River Page reports from the crowd at UFC Freedom 250. Sam Quinones on why LA will miss Spencer Pratt. Matthew Campbell dives into the world of stolen art. And more.
River Page actually said this? As for Sunday’s UFC fight that was part of the president’s Freedom 250 celebrations? We sent River Page to take in the spectacle. Among the fans he spoke to was Antonio Sanchez, who mused: “This is like, the Founding Fathers’ house and they’ve got a fuckin’ Monster-sponsored octagon in the middle of the lawn. That is retarded. But also, it’s cool. People are gonna remember this fucking shit.” AND SO ---GET WITH THE TIMES...The R-word is a form of hate speech that stands for “retard,” “retarded,” or other offensive words ending in “-tard.” While “mental retardation” was originally introduced as a medical term in 1961 for people with intellectual disabilities, in the decades since, the R-word has become an insult used all too commonly in everyday language. Those who use the R-word often do so with little regard for the pain it causes people with intellectual disabilities—and the exclusion it perpetuates in our society.
You can just watch Gavin and his wife and get that uneasy feeling, they’ve done something somewhere between embezzling or him wowing partial to wearing women’s underwear.
What, no coverage of the lefty loon counter protest of the UFC Freedom 250 celebration? Poor Page would have been right at home with the they/them crowd, being entertained by a bunch of dancing, out of key singers with about as much rhythm as a family of sloths.
Trump advocating for Syria's Jolani and his thugs to be let loose in Lebanon .Trump stating that Jolani will do a better job in Lebanon than Israel
Haviv Rettig Gur on X
"He might have a point. The Sunnis of Syria remember the atrocities of the Syrian civil war, and Hezbollah’s role in them. They’d love nothing more than to see every last member and supporter of Hezbollah shuffled off to the afterlife.
But this would be catastrophic for Lebanon, far more than the Israeli operation.
The upside for Israel: Since it wouldn’t be Israel doing the fighting, no westerner would care. x.com/AmitSegal/stat…"
The Republic Is Older Than our Political Neurosis.
River Page is right about one thing: America’s 250th birthday is about more than Donald Trump.
Of course, these days that’s like announcing that Christmas is about more than the mall parking lot.
As we approach the quarter-millennium mark, Americans appear incapable of discussing the nation without first consulting their preferred political anxiety disorder. Half the country believes Trump is the reincarnation of every historical villain whose name can fit on a protest sign. The other half occasionally talks as if he personally drafted the Constitution, won the Revolutionary War, and invented indoor plumbing.
Neither side is helping.
The remarkable thing about America is not who occupies the White House. It’s that the country continues functioning despite the people who occupy the White House. The Founders designed a government strong enough to defend liberty and weak enough to keep politicians from indulging every grandiose fantasy that occurs to them after lunch.
Yet here we are, 250 years later, treating politics as our national religion. Americans once crossed oceans, settled frontiers, built businesses, raised families, and occasionally invented entire industries. Today we demand federal solutions for loneliness, obesity, social awkwardness, and whatever else is making us unhappy before dinner.
America’s anniversary is worth celebrating, but not because we’ve achieved perfection. The country remains noisy, argumentative, flawed, and frequently ridiculous.
That’s the point.
A free society is supposed to be messy.
The real lesson of 250 years is not that we found the perfect leader. It’s that we created a nation pppdurable enough to survive all of them—including the ones we voted for ourselves.
Well said! The only problem I see is that we've allowed the Executive to become powerful, when the office of the president should be just weak enough that we aren't worried about who sits behind the Resolute desk. Congress needs to reassert itself and reign in the president to only the powers originally given by the Constitution.
"Eric Trump secretly messaged former MMA star Daniel Cormier. He wanted inside info on whether White House fights were rigged so he could bet on Polymarket.
Cormier shared the screenshots.
This is the Trump family in action."
Here is the link to see the screenshots of the DM text exchange
This doesn't look any different than asking about the injury report from an NFL team before you place a LEGAL wager. I don't see any angle about a fight being 'rigged'.
From the Free Press I would have expected a mention that the UK "youth social media ban" excludes Blue Sky and includes biometrical age verification. This has nothing to do with protecting children (remember, the grooming/rape gang scandal has not yet been properly addressed) but everything with the growing social unrest about mass uncontrolled immigration
Without seeing the DEAL in writing its hard to what the DEAL actually is. Trump has assured us that the Iranians no.longer want nukes? How did he reach that conclusion( they told Vance and did a pinky swear)? Did the IRGC also so state?
Trump apparently also said no.money til all the uranium is gone. Leaving aside who gets the uranium , do we know where all of it is( any outside Iran for example?). Did trump mean NO MONEY til this negative is proven? Can we get the DOGE guys in charge of ensuring both no money disbursed and no uranium left? Or now that we have an MOU: WHAT DIFFERENCE DO ALL THESE DETAILS MAKE?
Even Pelosi said she wants to read the MOU. And confirmation there are no side agreements ( as there are in many big deals)
I’m disappointed that TFP reported the investigation without mentioning that it was started under Biden. Without this nugget, it sounds like political vengeance, with it, it sounds incredibly damning. Changes the whole story.
Times may change but humans don’t change. We are living in the same decadent, corrupt and immoral world that Juvenal wrote about. What has changed from 126 to 2026? We are still gulping down the free, stale bread and watching a “retarded” circus, on the White House lawn, no less.
Why can’t we learn from mankind’s mistakes? It’s still bread and circuses out there:
This circus you mention, was it the event over the weekend or the one where Biden had the trans woman flash her titties and he appeared to think the 6’ bunny could converse?
The Paramount/Oracle/Skydance takeover of TW was smaller than the AOL buyout in the late-90s. The audiences left, and many people are just ignoring it.
Yes, instead of sending Vance around to every news outlet, podcast, and talk show, telling us what is in the MOU, publish it and allow us to read it for ourselves. See that is the issue isn't it? We dont need the propaganda telling us what to think before we read something, Americans are more than capable of reading the MOU for themselves and understanding what is in front of them. The problem is, that the critics are probably right or the damn thing would have been etched on the Washington Monument right now. And its Vance doing the talking because Rubio, Hegseth and members of the intelligence community are against the deal.
Remember when Benghazi happened and Obama sent out Susan Rice to covnince everybody of the propaganda because Hillary refused to attach her name to the administrations lie? Because Hillary knew then that the Obama story was bullcrap the same way Rubio and Hegseth know the Trump spin on the MOU is bullcrap. Smart people dont want to be tainted with lies and failure.
Yes the US military needs to fix what ails it, but what they also need to do is pivot to the new reality of drone warfare and how to handle it. Lets say I am going to trust the powers that be at the Pentagon to try to fix the issues with military armaments. I am going to leave it toCongress to eff it all up because the wrong party is in power.
Besides nothing says America at 250 than dumb shit political games. I know maybe these democratic nominee for congress who they are pushing to win: the guy in NJ, you know the one who supported the Blind Sheik, who also worked for Hamas in Gaza, and who also volunteered for an AlQaeda based charity; along with the Hezbollah guy in Michigan; and of course our friendly nazi tattoo-girlfriend abusing-Hamas loving-America hating elitest-working class- oysterman who actually doesn't work can be the deciding votes about how and when the US can defend itself. Don't the democrats give you joy-joy?
David Ignatious in WaPo piece either yesterday or today, provides what seems to me to be the best recap I’ve seen of Iranian efforts to date. I believe he is an exceptionally well informed mideast expert
The Dems are in an apoplectic rage over Trump and the Republican Party. They can’t under stand why anyone, much less the millions who voted for him continue to support most of his policies A little inward looking on where their party has gone might shine a light on the reason.
My grandfather said if you ever agree with anyone 100% of the time - you either cannot think for yourself or you are an idiot. I’m with you and Lanny. The positives outweigh the negatives.
Ok....which one of ya'll called the police?
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/rDmb2cge67
River Page plus Elliott Abrams equals Elliott Page.
It all makes sense to me now.
River Page actually said this? As for Sunday’s UFC fight that was part of the president’s Freedom 250 celebrations? We sent River Page to take in the spectacle. Among the fans he spoke to was Antonio Sanchez, who mused: “This is like, the Founding Fathers’ house and they’ve got a fuckin’ Monster-sponsored octagon in the middle of the lawn. That is retarded. But also, it’s cool. People are gonna remember this fucking shit.” AND SO ---GET WITH THE TIMES...The R-word is a form of hate speech that stands for “retard,” “retarded,” or other offensive words ending in “-tard.” While “mental retardation” was originally introduced as a medical term in 1961 for people with intellectual disabilities, in the decades since, the R-word has become an insult used all too commonly in everyday language. Those who use the R-word often do so with little regard for the pain it causes people with intellectual disabilities—and the exclusion it perpetuates in our society.
You can just watch Gavin and his wife and get that uneasy feeling, they’ve done something somewhere between embezzling or him wowing partial to wearing women’s underwear.
What, no coverage of the lefty loon counter protest of the UFC Freedom 250 celebration? Poor Page would have been right at home with the they/them crowd, being entertained by a bunch of dancing, out of key singers with about as much rhythm as a family of sloths.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZm820Nid-b/
Trump Cuddling lovingly with Qatar at The G7-
Trump advocating for Syria's Jolani and his thugs to be let loose in Lebanon .Trump stating that Jolani will do a better job in Lebanon than Israel
Haviv Rettig Gur on X
"He might have a point. The Sunnis of Syria remember the atrocities of the Syrian civil war, and Hezbollah’s role in them. They’d love nothing more than to see every last member and supporter of Hezbollah shuffled off to the afterlife.
But this would be catastrophic for Lebanon, far more than the Israeli operation.
The upside for Israel: Since it wouldn’t be Israel doing the fighting, no westerner would care. x.com/AmitSegal/stat…"
Link to Trump in his own words
https://x.com/havivrettiggur/status/2066833468655321161?s=46
The Republic Is Older Than our Political Neurosis.
River Page is right about one thing: America’s 250th birthday is about more than Donald Trump.
Of course, these days that’s like announcing that Christmas is about more than the mall parking lot.
As we approach the quarter-millennium mark, Americans appear incapable of discussing the nation without first consulting their preferred political anxiety disorder. Half the country believes Trump is the reincarnation of every historical villain whose name can fit on a protest sign. The other half occasionally talks as if he personally drafted the Constitution, won the Revolutionary War, and invented indoor plumbing.
Neither side is helping.
The remarkable thing about America is not who occupies the White House. It’s that the country continues functioning despite the people who occupy the White House. The Founders designed a government strong enough to defend liberty and weak enough to keep politicians from indulging every grandiose fantasy that occurs to them after lunch.
Yet here we are, 250 years later, treating politics as our national religion. Americans once crossed oceans, settled frontiers, built businesses, raised families, and occasionally invented entire industries. Today we demand federal solutions for loneliness, obesity, social awkwardness, and whatever else is making us unhappy before dinner.
America’s anniversary is worth celebrating, but not because we’ve achieved perfection. The country remains noisy, argumentative, flawed, and frequently ridiculous.
That’s the point.
A free society is supposed to be messy.
The real lesson of 250 years is not that we found the perfect leader. It’s that we created a nation pppdurable enough to survive all of them—including the ones we voted for ourselves.
Well said! The only problem I see is that we've allowed the Executive to become powerful, when the office of the president should be just weak enough that we aren't worried about who sits behind the Resolute desk. Congress needs to reassert itself and reign in the president to only the powers originally given by the Constitution.
Congress has reduced itself to a barnyard of cackling, squawking chickens. Constantly crowing and fluffing their easily disturbed feathers.
Reported on X HOLY SHIT 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
"Eric Trump secretly messaged former MMA star Daniel Cormier. He wanted inside info on whether White House fights were rigged so he could bet on Polymarket.
Cormier shared the screenshots.
This is the Trump family in action."
Here is the link to see the screenshots of the DM text exchange
https://x.com/parodyjeffx/status/2066325779919581290?s=46
Both Trump and Cormier say it is fake.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/06/15/that-is-absolutely-not-me-hack-blamed-for-eric-trump-post-that-looked-like-he-was-cheating/
This doesn't look any different than asking about the injury report from an NFL team before you place a LEGAL wager. I don't see any angle about a fight being 'rigged'.
From the Free Press I would have expected a mention that the UK "youth social media ban" excludes Blue Sky and includes biometrical age verification. This has nothing to do with protecting children (remember, the grooming/rape gang scandal has not yet been properly addressed) but everything with the growing social unrest about mass uncontrolled immigration
Without seeing the DEAL in writing its hard to what the DEAL actually is. Trump has assured us that the Iranians no.longer want nukes? How did he reach that conclusion( they told Vance and did a pinky swear)? Did the IRGC also so state?
Trump apparently also said no.money til all the uranium is gone. Leaving aside who gets the uranium , do we know where all of it is( any outside Iran for example?). Did trump mean NO MONEY til this negative is proven? Can we get the DOGE guys in charge of ensuring both no money disbursed and no uranium left? Or now that we have an MOU: WHAT DIFFERENCE DO ALL THESE DETAILS MAKE?
Even Pelosi said she wants to read the MOU. And confirmation there are no side agreements ( as there are in many big deals)
The Newsome investigation by the DOJ was started under the Biden administration.
I’ve warned you people before about dragging facts in here.
haha
I’m disappointed that TFP reported the investigation without mentioning that it was started under Biden. Without this nugget, it sounds like political vengeance, with it, it sounds incredibly damning. Changes the whole story.
pesky facts getting in the way of dem/liberal 'truth' again....
Times may change but humans don’t change. We are living in the same decadent, corrupt and immoral world that Juvenal wrote about. What has changed from 126 to 2026? We are still gulping down the free, stale bread and watching a “retarded” circus, on the White House lawn, no less.
Why can’t we learn from mankind’s mistakes? It’s still bread and circuses out there:
https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/give-them-bread-and-circuses-and?r=76q58
This circus you mention, was it the event over the weekend or the one where Biden had the trans woman flash her titties and he appeared to think the 6’ bunny could converse?
Will the Roku deal work as well as MySpace did?
They have to try to find something that will support their collapsing viewer base......have not fear as they'll fuck it up like they always do.
Few people have paid attention to this.
The Paramount/Oracle/Skydance takeover of TW was smaller than the AOL buyout in the late-90s. The audiences left, and many people are just ignoring it.
If Congress would stop Shut Downs our military manufacturing companies might be able to properly do some long term planning.
We need term limits in Congress.
Yes, instead of sending Vance around to every news outlet, podcast, and talk show, telling us what is in the MOU, publish it and allow us to read it for ourselves. See that is the issue isn't it? We dont need the propaganda telling us what to think before we read something, Americans are more than capable of reading the MOU for themselves and understanding what is in front of them. The problem is, that the critics are probably right or the damn thing would have been etched on the Washington Monument right now. And its Vance doing the talking because Rubio, Hegseth and members of the intelligence community are against the deal.
Remember when Benghazi happened and Obama sent out Susan Rice to covnince everybody of the propaganda because Hillary refused to attach her name to the administrations lie? Because Hillary knew then that the Obama story was bullcrap the same way Rubio and Hegseth know the Trump spin on the MOU is bullcrap. Smart people dont want to be tainted with lies and failure.
Yes the US military needs to fix what ails it, but what they also need to do is pivot to the new reality of drone warfare and how to handle it. Lets say I am going to trust the powers that be at the Pentagon to try to fix the issues with military armaments. I am going to leave it toCongress to eff it all up because the wrong party is in power.
Besides nothing says America at 250 than dumb shit political games. I know maybe these democratic nominee for congress who they are pushing to win: the guy in NJ, you know the one who supported the Blind Sheik, who also worked for Hamas in Gaza, and who also volunteered for an AlQaeda based charity; along with the Hezbollah guy in Michigan; and of course our friendly nazi tattoo-girlfriend abusing-Hamas loving-America hating elitest-working class- oysterman who actually doesn't work can be the deciding votes about how and when the US can defend itself. Don't the democrats give you joy-joy?
CRY ME A RIVER
“On one side, there is a Trumpian spectacle that often conflates celebration of the United States with celebration of the man in the White House.”
As much as I love the return of Douglas Murray to the fold, I keep praying that River will find employment elsewhere.
Page’s Orangeman Bad has gotten tedious.
River, we are smart enough to separate Trump’s buffoonish behavior from Trump’s incredible achievements.
BUT apparently you aren’t.
David Ignatious in WaPo piece either yesterday or today, provides what seems to me to be the best recap I’ve seen of Iranian efforts to date. I believe he is an exceptionally well informed mideast expert
Thanks. I'll check it out.
Back in 2023 we had nipple-baring at Biden’s Pride event. Plenty of craziness.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/white-house-bans-trans-activist-topless-photo-pride-event-rcna89116
I trust you saw Trumps interview late last night after he arrived in Évian-les-Bains, France for the G-7 summit? Thoughts?
No I haven't.
Since my bedtime is usually 2030, I miss almost everything late night.
Will give it a look.
You probably ain’t gonna like it.
Quite possibly.
I can’t stand his nutty talk BUT I love his policies.
I’ll take the latter over the former anyday.
The Dems are in an apoplectic rage over Trump and the Republican Party. They can’t under stand why anyone, much less the millions who voted for him continue to support most of his policies A little inward looking on where their party has gone might shine a light on the reason.
"A little inward looking on where their party has gone might shine a light on the reason."
BUT if they shine a light up their ass they are less likely to find reason than something that resembeles their policies.
😉
1000% on taking the latter over the former. I’m about 75% on his policies which is a net positive. Have a good day my friend.
My grandfather said if you ever agree with anyone 100% of the time - you either cannot think for yourself or you are an idiot. I’m with you and Lanny. The positives outweigh the negatives.
We are about at the same % on his policies.
If I could get a hit three times out of every 4 times at bat I'd be richer than Elon.