HAPPY SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL FROM AMERICA’S SOCIALISTS!
In any other era, Hollywood would have made hay this summer. Networks could have broadcast concerts and events, fireworks. Maybe a few blockbuster history movies. It’s all about the narrative. Trump is president so life must suck. If concert held, people might think Trump not…
— Bookshelf Q. Battler (@bookshelfbattle) May 30, 2026
Tweet concludes, “Trump is president so life must suck. If concert held, people might think Trump not bad.”
Democrats in 1976 knew they had to muster some patriotic spirit to celebrate the Bicentennial. It helped that Gerald Ford was the last liberal go-along to get-along Republican president to date (unless you were worked on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, where he was viewed as the Antichrist).
More on that from a post I wrote last week: The Past is a Foreign Country; They Sell Cola Differently There.
Coca-Cola commercial from 1976
The past is a foreign country pic.twitter.com/TnVHQiF6Ah
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 21, 2026