You cannot describe what you cannot conceive or believe in. Rios cannot conceive of the vastness and greatness of America because she does not believe in it. She lives in a narrow, confined world of her own making. She places everything and everyone in boxes with labels she’s manufactured.
America 200 had confidence, patriotism, families, farms, factories, churches, borders, masculine energy, civic pride, and a common story. America 250 has debt, disorder, diversity worship, cultural fragmentation, elite self-hatred, open borders, feminized institutions, broken schools, unaffordable homes, sick healthcare, and a ruling-class machine that treats national pride like a disease. The fix is not complicated. End mass migration. Restore assimilation. Rebuild industry. Defund DEI. Teach American greatness. Protect families. Honor farmers, workers, soldiers, builders, fathers, mothers, and children. America does not need managed decline with better branding. It needs revival. Trump’s Golden Age means purge the rot and build again.
The handwriting was on the wall at the 200th. The air on the Washington Mall was thick with marijuana smoke. Psychedelic music came from everywhere. The Vietnam War had ended, but evidence of the hangover was everywhere.
We have slid further since, but the downhill trajectory was already very visible.
Let me be a ray of sunshine in this otherwise gloomy report: the United States has been under near constant demoralization for the past 80 years and in that time we have maintained a majority (or very large plurality) of our population which has shown itself to be largely immune to these demoralization efforts. Sure, our elite class is shit, but regular Americans by and large are all right. Whole communities of us exist in defiance of our Weimar level degenerate cultural elites and if that doesn't say something about the fundamental strength of our nation and the solid foundation it was built on, I don't know what does.
There is a lot worth examining here, but I think the demographic framing risks missing the deeper point. Immigration itself is not the disease. America has always been shaped by immigrants and by people close to the European inheritance that formed the country. The Founding generation was not united by birthplace so much as by a shared civilizational framework rooted in English law, Christian moral assumptions, property rights, self-government, ordered liberty, and a belief that freedom requires virtue.
The central issue is not immigration itself. America has always absorbed outsiders when there was a confident civilization for them to join. The deeper problem is that we handed the institutions of inheritance (schools, universities, media, churches, philanthropy, bureaucracies, corporations, and cultural gatekeepers) to people who view the American inheritance as something to deconstruct rather than steward and transmit.
That is the Bezmenov point. Demoralization does not require tanks in the streets. It requires generations of institutional influence teaching a people to see their own country as illegitimate, their history as shame, their borders as cruelty, their faith as backwardness, their families as oppressive, and their freedoms as tools of domination.
Under those conditions, immigration becomes harder to manage because there is no longer a clear national story into which newcomers are expected to assimilate. A confident America could say: “Welcome. Here is the language, the law, the civic inheritance, the moral expectations, and the duties of citizenship.” A demoralized America says: “We are not sure we have the right to ask anything of you.”
So the demographic change is real, but it is not the root disease. The root disease is stewardship failure. We stopped transmitting the inheritance. Then we acted surprised when both native-born citizens and immigrants no longer shared it.
A strong civilization can absorb newcomers because it knows what it is. A demoralized civilization cannot even assimilate its own children. Sadly, it appears this is where we have arrived.
The only thing good about "250" will be the new El Trumpo $250 bill that in 1976 would have about $1,400 spending power in today's dollars. And in 2076, the $250 bill will have the spending power of about $45 in today's dollars. I have cut out all June 19th squares in my paper calendar and blacked them out elsewhere. I plan on sleeping straight through from the 18th to the 20th.
When you hate your country, it shows in everything you do or say. Gratitude expands the horizon. A critical spirit constricts all to a narrowness that cripples the soul.
What a petty, vacuous, mindless and useless automaton.
Unfortunately, our governments at every level are infested with this type. Federal, State and Local all succumb to the idiocy this woman is prescribing.
The North Hollywood subway station is decorated with tiles highlighting the history of the CA territory. They look like children's drawings, so I assume the material comes from what is taught in schools. Of note is the brief period CA was the land of Mexico, only a few years, less than a decade. Of course, before that, it had been conquered by Spain and parceled out into massive land grants. So Mexico stole it from Spain, who in turn had stolen it from the previous inhabitants, who were made up of a long list of various indigenous people, including those in what is now the LA area, who, I assume, are still waiting for Billie Eilish to return their land.
While many blame Marxists for destroying the concept of the nation state, Soros wrote the foreword for Karl Popper's book "The Open Society and Its Enemies," and even F.A. Hayek (who encouraged Popper to write) believed freedom would flourish with a tweaking of the nation state. But both men wrote at a time when the horrors of Mussolini and Hitler were known, but not the horrors of Stalin, thanks in part to the NY Times running cover for him, and the people of China had not yet been unburdened by what was to come under Mao.
Who has the authority to fire this revisionist history commissar and how soon can she be out?
Calling Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony “founding mothers” is beyond idiotic. Abigail Adams and Martha Washington are true “founding mothers” if someone wants to play that card.
It’s all so tiresome. America 250 feels flat because we are sharing our country with 100M Bolsheviks and another 50M illegals, all of whom, will trash our birthday party but still demand their oversized slice of cake.
America 250 should be a momentous occasion as the Bicentennial was in 1976. But it's not, there is very little enthusiasm or interest in America 250. The United States at this time, is a demoralized, divided and Balkanized nation. We live in such a politically polarized and tribalistic nation in 2026 where everyone is at each other's throats. That is why America 250 has little to no enthusiasm or excitement to it. But as you show here Yuri, America 250 Commissioner Rosie Rios doesn't help matters either. The real Yuri Brezmenov was a hero who warned us in an interview he did about ideological subversion. When he arrived in America in the 1970s it had already begun. Now it is complete and we are reaping the whirlwind of this strategy in 2026.
Rosie Rios is so obsessed with identity politics she's forgotten what all this was supposed to be about in the first place. America 250 should be about ALL of America's heroes NOT specific ones that are favored by the woke mafia as victims like women, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people. How about-and hear me out here-we ADD them into the grand American historical narrative with everyone else? Let's add to the pantheon of Americans heroes and to the American story not put people in boxes based on their identity. I know a crazy idea. Guess what Rosie? I'm proud of our founding fathers AND mothers! I celebrate Abigail Adams, Sybil Ludington, Mary Katherine Goddard, Phillis Wheatley, Molly Pitcher, Penelope Baker, Martha Washington, Mercy Otis Warren, Esther de Berdt Reed, Deborah Franklin, and Dolly Madison AND George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Jay, Patrick Henry, George Mason, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Paul Revere.
Were Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony great Americans? Absolutely. But so were Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Johnny Appleseed, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, The Wright Brothers, Lewis and Clark, Kit Carson, Dwight D. Eisehower, George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, John J. Pershing, and Milton Hershey. Why not celebrate them ALL? A crazy idea I know right? I think we can all agree that famous Americans of color like Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Banneker, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, T. Thomas Fortune, Cesar Chavez, Fred Korematsu, Chief Standing Bear, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, Patsy Mink, and John Lewis deserve to be celebrated and venerated. But does that mean traditional American heroes like Christopher Columbus, Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt should be ignored? Absolutely not! I celebrate the contributions of immigrants AND native-born Americans to this country. I celebrate LGBTQ+ AND straight Americans who did great things. I don't do identity politics; I treat ALL Americans as being part of the amazing 250-year story of this nation. If there is any time to push national unity, it's now! What better way to do that then to the greatness of our history through the lives and deeds of ALL Americans and treat ALL Americans as part of a national band that when we play together creates the beautiful symphony that is the United States of America, one nation under God!
On this blessed 250th birthday of the United States, there is much to celebrate and to be concerned about. The United States is one of only three global superpowers. Our population is much larger than it was at the time of the Bicentennial. We are one of the world's leading exporters of oil and natural gas and have achieved energy independence. Americans are living longer than ever before. Jobs are coming back from overseas thanks to Donald Trump's tariffs. Wokeness is beginning to die off, and DEI is on the decline. The United States is still one of the freest nations on Earth. We are still to some extent the land of opportunity. The American South and West are booming. Texas and Florida have two of the fastest growing economies anywhere on Earth. Ya'll Street is set to launch soon and challenge Wall Street for economic supremacy and to become the world's financial capital. We are loved and respected around the world by many more than we are hated by. Our universities are still considered among the best on Earth. American culture and food and beverages are beloved the world over. But there are also some VERY troubling trends going on right now in this country. Political polarization and identity politics has torn us apart. We are taxed way TOO much. Our national debt keeps getting bigger every day. Birth rates and marriage rates are down to alarming lows and our population is aging. Everything is so unaffordable for your average person. It takes decades to pay off housing or car loans.
The U.S. government is most corrupt it's been since the Gilded Age. The wealthy have way too much power and influence. Wealth inequality is this country is absolutely shocking. 8 out of 10 Americans are fatter than the Michelin man. Gen Z is a lost generation who is without purpose or meaning and is hooked on doomerism and nihilism. Mental illness is rampant and widespread. Our mainstream popular culture is bland, sterile and PC and lacks daring, innovation, creativity, or originality. Our public school and healthcare systems are broken. The defense budget is bloated beyond belief. The government continues to hide from us the truth about thinks like the JFK assassination and UFOs. Returning to Ms. Rios her firing the executive director of America 250 for posting "God bless Charlie Kirk" is just pure partisan politics at its worst. She probably never wanted Republicans involved in the planning of the celebrations anyway, so she found an excuse to get rid of him. Doesn't that one incident right there just perfectly encapsulate the state of America in 2026? The only time in history I can really compare this to would be the Great Depression. It seems history is repeating itself and the dark days of the 1930s are back. But despite all this, America 250 is still incredibly important and meaningful to me, and I hope it is for everyone else here in the comment section here too. God bless America! Happy 250th Birthday Uncle Sam!
You cannot describe what you cannot conceive or believe in. Rios cannot conceive of the vastness and greatness of America because she does not believe in it. She lives in a narrow, confined world of her own making. She places everything and everyone in boxes with labels she’s manufactured.
You cannot put America in a box.
Can we describe Rosie as an AWFL. If we refer to her as white she might have a meltdown.
America 200 had confidence, patriotism, families, farms, factories, churches, borders, masculine energy, civic pride, and a common story. America 250 has debt, disorder, diversity worship, cultural fragmentation, elite self-hatred, open borders, feminized institutions, broken schools, unaffordable homes, sick healthcare, and a ruling-class machine that treats national pride like a disease. The fix is not complicated. End mass migration. Restore assimilation. Rebuild industry. Defund DEI. Teach American greatness. Protect families. Honor farmers, workers, soldiers, builders, fathers, mothers, and children. America does not need managed decline with better branding. It needs revival. Trump’s Golden Age means purge the rot and build again.
To be fair, the elite hate us, not themselves.
If we would only feel as guilty as they do about the things they feel guilty about, they might like us a little more.
Rosie Rios is a Harvard indoctrinated Marxist. And there are many like her.
Fix the universities, fix the country.
The handwriting was on the wall at the 200th. The air on the Washington Mall was thick with marijuana smoke. Psychedelic music came from everywhere. The Vietnam War had ended, but evidence of the hangover was everywhere.
We have slid further since, but the downhill trajectory was already very visible.
Let me be a ray of sunshine in this otherwise gloomy report: the United States has been under near constant demoralization for the past 80 years and in that time we have maintained a majority (or very large plurality) of our population which has shown itself to be largely immune to these demoralization efforts. Sure, our elite class is shit, but regular Americans by and large are all right. Whole communities of us exist in defiance of our Weimar level degenerate cultural elites and if that doesn't say something about the fundamental strength of our nation and the solid foundation it was built on, I don't know what does.
There is a lot worth examining here, but I think the demographic framing risks missing the deeper point. Immigration itself is not the disease. America has always been shaped by immigrants and by people close to the European inheritance that formed the country. The Founding generation was not united by birthplace so much as by a shared civilizational framework rooted in English law, Christian moral assumptions, property rights, self-government, ordered liberty, and a belief that freedom requires virtue.
The central issue is not immigration itself. America has always absorbed outsiders when there was a confident civilization for them to join. The deeper problem is that we handed the institutions of inheritance (schools, universities, media, churches, philanthropy, bureaucracies, corporations, and cultural gatekeepers) to people who view the American inheritance as something to deconstruct rather than steward and transmit.
That is the Bezmenov point. Demoralization does not require tanks in the streets. It requires generations of institutional influence teaching a people to see their own country as illegitimate, their history as shame, their borders as cruelty, their faith as backwardness, their families as oppressive, and their freedoms as tools of domination.
Under those conditions, immigration becomes harder to manage because there is no longer a clear national story into which newcomers are expected to assimilate. A confident America could say: “Welcome. Here is the language, the law, the civic inheritance, the moral expectations, and the duties of citizenship.” A demoralized America says: “We are not sure we have the right to ask anything of you.”
So the demographic change is real, but it is not the root disease. The root disease is stewardship failure. We stopped transmitting the inheritance. Then we acted surprised when both native-born citizens and immigrants no longer shared it.
A strong civilization can absorb newcomers because it knows what it is. A demoralized civilization cannot even assimilate its own children. Sadly, it appears this is where we have arrived.
The only thing good about "250" will be the new El Trumpo $250 bill that in 1976 would have about $1,400 spending power in today's dollars. And in 2076, the $250 bill will have the spending power of about $45 in today's dollars. I have cut out all June 19th squares in my paper calendar and blacked them out elsewhere. I plan on sleeping straight through from the 18th to the 20th.
When you hate your country, it shows in everything you do or say. Gratitude expands the horizon. A critical spirit constricts all to a narrowness that cripples the soul.
What a petty, vacuous, mindless and useless automaton.
Unfortunately, our governments at every level are infested with this type. Federal, State and Local all succumb to the idiocy this woman is prescribing.
The North Hollywood subway station is decorated with tiles highlighting the history of the CA territory. They look like children's drawings, so I assume the material comes from what is taught in schools. Of note is the brief period CA was the land of Mexico, only a few years, less than a decade. Of course, before that, it had been conquered by Spain and parceled out into massive land grants. So Mexico stole it from Spain, who in turn had stolen it from the previous inhabitants, who were made up of a long list of various indigenous people, including those in what is now the LA area, who, I assume, are still waiting for Billie Eilish to return their land.
While many blame Marxists for destroying the concept of the nation state, Soros wrote the foreword for Karl Popper's book "The Open Society and Its Enemies," and even F.A. Hayek (who encouraged Popper to write) believed freedom would flourish with a tweaking of the nation state. But both men wrote at a time when the horrors of Mussolini and Hitler were known, but not the horrors of Stalin, thanks in part to the NY Times running cover for him, and the people of China had not yet been unburdened by what was to come under Mao.
Who has the authority to fire this revisionist history commissar and how soon can she be out?
Calling Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony “founding mothers” is beyond idiotic. Abigail Adams and Martha Washington are true “founding mothers” if someone wants to play that card.
It’s all so tiresome. America 250 feels flat because we are sharing our country with 100M Bolsheviks and another 50M illegals, all of whom, will trash our birthday party but still demand their oversized slice of cake.
And why has she not been fired???
America 250 should be a momentous occasion as the Bicentennial was in 1976. But it's not, there is very little enthusiasm or interest in America 250. The United States at this time, is a demoralized, divided and Balkanized nation. We live in such a politically polarized and tribalistic nation in 2026 where everyone is at each other's throats. That is why America 250 has little to no enthusiasm or excitement to it. But as you show here Yuri, America 250 Commissioner Rosie Rios doesn't help matters either. The real Yuri Brezmenov was a hero who warned us in an interview he did about ideological subversion. When he arrived in America in the 1970s it had already begun. Now it is complete and we are reaping the whirlwind of this strategy in 2026.
Rosie Rios is so obsessed with identity politics she's forgotten what all this was supposed to be about in the first place. America 250 should be about ALL of America's heroes NOT specific ones that are favored by the woke mafia as victims like women, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people. How about-and hear me out here-we ADD them into the grand American historical narrative with everyone else? Let's add to the pantheon of Americans heroes and to the American story not put people in boxes based on their identity. I know a crazy idea. Guess what Rosie? I'm proud of our founding fathers AND mothers! I celebrate Abigail Adams, Sybil Ludington, Mary Katherine Goddard, Phillis Wheatley, Molly Pitcher, Penelope Baker, Martha Washington, Mercy Otis Warren, Esther de Berdt Reed, Deborah Franklin, and Dolly Madison AND George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Jay, Patrick Henry, George Mason, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Paul Revere.
Were Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony great Americans? Absolutely. But so were Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Johnny Appleseed, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, The Wright Brothers, Lewis and Clark, Kit Carson, Dwight D. Eisehower, George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur, John J. Pershing, and Milton Hershey. Why not celebrate them ALL? A crazy idea I know right? I think we can all agree that famous Americans of color like Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Banneker, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, T. Thomas Fortune, Cesar Chavez, Fred Korematsu, Chief Standing Bear, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, Patsy Mink, and John Lewis deserve to be celebrated and venerated. But does that mean traditional American heroes like Christopher Columbus, Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt should be ignored? Absolutely not! I celebrate the contributions of immigrants AND native-born Americans to this country. I celebrate LGBTQ+ AND straight Americans who did great things. I don't do identity politics; I treat ALL Americans as being part of the amazing 250-year story of this nation. If there is any time to push national unity, it's now! What better way to do that then to the greatness of our history through the lives and deeds of ALL Americans and treat ALL Americans as part of a national band that when we play together creates the beautiful symphony that is the United States of America, one nation under God!
On this blessed 250th birthday of the United States, there is much to celebrate and to be concerned about. The United States is one of only three global superpowers. Our population is much larger than it was at the time of the Bicentennial. We are one of the world's leading exporters of oil and natural gas and have achieved energy independence. Americans are living longer than ever before. Jobs are coming back from overseas thanks to Donald Trump's tariffs. Wokeness is beginning to die off, and DEI is on the decline. The United States is still one of the freest nations on Earth. We are still to some extent the land of opportunity. The American South and West are booming. Texas and Florida have two of the fastest growing economies anywhere on Earth. Ya'll Street is set to launch soon and challenge Wall Street for economic supremacy and to become the world's financial capital. We are loved and respected around the world by many more than we are hated by. Our universities are still considered among the best on Earth. American culture and food and beverages are beloved the world over. But there are also some VERY troubling trends going on right now in this country. Political polarization and identity politics has torn us apart. We are taxed way TOO much. Our national debt keeps getting bigger every day. Birth rates and marriage rates are down to alarming lows and our population is aging. Everything is so unaffordable for your average person. It takes decades to pay off housing or car loans.
The U.S. government is most corrupt it's been since the Gilded Age. The wealthy have way too much power and influence. Wealth inequality is this country is absolutely shocking. 8 out of 10 Americans are fatter than the Michelin man. Gen Z is a lost generation who is without purpose or meaning and is hooked on doomerism and nihilism. Mental illness is rampant and widespread. Our mainstream popular culture is bland, sterile and PC and lacks daring, innovation, creativity, or originality. Our public school and healthcare systems are broken. The defense budget is bloated beyond belief. The government continues to hide from us the truth about thinks like the JFK assassination and UFOs. Returning to Ms. Rios her firing the executive director of America 250 for posting "God bless Charlie Kirk" is just pure partisan politics at its worst. She probably never wanted Republicans involved in the planning of the celebrations anyway, so she found an excuse to get rid of him. Doesn't that one incident right there just perfectly encapsulate the state of America in 2026? The only time in history I can really compare this to would be the Great Depression. It seems history is repeating itself and the dark days of the 1930s are back. But despite all this, America 250 is still incredibly important and meaningful to me, and I hope it is for everyone else here in the comment section here too. God bless America! Happy 250th Birthday Uncle Sam!
No wonder this anniversary feels like a hollowed out wasteland of nothingness.