On America’s 250th Independence anniversary, Susan Kokinda argues that this moment is more profound because Donald Trump and his administration are reviving the “American System” of political economy—tariffs to promote domestic industry, manufacturing, and internal improvements—after it was suppressed following President William McKinley’s assassination in 1901. She contrasts the American System with the “British System,” citing Henry Carey’s warning of two opposing systems, and says the nation’s economic heritage was replaced by free trade, consumerism, and institutions like the Federal Reserve. Kokinda connects the Declaration’s appeal to the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God to economics, quoting Lyndon LaRouche on a state shaping a nation’s relationship to the physical universe. She highlights speeches by Jamieson Greer and Scott Bessent on production over consumption, and J.D. Vance’s call for a Hamiltonian approach grounded in human dignity, linking it to the Declaration’s “pursuit of happiness” over “property.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks at Mount Rushmore, 3 July 2026
Grand finale at Mt Rushmore. Pretty epic fireworks display! pic.twitter.com/9zZEUEIJXG
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) July 4, 2026
Tulsi Gabbard, Faith & Freedom Coalition Event, June 2026
another agency ... decided he didn’t like what was on it, printed it anyway, then locked it in his desk and refused to hand it over. Her chief of staff went down. Her general counsel went down. Both got told to pound sand until the guy’s real boss at his home agency finally gave permission.Tulsi Gabbard just described the actual operating system of Washington and it’s somehow even dumber and more insulting than the conspiracy versions.
— Flopping Aces (@FloppingAces) July 3, 2026
She needed one printed document for a 10 a.m. Oval Office meeting with the President. A mid-level staffer ... detailed from…
That’s the “deep state.” Not some secret society in a basement. Just some nobody with a desk drawer and a God complex who genuinely believed his personal veto outranked the Director of National Intelligence and the elected President of the United States.
The Statue of King George III
In 1776, Americans looked at a statue of King George III, adorned in Roman garb, and saw something the British didn't:
— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) July 3, 2026
Four thousand pounds of lead bullets. pic.twitter.com/AX3v1lRqlQ
Mayor Mamdani Celebrates America’s 250th Anniversary
Mike Davis
If America is so bad, leave.
Ungrateful, subversive third-world trash.
Fuck off.
Joel Pollak
He doesn’t understand America. No one — no one! — who believes America is exceptional thinks so because we are “richer.” We’re not Qatar. We are exceptional because we are built on a covenant that establishes liberty as our basic principle. That’s exactly what he wants to change.
If America is so bad, leave.
Ungrateful, subversive third-world trash.
Fuck off.
Joel Pollak
He doesn’t understand America. No one — no one! — who believes America is exceptional thinks so because we are “richer.” We’re not Qatar. We are exceptional because we are built on a covenant that establishes liberty as our basic principle. That’s exactly what he wants to change.
Foreigner who became a citizen in 2018 sits at Washington's desk, flanked by migrants, for America 250
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 3, 2026
Deliberate symbolism of conquest pic.twitter.com/Iuex0YQQHx
Escalators Turned Off to Assist in Energy Conservation
Escalators in NY are now being turned off to "conserve energy"
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 3, 2026
Welcome to the 3rd world pic.twitter.com/qCXM9Am6XK
You’ll Never Hear It Coming
… cross-country flight takes the same 6 hours it took your parents in the 80s. Planes got safer and more efficient. They never got faster. The law made faster illegal.Your 6-hour flight from LA to New York is about to become a 3-hour flight. And it's legal because engineers figured out how to bend sound.
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) July 2, 2026
Since 1973 it's been a federal crime for any passenger plane to fly faster than the speed of sound over American soil. That's why your… https://t.co/MHyRd7UYnX
The original reason was real. In the 60s the government flew supersonic jets over Oklahoma City 8 times a day for 6 months to test public reaction. The booms cracked plaster, broke windows, and generated nearly 10,000 complaints. So the FAA banned the speed itself.
Here's what changed. The speed of sound isn't constant. It shifts with air temperature, which shifts with altitude. Fly high enough and fast enough in the right conditions and the shockwave physically bends, curving back up into the sky before it reaches the ground. The boom still happens. It just never lands.
NASA measured what people underneath actually hear: a faint rumble about as loud as normal street noise. No crack. No broken windows.
So the FAA's new rule flips the logic. Instead of banning the speed, it caps the sound allowed to hit the ground. Stay quiet and you can fly as fast as the plane will go. Boom already proved the tech works in a real test flight last year.
The last time you could fly supersonic, a Concorde ticket cost about $12,000 round trip and only crossed the ocean. The next version flies over land, over your house, and you'll never hear it coming.