Poll: Nearly 4 in 10 Democrats ‘Ashamed’
to Be American
Posted By: Dreadnought, 6/19/2026 3:04:32 AM
Nearly four in ten Democrats say they are “ashamed” to be American, a new survey found. The survey by The Economist/YouGov found just weeks before America’s 250th anniversary that 26 percent of Democrats say they are “somewhat ashamed” and 12 percent say they are “very ashamed” to be American. Nearly twice as many Democrats reported being somewhat or very ashamed to be American compared to overall poll respondents. Out of all U.S. adult citizens polled, 12 percent say they are “somewhat ashamed” and 8 percent say they are “very ashamed.” Still, some Democrats say they are “very proud” to be American (22 percent) or “somewhat proud” (18 percent).
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One industry in America pumps out toxic waste day and night, but suffers no penalty for the damage it causes.
It operates at enormous public and private expense, sucking up hundreds of billions of dollars in government money.
Its toxic bilge poisons much of society, but those who complain about it are often dismissed as ignorant or bigoted.
Its product is largely free of state and federal regulation.
That industry is higher education.
And the toxic waste it emits isn’t chemical but intellectual sludge, in the form of racial bigotry, antisemitism and crude Marxism.
James Burrows, Director of Classic TV
Comedies Including ‘Cheers’ and ‘Friends,’
Dies at 85 6 replies
Comedies Including ‘Cheers’ and ‘Friends,’
Dies at 85 6 replies
LOS ANGELES — James Burrows, who helped create volumes of laughter as director of more than a thousand episodes of such classic television comedies as “Cheers,” “Taxi,” “Friends” and “Will and Grace,” died Friday. He was 85.
His family confirmed his death in a statement to People, saying he “passed away peacefully today surrounded by his family.” No location or cause of death was provided.
Burrows spent his career behind the camera specializing in situation comedies. Few viewers recognized him or knew his name, other than to see it flash quickly on the screen in the opening credits. But they knew his work.
Good News: Iran Blocks the Strait
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The Memorandum of Understanding with Iran appears not to have lasted for 48 hours, as Iran has once again blocked the Strait of Hormuz:
Iran re-closed the Strait of Hormuz Friday instead of heading to Switzerland for nuclear negotiations, citing Israel’s refusal to pull forces out of southern Lebanon and US forces’ ongoing presence in the region.
In a statement read over maritime radio channels, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the US was in violation of the memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, which President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed Wednesday.
When the cameras aren’t rolling German police officers, on the front line of the migrant crisis, give their unvarnished account of the state of the nation, finding “the Germany we know is disappearing”.
A German investigative journalist has urged her fellow countrymen to “listen to police officers” and their experiences and “act accordingly”. German broadsheet newspaper Die Welt reports the words of Liv von Boetticher who said she had spoken to police officers across Germany, “from all departments, of all ages, and from all federal states”.
Britain Stunned As Report Claims 250,000
British Girls Were Victimized by Pakistani
Rape Gangs 34 replies
British Girls Were Victimized by Pakistani
Rape Gangs 34 replies
Tuesday, British Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, the leader of the Restore Britain party (sorry to say, at this point I think it is more accurate to look at Nigel Farage and his Reform Party as controlled opposition rather than a real choice), released a report that probably ensures that British politics won't be quite the same. His 219-page "The Rape Gang Inquiry Report" unmasks the concerted effort by British officials to cover up the systematic rape of British girls in their early teens, if that, intimidate the girls into refusing to press charges, and protect the feral Pakistani gangs who preyed on them.
Donald Trump has been the greatest, most clear-eyed and most transformative foreign policy president of my lifetime. But Trump is also the famed businessman who wrote The Art of the Deal four decades ago. There has therefore always been the risk that the president's novel and often unorthodox approach to foreign policy could be subsumed by a greater dealmaking imperative.
Prudent statesmanship on the world stage requires setting clear ends and then working backward to calibrate the appropriate means — diplomatic, economic, military or otherwise — to achieve those ends. Because of his dealmaking background, Trump — despite all his foreign policy successes — was always uniquely vulnerable
The signed preliminary agreement between the United States and Iran has a strong majority approval rating amongst American voters, a national survey from Quantus found.
President Donald Trump signed his copy of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) to end the hostilities with Iran following the G7 on Wednesday at the Palace of Versailles, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signing his copy remotely.
The text of the MOU puts a 60-day ceasefire and negotiation framework into effect, though key details will require complex cooperation
Nearly four in ten Democrats say they are “ashamed” to be American, a new survey found.
The survey by The Economist/YouGov found just weeks before America’s 250th anniversary that 26 percent of Democrats say they are “somewhat ashamed” and 12 percent say they are “very ashamed” to be American.
Nearly twice as many Democrats reported being somewhat or very ashamed to be American compared to overall poll respondents. Out of all U.S. adult citizens polled, 12 percent say they are “somewhat ashamed” and 8 percent say they are “very ashamed.”
Still, some Democrats say they are “very proud” to be American (22 percent) or “somewhat proud” (18 percent).
Even the Wall Street Journal‘s pro-migration editors recognize that the economic harm caused by illegal migration drains the tepid public support for legalized migration.
“In recent years, those rules [in immigration policy] haven’t been consistently enforced,” said a June 16 op-ed by James Carter, a deputy undersecretary of labor in the George W. Bush administration, adding:
The result is a market distortion [because a bubble of illegal labor] holds down wages for those Americans most exposed to labor competition from unauthorized workers [and] increases demand for housing without a corresponding increase in supply.
We all love us some video of things blowing up.
At least I do. I think all guys do, though, and boy, did Ukraine provide us with some spectacular explosions to view. It's not often you get to see a massive lid of an oil storage tank thrown into the sky, looking like a massive UFO on its way to inform the homeworld that the Earth isn't ready for entry into the oh-so-peaceful Federation of Worlds. Stacey Abrams will have to wait to become the President of Earth.
Let's see that again, from a couple different angles... The aftermath of the strike on the oil refinery and other industrial sites
Iran Cancels Switzerland Talks
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I expected this, or at least some variation of it.
I wrote about this on Wednesday: Iran demanded the ceasefire in Lebanon to create a steady casus belli they can use to jerk the United States around and drive a wedge between Israel and the United States.
Demand a ceasefire, then get Hezbollah to keep poking at Israel with attacks to generate defensive responses. Then use those defensive responses to cancel talks or jerk us around, claiming that Israel violated the ceasefire. This was, at least to me, as predictable as the sun rising in the East. Hell, even I predicted it, and I am not a genius.
Alleged Leader of UFC Terror Plot Is an
Illegal Immigrant Granted ‘Dreamer’
Status Under Obama 10 replies
Illegal Immigrant Granted ‘Dreamer’
Status Under Obama 10 replies
The man accused of coordinating a failed scheme to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House over the weekend is an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) under the Obama administration, Department of Homeland Security officials said Thursday.
FBI agents arrested Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez in Omaha, Neb., on Sunday for his alleged connection with a plan to attack the recent UFC event on the south lawn of the White House, which was attended by numerous government officials and others. Alvarez is believed to be the ringleader of the group that planned the attack,
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Buzz Patterson was the Air Force pilot who, as a Major, carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton. He has since written several best-selling books about his experiences in the Clinton White House. He has also written about those experiences on X. The Daily Mail provides some insight:
[Patterson] said he primarily lived in the White House and was 'always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill', which made him quickly learn that the mood of the day 'depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary.' [skip]
He said in his X post that the day-to-day work for Clinton varied dramatically based on Hillary's whims,
Now We Know Why the Obama Center Is So Ugly
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The Obama Presidential Center finally opened to the public on Friday (not that you care), and the verdict from the internet was swift and brutal. People are calling it a "monstrous insult to architecture," a "concrete nightmare," and simply a "monstrosity." Social media has spent the week comparing the thing to a trash can and a dystopian movie set, which, having seen the photos, feels generous.
It’s hideous.
Naturally, the man who helped design the building's most mocked feature has a different take. Chris Bird, the Washington structural engineer who designed the upper portion of the center's towering centerpiece,
Jennifer Siebel Newsom slammed the “tradwife” trend on social media and blamed sexism for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris’ presidential election losses in a recent wide-ranging interview. She stopped in for the interview to promote her new movie, “Miss Representation: Rise Up,” while the Justice Department investigates the tax conduct of her and her husband, California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Siebel Newsom says the “tradwife” trend — which originated from the prominent roles women played in households within the 20th century and prior but has evolved into a social media subculture — oversimplifies women. “For the tradwife phenomenon, it’s like, you
Scandal-scarred Rep. Ilhan Omar and her hubby have gone from the penthouse to the poorhouse.
The husband of the Minnesota “Squad” firebrand — who once valued his venture capital and wine empire at up to $30 million — now claims to be pocketing as little as $200 a year.
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Omar claimed the total value of the couple’s assets was between $20,000 and $125,000 for 2025, and their credit card and student-loan debt hovered between $30,000 and $100,000 — putting their net worth at negative-$80,000-$95,000, according to the report.
As he prepared to sign his “memorandum of understanding” with the Islamic dictatorship of Iran, President Trump again insisted that his deal was much different than that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
He’s right — it’s probably worse.
Obama’s treaty did not prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, it simply punted the issue down the road in exchange for cash.
Trump’s agreement has the same vague promises, the same payouts, but with the added twist that Iran can and will take the world hostage by shutting the Strait of Hormuz at will.
On Friday, just days after the signing of the MOU, Iran moved to close the Strait,
A doctor told Joy Reid Friday that the recent Michelle Obama joke made at the UFC White House fight was giving her heart palpitations.
Dr. Frita Fisher, a quadruple-board-certified nephrologist and former Fox News guest, went on ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid’s YouTube show to discuss the medical threats facing black women.
When Dr. Frita first saw the viral clip of UFC fighter Josh Hockit shouting, “And lastly, Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?” after his match, she told Reid that she was “personally humiliated.” “I felt my heart having palpitations. I felt my chest tighten. I felt personally humiliated
Team Algae and Filth has been busy at work, supported by CNN, ABC and various leftist media, in an attempt to grow algae back in the DC reflection pool, and cut out the newly installed lining. A few arrests have been made by DC park police.Yes, these folks are that unstable. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
President Trump responds to the effort via Truth Social:
“We’ve cleaned, renovated, and beautified over 45 Monuments and Memorials, 28 Statues, and 22 Fountains in Washington, D.C. Things are really looking good in our Nation’s Capital,,(snip) However, we’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool, which sits between The Washington
Unsuccessful 2024 Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris says the word “hope” should be “changed to a verb.” One problem with that. It already is.
Hope can be used as both a noun and a verb.
Don Lemon, her host on his podcast that appeared over the weekend, did not point that out.
But those on social media, where the comment has gone viral, did as the sound bite was reposted on numerous X accounts.
“It’s a noun: ‘I have hope that she never runs for any government office again,’” one user posted to X.
The 22-year-old son of Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand raised $30 million in investments to launch a derivatives exchange startup already valued at $300 million, according to a report.
Gillibrand is one of the top pro-crypto U.S. Senators in Washington, D.C. (snip) Gillibrand's son graduated from undergrad on Sunday. Today it's reported that he's received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchange. His mom sat on the Senate Agriculture committee—which has jurisdiction over derivates—until this past year
President Trump on Saturday said the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will likely have to be drained to make the necessary repairs after vandals took a knife and put a 250 foot long gash into the pool and poured corrosive chemicals in the water.
Many people have been arrested for vandalizing the reflecting pool and peeling off the paint from the bottom of the pool.
Former Olympian David Hearn was arrested and charged with misdemeanor for destruction of property for vandalizing the Lincoln Reflecting Pool.
According to independent journalist Emily Miller, a man was arrested after jumping into the pool on Friday and cutting out a “huge piece” of the sealant.
Senator John Cornyn is back to being the mouth-piece for RINO sentiment regarding the SAVE Act, as the failed politician is once again targeting fellow-Republican Mike Lee for speaking about the necessity to pass the vital legislation.
Cornyn, who worked as the GOP Senate whip for six years and had pitched himself as an experienced legislator that Republicans needed to advance quality bills, stated that it was Lee’s job to “get” the votes and to “prove us wrong.”
Three elderly hikers died in apparent heat-related deaths while traversing the Grand Canyon's inner trails as temperatures spiked above 100 degrees. Rangers and emergency personnel responded to two separate heat-related incidents on June 12 and June 16, according to the National Park Service. "In both cases, the deceased hikers were hiking trails in the Inner Canyon, where temperatures can exceed 109 F in the shade during midday hours," the statement said. Emergency responders arrived to find the hikers already deceased on the trails. A 72-year-old man was found dead June 12 on the South Kaibab Trail due to heat-related symptoms