This week, most Americans found a moment of rare unity in our pride over the performance of our athletes in the Winter Olympics. After years of rage politics, there was a brief respite as we joined in cheering our team in representing the United States in Milan and Cortina. Well, most of us. Some in the media found the entire demonstration of patriotism to be intolerable and triggering. What is striking is how this aversion to our flag and country was so openly expressed in major media.
Yesterday, the nightmare continued for some on the left who were traumatized by seeing the American flag and open displays of patriotism. Jack Hughes, one of the heroes of the gold medal hockey game, returned to New Jersey to play and was met with cheers of “USA, USA” and a sea of American flags. Hughes immediately called his Olympic teammate Tage Thompson of the visiting Buffalo Sabres to the ice to join him. The two skated arm in arm as the crowd celebrated them and our country.
It was another unifying moment for the country. The fans joined arm in arm to relish this moment for the nation.
These scenes are clearly having a different impact on some on the left.
The HuffPost even published an article with therapeutic advice for liberals triggered by seeing so many American flags. The liberal publication ran an article titled “There’s a Name for the Discomfort You’re Feeling Watching the Olympics Right Now.” It then published it a second time before the gold-medal hockey game with Canada — presumably to prepare its readers for the nightmare of the United States actually winning.
The subheading read, “If waving the American flag or chanting ‘USA!’ turns you off right now, you’re not alone.”
Senior writer Monica Torres began the article with this line: “While President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda separates families, and federal agents detain 5-year-olds and kill unarmed civilians, American athletes are winning medals on behalf of the nation at the Olympics right now.”
Torres goes on to interview three therapists for this “story” about how the celebration of the United States team has forced many liberals into therapy over their trauma and “the cognitive dissonance of rooting for U.S. sports.”
Los Angeles-based licensed clinical social worker Aimee Monterrosa explained that the “atrocities” of the United States can trigger feelings of guilt, despair, shame, anger” in seeing the country celebrate these sports victories.
Expert Lauren Appio echoed how “waving the American flag or chanting, ‘USA!’ [can make] us feel grossed out or ashamed.”
Over at Vox, Senior correspondent (and former Atlantic writer) Alex Abad-Santos wrote an article on the winners and losers of the Olympics. The column perfectly summed up the pathological opposition of some to this country’s symbols and celebrations.
Abad-Santos declared the men’s hockey team one of the biggest “losers” of the games. He blamed that team for alienating citizens by their patriotic statements: “The conversation surrounding the win quickly shifted into how the team celebrated and who it celebrated with.” He expressed outrage over the team accepting the celebratory call from the President of the United States.
In the meantime, the “winner,” according to Abad-Santos, was . . . wait for it . . . Eileen Gu, the American who reportedly took millions from the repressive Chinese regime to ski for China.
Gu used the games to criticize the United States while saying nothing of how China arrests anyone who speaks out against that country.
Abad-Santos gushes:
“Gu symbolizes the reality that athletes don’t need the US’s backing or support to be commercially successful. That makes some Americans like Vance uneasy. She also embodies the very American idea of relentlessly pursuing success and maximizing it, no matter what it takes. Gu represents the American dream and the startling concept that America isn’t necessary for it.”
The last line is particularly telling. Abad-Santos is celebrating the idea that you can live the American dream without America.
Others joined in lionizing Gu. Charlotte Harpur, writing for The New York Times’ (NYT) The Athletic, virtually declared her a new deity: “You would be forgiven if you thought Gu was a quasi-human robot expertly created by artificial intelligence, so eloquent are her responses to the media.”
The next day, the Times then slammed Men’s Hockey Team in an article titled “The U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team won gold — and then lost the room.” The Athletic‘s Jerry Brewer acknowledged that speaking with the U.S. president after such a win is “an obligatory celebration.” However, he declared that these are not “normal times”: “This isn’t a neutral climate. This isn’t a neutral president. And in a nation this polarized, the proximity carries weight whether the players are being intentional or merely naive.”
These columns on sites like HuffPost and Vox stripped away the pretense of past pieces and laid bare the antagonism for the United States by some on the left. The open celebration of the country was too much for many rage addicts today.
Fortunately, these writers are largely writing for each other. The public long ago left these sites. They now write for a minority of Americans who are triggered by the appearance of American flags or traumatized by expressions of patriotism.
What these writers find repulsive is rousing for the rest of us. Watching Hughes and Thompson skate together last night was everything that is great about this country, as those Jersey fans went wild. Hughes said that he was struggling not to get emotional at that moment. He was not alone.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the author of the New York Times bestselling “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
I think those that suggest getting mental health help for being triggered for seeing patriotism should actually take their own advice.
8 Most Horribly Divisive Statements From Trump’s State Of The Union
“Good evening”: Trump wasted no time in tearing the country apart with this contentious opening.
“Congratulations to the gold medal-winning U.S. hockey team”: A team that literally fought our own ally, Canada. Conflict is the goal.
“The American government is responsible for serving Americans”: Trump could have brought unity. Instead, he brought this.
“We should not hurt children”: Fomenting discord with radical statements, like always.
“Violent crime is bad”: Another grenade of disunity lobbed at America.
“Thank you to our wounded veterans for their service”: It’s like Trump wants nothing but to stir controversy.
“Female refugees being killed on trains is wrong”: Why must Trump insist on driving us apart?
“God bless America”: Trump is literally asking us to fight each other.
Our country stands more divided than ever in the wake of Trump’s belligerent antagonism. It is on all of us to rise above his rhetoric and find national healing.
https://babylonbee.com/news/9-most-horribly-divisive-statements-from-trumps-state-of-the-union
Yes, you must believe I’m the real Olly – just compare this post to all my others!
And you MAGATS must believe me just like you believed Bribery Biden telling you his First Felon Son did nothing wrong – and he didn’t know any of his ChiCom and Putin Oligarch customers!
Because Trump is trying to divide the minority of unhinged, lunatic leftists from normal Americans of every political stripe so that everyone can see how deranged they truly are. Being divisive is an objective good in this case.
OLLY,
Thank you for the laugh!
Olly USF
I had to go through that twice but got the sarcasm quickly. That’s pretty good!
Those people are crazy
There’s crazy and then there’s Democrat WOKE crazy. That’s like comparing decaf to Red Bull espresso!
If we are being honest, the vast majority of Americans (Republicans, Democrats, Independents) actually have one thing in common – most of us love our country. Even the political party you disagree with, most love their country.
Loving one’s country is not the same thing as “nationalism” – pretending to be patriotic wrapping one’s self in the flag.
The American flag is merely a “symbol” of our constitutional democratic republic form of government. To be patriotic you don’t simply wear American flag hats and clothing – you support leaders that are loyal to and follow the constitutional rule of law. We support leaders and civil servants that are loyal to their Oath of Office. That is what the flag symbolizes.
The Pledge of Allegiance is really pledging loyalty to the symbol behind the American flag – a constitutional rule of law, checks & balances between co-equal branches of government, innocent until proven guilty justice system, and an independent judiciary. That is what the Pledge of Allegiance is really about.
Maybe you have nothing else in common with Americans of the opposite political party, but most of us love our country. We just have different ideas about what that means. It’s hard to demonize or stereotype your fellow Americans since they also love their country.
Not all Republicans are evil and not all Democrats are evil also! Be honest, you simply disagree with them.
Love of Country & Loyalty – is it or is it not a Marriage?
. Yes, marriage and citizenship are contracts, social contracts, anon.
Democrat Party politicians are indeed (mostly) evil.
The Pledge of Allegiance was created by a flag sales company to increase the sales of their flags.
Most americans do love their country – and like roses on valentines day the Flag is a symbol of that country and our love for it.
Most Americans disagree with the left, and most of the left does NOT love this country – and they are quite clear about that.
Most of the left has ideas that are totally at odds with this country calling them unpatriotic is not a misrepresentation – it is self evident and most of the left agree.
The left is at most 20% of the country – but it is taken control of the democratic party and it is weilding that control against the interests of the country and against the interests of democrats.
We do have different ideas about this country. Most Americans recognize our imperfections while still recognizing this country is the bastion of freedom in the world. Those on the left see the flaws as greater than the merits – if they do not see individual liberty itself as a flaw.
We can disagree on many things. but if you do not accept the core to this country is “the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order” nothing else matters – you do not belong here.
John Say,
Great comment.
John Say,
Most Americans disagree with the left. True, but most also disagree with the right. “Most of the left does NOT love this country”, not true. You’re confusing hate with dissent which is the most patriotic thing you can do. Criticism of one’s country is an act of love, not hate. Because dissent is the highest form of patriotism and that is what the 1st amendment is precisely meant to protect.
The left sees a flaw in something they love-their country- and they want to fix it.
James Baldwin famously said, “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
“ The left is at most 20% of the country – but it is taken control of the democratic party and it is weilding that control against the interests of the country and against the interests of democrats.”
Many “left-wing” policies—such as expanded social security, higher taxes on the wealthy, and environmental protections—often poll with majority support among all Americans, not just a 20% fringe. In fact a majority of Americans disagree with Trump’s policies. From the economy to immigration.
“ We can disagree on many things. but if you do not accept the core to this country is “the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order” nothing else matters – you do not belong here.”
“Individual freedom” can sometimes infringe upon the rights of others (e.g., a corporation’s freedom to pollute vs. a community’s right to clean water). Right? The left does not see liberty as a “flaw,” but rather argues that true liberty is impossible without a baseline of economic and social security. You aren’t “free” if you cannot afford lifesaving medicine or if the law is applied unequally to you.
We all belong here. The United States was founded on the principle of pluralism and the “marketplace of ideas.” You’re calling dissent as hate, unpatriotic or unAmerican.
Declaring that a large group of citizens “does not belong” because they hold different philosophical views (leftist) on the role of government is, in itself, an undemocratic sentiment that contradicts the First Amendment and the spirit of American debate. It’s contrary to Turley’s own beliefs and views.
Except for a few, the Democrats are against everything that Trump is for. Bottom line – destroy our Republic & establish a National Socialist State
Trump is only for making Trump rich and staying out of prison. He’s undermining the Republic and establishing an oligarchy.
Now do the exact same financial analysis for Bribery Biden – released on work parole to return to the White House after being found too mentally incompetent to stand trail for 40+ years of crime while in office. Add Commissar Pelosi, Somali Oligarch Omar, Bernie The Commie and your other thought leaders.
Or just do the usual Democrat Drop A Dump To Deflect And Disappear.
Trump was already incredibly rich before entering politics. Sane people understand that this is NOT about money for Trump.
He is looking to be remembered as the American Thatcher or greater that Reagan. YOu can argue that he is not, but there is no argument that is what he wants.
Further TRump has made all his wealth in things having nothing to do with government.
The oligarchy argument is nonsense – or more accurate it is projection. Democrats are far more beholding to the wealthy donor class.
Democrats are the ones undermining the republic.
John Say,
“ Trump was already incredibly rich before entering politics. Sane people understand that this is NOT about money for Trump.”
BS. It’s always about money for Trump. Greed can be a powerful aphrodisiac for people like Trump. It is ALWAYS about the money. You’re deluding yourself if you think it’s not about the money.
“ Further TRump has made all his wealth in things having nothing to do with government.”
BS, again. Trump has used government to enrich himself the same way you accused Biden. The crypto currency scheme he has going has made him billions. Getting a “donations” in the millions by wealthy donors wanting something done like pardons and favorable contracts. Trump is the most corrupt president we’ve ever had. The only difference is he does it in the open and that is apparently ok with many Republicans and you because they all benefit.
Since January 2025, Donald Trump’s net worth has nearly doubled, climbing from approximately $3.9 billion in 2024 to $7.3 billion by September 2025. No other president has made that kind of money legitimately. Trump has profited directly from his many business ventures tied directly to his time in office. Crypto, real estate, license fees, etc. I thought you were against using the office of the presidency to enrich yourself. You constantly griped about Biden making a few million from business ventures no different than Trump’s like some of which were fueled by investments from foreign entities—such as an UAE-linked firm—just as his administration approved major policy changes (like sending advanced AI chips) to those same entities. They have spent quite a bit to gain favor and Trump has benefitted handsomely.
Looking to be remember like Thatcher and Reagan? Wow, umm no.
Unlike Thatcher and Reagan, who were united by a belief in resisting totalitarianism, communism, and supporting NATO, Trump has been trashing NATO by lobbing insults at UK leaders and befriending authoritarian figures like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jung Un, Orban, and the Saudi rulers. He’s managed to destroy long lived alliances and sow distrust among our allies, a gift to Putin no doubt.
💩 4 🧠
But what else do we expect?
ERB, not destroy, oppose. Democrats oppose nearly everything Trump is. There is absolutely noting wrong with that. If they want to apply some socialist ideas or policies it is perfectly within their right if they gain a majority in Congress or the presidency. Just like it is the right of Conservatives to implement conservative and authoritarian policies if they are in the majority. Both still have to adhere to Constitutional limitations. Republicans want to do away with those limitations like Trump wanting to have a third term, and nationalizing elections to benefit Republicans.
The real problem for the left is that Trump HAS made America great again.
We need to change it to Made America Great Again!
AND I get to vote for more of it in the future! wheeee! MAGA!
. Anon, try MADE in America again
These people are beyond redemption. They are hateful and quite frankly evil. They glorify the most repressive regimes on earth while showing nothing but disdain for the country the endowed them with all the rights to do what they are doing. Send them to Gaza, China, or Iran. They belong there
They do not glorify the most repressive regimes on Earth. They are critical of the flaws to the country that respects their rights to be critical and work to improve and correct those flaws. You remain on the side of the slave holders by arguing the flaws go unnoticed and uncorrected.
“They do not glorify the most repressive regimes on Earth.”
ROFL given any choice between good and evil – you pick evil – all the time.
You could not even pick the interests of US citizens over illegal aliens.
Israel is far from perfect – but Hamas is evil and you back Hamas.
Islam is not entirely evil but it is the most repressive religion in the world today and yet you rant about christianity – or pretty much any other religion – except islam.
Slavery in the US was ended in 1865, The US not only ended it here shedding massive amount of our blood to do so, but we subsequently led the fight to end it globally. To the extent slavery still exists in the world – it is with the Taliban in Afghanistan or the cartels human trafficking
operations. It is Trump not you trying to end the latter.
It is those of you on the left that are on the side of all forms of slavery.
“ It is those of you on the left that are on the side of all forms of slavery.”
John, that is not true. Who has been pushing for the removal of Confederate memorials and statues a few years ago? Democrats or Republicans?
Republicans were decrying the removal of monuments glorifying those who fought for slavery. Seems Republicans were on the side of slavery rather than the Democrats.
The Left argues that human rights are universal and not determined by a border. Furthermore, many argue that providing a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants benefits citizens by stabilizing the labor market, increasing the tax base, and reducing the exploitation that drives down wages for everyone.
Regarding Hamas. This is a false dichotomy. One can condemn the actions of Hamas (as the vast majority of the American Left has done) while simultaneously criticizing the Israeli government’s military strategy or its treatment of Palestinian civilians.
John Say, you rely heavily on Ad Hominem and Generalization (painting “the Left” as a monolith). “The Left” includes millions of people with varying views, and very few, if any, “glorify repressive regimes” or “socialist policies.” Nuance is important and the right is not very good with nuance.
“John, that is not true. Who has been pushing for the removal of Confederate memorials and statues a few years ago? Democrats or Republicans?”
That is a feeling, of which you have an overabundance of. It is not a value, nor are the reasons behind such actions correct. Slavery was terrible. It was abolished first because of Judeo-Christian moral values. Once again, you demonstrate no understanding of values. Values are what prevent Nazism. Your lack of values is why you, too easily, can support various forms of Nazism
“The Left argues that human rights are universal and not determined by a border.”
Again, that is not a value. As soon as an illegal immigrant enters Martha’s Vineyard, those same fine leftists get them out as quickly as they can. Values stand, no matter whose ox is being gored.
George Svelaz X is big on talk but lacks values. That is not all that different from sociopaths.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou
People ignore me and call me a crank for saying this, but globalization has permanently changed America. We are not one country anymore. We are one country and six Antifa states engaged in a slow-rolling rebellion. Some of our major coastal metros see their economic interests lying outside of America. To them, America is just there to be ripped off (by Somalis, etc.), exploited (for water and food), ridiculed (deplorables), or terrorized (911). The first ambition of the rebellion is to dominate America, and if we don’t give in, they’ll take their ball and go home, just like the Women’s Hockey Team.
We’ve had several Chinese Americans perform at the Olympics on behalf of CHINA, not America. I believe most of them hale from–take a guess–San Francisco. And they’re considered heroes in Beijing… and San Francisco.
Perceived economics matters. The Confederacy was created because the oligarchs wanted to defend slavery. States’ rights, etc., that was just a way to sell the rebellion to poor farmers. 400,000 poor farmers died for that lie, and that lie persisted for another 100 years until the 1960s civil rights movement.
Trans rights, immigrant rights, tariff resistance, these are just the cover stories to manipulate Occupy Wallstreet into supporting oligarchy.
We believed globalization would democratize Beijing. That’s how it was packaged and that was clearly naive. The takeaway is never debate with a bayonet in your face.
Instead, the exact opposite has happened. Globalization has spawned a host of fifth columnists centered in Western trading metros. The traders (traitors?) know that they can’t get access to foreign minerals and slave labor unless they toe the line of America-hating dictatorships, so they play that game and teach that game in their public schools and universities. It’s now become a political cult, just like the Confederacy.
What these idiot savants don’t understand is that their trading buddies don’t have their backs, any more than Russia had Germany’s back when Trump warned the Germans about Russia at the U.N. The two German moron-diplomats, Heiko Maas and Christoph Heusgen, mocked Trump in front of the entire world. Today, all of Germany is getting karma, but neither of these leftwing asses have yet to admit their complicity. They should be persona non grata in the United States.
The Antifa states’ trading partners are using them as pawns in a strategic contest, and if we lose that contest, the trade will end and the isolation will begin. Only a handful of Western oligarchs will benefit in the long term. The rest of us will be forever at each other’s throats.
Mock that.
The entire country was Antifa. Some states are now pro-Fa.
The entire country???? Why would a veteran of the Democrats’ Antifa street thug insurrection attempt to claim that their cowardly forces actually dared to show their commie faces in states like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, etc?
Find a single news article taking notice of Antifa cowards doing their violent political theater in any state like those. Seattle and Portland are in two states Antifa loved to riot and destroy – and only a few hours drive from Idaho and Montana.
You won’t find that headline. Because that headline would have been followed by a bigger headline announcing the number of black clad commie cowards tho got the same 5.56 Policy solution as their similar violent black clad thugs in Afghanistan and Iraq got.
Some states wouldn’t put up on their violent shit – so the cowards took notice of that and stayed in nice safe Democrat states that would give them “space to riot”.
Let the people in those states know when you start accepting appointments to come over and make Antifa house calls, commie coward.
oh how the murderous commies despise our Constitution. It’s the only thing standing between them and world domination. sorry commie!
USA!
Trump says he brought in $18 trillion into the US economy in 2025 (more than half our entire GDP). A week before he filed bankruptcy for the Taj Mahal casino, he claimed the Taj was making more profit than all the casinos on the Las Vegas strip.
Trump is the greatest president of your lifetime. screech more.
Ano
Las Vegas strip.
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Folks stopped going there because of the cost.
Trump has nothing to do with it.
Then he was obviously charging them too much, but apparently that wasn’t his FAULT
Dustoff
The Taj Mahal was in Atlantic City
Trump never had a casino in Las Vegas
He currently has an interest in the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, but he was never granted a casino license for the hotel.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board refused to grant a casino license because of his disreputable character.
Taj Mahal failed under Trump in 2016, long before the current spate of problems. It’s been operated by others, making a profit, since then.
From Wikipedia, which has links to original sources:
Over its years of operation from 1990 to 2016, the Trump Taj Mahal was, according to National Public Radio business correspondent, Jim Zarroli, “repeatedly cited for having inadequate money-laundering controls, not an unusual charge in the gaming business”.
In February 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network settled an investigation of the Trump Taj Mahal with the assessment of a $10 million civil fine for “significant and long-standing money laundering violations” which were described as “willful and repeated” contraventions of the record-keeping and reporting requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act. It was the highest penalty ever levied by the U.S. Federal Government against a casino.
The casino agreed to periodic external audits to comply with anti-money laundering statutes, and admitted to multiple violations as part of its settlement. The U.S. Treasury made note of casino violations dating back to 1998, when the Trump Taj Mahal paid a $477,700 fine for violating currency transaction requirements, as well as violations in 2003, 2010, and in 2012, for which the company was “repeatedly warned”. The Trump Taj Mahal was “far from meeting” standards required to protect the U.S. financial system “from exploitation from criminals, terrorists, and other bad actors”, the Treasury said in a press release.
Trump was right – the Taj Mahal was taking in more profit than any other on the strip. However, Trump left out “for me.” He was siphoning cash out of that casino and no other casino, so he was telling the truth, an incomplete truth.
Hey, can we lay off early today? You’ve done enough – it’s Tranny Furry time! Don’t waste our time together trying to mess with these MAGATs.
The Declaration of Independence, revised for a Woke Age of Rage: In the name of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion we hold this unTruth to be self-evident, that all “men” are created equal. For 250 years persons of color and every gender imaginable, have been disempowered by the Patriarchy of their unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, Free Stuff, Free Money, and a promise of total, hassle-free, eternal Happiness.
There seem to me to be implications for Mamdani’s deployment of social workers instead of police officers – the social workers will probably be comforting the “traumatized” criminals who committed the crimes and not the victims. I would guess this will be especially so where the victims are Jewish.
The social workers will get Killed.
There are numerous sometimes effective supliments to or criminal justice system.
But they are supliments – not replacements.
They are luxury goods that a wealthy society can afford in return for sometimes better outcomes.
A wise person understands that leather bucket Seats are a luxury, an engine is a necessity.
Supliments? Turing test?
Cheering for US fascism is not patriotism. Those who oppose US fascism are the true patriots.
A citizen formed for self-government doesn’t need to go around announcing they’re a patriot. They demonstrate it by how they think, speak, and act. Simply declaring “I oppose fascism, therefore I’m a patriot” doesn’t make it so. That’s just a claim. A citizen formed for self-government doesn’t rely on labels or slogans. They rely on evidence.
They can point to principles. They can explain the structure. They can articulate where government actions align with or violate the nation’s foundational framework. They don’t just boast moral positioning. They demonstrate civic understanding. Patriotism isn’t proven by what you call yourself. It’s proven by your ability to think clearly about the difference between the nation, the government, and the principles that bind them together.
Have you ever led a nation, a county, a city. a town, a scout troop, or even been a dog catcher? So what’s your point Olly?
You speak theory, but you have real world experience or tested framework from which to pontificate as your high school pulpit.
Leadership isn’t improvisation. Every leadership role I’ve ever held operated within a structure and guiding principles. You don’t just wing it and hope for the best. You follow a system designed to produce stable, predictable outcomes. The leader is temporary. The system is what endures.
That’s exactly what the Constitution is. It’s the system. The principles are the guide. The individuals operating inside it are temporary stewards, not the source of authority themselves.
And the more complex the system becomes, the more discipline it requires. Complexity isn’t a license to drift from the original design. It’s the very reason you anchor yourself to it. The design exists to prevent the system from becoming whatever the current occupant wants it to be.
Anyone who has actually led understands this. You don’t confuse the role with the structure, and you don’t confuse the person with the system that gives the role its legitimacy.
What a stupid argument.
Elon Musk did not build rockets – until he did.
Regardless we have real world tested frameworks – and those of you on the left choose those that have failed OVER AND OVER
And yes Olly… I supplemented by welfare by real world experience as the part time town dog catcher because I got to get off killing the town’s stray dogs. The Humane Society had been after me if I had killed dogs without the official title.
So yes, I do have real world experience to pontificate from.
. Old Yeller?
Odd then, since Trump supporters feel the need to plaster their cars with Trump stickers and Trump flags and wear Trump caps. They don’t demonstrate civic understanding. They rely on labels and slogans. MAGA. MAHA.
Symbols don’t tell you whether someone understands the system. They tell you what someone supports, not what they know.
You’ll find the same thing across the entire political spectrum. People wear hats, wave flags, put stickers on cars, and repeat slogans.
That’s human nature. It’s tribal signaling. It isn’t unique to Trump supporters, and it isn’t proof of civic understanding or the lack of it.
Civic understanding shows up somewhere else entirely. It shows up in whether a person understands that the Constitution is the authority, not the individual they support. It shows up in whether they accept limits on power even when their preferred person holds office. And it shows up in whether they remain loyal to the system itself, not just the outcome they want.
Supporting a person isn’t the test. Supporting the structure that limits that person is.
That’s the difference between political enthusiasm and civic understanding.
OLLY,
Well said.
We have a American flag we put out front of the house in the warmer months. WH admins come and go. American will stand well past after I am gone.
It’s actually pretty sad these “debates” are even necessary.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find many of these Anonymous commenters don’t believe 1/2 the crap they post. This blog is more of an interactive game for them and their reward is the engagement.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3f03793/
Declaring you are fighting fascism – when you are supporting fascism make you a moron.
What’s wrong with fascism?
Fascism places the interests of the state above those of the individual
“Everything inside the state
nothing outside the state
nothing against the state”
Benito Mussolini on the definition of fascism.
“You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down: [up] man’s old — old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.”
Ronald Reagan on the core principles of the US
US fascism? Is it in the room with you right now?
don’t you get it? no, you don’t. or you’re insincere. either way, you suck.
You really need to taste freedom to know what you are missing.
Cheering for US fascism is not patriotism.
Memos show Biden DOJ Gave Fani Willis Millions In No Competition Grants In Exchange For Prosecuting Trump
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/biden-justice-department-awarded-grants-fulton-da-during-trump
To quote Ronald Reagan: “There you go again”. Projecting your Democrat police state fascism onto Republicans.
Fascism is and always has been on the LEFT.
They hate a nation built by patriots, they despise those who celebrate patriotism and love of country but yet they stay here. Why not move to a country where you’ll find joy in life and hopefully your mental health will improve. As much as I’m not a Rosie fan she did leave the country but from her posts still has not found happiness. I doubt they’ll leave because another country wouldn’t allow them to be so critical of that country and it’s patriotism. They’ll stay here and write abusive columns about American patriots and their joy of patriotism and lap up the freedoms they don’t deserve.
[TODAY] Hillary Clinton – Deposition ~ February 26th 2026
The interview, which will not be open for the public, will happen at an office in Chappaqua, New York, the city where the Clintons have a house.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be deposed at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Chappaqua, New York, on Thursday, Feb. 26.
Questions are slated to begin at 11 a.m. EST. Former President Bill Clinton will give his testimony Friday.
That testimony will be: (In Private ~ à la Les Wexner style – another nothing to see here deposition)
• Location: Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, Chappaqua, New York
• Closed door (In Private ~ à la Les Wexner style)
• Filmed
• Transcribed
There will be nothing to see here .. again.
“We have nothing to hide. We have called for the full release of these [Epstein] files repeatedly. We think sunlight is the best disinfectant,” Hillary said.
Hillary Clinton recently told the BBC she never met Epstein but did encounter Maxwell “on a few occasions.”
Except that:
Ghislaine Maxwell, did attend Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010.
Bill Clinton demanding that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell be take to the Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s 2002 wedding.
nypost.com/2025/12/18/us-news/bill-clinton-brought-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-to-moroccan-kings-wedding/
Again … There will be nothing to see here … again.
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Phony, Masked, Depositions like this one today (The Clintons) is why the People have lost faith (Loyalty) in the American system.
It is not a Democracy as Historically Prescribed (anymore). That framework was augmented and subverted a long time ago into the control of a Counsel of Few Principle Tribe Leaders. It’s OK to let that be, because it is. The Truth of Who really runs the World should be revealed. I can even be Loyal to a Central Command, but one ‘Needs to Know” who is in Command to begin with.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/25/u-s-defeats-authoritarian-communists-on-the-ice-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-defeats-authoritarian-communists-on-the-ice-again&utm_term=2026-02-25
enjoy
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”
Only people who hate America are triggered by scenes of patriotism. The lamestream media hate America, hence they’re triggered.
You lived through 4 years of it during Biden and it escaped your attention.
and it will be one of you commies pretending not to be one. Are you so ashamed of your murderous commie intentions that you need to pretend you are American? commie
Democrats bust their asses to minimize the number of American flags at their events, preferring the Mexican flag. And a cross? They love them the atheist hammer and sickle of communism. The hajji terrorist’s green flags run a close second place.
And yet that prediction has proven to be false.
It is those wrapping themselves in the flag in the US today that champion individual liberty.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.
John Adams
I wonder when therapy became so popular. As a kid in the 50 and 60’s I did not hear or seem to be aware of the practice. Perhaps it was because we were taught to work out our problems by self evaluation, talking to the person and/or our friends. Of course you found out who your friends were based on the honesty of their replies. It also points out to the lack of parental involvement in a child’s emotional and intellectual development. They would rather pay someone else to take on their responsibilities as a parent. As to all the therapist, I am reminded of the lines in Crocodile Dundee, about telling Wally and no more problems.
“we were taught to work out our problems by self evaluation”
Many just drank themselves to death or blew their brains out.
“Of course you found out who your friends were based on the honesty of their replies.”
You found the enablers.
“It also points out to the lack of parental involvement in a child’s emotional and intellectual development.”
A parent might have one child as example and, having no prior experience, may be unable to give appropriate emotional and intellectual support.
As a self-made, bootstrap pulling-up person, you should do your own surgery and dental work. As a tough one, no cheating with anesthetic or antibiotics.
Calling it a “serious breach of the Department of Justice’s code of conduct,” on Thursday Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she had terminated a career DOJ employee who was caught with a copy of the U.S. Constitution on his desk.
Bondi said that the employee, who had worked at the department for 37 years, had “raised suspicions” by using “telltale phrases like ‘due process’” in DOJ memos.
At Bondi’s direction, US marshals ransacked his office, discovered the offending document, and frog-marched him out of the building.
Bondi took the opportunity to remind all DOJ staffers that the U.S. Constitution is on the Republican Party’s banned reading list.
I think The anonymous posting would have any degree of validity if it had a name attached and a citation for the information. I call BS. Any fool or liar with a keyboard can post here, there and everywhere
The low-IQ anon you responded to is trying to be funny . . . and failing. They’re trying to do Babylon Bee for the Left, but they don’t realize how stupid they come across when they can’t pull it off.
And neither do you realize how stupid you come across by criticizing. Got anythinh high IQ to add. Nope. Didn’t think so.
A legend in your own mind.
Damn… you’re good today! You hardly needed much help from me this morning. Let’s go home and get our Tranny Furry on!
C’mon… we’ve done enough for today… Its Furry Tranny Thursday down at the Drag Queen Bar; wrap up trolling these MAGATs and let’s go!
If only you were funny
It is the most massive hypocracy for those who burned the constitution and due process to the ground to hold power and punish political enemies, are suddenly making claims about the constitution and due process concepts that you have ZERO understanding of
Due process is the constitutional protection of a persons rights. There are no due process protections where there are no rights.
If you have no right to be here, you have very limited due process.Deporting you does not infringe on your rights.
Here in the U.S. there is a separation of ‘Church’ and ‘State’ and Personal ‘Freedom’ (Cognoscente).
The key/glue is ‘Loyalty’. To which one do you appropriate the most time and importance? (Where does your ‘Loyalty’ lie? your Patriotism?)
Most all Countries around the World do not offer this ‘choice’.
What is apparent is the that there are forces of control and ambition that muddle the waters of Loyalty and create opportunity in the arbitrage (the self internal trade, the self internal conflict) that Others (The Puppet Masters) make use of.
In order to Win someone has to Loose, a respect for that balance of the ‘Trade of Loyalty’ is what ‘Civility’ encumbers. At the Heart of the Americans there must be the ‘Loyalty of Civility’ to stabilize the system. We are very fortunate to have the ‘Choice’.