THE MORNING RANT: Independence Day and (Repeatedly) Stolen Lands

It’s sad that Independence Day is a national day of mourning for the American left. This year it’s especially tough for them, since the celebration is even grander due to this being the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

My local paper is honoring the semiquincentennial by running a different story every day which highlight reasons for their shame about being American. In the past week, the featured stories have included slavery, lynchings, the slave trade, the KKK, and segregation. There is no triumph in those stories about what was overcome under the stars and stripes either, just pure venom at what a sinister country this is.

But it’s long been this way. For decades it’s made me sad that the left couldn’t stop hating on America for even one day of the year, but they can’t. I recall listening to the NPR station back in the late ‘90s, and it’s Independence Day coverage was heavily focused on injustices and land theft committed against Native Americans and Mexicans. I fully understood that NPR was providing emotional support to its listeners on a very difficult day. Those of us patriotically celebrating the USA have always caused emotional distress to the left.

Because Democrats are desperately fixated on this country being built on stolen land, they’ll never accept the U.S. as being a legitimate country to take pride in. At this point, all we on the right can do is laugh at them and hope their fervent anti-patriotism propels their party into further disrepute.

At the recent Texas Democratic Convention, it opened with, what else, a land acknowledgement to the native Karankawa Indians. This is what attendees heard: “I would also like to acknowledge that we gather on the traditional homelands of the indigenous peoples of the coastal bend and the area known as Corpus Christi. The Karankawa were the people of Corpus Christi Bay.”

Now listen, I’m a guy who believes it’s imperative to celebrate the good and de-emphasize the bad in those who came before us and helped shape this country, but the Karankawa were so rough that even the “civilized tribes” kept their distance.

The Texas Democrat Convention kicks off with, what else, but a land acknowledgement…for cannibals!

Oh brother. pic.twitter.com/HZK5AAggXX
— Brandon Waltens (@bwaltens) June 26, 2026

The Tonkawas of Central Texas allied with and fought alongside white settlers because the Tonkawas were sandwiched between the Karankawas to the southeast and the Comanches to the northwest. History is complicated, but land acknowledgements aren’t. They are simple, no-cost outlets for white guilt.

But speaking of stolen land - in the great 19th century battles on the Texas frontier between white settlers and Comanches, both sides were fighting over stolen land that neither were native to. The Comanches had been a small, weak Shoshone tribe in the Mountain West until they acquired horses and moved east, creating the powerful “Comancheria empire in the southern plains by displacing the Apaches. The indispensable Traces of Texas provides an account from “Comanche Empire” on the Comanche colonization of the plains:

They came to the plains from the west, slipping through the canyon passes of the Sangre de Cristo Range in small, roving bands. Like so many other native groups of the age, the Numunu moved to the great continental grasslands seeking new opportunities, to build a new way of life around the emerging ecological triad of grasses, bison, and horses. They were few in number, possessed little wealth beyond a handful of mounts, and seemed indistinguishable from their more prominent allies, the Utes. New Mexico's Spanish officials noted their arrival to the southern grasslands in 1706 and wrote it off as a minor event. Yet by midcentury, the Numunu, now called Comanches, had unhinged the world they had almost unnoticeably entered.
Despite its modest beginnings, the Comanche exodus to the southern Plains is one of the key turning points in early American history. It was a commonplace migration that became a full-blown colonizing project with far-reaching geopolitical, economic, and cultural repercussions. It set off a half-century long war with the Apaches and resulted in the relocation of Apacheria ---- a massive geopolitical entity in its own right ---- from the grasslands south of the Rio Grande, at the very center of northern New Spain. The Comanche invasion of the southern plains was, quite simply, the largest and bloodiest conquering campaign the American West had witnessed ---- or would witness until the encroachment of the United States a century and a half later.
But the Comanche invasion was far more than a military conquest. As they made a place for themselves in the southern plains, Comanches formed a series of alliances with the adjacent Indians and European powers, rearranging the political and commercial geography of the entire lower midcontinent. Seen from another angle, the Comanche invasion was a momentous cultural experiment. It brought death and destruction to many, but it also introduced a new, exhilarating way of life ---- specialized mountain bison hunting ---- to the Great Plains, irrevocably altering the parameters of human existence on the vast grasslands that covered the continent's center. Finally, Comanche arrival to the southern plains was a major international event: it marked the beginning of the long decay of Spain's imperial power in what is today the American Southwest. The Comanche conquest of the southern Great Plains was a watershed event that demolished existing civilizations, recalibrated economic systems, and triggered shock waves that reverberated across North America.

The most famous story that came from the clash between whites and Comanches was the kidnapping of young Cynthia Ann Parker in 1836. She spent over 24 years with the Comanches before being recaptured in 1860 by Texas Rangers. (The movie “The Searchers” is about her recapture.) Cynthia Ann had married chief Pete Nocona and by now she only knew the Comanche way of life. She never fully readjusted to white society. As if her story wasn’t remarkable enough, her son Quanah Parker became a legendary warrior and was the last great leader of the Comanches before being re-settled on a reservation.

While that story is painful, something special has happened in ensuing decades that is uniquely American. Both sides of the Parker family have found common ground in their shared heritage, and family reunions are now attended by white and Comanche family members.

“At the Parker Family Reunion, Descendants of a Tragedy Come Together” [Texas Monthly – January 2026]

“Our symbolism is to offer water and tobacco,” [Tina Parker Emhoolha] explained. The girls placed the offerings, and Emhoolah broke a stick to symbolize an end to any lingering resentment or blame “for what happened here on that day.” Everyone bowed their heads.
If any onlookers had stumbled upon the scene, they might have questioned grieving for a tragedy almost two centuries past. But it was the origin myth and original wound of the family standing around the marker. The raid of 1836 led to Quanah’s birth, a blending of Comanche and Anglo bloodlines, and the complicated identity the Parkers carry today.

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The special culture and nation that emerged in the United States once its borders were finalized included white settlers, Native Americans, freedmen of African heritage, Tejanos, Cajuns, and others. There was both good and bad in all those clans and cultures. We generally adopted the best from each culture, and there is no need to feel shame about the worst aspects of any culture or incidents in our history. It all came together to make this country great.

In that spirit, our friend James Hooker (Nancy Griffith’s band leader and a founding member of the Amazing Rhythm Aces) has put out a timely song as America faces adversaries who seek to rip this country apart. Here is his song for Independence Day, “Calling All the Clans Together.” We have an amazing country. It’s worth fighting for.

Happy Anniversary, America! I wrote this in 2009 - I think! Getting started a little early on this, but...... Y'all pass it around if you like.
"CALLING ALL THE CLANS TOGETHER" pic.twitter.com/5D0hRM8z0x
— James Hooker - "The Fastest Man In Pompeii" (@THE_JamesHooker) June 7, 2026

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Hey-o!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2026 11:00 AM (X8xt3)

2 Seconded!

Posted by: m at July 03, 2026 11:01 AM (6wpGE)

3 Podium

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2026 11:01 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and not celebrate ALL the Native Americans as if they were one, big, happy and welcoming people.

Posted by: Hannah Dustin, colonial badazz at July 03, 2026 11:02 AM (X8xt3)

5 AoSHq is a great place to be hanging out for the Independence Day holiday!

Posted by: m at July 03, 2026 11:03 AM (6wpGE)

6 Calling All the Clans Together.

That's racist.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 03, 2026 11:06 AM (Kt19C)

7 American Indians were not tje perfect little society the Leftists think they wete

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2026 11:06 AM (Ia/+0)

8 I had MS Now on around 10am.
Someone has to. I guess...

Mamdani had his speech honoring all those who came to New York.

I turned the channel before he got to today's victims groups and tomorrow's special people.

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In my land acknowledgement for my part of Canada, I'd like to honour those unnamed and unremembered peoples brutally and savagely extinguished by the indigenous savages that once lived here.

You have been avenged.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 03, 2026 11:07 AM (Sco7b)

9 Happy Fourth of July!

Some Canadian academics just did a study of the main drivers causing Canadians to move from Canada to the United States.

You'll never guess what one of the main drivers is.

In our new study published by the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy on Thursday, we found that the desire for better health care represents a primary driver of emigration, running a remarkably close second to employment opportunities.

Wha? I've been told by the Left for decades that Canadian health care is obviously superior, because it is FREE.

What could be better than FREE?

It's simply not possible that some Canadians might actually prefer dealing with the American health care system than their own wonderful system!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2026 11:07 AM (aD4fx)

10 Obligatory on stolen land:

https://tinyurl.com/5ypjw5bx

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 03, 2026 11:07 AM (XvL8K)

11
Yeah, we stole your land. What ya gonna do about it?

Bitch.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 03, 2026 11:07 AM (y9nCu)

12 >>My local paper is honoring the semiquincentennial by running a different story every day which highlight reasons for their shame about being American.

In the weekly message from the CO Diocese, the (black, female) Bishop sent a grumpy message. Opening with the founders' "we hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" she then goes on to say the Bible holds ALL people as equally of value, and that we should consider this, and hope that some day our country will live up to these biblical values. It's as if there's been no change in 250 years, no end to slavery, women's voting rights, etc.

Absolute cranky killjoy.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2026 11:07 AM (X8xt3)

13 Every square inch on the planet inhabited today was once inhabited by a different group of people.

Every one of those precious Indian tribes we “stole” land from stole the same land from another tribe which in turn stole it from another and so on for thousands of years.

Posted by: Enemy of the People at July 03, 2026 11:07 AM (JQVry)

14 Well, we killed off all the buffs in this neighborhood, nobody else around to enslave, and the garbage pit is filled up. Time to move on down the road.

Native American Steward of the Land

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 03, 2026 11:08 AM (gm9Sb)

15 There's a really good book about the Comanches called "Empire of the Summer Moon". Good history and and a good read.

My mother tells the story of the day Quannah Parker, after the surrender and resettlement, crossed my great-grandfather's farm in west Texas and offered to buy my grandmother, a toddler at the time. A handsome offer, but politely refused.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 03, 2026 11:09 AM (l26NL)

16 "Local paper?"

Who reads local papers anymore?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 03, 2026 11:10 AM (qFwJc)

17 We didn't steal the land.

We conquered it. Big difference.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 03, 2026 11:10 AM (l26NL)

18 We didn’t steal any land. We spent some of our best booze on it.

Posted by: Bulg at July 03, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

19 TV report on fireworks showed a package with Trump's face and name. Can't find online.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 03, 2026 11:11 AM (Kt19C)

20 Every one of those precious Indian tribes we “stole” land from stole the same land from another tribe which in turn stole it from another and so on for thousands of years.

Also, with all the push for "reparations" in Northern states, somehow they never mention that the only slaves in those states were people enslaved by various tribes.

Up to a third of the population in some Northwest tribes were slaves.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2026 11:11 AM (aD4fx)

21 The best 250th would have been the rise of a million militiamen gathered to bulldoze the communists, their supporters, and their thought leaders into the fucking sea, and not stop until the field was clear and nobody was left to complain.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2026 11:11 AM (snZF9)

22 The LIBs ceaseless quest for the unearned remains forever ceaseless because the Value Illicitly Obtained retains no Value.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-ifLIBsWantAmerica2Fail
https://tinyurl.com/IceKingJOE-ShadowOfTheIceKING
...making cheap energy expensive...making expensive energy cheap. ....OF COURSE ctHARRIS wouldn't change a thing.

“the people in charge are lying to the public and telling them not to believe what we’ve seen with our own eyes.” -- Clinton 01/26/26

And LIB leadership's naked hypocracy is apparent for those with eyes that do not refuse to see.

"Sooner or later you figure out that pragmatism and compromise are principles in a democracy. It's not selling out your convictions." -- Clinton'2005, at the height of his assocaition with Epstein, knowing full well what he was up to, knowing full well that pragmatism is the naked ESSENCE of Compromise.

LIBs plead for a Morality which holds COMPROMISE as its standard of Value, making it possible to judge Virtue on the basis of the number of Values which one is willing to Betray.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsHalftimeAmerica250
NO MORE.

LET's GO BRANDON!
Defeat LIB Strategic Insanity Forever.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 03, 2026 11:12 AM (28bVr)

23 Who reads local papers anymore?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 03, 2026 11:10 AM (qFwJc)

‘Sup.
We also still watch local newscasts.

Posted by: Boomers at July 03, 2026 11:12 AM (JQVry)

24 >>Every one of those precious Indian tribes we “stole” land from stole the same land from another tribe which in turn stole it from another and so on for thousands of years.

They also stole people.

Posted by: Hannah Dustin, colonial badazz at July 03, 2026 11:12 AM (X8xt3)

25 They did the obligatory stolen land BS at the grand son's graduation. It is possible I snorted out loud, drawing the ire and snotty looks of a couple Karens and a Ken or two. I laughed.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 03, 2026 11:13 AM (2WIwB)

26 We didn't steal the land.

We conquered it. Big difference.
Posted by: Blutarski,

______

If you havent seen it, watch the video at 10.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 03, 2026 11:14 AM (XvL8K)

27 24 >>Every one of those precious Indian tribes we “stole” land from stole the same land from another tribe which in turn stole it from another and so on for thousands of years.

They also stole people.
Posted by: Hannah Dustin, colonial badazz at July 03, 2026 11:12 AM (X8xt3)

So, that crying Indian on Saturday morning commercials wasn't crying about pollution?

He was just sadly remembering the good ole days?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 03, 2026 11:14 AM (Sco7b)

28 18 We didn’t steal any land. We spent some of our best booze on it.
Posted by: Bulg at July 03, 2026 11:10 AM
++++

Don't forget about us.

Posted by: The special blankets at July 03, 2026 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)

29 Up to a third of the population in some Northwest tribes were slaves.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2026 11:11 AM (aD4fx)

Seattle is named for a big time slave holder.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 03, 2026 11:15 AM (2WIwB)

30 So, that crying Indian on Saturday morning commercials wasn't crying about pollution?

He was crying over the fact that he was Italian.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2026 11:15 AM (aD4fx)

31 27 That crying Indian on Saturday morning commercials was sad because he was missing the bocce ball game at the Sons of Italy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 03, 2026 11:15 AM (gm9Sb)

32 It's an accident of history that there were already people here when we arrived to discover our country. But what are ya gonna do? What's done is done. Let's just make the best of it.

All seriousness aside, groups of people have been displacing other groups of people since the dawn of Man. Nearly every race and stripe of human beings has pushed another band of human beings aside at one time or another. It's what we as a species do.

Posted by: Don Black at July 03, 2026 11:16 AM (ZxPkt)

33
Natives had Chiefs, who in most cases locally sold the tribal lands.

Just like today, where our Chiefs run up 40 Trillion dollar debts.

Posted by: Auspex at July 03, 2026 11:16 AM (Y8DZL)

34 That Washington guy had slaves at Mount Vernon. Time rename that big pointy racist monument.

Posted by: Purple haired Karen at July 03, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)

35 I was looking at the linguistics of the "pueblo" in New Mexico. Besides the Navajo, who are Athabaskans from Canada as everyone knows, and the Comanche predators you noted; they got Hopi, Keres, and Tewa.
The Hopi as Uto-Aztecan probably migrated from the southwest, Colorado River delta (when droughts didn't kill it).
The Tewa (or Tiwa) were a surprise, their language was related to Kiowa.
Keres look like the actual indigenous people there.
To sum up, there was migration (out east, like the Cherokee), but other people seem to have stayed about where they were (Mohawk in this example).

Posted by: gKWVE at July 03, 2026 11:17 AM (gKWVE)

36 That crying Indian on Saturday morning commercials was sad because he was missing the bocce ball game at the Sons of Italy.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
_____.__

There's a Sopranos episode on that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 03, 2026 11:17 AM (XvL8K)

37 I am a boomer too. turning 71 later this month. I don't watch broadcast TV, read a paper, or listen to NPR.

I get all my news from JJ's Morning Report, among other Internet sources.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 03, 2026 11:18 AM (qFwJc)

38 So, that crying Indian on Saturday morning commercials wasn't crying about pollution?

He was just sadly remembering the good ole days?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 03, 2026 11:14 AM (Sco7b)

Well, since he was actually Italian he was probably just remembering sunday dinner at uncle Mario's place.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2026 11:18 AM (snZF9)

39 The Karankawa were the people of Corpus Christi Bay.

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Well, they should've built a fuckin wall then.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 03, 2026 11:18 AM (2UnvF)

40
It's an accident of history that there were already people here when we arrived to discover our country. But what are ya gonna do? What's done is done. Let's just make the best of it.

Posted by: Don Black at July 03, 2026 11:16 AM (ZxPkt)

It's their own fault for being on our land before we got here.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 03, 2026 11:18 AM (y9nCu)

41 I love bocce ball, am I am not even Italian.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 03, 2026 11:18 AM (qFwJc)

42 I see a major chump got arrested in DC for protesting while in uniform.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2026 11:18 AM (DKe4e)

43 If you're in or around the greater Washington DC area, keep your eyes open. Lots of airborne hardware around today. Fighter jets, the "old" VC-25A 747 92-9000 is up now, a pair of B1s are orbiting, etc.

Posted by: TRex - air traffic control dino at July 03, 2026 11:18 AM (IQ6Gq)

44 All the minor tribes in Civ deserve land acknowledgements.

Posted by: Dark Lix. at July 03, 2026 11:19 AM (DZ9Lv)

45 "35 I was looking at the linguistics of the "pueblo" in New Mexico."
++++

I'm always on the lookout for a cunning linguist.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 03, 2026 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)

46 >>So, that crying Indian on Saturday morning commercials wasn't crying about pollution?

He was just sadly remembering the good ole days?
- - -

Oh, there's room to cry about litter and pollution, too.

The settlers, US government, and natives each were awful to the others. As always, more complex that our Lefties want to acknowledge, so much easier to only recognize the bad acts committed by one side.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2026 11:19 AM (X8xt3)

47 Oh the troll comment is already zapped. But I got a good chuckle over pearl clutching about cutting down a cherry tree since they only live for up to 40 years.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2026 11:20 AM (PV+Zw)

48 So, that crying Indian on Saturday morning commercials wasn't crying about pollution?

Ha, I just watched a bad Western with Iron Eyes Cody, starring Jim Brown and Lee van Cleef, called El Condor.

It did have nekkid Imogen Hassall and Marianna Hill, but was pretty useless otherwise.

Posted by: far cry at July 03, 2026 11:20 AM (Q6P2R)

49 The Texas Democrat Convention kicks off with, what else, but a land acknowledgement…for cannibals![/]

Were they at least fine young cannibals?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 11:21 AM (l3cgK)

50 When you see ☪☮𝔼✡⚧☯✝ on a bumper sticker you have to realize it mean you 'must' coexist with the left. On their terms. Under their laws. With their culture.

Or die.

This is one reason why they're pissed off about the current state of affairs... they're not willing to coexist with us.

Under any circumstances.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2026 11:21 AM (jehhT)

51 I love bocce ball, am I am not even Italian.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 03, 2026 11:18 AM (qFwJc)

I thought the game was a myth until I went to Tuscany and and actually saw one set up on the grounds of a winery.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2026 11:21 AM (snZF9)

52 Hey, TRex. It was great to meet you, however briefly, at the MoMe.

Posted by: Bulg at July 03, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

53 Anything that moves people toward breaking it up is fine with me. If it sucks so much they should secede. Do it for the Indians or the Palestinians or whatever. Don't care. Just secede already. Put yourselves out of my misery.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2026 11:21 AM (BI5O2)

54 This is one reason why they're pissed off about the current state of affairs... they're not willing to coexist with us.

Under any circumstances.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2026 11:21 AM (jehhT)

Their proposal is acceptable.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:21 AM (dK+Kv)

55 Willowed on the ~~Fourth~~ Third of July: I have a Semiquincentennial food post up this morning on AccordingToHoyt.com. Link in nic. Includes some food I’ve commented on in the Food Threads, and some I’ve not.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 03, 2026 11:22 AM (kYmoU)

56 All the minor tribes in Civ deserve land acknowledgements.

Civ 7 apparently got rid of the term "barbarians", since it was racist or something.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2026 11:22 AM (aD4fx)

57 Yeah but the Comanches didn't sent sail here. They are native to North America so it's okay for them to conquer and take other tribe's ancestral lands. ---- woke humanities professor

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (/WQyy)

58
By delegitimizing the history, ideals and current polity, the DemComs seek to make themselves into the redeemers of this blighted land and people. Not coincidentally, the sheer magnitude of the present horrors legitimizes any measures they take, no matter how extreme.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (O0L8i)

59 Just secede already. Put yourselves out of my misery.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2026 11:21 AM (BI5O2)

You misspelled seppuku.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (dK+Kv)

60 Life is too short to watch bad westerns.

Posted by: TCM at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (2Ez/1)

61 I would like to acknowledge that the land we now occupy once belonged to His Majesty the King of England, but he and the parliament that runs his government started acting like a bunch of douchecanoes, so we kicked their asses out and started running things ourselves.

It all worked out for the best, for us, and humanity as a whole.

If you want it back, too freakin' bad, it's ours now.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (J+z4U)

62 I'm a native American.

Posted by: Don Black at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (ZxPkt)

63 51 A lot of the social clubs up north and back east have a bocce ball court and leagues. Good social game, helps you learn juicy Italian swear words.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (gm9Sb)

64 Barbarians are now undocumented mostly peaceful migrants?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (DKe4e)

65 They did the obligatory stolen land BS at the grand son's graduation. It is possible I snorted out loud, drawing the ire and snotty looks of a couple Karens and a Ken or two. I laughed.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 03, 2026 11:13 AM

For a season or two, a local music theater did the land acknowledgement thing. I've noticed a distinct absence of it in the last year or two. I suspect that even in MA people let the owner know they were sick of that shite.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 03, 2026 11:24 AM (kgE5c)

66 62 I'm a native American.

Posted by: Don Black at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (ZxPkt)

I was born here...does that make me a native American too?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 11:24 AM (l3cgK)

67 I see a major chump got arrested in DC for protesting while in uniform.

I'm sure Harvard or Yale has already created a faculty position for him. Hopefully for when he gets out of Leavenworth in 10 years or so.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 03, 2026 11:24 AM (vTZFs)

68 A lot of the social clubs up north and back east have a bocce ball court and leagues. Good social game, helps you learn juicy Italian swear words.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (gm9Sb)

Bocce ball is the snooker of corn hole.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:25 AM (dK+Kv)

69 Somehow some Indians just gained control of some Mendocino, CA coast land, via hand wringing leftards.
No word on who they stole it from.

If first means you and your children's children own it then the Moon is Neil Armstrong's/America's. Surely our
Indians would agree with that and fight to keep it.

Posted by: torabora at July 03, 2026 11:25 AM (KtOUo)

70 Disagree YD. The commies that don't like America can emigrate to Canada, Mexico, Europe or wherever they think is better. There is no reason they should be allowed any american land.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (PV+Zw)

71 I live in Texas on the short grass prairie where the bison used to live.

Posted by: huerfano at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (VJX5o)

72 60 Life is too short to watch bad westerns.
Posted by: TCM at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (2Ez/1)

You need to watch SOME bad westerns so you can better appreciate the good ones.

Posted by: m at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (6wpGE)

73 Disagree YD. The commies that don't like America can emigrate to Canada, Mexico, Europe or wherever they think is better. There is no reason they should be allowed any american land.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (PV+Zw)

Agree. They get nothing.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (dK+Kv)

74
Westerns with Gene Autry singing and Smiley Burnett acting retarded are a cornerstone of our national heritage. I

Posted by: Auspex at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (Y8DZL)

75 "Bocce ball is the snooker of corn hole."

*ahem*

Posted by: Cricket at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (2Ez/1)

76 >>I was born here...does that make me a native American too?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 11:24 AM

Yes. Me, too.

Posted by: huerfano at July 03, 2026 11:27 AM (VJX5o)

77 The Scotaches and Scadiaches conquered the Comanches.

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:27 AM (/WQyy)

78 We were here first. All your shit belongs to us.

Posted by: TRANSmalfamogrians for Andromeda at July 03, 2026 11:27 AM (KtOUo)

79 The Karankawa were the people of Corpus Christi Bay.

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Are they any relation to the Fukarwee?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 03, 2026 11:27 AM (g8Ew8)

80 71 I live in Texas on the short grass prairie where the bison used to live.
Posted by: huerfano at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (VJX5o)

That's very poetic!

I live in Texas
On the short grass prairie
Where the bison used to live.

Posted by: m at July 03, 2026 11:28 AM (6wpGE)

81 The Karankawa were the people of Corpus Christi Bay.

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Are they any relation to the Fukarwee?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 03, 2026 11:27 AM (g8Ew

Who?

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:28 AM (dK+Kv)

82 Still fighting the land grabs from 250 years ago. I'll be over here watching the world cup because all of the global foreigners may decide not to leave.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 03, 2026 11:28 AM (fkjGs)

83 I accidentally clicked on Texas Dem. Wow, you have land acknowledgements starting in the US. That's just crazy.

There's already been a lot of stuff renamed but wait until things are given some obscure Indian name no-one could ever hope to pronounce.

From Grok...

One standout example of a very long Indigenous (Nisga'a) name in British Columbia is:

Anhluut'ukwsim Lax̱mihl Angwinga'asanskwhl Nisg̱a'a

This is the official Nisga'a name for Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Park (also known as Anhluut'ukwsim Laxmihl Angwinga'asanskwhl Nisga'a Park), a provincial park in northwestern BC near the Nass River valley, about 80 km north of Terrace.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 03, 2026 11:28 AM (Sco7b)

84 Agree. They get nothing.
Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM

Now this man understands!

Posted by: Judge Elihu Smails at July 03, 2026 11:28 AM (kgE5c)

85 62 I'm a native American.
Posted by: Don Black at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM (ZxPkt)

If you were a Democrat, you could call yourself a naïve American.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 03, 2026 11:29 AM (J+z4U)

86 I live in Texas
On the short grass prairie
Where the bison used to live.
Posted by: m at July 03, 2026 11:28 AM (6wpGE

Does make a great Haiku.

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:29 AM (/WQyy)

87 I live in Oklahoma. Practically the entire state is an Indian burial ground. I think that's why we get such bad weather.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 03, 2026 11:29 AM (l26NL)

88 I see a major chump got arrested in DC for protesting while in uniform.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2026 11:18 AM (DKe4e)

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My bet is that he's been passed over for Lt Colonel twice and decided to flounce. That'll prove costly for him as I'd imagine Hegseth won't be in a forgiving mood and his new pals on the left will be on to the next thing by next week. Enjoy the general court, asshole.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 03, 2026 11:29 AM (2UnvF)

89 Thx Buck.
My home city was burned and a massacre occurred in the 1650-60s. The so called Esopus wars with the Dutch settlers, were nasty . The Esopus ended up extinct(they were Lenape people). Serves them right. My home city was later burned by the British 10/77 . People like burning my city

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 03, 2026 11:29 AM (itsE0)

90 Indians fought against each other? I was reliably informed that they were a peaceful people that loved the earth and only used renewable energy and let transquaws use the women's latrines.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 03, 2026 11:29 AM (Dv3i1)

91 My favorite American Indian is Chief Dan George.

Well, he and Piper.

Posted by: Bulg at July 03, 2026 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

92 83 I accidentally clicked on Texas Dem.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 03, 2026 11:28 AM (Sco7b)

"Accidentally"?

Posted by: m at July 03, 2026 11:30 AM (6wpGE)

93 62 I'm a native American.
Posted by: Don Black at July 03, 2026 11:23 AM
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Me, too.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at July 03, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/1)

94 Disagree YD. The commies that don't like America can emigrate to Canada, Mexico, Europe or wherever they think is better. There is no reason they should be allowed any american land.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (PV+Zw)

Agree. They get nothing.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (dK+Kv)

This.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2026 11:31 AM (snZF9)

95 Last thing. I have to get to work.
From Deadline.

And the lefties will just NEVER, EVER be able to connect dot A to dot B.

"Well, Turkey has done it now.

By banning a cruise ship full of American LGBTQ+ travelers from docking in its country’s ports, Turkish authorities have drawn the wrath of Broadway’s formidable Patti LuPone.

“I am shocked,” LuPone writes. “The Atlantis cruise I am performing on next week has been banned from entering Turkey. A ship – a magnificent ship – full of gay men. And me. Denied entry to Turkey simply because of who is on board. I am furious, but I am sailing, as the ship will make other ports of call. I am ready to perform for the wonderful men on this Atlantis cruise, who deserve so much better than this."

It'd suck to clean rooms after those cruises...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 03, 2026 11:31 AM (Sco7b)

96 I should have said 'can make a great Haiku'

I live in Texas
On the warm short grass prairie
Where the bison lived

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:32 AM (/WQyy)

97 I acknowledge the land but no way I’m giving up my prime beachfront property back to the brown people.

Posted by: Malibu Karens at July 03, 2026 11:32 AM (JQVry)

98 "...and let transquaws use the women's latrines."
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LOL.
Too good to check.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 03, 2026 11:32 AM (2Ez/1)

99 Does anyone else, when filling out new doctor forms, want to be honest?

Do you find yourself depressed?

Well, I have cancer and I'm answering pointless questions so... yes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2026 11:32 AM (ExV1e)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 03, 2026 11:33 AM (6wpGE)

101 Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2026 11:07 AM (X8xt3)

It's all subversion, by people that would specifically re-enslave you in a heartbeat.

That's what kills me. We have to sit explaining all these wonderful things that people, whether whites or Christians or whoever, have done to "fix" these injustices.

But we are explaining ourselves to barely masked cannibals and warlords, who plan to reverse all the genuine progress and reimplement the horror, post haste.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2026 11:33 AM (vE0+H)

102 92 83 I accidentally clicked on Texas Dem.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 03, 2026 11:28 AM (Sco7b)

"Accidentally"?
Posted by: m at July 03, 2026 11:30 AM (6wpGE)

I was reloading and moving the page. And there it was.
Land acknowledgement.

The first time I ever heard one was before City News from Toronto. I thought it was the most stupid thing ever.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 03, 2026 11:33 AM (Sco7b)

103 “I am shocked,” LuPone writes. “The Atlantis cruise I am performing on next week has been banned from entering Turkey. A ship – a magnificent ship – full of gay men.
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..and monkeypox.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 03, 2026 11:34 AM (Dv3i1)

104 In important news (LL baseball):

Between Summer ball and Spring season, Little and I have been working hard to add speed to his pitching. I try to be objective - difficult as a parent - but damn if this kid is not the brightest, wisest, best attitude, hardest working little guy on the field.

After Spring season ended - during which we had no time to break/improve his pitching mechanics (because a full 7/13 were dead weight and we needed him to pitch 3 innings every game and couldn't afford any down time) we had about two weeks to hit it hard and develop some ideas on improving his velocity. He attacked it like a boss, with same great attitude and confidence that we'd get back accuracy as when we broke his mechanics pre-Spring, and he worked patiently and intently to incorporate the new ideas (as I admonished again to not worry about accuracy and control *right now*).

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:34 AM (dK+Kv)

105 Fast forward two weeks, after I had asked Summer coach to forego pitching him while we worked through the changes to get accuracy back (and he graciously agreed), and the morning of the 2nd game I budgeted about 10 pitches to "get back" to his normal accuracy. Lo and behold, he got there in 10 pitches, while getting some tools and confidence to pick himself up on the mound and "find his spot." Summer coach entered him that night in the fifth inning to close the game, to my great anxiety and trepidation. Little delivered 17 strikes on 31 pitches for 9 batters, 2 Ks, no hits, 1 BB and 1 run in two innings.

Here's the grand payoff.

I hear yesterday on the phone as we were working on his pitching (and he was able to hear as well), that second game opposing coach (whom we played against in Spring) was talking to his Spring coach (who was umping second game) between fifth and sixth innings, and the opposing coach remarked about how much faster Little was than just a month earlier, approaching league's fastest pitcher (our starting pitcher). His words.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:34 AM (dK+Kv)

106 I acknowledge Jim Thorpe

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:34 AM (/WQyy)

107 We were here first. All your shit belongs to us.

Posted by: TRANSmalfamogrians for Andromeda at July 03, 2026 11:27 AM (KtOUo)

All your shit are belong to us.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2026 11:34 AM (snZF9)

108 I knew he's added speed, qualitatively, from the slap of the ball to my left index finger. But I was floored. It was a great opportunity for Little to see the benefits of his hard work and dedication and appreciate that people notice the outcome of his efforts. What a day!

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (dK+Kv)

109 Agree. They get nothing.
Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:26 AM (dK+Kv)

I can think of one thing I'd like each of them to get.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (vE0+H)

110 It’s no longer Turkey, you racist racists who racist.

It’s Türkiye now.

Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (JQVry)

111 I used to have a different nic, I ask for healing for you every day .

Posted by: Ben Had at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (afJtY)

112 No no no
I'm not redskin
I'm a paleface

Born on this soil, a Native American.

Posted by: Don Black at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (ZxPkt)

113 Is Patti Lupone calling for the US to go to war with Turkey over gay guys? Take a cruise to Provincetown, Mass lady.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (itsE0)

114 "...Broadway’s formidable Patti LuPone."
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Who?

Posted by: Most people at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (2Ez/1)

115 Does anyone else, when filling out new doctor forms, want to be honest?

Do you find yourself depressed?

Well, I have cancer and I'm answering pointless questions so... yes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2026 11:32 AM (ExV1e)

You left out old and hemoroids

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (g8Ew8)

116 The "Native American" thing is early communist changing the meaning of words. Indian was confusing what with none of the tribes being from India. But the answer to that would be to insist on using Comanche, Sioux, Cherokee, etc. But that would not have served the commie purposes.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (PV+Zw)

117 Is Patti Lupone calling for the US to go to war with Turkey over gay guys? Take a cruise to Provincetown, Mass lady.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (itsE

Are sure it's a lady?

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:36 AM (/WQyy)

118 I can think of one thing I'd like each of them to get.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (vE0+H)

Lovely parting gifts?

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:36 AM (dK+Kv)

119 Oh, I also like Clu Gulagher, who was a Cherokee.

Posted by: Bulg at July 03, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

120 I acknowledge Jim Thorpe
Posted by: polynikes

He was Sac and Fox. They were originally from the Illinois area but packed off to Oklahoma.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (l26NL)

121 I’m depressed that I’m filling out the same form I’ve filled out approximately 877 times already, with the exact same information.

Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (JQVry)

122 114 "...Broadway’s formidable Patti LuPone."

Formidable comes from the Latin word formidabilis, meaning "causing fear" or "terrible." It evolved through Old French to its current usage, which can also imply something impressive or difficult to deal with.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (Dv3i1)

123 "...from the slap of the ball to my left index finger."
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Wait. What are we talking about here?

Posted by: Not that there's anything wrong with that at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (2Ez/1)

124 Oh, I also like Clu Gulagher, who was a Cherokee.

Posted by: Bulg at July 03, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

They had a thing against watermelons as I vaguely recall.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (dK+Kv)

125 Short rant on un-American celebrities

You know Bruce Shitstain's Born in the USA is all bitching how bad Americans are, yet gets played like its USA!, USA!

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (Ia/+0)

126 People from India don't even call their country India. Most refer to it as Bharat.

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:38 AM (/WQyy)

127 "...from the slap of the ball to my left index finger."
----
Wait. What are we talking about here?

Posted by: Not that there's anything wrong with that at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (2Ez/1)

Hard-flung balls.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:38 AM (dK+Kv)

128 My cynicism exceeds my patriotism at this point. The bicentennial was a fun time with the Freedom Train and all that. Do the ideals of the Founding Fathers still live in the hearts of men? Yes, including myself. When I look at the GOP blocking common sense and constitutional legislation to spite a Republican President, it's a disgusting display of betrayal to our Republic.

We all know what the solution is. Restoration of the US Constitution to its original meaning. No 17th amendment, no anchor babies, no unfettered invasion by our enemies and would-be wards of the State. No borrowing from China to then send foreign aid to China. No foreign aid before our citizens are cared for (if then). There are a host of other practices that must be abolished to restore the Republic, but again, what is the path to that end? I don't know.

This July 4th is a both a day of celebration and a day of mourning. We can celebrate what we've achieved and the good we have brought to this dark world. Unfortunately, we can mourn what we've let slip away. Can it be rescued or must we raze and rebuild? Forces may have been released that have determined which it may be.

Posted by: windbag at July 03, 2026 11:38 AM (bGlCy)

129 Lovely parting gifts?
Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:36 AM (dK+Kv)

"Don Pardo... tell them what we have for them!"

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2026 11:38 AM (vE0+H)

130 Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (Ia/+0)

We appropriated that bitch just like we did with Yankee Doodle..

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:39 AM (/WQyy)

131 110 It’s no longer Turkey, you racist racists who racist.

It’s Türkiye now.

Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (JQVry)

And what of the Armenians genocided by them? Muslims don't do land acknowledgements like libbies do...theirs is more like
"We took your land, it's now ours forever, if you take it back, it's still ours forever."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 11:39 AM (l3cgK)

132 126 People from India don't even call their country India. Most refer to it as Bharat.
Posted by: polynikes

I propose we call them Bharatians

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 03, 2026 11:39 AM (Dv3i1)

133 >>It's all subversion, by people that would specifically re-enslave you in a heartbeat.

Exactly.
They pretend to care about how the US government displaced Native American tribes, but within the same breath are celebrating Somalis displacing the locals in MN. H$ll, the Democrats who were happy with pre-Civil War slavery are now happy to enslave illegal aliens.

America has some ugly things in its past, but they are only recognizing it, focusing on it, to gain power. Empty, inflammatory talk.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2026 11:40 AM (X8xt3)

134 110 It’s no longer Turkey, you racist racists who racist.

It’s Türkiye now.

Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (JQVry)

A Türkiye is a Türkiye , no matter how loud it gobbles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 11:40 AM (l3cgK)

135 I used to have a different nic, I ask for healing for you every day .
Posted by: Ben Had at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (afJtY)

Thank you. I'm not actually depressed, I'm just tired of asinine medical questionnaires. I understand that they're trying to cover all their bases to make the doctor as efficient as possible but it gets really annoying. And the fact that they assume that everyone is going to want to fill out these forms on a smartphone makes it worse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2026 11:40 AM (ExV1e)

136 That's what real Americans do. It's impossible to insult us with name calling. We'll embrace that shit and make it ours.

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:40 AM (/WQyy)

137 My father freaking loved Patti LuPone, but passed in 1990. He would have been mortified to find she had become a stupid dumb lib.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2026 11:40 AM (vE0+H)

138 know Bruce Shitstain's Born in the USA is all bitching how bad Americans are, yet gets played like its USA!, USA!
Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (Ia/+0)

Ithe vast majority of people have no idea it’s a communist song. Which I have to believe pisses Shitstain off to no end. You write an anti-American song and it becomes a 4th of July anthem. That has to sting.

Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:40 AM (JQVry)

139 *The "Native American" thing is early communist changing the meaning of words.
Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM
+++
I prefer the time honored "feather not dot."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 03, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

140 thanks to the magic of sans-serif fonts, i keep reading headlines about al qaeda as being about ai qaeda, and now i'm worried about chatgpt terrorism.

Posted by: anachronda at July 03, 2026 11:41 AM (qdr3M)

141 You left out old and hemoroids
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (g8Ew

Well... I did take the "what conditions are you being treated for" page literally so I left out all the bullshit that the doctor wants to drug me up for which I refuse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2026 11:42 AM (ExV1e)

142 140 thanks to the magic of sans-serif fonts, i keep reading headlines about al qaeda as being about ai qaeda, and now i'm worried about chatgpt terrorism.

Posted by: anachronda at July 03, 2026 11:41 AM (qdr3M)

You hate our people?

Posted by: The Serif Indian Band at July 03, 2026 11:42 AM (l3cgK)

143 The idea, the concept of national identity, an allegiance to it, that's not structured as a top down, draconian social framework with people pigeon-holed by various criteria is alien to the left. A free and open society scares the shit out them. They can't wrap their little brains around the American concept of freedom.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2026 11:42 AM (jehhT)

144 This July 4th is a both a day of celebration and a day of mourning.

Posted by: windbag at July 03, 2026 11:38 AM (bGlCy)

Consider that - with all that is arrayed against us - we're still standing strong and remain a beacon to the world.

Suite Madame Blue

https://youtu.be/BUVCtZzfEyo

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:43 AM (dK+Kv)

145 So, you're talking about Turkey, eh?

Posted by: Bob and Doug McKenzie at July 03, 2026 11:43 AM (2Ez/1)

146 Happy Fourth to you and yours, sweet Ben Had. Weekend of R&R for my tired mind. Hope you have a good one.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2026 11:43 AM (vE0+H)

147 145 So, you're talking about Turkey, eh?

Posted by: Bob and Doug McKenzie at July 03, 2026 11:43 AM (2Ez/1)

I swear by Allah, I thought the gay ones could fly.

Posted by: Mohammed at July 03, 2026 11:43 AM (l3cgK)

148 America has some ugly things in its past, but they are only recognizing it, focusing on it, to gain power. Empty, inflammatory talk.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2026 11:40 AM (X8xt3)

That's the Presentism talking that we should try to avoid and put any discussion of history in its proper contextual state. You shouldn't judge history by the present cultural standard.

Not saying you are doing that exactly.

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:44 AM (/WQyy)

149 It's not surprising that someone, somewhere is annoyed about the various conquerors of any lands.

What does surprise me though, is that rich, spoiled, entitled white peeples are the ones most annoyed.

(No it doesn't)

Posted by: Zombie Roseanne Roseannadanna at July 03, 2026 11:44 AM (NXz0i)

150 The Turks not letting a boat load of homos dock is kinda ironic. Ever watch "Lawrence of Arabia" or "Midnight Express"?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 03, 2026 11:44 AM (gm9Sb)

151 Anachronda: I hate sans serif fonts too.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 03, 2026 11:44 AM (d9Cw3)

152 Off SNL sock!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 03, 2026 11:44 AM (NXz0i)

153
Nice to see Patti Lupone stepping up from total obscurity.

Posted by: Auspex at July 03, 2026 11:45 AM (Y8DZL)

154 It’s no longer Turkey, you racist racists who racist.

It’s Türkiye now.

Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (JQVry)

Fun fact: The translation of Türkiye is "fat chicken".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2026 11:46 AM (ExV1e)

155 Of course they'll never secede. That would mean taking responsibility for themselves, and the point of all this is to make the people who are responsible for themselves be responsible for them, too.

IOW, the point is to enslave us with this cheesy, fake federation as the hand that holds the whip. It's been working pretty well so far for the "beleagured" minorities who consume the wealth of nations and the white gentry who rake off a king's ransom from the stolen largesse they shovel into the greedy mouths of their client peoples.

If the actual Americans had the sense G-d gave a goose, we'd walk first and exile all these people from our lands, while we still have a chance to.

If we insist on keeping everything, all we'll get is chains. Let them keep their hellholes. They'll just eventually, inevitably founder on their own and start a war with us, and then lose it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2026 11:46 AM (BI5O2)

156 When native Americans speak, do they start out with a technology acknowledgement?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 03, 2026 11:46 AM (AjaVp)

157 154 It’s no longer Turkey, you racist racists who racist.

It’s Türkiye now.

Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (JQVry)

Fun fact: The translation of Türkiye is "fat chicken".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2026 11:46 AM (ExV1e)

It's called Fo Gai in Cantonese (Fire Chicken)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 11:47 AM (l3cgK)

158 ..., thank you so very much. Please rest and restore and thank you for you being you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 03, 2026 11:47 AM (afJtY)

159 126 People from India don't even call their country India. Most refer to it as Bharat.
Posted by: polynikes
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It'll always be Burma to me, Elaine.

Posted by: J. Peterman at July 03, 2026 11:47 AM (2Ez/1)

160 We named the bird Turkey after Turkey which was the main trading center for the North African Guinea bird which the 'turkey' resembled.

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:48 AM (/WQyy)

161 Anachronda: I hate sans serif fonts too.

Helvetica is the Brutalism of typography. There's a whole documentary about it that is actually more interesting than it sounds.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 03, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs)

162 When native Americans speak, do they start out with a technology acknowledgement?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 03, 2026 11:46 AM (AjaVp)

lol

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:48 AM (dK+Kv)

163 Anachronda: I hate sans serif fonts too.

Helvetica is the Brutalism of typography. There's a whole documentary about it that is actually more interesting than it sounds.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 03, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs)

Not falling for that one.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:48 AM (dK+Kv)

164 "I would like to acknowledge that are on land that was rightfully acquired and the previous owners are dead because they sucked at war."

I suppose that would not go over well.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 03, 2026 11:49 AM (/k3in)

165 The Turks not letting a boat load of homos dock is kinda ironic. Ever watch "Lawrence of Arabia" or "Midnight Express"?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 03, 2026 11:44 AM (gm9Sb)

That's the Muslim contradiction.

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:49 AM (/WQyy)

166 Anyone interested in the Comanches, I recommend reading Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne.

Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2026 11:49 AM (Gqar8)

167 Oddbob, sending lots of delayed hugs, my friend.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 03, 2026 11:50 AM (afJtY)

168 Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Comic Sans at July 03, 2026 11:50 AM (2Ez/1)

169 >>So, you're talking about Turkey, eh?

Posted by: Bob and Doug McKenzie at July 03, 2026 11:43 AM

Bob Wills was from Turkey. He's still the king.

Posted by: huerfano at July 03, 2026 11:50 AM (VJX5o)

170 Posted by: Ben Had at July 03, 2026 11:50 AM (afJtY)

Thank you. That means more than I can express.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 03, 2026 11:50 AM (vTZFs)

171 Styx earworm.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 03, 2026 11:51 AM (Mvti0)

172
Of course they'll never secede. That would mean taking responsibility for themselves, and the point of all this is to make the people who are responsible for themselves be responsible for them, too.

___________

See also: Quebec, Scotland

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2026 11:51 AM (O0L8i)

173 Times New Roman, Calibri, and Arial are the only fonts I use.

Posted by: Bulg at July 03, 2026 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

174 Let's be fair here - land acknowledgments are a white Communist thing, and the only Indians who participate in that nonsense are their pets.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2026 11:52 AM (BI5O2)

175 I loved July 4th into the 90s, early 2000s. BBQs fireworks, parades, the whole thing. Now I don’t much care about it, just another day. At least it’s a day off from work.

Not because I no longer believe in the ideals and principles of America. I very much do. But because that America no longer exists. It’s like celebrating the birthday of someone who died long ago.

The left has destroyed everything good about the country socially. Chamber of commerce has outsourced all the jobs. What’s left is a place populated by 3rd world invaders in a decaying economy. Nothing worth celebrating.

Posted by: Bummer at July 03, 2026 11:53 AM (FROTF)

176 Hey Ben Had!!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 03, 2026 11:53 AM (QykSZ)

177 156 When native Americans speak, do they start out with a technology acknowledgement?

Or thanking the white man for modern medicine that kept them alive because we eradicated a lot of diseases?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 03, 2026 11:53 AM (/k3in)

178 Besides the Navajo, who are Athabaskans from Canada as everyone knows, and the Comanche predators you noted; they got Hopi, Keres, and Tewa.
The Hopi as Uto-Aztecan probably migrated from the southwest, Colorado River delta (when droughts didn't kill it).

I remember that Hopi and Zuni are the best candidates to be at least partial descendants of the Anasazi, who's culture vanished around the 13th century.

no proof as to why that culture ended, but one guess is a 25 year drought that made the 4 corners area absolutely unlivable so that everyone had to leave, or die. Probably happened because they lit too many campfires and didn't have solar power.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2026 11:53 AM (edUvp)

179 >>Times New Roman, Calibri, and Arial are the only fonts I use.

Tahoma for headings ftw!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2026 11:54 AM (X8xt3)

180
People like burning my city
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Should have built it on rock and roll.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 03, 2026 11:54 AM (Cqx++)

181 Air conditioning, air travel, computers and satellite communications.

You're welcome.

Posted by: The Patriarchy at July 03, 2026 11:55 AM (2Ez/1)

182
The Hekawis were a pretty cool tribe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2026 11:55 AM (O0L8i)

183 SMH, Happy Independence Day. Hugs to you both.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 03, 2026 11:55 AM (afJtY)

184 I do need to carefully load my musket with a blank cartridge for tomorrow. It wants to be fired.

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2026 11:55 AM (Ia/+0)

185 People like burning my city
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Should have built it on rock and roll.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 03, 2026 11:54 AM (Cqx++)

Then they'd just be burning down the house.

Posted by: Cro-Magnon Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 11:55 AM (dK+Kv)

186
Good morning. I found an X account of a Cherokee guy who says Fuck the fights with whites, our histories are intertwined now and so are our fates, and the newcomers don't give af about us so we'd better unite over it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2026 11:55 AM (mmrXZ)

187
I used Garamond for our Soyara Borzoi website.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2026 11:56 AM (O0L8i)

188 The natives aren't innocent in all of this. The English, French and Spanish traded them guns so they could fight against their old tribal rivals and pitted them against Europeans as well. The truth of the matter is, the natives were very much into fighting.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 03, 2026 11:56 AM (AjaVp)

189 People like burning my city
Posted by: Smell the Glove
----
Mine is gone.

Posted by: Chrissie Hynde at July 03, 2026 11:56 AM (2Ez/1)

190 Same to you, Ben Had!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 03, 2026 11:58 AM (QykSZ)

191 I grew up in Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana.

The Calcasieu were also a cannibal tribe.

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 11:58 AM (/WQyy)

192 Typical left: whatever is, is wrong.

No matter the history of a people or a geographic region, whoever is settled there now is illegitimate (unless they are harassing their innocent neighbors).

No matter the current temperature or weather event, it's a climate catastrophe. If we have fair weather at the exact temperature preferred by the left, that's also a catastrophe and proof that (other) humans are bad for the planet.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 03, 2026 11:58 AM (lP31d)

193 Other than inventing everything you use today, we really haven’t contributed much to the world. On the other hand Indians created dream catchers. That shit was a game change to mankind.

Posted by: White Men at July 03, 2026 11:59 AM (s3H/2)

194
I woke up this morning and found out that my city is the focus of today's Ruthless podcast. 4th of July celebration agenda leaked, and it starts with a land acknowledgment and goes downhill from there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2026 11:59 AM (mmrXZ)

195 T-shirt seen at Sunday’s Rush concert: “No One Is Illegal In Stolen Land”

Clearly the dude does not want border controls, PoEs, or anything of the sort anywhere then. Or he has never read any history. Take your pick.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 03, 2026 11:59 AM (Iwx/a)

196 Daily Mail is practically wall-to-wall Tay-tay and her NYC wedding this evening.

It's currently 97 degrees in midtown Manhattan. Be a shame if Madison Square Garden had a catastrophic failure of it's HVAC system this afternoon.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 03, 2026 12:00 PM (J4Dwc)

197 174 Let's be fair here - land acknowledgments are a white Communist thing, and the only Indians who participate in that nonsense are their pets.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2026 11:52 AM
----
They're a female feelings-based thing and no self respecting guy would ever think to do it.

Posted by: Change my mind at July 03, 2026 12:00 PM (2Ez/1)

198 It can be lunch time
Thinking nothing hotter than a PB&J

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)

199 T-shirt seen at Sunday’s Rush concert: “No One Is Illegal In Stolen Land”

Clearly the dude does not want border controls, PoEs, or anything of the sort anywhere then. Or he has never read any history. Take your pick.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 03, 2026 11:59 AM (Iwx/a)

I suppose if I showed up to his house and just moved in he’d be cool with it.

Posted by: White Men at July 03, 2026 12:01 PM (s3H/2)

200 179 >>Times New Roman, Calibri, and Arial are the only fonts I use.

Tahoma for headings ftw!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2026 11:54 AM (X8xt3)

Book Antiqua or Palatiino Linotype FTW

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 03, 2026 12:01 PM (Iwx/a)

201 No One Is Illegal In Stolen Land

Except according to him the people who have the stolen land. The twisted logic of the Left is sad.

Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2026 12:01 PM (/WQyy)

202 Nothing worth celebrating.
Posted by: Bummer at July 03, 2026 11:53 AM (FROTF)

You need to get out more.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 03, 2026 12:02 PM (lP31d)

203 My first comment of the day will be a land acknowledgement on behalf of my many relatives in Israel.

We took back our land from the godless barbarians of the Arab world...

So...tough shit.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2026 12:02 PM (PLxDd)

204 Times New Roman, Calibri, and Arial are the only fonts I use.

Tahoma for headings ftw!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 03, 2026 11:54 AM (X8xt3)

Book Antiqua or Palatiino Linotype FTW

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 03, 2026 12:01 PM (Iwx/a)

Begun, the font wars have.

Posted by: Yoda at July 03, 2026 12:03 PM (dK+Kv)

205 It's one thing for amorphous groups to self-flagellate over the idea that the land of their distant governing polity was "stolen" from some prior non-white occupant. It's stupid but a bottomless source of cheap virtue that impresses a certain cohort.

It's especially hilarious when the agents of the owner of the land bleat about its stolen nature. It raises the obvious question: If you acknowledge that the land you now own and control was stolen from others, aren't you just a big sobbing hypocrite for not giving it back?

Colleges and universities prime examples of this schtick.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2026 12:03 PM (guGkK)

206 CBD, YES, a thousand times yes

Posted by: Ben Had at July 03, 2026 12:03 PM (afJtY)

207 So why don't they just give the stolen land back?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 03, 2026 12:04 PM (2Ez/1)

208 Flounder, I understand the pride.
Jr. was a little league catcher some 20 years ago. One winter I had him training. The first game of the season, an opposing coach (and one of my law school buddies) sent his first base runner on a steal to second. Jr. caught the pitch, reared up and fired to second for a clear out.
My buddy glared at me and I called out, “Best 50 bucks I ever spent!”

Posted by: RI Red at July 03, 2026 12:04 PM (iaf7q)

209 196 T-shirt seen at Sunday’s Rush concert: “No One Is Illegal In Stolen Land”

Clearly the dude does not want border controls, PoEs, or anything of the sort anywhere then. Or he has never read any history. Take your pick.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 03, 2026 11:59 AM (Iwx/a)

He needs to have his home invaded by the "divine sparks" we're trying to send to El Salvador...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 12:04 PM (l3cgK)

210 Wow. Enormous flyover right over our house at low altitude. Many fighter jets (F-18, F-22, F-35 at least), 2 B-2s, 2 B-1s, tankers, etc.

The sound of freedom.

Posted by: TRex - air traffic control dino at July 03, 2026 12:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

211 All land from Point Barrow to Tierra del Fuego is “ stolen land” at some point in history. The Left needs to read some history, get off social media and avoid colleges.

Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2026 12:05 PM (Gqar8)

212 Nothing worth celebrating.
Posted by: Bummer at July 03, 2026 11:53 AM (FROTF)

You need to get out more.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 03, 2026 12:02 PM (lP31d)

Get to a little league game. You have to be dead inside to not enjoy the spirit and antics of the little guys doing their thing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 12:05 PM (dK+Kv)

213 I don't think leftists hate America as much as they hate themselves.

Leftists are angry, bitter, insecure, usually mentally ill, and jealous people. America just shows up how much happier everyone else is. Leftists cannot stand that. It drives them insane. So they lash out by destroying what shows them to be inferior.

It's not a coincidence that the front lines of many of these battles with the left are over relatively simple things that revolve around normal people enjoying their lives and having fun.

BBQ and bonfires and steaks? Must. Stop. That. Big gas-powered cars and trucks? Can't. Have. That. Nice houses for normals? Nah. Even AC and gas stoves. Religion? Are you insane?

Literally everything that normal people derive pleasure or fulfilment from is a target for the left.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 03, 2026 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

214 Back in the days of WordPerfect I used to be a thing.

Posted by: CG Times at July 03, 2026 12:06 PM (2Ez/1)

215 Flounder, I understand the pride.
Jr. was a little league catcher some 20 years ago. One winter I had him training. The first game of the season, an opposing coach (and one of my law school buddies) sent his first base runner on a steal to second. Jr. caught the pitch, reared up and fired to second for a clear out.
My buddy glared at me and I called out, “Best 50 bucks I ever spent!”

Posted by: RI Red at July 03, 2026 12:04 PM (iaf7q)

Nice!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2026 12:06 PM (dK+Kv)

216 One the white side of my family, one cousin's wife came to a brother and said she was sorry for her white privilege...um we're half white, woman...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 12:07 PM (l3cgK)

217 "I'm shocked, shocked to learn that this land was stolen from its indigenous owners!"

"Your deed, sir."

"Thank you very much."

Posted by: Capt. Renault at July 03, 2026 12:08 PM (guGkK)

218 Is the Earth a stolen planet?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 03, 2026 12:08 PM (Cqx++)

219 My Democrat friends (yes, I have a few) are so distressed about this Fourth I told them to call the suicide prevention line. But I gave them the number to Nike. They said "Just do it!"

Posted by: Diogenes at July 03, 2026 12:08 PM (2WIwB)

220
I paid top dollar for my stolen land.

Posted by: Auspex at July 03, 2026 12:08 PM (Y8DZL)

221 The sound of freedom.

Posted by: TRex - air traffic control dino at July 03, 2026 12:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

We caught an early-morning flight out of Savannah airport a few years ago. Apparently there is a repair facility there that does work on the F-35, and about five of them took off one after the other as we were walking into the terminal.

The earth shook!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2026 12:08 PM (PLxDd)

222 Paul is historically illiterate. Why does he make the claim that all the supposed positive events that happened in the U.S. were done by progressives and social justice warriors ? For one thing, "Social justice warriors" is a Completely modern term, and for another the end of slavery was largely done by religious people. They did not think of themselves as "liberals", or was he unaware that the man who worked tirelessly for the abolition of slavery in Britain was William Wilberforce., an evangelical Christian associated with the Methodist movement or that The emancipation proclamation was penned by the Republican Abraham Lincoln?

I hope he makes a nice chunk of change for Soros Co. with his ill informed posts, because they are bunk.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2026 12:10 PM (7RYym)

223 221 The sound of freedom.

Posted by: TRex - air traffic control dino at July 03, 2026 12:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

We caught an early-morning flight out of Savannah airport a few years ago. Apparently there is a repair facility there that does work on the F-35, and about five of them took off one after the other as we were walking into the terminal.

The earth shook!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 03, 2026 12:08 PM (PLxDd)

Did the Skies Come Tumblin’ Down ??

Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2026 12:10 PM (Gqar8)

224
So I guess I don't need to pay property taxes anymore.

Posted by: Auspex at July 03, 2026 12:10 PM (Y8DZL)

225 Just did a sweep of my neighborhood.... Couple hundred homes in this development and saw maybe 10 American flags... granted I'm in a blue City, County State.. One of the few flags I saw had a peace sign where the stars should be...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2026 12:11 PM (FtULh)

226 One the white side of my family, one cousin's wife came to a brother and said she was sorry for her white privilege...um we're half white, woman...

I believe that would have been one of those occasions where I say the first thing to come to my mind and then immediately regret it.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 03, 2026 12:11 PM (vTZFs)

227 I hope he makes a nice chunk of change for Soros Co. with his ill informed posts, because they are bunk.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2026 12:10 PM (7RYym)

It's a quarter a post, but they say a big cost-of-living increase is in the works.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2026 12:11 PM (guGkK)

228 218 Is the Earth a stolen planet?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 03, 2026 12:08 PM
++++

Sniff.

Posted by: The Moon at July 03, 2026 12:11 PM (2Ez/1)

229 224
So I guess I don't need to pay property taxes anymore.

Posted by: Auspex at July 03, 2026 12:10 PM (Y8DZL)

Just send the money to me and I'll give you some Native American Land Acknowledgement Carbon Indulgences...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 12:11 PM (l3cgK)

230 My however many greats grandparents were sodbusters in South Dakota. The nearest Indians there--I think Chippewa but I can't swear to it--were unfamiliar with yeast bread.

So my grandparents kept a bench outside their dwelling entrance. Indians would stop by, dismount, and sit on the bench. My grandmother would give them slices of bread. They would thank her and ride away.

They did show a lot of interest in their daughter Alicia, so she was sent back to live with relatives when she was seven. I still have a mink muff of hers.

Posted by: Wenda at July 03, 2026 12:12 PM (3uyrB)

231 It's not an honest stolen land acknowledgement unless the person's flogging themself with barbed wire while bitching about it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2026 12:12 PM (jehhT)

232 nood mammals

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 03, 2026 12:12 PM (6ydKt)

233
“I am shocked,” LuPone writes. “The Atlantis cruise I am performing on next week has been banned from entering Turkey. A ship – a magnificent ship – full of gay men. And me. Denied entry to Turkey simply because of who is on board. I am furious, but I am sailing, as the ship will make other ports of call. I am ready to perform for the wonderful men on this Atlantis cruise, who deserve so much better than this."

================

Didn't happen. Isn't happening. Trump is the enemy.

Posted by: Queers for Palestine at July 03, 2026 12:12 PM (mmrXZ)

234 There is a nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2026 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

235 "Anyone interested in the Comanches, I recommend reading Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne.
Posted by: tubal"

Recently read that, could not put it down. Fascinating history with lots of great adventure stories and characters. For example I never knew the Texas Ranger were originally founded to fight and defend settlers from the Comanches. Very rough bunch from the beginning not to be messed with.

Posted by: Ripley at July 03, 2026 12:15 PM (GUOwU)

236 I don't think leftists hate America as much as they hate themselves.

Leftists are angry, bitter, insecure, usually mentally ill, and jealous people. America just shows up how much happier everyone else is. Leftists cannot stand that. It drives them insane. So they lash out by destroying what shows them to be inferior.

It's not a coincidence that the front lines of many of these battles with the left are over relatively simple things that revolve around normal people enjoying their lives and having fun.

BBQ and bonfires and steaks? Must. Stop. That. Big gas-powered cars and trucks? Can't. Have. That. Nice houses for normals? Nah. Even AC and gas stoves. Religion? Are you insane?

Literally everything that normal people derive pleasure or fulfilment from is a target for the left.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 03, 2026 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

Yup. They just can't stand seeing anybody having fun. They are mentally ill scolds, or flat out evil. The country will never survive as long as they breath, because they will spend every waking moment plotting and planning on how to ruin your life and destroy the country. They are the ultimate example of if "I can't have it nobody will."

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2026 12:16 PM (snZF9)

237 The land acknowledgement ought to mention that many of the tribes were utter butchers and not just to white settlers. They were equally savage to other tribes, including peaceful ones. A moment of silence for their victims (ans slaves) would be nice.

Posted by: Ripley at July 03, 2026 12:18 PM (GUOwU)

238 237 The land acknowledgement ought to mention that many of the tribes were utter butchers and not just to white settlers. They were equally savage to other tribes, including peaceful ones. A moment of silence for their victims (ans slaves) would be nice.

Posted by: Ripley at July 03, 2026 12:18 PM (GUOwU)

Humans are the most cruel, savage creatures on the face of the earth. They can also be the kindest, most caring creatures on the face of the earth.
Our cruelty to each other knows no bounds and is not an issue of race. Aztecs sacrificed their enemies, cutting their living hearts out. Mayans did some of that too, as did the Inca.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 12:20 PM (l3cgK)

239 Did someone say something about mammaries?

https://tinyurl.com/4mah4j67

Posted by: Cleavage Patrol at July 03, 2026 12:21 PM (PLxDd)

240 I was flippant with my reply to Bummer, but I recognize that cultivating shame and despair among the citizens of a nation is a tactic to weaken their self preservation instincts and make the nation easier to overthrow and oppress.

So I refuse to participate in a shame party.

Also, I live in a community with sweet, sane people. We are kind to each other, watch out for each other, and our young people are getting married and having babies.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 03, 2026 12:21 PM (lP31d)

241 239 Did someone say something about mammaries?

https://tinyurl.com/4mah4j67

Posted by: Cleavage Patrol at July 03, 2026 12:21 PM (PLxDd)

♪Mammaries
Light the corners of my mind
Misty watercolor memories
Of the way they were...♫

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 12:23 PM (l3cgK)

242 In all of that were the Pawnees who were made up of 4 tribes, of which sects kept breaking off and moving, they were in North Dakota all the way into TX and even LA. They liked to scalp, and had a human sacrifice ritual called The Morning Star Ritual. They were buffalo hunters, but when horses were introduced, they became known horsemen.

By the way, Lakota / Dakota literally means cut the throat. All out there singing with the colors of the wind with their pet raccoons.

Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2026 12:23 PM (Wmg4n)

243 Literally everything that normal people derive pleasure or fulfilment from is a target for the left.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 03, 2026 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

Yup. They just can't stand seeing anybody having fun. They are mentally ill scolds, or flat out evil. The country will never survive as long as they breath, because they will spend every waking moment plotting and planning on how to ruin your life and destroy the country. They are the ultimate example of if "I can't have it nobody will."
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 03, 2026 12:16 PM (snZF9)
________

Yea, and the reverse is true too: they revere and support the most degenerate, filthy, and dysfunctional cultures on the planet, because those cultures make them feel better about themselves. Third-world peasants, goatfuckers who wipe their asses with their hands, creepy trannies and perverts who engage in the most disgusting acts yet invented by humans, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 03, 2026 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

244 Hasn't all major land been "stolen" by someone or something over many hundreds of years?

Why isn't this ever a current 'thing'? Spain was one of the most prolific territorial powers in the Americas, with the Spanish Empire covering an estimated 5.3 million square miles at its height. Stretching from parts of South America to California and Florida, Spain permanently transformed the continent's identity.

My region sits in the traditional homelands of the Lenape people. For thousands of years, these Algonquian-speaking bands hunted, farmed, and fished along the area's rivers and creeks. After grade school, I never saw much interest whatsoever in local Indian history.

Then Biden signed the law establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday in 2021, and issued the first-ever presidential proclamation recognizing Indigenous Peoples' Day, shifting national focus AWAY from the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus.

Land acknowledgements begin in earnest.

Johnny asks in street interviews (Jesse Waters Show), "You're on stolen land. What do you plan to do about it?"

The responses are generally shocked faces & maybe, "Thank Indians?"

That's it, baby. c'est la vie.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 03, 2026 12:27 PM (NFX2v)

245
It’s no longer Turkey, you racist racists who racist.

It’s Türkiye now.
Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (JQVry)

And it's Constantinople, you hairy mohammedan fucktards.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 03, 2026 12:28 PM (y9nCu)

246 245
It’s no longer Turkey, you racist racists who racist.

It’s Türkiye now.
Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:35 AM (JQVry)

And it's Constantinople, you hairy mohammedan fucktards.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 03, 2026 12:28 PM (y9nCu)

https://youtu.be/0XlO39kCQ-8

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 12:30 PM (l3cgK)

247 If you want to celebrate the end of legal slavery in the US, you need to peg 1867, when the US Government forced the Tlingit tribe to free their slaves in Alaska.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 03, 2026 12:31 PM (0U5gm)

248 These stupid acknowledgements beg the question: whom did the indians steal the land from?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 03, 2026 12:32 PM (0U5gm)

249 247 If you want to celebrate the end of legal slavery in the US, you need to peg 1867, when the US Government forced the Tlingit tribe to free their slaves in Alaska.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 03, 2026 12:31 PM (0U5gm)

True, but they weren't all freed at that time...

"The Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian tribes practiced chattel slavery. This lasted until at least 1886 when an enslaved man, Sah Quah, appeared in a court in Sitka requesting papers for his freedom from his enslaver, Nah-Ki-Klan, a Tlingit man in Sitka."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 12:34 PM (l3cgK)

250 248 These stupid acknowledgements beg the question: whom did the indians steal the land from?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 03, 2026 12:32 PM (0U5gm)

The Clovis Culture...
The Clovis culture is a strange one. Their spearpoints look exactly like certain European ones. See the Solutrean hypothesis (not the Soultrain hypothesis...that's something else).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 03, 2026 12:35 PM (l3cgK)

251 I’m depressed that I’m filling out the same form I’ve filled out approximately 877 times already, with the exact same information.
Posted by: Official Woke Country Guide at July 03, 2026 11:37 AM (JQVry)

I crossed out that entire side of the form and handed it back with the notation, "and I'm angry as well".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 03, 2026 01:12 PM (5xuJ/)

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