last minute preparations are underway
right now for the july 4th fireworks
happening in our nation's capital
tonight
and across the country in washington d.c
the fireworks will be set off from both
sides of the lincoln memorial reflecting
pool
as americans celebrate independence day
the media though
taking aim at symbols of patriotism
in a new york times article titled a
fourth of july symbol of
unity that may no longer unite a
columnist writes this
today flying the american flag from the
back of a pickup truck or over a lawn
is increasingly seen as a clue albeit an
imperfect one
to a person's political affiliation in a
deeply
divided nation and it's not just the new
york times
the washington post also out with an
op-ed
titled maybe it's time to admit that the
statue of liberty
has never quite measured up that
columnist writes this
if the statue has had any kind of stable
meaning over its lifetime
it is not as a symbol of liberty but as
a symbol of the misuse of liberty as a
hollow promise
unequally distributed and limited in its
application
to certain groups at a rally last night
in florida president of former president
trump defending our founding fathers
in his message about celebrating july 4.
listen
we will teach young people across the
country that george washington abraham
lincoln thomas
jefferson john adams benjamin franklin
john hancock will forever
be american heroes in just five months
the biden administration has launched
an all-out assault on everything we
cherish
and we value the mission for all of us
here tonight is to preserve the legacy
of july
4th 1776.
lisa you know this is the first time i'm
seeing headlines like this
for independence day why do you think
the nation is you know one what are we
grappling with right here right now and
why do you think this is happening
this year well i think it's
ungratefulness and i think there's
toxicity and poison that is being
injected in our society through the
media through our institutions like in
schools
as well as the military with critical
race theory and if you really think
about it
the foundation of this nation is such a
beautiful thing
the american revolutionary war is such a
beautiful thing you had brave patriots
fighting to overturn the monarchy to
take the power away from tyranny and put
the hands in the american people to
build a republic
to later adopt a constitution that has
checks and balances government restraint
to have
personal freedom political freedom
economic freedom
right here in america and you know right
now the quote from reagan
is just continuing to go through my mind
that freedom is never more than
one generation away from extinction i
think that fight is at her doorstep
right now with the ungratefulness you
hear from so many people
across the country with what we saw the
tyranny the heavy hand of government
with covid
with lockdowns over the past year and
then also this marxist theory with
critical race theory that is being
taught in schools
and our military as well so i i think
there's still time
but that window is that window is
dwindling and the fight is now
to help preserve america and its ideals
yeah raymond you know it's not just the
headlines and newspapers
and in mainstream media we're also
seeing this in you know and
marvel comics um a fourth of july
message from captain america
um in where he says you know he's
talking about the white picket fence
right the american dream and that it's a
fallacy
he says that if we're not careful that
can become nationalism
and then he captain america goes on to
say that
uh the white picket fence becomes a gate
to keep others out i mean what do you
make of this
well first of all captain america is
sounding more like
captain colombia as in the university
pushing this critical race nonsense look
there is no white picket gate around
america
there if you were looking for gates
there are a lot of barbed wire gates in
places like
china saudi arabia where there's no
opportunity no freedom of movement or
thought
but every group that comes to america
every one of them
whether it's the irish or the italians
or the or the japanese or the hispanics
they've been viewed with suspicion early
on and then through time
they've earned their place in america
and become a part of the american
fabric inextricable from the founders
that is what america is about
this is not only a land of opportunity
it's a singular glorious
land of opportunity and captain america
should stick to defending us against bad
guys
the bad guys are not the united states
of america
or its system sorry this is the light of
the world that's why
everyone is struggling risking life limb
even their children
to get in i've seen them myself just
weeks ago on the rio grande
that's the call of america and though
these people are probably not coming in
in the in the proper fashion in the
proper way
they heed the call they see the glory of
america we better
get with the program and see it as well
well raymond you know representative
cory bush would disagree with you
uh here's a tweet from bush in which
it's written when they say that the
fourth of july is about american freedom
remember
this the freedom they're referring to is
for white people
this land is stolen land and black
people
still aren't free okay i gotta come come
to you joey because you know you have
sacrificed so much for our freedom for
everyone's freedom no matter what race
they are i mean how do you respond to
this
well she's she's a divisive provocateur
she says things like this because it
gets her likes and retweets and probably
some donor money because you know what
she's a part of this system she's a part
of this political
corrupt system that's who and what she
is she's an elected official
and she's talking badly about the system
because that's her
angle to partake in it let me let me
explain something to that representative
this is not about freedom this is
independence day
this is a precursor to freedom this was
a fight
for freedom freedom started that day but
it takes every generation
and every american to secure it over and
over again at pearl harbor
all right on 9 11 and every single day
today we
fight to stay free not to become free
but to stay free we are
free all you have to do is believe it
and if you're choosing not to believe it
if you're choosing to believe this
narrative that you're oppressed
and that you don't have freedom that
then your biggest oppressor
is your own sick attitude not the system
not the people not white folks or black
folks or anybody in between
listen there's nothing fair about life
much less
the system and i will work and hold
hands and work with anyone
to make the system more fair but if it
isn't in your heart if it is in your
mind
and your heart who cares what's fair you
have to believe in it
to want to make it better and i'd
challenge her to do
her job and to represent the people of
her district that there is no way
there's that many people
in one place that truly believe we're
that bad
of a place and so i challenged her to
you know do her job
and quit just trying to get likes and
retweets and campaign money
be better than that as far as
as joey knows better than anybody when
you're in the trenches look my father
was a marine
my uncle was a lieutenant major
lieutenant in the in the army
they they are colorblind when you're
with your group of brothers
and sisters in arms when you're under
stress defending the flag
and that flag incidentally that the is
trying to carve out and saying well
that's only for white people
that is a croc 5 000 probably
6 000 troops were freed slaves and
slaves who fought
in the revolutionary war to defend and
create
that flag at ticonderoga at bunker hill
that's part of our history too let's not
try to rip
pieces of that flag apart no that's a
white flag black flag hispanic flag
japanese flag korean flag
it's a piece of all those countries that
make us who we are
i i i it's a it's a sin particularly
on independence day to try to pull
threads of it out
no we're not going to have that we can't
have it and i'm glad
sure go ahead i was just going to say
doesn't anyone
else just get really sick of people who
are incredibly wealthy or
part of the system who was able to get
elected uh to congress in such a racist
nation but they bemoaned the system that
afforded them the opportunity
to either get incredibly wealthy like
the colin kaepernicks of the world
or you know these politicians that
clearly hate the country that afforded
the opportunity to serve in congress
if it was such a terrible system how did
you get to where you are
uh and then particularly at a time when
so many other americans are suffering so
much worse this is a beautiful country
it is rooted in freedom it is rooted in
opportunity and we should really
celebrate it because
it is an opportunity where we all can
come together and today is that day
and i don't know if you know when we
have a birthday if people our friends
and families come around the birthday
cake and tell us all the issues that we
need to fix in our lives i don't know if
it's not
davey you're right um hey uh joey i
wanted to
get your response maybe i want to get
your response
from jocko willing here on why the
american flag is so important i'm going
to play a sound bite from him and i want
to get your response on the other side
listen
i've seen real tyranny i've seen actual
terror and injustice and brutality
with my own eyes and because of that i
know what the flag represents and i know
what america
is then you become filled with gratitude
and appreciation
at the at the blessing that we have to
live in this great country
joey don't you really feel what he's
saying you know the problem and i love
jocko he's a leader he's a natural born
leader but the problem we can't draw
juxtapositions from places of true
tyranny they've already overlooked all
that they don't believe in that
all they see is what's wrong with us if
we're going to reach them
we have to show them what they should be
grateful for here we can't draw
juxtapositions anywhere else anymore
because
they don't even that doesn't even
register for them anymore that's not a
part of their narrative anymore
i love that the positivity i like that
you always try to focus on that thanks
joey thanks guys
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