To be an American, a USA Citizen

[DBCowboy]

"There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. . .  We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. . .  and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

-President Theodore Roosevelt

I think we've lost what it is to be a US citizen.

We used to say the pledge of allegiance.

We used to sing our national anthem before sport events.

We used to be proud to be Americans.

We used to innovate. create.

We won wars.   (not recently, don't get me started)

We were raised to think that only your efforts could propel you.

NOT your gender, preference, or skin color.

I think my America is going away.

We vote for socialists, Marxists now.

We change definitions, change word meanings.

We tax the rich to make them "pay their fair share" but that is always changing.

What is a "fair share"?

To be honest, I'm glad I'm old.

Because I don't like the future of America and thankfully, I won't be around to see it.

[UltraBudgie]

We used to innovate. create.

This is poignant. Why innovate or create when it's obvious that it will be utilized only to appease or further exploit a consumer-obsessed hedonic society, or suppressed if it threatens the status quo? A friend once shared his theory: "art is anything that is useless". So focus on that, I suppose, and remember, if it's marketable, it's not useless.

[DBCowboy]

This is poignant. Why innovate or create when it's obvious that it will be utilized only to appease or further exploit a consumer-obsessed hedonic society, or suppressed if it threatens the status quo? A friend once shared his theory: "art is anything that is useless". So focus on that, I suppose, and remember, if it's marketable, it's not useless.

That's how you made it.

Find a need, fulfill that need.

Become rich.

*boom*

[RazorV66]

The America hating Commie/Socialist billionaires, like Soros, that funnel billions into the Democrat/Liberal party to further their diabolical agenda, want to destroy America.

And the Democrat money grabbers are perfectly fine with taking that money to destroy higher education universities and indoctrinating the easily brainwashed minds of these kids.

Gays for Palestine and the like are the same as Chickens for KFC, I forget who coined that term but he was exactly right.

I am old too but the fight in me is not gone yet, I will bash insane Liberals and their failed policies until my last breath.

[UltraBudgie]

That's how you made it.

Find a need, fulfill that need.

Become rich.

*boom*

They're gonna come after you with lawfare you know. Make a new energy solution, and it will be fought tooth and nail by the liberal "green energy" cartel, for example. Unless they can profit from it, buy you out, and turn it into an everlasting revenue stream that doesn't actually "solve" anything, and somehow mysteriously fails to make energy more affordable.

[DBCowboy]

They're gonna come after you with lawfare you know. Make a new energy solution, and it will be fought tooth and nail by the liberal "green energy" cartel, for example. Unless they can profit from it, buy you out, and turn it into an everlasting revenue stream that doesn't actually "solve" anything, and somehow mysteriously fails to make energy more affordable.

The communist Marxist evil left has ruined America.

[UltraBudgie]

The communist Marxist evil left has ruined America.

I blame FDR, but really, he was just performing his role.

Alphabet soup for everyone!

As soon as you have a centralized government with unlimited power and money, everything becomes a problem for the government to solve, while in reality the only problem central governments ever solve is a lack of problems.

[DBCowboy]

I blame FDR, but really, he was just performing his role.

Alphabet soup for everyone!

As soon as you have a centralized government with unlimited power and money, everything becomes a problem for the government to solve, while in reality the only problem central governments ever solve is a lack of problems.

Government is a monolith that exists to feed itself.

That's why our Founding Fathers trusted us to limit government.

The entire purpose of the Constitution was to limit government.

And the evil left has been fighting it for 250 years.

[RazorV66]

And here are some Leftist subversives right here in our own government trying to destroy America.

Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth responds with "Stage 4 TDS"
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democra...h-responds
 

A group of Democrat lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds released a video Tuesday urging service members to "refuse illegal orders," a message conservatives blasted as a call to defy President Donald Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
 
The one-minute video, posted by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and viewed more than 1.6 million times, features six lawmakers invoking their prior service while telling members of the military and intelligence community that "the threats to our Constitution are coming from right here at home."

Conservative accounts countered the viral clip, citing military law and interpreting the call to action as an alleged appeal to commit treason against the United States.
 
"Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and defy orders from Trump and Hegseth," wrote the conservative account Libs of TikTok.
 
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., added: "At the end of the day, they’re mad the American people chose Trump and now they’re calling on the Military and Intelligence Community to intervene. Sounds a little ‘subversive to democracy’-ish."

[DBCowboy]

And here are some Leftist subversives right here in our own government trying to destroy America.

Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth responds with "Stage 4 TDS"
 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democra...h-responds
 

And no one can give an example of an unlawful order.