Patterico's Pontifications

7/4/2016

Happy Independence Day

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 2:55 pm



I refuse to write about another stupid Trump controversy on this day. If I read another piece that begins “Corey Lewandowski says” I think ISIS may end up taking responsibility for my actions. That’s a joke. Relax.

Instead, let’s spend the day thinking about the things that bind us together: a love of freedom, a respect for natural rights, and a fiercely independent character. These are the things America is about.

Also, making fun of clueless people who have no idea about any of those things:

77 Responses to “Happy Independence Day”

  1. Have a good one.

    Patterico (86c8ed) — 7/4/2016 @ 2:56 pm

  2. It’s taken decades of public education by unionized teachers to obtain this result. They have achieved exactly what they set out for.

    Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6) — 7/4/2016 @ 3:08 pm

  3. It’s always somebody else’s fault that the stupid and ignorant are stupid and ignorant.

    Patterico, if you didn’t want this post to be about Trump why did you post interviews of Trump voters?

    nk (dbc370) — 7/4/2016 @ 3:28 pm

  4. nk infers a good point.
    Trump voters don’t know when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
    On the other hand, Hillary’s voters can tell you all about The Federalist Papers. (LOL)
    In fact, they so ardently believe in the Federalist Papers, that they are inspired to vote for more expansive government.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 7/4/2016 @ 3:33 pm

  5. yes, Hoagie. And we sat around and let it happen.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/4/2016 @ 3:45 pm

  6. R.I.P. Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane in Superman films & TV shows from 1948-1958

    Icy (416737) — 7/4/2016 @ 3:46 pm

  7. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!!! 🤗🇺🇸

    Icy (416737) — 7/4/2016 @ 3:47 pm

  8. He’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s Trump
    He’s in their head
    He’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s Trump
    They’re losin’ cred

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/4/2016 @ 3:59 pm

  9. 5.yes, Hoagie. And we sat around and let it happen.
    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/4/2016 @ 3:45 pm

    Colonel, I really get ruffled when somebody says that. I didn’t sit around anywhere and I didn’t “let” anything happen. I tried my best at the ballot box and in my community to help keep our country on the straight and narrow. I am a responsible citizen who pays his taxes, obeys the law and looks out for my fellow citizens. I would bet you and the rest of the folks at this blog have done the same.

    What happened occurred without out permission through stealth and incrementalism. At first it was about keeping government out of the bedroom. Now we’re paying for other people’s abortions and they use them for birth control killing a million Americans a year. First they just wanted gays to be treated like everyone else. Now they want chicks with dicks in bathrooms with little girls. First there was to be an “amnesty” after which illegals were not going to be allowed in. Now we have 40 million more than we did then.

    The only way we can stop any of it is by not letting Hillary! win!

    Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6) — 7/4/2016 @ 4:08 pm

  10. Outstanding essay for Independence Day: You Owe Them Nothing.

    You Owe Them Nothing

    bitterclinger (57eb41) — 7/4/2016 @ 4:12 pm

  11. I don’t see any of those people voting for Trump.

    You have to have a baseline self awareness. A sort of minimum level of involvement in order to be a Trumper or Trumpette.

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 7/4/2016 @ 4:27 pm

  12. So – it turns out that most of the signatories to the Declaration of Independence did so on my birthday – August 2nd … who knew ?

    Alastor (2e7f9f) — 7/4/2016 @ 4:32 pm

  13. This man is a artist and American.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBTyTWOZCM

    mg (31009b) — 7/4/2016 @ 4:33 pm

  14. More Red Skelton for laughing pleasure.

    mg (31009b) — 7/4/2016 @ 4:44 pm

  15. Hoagie, I can’t disagree with your point, in general, but what I’m saying is that their plan/strategy/tactics have been known for a long time. As parents, we do the best we can to try to share knowledge we have about our country, to help instill values and respect for our national heritage and traditions. We can’t depend on our public education system (there are exceptions) to assist with that. Things have undergone a drastic change since I was in school and not for the better.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/4/2016 @ 4:47 pm

  16. Here you go, guys. http://www.sydesjokes.com/pictures/f/first_us_flag.jpg

    nk (dbc370) — 7/4/2016 @ 5:01 pm

  17. honestly this place has gotten more than a little kos,

    http://spectator.org/trumps-sheriff-star-the-latest-drive-by-media-fabrication/

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 5:10 pm

  18. Gangster Government? They say, “may we have some moar, please?”

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/4/2016 @ 5:19 pm

  19. e pleb nista,

    http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2016/07/04/you-owe-them-nothing–not-respect-not-loyalty-not-obedience-n2186865

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 5:29 pm

  20. I’d fly one of those,nk.

    mg (31009b) — 7/4/2016 @ 5:35 pm

  21. I saw the thing by Trump and didn’t see any “Star of David”…
    So that is really what they were fussing about????

    They have gone crazy, so bent on suppressing the truth about real corruption that they hallucinate stuff.

    MD in Philly (f9371b) — 7/4/2016 @ 5:53 pm

  22. http://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/810457/usmc-statement-on-iwo-jima-flagraisers/

    …”Although the Rosenthal image is iconic and significant, to Marines it’s not about the individuals and never has been,” according to Neller. “Simply stated, our fighting spirit is captured in that frame, and it remains a symbol of the tremendous accomplishments of our Corps — what they did together and what they represent remains most important. That doesn’t change.”

    It looks like John Bradley wasn’t in the picture.

    http://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/810457/usmc-statement-on-iwo-jima-flagraisers/

    But he was on mount Suribachi. That’s the important thing.

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6009

    Here’s to us, and those like us.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/4/2016 @ 5:57 pm

  23. well the journolist is in overdrive, as are rick wilson’s auxiliaries,

    http://www.weaselzippers.us/280998-msnbc-terror-analyst-donald-trump-is-the-isis-candidate/

    now this fellow was all verklempt about waterboarding years ago,

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 5:57 pm

  24. well that’s good to hear, now the son is a right ponce who sees himself as a dimestore zinn,

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 5:59 pm

  25. narciso, you could be right about me.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/4/2016 @ 6:19 pm

  26. he’s just a terrible writer, beats you over the head with a mallot, like you know teddy roosevelt was responsible for pearl harbor, that kind of trite wisdom that is full vizzini,

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 6:24 pm

  27. It was changed from a star to a circle, MD.
    Like everything else from Trump, “just wait five minutes”.
    The image started out on a fringe loony site.
    Trump tweeted it.
    He got grief.
    He retweeted it with a circle.
    In-between he made inconsistent claims. 1. “I did not produce the image.” 2. “I meant it as a sheriff’s star, not a Star of David.”
    And he had the media talking about him and not the meeting between Billy and Lynch over the weekend.
    He is just bound and determined to throw the election to Hillary.

    More, here: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/politics/donald-trump-star-of-david-tweet-explained/

    nk (dbc370) — 7/4/2016 @ 6:31 pm

  28. yeah these upstanding ‘speakers of truth to power’

    https://twitter.com/HeyTammyBruce/status/750126305300054017

    the ones who care not that noor salman has dissapeared, who yawn at the malfeasance in the va,

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 6:36 pm

  29. Having seen the offending tweet, I have to say the star did not look like a sheriff’s badge to me, especially since it was tilted to one side. And unless showing Hillary in handcuffs, it makes no sense to me.

    Maybe they meant to suggest Hillary is an all-star in the Corruption League. Which is true. But they didn’t offer that explanation. So I put it down to Trumpian incompetence.

    kishnevi (480bf9) — 7/4/2016 @ 6:58 pm

  30. , like you know teddy roosevelt was responsible for pearl harbor

    Maybe he was.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet

    Since Japan had arisen as a major sea power with the 1905 annihilation of the Russian fleet at Tsushima, the deployment of the Great White Fleet was therefore intended, at least in part, to send a message to Tokyo that the American fleet could be deployed anywhere, even from its Atlantic ports, and would be able to defend American interests in the Philippines and the Pacific.[7][8]

    That gesture capitalized on a war scare that had resulted from anti-Japanese riots in San Francisco. Roosevelt saw the deployment of the fleet as one that would take the American public’s mind off an economic depression that had begun in 1907, encourage patriotism, and give the impression that he would teach Japan “a lesson in polite behavior”, as historian Robert A. Hart phrased it.[9] Roosevelt did so on the assurance from financial experts that Japan had been drained from the Russo-Japanese War and would not be ready for another conflict for at least a decade.[9] After the fleet had crossed the Pacific, Japanese statesmen realized that the balance of power in the East had changed since the Root–Takahira Agreement that defined relevant spheres of interest of the United States and Japan.[7]

    kishnevi (480bf9) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:04 pm

  31. but the fleet had been built long before the 1907 crash, which was remedied by jp morgan, in addition it wasn’t till the control group seized power in japan, a quarter century later, that these preoccupations set in,

    http://spectator.org/64643_when-trump-fought-racists/

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:10 pm

  32. Scrooge McDonald is saving hundreds of dollars of non-existent campaign funds which would otherwise be totally wasted on frivolous communication staff. Every once in a while (24/7/365), it shows.

    Rick Ballard (0e6252) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:11 pm

  33. kishnevi (480bf9) — 7/4/2016 @ 6:58 pm

    I have to say the star did not look like a sheriff’s badge to me, especially since it was tilted to one side. And unless showing Hillary in handcuffs, it makes no sense to me.

    It doesn’t look like a sheriff’s badge, but it doesn’t look very different from an asterisk. It can be taken for something artistic, and it doesn’t have any internal lines, that would make someone recognize it as a Star of David.

    If it had been a 5-pointed star nobody would have said anything, and, unless you are looking for it, you won’t notice the difference between a 5-pointed star and a 6-pointed star.

    The question is, how does what looks like deliberately ambiguous stuff like this repeatedly wind up in Trump’s twitter feed?

    Maybe they meant to suggest Hillary is an all-star in the Corruption League.

    Not even that. It’s just making the words stand out. A star is a little like an exclamation point. As I said, it evoke an asterisk, which is often acomment on the main text. A circle doesn’t look anywhere near as good.

    So I put it down to Trumpian incompetence.

    I figure somebody’s actually trying to pla

    Sammy Finkelman (09e4a9) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:30 pm

  34. …to plant things on him.

    Anyone else would be wary of where something is coming from, even if it doesn’t look bad.

    Sammy Finkelman (09e4a9) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:31 pm

  35. Tangential for comparison, perhaps
    http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.co.il/2016/07/national-sovereignty-very-first-thing.html

    kishnevi (480bf9) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:32 pm

  36. #21 MD in Philly,

    It’s a little ironic that the liberals who have excused the Iranian Mullahs thirst for nukes in order to wipe out the state of Israel, are now freaking out about a generic graphic design within a tweet.

    In other words, nukes aren’t dangerous, but tweets are! (LOL)

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:37 pm

  37. The fireworks used in the Macy’s fireworks display celebrating America’s birthday…

    … are made in China.

    But they’re Yankie Doodle Dandies.

    DCSCA (a343d5) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:38 pm

  38. “Anyone else would be wary of where something is coming from, even if it doesn’t look bad.”

    That would require spending money on competent staff. There’s no money and little desire on the part of competent people to associate themselves with a farce.

    It’s not one tenth as stupid as Bubba’s tarmac fiasco though.

    This is just a bum fight by dumpster fire light. The Wino and the Bag Lady tend to fall down about as often as they swing.

    Rick Ballard (0e6252) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:47 pm

  39. well not a few, were proteges of orde wingate, who despite some of his idiosyncracies, had an understanding about faith,

    so we have an administration, whose top policy makers, dwell on the phrase, al quds, which entails the replacement of jerusalem.

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:47 pm

  40. what you think what happened this weekend was accidental, no it was deliberate, it was (redacting) on the entire national security establishment, because inspector dreyfus won’t listen, they’d probably put him or loretta on the court, ala caligula’s horse,

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:52 pm

  41. much like this,

    http://www.scifiwright.com/2016/07/supreme-court-holds-constitution-to-be-unconstitutional/

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 7:56 pm

  42. you think I’m kidding,

    http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/04/hillary-clinton-loretta-lynch-attorney-general/

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 8:09 pm

  43. yes lets have more of this,

    http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/07/04/revealed-obama-policy-left-chris-stevens-defenseless-benghazi/

    tom perez mentioned before has neutered every major police department as head of the the civil right zampolit

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 8:35 pm

  44. Push it all week. Make Trump out as the anti-semite until it starts taking on as his new brand.

    Then next week Trump will take a road trip to Israel, kiss Bibi on both cheeks, and do a ribbon cutting on the ground work for our new Embassy in Jerusalem.

    Then let Clinton try to color herself as something short of a Jew hating bigot, without offending the 69.5% of her campaign contributors who are.

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 7/4/2016 @ 8:35 pm

  45. one can’t forget that the last generation of mind arson, was courtesy to the ignite template sold to neil, who made it the core of the nclb mandate, rotten core is the second iteration of this knavery.

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 8:53 pm

  46. http://navalaviationnews.navylive.dodlive.mil/2013/05/09/swede-vejtasa-in-memoriam/

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/4/2016 @ 9:38 pm

  47. I could be wrong

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/4/2016 @ 9:44 pm

  48. about swede, I don’t think so,

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/4/2016 @ 9:56 pm

  49. How could you take off work every 4th of July and not even have curiosity enough about the day to google it?!

    But yes, this is all intentional. The long march through the institutions is complete.

    Patricia (5fc097) — 7/4/2016 @ 10:30 pm

  50. Happy Independence Day all. Take a moment to read some of the writings of our Founding Fathers and see why this day was needed.

    Parallels abound.

    NJRob (a07d2e) — 7/4/2016 @ 10:40 pm

  51. I don’t really enjoy the 4th so much anymore since people have taken to launching mortars in urban areas like they were sparklers. After the 20th or so mortar round explodes over your roof, it gets annoying.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/5/2016 @ 2:24 am

  52. WHat a crappy election choice. The yahoos have forced us to choose between eating sh1t or cyanide. I really wish that we had some lobster on the menu, but no, it’s sh1t or cyanide. I’m gonna diet.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/5/2016 @ 2:26 am

  53. “sheriff’s badge” Right. On money.

    No, another one of the many white identity folks that Trump attracts like flies thought it would be oh-so-clever to put a Star of David on Hillary’s money to let everyone know who was really backing her, and Trump is trying to dig himself out of it. Again.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/5/2016 @ 2:33 am

  54. Kevin. Buck up lad.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 2:34 am

  55. Then next week Trump will take a road trip to Israel, kiss Bibi on both cheeks, and do a ribbon cutting on the ground work for our new Embassy in Jerusalem.

    I’m willing to bet that Bibi will be busy any week that Trump visits. He’s not going to go out of his way to piss off the presumptive President-elect.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/5/2016 @ 2:35 am

  56. http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/bt1-andrew-gallagher-risked-his-life-to-save-others-aboard-uss-belknap/

    And, look at that mess.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 2:49 am

  57. The media should be the target.

    mg (31009b) — 7/5/2016 @ 3:09 am

  58. Happy Independence Day

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWgVRK_Ggww

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 3:54 am

  59. onshoehead

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 4:13 am

  60. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHvJ2jRA0qo

    I meant to do this.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 4:15 am

  61. The language may bother certain individuals.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 4:34 am

  62. After the 20th or so mortar round explodes over your roof, it gets annoying.

    I know, aren’t they annoying? I have a piece of one lodged against my right kidney from Nam. Very annoying.

    Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6) — 7/5/2016 @ 5:31 am

  63. Hoagie, I don’t joke about such things.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 5:34 am

  64. I spent enough time in Navy hospitals.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 5:35 am

  65. Mostly I make fun of myself.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 5:45 am

  66. Thanks, Steve57. I like the way that chick thinks.

    felipe (408c5f) — 7/5/2016 @ 6:00 am

  67. with said vicious, a homunculus who thinks settlements are a war crime.

    narciso (732bc0) — 7/5/2016 @ 6:13 am

  68. I needed to have it have have it voxsplained myself.

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 6:30 am

  69. Thanks for the further clarifications, I must have seen a link that led me to the revision with a circle.
    All of it is just ridiculous.

    MD in Philly (f9371b) — 7/5/2016 @ 6:36 am

  70. WHat a crappy election choice. The yahoos have forced us to choose between eating sh1t or cyanide. I really wish that we had some lobster on the menu, but no, it’s sh1t or cyanide. I’m gonna diet.

    Kevin M
    ===============================================

    Perhaps it’s time for Kevin to “Kevexit”?

    Colonel Haiku (c0ad39) — 7/5/2016 @ 6:52 am

  71. TRUMP: Who’s paying for Obama/Clinton political trips?
    Hillary State Dept records delays mounting up…
    FLASH: FBI Director Comey will address reporters at 11AM ET today at FBI HQ DC…
    Will make statement and take off-camera questions from reporters… Developing…

    Colonel Haiku (c0ad39) — 7/5/2016 @ 6:55 am

  72. Coronello I am all kkkkinds of f****d up

    Steve57 (ecac13) — 7/5/2016 @ 7:23 am

  73. Allow me to record interviews with 100 random people then edit and broadcast the dozen or so most ignorant responses, and I can also produce embarrassing video.

    This whether the 100 are truly randomly sampled, or pre-selected as “Hillary” supporters at a crowd –waiting for one of her (very expensive) speeches — or sampled from “Trump” supporters at one of his riots, or selected from among “Never Trumpers” at a wine and cheese party in the very most luxurious of salons.

    Of the last, I would frame the question as “Harvard, Yale or other University” and ask the elites of the Never Trump society to identify which “founding father” or other “notable historical figure” had attended which. Then I would list (among others notables NOT disclosed in the broadcast) notables like Washington, Lincoln, Truman who had not attended any formal institution. Again, with enough potential victims and enough recorded minutes I could generate a pretty “humorous” short piece for YouTube.

    Then I’d get sued by James O’Keefe for poaching in his patch…

    Pouncer (806511) — 7/5/2016 @ 8:04 am

  74. I’m willing to bet that Bibi will be busy any week that Trump visits. He’s not going to go out of his way to piss off the presumptive President-elect.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/5/2016 @ 2:35 am

    Are you talking about the anti-Semite supporter, Hillary Clinton? You know, the best friend of the virulent anti-Semite Blumenthals’?

    Really?

    NJRob (a07d2e) — 7/5/2016 @ 8:05 am

  75. NJRob,

    You obviously are aware of Max Blumenthal’s vile tweet about the recent passing of Wiesel.
    Here’s the YouTube clip of when Andrew Breitbart absolutely destroys Max Blumenthal to his face at CPAC 2012. Then after Andrew departs, his buddy Larry O’Connor confronts Max with some truth and facts.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIeByOeERpY

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 7/5/2016 @ 8:24 am

  76. I’m willing to bet that Bibi will be busy any week that Trump visits. He’s not going to go out of his way to piss off the presumptive President-elect.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/5/2016 @ 2:35 am

    Kevin is mistaking the Prime Minister of Israel for an FBI political appointee.

    papertiger (c2d6da) — 7/5/2016 @ 10:40 am

  77. Cruz Supporter,

    Indeed I am. The Clinton’s and their associates are vile creatures who shouldn’t be anywhere near positions of power.

    njrob (88d4b1) — 7/6/2016 @ 11:28 am


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