On Memorial Day, Unpatriotic Americans Know Nothing of America’s Greatness

 Steve McCann - American Thinker  

"Their forebears created and molded the country that became the foremost nation on earth. That drive, determination, and above all patriotism still beat deep within the hearts of all who are proud to call this nation their home, and they will make certain that America’s best days are still ahead."

  "As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, patriotism and pride in being an American have hit historic lows. Only 58% of citizens are extremely or very proud to be Americans, compared to 90% in 2004. Among those who identify as Democrats, only 36% are extremely or very proud to be Americans, compared to 88% in 2004.

   "On this Memorial Day, when the nation remembers those who made the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the freedoms that so many take for granted, it is a tragedy that the United States, a nation that has so advanced the welfare of mankind, is faced with such a stark reality while celebrating its milestone semiquincentennial anniversary.

   "The true account of America’s contribution to the world and its people is one of magnificent achievement, whether freeing millions from tyranny by force of arms or dramatically improving their standard of living by fostering global economic growth and new, ever-evolving technology.

   "Perhaps the one thing above all others that most United States citizens do not appreciate is the indispensable and unprecedented role this nation has played in giving hope and a real-life vision of the blessings of true freedom and liberty to countless millions throughout the world. Nothing this country has done in its history can compare to being what Ronald Reagan referred to as “The Shining City on the Hill.”

   "Befitting the true intent of Memorial Day, to the 20% of citizens who are only a little or not at all proud to be Americans, here is a story based on personal experience. It is emblematic of the strain of honor, bravery, and patriotism that permeates the American character, as well as this nation’s historical commitment to freedom and liberty for all mankind.   "As World War II grinds to an end, an American soldier slowly walks through the streets of a once-bustling European city now lying in ruin. The few still-upright walls, their windows and doors blown out, appear as skeletons framed against the blue sky. His senses, honed to a fine razor’s edge to react to the slightest sound or movement, lead the soldier to step carefully around the piles of broken bricks and shattered glass that serve as perfect cover for an ambush or a sniper’s lair.

   "The soldier hears a faint stirring behind him and, wheeling around, rifle raised in anticipation of the worst, he sees instead a young girl, perhaps five or six years old, slowly walking towards him, her tattered clothes barely able to cover her emaciated frame. Their eyes meet as kindred spirits.

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Despite the garish looks of the people in the streets, their Hamas scarves, their professionally printed anti-Trump signs, and their ignorant chants, my ingrained pessimism forces me to expect the worst for America. Everything on TV and Hollywood seems to, well, trump any imbecility from the left. TD

 The American Spectator 

"Or maybe James Blair, the White House deputy chief of staff who is now running the GOP’s political operation for the midterms, is simply keeping the President apprised of the dismal quality of the Democrat candidates they face in November."

The Democrat Clown Show

"One hardly has to be a political junkie to know that midterm elections rarely turn out well for the party that holds the White House. It has happened only once this century, when the Republicans picked up 8 House seats and one Senate seat during the first midterm election of George W. Bush’s presidency. There are two factors at play this year, however, which may allow the GOP to duplicate that feat. First, the leader of the Republican Party has built his political career on defying history. Second, the Democrats have recruited a very large number of truly weird candidates—even more than usual. The corporate “news” media has ignored their oddities but the word is getting out.

"The most prominent exemplar of these strange Democrats is Texas Senate nominee James Talarico. The Lone Star Liberty PAC released a new ad featuring videos of Talarico saying things that all but guarantee his loss in November regardless of which Republican he faces. For example, when asked to name something he loves other than friends or family he answered “I love the trans children.” He is also shown saying, “There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six.” Speaking about immigration policy he says, “Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.” Talarico is now posing as a populist, but it’s unlikely that this masquerade will fool many Texans.

"Another faux populist nominated by the Democrats is Graham Platner, who hopes to unseat longtime Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine. Like Talarico, however, Platner is hoping the voters will overlook liabilities like his Nazi tattoo and highly offensive online comments, including posts “insulting the U.S. Army, mocking a Purple Heart recipient, using slurs and expressing support for political violence.” And it gets worse, including posts about crude acts in portable toilets and obscene bathroom graffiti. This creepy stuff doesn’t fit very well with the “everyman” image he has attempted to cultivate. When he was asked about this growing catalogue of controversial statements and behavior, Platner told The Advocate,

People are digging through my entire life because I, frankly, am running for Senate on an anti-establishment platform … I have not been living a life under the assumption that I was going to run for Senate someday. I’ve lived a normal life, fighting in wars, working jobs, and being online like anyone else. We need a politics that reflects that normal people make mistakes and grow. Most people in this country have a lot more in common with each other than they do with the people in power. If we want a politics for regular people, we have to accept that regular people evolve.    

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"News outlets have reported on additional posts by Platner, which show him mocking rural white people, calling himself a communist, and calling Jesus a “zombie.”

"His disgusting behavior also extends to members of the military, including mocking Pfc. Ted Daniels, who, while serving in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, with the 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, deliberately stepped into the open to draw Taliban fire away from the rest of his squad, which consisted of seven other soldiers.

Platner suggested that Daniels “didn’t deserve to live.'”

Report: California Fraud So Bad It Makes Minnesota Fraud Look Like ‘Childs Play’

The Federalist Papers  

"California taxpayers aren’t funding a welfare program that occasionally fails. They’re funding a system that converts their money into political power for the people who run it. As Rufo puts it: when the people with the levers of power benefit from the system, the system does not change." 

Rapper Nuke Bizzle bragged about EDD fraud to face prison time

"California’s unemployment insurance program lost approximately $32 billion to fraud during COVID-19. Sacramento assigned two state employees to investigate. Chris Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says that wasn’t negligence. It was a rational response to the incentive structure, because the fraud pays the people in charge.

Key Facts

• ~$32 billion was stolen from California’s EDD unemployment program during COVID-19, documented by the California State Auditor and the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General.

• Two state employees were assigned to oversee fraud statewide while EDD paid out billions in claims each week.

• Gavin Newsom has been California’s governor since January 2019, the period Rufo identifies as when the state became, in his words, “a big fat target.”

• Tennessee rapper “Nuke Bizzle” was arrested only after releasing a music video demonstrating his fraud methods in detail; federal prosecutors cited the video as evidence in court.

• Rufo identifies a money chain: fraudulent IHSS caregiver enrollments inflate union membership rolls, generating dues that flow to California Democratic campaigns.

• Enforcement is broken at every stage: most fraudsters aren’t caught, caught ones typically aren’t charged, and those convicted rarely serve meaningful time.

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How the Machine Works

"California’s In-Home Supportive Services program automatically enrolls home care workers in public sector unions. When fraud inflates IHSS caregiver headcounts, union dues increase. Those dues fund California Democrats, the same politicians who control EDD oversight.

"Rufo frames it as a direct pipeline: “taxpayers, fraud schemes, unions, politicians.” Every link in that chain has a financial interest in the pipe staying open.

The Immunity Chain

"Most EDD fraud goes unprosecuted. California’s criminal justice system, under the same political management as EDD, provides the final protection. Fraudsters who are caught aren’t charged. Those charged aren’t convicted. Those convicted don’t serve time.

"The result is a system that carries almost no risk for fraudsters. That’s not a failure of capacity. It’s a predictable outcome of who controls the enforcement mechanism." . . . More...

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Al Gore can claim the global crown of our modern age's biggest mountebank ... and people actually believed him!

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 Monica Showalter

"Two decades on, An Inconvenient Truth reminds us that panic is a terrible policy adviser. Focusing on cost-effective solutions—innovation, adaptation, development—will save trillions and do much more to help both people and the climate."

"When Al Gore lost the 2000 election, many foolishly thought that that would be the last of him.

"He was, after all, a buffoon. A well-known television journalist once told me he was so stiff she once mistook him for a cardboard cutout of himself while covering the White House during his vice presidency.

"Turns out his ridiculous exit from politics was just the start of his career as our age's leading mountebank, untouchable and untouched, even by #metoo-style sex harassment claims.

"His error-plagued 'documentary,' "An Inconvenient Truth,' put him on track to become the world's most consequential influencer of the rich, white, global elites. In this regard, he resembles Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Geneva philosphe, who bewitched Parisian high society with errant concepts of what would become today's leftism.

"Once Gore's error-plagued movie came out, the accolades followed, particularly from wealthy Europeans who awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, and after that, global warming became 'the science.'

"Vatican encyclicals were written. Bike lanes were installed to ensure more crowded traffic in cities. Cap and trade became the emperor's new clothes. Plastic straws were taken away along with plastic bags and consumers had to ask for utensils for their takeout food. Taxes soared as fossil fuels were replaced with unreliable solar and wind power and grids buckled. Cars were saddled with fuel efficiency mandates literally unknown to sciece. Treaties were signed -- remember the Paris accords? And then they were gleefully ignored by the third world's [unprintables]. Cash was shaken down. Germany lost its reliable electricity sources and its costs soared. Putin financed green groups to undermine the West and invaded Ukraine. Schoolchildren were preached the virtues of eating bugs. Agriculture became addicted to ethanol subsidies and cars began running on the less efficient fuel. Forests were denuded to make space for solar panels that blinded pilots overhead and wasted farmland, while wind farms became bird Cuisinarts on land and harmed whales at sea. And hypocrites everywhere flew on private jets to fancy conferences to discuss new ways of reducing free people's quality of life, all because of global warming. Elites became rich off this idea, of course, from the Solyndra barons to Gore himself, who left office with about $1 million in assets  and is worth a reported $300 million today. And COVID and its lockdowns took global warming hysteria as its model for increasing government power.

"Now we're on the 20th anniversary of the film, and the damage has been done." . . . More...

Greta, the "Doom Goblin" warns us...

“The people who have been the avatars of climate change, never suffer the consequences of their own ideology. Barack Obama said the planet would be inundated pretty soon, if we didn't address global climate change. Why would he buy a seaside estate at Martha's Vineyard or one on the beach of Hawaii if he really did believe that the oceans would rise and flood his multimillion-dollar investment?

Another ingrate from a 'refugee' family seeks high U.S. office, but refuses to pledge allegiance to or show respect the U.S. flag

What's in the water around that part of California?

 Monica Showalter - American Thinker 

"If this were a local office she were seeking and got elected to, one could dismiss her failure to respect the U.S. and the ideas it stands for as something its voters deserve. But Congress is a national office, meaning, her votes would affect every single American, for better or for worse.  That ought to be an impeachable offense upon entry."

No purple hair yet.

"In what must be the Mother of All Ingratitude, the daughter of a Hmong family that fled communist horrors in Laos, and then spent a lifetime on welfare in the U.S., courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, is running for Congress to represent the wealthy area south of Sacramento, California.

"But she refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance, claiming the U.S, is too flawed to merit it, and actually turns her back to the U.S. flag.

"According to the California Post:

The lefty Sacramento city councilmember has boasted about refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance at public meetings and ceremonies — and routinely turned her back on the flag.

Vang, who is attempting to unseat longtime Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui in the June primary election, is currently polling neck-and-neck with the incumbent and slightly ahead of Republican Zachariah Wooden. 

But the potential of an anti-American congressmember isn’t sitting right with some constituents in the state’s recently redrawn 7th congressional district, which added more conservative pockets like Lodi, Placerville and El Dorado Hills to a electoral map that already included parts of Sacramento and Elk Grove.

"If there's anyone out there who ought to be down on her knees giving thanks to the United States of America, it's Mai Vang.

"Instead, the DSA-endorsed congressional wannabe put out this woke drivel:

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