Episode 565 – Happy Independence Day!

July 4th is one of the best holidays in America! You know how I know that? The Left hates it.

Let’s talk about it!

 

Sad Day

Another mass shooting occurred in Highland Park, Illinois. Here are the details:

  • The suspect was a 21-year-old man.
  • The suspect was from the area and had been planning this for several weeks.
  • He dressed as a woman to blend in and disguise himself. He has several facial tattoos that needed to be covered.
  • He had two rifles were purchased by him in Illinois, legally. That’s going to be a huge issue.
  • He climbed onto a roof of a store via a ladder that was in the back of the store.
  • Once on the roof, he started shooting killing six and injuring thirty.
  • He then crawled down the roof and started running like the rest of the people, blending in. He was able to escape that way.
  • He was taking off in his car when he was spotted by the police. He gave up without incident which is not a shock.
  • There has been no motivation found.
  • The shooting seems to be completely random. No motivation of race, religion or politics.

Of course, this can’t go without making it political. This is going to be another example of just-make-it-political-and-don’t-wait-for-the-information kind of thing. Here is Illinois governor, J.B. Pritzker, making this about politics and the Democratic agenda before the bodies were even picked off the ground:

There’s a big problem and another reason why gun control is not the solution.

  • This guy was obviously insane. There is nothing that makes sense about why he did this.
  • Police and educators have known about this guy’s mental problems since he was in middle school.
  • His social media accounts are filled with violence and signs of mental problems.
  • His uncle said he was a lonely kid who had issues.

No one did anything about it including the government bureaucracies. He had no problem buying the guns, background checks didn’t work…again. The school system and police knew this kid had issues and they did nothing. I should give my guns up and trust the government to protect me and my family

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/highland-park-shooting-victims
https://www.foxnews.com/us/highland-park-illinois-4th-july-shooting-suspect-who-robert-crimo
https://www.foxnews.com/us/uncle-july-parade-shooter-says-no-warning-signs-would-carry-out-attack
https://www.foxnews.com/media/highland-park-shooting-witness-demands-answers-alleged-shooters-mental-health-care-politics
https://wgntv.com/news/highland-park-parade-shooting/highland-park-shooting-suspect-was-known-to-law-enforcement/

 

Real Patriotism

According to the Daily Wire:

NPR’s Steve Inskeep scrapped his traditional 4th of July reading of the Declaration of Independence on Monday after more than three decades, and instead opted to devote the segment to a discussion on equality.

After a bit of a false start in 2021 — when the hosts read the Declaration but drew attention to what they believed were flaws and hypocrisies — Inskeep and his co-host Leila Fadel ended the 33-year tradition in 2022. They replaced it with an 11-minute segment examining what equality truly meant, both when the Declaration of Independence was written and in the years since then.

According to Harvard historian Jill Lepore:

“It’s fashionable, and rightfully so, to indict the limits of [Jefferson’s] vision. But in the 18th century, even the idea that all white men are created equal was a radical notion at the time. Those men lived in a highly ranked culture, and a declaration of equality is throwing that away, or challenging that in a revolutionary manner.”

This is the problem with these people. They look at the history and then compare the document with the flaws in the country at the time and invalidate the document because of those problem. Yes, we had slavery, women did not have the rights they deserved, property owners had more rights than regular citizens. The Founding Fathers knew this. They wrote it in the Constitution. They discuss this in the Federalist papers. They acknowledge that there was injustice in the country and only time would fix those injustices. That’s why there is an amendment process in the Constitution, to fix the flaws.

What’s worse with these people, though, is it’s not enough just to point out to the inconsistencies in the document with the time, they have to make crap up about the founding documents. What is she talking about “all white men are created equal”?

Let’s read the most important text of the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Mind you, “all men are created equal” should not be read literally, which the Left does all the time. By “men” the mean “human beings”. That includes black people, women, the Irish and German. Everyone. We know this because there are tons of documents that state this like the Federalist Papers. These people are so busy trying to invalidate these documents, they fail to see the beauty of the words and ideas and how far we have come as a country.

Why do they do this? Because they hate the freedoms the Constitution and the promises of the Declaration of Independence. They want to transform this country into some weird European globalist thing. Unfortunately for them, the Constitution is getting in the way.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/04/1109667557/on-this-july-4th-what-does-equality-mean
https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-puts-july-4th-on-the-woke-wagon-scraps-annual-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence

 

Just Get Out

Here’s a little compilation of a-holes who hate our country. They think that we shouldn’t be celebrating July 4th. It’s long but worth the listen:

Wow, these people are miserable. The only thing they all agree with is that the flag is bad and the want to leave America. Here’s what I have to say to all these miserable, angry, stupid people: Leave the country already. You’re are free to go. Go to Ukraine. These people support Ukraine. There’s definitely no racism there (except for half the country).

But it wasn’t just the little people who think this. Our elite thinks this is a miserable country:

  • Katie Perry tweeted: “‘Baby you’re a firework’ is a 10 but women in the US have fewer rights than an actual sparkler smh.”
  • Bette Midler tweeted:  “4th of July has been canceled following a shortage of Independence. Sincerely, Women.”
  • She also said: “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!” 
    • That’s going to be a problem for the trans community.
  • Jessica Chastain flashed her middle fingers online in a photo she captioned, “Happy ‘Independence’ Day from me and my reproductive rights.” And she posted a picture of her flipping off the camera.
  • Michael Moore tweeted his thoughts:
    • “A mass shooting to celebrate the 4th. A wealthy class that doubled its wealth while the country suffered. A Supreme Court that stripped 51% of our citizens of their reproductive rights while removing gun laws & killing the EPA.”
    • Then added: “I cannot in good conscience continue to receive the privileges of ‘full citizenship’ in this land when all of its women and girls have now been, by Court decree, declared official second-class citizens with no rights to their own bodies and conscripted to a life of Forced Birth should they fall pregnant and not want to be.”
    • He concluded: “Until women’s rights have been fully reinstated, and their equal rights are enshrined in our Constitution (now that the required 38 states have passed the Equal Rights Amendment), I will not shut up about this. If you invite me to dinner that’s all I’m gonna talk about. Have me over to your party and it’s going to be, ‘Dobbs, Dobbs, and more Dobbs!’ And I won’t stop until Roe is reinstated and 51% of Congress is female.”
  • Chris Hayes of MSNBC kept up the love for the United States:“We won’t acknowledge that we are a violent people to begin with. This country was birthed in violence with the genocide of the native people at the barrel of a gun. This country was built on the back of slaves with a gun to their back. Who will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, ‘It’s time to repeal the Second Amendment?'”

Even Joe Biden, our unifying President, couldn’t help but bitch about how bad this country is. In his July 4th speech in front of the military during an annual barbeque.

Even in a speech where he is celebrating the country, he can’t help himself to put this country down. And it all turned out to be nothing more than a campaign speech. What a cynical human being this is. It’s all about him. He doesn’t give a damn about the country.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/katy-perry-bette-midler-jessica-chastain-lead-online-independence-day-protest-july-4th-canceled
https://www.foxnews.com/media/michael-moores-july-4-message-cannot-in-good-conscience-continue-to-accept-full-citizenship-privileges
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fourth-july-medias-history-bashing-america-symbols-democracy