Kate Carbery 🇺🇲

Independent Conservative who caucuses with the Republicans.

US Congress: children without adult supervision.

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[Tickled Orange @TickledOrange]

The RED CARD call truly was absolute BS, but this is hilarious 😆

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.

The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.

Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.

So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.

Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.

Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.

[Kate Carbery 🇺🇲 @misharu2]

@almostjingo Rosie, you still here.?! Me too. Tomorrow is bday and have final day until outta here on the 8th.
Arlington. Capitol Bldg. Air and Space and then dinner at Joe's Seafood and Steak.

[Kate Carbery 🇺🇲 @misharu2]

@almostjingo @LoveDaBomb They would have gotten in. My friend and I did the same thing but when Trump said it's on we jumped on some ebikes and road back down. It took a while but we got in.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

Watch this all the way through.

This is a perfect example of what makes Americans different.

Everyone notices the big things.

The wins, the headlines, the moments the whole crowd claps for.

Almost nobody sweats the small stuff.

That two percent that looks like it does not matter.

The detail you could skip. The corner you could cut. The standard you could let slide just this once.

Here is what history keeps trying to teach us.

Empires do not fall on the ninety-eight percent.

They fall on the two percent nobody thought was worth the trouble.

The little crack you ignore today is the one the whole thing collapses through later.

Americans, at our best, are the people who refuse to skip the two percent.

That is the whole secret.

Mind the small things.

They were never small.

Yours Truly,
The Rebel Scum

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[Hamilton @HamiltonMusical]

A message from the King(s).

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

I hadn’t read the Declaration of Independence since high school history class. Ah, yes, history class! In fact we had American history throughout the tenth grade, then world history during our junior year. When I listen to the TikTok crowd spew the nonsense they champion today, I think how easily their knuckle-headed thinking could have been cured with a few good history classes. Alas, I don’t see much hope for the future, as long as the teachers in our urban areas are in the clutches of politicians and unions with a far different agenda from real education.

Now rereading the document for the first time in decades (shame on me for taking so long), I had forgotten that the bulk of the text is a list of grievances suffered by the American colonists at the hands of the king and various elements under his tyrannical regime. What has truly stunned me these 250 years later, however, is how familiar these grievances feel in our contemporary situation. Let’s take a peek at the exact text, and see if anything feels uncomfortably close to home (the “He” refers to King George, of course, and I will use the original spelling and punctuation):

“He has refused to Assent to Laws”

Hmm, every “sanctuary state” governor today for starters…

“He has made Judges dependent of his Will alone”

Hmm, activist judges anybody?

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people”

Hmm, 87,000 new armed IRS agents. Ring a bell?

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent”

Hmm, ever looked at your tax bill?

“…transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny…”

Hmm, thirty million military-age males pouring across our open borders from 2020 to 2024…

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us”

Hmm, BLM and Antifa riots…

SHORT VERSION: LEAVE US ALONE!

The very essence of the Declaration of Independence is a concerted celebration of God’s gift of our “unalienable” right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” It was argued, researched, debated yet again, drafted by Jefferson, then edited by Adams, Franklin, and others. Together the bravest men stood together against the storm of tyranny and gambled it all. As I reread it today, I literally shed tears at those miraculous words:

“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 Fortune and our sacred Honor.”

And then, of course, there were those who shed more than tears. They shed their blood, watched their homes burn, and too many gave the ultimate sacrifice. Whether they formed local militias or joined the Continental Army, colonists now dedicated to the cause, gambled their very lives. One of those Americans was my ninth generation ancestor. He fought in one of the most consequential battles of the American Revolution, the Battle of Cowpens. I am forever honored that his blood runs in my veins.

I know that this will be a joyful and glorious weekend for all of you, God willing. It should also be, if I may presume to say, a solemn one as well. The sacrifices made by simple men and women those many years ago have made these precious rights and this glorious day possible. Take a moment and honor them in your heart. I know I will.

[Secretary Doug Burgum @SecretaryBurgum]

250 years of American greatness in 2 minutes and 50 seconds.

Happy 250th birthday, America! 🇺🇸

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: Data centers are being built above the largest groundwater supply in the United States

[Kate Carbery 🇺🇲 @misharu2]

Salute to America on it's 250th.

[French Demon☀️👹🇫🇷 @frenchdemon666]

🇺🇸 : France i need help plz
🇫🇷 : I can't im broke
🇺🇸 : It's against the british
🇫🇷 :

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

It is impossible to review the events of the last decade and conclude that it is anything other than divine providence that Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States on the year of America 250, July 4th, 2026.

[Kate @Kate41302074312]

Amazing

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Kate Carbery 🇺🇲 @misharu2]

@pvtjokerus @goneers

[Kate Carbery 🇺🇲 @misharu2]

@Notwokenow I keep mine at 76 all summer. 73 in the winter.

[Kate Carbery 🇺🇲 @misharu2]

What a fuquing p*ssy.

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Europe is melting, it was 41°C (106°F) in Frankfurt yesterday

I went outside and met my neighbor on the stairs

"How are you surviving this heat?" he asked me

"Well, it's tough. But what can you do? Climate change. This is what the Americans did to us" I said

He nodded and wiped his forehead

"Yeah... so I installed AC yesterday. It's nice and cool, come for a beer, we can watch World Cup together?" he asked

"I don't think so" I said and looked at him with digust

I went back upstairs and reported him to the city council

He must either remove the AC unit or pay the carbon offset tax

How can people be so selfish? Individual comfort is never worth destroying our planet

This is why the entire world looks to the EU, we are just far more culturally developed than rest of the globe

[Kate Carbery 🇺🇲 @misharu2]

@asraza No.

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

There is not a single country on EARTH that has a better overall quality of free and independent life than that which is lived by an American.

The USA is the greatest country in the world. The FIFA World Cup is just a reminder to new generations.