Independence Day is two days away.  So without a doubt, the Progressives in America have to go balls to the wall to Progsplain to the rest of us knuckle dragging patriots why America sucks.

This year, The New York Times Opinion board made an entire 4 minute and 41 second video about the mediocrity of America.

The myth of America as the greatest nation on earth is at best outdated and at worst, wildly inaccurate. If you look at data, the U.S. is really just O.K. pic.twitter.com/pFrWBH0Zfl

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) July 2, 2019

Fuck that noise.

First of all, a couple of minor points:

There is nothing more ridiculous than the OECD rankings.  The OECD is a French based organization, and has consistently been lead by non-Americans.  It, like the UN and other international organizations, is biased against the United States.

So what a bunch of elitist Frenchy fucks think about us isn’t worth a wet, sloppy fart to me.

Could our high schools be better?  Sure.

But where does half of the world’s scientific research come from?  The United States of America, that’s where.

What does “healthcare spending” have to do with national rankings?  We still have the best healthcare in the world.  It’s Europeans and Canadians who come to Sloan-Kettering or the Mayo Clinic when they want to not die of cancer waiting in line for their turn for treatment on their national healthcare systems.

For that matter, what has fucked the cost of our healthcare system sideways is those God damned Progressives trying to turn America into Europe.  The more government they put into healthcare, the worse it is, not the better.

The fact is comparing our poverty rate or infant mortality rate (which is only higher by fractions of a percent) is the result of America being the largest and most diverse of the nations in the OECD.  We have 330 Million people of every race and ethnicity on the planet.

Comparing us to anywhere is apples and oranges.  It is easy for a small, ethnically and culturally homogeneous country to be relatively equally prosperous.  If you compare America to other more diverse nations, we stand head and shoulders above the rest.

Compare America to Paris or Malmo or London, where their new found lack of homogeneity and lack of integration has turned those areas into open are sewers where they are constantly stabbing or throwing battery acid at each other.

Speaking of stabbings and acid throwing, how come that was never mentioned along side our rate gun violence?

What really tears it for me was the “but we have freedom in America and everyone’s jealous or something.”

Not everyone is jealous.  There are people, lots of people, who would and have traded their freedoms for government micromanagement of their lives that comes with free government shit.

These people are called Europeans, and in the United States they are called Liberals or Progressives.

That is what The New York Times wants and when they care about the OECD ranking and sneer at America.

They want a nation were we all pay 50% or more in taxes and bureaucrats tell us what we can buy, and do, and how to live, but in exchange we get free college and healthcare.

That’s Europe.  Where if you want to start your own business, it’s almost impossible, sharing a meme on Facebook will get your thrown in jail, and you get more time in prison for punching the guy that tries to stab you and steal your moped than  does the guy who tries to stab you and steal your moped.

There is a quote by Samuel Adams the perfectly sums up the difference between Americans like you regular readers of this blog and I, and Europeans and The New York Times Opinion staff.

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

I prefer liberty and the animating contest of freedom.  I will accept the risk of failure pitted against the glory of overwhelming success.

They prefer to live lives of bureaucratic servitude in exchange for government handouts, essentially reduced to human livestock.

Frankly, The New York Times Opinion editors can go from us in peace.  I am happy to forget they are my countrymen.

And if they don’t shut the fuck up on the 4th of July, I am happy to roast hotdogs and marshmallows over a bonfire of The New York Times building.

Colin Kaepernick is a like a hemorrhoid for the NFL, i.e., an inflamed asshole that can’t be soothed and won’t go away.

For some reason, Nike decided to hitch their wagon to him.

Yesterday, he dragged them over the cliff.

Nike is yanking a sneaker featuring the "Betsy Ross flag" after Colin Kaepernick said he and others consider the symbol to be offensive https://t.co/eKVtPM6oTA

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 1, 2019

The Tweet says it all.  Nike was going to make a commemorative pair of sneakers featuring the Betsy Ross flag.  Kaepernick said it was a racist and oppressive symbol because it was the flag at the time that America had slavery.  Nike canceled the shoe.

Then this happened on the Twitter feed of the Governor of Arizona.

Nike has made its decision, and now we’re making ours. I’ve ordered the Arizona Commerce Authority to withdraw all financial incentive dollars under their discretion that the State was providing for the company to locate here. 7/

— Doug Ducey (@dougducey) July 2, 2019

Arizona’s economy is doing just fine without Nike. We don’t need to suck up to companies that consciously denigrate our nation’s history. 8/

— Doug Ducey (@dougducey) July 2, 2019

And finally, it shouldn’t take a controversy over a shoe for our kids to know who Betsy Ross is. A founding mother. Her story should be taught in all American schools. In the meantime, it’s worth googling her. 9/9

— Doug Ducey (@dougducey) July 2, 2019

According to Fox News:

Nike planned to build a massive manufacturing plant in Goodyear, investing $184.5 million, according to ABC 15. The plant reportedly was going to create more than 500 jobs.

Goodyear agreed to waive nearly $1 million in plan review and permit fees to bring the plant into the city, The Arizona Republic reported. The city also planned to reimburse Nike $1 million for the jobs the company was set on creating.

That’s not as bad as Delta getting hit with $40 million in fuel taxes for ending their discount with the NRA, but it’s still something.

Here is what I think should happen, honestly and sincerely.

This needs to come down to the share holders.  These companies react to the radical Left on social media because those voices are loud and annoying.  What happens is this annoys the majority of moderate Americans who don’t want companies involved in politics, preening and preaching to them.

The company suffers financially.

What shareholders need to do is start hitting the executives who make these hasty decisions with Breach of Fiduciary Duty suits.  If I were a Nike shareholder, I’d be demanding that the Nike executive management team pay for the loss of those tax incentives straight out of their salaries so it doesn’t impact the company’s profits.  Management can go woke on their own dime.

I can’t see any other way to make these business leaders understand that trying to appease the 5% of shrieking Leftists on Twitter makes the rest of the nation not want to buy their stuff.

You may have heard that Nike withdrew from sales its Betsy Ross shoes because eternally un-hirable Colin Kaepernick found them offensive because of the flag on them.

Nike is being chided and laughed that they get their marketing strategies from somebody who cannot hold a job because he sucks at it, but the best use of a white hot poking barb goes to Steve Deace:

Have the Burn Unit stand by, incoming patient.

Hat Tip Kimberly T.

About a year ago, I decided to close down the original GayPatriot blog. The reasons were many — not the least of which, I hadn’t posted in many years. And my fellow contributors were growing tired as well.

Also, for many years — my preferred outlet for free expression became Twitter.

But then I became de-platformed as “@GayPatriot” by a left-wing gay Millennial who was offended by my use of the word “Tranny.”

So, I decided to ramp it up here again

I Have Returned.

Blogging seems to be the last refuge of online Free Speech. Who knows how long we have or if we are left because they still believe we are no longer relevant. Who cares? We continue.

So Ask Amy decided to revisit her initial article about the young lady wit the super-duper explosive killing .40 caliber gun banned in so many states and correct her fuck ups only to screw it even bigger:

I definitely have a bias against the people who use guns to terrorize and kill one another. I also have a bias against the gun lobby that gaslights Americans into believing that gun ownership is not only a right, but also — these days — a necessity, as many readers have suggested.

Ask Amy revisits the gun question that brought threats against her

Why is it that for Journalists and associates, the Bill of Rights stops at the First Amendment? I imagine that the word “first” is a heavy hint that there might be more and that I should continue reading.

Just a piece of advice from a “gaslighter.”

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to a migrant detention center in El Paso, Texas yesterday.

Her reports from inside the detention center were extreme, to say the least.  She made the accusation that Border Patrol agents were forcing migrant women to drink out of the toilet.

It was later confirmed, by Rep Ocasio-Cortez herself, they were instructed to drink out of the sink part of a prison-style sink-toilet combo fixture.  Because she couldn’t apologize and be reasonable, she stated the sink was broken and migrants were still told to drink out of the bowl.

This was in fact the type of toilet we saw in the cell.

Except there was just one, and the sink portion was not functioning – @AyannaPressley smartly tried to open the faucet, and nothing came out.

So the women were told they could drink out of the bowl. https://t.co/rcu9Rt6B2x

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019

She also stated one of the women there “described their treatment at the hands of officers as ‘psychological warfare.’”

Maybe this is just my prejudice, but I have a hard time believing that a destitute migrant from a third world country like El Salvador, would very specifically use the phrase ‘psychological warfare’ without extensive coaching.

Her accusations of the conditions from inside the detention center are not the most egregious thing that she did.  Not by far.

.@AOC after leaving the Clint, Texas border facility: “I was not safe from the officers in that facility” pic.twitter.com/jud4QADFJq

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 1, 2019

She wasn’t safe from the CBP agents.

This isn’t the only time she said this.  She also made that accusation on her official Twitter.

Just left the 1st CBP facility.

I see why CBP officers were being so physically &sexually threatening towards me.

Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets.

This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019

Let me see if I get this straight.

The most famous current Member of the House on social media, and perhaps the second most famous politician on social media (after President Trump), is afraid that US Federal law enforcement officers under the Department of Homeland Security are going to hurt her, sexually assault her, and perhaps even rape and kill her, while she is on an official Congressional tour?

Is she nuts?

Then her Chief of Staff doubled down.

https://twitter.com/saikatc/status/1145808500892811265

Again, Rep Ocasio-Cortez and her Chief of Staff want me to believe that a sworn Federal law enforcement officer is going to shoot a Congresswoman with his duty weapon during a sanctioned tour of a Federal facility.

Tell me exactly how exactly in that hypothetical scenario, the offending officer was going to get away with that and not bring down on himself, the facility, and the whole of the CBP and perhaps DHS the largest manhunt and criminal investigation in Texas history?

This ranks right up there with David Hogg claiming to have been the victim of seven assassination attempts for delusional victim status.  But she isn’t just some jackass media whore, she’s a sitting United States Congresswoman and such accusations must be investigated.

My feeling is that she’s trying to #MeToo CBP out of a budget.

Whatever she’s trying to do, this is clearly going to a level that we’ve never seen before in politics.

So I managed to piss off  reader because I would not validate his feeling about what constitutes Police State.  The Insulted showed this page where allegedly says a police went into a bar, detained everybody for the hell of it to do  warrant checks and he wanted to be reassured that we are living in the top times of a Police State in the US.

Now, I am always suspicious of videos with one heavy narrative already trying to orient the viewer, but let us say for the sake of the argument it happened exactly as the narrator said it happened.  It is at best, police misconduct that can be addressed by legal means and possibly won. It is not by a display of Police State and let me tell you why:
First, there would not be a video posted in YouTube, in fact, the young lady’s phone would probably be in a cop’s pocket while he thought how much he could get for it in the Black Market.
Second: There is too much talk, too much pissed of commentary directed at the cops. In a REAL Police State you are either very quiet or you get to shit teeth for a week and eat your meals through a straw.  Cops in Police States are very short tempered and do not take lip from anybody.
Three: Nobody is up against the wall, hands up, legs spread. That is the baseline position when cops approach you and ask for ID down there.  If you are very lucky,they are sober and do not ask ID at gunpoint.
Four (and I am guessing): Everybody who did not have a warrant went home without issues and not having to issue a bribe to the cops (or blow jobs) to be set free.

And in case you need visual aids, this is what a Police State looks like (and without legal recourse):

Venezuela National Guard playing off road with protesters

Venezuelan cops executing criminals

Report of Mexican Federal Police executing 22 people in a ranch

In the Dominican Republic and South of the Border there is no Tennessee v Garner: You “escape” and you get executed.

I reckon there is a difference between the first video and the rest.  And if you still say it is the same thing, you are a certified dumbass who has lived a very sheltered life.