"But their uniforms will be well-tailored!"

French President Macron says Europe needs their own army to defend against China, Russia, and the United States! In front of Trump he says nationalism is the exact opposite of patriotism. You don't get to vote here in the United States, Macron. We get to decide who we want as our president!

Being paid to be patriotic

Hat tip Bookworm Room

Standing for God Save the Queen, but refusing to stand for the national anthem?

Remember when Tim Tebow was criticized for kneeling to honor God when he played in the NFL for the Denver Broncos? Now those same people think it is cool for players to take a knee instead of standing for our national anthem!

There is mounting opposition to the NFL even though football has long been America's most beloved sport. Many people on Facebook today are expressing disgust with the NFL players who today stood for "God Save the Queen" in England while refusing to stand for our national anthem.

Free speech and patriotism

In a speech last night in Alabama, President Trump

took a few moments tonight during his speech at a rally for Alabama Senate candidate Luther Strange to rant about professional football players who participate in protests against police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem. Specifically, Trump suggested that the NFL should fire them.

“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag,” Trump said, “to say ‘get that son of a b—h off the field’ right now, out! He’s fired?'”

Read more here.

A pied piper of patriotism

"No squaring that circle"

Z Man writes,

...patriotism and multiculturalism can never coexist. The former assumes a set of value judgments based on nationality and ethnicity. The latter explicitly rejects those values. In fact, multiculturalism is nothing more than the nullification of patriotism and nationalism. There’s no squaring that circle.

...if anyone dares notice diversity in public, the people in charge will land on him like Puritan witch hunters. One of the hilarious parts of reading crime stories is how the reporters go to great lengths to conceal the race of the criminal. We end up with stories about a “tall man with a red cap” being jailed for murder. The result of this absurd contradiction is that diversity has become synonymous with danger and the promotion of it erodes trust in the people promoting it.

The fact is, the meritocratic system that supports the managerial class is ruthlessly authoritarian. If you don’t check the right boxes, you cannot advance. This system is by design intended to boil off anything resembling dissent or innovation. It is why the Buckley Right locked shields with the Left in opposition to Trump. Their loyalty is to a system that has bestowed credentials and honors on them, along with a lifestyle they could never achieve outside in the dreaded private sector. Political ideology is just a decoration.

A system that cannot tolerate dissent and makes war on anything that challenges it, cannot be made compatible with popular resistance to its polices. The managerial class can search about for tactics and language to try and square this circle, but they are faced with an irrepressible conflict. We either have normal countries with popular governments, responsive to the will of the people, or, we have an authoritarian, technocratic managerial state. It’s one or the other, but not both.

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"It's about saving our country."

Seth Leibsohn writes,

...In the end, I’m not sure if Donald Trump represents governance by the first two thousand names of a telephone book, as William F. Buckley, Jr. once said he’d rather be governed by. I’m not sure if Donald Trump is just conservative rather than a conservative. But I am certain that given the stakes and issues we all care about, and have talked about for years, the last thing this election should be about is saving a party or a movement.

It’s about saving our country. Most call that patriotism. So, yes: Let’s grow up, Conservatives.

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Competing core visions of America: globalism and patriotism

Bookworm writes,

The two campaigns are driven by competing core visions of America: Globalism and patriotism. It is those ideas, not the two reprehensible candidates, that voters must address in the 2016 election.

Hillary’s globalist presidency will mark the finish line of the “fundamental change” that Obama has started. After her election, we will live in a post-constitutional America that

will abandon individual rights thanks to a hard-Left Supreme Court;
will have a federal government micromanaging every aspect of our lives;
will see that same federal government, in turn, become subordinate to the dictates of the United Nations;
will redistribute wealth within America and then take what little wealth remains and redistribute it to favored Third World dictatorships;
will abandon America’s former friends and give succor to her current enemies;
will stand idly by watching the existential war between fundamentalist Islam and the rest of the world, while doing nothing to prevent that war from infiltrating America;
will have a completely open southern border, so much so that, within a short time, America will be a majority Latin American nation, although one with a strong, dynamic Islamic presence;
will have fully socialized medicine, although without the third-party (i.e, American) funding that kept Europe’s socialized medicine afloat during the Cold War;
will be racially divided, with permanent hostility between the races;
will marginalize men who are already the victims of unprecedented overt and covert animus; and
will have unlimited abortion that runs from the time a fetus is aborted until an old man is euthanized.

Trump’s patriotic presidency will, one hopes, prevent the dystopian future that follows in Hillary’s wake. Instead, his election will inaugurate a return to what looks and smells like a pre-9/11, late-20th century world, one that:

will have a somewhat balanced court with both constitutionalists and Leftists;
will still maintain traditional constitutional rights, including but not limited to religious liberty, free speech, due process, the right to bear arms, etc.
will have a federal government that is still way too big, but that operates within the normal parameters most of us are used to from life in the late 20th century;
will not take orders from the United Nations;
will have lower taxes on corporations and the middle class so that, rather than having the government spending money into oblivion, allows individuals to spend it in ways that create wealth;
will not bankrupt America chasing the extremely dubious, and definitely corrupt, “science” of climate change;
will continue to stand by America’s friends (although finally demanding that many finally step up their contributions as called for under international treaties) and will continue to stand up to America’s enemies;
will fight to win the existential war against radical Islam, both at home and abroad;
will have meaningful borders and will enforce existing immigration laws;
will have market-based medical insurance that promises to provide the best medical care to the greatest number of people (who will be able to choose their doctors and their hospitals);
will unite the American people without respect to race, religion, country of natural origin, sex, or any other dividers, provided that they buy into core American values;
will allow men to be men in all their wonderfulness;
will value life so that, while abortion will not be made illegal, it will not be unlimited and euthanasia will not be the go-to remedy for socialized medicine’s failures.

If you are a globalist, go ahead and vote for Hillary in Election 2016. Her corruption, her treasonous violation of national security lies, her compulsive dishonesty, and her incompetence are irrelevant. Once she’s carried across the finish line, the same forces that put her in the White House will ensure the culmination of her hard-Left American vision, one that she’s carried within her since her days at Wellesley.

If you are a patriot, please vote for Trump in Election 2016. His moral decay, compulsive boasting, and soft Leftism are irrelevant. Once he’s carried across the finish line, the same forces that put him in the White House (the People’s mandate and as well as the people with whom Trump surrounds himself) will, we hope, stop the bleeding that Obama started and return America to some semblance of the nation we recognize from the second half of the 20th century. It will not be a conservative paradise, but it may well be salvageable, unlike Hillary’s America.

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American in his heart and soul

Yesterday in the checkout line at the big box store. Young man about 30 with his son. I noticed that the man had what sounded like a European accent, and that he was purchasing patriotic American items. I asked him where was his accent from.
"Austria," was his reply.
"And you are buying lots of patriotic American items?"
"Yes, I have an accent from Austria, but I am American through and through in my heart and soul."
"Awesome! It's a pleasure to meet you!"

Passionate Words About Faith and Country

The next time Mitt Romney gives a speech about faith and patriotism, here is a suggestion. He can quote from this letter written by Nathanael Greene to Samuel Ward on January 4, 1776.

Heaven hath decreed that tottering empire Britain to irretrievable ruin and thanks to God, since Providence hath so determined, America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons...Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety, and rectitude thereof.

This quote was taken from the book, 1776 by David McCullough. Greene and others had just received word of King George's address to parliament, and he was righteously pissed off!

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These two videos were banned by NBC. NBC refused to run the ads, because they decided that the ads were "too controversial!" We are living in insane times.




Via Ace of Spades

Naievety

benning's Writing Pad has a terrific post here about Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001. He features photos and the address to Congress and the American people by F.D.R. I hope our nation never returns to the level of naivety that existed prior to December 7, 1941, "The Day That Will Live In Infamy."