The Threat of Socialist Ideology Today

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Call eight hundred three three three four here for details, host safy event and seven hundred six twenty six to deala for warranty details. And we are trying our best to uphold the greatness of America each end every afternoon here on the Dan O'Donald S showhow Welcome to a special edition, two hundred and fifty years to the day Tod that America did in fact formally declare its independence from Great Britain. How you ask? Why is it that we celebrate july fourth? We will get into that and much, much more on a special edition of the program. Yes, july second, seventeen seventy six wasas actually the day that many founders, including John Adams believed would be celebrated because the Continental Congress passed the Lee resolution, formally declaring that the colonies were independent from Great Britain. In fact, the day after the vote, Adams wrote a celebratory letter back home to his wife, Abigail from Philadelphia He wrote, The second day of july seventeen seventy six will be the most memorable in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God almighty to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, with games, with sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time Forward forever more. Well, he was off by two days, but close enough today though, july second, an incredibly important day in American history. It is going to be a special edition of this program as we reflect on this country at two hundred fifty. Yes, we will still bring you the news of the day. We've got significant developments in the story of the crazy trans activist who declared that she, he, Z, Zer, whatever wanted to kill your local Republican and urged her supporters to do just that and urging supporters to enact a quote trans jihod. Well, that staffer has since been fired by the trans Democrat congressional candidate, Katrina DeVille Deville said in an email to the New York Post today that that person was fired. It was a volunteer campaign worker They were fired after it became clear that they were mentally unstable Don't say. So we will get into some of the news of the day, but a lot of the day is going to be devoted to this country. It's history, stories, reflections on America's two hundred fiftieth and not just for me from you as well. all throughout the show. We are welcoming you. We want you to call in with your thoughts on where we are as a nation, where we are as a people On this, the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of our Declaration of indndependence from Brit four hundred one four seven nine nine eleven thirty is our carpetand USA flooring center, talk and text line. And if you can't get through on the phones, we are expecting we're going to have a lot of people who want to get in it just general thoughts about America at two fifty, what this country is all about, Y thoughts, your plans on how to celebrate America two fifty Just where we are. your thoughts about this country any and all reflections will be accepted. But if you can't get through on the phones, always you can text us or you can shoot me an email DOD at heartmedia dot comot You can follow me on social media and write your comments while watching the live video stream at Dan O'Donnell' S show on X We're also streaming facebook dot com slash Dan O'Donalll S show. You can also find us on our YouTube channel. like and subscribe as the kids say. And please do follow the Dan O'Donalll Show podcast. on iHart radio or wherever you listen to podcasts And it's not just july fourth, seventeen seventy six, that is a date that needs to be celebrated forever It is also two hundred years ago, july fourth, eighteen twenty six only day in American history T presidents of this country Died They died on the exact same day And that day just happened to be the fiftieth anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence One of those was in fact John Adams and we will tell the story of july fourth, eighteen twenty six coming up later on here on the Dan O'Donnell show. Now, in his letter back to Abigail, july third, seventeen seventy six, John Adams said he knew that there were going to be a whole lot of challenges that just declaring independence was not going to be enough. Obviously, the British crown wasn't going to let the colonies go without something of a fight, but he was optimistic. He knew that America back then was something worth fighting for and at if the colonists hung together, as Benjamin Franklin famously said, they would avoid hanging separately. He wrote in this letter, You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toll and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this declaration and support and defend these states Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means and that posterity will triumph. in that days transaction So july second was a very significant date that most people completely gloss over because obviously the fourth of July just sort of has a better ring to it than the second of July for the day that we celebrate our independence But Congress, the Continental Congress voted to adapt Richard Henry Lee's resolution, declaring the colonies to be free and independent states This actually, not the Declaration of indndependence was the legal and political break from the crown and Adams saw this as the core achievement, that he was able to get the votes together from all of the colonies to declare themselves to be independent. It wasn't until two days later that Congress approved the final text of the Declaration of Independence which explained the reasons for the vote that was taken two days earlier to the rest of the world. Now, Adams realized just how important the Declaration of Independence was, but he considered the vote for independence to be the foundational act, to be the thing that was most important Now, of course, today We recognize that it is in fact the Declaration of Iependence that is the primary Document that we celebrate and that we mark our nation's beginning from the ratification thereof. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the story of how that Declaration to be O july second on june eleventh, excuse me, seventeen seventy six. The Second Continental Congress appointed what was known as the Committee of F John Adams, a delegate from Massachusetts Benjamin Franklin, the elder statesman of the revolution from Pennsylvania Thomas Jefferson from Virginia Robert R. Livingston from New York and Roger Sherman of Connecticut to draft a formal statement justifying the move for independence. This followed Richard Henry Lee's resolution calling for the separation from Great Britain, which was passed very narrowly on july second. The committee left no minutes leading to some uncertainty and later conflicting recollections from Jefferson and Adams decades afterward But what we know about the crafting of the Declaration of Independence was that it was largely Thomas Jefferson's own words with just minor editorial guidelines by the rest of the committee. The committee discussed the document's general outline and structure Jefferson later recalled that the others unanimously pressed him to write the first draft because he was the best writer. though Adams later on, claimed he persuaded Jefferson because the Virginia was a stronger writer than he was primarily because he had far fewer political enemies in the Continental Congress. Adams reportedly declined the task himself, saying He would be Hoot did for Jefferson was just thirty three years old And he largely wrote the draft himself. isolating himself between june eleventh and june twenty eighth in the second floor parlor of a rented three story brick house at the corner of seventh and Market streets in Philadelphia what is now known as the Declaration House Congress was in session and busy, so he didn't have a whole lot of uninterrupted time and composed the Delaration very, very quickly Jefferson was a genius, a wonderkind who wasn't just a man with way with words, he was also an inventor And in fact, in a little known detail about the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, he actually wrote it on the laptop of its day laptop that he designed. It was a portable writing desk. He called it a writing box that he had cabinet maker Benjamin Randall of Philadelphia makeake up for him. It was a compact mahogany box with a hinged adjustable sloped writing board and a locking drawer for paper pens and an ink weld. It's very practical for someone who is constantly on the move Thomas Jefferson. He had it made after losing an earlier design at se The original desk on which he wrote the Declaration of Independence does survive at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Jefferson drew on existing ideas, including his own prior writings, as well as the Virginia Declaration of Rights written by George Mason and broader influences from the period of the Enlightenment aiming to express the American mind, as he called it, rather than invent entirely new principles. He produced a rough draft and showed it privately to Adams and Franklin for corrections before preparing a copy for the broader Full commommittee The committee loved it They made only minor changes Congress started debating the draft on july second making a few further edits, including a number that Jefferson dislike keeping the core principles intact One major deletion that Jefferson despised condemned King George III himself for the slave trade and blaming him for imposing it on the colonies That was removed to avoid controversy, especially with southern delegates As with much, during the revolutionary period in the formation of America, there was compromise, compomromise that in hindsight looks to be unforgivable, but back then was necessary because of how dependent the southern colonies, later the southern states, were on slave labor Congress adopted the final text of the Declaration on july fourth, seventeen seventy six It was printed overnight by John Dunlap. as broadsides for distribution These became known as the famous Dunlap broadsides After the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration, it needed to be disseminated As you could imagine, there was no kinkos back in Revolutionary America So the committee rushed to Dunlap's print shop near the Delaware River in Philadelphia and took the document, likely in Jefferson's own handwriting, to a twenty nine year old Irish immigrant and the official printer to Congress. He worked through the night with his apprentices and produced an estimated one hundred to two hundred broadsides Large single sheet prints about eighteen by fourteen inches on one side of cotton fiber paper some with watermarks, including ironic ones that were put in for a laugh from King George III's own paper These were not fancy copies. They were simple typettings. that were produced for speed. The text is very close on those Dunlap broadsides to the original version, but it does lack the full list of signatures on the Declaration of Independence. In fact, only John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress and Charles Thompson, the secretary, are in fact named on a good majority of those Dunlap Broadsides Congress immediately ordered copies distributed to the states the Committees of Safety, the Continental Army',s commommanders, and for public readings and postings throughout the colonies Broad sides spread the news very, very rapidly The very first public readings of the Declaration of Independence occurred on july eighth in Philadelphia by Colonel John Nixon as well as in Trenton, New Jersey Pinters across the colonies use the broadsides as copies for their own itions helpeling the Declaration of Independence reach across the new nation, sometimes taking several weeks Copy even made its way all the way England. of the estimated original print run of the Dunlap Broadsides Only twenty six are known to survive today, scattered among various institutions About twenty to twenty three are in the care of the United States government, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, several university, University of Virginia, for example, several historical societies. There are a couple in the United Kingdom, including one that was just discovered at the National Archives Q just discovered in two thousand nine A small number are in private hands and what's remarkable is discoveries continue. In nineteen forty nine, there were only fourteen known what are known as original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Dunlap Broadsides. through with findindes like the one at a four dollar free flea market in nineteen eighty nine There was a Dunlap broadside, believe it or not, an original copy of the Declaration of Independence boughtght behind a painting. Someone bought a painting for four dollars at a flea market back in ' eighty nine and behind it, an original copy of the dececlaration Independence July fourth, seventeen seventy six was the day that The Declaration of Independence was ratified The United States would not really become a nation until the war was won. and in fact The Quest for freedom Even the decclaration itself was a long process. In fact, it was not signed. july fourth. It was signed primarily on august second with signatures added over the following months as delegates arrived in Philadelphia. When we come back here on the Dan O'Donnell show, the story of the most famous signature John Hancock. Why was it so big? and also The Furious ride of Caesar Rodney, a little known in history, but the man who just might have ensured that july fourth, seventeen seventy six is a day we celebrate at all that is all coming up right here. the Dan ODonll show One of my favorite pieces of American music, this is Hown from Rdeo or The HOown by Eron Koplland, probably best known as the Beef It's What's for Dinner commercial from the nineteen nineties and early two thousands. This was used very prominently at the opening ceremony of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games. It is just for my money One of the best pieces of American music ever composed. Put that up, producer Eric, Let's hear Absolutely love it. Welcome back to the Dano Donalll showhow. as we are celebrating two hundred and fifty years since America first declared its independence from Great Britain. You want to wow people with your historical knowledge at your fourourth of July parties. say, yeah, we're sort of celebrating the wrong day. America actually formally declared its independence from Great Britain on july second with what was known as the Lee resolution. That was when the Continental Congress actually said We are free and independent colonies. We are a separate nation It, in fact, was not until july fourth that the Continental Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence. Now, the Declaration of Independence was actually just the explanation that Thomas Jefferson, a thirty three year old delegate to the Continental Congress had in conjunction with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin and two other delegates to explain to the rest of the world why they were doing what they were doing This was something that just wasn't done. The British Empire was at the absolute height of its power War was inevitable And nobody actually thought that A, the United States of America would exist as an independent nation for very long, or ever that the revolution would very quickly be put down and B that this was just something that wasn't done So Jefferson, and it is believed that these are entirely the words of Thomas Jefferson himself explained in the first two lines, two of the most famous lines ever written in world history and certainly two of the most impactful He declared with one unified voice on behalf of the Continental Congress on behalf of the colonies that they were and always had been free and independent states When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them. decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation We hold these truths to be self evident All men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. to secure these rights Governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the govern that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people alter or to abolish it and to institute Ng laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness That in about four sentences. is America in a nutshell All men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator, not by government, not by other human beings This was a revolutionary concept even though it draws very, very deeply from biblical tradition that God creates all human beings in H likeness and that those human beings are made in the image of the divine and also have rights that themselves come from the divine because we are chosen by God amongst all creatures We have rights that no other creature has, and those come not from a king, not from a government, but from God Hself Among these, not the only rights, but among them are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness Not the acquisition of happiness, but the pursuit of happiness and that in order to secure these rights, Governments are instituted by the consent of the people who would be governed. They are not instituted by virtue of a divine proclamation God doesn't institute kings in the world God gives individuals autonomy Individuals then have because they have this autonomy, the ability to form governments government is illegitimate if it does not have the consent of the government This again was such a revolutionary concept. It is now the basis of what we understand to be Dmocratic government, but it really was foreign. in that world. and that's why the Declaration of Independence was so important It's sort of like the thesis statement of America in those first four sentences So why was John Hancock biggest signature on that document by far Hancock was a very wealthy merchant in Boston In fact, he, along with Samuel Adams, were considered to be among the most important figures in the revolution, the early Revolution, because they were the ones who were financing it And he didn't just sign the decclaration like that. In fact, there are a number of signatures from Hancock that still survive He signed pretty much every document like that as one of the richest men in all of the colonies, He was a pretty ostentatious guy. He was not above throwing his wealth around, and his penmanship sort of matched that flare It was consistently large, consistently elaborate and consistently But why did He sign it so big. Now the story has emerged, and I'm sure you've probably been told this that he signed it so large so that King George could read my name without his spectacles This story didn't emerge until many, many years later, probably sometime in the eighteen twenties, eighteen thirties. There was no contemporary evidence that this was true. And in fact, as we learned in the last segment of this show, the declaration largely stayed in America. It was not actually sent to the king himself. The king was well aware of what was going on And He eventually, I believe, did see a copy, but it was not until years later So why did he sign it that big? Well, he was the president of the Continental Congress, and he was the very first to sign it Do you know the day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? It was not july fourth, It was not july second. It was actually august second seventeen seventy six The vast majority of the delegates to the Continental Congress were able to get to the document. They were able to put their names on it. Some refused to sign. In fact, there are a number who famously refused to sign because they didn't agree with some language or another. There were remember, domestic political disputes as well as the big dispute with England Hancock very likely believed A He was only going to be the one he was going to be the only one who signed it. And in fact, that is the working theory here because his signature is right front and center directly below the text His signature is actually four to five inches wide and over an inch tall is a big signature indicates that he thought he was only going to sign it Then Ebody else signigned it Now because he was the first signer, he, of course had a lot of room, and he very likely underestimated just how many other signatories there would be. If you take a look at the original the document that was actually signed someome are very, very small. So this was likely the real reason A He just had a flare for the dramatic. He did everything big. He lived big. He signed his name Big But the real reason, very likely because he thought he was going to be the only one whose signature was really need it. And in fact, it wasn't originally planned that everybody was going to sign on, they all just figured You know what? Whever signs this document, if we lose this war We're all going to be killed. In fact, Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying, this is another story that might be apocryphal, but it just sounds like Benjamin Franklin who said, Gentlemen We must now hang together or most assuredly, We shall all separately How did it All of the colonies were able to sign on. How is it that all of the colonies were able to vote for independence It almost didn't happen. There was a patriot by the name of Caesar Rodney, who was very sick but rode through the night to make it for the vote O july second, seventeen seventy six. we will tell his story when the Dan O'Donnell show returns in just a minute It is a tour de Force of truth. Today, Universal truths about America's Declaration of Independence, the founding of this nation, what we celebrate all weekend long and what we should be celebrating all year long, which what we should be celebrating every single day. we are so blessed to be a part of this great country and this great heritage We are taking a whole lot of time on today's show to sort of step back. Tomorrow is as I think it is for most of the country, the day that the fourourth of July Independence Day is observed because of course, the holiday itself falls on a Saturday. So we are not going to have regular programming tomorrow. I had thought for a little bit about doing a special supported program, at least one hour on America's independent. like, you know what? let's in the immortal American words of Bill O'Reilly, bleep it. let's do it live. So pretty much all show. We are going to do reflections on this country. I want to hear from you, ladies and gentlemen. I think for much of next hour, I want to hear from you. What do you think about where we are as a country. We're dealing with the rise of socialism. This is a very, very real thing Pretty much every poll that is out shows that a substantial amount of Democrats want socialist governance. This is the thing that for a good portion of America's history, we have been fighting. We have been fighting the communists and now there is a movement within this country that feels comfortable enough finally rearing its ugly head. It was always a part of this country reallyally since Carl Marks first put pen to paper But now it is finally emerging as a real threat So I want to hear from you four four seven nine nine eleven thirty on our Cpet land USA fllooring center talk and text line. Again, four hundred one four seven nine nine eleven thirty DOD at IHart Media cal in order to reach me via your email. What if I told you that one of the bravest patriots that you've never heard of passast the deciding vote for America's independence. He was sick. He was weakened with cancer and asthma But he got on his horse at midnight to drive all the way to Philadelphia and cast the deciding vote his name is Caesar Rodney Rodney was a lawyer and politician from Delaware He was a leading officer in the state's militia He served as a justice, a sheriff. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress. He was a brigadier general in Delaware's militia He was later president of Delaware, what we would call today governor. And by seventeen seventy six He was already very advanced in his health issues He had facial skin cancer, which she often covered with a scarf or handkerchief. Bad asthm. this He was as active as anyone in the cause of patriotism On july first, seventeen seventy six, the delegation in Philadelphia to the Continental Congress from Delaware was deadlocked on the Lee resolution for Independence. Thomas McKon favored it while George Reid opposed With the crucial vote looming the following day, july second. McKean sent an urgent express messenger to summon Rodney, who is in Dover, Delaware about seventy to eighty miles away dealing with local threats from the loyalist forces opposing Delaware's militia. Rodney finally received the message around midnight on july first. Despite his health problems, He set out without hesitation for Philadelphia. He used a combination of carriage and horseback and rode through a very violent thunderstorm with heavy rain, thunder, lightning, and flooded streams crossed at least fifteen rivers or creeks, many of them had jumped their banks and the journey took roughly eighteen hours He arrived at the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall on the morning of july second As it was described at the time in his boots and spurs. He was muddied He was exhausted He was sick. But he had arrived just in time. He voted in favor of America's independence, breaking Delaware's tie and allowing the colony to support the resolution twwelve of the thirteen voted yes. New York abstained, at least initially paved the way for the formal Declaration of Independence Txt to be finalized and adopted on july fourth Rodney himself signed it August second That's single ve fromr a small colony change the course of history Delaware not voted for independence movement would have been exposed as not unified at all and would have very likely failed Rodney's timely arrival helped ensure a strong stand against Britain at that pivotal moment in American history while historians O sever romanticized Paul Revere's ride Caesar Rodney's actually have been far more important After the signing of the Declaration of Independence Rodney's health was failing But he still served the cause of patriotism Leading Delaware' troops governing the state during the war Before dying in seventeen eighty four at age fifty five, very likely from the cancer that he had been fighting for years A famous statue of him on horseback stands in Wilmington, Delaware's Rodney Square which commemorates the rhide every year During the anniversary of the midnight ride of Caesar Rodney, celebrations and reenactments occur. especially this year on the two hundred fiftieth anniversary the midnight ride Ver likely. preserved the colony's movement towards independence and allowed the Declaration to happen You're listening to the Dan ODonll S showow We willll be right. Always love that story. The midnight ride of Caesar Rodney, just an incredible bit of forgotten history in this country Folks, you have no idea how much this is making me want to bring back. I'm sure you've noticed we have not been doing forgotten history for quite some time Folks, it is a whole lot of work to put those together. We do think I do want to bring this back. as a video podcast series to do forgotten history. I am lohe to do what is very, very popular for history videos now on YouTube, AI for lack of a better word slop where they'll have like George Washington walking around and stuff like that. It's just it First of all, our company is guaranteed human. so we're not going to use AI. So I may have to do the Ken Byrne style of, you know, still images and things like that, but I just I am so loving telling the stories of America. We also want to hear your stories, your reflections on America's two hundred fiftieth four one four, seven nine nine eleven thirty on our carpet land USA fllooring center talk and text line. We go out first to Bernie in Lowie Bernie. Happy indndependence dayay. Happy to two hundred fifty and welcome to the Dan O'Donnell S show Thank you, Dan. sameame to you. You know there's always been debate about whether America is a quote unquote Christian nation whether it was followed as a Christian nation or not. But despite the debate It is clear that even though our founding fathers, whether they We true believing Christians or not They recognized a higher power and they recognize the value of Judeo Christian values that would sustain a new country And Sadly, it is my belief that any society that turns its back on God or religion for that matter, just kind of create a vacuum bad ideas And I think that's where we are today. I am reminded of I think it was a former the Soviet Union preremier Nikita Khrushchev who was asked about world dominance of communism and what his goal did he have Hitler like goals of conquering the world and specifically America turning to communism. and he said He wasn't worried. He said that America would turn to communism on its own. And you know, it's just strangely prophetic when you see things like the political primaries in New York and things like that. And so absolutely Hey Bernie Bernie, I do apologize. We are running up against the top of the hour. I'll tell you what. happappy fourourth of July to you. I want to reflect on this. That is a fantastic call, Bernie. We're going to go in depth on what Bernie said after the top of the hour news. I do apologize, Budy All programs on NewsTalk eleven thirty WISN are broadcast through the NneX Wealth Management Studios. AnneX Wealth Management knownow the difference. Stay informed all day every day O News Talk eleven thirty WISN. 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We aren just celebrating two hundred and fifty years since the ratification of the Declaration of Independence since it passed the Continental Congress on july fourth, seventeen seventy six, we are also marking two hundred years From one of the most significant dates in American history, july fourth, eighteen twenty six that nobody quite gives its proper do. It is the only day that not one, but two American presidents passed away B were founding fathers Both were on the committee of five that drafted the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson and John Adams They were estranged for many, many years because of political disagreements. The election of eighteen hundred was incredibly bitter and vitriolic. and it cast the two on opposing sides. Of course, Adams was the most prominent federalist. He was the incumbent president, and Jefferson was the leader of the Democrats or the Jeffersonian Democrats and the two of them waged a bitter campaign. eventually, Adams was forced to drop out. Eron Burr emerged as the federalist standard bearer and the animosity lived on Credible story about how those two men rekindled their friendship and the things that are much more important than politics in America, we will dive into coming up in the five o'clock hour. Last hour, we told the story of the Declaration of Independence, why it is that july fourth, seventeen seventy six was such a seminal day in not just American history, but world history and why many founding fathers, including Adams believed that july second, seventeen seventy six was actually going to be the day. That was the day that Congress formally declared its independence that it voted and said on a resolution introduced by I keep wanting to say Charles Lee, but that's not correct. general in the Cinental Army. He was a general in the American Army. The Lee declaration or the Lee resolution, I should say, was the thing that actually declared the Independence. It was Richard Henry Lee He was the delegate who actually introduced, all right What do you say Boyz? Should we declare our independence? Let's get nuts. I think he said it a little more eloquently than that But he was the one and on july second, thanks to the last second heroics of a signatory of the Declaration of Independence by the name of Caesar Rodney. You heard of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Well, one that actually might be much more important was very likely the midnight ride of Caesar Rodney. He cast the tiebreaking vote for Delaware to ratify the Declaration of Iependence to sign on to Lee's amendment to his resolution declaring independence. If that didn't happen, it is entirely likely. And historians are actually in largely they're in agreement Had Caesar Rodney not broken that tie and had Delaware said now we're good we're going to vote against independence. The indndependence movement might have been further splintered. It's one of the most incredible facts of the American Revolution that there were more loyalists, those who wanted to remain subjects of the British crown in the American colonies than patriots, those who wanted independence. If you had Delaware not vote for independence, is Caesar Rodney who was sick with cancer. He ended up dying eight years later at fifty five, very likely of the cancer that he was. He had asthma. He rode through an incredible thunderstorm. In fact, there is a letter that survives that he wrote to his brother in which he describes just how bad the thunderstorm was that he went through, let's see. his direct quote was Though detained by thunder and rain He arrived in time too cast his vote, though detained by thunder and raick. People don't write like that anymore, and you know what, quite frankly, I think they should This hour, we are going to get you caught up on some of the stories that are going on in America in twenty twenty six, of course, but also reflections from you, our listeners on America, where we are in this moment. I think it's very poignant and it's very telling that we're dealing with the cancer That is anti Americanism and the rise of socialism and unchecked unfettered immigration, the re conquista, if you will, of America from the Third worldorld. that is declaring that they are going to take it over and they are going to impose a form of government that they believe much better better reflects their values, and that is socialism. By the way, did you see Zoron Mam Donni, the most famous third worldest socialist in America right now, the mayor of New York City, saying New York is dealing with a heat wave just like we are here in Wisconsin U so He wants everybody to cool their thermostats to set it at a comfortable seventy eight degrees That's right. If you own a business By the way, the urban heat Island effect makes New York City on sweltering days like this way hotter than it would otherwise be because of all the buildings, all the people, all of the concrete. This, by the way, is why global warming is a complete and total sham the urban heat Island effect has been skewing global temperatures for quite some time. I could do another hour and a half just on that. But suffice it to say New Y There's a reason it's called Hell's Kitchen Actually, I have no idea if that's the reason. It's called Hell's Kitchen, but it just seems like was it was named on a very hot July afternoon A It's because it gets really hot Zoron Mondania is saying, all right, because we're going to have way too much strain on the electrical grid Don't cool your houses or your businesses to a comfortable seventy two, I think that's generally speaking. mayaybe seventy onecent, seventy If you're my wife, You have it cooled down to about sixty five degrees. She is like the anti Zoron Mandani. I am married to the ultimate capitalist because I swear Our house is like an ice box half the time. I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but I'm grateful for it We had a caller, and by the way, we are taking your calls on the rise of socialism, on the last stand of Americanism because we really are not in a grab your musket sense facing our own version of a civil war where we have a lot of people in this country who just don't share the values of this country, the values that we celebrate, the values that we Honor especially at the fourourth of July, especially in America's two hundred fiftieth year. This is why you get poll after poll after poll that shows Democrats just are not proud of this country I don't think you can discount the fact that over the last twenty five years and we just had the annual patriotism survey coming from Gallup. They've been doing this every year for twenty five years they ask the same question, How proud are you to be an American? Well, Republicans, the number is always ninety percent say they are very proud or extremely proud. It's been that way for twenty five years Democrats have gone from eighty five percent to about twenty seven percent don't think that exists in a vacuum It coincides with the rise of racial socialism, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the rise of prettyretty much every radical ideology that took hold in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, but sort of bubbled under the surface. relegated to the fringes and maybe academia, but's now very mainstream It is this race based idea of colonizers and the colonized the conquistadors and the conquered, the haves and the have nots. It's all Marxist theory, but it's racially and ethnically tinged also have the period of American history where the doors were just thrown open And without regard for any sort of of How should I put this? I keep wanting to say a climatization. I've been reading for the last several months the book about the nineteen ninety six Mount Everest disaster into thin air. Not a climatization, but the culturalization, the Asimilation, That's the word I'm looking for. withithout regard for the assimilation of people who are coming from places on this planet that just have a fundamentally different idea than we do. That's a dangerous thing. So we do welcome your calls. I want Folks, you to call in this hour is largely going to be yours. Y reflections on this great nation, this country, where we are at two hundred fifty. Cpate land USA flooring center talking text line four one four seven nine nine eleven thirty. You can also reach us toll free one eight hundred eight three eight nine four seven six DOD at iheartmedia dot com is my email address We great day right before the top of the hour from Bernie from Lodi. and I feel terrible that we had to cut them off because we're running up against the top of the hour He made a fantastic point about the Christian basis of this, the Judeo Christian tradition on which America is founded. In fact, you cannot understand America. You cannot understand Western civilization out Judeo Christian tradition because all of our laws, all of our notions and standards of morality flow from that necessarily the oververt religious aspect of the Judeo Christian tradition, but our notions of what are and are not moral things that you can do Pretty much every bit of Western understanding of right and wrong comes directly from the Ten Commandments. It just does. folks It forms the basis of all governments it forms the basis of pretty much all of Western thought And in fact, if you read the foundounding fathers, if you read the federalist papers, if you read pretty much anything any influential Western leader or academic has written from the revolutionary period up until now you can see the influence everywhere. I mean, look no further than George Washington's Farewell address George Washington's farewell is considered one of the most influential pieces of text ever not just because of what he said. It was actually largely written by Alexander Hamilton. In fact, if you get a chance I know, I know, and I'm I'm starting to feel the same way about Hamilton and the way that it basically started the whole race swapping of characters. George Washington can be black in Hamilton that of course you can race swap any character in in any bit of fiction or even non fiction. But if you get a chance to watch Hamilton It's on Disney plus. The music is just absolutely spectacular. It is it is done. The story itself is such a loving ode to America and to what it is that we represent. A in that Peace in that play you get the actual writing of, it's in a song called One Last Time. And it's about Alexander Hamilton trying to talk Washington out of saying goodbye and leaving and saying Hey, you could just continue to be president. noody would mind And Washington says no the tradition that he started, being being given E Lver of power imaginable. I mean, there was a move to make him king. They wanted to call him your excellency. You know what he came up with for the honorific for the presidency Mr. President I mean, it seems, again, I talked about this a little bit yesterday. It seems so mundane, so simple. like why do we call the president Mr. Presidents? becausecause George Washington didn't think that the presidency should be title of nobility, that he was the first citizen. in his Farewell address in his farewell letter He refers to sccripture repeatedly and He says As the scripture says, everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid So as he concludes Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it possible that I may have committed many errors I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will view them with indulgence And that after forty five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as I myself must soon be to the mansions of Rest pect I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize the sweet enjoyment of partaking in the midst of my fellow citizens the benign influence of good laws under a free government ever favorite object of my heart and the happy reward as I trust of our mutual cares labors and dangers What he is saying is Once I step aside, once I say goodbye The nation can move on And the nation is more important than one man The idea that one man would be the government or that one man would be the nation, that sort of flies in the face of Judeo Christian teaching is So a lot of people misunderstand. Do you know why we have a wall of separation between church and state Do you have any idea what that comes from? Is that in the Constitution Uh, no Is that in a federalist paper It comes from a letter that President Thomas Jefferson wrote in eighteen oh two to the Dan Berry Baptists Famous passage Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state That's it That's it That's the only reference to separation of church and state. That's it. And what Jefferson was actually talking about was that government can actually interfere with the free exercise of religion. That religion is between man and his God. He wasn't concerned that the Congress was going to suddenly create a theocracy He was concerned that government was going to put up a barrier to the free exercise of religion The idea though that and I believe our caller said, well, I don't know how faithful our founding fathers actually were. They all were. they all were. Now some were some were deists, some were a little more secularist in their beliefs, Jefferson among them, but all of them were Christians. I mean, it was just it was a different period of time and all of them use the Bible and use the Judeo Christian tradition as the foundation for the nation that they were building. And our caller Bernie was absolutely correct in that when you take that away, when you have people who no longer believe in the morality that is served Most human beings on Earth for several thousand years. when you strip that away, you allow to seize power the idea that we are much smarter than all of humanity's collective experience and that we can impose a new order based on our own understanding of morality, and that morality is what we say it is. Well, that flies in the face of what this country is actually all about. We will expound on that and take more of your phone calls. four hundred e four seven nine nine eleven thirty when the Dan O'Donnell S showow returns. Caesar SportsBook is the only spportsBook app with Caesar rewards. Bet the tournament action and more. Download the app using promo code radio DYW. and place your first bet of a dollar or more for a chance to double your winnings on your next ten bets. Open to new users in New Jersey who are twenty one or older. 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That is coming up in the five o'clock hour. rightight now we go to Waatosa, where we find Ed Ed happppy Independence Day and welcome to the Dan O'Donnell S showow Happy holiday to you too, Dan What's going on, my friend? I'll tell you what's going on. I've traveled this country, Dan and I've been to every major city in America multiple times the greatest country on Eth. It really is I used to watch these things on history channel and there always be some gray hair sixty year old guys standing on top a mountain talking about how great America is, how diverse it is. Yeah It's absolutely true. live in a beautiful country We've got all the water that we'd ever need. We have all the greenery, the forest, the oil, the natural resources. This is a great country. People want to come here. We're not looking to move to Mexico. We're not looking to move to Africa. They're coming here. Y. Okaykay, Dan. And there's something to be said about that. You did say something though about Judeo Christian values, and I kind of want to put my take on it I don't know when the fathers when the forefathers wrote of the Constitution that there was a term Judeo Christian. I don't think that the two cultures were mingling as much as, well, they certainly are today. They weren't, but when we say Judeo Christian We mean the values of the Old Testament. Like it's basically the same basic value system. So yes, they would have they would have understood it to be Christian values. Yes, Yes. But what I'm saying is a lot of do you know that the single most quoted biblical book in the Bible is actually not from the New Testament. It's no real surprise It's Deuterotomy because that was I was going to say that. Yeah. it was that was Th those were the laws. I mean, this was this was what they based the entire country on. So yeah, when I say Judeo Christian, the founders would have would have taken that to be. Oh, you mean Old Testament as well as new. So yeah,, but it was a fundamentally Christian value system. Yeahah And I just wanted to throw this out there for the audience. We didn't have a continue we didn't have a common morality throughout America. You could be living in Appalachia where thirteen year old girls brides to men who were their early thirties. Okay. then you go down the road an hour and that was unacceptable And let's say Raleigh Durham. or in maybe Baltimore or Washington, those parts of the south, right outside of Appalachia So Jewish Hollywood kind of gave us Everybody used to go to the movies. They used to go to the Matine as our grandparents, know, and they would talk about going to the Saturday and Sunday Matineays Hollywood, Jewish Hollywood wrote in a continuous kind of a common morality for America And so we get a lot of our morality Believe it or not, belieieve it or not from Hollywood years ago Because like I said, you know, depending on where you were at, things were morally acceptable not the same time though, we did evolve to have common, say, criminal codes. So what you're talking about is true that, okay, well, it would be acceptable for you know children to get married Remember and this this this is probably going to be one of the more controversial things I say and I guarantee it's going to be taken out of context throughout human history, peopleeople were getting married and people were being very sexually active, they were having babies at thirteen fourteen because the life expectancy was so short you needed to the reason that the female body reaches sexual maturity but is able to sexually reproduce at such a young age is because biologically we needed to. because it's a very recent phenomenon that life expectancy is in the seventies. It's in the eighties, that if you take care of yourself and you don't get cancer, obviously, that's a big one and you avoid know a car accident, homicide, drugs, suicide, the things that are artificially reducing America's life expectancy. you, because we factor in the kids who are dying of overdoses at twenty two, if you get past that peopleople are living in ninety one hundred, that didn't happen for much of human history So when you say we have and yes, I did catch the Jewish Hollywood thing in there. I'm a little a little I caught I caught the very subtle anti Semitism in there. Jewish Hollywood also made some of the most incredible Christian movies in world history. You know what, I'm not going to get into that What happened though, is that just like with as we were telling the story of America's Declaration of Independence, that it sort of happened over a long process. the idea of having a common American morality sort of Evolved Remember, we had half of this country the Democrat half believe that it was perfectly fine to enslave other human beings when you actually had Thomas Jefferson the supposed great racist, according to the modern woke left, wanting to actually put in the dececlaration of indndependence. Yo, the slave trade is totally King George's fault. We didn't want to be a part of this. It is a great evil and we're declaring our independence from that. The only reason that got taken out and Jefferson was super ticked about that by the way, was because they didn't think the southern colonies would join the independence movement, would vote for the secessa, would vote for the independence from Great Britain if it was. Let's go to Mitch in Bayview up next on the Dan Donalll S showow. What's going on, Mitch. G how you doing Dana? I'm seing you since we honored you with that conservative conservative activist. Oh my goodness. Mitch, do you realize I still have that trophy That is Oh my gosh. what a great night that was. Thank you so much. That was such a sweet, sweet thing That was a great night man. But listen, you were talking about socialism, man and we definitely headed in that direction And it's going at a rapid speed. I mean, no slowing down Even with our streets here with this vision zero. That's a part of a socialist movement to get us going in such a way that everybody's tunneled out, tunnel vision slowing us down is vision zero. and they got us with that socialist movement by planning fear, especially in a city about reckless drive with Dan, listen, and I know I't know I gotta hurry up No, no, no, no, hey, dude, we We're right in the middle of the hour, man. I mean my producer is like looking at me like how long is this segment going to be? Mitch, you've got as long as you want, my friend. Well That's only going to be a few more seconds. I'm trying to pour a whole quart into a pint But listen anyime they come in and they sell us this idea, right about whess driving. so everybody gets on board with it, Dan. But guess what? it claims actually claims more lives than the reckless drivers. because guess what? Every time a paramedics has got to slow down, everyvery time an ambulance has got to slow down or go around a roundabout or get in a bottle one of those bottlenecks and you can't go to the right or the left, man, you stuck right there in the middle and the paramedic and guess what? If we could have got him here six minutes earlier We could have saved her life. Grandma, we could have saved her from a stroke. We could have saved the guy that was bleeding out. you know, he bleed out. If he would have been here three minutes earlier, we could have stopped it and saved his life. It's actually not waiting on some statistics of which they're buring becausecause I want to see the statistics on how many lives we're actually losing on Amalam arrival. That's a socialist movement. And one thing talking I'm sorry you sort of lost me there the movement against reckless driving is a socialist movement in the city of Milwaukee Is that is that No division zero. Oh, okay, okay. I see yes, yes, yes, that is. Okay, Mitch, I I'm sorry, you kind of lost me a little bit there. Yes, absolutely. It is The idea dude, Mitch. I'm telling you the idea, the idea is to get people to not drive cars. That is the ultimate goal. Like this is the goal of the socialist. these little scooters, D, we thought that these little scooters were here for recreation. It's to get us to cut back on. you know, and they're pushing these electric cars, man. Look here, if an electric car, if they want to tell you the shelter in place, all they got to do is cut down the grids, you can't recharge cars all over the city all over the place. It's a socialist movement. I don't know. somebody want to contstro older lives of men. One more thing for I go you talk Biblical in the book of Judges, it says every man did what was right in his own site because there was no king in the land. And guess what? there's no that we've kicked King Jesus out and that's why everything is going crazy. Every man is doing what's right in his own site Yeah I appreciate you. mayaybe I'll meet up with you somewhere at one of these meetings or one of these rallies man we shake hands. I would love to. Hey, please, if you see her, tell Virginia Pratt I say hi. You guys are incredible. I love, love, love the organization. Thank you so much. Mitch. Wow, that is that is a blast for the past. I love it. I love it. We want to take more of your phone calls four one four seven nine nine eleven thirty Cpet land USA Flooring Center. talkal and text line Dan O'Donnell'shall coming right back with more conservative thought and not just talk. the. Welcome to the Dan O'Donnell' S show on this what might have been in another W, America's Independence Day. This was actually the day in seventeen seven thousand six, two hundred and fifty years ago today that America's Continental Congress adopted the Lee resolution formally declaring independence from the United States. The Dlaration of independence was not the formal document Declaration of Independence was the document that explained the reasons for the separation, because it was widely disseminated and because it was just so beautifully written by Thomas Jefferson with some input from John Adams and Benjamin Franklin and a number of other founding fathers in a group of five that was commissioned with writing the Delaration That is what we celebrate. And when the Declaration of Independence was ratified by the Continental Congress, it was immediately taken to an Irish immigrant named Dunlap. and the Dunlap broadsides where it was printed. Remember, this was the internet of the day. Dunlap, William Dunlap worked all night long print the declaration, it went to pretty much the entire country at the time, all of the colonies And that is a big reason it spread like wildfire because it was printed so quickly and because U so many people were just, you know they were overjoyed. In fact, during one of the readings In Philadelphia, there was something of a riot. People were going crazy because they were they were so happy. they were overjoyed. They were in a patriotic fervor. Benjamin Franklin predicted that the America's independence would be celebrated with fireworks forever. And in fact, in a letter back home to his wife Abigail, John Adams said that America would be celebrating july second with fireworks And what's kind of amazing is He was off by two days and we are still celebrating America's independence with fireworks. In fact, we are going to have the biggest fireworks display apparently in world history on the fourth of july as only Donald Trump it ladies and gentlemen. We are going to have the biggest fireworks celebration. I believe the number is now eight hundred to eight hundred fifty thousand individual fireworks that are going on. Just absolutely incredible. And did I say William Dlap, John Dunlap was the printer, the official printer of the Continental Congress So All right, we are taking your reflections on America's two hundred fiftieth birthday, Roger in Germantown. Happy indndependence, dayay to you, and welcome to the program, sir S to you and thank you Generally socialists in America look at Europe as Giving light And while they may not be completely socialist, they are far more socialists than we are. Countries like Germany, France, Italy And so and the United Kingdom. So I'd like to point out some numbers that I get from the World Bank So it's a very credible source of information The World Bank says that the GDP, the gross domestic product per capita for the United States eighty four thousand five hundred It's actually now ninety four thousand four hundred and thirty right now Okay, then my numbers are Yeah close close enough. cllose enough though, cllose enough. Yeah, Roger. goo ahead. using the same reference point justust rounding the numbers out to thousands, the USA at eighty four thousand Frs forty six. Yeah Chairman. fififty six. Yp. Italy. Pready United Kingdom fifty three Sweden sixty three Why on earth would we want to go on the socialist right route if it's going to make us poorer? Well, and how about this? How about this Roger I'm sorry to interrupt really quickly. the nations that and this is why I thought you were going to go this route. And I'm like because I always get the comparisons with Norway, Denmark and Sweden, the Swedish socialists and the Norwegians. I use the ninety four thousand number. The numbers I have for GDP per capita, Sweden, which is always held of, o my gosh, the standard of living is so much higher. seventy thousand. okay? Denmark, eighty three thousand Norway does have a higher GDP per capita, meaning the gross domestic product of a nation broken down by all of its residents, okay That's about one hundred ten thousand. Do you know why because everyone in Norway gets oil And there are only about five point six million people in Norway. There are three hundred forty million give or take in the United States. The fact that there are ninety four thousand four hundred thirty dollars in gross domestic product for each of those people is insane. Our GDP, according to twenty twenty six projections, Roger thirty two point three eight rillant The next largest China twenty point eight five All right, there's no people are like, o, China is going to catch the United States. like hell it is. Do you know what the AI boom is going to do to our GDP? We're going to get up to forty and fifty trillion very, very quickly while the manufacturing world is sort of languishing I'm sorry Roger, I interrupted you. What's going on No may I continue with more numbers? Yeah, please, please. is fantastic. GDP to the United States This goes back two years. And the website that I use goes back a couple more. So the USA GDP at thirty trillion consumer spending seventy percent So therefore, the consumer market in the United States is twenty trillion or what basically the same size as the Chinese economy. That's incredible, Roger The EU using the same dates, theU's GDP was twenty trillion ty two percent consumer spending because the government's taking the rest. Yeah. So their consumer market is only ten trillion The European Union has as many people as we do, but their consumer market is only half of what ours is, which is why every country in the world wants to sell in America. Y Roger, that is one of the best calls. I think. Yeah, you know, I want to get to Roger, I can you do me a favor? Can you email me these numbers DOD at iheartmedia dot com. I would I would love to use these in some way if that's okay with you. I do want to get to one more call Oh, thank you so much, my friend. Have a great independence. What a fantastic call. Roger, I love that you do your homework on this. That was just fantastic. Please send me that email. Let's go to Paul in Racine just about a minute before we've got to go to break. Paul you're on the Dan O'Donnell show happappy forth, Dan. know Roger's call was interesting and I dare say that the numbers he shared and what we experience in this country is not by accident., but by the grace of God. But I want to say this, I think Nothing new under the sun. America at two hundred fifty. We've had to fight battles. Um our nation founding to keep our freedoms and that's not going to change. The only thing that's going to change is how we fight them. And I applaud you for your efforts I think I've shared with you that the midterms are going to be very important. And I think you've gone above and beyond with your website and making sure that all the candidates who are fighting this fight have visibility, and I would encourage everybody to continue to support the RNC volunteer, they're calling, they called me today. and just go forward in the spirit of Charlie Kirk. I looked at my freedom shirt today and we got to remember that. And we got to understand that we're going to face that same level of a fight. So Paul, thank you so much. God And God bless you, my friend. Thank you so much for the kind words really do appreciate it. Keep fighting that good fight. We are going to face increasing threats from within, from people who are getting increasingly violent, increasingly unhinged, and increasingly believe things that are fundamentally opposed to America's founding ideals I'll tell you what We're going to do an essay after the top of the hour on what American unity is actually about And we're going to look back two hundred years to july fourth, eighteen twenty six. Stay tuned Every time I hear this RIP Hulk Hogan, this by the way, for those wondering, I actually had someone text in, Hey, Dan, you know, I'm loving the open that you've been using this week, but the song is just depressing. It sounds like a funeral dirge. I'm like My brother You missed an entire era of professional wrestling. This is Rick Derringer's realal American, which served as the late legendary Hulk Hogan's entrance song for many, many years. Interesting bit of trivia last year. Rick Derringer and Hulk Hogan actually died within a couple of months of each other justust what am I all time favorite s. Maybe we should end should we end the week just by playing real American Yeah, I know you're down. No, we're not going to play rock and roll, Hoochiku. What are you a communist? That's a good saga. I was a Derringer. That Real American is just it's just such an incred incredible song We are not just celebrating two hundred and fifty years since America's founding. And really what I think, I hope I have been able to convey today is that America isn't like you can't mark one beginning of America. We mark the passing of the Declaration of Independence when the Contental Congress formally ratified the Dclaration, but America actually declared its independence. The vote was today. It was july second, seventeen seventy six America is a constant evolution And it is constantly at the forefront of liberty of goodness of virtue and of togetherness We lead the world in everything. earlier this week, I did my annual look at how objectively I can prove by any objective measure America is the greatest country on Earth It always has been But it's really something deeper And fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence The signing. The signing didn't even happen until august second and even later if you can believe that The ratification of the Declaration of Independence, one of the most significant days in American history. We are going to tell the story of july fourth, eighteen twenty six and the lessons that it can teach us today coming up in just a second. rightight now though, the two fifty K USA giveaway The nationwide keyword to win two five hundred dollars is trip T R I P You have got until five fifty five to go to our website and enter the keyword trip. If your entry is picked at random, you will have two thousand five hundred dollars In your pocket to go on a trip, greatreat American road trip, whatever you want to do, two hundred fifty thousand dollars we are giving away in one hundred increments right up until twenty four hours from right now, Freedom Eve as it were, july third until we give away two hundred fifty thousand dollars to hour Listeners All right, we would also like to take a few more of your reflections on America at two hundred fifty four one four seven hundred nine nine eleven thirty. That is the carpetand USA Floring Center, talk and text line. You can email me DOD at iheartmedia dot comot again follow us on social media at Dan O'Donnell's showow on X, Facebook, Instagram We are streaming live on YouTube across social media and please do. suubbscribe to the Dan O'Donnell Show podcast on IiHart Radio or wherever you listen to podcasts and every second that you miss live on the radio because you might miss things like this. an ode to enduring friendship and what America is really about has made clear two hundred years ago On july fourth nineteen twenty six J fourth, eighteen twenty six As his beloved nation celebrates fifty years of independence, A ninety year old man lies on his deathbed Fifty years ago, he was instrumental in winning that nation its independence, but today As he draws his final breaths, his final thoughts aren't of his nation, its independence or of his own illustrious place in both They're of his friend Fifty years ago, they stood together against the world's most powerful empire. decclaring with one voice that they were endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. that among these For life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness july fourth, seventeen seventy six A forty year old man stands in the Pennsylvania state House and nods approvingly He has just been instrumental in convincing his fellow members of the Second Continental Congress to declare independence from Great Britain. and now John Adams is watching his dream The United States of America true When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another The words could not be more eloquent. The arguments could not be more persuasive. The Declaration of Independence could not be more perfect Adam smiles proudly at his friend, a thirty three year old fire brand named Thomas Jefferson The words were Jefferson's, but the arguments were theirs together. And in one voice, they had just started a revolution. togetherether, they had just won approval for one of the most significant documents in human history Though history would remember Jefferson as the author, it was Adams who persuaded their colleagues to allow him to write the original draft Any misgivings over one of the youngest delegates assuming such a monumental task were assuaged by Adam's faith in him after America won its independence The two grew even closer while serving as diplomats for the young nation in France Yet theirs was a friendship as unusual as it was dear since their political philosophies were as different as could be imagined Adams advocated for a strong federal government while Jefferson supported more authority vested in the states Well Jefferson noted that they were often, in his words, separated by different conclusions we had drawn from our political reading They remain the closest of friends Adams wrote to Jefferson. Correspondence with you It's one of the most agreeable events in my life july fourth, seventeen ninety one As his beloved nation celebrates fifteen years of independence, a fifty five year old man stands in his office. John Adams is that nation's first vice president, and his good friend Thomas Jefferson is its first secretary of state They're as close as ever And even their growing political differences in President George Washington's cabinet can't shake their friendship Five years later, even running for president against each other can't shake their friendship In America's first contested presidential election, Adams defeated Jefferson in what was to be America's last presidential election that featured no mud slinging As was the custom at the time, neither Adams nor Jefferson actively campaigned for the office and as was the custom at the time, because Jefferson finished second in the race He became Adams's vice president But for the first time in their long friendship their political differences would come between them. When Adams signed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts into law in seventeen ninety eight, Jefferson was appalled He believed that the president, a federalist, was abusing the office and trying to criminalize his Democratic Republican party And he all but abandoned the Adams administration for his estate at Monttecello where he plotted to take his nation back from this new threat to liberty. July fourth, eighteen hundred A sixty four year old man paces nervously in his office President Adams has just read the latest smear from his former friend. Adams is a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman Jefferson's allies were merciless For the first time in American history, a presidential election was turning bitter, nasty and personersal Adams' allies called Jefferson a mean spirited, low lived fellow the son of a half breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulato father What were once different conclusions drawn from political reading were now outright slanders Adams was a tyrant. Jefferson was a coward Adams was a criminal. Jefferson was a weakling. Adams was a fool. Jefferson was an atheist When Jefferson finally won the election of eighteen hundred in a landslide Adams retaliated by making last minute appointments of men who Jefferson wrote were from among my most ardent political enemies Pitics. It finally ended their friendship July fourth, eighteen eleven. As his beloved nation celebrates thirty five years of independence, a seventy five year old man sits in his living room thinking about a guest he has just had in his home A neighbor of his old friend turned swarn enemy Thomas Jefferson It's been two years since Jefferson followed Washington's example and retired from the presidency after his second term, but Adams still can't forget about the ugliness of the eighteen hundred election Still Something is gnnawing at him. Even after all the ugliness, Even after all of the political differences that somehow mutated into bitter personal insults He still misses his friend And he had told Jefferson's neighbor I always loved Jefferson and still love him When Jefferson heard his neighbors say this He wrote to one of his and Adam's old friends, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a fellow signer of the Declaration of Independence, to say, This is enough for me. I only needed this knowledge to revive towards Adams all of the affections of the most cordial moments of our lives When Dr. Rush relayed this to Adams with the message that Jefferson wanted to write him again, Adams was overjoyed. and sent Jefferson a letter immediately. Jefferson sent one back And the two resumed their friendship through hundreds of letters. discussing everything from their revolutionary days to their time in France, to politics, to their families, to their thoughts on aging and mortality Politics had made them bitter enemies. Their love and respect for each other made them friends again july fourth, eighteen twenty six As his beloved nation celebrates fifty years of independence A ninety year old man lies on his deathbed. Fifty years ago, he pushed that nation toward independence and persuaded Congress to let his friend write the decclaration thirty five years ago, he was that nation's leader and his friend was his vice president Fifteen years ago, that friend was his sworn enemy, but today as he draws his final breaths His final words are about his friend Thomas Jefferson. survives Adams could not have known Thomas Jefferson had died. five hours earlier july fourth, twenty twenty six Our beloved nation is once again divided over bitter personal politics that have ended friendships by the hundreds of thousands Loyal opposition has become hostile resistance. Well, reasoned discourse has devolved into hate. Our beloved nation has unfriended itself president is a tyrant. His opponents are cowards, He's a criminal. His opponents are weaklings. His supporters are stupid, his detractors are crazy. All of us, though each and every one Bears responsibility We're not giving into the temptation to see disagreement as dislike at opponents as enemies E those opponents we once considered friends We can pretend that This moment is unprecedented, that our president has never before abused his authority so dangerously, or that his opponents have never before smeared him so viciously, but we can't escape the fact That hostility has been a hallmark of American politics almost since the dawn P American politics They haveve always been bitter. they have always been nasty, and yes, they have always been personal. There have always been those who seek to capitalize on this, to demonize instead of criticize, and to stoke the flames of hatred for political game And there have always been friends who have fallen for it. There have always been friendships that have ended over it Even our beloved nation's most beloved leaders have not been immune The friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson survives through the most bitter, nastiest, most personal of politics, it stands on july fourth, twenty twenty six as it did two hundred years ago on july fourth, eighteen twenty six as a poignant reminder that no friendship is immune All friendships are repairable On july fourth, twenty twenty six, we no longer send letters to mend our broken ties but we can send a text We can, like Adams and Jefferson, declare our independence from our own bruised egos and recognize that politics doesn't have to be personal When we lie on our deathbeds as we breathe our last fininal thoughts won't be of our politics They'll be of our friends. becausecause ultimately our relationship with one another All that really matters. On july fourth, eighteen twenty six, as our beloved nation celebrated fifty years of independence, its last two surviving founding fathers Last two surviving links to july fourth, seventeen seventy six breathed their last Not his bitter rivals but his friends Friendship Not politics was all that mattered to them Friendship, not politics, was all that they remembered all that we should remember Because on both july fourth, eighteen twenty six and july fourth, twenty twenty six Friendship American Unity. Thomas Jefferson survives July fourth, eighteen twenty six is available in written form, that the script I was working off of, it is up at the Heartland Post Heartlandpost. com We of course have it off on my social media at Dan O'Donnell's showow on X, Facebook, wherever you can find social media you can find me two hundred years ago, almost to the day Thomas Jefferson and John Adams bothoth died. And in fact, it is documented Adam's last words were It's disputed whether it was Thomas Jefferson survives or Jefferson survives, but the clear context was at least Jefferson still survives, meananing at least the nation still has Jefferson Right? Because they knew they were the last two. everybody else, every other signatory of the Declaration of Independence, every other signer had died. They were the last two the fact that They were the closest of friends. They were incredibly close as they were working as French diplomats during the Revolutionary War and working to secure French support. If they didn't get support from the French, the revolution would have not succeeded. The colonists just did not have the financial support. They did not have the naval support. basically were they were running a guerrilla campaign in essence until French forces basically met them. I believe it was Yorktown. It was shortly before Yorktown. I mean, French money was coming in to support the revolutionary effort, but it was at Yorktown when basically the French Navy arrived and the British were ultimately forced to surrender It was Marquita Lafayette was a key leader in that battle, but it was Jefferson and it was Adams in France. convincing the king there King Louis theXteh, I believe, who would ultimately be killed in seventeen eighty nine, seventeen ninety in the French Revolution. Folks, the French Revolution coming just thirteen years after the American Revolution sort of it very quickly devolved into the terror It showed just how badly things could have gone in this new nation as you know you had roobes Pierre and you had people who were attempting to essentially hijack the revolutionary movement for themselves and they were assassinating their political rivals and things like that. The fact that America yes did have to fight war against Britain to be expected. And then we essentially fought the sequel shortly thereafter in the war of eighteen twelve but The fact that we did so largely bloodlessly and what I mean by that is that there was no sort of factional violence like arose after the French Revolution is a testament to just how solid the principles that these men came up with were and the fact that they really truly believed them with all their hearts about what government should be, what government must be. that government has to be of by and for the people as Jefferson wrote goovernment has to derive its just powers from the consent of the governed Ultimately, the power is all with the people Not the people like in the French Revolution, a mob right that can be taken advantage of the wisdom of democracy and not pure democracy. That's another thing. The founders were very concerned about how a majority could rule just as tyrannically as a king could So they explicitly put in provisions made America a specific form of democracy where you would have majority ruled yes, but only in very, very small elections for state houses and also for the House of Representatives. So rememember, we did not have elections for federal office until much later, until the seventeenth Amendment provided for the direct election of United States Senators at the time of the founding. in order to give the states more power for direct representation in the United States Congress, senators were actually picked by state legislatures They weren't elected by the state. They they were just picked We dramatically moved away from that. And the founders were very concerned about an entire state, especially a big state like New York or a Massachusetts back in the day where you would have this this faction Tyranny sort of rise up They were very worried about the direct election. The electoral college was a direct result of this fear that majority rule was not something that could work for this country because you would have big states, New York, Massachusetts, and what they were really worried about actually. this is why I always laugh when leftis say, well, the electoral college vestigge of the racist past. No, it actually wasn't. It was a way to limit the power of these slave holding states As was the so called three fifths compromise in the U.S. Constitution where slaves were counted as three fifths of a person. if they were counted as a full human being for the process of apportioning electoral college votes and House members, the South would have dominated There would have never been any concessions towards the abolitionist movement. There would have never been the abolition probably of the North Atlantic slave trade in what was it? eighteen o two, eighteen o three because you would have just had the southern states being able to dominate And the Southern states would have had inordinate power in electing president. very likely. You don't have an electoral college, you don't have a three fifth compromise. Abraham Lincoln is never elected president because the southern states, which again, seceded. The South Carolina seceded as soon as Lincoln was elected. It was like he was elected in November, I think it was november sixth by december twentieth, South Carolina is like, peeace, we're out. This guy's going to take our slaves. We're done with this country All of the concessions that were made and all of the forms of how this nation would be set up and how the government would be worked were designed to limit and perfectly designed limit power. Why we have three separate but equally powerful branches of government. Now in actual practice in twenty twenty six, the executive branch is far and away the most powerful branch of government. It's not even close. But it too is still subservient to Congress. If Congress says All right, Trump You have got to get out of Iran now Ultimately subject to war powers resolution and all of this. The president has to go. If the president does something that the Supreme Court says, okay, unconstitutional. Like just for example, we had a major, major ruling on birthright citizenship Major ruling It was that Pident cannot issue an order effectively ending something that is enshrined in the fourourteenth Amendment. that if you are born in this country, you are a citizen of this country, what did Trump say What did Trump say? He was directly asked about this a couple of days ago. He said, Well You know, if it's the Supreme Court, if they rule that we can't do this. You got to abide by it This a long way from, was it Andrew Jackson who said of the chief Justice of the Supreme Court after he ruled against him on some some action that Jackson was undertaking in the eighteen twenties. He said, Well, he's got his ruling. Now let's see him enforce it. Jackson, of course was powerless to stop the Supreme Court then. just as the Supreme Court powerless to stop, say the executive All the Supreme Court can do is declare whether something is constitutional or not and something has to go through the federal court process in order for that to work All of these branches in government working in tandem to limit the power of any one person, to limit the power of any one faction is just absolutely incredible in how well how fine tuned the American system actually is. All right, we're gonna step aside for a break. You are listening to a special edition of the Dan O'Donnell S showow Reflections on America's two hundred and fiftieth. Great email here from uh, Ron You have totally ruined your historical reports with incessant obnoxious sappy piano Qote unquote music hadad to turn it off. Happy fourourth of July to you too, Ron. Turn up the hearing aid if you must The music is what really I think gives it a little Boom Put it up there. Put it up Oh my gosh. T funny. These are my listeners, ladies and gentlemen, and I am thankful for each and every one of them. and the occasionally very pointed Tk. coming from super that literally popped in my inbox as I was coming back from break. Happy fourth, Ron. Teja Della Rueell is the radical trans activist who apparently has been fired now. She was working as a campaign volunteer for Katrina DeVille. She is the trans Democrat candidate for Congress Running against Tony Weed in the Green Bay area and the New York Post was able to get a hold of DeVille after Teja Dela Rueell went viral yesterday for saying truly unhinged things on social media like kill your local Republican and we need to start a trans jihad where we target members of Maga Deville got back to the New York Post and said, hey, yeah, we actually fired this volunteer campaign worker when it became clear that they were insanely mentally imbalanced. Chocker Della Rueell, meanwhile I just love the fact that it's Dell Rueell and Katrina Deville Do we not have any transgender people with like the name Nancy? Like is there not just like a normal Like here's Jen I'm gonna pick as my trans name Jen It's always like they old You know what I'm going say it Dela Rull went to social media last night to vent about being outed for being a violent psychopath and said, yeah, I'm only saying things that everybody else says privately I think what I hate the most is that how many people personally agree with me And then like like it'specially private and then when a cach comes to the shelf, I'm just I love to get cooked. I'm just love to get cooked and fried. Yeah, this is actually English by the way. it took I had my staff And I listened to this like three times to be able to figure out what they them were saying. and it is I am just left out to get cooked. even though everybody agrees with me privately. So listen very, very carefully. Should I put some piano music behind this to make it even harder to listen to? I think what I hate the most is that how many people personally agree with me And then like like especially private and then when I comushhing up the shelf, I'm just I'm love to get cooked. I'm just love to get cooked and fried likeike I like that' much crazy All I ever, ever have done and say is what people have said. Like a lot like, you know, I said all I did was give it a camera of what people were sick And u that's that's enough. that's that's enough to condemn me, I guess. No saying I want to kill your local Republican and we're going to have a trans jihod. And apparently there was even more deranged stuff on this person's substack enough to get you out of politics. The problem is There are people like this and this is obviously somebody who is very deeply disturbed. okay? This is somebody who exists outside of the normal sphere of American politics However, Their worldview is increasingly mainstream in the Democrat Party. It is a worldview Communism That is fundamentally at odds with Americanism, fundamentally at odds with everything this country has long stood for. Big, big problem When you have g Just thirty percent of one political party saying that they're proud to be an American. and a nearly identical thirty percent, saying, yes, we want our candidates to be open socialists by the way These are not socialists like, oh yes, happy Norwegian and Swedish socialists. Th thoseose aren't socialist countries. okay? Venezuela was a socialist country. It collapsed The Soviet Union was a socialist collection of countries. It collapsed These are people who want to do the exact same thing, who want to govern in the exact same way. who want to seize the means of production from private evil capitalists and claim it for themselves. and run it into the ground The fact that this is, the fact that the Tha Della Rouells are finding a place in the Democratic Party. albeit briefly, apppparently there is something as too nuts for the Democratic Party today You are seeing already what happens when people like this come to power Mga viral tweet Y yesterday from Mayor Zoron Kwamee Mamani. New York, it's hot out there and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool. Set your AC to seventy eight degrees Turn off lights and electronics you're not using and unplug what you can. Our city is doing its part to maintaining the seventy eight degrees rule in our buildings, dimming and turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same and powering down nonessential equipment. A stable grid means the AC stays on and lives are saved. Let's ease demand and get through the heat Now what happens when not enough people voluntarily turn up the thermostat to seventy eight degrees. This sounds like it's something that isn't a huge deal and people are making away too much What happens? If Mondani believes that he has the power to enforce the seventy eight degree thermostat rule when it's ninety five degrees outside with a feels like temperature of one hundred six seventy eight degrees, ladies and gentlemen, still feels like a sauna when it's that hot outside Now he's saying, Okaykay, well, we hope that you will do this. out of the goodness of your hearts and to I don't know, save the planet every socialist, it seems All right of any renown in this country flies private You have to turn up your air conditioning in your two hundred square foot New York City flat. in your studio apartment where it's like a bed, a microwave and the toilet is downstairs. flop house. It's like a dorm. Like New Yorkity, how many people are living in basically dorm rooms and crappy dorm rooms But yes, we're going to save the planet. What happens though if and when someone like Mum Dani believes that they have the power to enforce those regulations at the tip of a bayonet When it comes to socialists, oftentimes that's literal That's what happens As my producer, Eric says, it sounds like Britain. Yeah, it kind of does Unfortunately The reality is is that Those sorts of suggestions those sorts of Idas become mandatory As more and more communists gain power More and more oppressive regulation follows. and more and more Government. Tyranny is ultimately the end result. The only way that socialism can be enforced because it is such an anti human it runs contrra to human nature It has to exist. It has to be enforced under the threat of or use of violence, state violence That's the only way it works. You've got the comies now state violence that we can't get a health insurance policy. It's a state violence that our health insurance claim was denied No, that's not state violence. State violence is you being rounded up and taken to the gulag for reeducation because you don't think that the thermostat needs to be turned to seventy eight degrees Folks make no mistake All of the threats that we face as a country This is the greatest one, the mainstreaming of an ideology. and the importation of people who subscribe to that ideology or at least are cool with that ideology that is fundamentally at odds with everything America stands for and has always stood for This is America's next battle and whether we realize it or not. As we embark on our next two hundred and fifty years, we are already fighting it. We will be back to wrap up a special edition, America at two hundred fifty. Dan O'Donnell's show coming up next Pice This is not from the Animal House soundtrack. I mean it is my producer. It's the Washington Post March by Sza. Yes, it is very famously used in Animal House. Could you be any more of a generation Xer Eric He's handing me ninety three QFM and Hot one hundred two stickers