Happy Birthday America, Land of the Free.
Don’t give up on the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Amendments.
They’re unique, and your freedom - and the worlds’ - depends on them.
Happy birthday, America! I love this remarkable country, which was built on the idea that anyone can change the world. For 250 years, our country has been a testament to the power of possibility. Let’s keep building extraordinary things together.
I love everything about the 4th of July, and the 250th anniversary is especially great for me because I am joining with family and friends for a reading of the Declaration of Independence, a BBQ, and fireworks.
As I reflect on what has happened over the 250 years that followed July 4th, 1776, it seems like an impossible dream come true. Think about it. Imagine that at the outset on July 4th, 1776, you were asked what odds for success a country would have if it would be mostly made up of poor immigrants coming from all different countries with very different cultures and religions and it would be governed by a political system in which the leaders reported to these people who themselves had to vote, compromise, and submit to life-changing decisions that many disagreed with. Would you bet that it would do exceptionally well and improve for 250 years? I would have thought that virtually impossible, yet America has been exceptional for 250 years.
I also see that it was shockingly terrific and lucky for me to have lived through the best part of those 250 years because I was born four years after the 1945 post-World War II beginning of the new American world order, which gave me the best time in history in the best place in the world.
These reflections give me a deep appreciation for the principles and practices—the secret sauce—that created and sustained this remarkable American story, a fear that we are losing sight of them, and a sense of responsibility to contribute to sustaining them.
Patriotism is love for your country’s culture and people. It is defensive.
Nationalism is love for your country’s state. It is power-based.
This is the essence of the distinction Orwell drew between the two terms.
Happy 250th Birthday, America! 🇺🇸🎆
250 years of freedom, courage, and the American dream.
Grateful for every founder, veteran, and hero who made it possible.
Land of the free. Home of the brave. Forever.
God bless the USA! ❤️🤍💙
The Founders didn’t promise happiness, they protected the pursuit of it. No other nation’s founding document made one’s right to chase their dreams a core purpose.
That’s why America has always been the ultimate haven for the world’s most ambitious. Grateful to call it home ❤️🇺🇸
Paul Krugman on the US versus Europe: “Yes, Europeans have smaller houses and cars than Americans do. Many of them also, as everyone has lately become aware, lack air conditioning. But they have much more economic security than most Americans, lower economic inequality, longer life expectancy, and more leisure time.”
I like including "lower economic inequality” on the plus side for Europe. They might roast alive because of lack of air conditioning, but they can die knowing that there isn’t an upper class that is too comfortable.
This reflects a sick value system.
El diablo ha muerto.
Hussein Ali asesinó a 4 israelíes, entre ellos un niño de 4 años, y violó a una niña cristiana de 7 años hasta matarla. Cambió de identidad y se hizo carpintero. Pero el Mossad lo estaba buscando. Fue abatido en un ataque selectivo de las FDI.
Israel no olvida
El Mossad no perdona
El terrorista de Hamás Muhammad Ashour, cuyo video se viralizó el 7/10 arrastrando a una joven israelí, quien violó el cadáver de la joven, fue abatido en una operación de inteligencia de las FDI.
Se estaba escondiendo como personal médico.
“How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.”
— Richard Dawkins
The Swift wedding cost between 10 million and 20 million dollars so when is Elizabeth Warren going to beat her breast and ask why that money wasn't given to the poor or does she only scream about Elon Musk?
Thomas Sowell debunks the myth that the rich get rich by exploiting the poor:
“If it’s true that the rich are rich because they’re keeping the poor poor, then in a country with lots of billionaires you should correspondingly have great amounts of poor people.
But if you compare the actual data, there are more billionaires in the United States than Africa and the Middle East put together; and yet the standard of living of the poor in the United States is higher than that of people in Africa and the Middle East.”
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.