'Murica's gift to the world: You're welcome

Forcing America 250 is stupid. This is the best country in the world.

Jun 10, 2026

‘Murica.

One time years ago, I flew a rented Cessna 172 down to Homosassa Springs, Florida, to check out a business deal. I had my young employee with me. We tried to make it home ahead of the weather, but couldn’t get through the line of storms stretching from the panhandle to Jacksonville, despite a lot of trying all night. We were offered the couch at a small airport FBO, but one of our attempts ended up locking us out of the building. We really wanted to get home, because it was my employee’s birthday the next day. About one in the A.M., we walked about five miles to the closest motel. On the sign-in, they wanted a license plate number, so I wrote the tail number of the Cessna. The next morning, bright and early, we checked out and began the long walk back to the airport. The motel clerk changed out of her bathrobe, got in her minivan, and caught up to us: “get in.”

The flag of America stands in the grass with looming sunnset on 4th of July. Original public domain image from **Wikimedia Commons**

People here are that way. In New York City, if you’re lost, someone will spend an hour leading you to your destination. Sure, 99 percent of people will ignore you, on their way to somewhere, but someone won’t, and every New Yorker knows it. People in L.A. (the ones not on drugs and homeless) will give you food if you’re hungry. In just about any town in this country, the locals will go out of their way to be friendly to strangers. You know the phrase “the European mind cannot comprehend”? Yes, there are friendly people in Europe and other places, but not like here. I’ve been to Europe, all over. I know.

Our president has tried so hard to make America’s 250th birthday into a glitzy, shiny celebration. Not even D-list has-been one-hit wonder groups that can’t get a gig at a Bar Mitzvah will associate themselves with the president. At the Knicks-Spurs game at Madison Square Garden, President Trump was roundly booed as his image appeared on the jumbotron. That’s America, the place that’s free.

This year, America turns 250, and the our gifts are to the world. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, is an American from Chicago. The World Cup (all rights reserved to FIFA) is here in the U.S. That’s our gift. The world is coming here to see a place, a society, like nowhere else in the world, with a people that have never existed in the history of mankind. A country that was “written into existence,” wordsmithed by the best, brightest, and most radical colonists who could no longer bear the weight of rulers an ocean away. At the time of our revolution, European nations had colonies, and that’s how the world ran. We broke the system.

Europeans and others who love Futbol (soccer to us) in a way the American mind cannot comprehend, other than to compare it to the most ardent Georgia Bulldogs fan who never misses a game and tailgates like a pro, are flooding into this country, all over America, to watch their sport. Their minds are instantly blown if they’ve never been here before.

A road trip around America is inconceivable to most non-North Americans. Drive all day, still in the U.S.A. Drive all night, you’re still here. Drive eight hundred miles, and you’re still in Texas. You can start in Scotland, take the Chunnel, and drive all the way to Madrid and it still wouldn’t get you from Boston to Miami. America is truly huge, in a way we, who live here, don’t understand from the rest of the world’s point of view. We are continentals.

I was reminded of this watching the X account FreddyLA7, who has been traveling around the U.S. to watch World Cup games. He was recently at Auburn, in their football stadium, watching the War Eagle fly around and fireworks blast from the scoreboards. Mind blown.

Freddy🇩🇪@FreddyLA7

There’s an eagle flying around the stadium

1:07 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 4.08M Views

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What other place has Buc-ees, a giant gas station that sells really good brisket, and practically everything else. A Buc-ees store manager makes above six figures in salary, for keeping the customers happy and the bathrooms sparkling. And like me, Freddy (a German) got picked up by a hotel desk receptionist and driven five miles to the stadium, because she noticed he and his friends were walking to avoid the Uber charge.

This tweet sums up America 250: “The World Cup is quickly reminding Americans how amazing our country is, how lucky we are to be American and able to call this place home.”

KhyleSocrates@KhyleSocrates

@FreddyLA7 The World Cup is quickly reminding Americans how amazing our country is, how lucky we are to be American and be able to call this place home 🇺🇸

3:11 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 10.8K Views

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It’s not just home, though it is to us. It’s a place the rest of the world can come to and be treated to our friendship, our generosity, our gigantic hearts, over-the-top displays of riches beyond their imagination, and take that positive experience with them.

Anyone who drives around America knows this, first hand. And literally a million people from everywhere are coming to America to help us celebrate our 250th birthday. We don’t need anything else, thank you. Our gift is ‘Murica, not our military might, or our money, or “respect” on the world stage. Our gift is that we are a people who have never before existed on this planet, born 250 years ago in ink, treasure, and blood. We have walked through a garden of sin and evil, and still emerged able to treat visitors kindly, and give rides to German soccer fans.

If you’re too ate up in politics, ask someone who is not from here how much they love this place, not for our politics, but for everything we are.

‘Murica is beautiful. It is the best country in the world, without peer. Don’t you forget it.

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