Summer cookouts and to some extent fireworks (not the yahoos doing it at 2 in the morning) are the dudes rock equivalent of patriotism, it’s the nice stupid way to love America as opposed to the kind where we destabilize a South American government
my personal economy is barely break-even or negative, under a macroeconomy that demands complicity in genocide & ecocide, but rib racks are still 2 for 1 it's time to get grillpilled baby 😎
I think the combined national effect of every single person in America who buys a tacky American flag shirt is less harmful than one military flyover at an NFL game
Hot Take but the people who make a big stink about the 4th of July are the same people who make a stink about Christmas and Halloween and any other holiday. And then they wonder why they have no friends.
While we were freaked out at the time, the Pandemic 4th where my family hung out in the back yard all day and into the night with a kiddie pool for our feet, yard games, a fire pit, radio, the grill, and our dogs was actually a nice way to relax.