How To Renew Your US Passport
The inspiration represented by the American passport, in contrast with the incompetence and demoralization represented by the American government
Comrades: The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
After a decade, the time had arrived to renew my passport. I felt nostalgic flipping through the pages and recalling the adventures that each stamp represented. That nostalgia was shattered by rage:
Why does it cost $130 and take 8 weeks to renew a passport?! The federal government steals a third of our income, collects $5 trillion in taxes, and is $34 trillion in debt while employing 4 million people. Millions of illegal immigrants with no documentation are allowed to stroll across the border without ID, get free flights, buses, and hotels around the country, and receive free IDs in deep blue Karenland FUPAZ. 40% of Americans can't cover an unexpected $400 expense. Consoomers have collectively racked up a record $1 trillion+ in credit card debt. Yet we must endure this demoralization of $130 (+$10 for registered mail) and 8 weeks.
~150 million people have the privilege to travel with an American passport, which is only 1.9% of the world’s population. We are the fortunate 1% in that regard. That means ~15 million people renew their passports every year, which generates $2 billion in revenue for the government. That is a drop in the bucket for the federal budget and could also help fund the wall, yet Congress argues it’s too expensive while the Supreme Court rules that the Feds can take down Texas’ barriers to try to stop the invasion.
The quotations found throughout American passport books remind us why we must subvert subversion and reclaim the Republic. If not, it is only a matter of time until the passport is “reimagined” with vaccine passports, retina scanners, chips, CBDCs, and Ibram X Kendi quotes.
This humble samizdat now reaches people in all 50 states and 127 countries. Although I haven’t left the country since Baby Yulia was born, I am itching to explore again. Brazil is a frontrunner because it is the #2 biggest reader base thanks to
, who I hope to interview for a podcast soon.Which passport quote is your favorite? What is the passport renewal process like in other countries? What are the best and worst countries that you have visited? Sound off in the comments!
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” -Preamble of the US Constitution, which has been removed from the "reimagined” passport
“…And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth”. -Abraham Lincoln
“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.” -George Washington
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” -Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” -Declaration of Independence
“This is a new nation based on a mighty continent, of boundless possibilities.” Theodore Roosevelt
“…That this nation. under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.” -Abraham Lincoln
“We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The principle of free governments adhere to the American soil. It is bedded in it, immovable as its mountains.” -Daniel Webster
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” -John F. Kennedy
“For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say “Farewell.” Is a new world coming? We welcome it–and we will bend it to the hopes of man." -Lyndon B. Johnson
“What a glorious morning for our country.” -Samuel Adams
“We live in a world that is lit by lightning. So much is changing and will change, but so much endures and transcends time.” -Ronald Reagan
“May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.” -inscribed on the Golden Spike. Promontory Point, 1869.
“We send thanks to all the Animal life in the world. They have many things to teach us people. We are glad they are still here and we hope it will always be so.” -Excerpt from the Thanksgiving Address, Mohawk version
“Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.” -E.B. White
“We are covered by the American banner; let us cling to it, and if required, sacrifice our lives defending it.” -Jose Antonio Navarro
“Go west, young man, and grow up with the country.” -Horace Greeley
“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
“A big iron needle stitching the country together.” -Jesamyn West
“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.” -John Paul Jones
“It is immigrants who brought to this land the skills of their hands and brains to make it a beacon of opportunity and hope for all men.” -Herbert H. Lehman
“This nation has a banner…it is the banner of Dawn. It means Liberty…Every color means liberty; every thread means liberty.” -Henry Ward Beecher
“Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds…to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.” -Ellison S. Onizuka
“The cause of freedom is not the case of a race or a sect or a party or a class — it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.” -Anna Julia Cooper
It's bad here, but worse in China. I was there, years ago. The people are wonderful, but the government is incredibly totalitarian. Newspaper contain NO criticism of government. What we're saying on this page could get us in big trouble in China.
I remember our tour guide in China. We were on the bus, talking between stops. She loved America and Americans, and spoke excellent English. Somebody asked if she'd ever been there. She said, no. She would love to go, but since she was single and spoke excellent English, she said the government was afraid she wouldn't come back. So, they wouldn't let her leave. She was a prisoner in her own country. That didn't seem odd to her, but the entire bus fell silent, contemplating the repression.
Keeping our freedom is a lot of work, but getting it back after we've given it up is near impossible.
Voting for “It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.” -John Paul Jones
Sums up the founding spirit of the country perfectly. Jones also embodied that spirit by being awesome. For example, during the revolution he decided that killing redcoats at home wasn’t exciting enough, so he sailed to England and burned some of their towns to the ground.