HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND 2025
Even though I totally wish all of you a very festive, fulfilling, and fun holiday weekend, I feel the need to also be very real.
The Statue of Liberty must be crying now.
This is a different kind of July Fourth column for me. I’m not sure that I can celebrate this country in all good conscience this year. What Orange Hitler is doing to our homeland is literally criminal. Even I, a full-blown American-born, white, straight female, am scared all the time, but not just for myself, for absolutely everyone!
It will be hard to barbecue, swim, shop, or party in general, when so many of our fellow countrymen are suffering tremendously.
The purpose of this holiday is to celebrate America’s independence from England. That means that our Founding Fathers were, indeed, immigrants. So the irony of the recent events of this year should not be lost on any of us.
Even though the following paragraph looks like I composed it this week, I actually wrote it a decade ago, in 2015, in my review of the classic Arthur Miller play, A View From the Bridge:
“…the topic, (of immigrants coming into this country illegally for a chance at a better life,) is relevant right now. It could be called The Donald Trump Story—the story of a classless douchebag who wants to deport immigrants, and ruin their lives. (I just hope that the real life saga we’re living through right now has a better ending, with a sane woman leading our triumph over evil.)”
This is how most normal Americans are viewing our country these days.
Very sadly, the tragic situation has only gotten worse. My heart breaks for at least one good person every day. I don’t enjoy going anywhere anymore because, the second I see anyone with a less-than-Aryan visage, I’m immediately scared for them.
As I was trying to find a good place to watch the July 4th fireworks tomorrow night, I kept seeing cancellations of the festivities, mainly in immigrant neighborhoods. People who usually love to celebrate their good fortune to be living and working in the U.S, (before it became freedom-challenged,) have to now hide in their homes to avoid being deported, most of them fraudulently, by men who are disguised from head to toe, and have zero identification. How could that situation not make any normal human beings sick to their stomachs???
And then recently, during Orange Hitler’s ridiculous celebration of the armed forces, (which he looked upon as his own birthday party!,) in his buffoonery he stated, “We’re the hottest country in the world right now.” What leader describes his nation as “hot,” like they’re talking about a trend or a celebrity??? Or, more likely in his case, a young female? He continually makes me projectile vomit.
This might be the most fireworks any of us will see this year!
I know that this is far from my usual Fourth of July article, but it’s what just flowed out of me when my fingers took to the keyboard to write this.
But, to end on a happier note, let me say… Nope. I got nothing.
No matter what, though, I do wish you guys a Happy 4th of July weekend. Please be safe. See you back here on Monday, when it will be Mr. X and my anniversary again!
