Ode to America

Crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea

I’m finding the competing vibes surrounding this 4th of July to be fascinating. Like feeling hot and cold water swirling but still separated. I’ve written a lot lately about the “seam” in this ‘culture war’ of ours. And it is seam; and it is indeed a cultural struggle. In many ways, it is a struggle for the very fabric of who we are. What brought us here; what comprises this magnificent project; what fundamentals and pillars prop the whole thing up; what is the result of an insatiable quest to change? Who are we today? What is The United States of America?

To me, those questions aren’t very difficult. My struggles come from understanding what has happened to so many of my countrymen. How did those who so boldly defended critical pillars like free speech, personal and medical autonomy, state freedoms, the right to raise our children under our own belief system, the ability to hold opinions that dissent from the state, etc, come to champion and aggressively defend the polar-opposite? How did journalists become the greatest threat to free speech? Academia the greatest threat to allowed independent thought? Our own government our greatest threat to freedom and families? These aren’t hyperbolic questions, they’re just staggering questions.

That “seam”. It’s become so clear. One of the primary reasons it now presents so clearly is because the left (and I mean the establishment here) has elected to paint it so clearly. This week was a fascinating time to have such a surface-level dialogue about “equity”. Because that’s what affirmative action is, it’s “equity” in its purist form. We will use the power of state to equalize outcomes on the back-end. Yes, this particular scoop was about race-based admissions into college, but the ice cream is “equity”. Does our citizenship desire our government to equalize outcomes at the finish line by state force? Or is our nation one rooted in the notion of “equality”, where we work to ensure everyone gets the same chance at the plate? I hope you don’t struggle with that question, because it is the fundamental difference between our American system of capitalism and freedom, and the tried and true calamity-producing dogma that is “communism”. The entire notion of “equity” is fundamentally anti-American. And yet, listen to the words of our second in command (watch this clip, it’s short)…

Staggering, right? The Vice-President of The United States of America is openly explaining how our citizenship should desire equity (see: communism) over the very fundamental goal of this nation for decades known as “equality”. Do you remember that term which used to be synonymous with our nation, the one that represented the fact we were the world’s beacon for immigration: “The American Dream”? That never meant that you just had to make it over here and everything will be a dream. That’s the design of half-baked idiots and cult-members who succumb to the academic insanity of “The Utopia”. Those dogmas (largely described as “communism” - or “socialism”, if you want to dress it up for the nicer cocktail parties) completely dismiss human nature. You can have identical twins from the same family, background, upbringing, wealth, educational opportunities, same everything, and one can end up a successful doctor with a wife and kids and the other an incarcerated addict. “Equality” was obviously there in spades. The perverse anti-American dogma of “equity” would command that we use state power to equalize the doctor and addict’s outcomes on the back-end. Must have been oppression and racism and bigotry and the cisheteronormative patriarchy, right? But of course that analysis won’t kick in if they’re white and straight… or Christian. I’m being flippant and using these fact-patterns because this revolutionary logic is that broken. It doesn't make any more logical sense when you lace it with Racecraft spells. And it IS revolution, by its very definition. We’re seeing systematic inversion of power structures by way of elevating the fringe (so batshit-crazy there now we have “Queer”+ activism that doesn’t even require being gay) while systematically villainizing the middle of bell-curves, painting them as “The Monsters”. Even children; in fact, especially children. Demoralizing them… then offering an alternative.

Our youth have been so intensely brainwashed and radicalized against our pillars; statues thrown in lakes, paint splattered on George, the hammer and sickle becoming en vogue, radicals as professors on campuses nationwide. This is the very kindling FOR revolution. It’s happening right in front of us. What’s perhaps most surreal is the symbolism. The “Progress” fist or the BLM fist? That’s the communist fist, folks. Overtly. We see that symbol everywhere from major corporations to schools to Pac-12 football stadiums. We’re supposed to believe it’s righteous “progress”. We’re actually damn near required to genuflect to it now under the coopted and wicked vehicle of DEI. Heck, consider that term itself…

Diversity

Equity

Inclusion

Looks a lot more like…

Diversity of aesthetics with uniformity in thought

State-mandated outcome distribution based on immutables and inherent bigotry

Inclusion by aggressively excluding and sanctioning all who won’t acquiesce

D.E.I.

We don’t even need to get to the symbols, we find smoking-guns in plain-language itself. Heck, in 2020, Team Biden’s own presidential platform literature was littered with references to “equity” as well as straight-up dogmatic cult-speak like “Latinx”. They filled their cabinet like an Identity Bingo card. Literally. These revolutionaries have captured the DNC in full. Listening to the Transportation or Energy or Education or Health Secretaries speak is insane. It’s like being in a bad movie. They’ll be talking about white supremacy at construction sites, our military hardware going fully EV in a decade, fighting to keep queering books like Gender Theory IN schools, extoling the virtues and need of “gender affirming care”. They have the audacity to call it “care”, as we watch children be chemically castrated and marched down a path to life-altering butchery. Inclusion, diversity, equity, progress! The party is openly advancing radical dogma that I can’t imagine 1% of any cross-section of America supports (even their own base) such as allowing men to claim protections under Title IX, and yet somehow Biden who needs cue cards for pressers and will pull out of even presidential debates is in position to win another term and continue this same “Tyranny of the minority”-legislation. I mean, my God, they have the audacity to brand around “The GOP’s War Against Women’s Rights” while they are actively codifying law built to legally erase them. Men housed in prisons and allowed in female shelters, boys competing in girl’s sports, men in the female Olympics and winning national titles reserved for women, penises in locker rooms described as progress and morally righteous, meanwhile complaining girls are sent to LGBTQ+ activism reeducation counseling. You can’t even have the word “mother” or “woman” anymore. Men now define what “woman” means. This is DEI somehow. USA Today’s Woman of The Year, top college athlete, best female student, top female scorer on Jeopardy, first ever Admiral… all men. And we’re supposed to again cheer this on as progress and genuflect to it as “Pride” and “human rights” and “inclusivity”. Human rights as a girl gets let out of state finals so a broken boy who pretends to be a girl can go instead? What?!? That’s anti-human rights. That’s anti-girls, anti-women, anti-freakin reality itself! And yet, here we are.

That seam, man, those lines. They’re becoming very clear. Do you know what “Queer” now means? It means hate of the normal. It means joining team “I’m not normal” (I’m not oppressive; I’m not a bigot; I’m not a Republican). It’s disruption of power structures, it’s “dismantling”, it’s revolution. “Queer as political”. It’s the same thing I’m saying over and over here. “The Same Thing”. They are all echoes of the same beast. I spoke several times this week about how difficult it was going to be for this same sect to celebrate our nation’s birthday when their modus operandi requires them painting America as a cesspool of oppression and bigotry and hatred. It’s a challenging Truman Show script, indeed! And they fail at it year after year. This was how our “Most Trusted Name In News” elected to present their homepage this morning, on our Independence Day, when we celebrate our patriots winning the Revolutionary War and winning our freedom from Britain.

Let’s not celebrate those patriots today, let’s celebrate… India! The US does not deserve any credit for establishing this magnificent project, nor any credit ever for our centuries-long effort against slavery and racial discrimination at massive cost. No, let’s talk about ways we shouldn’t get that credit, and “The essential piece of the American story our history books leave out”, and some “Analysis” from these illustrious ‘news reporters’ about how it’s all those right-wing bigots fault and you definitely need to vote DNC if you want to have a county at all. This is no different than Pravda, folks. It’s no different than North Korean media. Can you picture that smiling face at the desk with such pretty imagery behind her? That’s CNN’s studios now too, they just polish it up America-style. But this coverage shouldn’t surprise you at all. Both the clear political bent, but more revealingly here, the difficulty (see: impossibility) of celebrating the wonderfulness of America. How can you spend today talking about how great our nation is, when your very blueprint requires painting it as abhorrent as possible? Not just abhorrent, but so filled of hatred that entire states have now become “dangerous” for Americans with black skin or those who have a same-sex partner. We had travel advisories on this! From the NAACP, from the Human Rights Commission, from LGBTQ+ groups. Hillary Clinton broadcast it, Barack Obama, Biden and Harris, all of our ‘news’ networks as one, our entertainers and Silicon Valley, the freakin Red Army is taking over America with swords of hatred and bigotry and no one is safe! Now go enjoy those fireworks and hot dogs and God Bless America. Lol It’s fucking insanity, right? Yes, it is. This moralizing cult has locked it self into insanity and has no escape. They can only double-down further and further on the same derangement. It’s Clockwork Orange. But understand, this isn’t new…

https://twitter.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1676218260675612675

They’ve been pumping this blind and rabid activism for years now. Straight; relentless; the topic doesn’t matter, only the target. That’s what “TDS” is really all about, not Donald. Same with all the different versions of “MAGA”. But I don’t want to stray further in this piece, I’ve written about all of that elsewhere. When you keep the focus on today and this importance of this day to every red-blooded American, you see the cell they’ve locked themselves in. I always mention a tactic called “The Straddle”. How they’ve managed to advance radical revolutionary policy and dogma right in front of us, yet still remain the “moderates” and the “adults back in the White House” and “Joe Biden that great American, that vanilla politician in a suit”. They do this everywhere! That’s that Propaganda 101 again. But one place it collapse is here, on our nation’s birthday. It does every year. This was from 2022…

Sure, it’s just some guy’s tweet. But I have that because it was part of a thread I wrote. And what was that thread about? How downright awkward and unpopular it is to be the party that has branded around “America sucks!”. Same problem. Of course, because it’s the same tension back then, same shit going on. But America doesn’t suck at all. Quite the contrary! America is amazing; a remarkable and envy-worthy nation. We have been for decades. If that wasn’t true and didn’t remain true today, than why are immigration levels and desires still so high today? We are the land that the world wants to make it to. They want to taint that reality (our own TV networks and journalists and ‘news agencies’, as disgusting as that is, because it’s a reality that rubs so greatly against their propaganda), but it is more true today than ever. We record over TWO MILLION illegal entries on our southern border every year now. That’s just captured and counted, some experts think it could be as high as 10M entering. That’s % of our population numbers. Every single year. Now that’s a national emergency! Of course it’s one we don’t call that. We announce national emergencies on things like monkeypox instead. But if millions are risking their lives and jail to come here simply to be illegal, how bad must it be? And that’s ILLEGAL immigration. We allow millions of legal immigration. Always have. Boy, the scoreboard sure isn’t matching the story the commentators are saying, is it? Nope.

There is a funny story that plays out in America over and over. One that tells the entire story, the bigger one. And so as you’d guess, it’s a story very few talk about. You hear plugged-in intellectuals mention it, it’s not my own theory. Some of the most patriotic citizens we have are first generation immigrants. Doesn’t matter where they are from, this dynamic is damn near uniform (with the exceptions granted to all blanket generalizations). Why is that? Because those photos with the beaming smiles at government offices or courtrooms they post on Facebook reflect one of the happiest days of their lives. It’s when they officially were welcomed into the great American project. When they were sewn into our quilt of the world. I can promise you those who have walked in their shoes don’t come over here and start seeing oppression in the image of Colin Kaepernick. It reveals the whole farce. They have reached The American Dream! And it remains The American Dream.

But that’s not the revealing story. What is, is what happens to their first born at a staggering rate. They are born here, and don’t understand what life is like back at their old home. They may go travel there, but they do so in designer clothes plugged back into their new home with their phones and MacBooks. They get pummeled with the anti-American (anti-capitalism) rhetoric that now dominates our curriculums and academic airwaves. The US is oppression, bad. We have been a scourge to the world! It’s shocking their parents can’t see it. I watched a video clip of a girl calling her father a white supremacist and a bigot and a scumbag and a conservative against progress… during her eulogy at his own funeral. This story plays out all the time. And man, it tells us everything. These Yuri Robots have been built to upend our roots. No one learns about The Federalist Papers in school anymore. We hear that the electoral college is fascism and racism instead. The reason the second generation kids are anti-American at such a staggering rate compared to their parents is a product of what they’re taught through schooling and especially at our universities. That’s a deeply disturbing and dangerous concept. It reveals how badly we let this all progress, how deep we’ve allowed the rot to set in.

But there is a fatal flaw in all of this. For we are a proud nation! We are a proud people. And rightfully so! I am damn proud to call myself an American. I was born on an Army base. Some of the first sounds in life I can recall are the sound of cadence floating through an open window on a spring morning at sunrise. “Left, left, left-right, left…”. My father used to take me to Baer Field in Indiana at night to sit on his hood and watch F4 Phantoms hit their afterburners right at the edge of the airstrip. To me, it was like being in Top Gun! We moved around a lot. We were always around military. I’m still around military today, though I never served myself. I shopped at a PX surrounded by soldiers. In some ways, I was brought up in a church of the USA. Hearing the Seahawks fly training routes over my house brings me a sense of pride to this day. And what I’m saying isn’t just cheesy memory and sentimental value. Those bases exist because our country is a freakin powerhouse! Want to know some real-world application?

I was on a cruise ship in the middle of the Mediterranean once in damn near hurricane-force winds. My father had awoken me late to go see the top deck because the wind was so strong it blew the oxygen out of your lungs if you looked straight into it at the front of the ship. It was a bit after midnight, I was young and the ship was quiet. Suddenly there was quite a commotion up by the deck passengers can’t access. It caught our eye enough to stay around and soon we saw a light in the sky way out there. Mind you, we’re in the middle of nowhere! A gigantic pitch-black desert of water. Long story short, an American had a heart-attack onboard and was in bad shape. He wasn't going to make it to port the next day. Our military had been dispatched and I watched our hardware show up in winds so extreme the helo was rocking back and forth like a cheap kite. Out of it repelled down one very brave soldier, they loaded up the stretcher, thumb-up and a “Roger!”, up it hoisted, and off that helicopter floated back in that wind so quickly I lost it in the dark swirling night before I could really appreciate what had just happened. We went back to our cabin and I sat there staring at the roof like “Whoa!”. At that age, even having grown up around this all, I guess I didn’t appreciate that our Armed Forces are there for us no matter where we are on the planet. We don’t just have naval bases in Jacksonville, we have floating heroes off the coasts of Italy and Africa. What most people on this rock wouldn’t do to be an American citizen when they found themselves in trouble abroad.

This love for our country - yes, even our flag - is nationwide. You go within an hour’s drive of any military base and you’ll find signs of patriotism everywhere. And bases themselves are everywhere. That’s one of the falsities in all this inclusivity and human rights propaganda. The VAST majority of our people are proud of America. They are proud to claim the USA, even in it’s current form. I find it sad someone wouldn’t want to be proud. America is a magnificent project. There has never been anything quite like it in history. It IS exceptional for that very reason alone. We were made as a quilt of the world. Literally. Think about a Chinese person, or a Mexican, or a Russian, or a Somalian, or an Irishman, there is a common image that comes to all of our minds. But what is an American? There is no common image. Some may see John Wayne, while others may see Denzel Washington. There is no common mold of “American” because of that quilt, how we were made. Because of that unique factor which makes us exceptional. But it also presents great challenge. I always chuckle when people compare American policy to that in Scandinavia. As if frameworks and structures that coalesce and work there would ever play the same here on our shores. We have single states that are more diverse in both land and more importantly people than their entire countries. This is something we deserve accolades for! For the fact we were able to make this work at all. That is thanks to the wisdom of our Founders. To the blueprint they laid out for our Republic. That blueprint which our schools don’t teach much about anymore. Understanding of our civics is almost a threat now. Chew on this: how would you destroy a nation made as a quilt of the world? You'd erode national pride, villify patriotism, chop the melting pot back up into its intersectional parts, and then inject cultural appropriation into it and command those tribes to wall off instead of share together. Sound familiar?

I want to end this disjointed American recap on a positive note. I’ve analyzed this chessboard so much trying to make sense of the nonsensical. I feel like I finally see the puzzle now. More importantly, I see the path. I see what matters. Pendulums swing, it’s what they do. And this one has crested. It’s not only crested, it’s going to come back in like a wrecking ball! This moralizing cult driven by vile “othering” and weaponized empathy has lost the impact of its trickery and in turn its power. The inverse direction of the identity obsession will be the exact opposite. It will be a nation that no longer gives a shit about the ways we are different, and wants to bond over the ways we are the same. COVID pulled back a lot of curtains, and the aftershocks have produced a seismic reconfiguring of this nation and political landscape that many people are not aware of because The Truman Show doesn’t want us to know and they’re good at what they do. Once enough Americans do see it, it’s game over. We’re already seeing tangible signs of this new unity revealing everywhere. And what this new America will look like is one driven by values and not immutables. What we care about, not the exteriors we wear or claim. That will end the dogma; it will end the madness; it will provide a new dawn for this nation.

I had a powerful moment in this cathedral on Sunday. But it wasn’t an ode to Christianity which struck me. It was an ode to America. It was the powerful understanding that I was with my people. We were all on the same page, believe it or not. Just at the level of what really matters; what values we uphold, what brought us here, what we desire and seek to preserve; not the labels and hashtags we wear or the identities we collect to divide over.

We have some very tough times ahead. Ironing out this level of capture is going to be mighty rocky. But I believe we will be a much stronger nation as a result of this process. “Hard Times Create Strong Men”

I'm excited about what the future holds. In some ways, it feels like a new frontier to explore. Happy birthday, America!