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Newsweek Aghast At UFC Girls’ Star-Spangled Costumes After Defending ‘Right’ To Burn US Flag That's really rich of Newsweek isn't it? 😉 Newsweek is fine with burning the US flag when protesting America, but take issue with patriotic apparel at the UFC event. 🙄 Americans often wear flag apparel when celebrating the 4th of July or other patriotic holidays. Yes, it does go against the flag code, but it's largely accepted in the US as displaying patriotism. The fact that Newsweek suddenly knows flag codes, is comical though. 😉 Burning the US flag at protests and riots is much more disrespectful than wearing red, white and blue to show respect, IMHO. From the article: The outlet’s sudden interest in flag code presents a stark contrast to how Newsweek previously covered actual disrespect toward the flag. It appears Newsweek has discovered the U.S. Flag Code! The outlet, intent on manufacturing a controversy, published a story about the patriotic outfits designed for the UFC’s Octagon Girls ahead of the upcoming White House fight celebrating America’s 250th birthday. “Do Ring Girls’ Outfits for Trump UFC Fight Breach the Flag Code?” Alice Gibbs wrote. Gibbs amplified claims from unnamed “critics arguing the patriotic designs may clash with longstanding U.S. flag etiquette.” “While organizers say the designs aim to blend ‘sport, spectacle, and celebration,’ the reveal has triggered criticism from some viewers who say the execution is overly flashy — or disrespectful.” Notably, Gibbs doesn’t name a single “critic” who supposedly found the outfits “disrespectful.” Nonetheless, in order to peddle the claim that such outfits are “disrespectful,” Gibbs dedicated an entire section to “What the US Flag Code Actually Says.” “The code states that the flag ‘should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery.’ It also says no part of the flag ‘should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform,'” Gibbs wrote, clearly trying to generate controversy over whether the patriotic outfits are a sign of disrespect toward the flag. Gibbs tried to hide the obvious hit job by being sure to note the flag code is “not legally enforceable for private citizens,” and that the “opinion is split” on the outfits. But she then segued into a general criticism of the UFC fight — revealing that her focus on the alleged flag code controversy was really just a vehicle to attack a Trump-backed event. The outlet’s sudden interest in the U.S. Flag Code presents a stark contrast to how Newsweek previously covered actual disrespect toward the flag. The same flag code Gibbs cited also states that “no disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America.” Setting the American flag on fire in protest is considerably more “disrespectful” than wearing a sequined red, white, and blue outfit celebrating America’s greatness. Yet amazingly, when Newsweek covered flag burning, its supposed interest in flag code was nowhere to be found. In a 2025 newsletter by Newsweek defending flag burning, Isaac Saul acknowledged that many Americans find the practice offensive, while still suggesting it should be protected as “free speech.” “When I see someone desecrating the flag, my emotional, knee-jerk reaction is that I would feel perfectly alright if that person gets punished for it,” Saul wrote. “But whether you abhor flag burning or not is a separate question from whether or not it should be protected speech.” The article then talked about the Supreme Court’s highly questionable decision in Texas v. Johnson, which held flag burning is protected speech under the First Amendment. No mention of flag code or its prohibition against disrespecting the American flag was found in the piece. Instead, Saul argued the issue is “about maintaining a bright red line between how I’m allowed to express my thoughts and the government’s authority to restrict my liberty. Remember: the majoritarian instinct to squash the kinds of political expression you don’t like will always come back around — especially when you attempt to codify it into law.” The angle was clear: Trump is a “majoritarian” who wants to “squash” free speech. A year before that, Anezka Pichrtova headlined a piece: “Donald Trump Backs ‘Unconstitutional’ Punishment for Burning American Flags.” Like Saul, Pichrtova emphasized the Supreme Court’s decision in Texas v. Johnson while conveniently leaving out flag code and its prohibition on disrespect. While activists burn the American flag, Newsweek frames the story about constitutional rights and so-called protected expression. Yet when patriotic costumes appear at a Trump-involved event celebrating the founding, Newsweek is suddenly concerned about whether Trump is disrespecting and violating flag code. Apparently, flag code is only relevant when it can be used to cudgel Trump. Link to article in comments

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽 My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

This is becoming more and more critical with every passing day. AI is vaporizing jobs by the millions. We need all the jobs we can get.

A close friend of mine is cancelling his voter registration today. He is convinced Spencer Pratt was robbed of the election. I explained to him that in California we count absentees first (which skew older and more conservative) and election day voters are younger and more Democratic. The slow count is largely because of policies to maximize participation, including postmarking a ballot on Election Day. Regardless, we need to figure out in California how we can get the vote counted faster and results tabulated so it does not drag on. We should make the investments in operational improvements and resources in the wealthiest state in the nation. It is worth spending the resources to get the vast majority of the vote counted within 48 hours. Right now the system is eroding trust and spawning conspiracy theories.

So… we’re expected to believe that in California, out of three candidates, the third place candidate, who conceded her campaign because she was mathematically eliminated from the run-off, suddenly received tens of thousands of votes from mail-in votes which all came in *after* Election Day, while the other two candidates received no late mail-in votes, and the second place candidate (who was surging as a Republican candidate in the bluest state in the country) is now in third place and mathematically eliminated from the run-off. … and we’re supposed to trust that this is an honest and true election. If you’re not angry about this, you need to be.

The ‘Magical Mail-in Ballots’ creation project began when Spencer released this 15M view banger…the Communists knew they were going to lose… NO ONE BELIEVES that Nithya Raman won…

We can live without soccer. We can’t live with burden they put on our society…. The American way that built this country into the great nation it is, is dying.

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.

"A net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday.." 43,000, huh? Where have I seen that number before...? Probably nothing. 🤷

People ask why the CA vote-counting process takes so long. @Elex_Michaelson of @CNN explains it clearly here. But the short answer is the state values participation plus thorough scrutiny of ballots over speed.

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