Reflections on Democracy and Independence Day

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Let me repeat that. seeven people were placed on advanced life support, eleven transported to hospitals, forty four patients were being treated with extreme heat exhaustion, watch as Matt Ryine captured these EMS vehicles that were swooping by as people were falling down one after another, and you had state regime media Fox saying, If you're a true patriot, if you really like Donald Trump, come out here in the heat Seriously, you know how many people you hurt and could have killed and how many people you could potentially be killing today with the heat while, you potentially this event may still go on tonight, this Donald Trump speech, if people show up at five PM, six PM and they have to stay there for six hours, folks, this is very serious stuff. Watch what Matt Ryan posted here play this video Then you had Julian Andriioni,'s a great reporter out there in Washington, DC with a drop site. Here he is reporting on all of the things that he saw out there with all of these emergency vehicles zooming by, people falling down. Let's watch this play this clip Oh, there's somebody in the back of the mess truck. Okay This is this is really All right It's hard to believe this. There's not really much cover anywhere. And here he is again showing you some of these emergency vehicles that were swooping by. Let's play it. I guess they're gonna run through There are some people running through with cold water to go help their loved ones in line You see, look it, so people running here they No, you're good. you're good G go ahead. Yeah. So that's what I was referencing is there's a guy event staff wearing. Blue These are the people who are in charge of sort of saving the people who have fainted passed out in line Um The paramedic situation may only bring Yeah, M's truck over when someone has literally passed out, but up until that point, people are profusely sweating and need water. and the people in charge of that are just the event staff, the people who are running the security lines There's another EMS truck over there. Paramedics coming through to help somebody another person who's passed out. Its it's really is hectic. It's chaotic. It's total disaster. They haven't plann for this at all Jeff Stein explains also, you know, with these eight hundred fifty thousand fireworks that are apparently set to go off in DC, there has been a report that Donald Trump has basically quashed He's deep sixixed it. But federal officials wrote this internal report detailing this internal analysis and warning that the air quality risks in DC between the heat the limited proximity where they're going to be shooting these fireworks off, that the air quality is going to be so low. peopleeople should avoid prolonged exposure to pollution around the mall. The health effects could be deadly, it could be deeply serious. That's what I've been warning about too, folks When we talked about Donald Trump demolishing the East wing of the White House, I'm like, there's asbestos All over that, by the way. And I'm sure we'll find out in a few years people contracting asbestos based on the way that was handled and demolished. It wasn't at a union job. They just demolished that thing. By the way, the Trump supporters can't handle this at all right now. You've got MAGA sycophants like Kylie Jane Kremmer This is a real person and this is a real post. in response to a factual statement that DC is going to be hotter, than ninety nine percent of the planet Right now, only parts of Africa's Sahara desert, the Middle East and China's Gobi desert will be hotter. This is what Kylie, this what this is what the MAGAas are saying right now. I'm telling y'all that someone with an extreme case of Trump derrangement syndrome just geoengineered this weather in DC Same way they geno engineered Trump's inauguration to be one of the coldest in U. S. history. People with Trump derrangement syndrome hate Trump more than they love America in response to the fact that it was hailing golf balls before Donald Trump gave that speech and South Dakota last night, that disastrous speech she gave in Mountain Rushmore. The MAGAas were saying things like this. These are like real these are real humans. This isn't parody. This is a real human being, Trump supporter. Ping pong sized hail fifty milile per hour wind and ground lightning where Trump is set to speak in South Dakota out Mount Rushmore in celebration of America's two hundred fifty birthday. Oh, it's not geoengineering. No, Trump Derangement syndrome is real and it is destroying the United States of America. I'll tell you, I mean, the Trump derangement syyndrome is like you and all of these Trump cultists out there who think that they're A cult leader can do no wrong, a guy who's literally defrauded and bankrupted everything his entire damn life. It was just like when When they talked about Donald Trump's crypto schemes where Donald Trump and the crypto made two point two billion dollars. But there were over what was it? like one million wallets of people who had Trump crypto and meme coins. They lost four billion dollars. Trump makes two billion dollars You lose four billion dollars and what do the Trump supporters? What do the cultists say? They go, o, the Democrats must have shorted the Trump meme stock. Oh, yeah, the Democrats went in there. They shorted Trump meme stocks. That's that's I mean, and then you have Treasury Secretary Scott Bescent out there saying, and I don't even think that there is an appearance of impropriety as a result of Donald Trump's crypto trading I just think he's innovative. This is such an innovative, this is what innovation, is what innovation is, stealing from people, grifting from people, making billions of dollars in quid pro quos, having Pakistan and And United Arab Emirates always people invest in world, Lberty, financial. What the hell are we been? This is what Treasury Secretary Besson said playay this clip The Pident's financial disclosure showed that crypto had become a major source of his income While the administration is shaping crypto policy, Even if the White House says there's no conflict of interest, which is what we've heard Is there an appearance problem when so many folks are struggling? Well, again, I don't think there's an appearance problem. The president, this is an innovation presidency. So whether it's digital assets, whether it's AI, whether it's everything that is going on in the tech ecosystem. that all Americans are benefiting from that. And here just so you can hear for yourself, this is what some of the Trump MAGA supporters were saying about the crypto losing their li savings. It's okay. It must have been the Democrats who stole my forty thousand dollars. Oh yes, it's the Democrats. justust like when Donald Trump did this exact thing in the eighties on a much smaller scale because they didn't have a freaking presidency. And in the nineties, it must have been the Democrats whenonald Trump But Donald Trump was a running. the Democrats everything here play this clip two investors into the Trump coin. and these are Trump supporters If Trump was putting his name behind it, it must be a legitimate investment This is a woman who spoke to wruters. She put two thousand dollars of her savings into the Trump meme. At the end of May, her Trump holding was worth less than. one hundred and twenty dollars. She now thinks it was just a pump and dump scheme The second investor, Matt, a forty five year old machinist in Indiana, put forty thousand dollars into Trump family tokens. When a stock has presidential backing in a way, at least from his sons, you would think it would go up. Matt's shares have dropped seventy nine percent in value since he bought them for a loss of about thirty two thousand seven hundred dollars. He does not blame the Trump family. He said he believes. Democrats and anti Trump investors are taking short positions. I digress. I sometimes I can't help myself but going on those tangents because you know it pisses me off. Meanwhile, you had people like Jesse Waters out there and state regime media propagandist saying, look how great the flyovers are. Look how amazing it is Okay, I mean, sure, the flyovers are cool, man. Yes, we all agree. Flying American military might is cool. We so stipulated. The issue is, first off, that's our money That's taxpayer dollars paying for it, Jesse Waters. You know, so that you can put on this display of paid patriotism. We could be patriotic without having to spend hundreds of millions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money, which could be going to people's healthcare and could actually be helping people because people are suffering and they're screwed right now. And I understand, Jesse Waters, you make thirty million dollars a year. You're rich. You don't have to worry about All of these problems that most Americans are confronting, But when we think about it, okay, do we want to spend hundreds of millions or billions of dollars for Trump's propaganda to hoist up a fascist regime that is just killing people in this country? No, don't I think we'd rather have health carere. And here's what Jesse Waters has to say here play this Gim America iss about to throw the biggest birthday bash in history, blowing out two hundred and fifty candles with a star spangled explosion of fireworks and freedom military flyovers all day right here at the Great American State Fair And then I'll show you what's going on here as well. I mean just so you can see how pathetic this event is. This is real. Gad Gatsby posted ennough celebrating for me. I did see the tent of David before I left and I got to witness a baptism Here's a baptism that was taking place over the Aaplay this clip Patricia Guino says that I went to the Great American State Fair and here is what I saw. You can see for yourself here and play this clip I went to the great American state Fair so you don't have to L looks like Virginia is closed for some reason. How would you look at that? AI graphics Very narry Maryland Tent Lots going on Yeah I've been rem st She st I'm having a foul time. Can't beat these prizes at the Chop chop. This is a baptism ple? Yes, yes, yes. There's been so many people baptized. Can I be baptized as a Muslim? We baptizeed in the name of Jesus. Not even a little bit hind. And you would like to experience Jesus? If I live myself in here, I will experience Jesus. Yes, we ask people to baptiz in the name of Jesus. And I want to share this with you as well. I mean, you know, as Donald Trump's out there boasting about crowd size this, crowd size that. this is Tehran's grand Mosala. This they're hosting the funeral. Of the Ayatolla, Kominee who Donald Trump killed. It's notable as well that you had like dozens and dozens of countries show. you see the list of the countries that were there that sent their top level dignitaries? I mean, even Saudi Arabia showed up. I'll show you this list right here. Donald Trump's brought the world closer Iran and these are the Donald Trump who's obsessed about crowd sizes. This is what's going on in Tehran right now and there are actually people there who are holding up signs that say FUCK Trump. Here This I'll show you over here, playing this clip I want to leave you with the wise words on the fourth of July of former President Obama. Here's what he had to say about the fourth, let's play it. What message do you have to Americans? Remember what's best in us The basic principle upon which this country was founded, which is we don't have rulers We don't have kings or monarchs or aristocracies We have citizens And if we hold true to that idea that we the people, u then gifted this chance of self government. if we pay attention to U our responsibilities and our duties. and if we extend respect and thoughtfulness to our fellow citizens U even if we disagree with them If we understand that part of this democratic project is to sort through our differences in peaceful legal ways Um, then I'm confident that we're going to have another two hundred fifty year run that's going to be just as good. And here's what former President Biden had to say about the fourth here. Let's play this clip right here I'm not sure we're as divided as we portrayed. I'm sure there's anyywhere from fifteen percent to thirty percent of the people who are on the one end here But I think the vast majority of people are coming around to conclude that they know. those things so they don't even think about it directly, but the' safeguards in the Constitution. I think people are begin to realize that they're sort of being trampled on right now. So I'm hopeful that people are going to begin to say, who whoa, whoa, we got to slow this thing up. We're coming to two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the country and for me, it I think it reminds people that Democracies depend on certain basic rules. We're the most unique country in the world most unqu country in worldle sense that we really do think democracy is dictated by the rules of the Constitution And we do believe and when we act and when we do we do well, that all men are created equal. Well there you have it folks. Let me know what you think. 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