships sail into harbors that once watched the birth of the idea, the temptation is to treat the occasion as commemoration alone.

That would be a mistake.

Commemoration without recommitment is how fires die.

The experiment Washington described as “finally staked” on the American people has survived because enough of those people, in each generation, refused to let lesser men and weaker ideas extinguish it.

They refused when the price was blood at Bunker Hill and Gettysburg and Normandy.

They refused when the price was only the daily, unglamorous labor of insisting that the individual remains the sovereign unit and that government exists to secure rights, not to manufacture outcomes.

The venom I reserve is not for the Republic herself.

It is for the quiet, sophisticated arguments that liberty must now be balanced against equity, that sovereignty must yield to security, that the hard-won right to self-determination is too dangerous to be left in the hands of ordinary citizens.

Those arguments are not new.

They are the same ancient impulse toward mastery dressed in modern language.

The Founders recognized it.

Washington named the fire that resists it.

Two hundred and fifty years later, the fire still belongs to anyone willing to guard it with the same clarity and the same refusal to compromise.

What follows is not a celebration of perfection.

It is a dissection of the idea that made this the greatest nation on earth...and a reminder that the idea remains worth every ounce of ferocity we still possess.

The sacred fire was never promised to endure on its own.

It was entrusted to us.

On this quarter-millennium, the only question that matters is whether we will prove worthy of the trust.

Read on. The Republic is still here.

The fire is still burning. And the fight is still ours.

https://t.co/n03xi5APvD

[Whale Psychiatrist ™️ @k_ovfefe2]

Happy No Kings Day to all who celebrate!

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Tulsi Gabbard just described the actual operating system of Washington and it’s somehow even dumber and more insulting than the conspiracy versions.

She needed one printed document for a 10 a.m. Oval Office meeting with the President. A mid-level staffer ... detailed from another agency ... decided he didn’t like what was on it, printed it anyway, then locked it in his desk and refused to hand it over. Her chief of staff went down. Her general counsel went down. Both got told to pound sand until the guy’s real boss at his home agency finally gave permission.

That’s the “deep state.” Not some secret society in a basement. Just some nobody with a desk drawer and a God complex who genuinely believed his personal veto outranked the Director of National Intelligence and the elected President of the United States.

This is what Gabbard means when she says they “thrive in the gaps between elections.” The voters pick a direction every four years. The permanent class decides which parts of that direction are even allowed to reach the Resolute Desk. They control the files. They control the information flow. And they’ve been doing it across administrations for decades because the only thing they actually answer to is each other.

The rest of us are just supposed to pretend the elections are real while these people quietly decide what the winner is permitted to know and act on.

Watch her whole speech if you want the full savage version. But the core truth is brutally simple: America votes. Then the people nobody voted for decide what happens next.
(article below)

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

🇺🇸 250 years ago we declared independence from the British Empire. 125 years ago, they stole it back—and erased the evidence.

This July 4th, Trump is reclaiming what McKinley died for: the American System.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Security for the Hollywood elite at Taylor Swift’s wedding which is fenced in

Suddenly they believe in walls and police

[GregGutfeld @greggutfeld]

when i said this wasnt a movement but a mental illness, it wasn't an attack on the delusional sufferers. but the callow mob who enabled it by demonizing people trying to stop this mania. All of you in the media, academia, the arts - you caused the most violent, malicious hoax of our time.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Bill Maher: "I'll tell you one thing about [Trump] that I know, I'm not going to tell you how I know, but a lot of people have seen the same thing. He really does hate war. He really does not like it when people d*e in war!"

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

FACT CHECKED✅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Pennsylvania Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro DENIED creating a Great American State Fair booth in DC for PA — so Sens. John Fetterman (D) and Dave McCormick (R) did it themselves

Now Pennsylvania has a booth and it's LIVELY!

Shame on Josh Shapiro!

MCCORMICK: "It said PA wouldn't participate, the governor didn't want to use tax dollars and couldn't find ANY businesses to support it."

"So I called Sen. Fetterman and said, 'this can't stand.' Pennsylvania, the history of America runs right through Pennsylvania!"

"So Fetterman jumped on board and said, yes, we're gonna do this! And businesses came out of the woodwork!"

"They were absolutely enthusiastic about getting behind this...being a patriot is not a Republican or Democratic thing, despite our differences!"

AWESOME! 🇺🇸

📽️ @ZitoSalena

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Marco Rubio laid this out beautifully. It’s a good watch.

There is a major difference between immigration and mass migration.

[Lindsay Bachman @Lins1959]

RT @TrumpDailyPosts: 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗝. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 - 𝟬𝟴:𝟬𝟯 𝗣𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝟬𝟳.𝟬𝟯.𝟮𝟲

BIG NEWS! My Administration is delivering another fantastic…

[Patricia 🇺🇸 @1109Patricia]

Newsmax just covered a brand new scathing DHS Inspector General report that just dropped. It details how the Secret Service completely botched the security at that Butler, Pennsylvania rally.

They missed the gunman Thomas Crooks even though local police radioed about him over a hundred times, Secret Service never set up a joint command post, so they missed all those warnings. They only got a handful of texts and calls about the threat.

They left that rooftop completely unsecured, even though it had a direct line of sight to the stage. Their counter-drone system was broken and poorly operated. The report calls it multiple missed opportunities that should have stopped the attack before it started.
It’s tough reading, but it backs up what a lot of folks suspected, the security that day was a serious failure.

The Butler assassination attempt revealed some very serious failures in the Secret Service that day.
The DHS Inspector General report confirmed multiple breakdowns: lack of communication with local police, failure to secure that critical rooftop, a broken counter-drone system, and repeated missed warnings about the gunman. Those are real operational failures that should never have happened.
Regarding the female agent struggling with her holster that was widely circulated, that image became a symbol for a lot of people who believe the Biden administration’s heavy push for DEI in the Secret Service compromised standards. Many argued that physical requirements were lowered and hiring was rushed to meet diversity quotas rather than selecting the most qualified agents.
Whether that specific failure was intentional sabotage or just the predictable result of prioritizing diversity over competence is still debated. But the broader pattern, lowering physical standards, fast-tracking certain hires, and treating the Secret Service like a social experiment, was very real under the previous administration, and many Americans believe it directly contributed to that dangerous lapse in protection.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

A great deal has been said about the birthright citizenship decision, but the central point is that Justice Thomas completely exposed the logical incoherence at the heart of Chief Justice Roberts’ “reasoning.”

You cannot reconcile a constitutional framework that denies automatic citizenship to members of Indian tribes, even when born on U.S. soil, with a doctrine that automatically hands out citizenship to Chinese and other birth tourists as if it were candy.

There is no logical, coherent, or even barely comprehensible way to square those positions. It is simply not possible. If Native Americans are not entitled to Fourteenth Amendment citizenship, then neither are birth tourists.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Good

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Katie Hopkins on the future of Great Britain
(with Glenn Beck)

Nothing she says is incorrect

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Americans come from America.
Italians come from Italy.
Greeks come from Greece.
Norwegians come from Norway.
Russians come from Russia.
Chinese come from China.
Ghanaians come from Ghana.
Israelis come from Israel.
Iraqis come from Iraq.
Chileans come from Chile…

Palestinians come from the KGB’s imagination, and its Arab population come from Jordan, Syria , Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

You’re welcome 😇

[Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2]

Jack Smith talks here as if a federal judge did not determine he has been unlawfully appointed special counsel.

Or how that same judge busted his team for misrepresenting the condition of materials seized during the Mar A Lago raid.

Or how Judge Cannon almost kicked one of his henchmen out of court one day over his disrespectful temper tantrum at her.

Or how she constantly pressed his team as to why they conducted the entire investigation in DC rather than Florida.

Or how he and Judge Jeb Boasberg refused to produce grand jury transcripts from that investigation to her.

I could go on…

Also his defense of Brian Driscoll (a “folk hero” Smith says) is hilarious. Driscoll was fired for refusing direct orders to produce a list of FBI employees involved in J6 investigations.