Posts Tagged ‘4th of july’

One of the most important parts of the speech of Donald Trump on July 3rd was his calling out communism. The thing the left & the father of Lies have most in common is their hatred of a truth plainly spoken, particularly when that truth threaten their power & hold over others. Trump has the biggest megaphone in the world & his calling out of communism for what it is & always has been, just like Reagan before him & others before Reagan will never fail to trigger the left/media.


I’m not a big podcast guy but I noted a clip from Joe Rogan where he bluntly states that his audience vs the Cable News audience is bigger by a factor of 10 or more. A lot of the media left on TV are pretty much like minor princes in the Holy Roman Empire having power over a tiny region trying to pretend that this power is more than what it is.

Think of them as French Aristocrats who fled to America after the revolution who don’t have the wealth & power they once did but still arrogantly belief they deserve deference from those who ignore them..


Of course this desire for deference is why the media/left loves Communism. It’s simply another form of feudalism. Think of Socialists/Communists as Feudal Lords with the state as King giving out favors and lands to his loyal subject for them to rule under while paying tribute to him. Communists aspire to be those feudal lords with a bunch of peasants serving them.

That’s why they are happy to ban air conditioning for the lesser folks rather than considering increasing power capacity, because what distinguishes the Lord from the serf isn’t just wealth but status and comfort & if the serfs life good enough lives they don’t envy the Lord’s status & privilege’s. It’s not enough for them to have money & a comfortable life, they need you to have a lesser one so they can feel superior & have YOU feel inferior to them.

That’s why they get along so well with the Prince of this world because like him their primary sin is Pride.


Although it was only for three days it was a happy day when my first paycheck from my new job was deposited.

Just 358 more of those to retirement, barring an unexpected windfall of course. If I was richer I’d retire this week.

I must admit those 48 days off with time spent with DaWife was a very nice preview of retirement & I’m very anxious to get there.


Finally I’ve often said that faith isn’t believing in God because God is fact. Faith is trusting that God knows what he’s doing even if he hasn’t told you.

I remember arranging a Eucharistic Procession before the 2000 election asking God to help protect us from evil.

Little did I realize that the successful steal of the election was the answer to my prayer in disguise and let me tell you the Biden years was a pretty good disguise.

Can you imagine what a Trump 2nd term would have been followed with? At best a Pence milksop presidency at worst Newsome.

Trump was able to do and more importantly willing to do so much more & achieve so much more BEACAUSE of what the steal had taught him. He was further able to make alliances with folks like Kennedy, Gabbard, Rogan & Musk because of the excesses of the left.

The fraud that’s been exposed, the graft that’s been exposed and yes the corruption & theft of votes that has been exposed doesn’t happen if Trump is president in 2022.

I’ll wager those who decided on the steal ( & I suspect many voices were in on making that call) wish today they had just given it a pass. China particularly must be kicking themselves.

God works in mysterious ways & that we were blessed with the 2nd Trump term during our 250’s anniversary, during our hosting the World Cup & at a time when he was most able to address serious crisis was just what we needed as a nation.

God knew what he was doing, trust that always.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Matthew 7:7-8

Two weeks ago my parish priest approached me concerning our weekly adoration (Mondays 8:30 to 7 PM, Tuesdays 8:30 to 4 pm) at our parish. Because July 4th falls on a Tuesday and the parade would block one of the regular routes to our church he wanted to know if we (myself and the other person who organizes the Adoration schedule) wanted to call it off for the day, after all many of the adorers might be attending the parade and/or spending the day with family and may not be free to come.

Now my wife being a nurse doesn’t have the 4th off but I do so I figured I could cover anyone who didn’t make it but the more I thought about it, looking at things like Minnesota going all in on abortion to the date of birth, Maryland, a state founded by Catholics going all in on Transgenderism and stuff like the Dodgers embrace of an anti Catholic group that even the San Francisco Giants had backed away from in the past, it struck me that if there was ever a day that we needed to approach God in the Blessed Sacrament it would be the 4th of July.

So in addition to telling our priest that we will have adoration as normal, I am urging Catholics across the USA to find a church or chapel that has Adoration on the 4th or if there is no such church or chapel available go online to one of the many perpetual adoration live streams offered and spend an hour with Christ in prayer for the country.

We’ll call it Adoration for the nation.

After all Christ urges us to persistence in prayer, let’s trust his word and ask.

By John Ruberry

While I was a child at the time, I don’t recall much during the politically turbulent 1960s and early 1970s in regard to protests of July 4th, that is, America’s Independence Day. 

But of course, 21st-century leftists will take things too far. And the progressives never seem to be at a loss for anger. The most egregious attack on the 4th, and to be fair, America, comes from Tucson, Arizona and in a since-deleted Tweet, captured by Libs of Tik Tok, the Pima County Democratic Party wrote, “F*ck the Fourth,” along with a graphic that included this message for the Tucson Women’s Network, “Bring comfortable shoes, water, lawn chairs, posters, and your anger.” The other group’s graphic, as you can see, doesn’t use an asterisk in the F-word.

The “F*ck the 4th” protest is in response to last month’s US Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson case, in an expected ruling–courtesy of a leaked draft opinion–which overruled Roe v. Wade and returns the abortion ruling to the states. 

And in those states, besides Arizona, there are pro-abortion protests planned in conjunction with Independence Day. There’s a call to wear black, instead of red, white, and blue on July 4th, which is not a particularly wise idea if you plan to be outdoors a lot on the holiday. The high temperature where I live is expected to be 91 degrees on the 4th. 

Bans Off Our Bodies Florida is now in the middle of a weekend boycott on retail spending to protest Dobbs v. Jackson. Also in Florida, on the Space Coast, there’s a pro-abortion protest there, Gannett’s Florida Today reports. Here’s some irony: To reach the story I had to click through a July 4th subscription special pop-up ad, as I did for another Gannett publication, the MetroWest Daily News, to learn about a Framingham, Massachusetts anti-Dobbs protest. “Fourth of July is cancelled,” one of the organizers says.

I don’t feel compelled to mention each protest, you get the point. But here’s one more. Leave it to my state, goofy Illinois, to take thing a step farther. The owner of a Chicago children’s boutique is organizing, along with the Chicago Abortion Fund, a “Families for Abortion Access” march.

Of course, the right to free speech, which of course includes unpopular speech, doesn’t go away on July 4th, once again the far-left is being offensive and angering the persuadable center by calling for “F*ck the Fourth” and more.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit. He plans to spend part of the 4th at the Morton Grove Days festival, watching fireworks there, wearing red, white, and blue.

If you came here After I gave you my card at the parade here is a slideshow of the Parade pictures

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If you want to see them all at one, just click here to head over to my new current site. (Haven’t had new cards made yet).