Personal question - will you be celebrating Independence Day tomorrow?

[FM123]

We usually have a relaxed day BBQ-ing then watch fireworks at the park, but this year I don't see how I can just act like it's just another 4th of July. How can I celebrate freedom when there are children held in cages just miles away....

[Aristus]

1. Nah. I'm just gonna hang out and enjoy not being at work.

Let the armchair patriots have the day. They've ruined it for the rest of us.

[Different Drummer]

23. What you said. n/t

[Boomerproud]

2. No.

nt

[llmart]

3. No.

[UniteFightBack]

4. I'm not doing anything but I don't think you should let this scumbag ruin what you normally do.

It is he and his morally bankrupt minions who are abusing children and adults. He has already ruined so much I would look for any opportunity where he does not creep in and spoil. FUCK HIM.

[CottonBear]

5. I'll be working 8-5.

My kiddo and I will have fun swimming in our pool in the evening after dinner.
Later on, we’ll watch fireflies and light sparklers.

It is super hot and humid here in Georgia, so most people want to be as cool as possible. Thankfully, it cools down somewhat about 9pm.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

6. I will be at work

Hot dogs later with wife and daughter maybe dip in the pool

[TlalocW]

7. I'm normally booked for gigs

Balloon twisting. I have something tonight at a giant golf course/private club (posted it on Facebook with the message, "Ima throw a Baby Ruth into the swimming pool.&quot and then a pancake breakfast at a church that's part of an annual 5K. The last few years, another twister and I also had an evening event in a park that was put on by a local (republican) politician, but he has no funding for it this year. Too bad. We charged pretty high rates, and the taco truck that showed up is a good one.

TlalocW

[johnp3907]

8. No.

But I might make it a point to listen to these tunes:

[leftieNanner]

9. We have a big parade in our town

Where we also celebrate our sister city from Mexico. Somehow, this seems like an especially good thing this year.

Plus our local Indivisible group is marching in the parade, and if I get up and out early enough, I plan to march too. Gonna wear my "Nevertheless She Persisted" t-shirt that my daughter gave me for Christmas.

[Boxerfan]

10. Nope.

Nothing to celebrate.

It will be kinda obvious. I've had a small display at the end of our cul de sac for at least 17 years. Not the last 2 and not this year. The day he leaves by whatever means I will celebrate then.

[AncientGeezer]

11. Absolutely...the peckerhead in D.C. doesn't run my life.

As to the boarder issue...even Jeh Johnson said..."Chain link barriers, partitions, fences, cages -- whatever you want to call them -- were not invented on January 2017,"

[pintobean]

12. Yes, I love America.

I won't ever let anyone take that away from me.

So, Happy birthday, America. And welcome to all of our new citizens.

[Ilsa]

13. Yes.

Today and tomorrow. And I'll be praying for IQ45 to swallow a live grenade as a reality tv stunt.

[GulfCoast66]

14. Working. Then steaks on the grill.

And watch the show from Boston.

[Golden Raisin]

15. Mourning what Trump and Complicit Republicans

have made the worst 4th of July of my long life. Tanks and Camps!

[theophilus]

16. With some sadness ---no.

I love much of what America has been. From time to time and here and there. There has been much to be proud of. Much of the goodness of America manifests on the individual level with good people doing good things to other people. Those actions usually go undetected by those at the top. Our National actions that were good were empowered by those good people and others who went along or simply stood out of the way.

I believe our Nation has been on a steady downward march since the late seventies. Things were getting worse. Fox and the Radio Right came along and the brains have been awashing. 9-11 knocked the brains right out of many Americans. The Republican Party was co-opted with Reaganite shananigans, NEO Con machinations, and Tea Party behavior bordering on anarchy. The Republican mantra became: "Government is the problem." They have spent the last forty years making that mantra reality.

We have traveled from George Washington, a man who was memorialized as a man who could not lie, to Donald J. Trump, a man who seemingly cannot tell the Truth.

I will not celebrate this train wreck of a country on our National Day of celebration. I will mourn, instead.

[CanonRay]

17. No.

[Bettie]

18. We'll be driving our country Democratic Party float in our town's parade.

Personally, I hate parades, but I'll ride with my husband and smile and wave.

[tanyev]

19. Only if you count going to see a movie and at some point eating a hot dog

as a celebration. I have never understood the point of a parade and you couldn’t pay me to fight the crowds at a big fireworks show just to hear recorded music and see a few colorful explosions.

[Claritie Pixie]

20. Of course, with family and friends. I'm not letting him ruin it.

That's what he wants you know, to discourage us so we just give up.

[Mickju]

21. No

[rownesheck]

22. No.

It just feels gross now.

[Lars39]

24. I can't be polite to elderly trump in-laws, so we're not going

to their cookout. They’re Southern Baptists, missionaries of a sort, and they’ve doubled down in their support of Trump because he was chosen by their God. My patience is gone. Babies and kids in cages will do that to you.

[Baltimike]

25. If by celebrate, you mean red, white and blue pancakes for breakfast

bbq-y pickies for lunch and crabs later on with ice cold beer...yep.

Will I tune into Twitler's "de feuher" (sp) fiasco? *Nope*

[dem4decades]

26. Working in the yard. Maybe have a hamburger. Sometimes

The celebration needs to be muted.

This is one of those times.

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. Bingeing Stranger Things on Netflix n/t

[defacto7]

28. No. But I may protest.

Once this nightmare has ended I will party like no 4th of July I've ever known.

[Crunchy Frog]

29. If it was just me, I wouldn't,

But my ten year old sons wouldn't understand and would be devastated.

I never used to celebrate during the GWB regime.

[Va Lefty]

30. No

[shanti]

31. Celebrating?

How about visiting family, grilling and eating good food, and meeting the new puppy. The teevee won't be on.

[avebury]

32. No. I may start binge watching Season 2

of The Good Fight or some favorite West Wing episodes.

[scarytomcat]

33. NO

[2naSalit]

34. Nope...nt

[sinkingfeeling]

35. No. Why celebrate the birth of country that no longer believes in its founding

principles and is on its death bed?

[DBoon]

36. Yes

We are going to a Korean dim sum place tomorrow

The best way we can think of to celebrate Amercia

[Olafjoy]

37. Nope

I am a HUGE decorations person. I have flags and lights and red, white, and blue everything. I have star spangled shoes and clothes. It will all be back on July 4th, 2021. We have kiddie concentration camps. I just simply cannot.

[VarryOn]

38. got fajitas marinating...

And family showing up late morning about the time the beer is cold and grill is hot! Love July 4!

[Lucid Dreamer]

39. Yes. But no crowds. I can enjoy groups of a few friends; solitude works too. n/t