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To back up your point, I'll let Matt Walsh do the talking.

Let's put C4 up there on the screen.

As we like to do.

As we like to do.

I'm actually pretty pissed at how badly they bungled America 250.

First they tried to invite Milli Vanilli and a bunch of other absurdly washed up geriatric one-hit wonders.

Then when that didn't work, they decided to convert the event into a Trump rally where Trump will talk about himself for 90 minutes.

This should have been a massive, raucous celebration of the country and its 250 history.

Now it will be a political rally identical to the 10 million other ones that we have already seen.

I completely agree, Matt Walsh.

But I was doing some ruminating this morning, and I was thinking a little bit about why in some ways it's fitting.

So the last major celebration that we had was the bicentennial in 1976.

And I actually think, if you think back to that time, 1976 was a very bad year.

We were coming off the heels of losing the war in Vietnam.

This was the beginning of like the Carter stagflation era.

There was a deep amount of questioning in the United States.

It's like, who are we?

We're this great superpower that seems to have run amok.

We have no idea what we're doing internally.

There was the weather underground.