[FoxNews] Spencer Pratt sparked widespread online reaction over Independence Day weekend after posting a sharp rebuke of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for using the July 4 holiday to criticize America's history.
Pratt, a former reality TV star who drew attention with his surprise Los Angeles mayoral run, continued his political commentary by targeting Mamdani, who marked the nation's 250th Independence Day by delivering an immigration-themed address from George Washington's desk. Flanked by eight recently naturalized U.S. citizens, Mamdani criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Elon Musk and what he described as the "arena of supremacy" in the United States.
"As we mark 250 years, what do we see?" Mamdani asked. "We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world — one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands — those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone — and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few."
In a viral response video, Pratt bashed Mamdani, saying, "Notice how the communists always attack your history."
Wearing a T-shirt reading "the anti-socialists social club" and sitting behind a foldout table beside an RV at the site where his home burned down in the Los Angeles Palisades fire last year, Pratt remarked, "We all had to sit and watch that vile, commie mayor sit on the wrong side of our founding father’s desk to try to lecture us about our own history."
Apparently it's something called a partners desk, designed for two people to work at across from each other, each with his own set of drawers. Now we all know. But for the rest, Mr. Pratt is right.
"The communists must attack your history," he continued. "Why? Because history is what anchors you, it’s what makes us attached to something."
He referred to communism as "an evil, anti-human religion," seeking to "destroy what makes us human."
"The communist destroys your history so he can take your home and rebuild it in his image. That’s why it is your patriotic duty to celebrate today unashamed. It’s ok to love America, not only is it ok to love America, it’s necessary to love America. We are the only bulwark against tyranny on this earth," said Pratt.
Amid the burned ruins of his Los Angeles home, Pratt urged Americans to "think of your country like a home. What makes your home special?… It’s the memories you have there."
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He explained re-writing history (1619 project) and removing reminders - statues. Not to mention smearing the iconic histories of our founding fathers.
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Socialism - 100 million dead in the 20th Century and still counting.
Now that the grand 250th USA birthday party is over — the speeches, the shrieking warplanes, the dazzling fireworks, the speeches and strawberry shortcake — there is only one way this thing can go. What thing? The war for the soul of the nation. Some mysterious somebody is behind the surging “Democratic-Socialist” craze. Somebody is paying for it. It’s a last-ditch drive to marshal the disaffected, under-employed young voters, choking on their college loans, deranged by anomie, and get them marching in solidarity with X-million illegal aliens to act-out an election jihad so as to squeeze out House and Senate majorities and, ultimately, wreck the nation.
That mysterious background “somebody” is not so mysterious. It just doesn’t self-identify under a banner, but you can easily tell who they are: the slippery closet-Marxist Barack Obama and, behind him, the American Deep State nomenklatura desperate to stay out of prison, along with the unelected EU Commission led by the grandmotherly sadist Ursula von der Leyen (plus the banksters behind her). Some call them “globalists.” They are a loose coalition of convenience against the populist threat of Mr. Trump in America and similar populist movements in Europe: AfD in Germany, the two parties of Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe in the UK, and LePen’s National Rally in France.
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Young Americans will soften on Socialism once they start taking their careers seriously and get on with all the fun life stuff instead of working part time while living in their parents’ basement.
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That's the thing. When you haven't managed to get any stuff of your own, other people's stuff looks pretty good.
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"It's the economy stupid."
Number 2 above nails it. There are many very solid young people out there working hard to do the right thing and make a difference. All we see on teevee and the media are the dregs and troublemakers.
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Meaty article but just gets at the tip of the iceberg. Accountability needs to come for blatant criminality/sedition/treason--no matter who. The left/deep state is playing the long game hoping to outwait all these annoying irritations and return to power. Look out should that time come.
Charley Kirk attracted many young people to his conservative views. He went to many campuses and debated anyone who was willing to debate conservative values. TPUSA was growing at the time of his death. He was becoming a lightning rod for many young conservatives and Christians. He was becoming a threat to the left at the time he was assassinated.
It still is, JohnQC. For some reason I get texts from them from time to time to let me know how things are going. They’re up to 450 college chapters and over 3,400 high school chapters across the country, according to the webpage linked in the text, and ten states are partnered with TPUSA to ensure that all the schools in their states have a chapter.
For the rest of the country, anyone who wants to start a chapter can apply to TPUSA and get by return mail a box of start-up supplies so they can inform themselves and have what they need to do their own tabling.
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Young Americans will soften on Socialism once they start taking their careers seriously and get on with all the fun life stuff instead of working part time while living in their parents’ basement.
Dunno when that's gonna happen. Hope we don't descend into civil war before it does.
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[REGNUM.RU] The Ukrainian side still categorically denies the loss of Kostiantynivka, a strategically important junction 55 kilometers from Donetsk. It denies it so much that it even rejected Russia's offer of a temporary ceasefire to recover the bodies of fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. Instead, videos are periodically posted online, purporting to unsuccessfully "prove otherwise."
Until recently, the city served as the main logistics hub for the Ukrainian group, providing supplies and rotation of units in the Kramatorsk and Slavyansk areas.
Establishing control of Kostiantynivka opens operational space for further offensives on these two cities, control of which is crucial. This is effectively the last line of defense in Donbas, and the situation on the ground categorically belies the feigned optimism with which Zelenskyy entered the NATO summit.
However, beyond the purely military component, there is also a moral one, which determines Kyiv’s current unwillingness to acknowledge objective reality.
Konstantinovka, founded in the Russian Empire as a railway station on the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov Railway in 1869, developed into a major industrial center, completely independent of Ukraine. The ruby Kremlin stars were created here, and Konstantinovka glass supplied the needs of the Soviet army and navy, the automotive industry, and construction.
As a link between the metallurgical and coal regions of Donbass, this small town produced refractories and zinc, and was involved in the chemical industry, becoming an important part of the industrial complex.
All of this was thoroughly destroyed during the period of Ukraine's independence, without any war. Kostiantynivka, like other working-class towns in the region, was always alien to the "Ukrainian idea." And all its residents wanted after 2014 was for Ukraine to leave, leaving them alone.
Their main dream was to return to real work.
Ukraine, however, chose to turn it into yet another fortified area, mercilessly grinding the city into rubble. For them, this is yet another act of severing foreign land. But for everyone who knows and remembers the history of their Fatherland, this city is an integral part of Russia.
Establishing control over Konstantinovka is not just a tactical move, but the return of a key industrial and cultural center that for decades created symbols of Russian statehood and the country's defensive shield.
DENIAL OF REALITY
After several months of fighting, events on the front reached their climax on June 11. Russian troops then liberated the eastern districts of the city and advanced to the northeastern outskirts. Fierce fighting erupted in the southwestern part and in the city's industrial zone.
According to Regnum News Agency's own data from the field, the Russian Armed Forces' tactics during the second half of the month allowed them to cut off enemy defense nodes from each other, isolating individual units. In the southern districts of Kostyantynivka, a Ukrainian Armed Forces group of up to 300 personnel was then encircled.
In particular, the units holding the defensive line near the train station found themselves partially trapped in the urban environment. Units of the 3rd and 8th Combined Arms Armies, as well as the 3rd Army Corps, engaged in the assault methodically finished off the encircled enemy forces while simultaneously advancing north.
The assault on the city was complicated by its geographic location. It is divided into two parts by the Krivoy Torets River, and this factor became key to the entire operation.
Our troops had disabled regular bridges and temporary crossings in the central part of the river with airstrikes back in February, and all enemy attempts to establish supply lines were thwarted. Consequently, Ukrainian Armed Forces units, blocked on both banks of the river, were unable to support each other.
Nevertheless, the enemy continued to supply the encircled infantry via UAVs and, until recently, attempted to transport personnel north, along the roads through Osykovo and Alekseevo-Druzhkovka. However, Russian air superiority allowed them to destroy several fortified firing positions in residential areas and industrial zones, as well as deprive the enemy of supplies by cutting off all routes. As a result, on the evening of July 3, it was announced that Konstantinovka had fallen under Russian control.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called this event "the key to the liberation of the entire DPR," and the behavior of the Kiev authorities demonstrates the truth of these words.
Against the backdrop of the active advance of the "South" military group in the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration, unprecedented measures to dismantle industrial potential are being observed. There, Ukrainian authorities have begun the emergency evacuation of key enterprises and their employees to western regions of Ukraine.
In particular, the main production facilities of the Kramatorsk Heavy Machine Tool Plant, along with 3,500 employees, were evacuated. In Druzhkovka, industrial facilities directly related to the Ukrainian army were evacuated: a machine-building plant that repaired armored vehicles; a hardware plant that produced fasteners and rigging; and the Remschetmash plant, which manufactured electrical equipment.
In Slavyansk, the following are planned for the coming weeks: the machine-building plant, the Slavtyazhmash enterprise, the Slavyansk construction machinery plant Betonmash, the Zeus-ceramics plant, which was used to repair weapons and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the High Voltage Research Institute, where UAVs were assembled.
The Kyiv regime is preparing for a potential loss of control by attempting to deploy defensive zones around industrial zones, following its preferred tactic. A similar approach was previously used in Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov, and before that, in Avdiivka.
Nevertheless, the liberation of Konstantinovka makes it possible to launch an offensive on Druzhkovka and further north, leading to the complete liberation of Donbass, closing the Ukrainian chapter in the history of the city and region.
KONSTANTINOVKA IS RUSSIA
After 2014, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces established control over Kostiantynivka, the atmosphere in the city was reminiscent of an occupation regime. Everything that connected the city to Ukraine—from the intrusive billboards featuring "Donetsk Airport Cyborgs" and the signs forcibly replaced with Ukrainian ones, to the soldiers on the streets—felt alien and was not accepted by the locals.
This statement is certainly based on personal impressions, but they are given firsthand: last time in 2019, one of the authors had the opportunity to visit the city and take part in several large-scale meetings with local residents.
The hard-working city, deprived of its industries, driven to bankruptcy and stripped for scrap metal, lived with a deep sense of resentment. This resentment was only exacerbated by incidents such as the 2015 collision between a drunk driver of an army MT-LB and pedestrians.
OUR LAND: THE LIBERATION OF KONSTANTINOVKA OPENS THE ROAD TO SLAVYANSK
An eight-year-old child was killed, a baby in a stroller was injured, and a woman was seriously injured. However, only the soldier was punished after mass riots broke out in the city. Local residents gathered at the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit, pelted it with stones, smashed windows, and set fire to the tires scattered around.
Stones were also thrown at passing military vehicles.
As Anton Gerashchenko, advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, stated at the time, "If anyone in Kostiantynivka takes up arms against the laws of the Ukrainian government, using this accident to provoke mass clashes, then one warning shot will be fired first, and then shoot to kill. If there is no time to warn, shoot to kill will follow immediately."
The servicemen who caused the accident were taken to Kramatorsk for fear of lynching.
That same year, local elections were not held in the city "for security reasons." The vote was cancelled by a decision of the Ukrainian Central Election Commission, and power passed into the hands of people completely alien to the region and deeply opposed to the "separatists." Those who had moved to other regions were denied the right to vote in their new locations.
The residents of Kostiantynivka were right to be upset back then: 11 years later, just a few days ago, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba confirmed their concerns. He stated that if the eastern lands were returned to Ukraine, their residents would have to be stripped of their voting rights.
Ukrainians who "spent years under Russian occupation and propaganda" should not be immediately allowed to vote in national elections, and local elections there should be postponed, Kuleba asserted, adding that such a moratorium could last for 5-10 years.
Moreover, the Maidan authorities could offer accommodation in a fortified area that had been intensively preparing for war throughout this period. Since July 2014, Kostiantynivka has become one of the key logistics hubs for the Ukrainian group in the northern Donetsk region. This was facilitated by a major railway junction, the intersection of roads leading to Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Bakhmut, and Toretsk, and the presence of industrial sites and warehouse infrastructure.
The city was used to house military units, repair equipment, store supplies, and support operations during the so-called ATO—a punitive operation unleashed against what was then Ukrainian citizens in the unrecognized republics.
Defensive fortifications were gradually built around Konstantinovka and on the approaches to it against the backdrop of a continuous decline in the population, which was leaving its hometown.
The fact that Konstantinovka was originally built and developed as the glass capital of the Russian Empire, and then the USSR, that almost a quarter of all Soviet glass was produced here, and that the mentality of the residents is inextricably linked to the common legacy of large-scale industrialization, did not interest anyone.
On the contrary, it is precisely this circumstance that has always been decisive for all actions associated with the erasure of both the symbols of the Soviet legacy and the mentality of a working city that remembers its very recent past.
For the authorities who took control of part of the region, the fact that it was literally fused into the architectural and symbolic image of Moscow (Konstantinov-style glass and mirrors adorn the Moscow Metro stations and the halls of Lomonosov Moscow State University) and was inseparable from a unified Russian space only worked to their detriment. Therefore, prominent public and political figures in Ukraine called Donbas "gangrene" that needed to be excised.
Even during the fighting, as the head of the Donetsk OVA, Vadim Filashkin, officially reported, 2,500 residents remained in the city, unwilling to leave for Ukraine or have anything to do with it.
Thus, Russia's recapture of Konstantinovka is not simply a military operation, but a restoration of historical justice. It is a return to our roots, to the factories our ancestors built, and to the people who have always been and remain part of our shared cultural and historical space.
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