Congratulations fam! We have made it 249 years as a nation! We're not just a collection of people from other places anymore, either, we are our own people.
As we embark on our 250th year, we have solidified not only a national identity but a national ethnicity.
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We are identifiable to everyone worldwide — except, it seems, to ourselves.
Americans don’t pass as natives when we travel to Europe, Asia, Africa or South America.
Even when our skin color matches that of our hosts, we are always visible as who and what we are.
It’s in our persistent smiles, our pristine white sneakers, our matching T-shirts, our loudness.
It’s our table manners, our insistence on tipping, on air conditioning, on ice.
It’s the way we always lean to one side when standing in line...
...it’s even in the way we look, with bits and pieces of genetic traits from across the world all melded together.
We exhibit a culture that we perceive as universal, but are really national markers.
I love us: We are direct and confident; we stride, we do not slouch; we are bright, big, friendly.
We take charge, entering conflict assuming we will win — we’re back-to-back World War champs, after all.
Even those naysaying Americans who complain about the country do so with the utmost self-assurance and righteousness — our haters cannot escape their own American traits.
Good.
They are awesome.
Let’s embrace them — and let’s encourage our immigrants to take them on, too.
Democrats are missing out — show some pride as we embark on America’s 250th year
An atheist group declared that it's "unconstitutional" for a Kansas middle school choir teacher to teach American black spiritual music, claiming it has no historical significance outside the church. 🧵
The students learned the songs, and were taught the context of the music in tradition of Christian heritage. The Freedom from Religion Foundation, founded in the 1970s by an atheist feminist, demanded the school only teach secular music.
The atheist feminist group is trying to remove Christian heritage from America. They are not trying to "protect" atheist students but to eliminate Christianity from American cultural life.
The FBI was given the laptop in 2019 by the repair shop owner with whom Hunter Biden left it. They sat on it for a year. The FBI knew that the New York Post had the laptop and intended to publish. 🧵
Then in September 2020 the FBI engaged Twitter execs in a hypothetical to identify disinformation in which the execs were tasked with identifying a laptop purported to have belonged to Hunter Biden as Russian disinformation.
When Morris and the New York Post released their report, social media companies immediately identified the story as Russian disinformation, as did the Biden campaign. The Biden campaign then solicited a response from former intelligence officials to corroborate their lies.
I first heard about @Moms4Liberty from a teacher at my son's school. She whispered that she and other teachers at the Brooklyn public school appreciated the work I was doing, but couldn't say so publicly. 🧵
She said the teachers' union made them hand out fliers for a far-left NYC mayoral candidate. Then she introduced me to her local contact for Moms for Liberty.
They were opposed to school lockdowns, masking kids in school, Covid vax mandates.
They opposed racial segregation, gender identity indoctrination, the incessant push of social emotional learning to the detriment of actual learning. They spoke their minds, upheld parents rights, and demanded schools be accountable to parents and kids, not to ideology.
Since the war in Ukraine started in February 2022, Biden has made a number of promises regarding US engagement in Ukraine. He's broken 5 really big ones:🧵
F-16s: Biden was asked in January 2023 if the US would send F-16s to Ukraine. "No," Biden said unequivocally. Ukrainian fighters then came to the Arizona to train on the jets, and Ukraine is set to receive the planes.
Abrams Tanks: Biden said that the "idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews, just understand, that's called World War 3, okay?" The US promised 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
I've been writing about transhumanism, including Neuralink, since 2018. It's a technology that seeks to change what human beings are, their essence, their physical form. Now it's here, and human beings are on the precipice of being transformed into transhumans. 🧵
It's scary, because as it becomes reality, human beings will simply become another part of the internet of things. We will just be data ports in a great sea of data ports, some human, some machine.
Instead of being able to think our own thoughts, with a barrier between our thoughts and data inputs, it will be a two-way stream. Will we know when thoughts are not our own but have streamed into our minds without us even noticing?