Last week’s America 250 celebrations were awe inspiring.  The tall ships.  The military plane flyovers.  The speech and fireworks at Mount Rushmore.  And the stunning July 4th fireworks show on the National Mall.  Most Americans were inspired by the celebrations, but not all.  No.  There is no satisfaction, no national pride, and no joy in Democratville.  They weren’t inspired by the Independence Day events, they were triggered by them.  (For people who claim to be opposed to guns, leftists spend an awful lot of time talking about their triggers, don’t you think?)

Yes, the people who have devoted their lives to haranguing the rest of us with their idiotic warnings about existential threats to our country should a conservative ever be elected, could find neither the time or the simple decency to take one day off from their psychosis to appreciate the fact that our Republic has endured for 250 years.

These are the same people, mind you, who constantly rail against “No Kings.”  Here is the one national holiday on which we celebrate the men who separated us from a tyrannical king, and these pricks simply can’t stand it.  As Christopher Scalia so aptly put it a number of years ago, “Progressiveism has become the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be celebrating America.”

Democrats are the Party of grievance.  In his “I have a dream speech,” Martin Luther King called upon Americans to “Let freedom ring.”  But today’s Democrats never pass up an opportunity to let grievance ring.

Independence Day was too much for the Left to take.  Everything about the holiday triggered them.  The immensely stupid Sunny Hostin of The View was quite uneasy.  She said just the sight of American flags “in some communities” scared her, because they are a symbol of white supremacy.  She didn’t specify which communities, but Sunny clearly has a problem, and I mean apart from the problem of being afraid of her own nation’s flag.

Liberals like to vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in the Summer.

  That’s a house on Edgartown Harbor on Martha’s Vineyard.  Better stay home Sunny.

And Sunny’s not alone.  A quarter of all Democrats said they wouldn’t celebrate the 4th of July. (Just a hint.  That’s the 25% who vote in Democrat primaries for people like an anti-Christian vegan in Texas, and a Nazi-tattooed rapist in Maine).

New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro decried the awe-inspiring display of America’s military flyovers as “nerve-wracking,” “Why are we having so many jets scorching over DC?  Nerve-wracking.  I get 250 celebrations, but it feels like the apocalypse.”  Put your tin foil hat back on Lulu.

The harridans who run the Women’s March called on protesters to join their “Free America Weekend,” “To Free America from the grip of greedy billionaires who rig the system for themselves.” “Let’s stop the rich and powerful from gambling our future away.” (That means stop them from creating new industries, hiring people and earning a profit).  They don’t want the future gambled away, they’d rather piss it away.  “Free America from poverty.” Really?  Where have these dames been?  When LBJ declared War on Poverty in 1965, about 15% of the population was below the poverty line.  Since then, we’ve spent some $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs, more than enough to finance every real war the U.S. has ever fought in.  The poverty rate hasn’t changed.

John Schwarz, founder of The People’s Union USA, called for a July boycott to protest ICE arrests, and other Trump policies. “This is the most important boycott of the year.  It’s not about politics, it’s about principle,” He instructed Americans to refrain from attending parades and fireworks shows. “It’s about walking away from the illusion they’ve built and reclaiming what it actually means to be free.”  “There is no independence to celebrate right now.” He said the boycott must happen because people love America “too much to lie anymore.” “Don’t wave a flag for a country that no longer waves it for you.”  “The fourth of July is supposed to be a celebration of freedom, but what freedom are we actually talking about?  The right to be watched?  The right to be taxed?  Nobody’s watching you John.  And better cut out that anti-tax talk.  Democrats won’t like it.

Then there’s professor Darien Wellman, PHD.  He commemorated the 4th with Why I Don’t Celebrate the Fourth of July.  He’s got a few complaints: The U.S. was built on the mass displacement and destruction of Indigenous peoples, the enslavement of millions of Africans and their descendants, and the systematic denial of rights to anyone who wasn’t white, male, and wealthy; women lived under oppressive patriarchal laws for generations; Black Americans fought for centuries just to be recognized as citizens; Immigrants were exploited, excluded, or scapegoated; Civil rights protections are being rolled back; the  U.S. government has supported, and directly carried out, acts that meet the definition of genocide; the U.S. has engaged in wars that have cost countless lives, while the human cost of these actions is quietly buried.  He said, “when the Fourth of July comes around, I don’t feel the urge to wave a flag or light fireworks.  I feel the weight of history.”

Wow, I bet you never knew what a terrible place we’re living in.  By the way, we do know the human cost of our actions.  We counted them.  1.3 million Americans gave their lives to make sure Professor Wellman was free to pop off.  They weren’t quietly buried.  They’re in Arlington, the Punchbowl cemetery in Hawaii, Normandy, and many other places.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the  now-debunked “1619 Project,” chimed right in with a call for racial reparations, saying that paying reparations for slavery would amount to admitting that “the entire existence of the United States” is a crime.

But by far the most infuriating critique and rebuke of the fact that Americans dare to celebrate 250 years of their independence came from New York Mayor Commie Mamdani, who gathered around him a bunch from the Star Wars bar scene, to bash the nation he fled Uganda to come to.  Here’s what it looked like.

Oops!  Sorry, that one’s from the Iranian Ayatollah’s funeral.  How did that get in there?

Ah, here it is –You can understand the confusion.  Mamdani spoke of the immigrants arriving in New York with hope, but little knowing they would face nativism, be denied jobs and live in squalor.  He complained of the federal government enacting laws to bar their entry.  We call that legislation Zohran.  See the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Paragraph 8.

Then Zohran went full Marxist on his adopted country.  “The powerful have always known their answer.  America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.  America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes.  America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin.  The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.”  Maybe he’s right.  I’m sorry they let him in.

Mamdani then channeled FDR’s 1937 inaugural speech.  FDR said, “I see millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children.  I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”  Mamdani perceives no improvement in almost 90 years.

As we mark 250 years, what do we see?  “We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world — one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more.” (This in a nation in which government at all levels is spending $11 trillion a year.  If they can’t get people fed at that price, don’t blame the taxpayers).

“We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections.”  (Like George Soros?)

“We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans.” (ICE agents are entitled to a little Taco Tuesday just like everybody else).

“Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick.”
“Yes, we see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model.”  “Yes, we see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts.” (When we should be spending it on Bums and Bolsheviks).

Mamdani cautioned against saying, “America, love it or leave it,” so I won’t remind him that there’s a big beautiful door in that big beautiful wall on the border.  Ah, what the Hell.  If we’re really that bad, on your way out, don’t let that door hit you in the ass, Zohran.

The Left isn’t required to celebrate Independence Day, or any other holiday, for that matter.  Since they’re still living in the past, complaining of ills that existed in 1937, but no longer prevail, I suggest a proverb from the past.  “If you don’t have anything good to say, shut your friggin pie hole.”