For 250 years, America has inspired generations to dream bigger, aim higher, and explore farther.
Yesterday was a celebration of that enduring spirit and a reminder that our greatest adventures are still ahead.
Happy Independence Day, America. 🇺🇸
whenever I come across Americans trashing the American experiment, I think back to Dr. Karp talking with Bill Maher about what makes America special.
"Part of the problem and part of the reason why people don't stand up for America is they don't understand how magical it is to get these things to work, and no other place does it at our scale with our diversity and different kinds of people and different kinds of thought.
And like, in my case, you know, I was viewed as the Frankenstein monster. I don't come from wealth, and I get the opportunity to prove myself. No one in this country cares how crazy you are if you deliver."
Happy USA 250. I love this place. Cheers to the next 250 🇺🇸🚀
Remember this.
@elonmusk came to America to build.
@ZohranKMamdani came to America to destroy.
Some of you are either too stupid or too naive to understand this.
Well, this might be the appropriate time to remind everyone that I've joined the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at @olemiss. Please consider following us at @umdeclaration.
We may have lost Spencer Pratt as the Mayor of LA, but we gained an insanely powerful national voice to help save America from a communist takeover.
They motivated him when they slowly destroyed LA.
They radicalized him when they burned down his home.
And they made a lifelong enemy when they stole his election.
Gavin Newsom's CA State Park employees destroyed the Palisades & Malibu, they mocked residents in leaked texts as their homes were burning. Now, on Independence Day 250, they're hanging the American flag upside down, in full view of the burned out Malibu lots. Unreal.
One of the great chapters in America's history is how we converted our economy to wartime production in the 1940s and used our industrial power to win WWII.
I'd learned in high school that we converted car factories into tank factories. But I never knew the full story until last month, when I read Freedom's Forge, the definitive book on this.
It turns out the true story is even crazier and more impressive. In honor of July 4th, here's the story of how America won WWII, one factory at a time.
@TheAliceSmith I read the Declaration of Independence out loud today with heartfelt conviction.
It is a work not just of genius, but also of a purity of soul that resonates to this very day.
WATCH: The Boston Pops performs Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with perfectly choreographed cannon fire from the U.S. military.
As God, country, and the composer intended.
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!
🇺🇸 HOLY SHIT.
This might be one of the most powerful patriotic videos I’ve seen in years, second only to President Trump himself.
Spencer Pratt just dropped an absolute MIC DROP on the 4th of July.
Raw, real and unapologetically American.
He’s out here speaking the truth that millions of us feel in our bones: America is worth fighting for.
Our families, our freedom, our future, all of it.
God Bless America!.
Watch this. Share this. Let it spread like wildfire.
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