BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Of July 4ht in the 250th year of the USA DTSTAMP:20260630T010714Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:763-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:PROFD said the following [ https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12809- usa-250th-birthday-celebration-great-american-state-fair/ ] As the United States of America approaches its 250th birthday as a nation\, there will b e no shortage of events in Washington DC.Unfortunately\, the current admin istration has a way of ruining whatever it touches.🤣Here is a pic from the grounds of the National Mall this past weekend:The turnout on the 4th of July should be significantly higher as it has been historically.On July 4th\, plenty folks show up on the National Mall for the concerts &\; f ireworks display at night.The Great American State Fair is scheduled to ru n from 25 June - 10 July 2026.I imagine the turnout will be similar to the pic above from 5 July - 10 July.As I mentioned in another thread\, maybe the 275th celebration will be less political &\; more festive.😁😎M Y CALENDRIAL REPLYWe will see what happens. For me it is always a matter o f the truth of numbers. The USA is over three hundred and fifty million pe ople. So one percent of three hundred and fifty million people is three mi llion and five hundred thousand. I think it is easily doable. I argue the district of columbia can't handle three million people coming into it like that so... We will see\, but I can see the july 4th celebration being a m illion or more. Now on the reverse side\, if the turnout is less than a mi llion which means less than a third of one percent of the populace of the usa\, I can see that too. Again the USA has a reality that it seems most w ant to not admit. Media never says it\, common folk on media rarely say it . The question again is\, what is the United States of America? The USA i sn't the country of freedom. Before it was an empire killing people around the world through the central intelligence organization or federal bureau of investigation\, it had hordes \, millions\, of murders by whites\, to black descnded of enslaved plus first peoples commonly called native ameri cans that never went to the court rooms. That should had led to conviction s of millions of whites as murderes or aiders or abetters of murderers. T he USA isn't the country of fiscal capitalism. I argue the english colonie s betrayed fiscal capitalism\, and the USA inherited that fiscal tradition of betryaing the free marker. Land grabs through genocide and enslaving workers doesn't betray the trading of goods\, but fiscal capitalism at its heart isnt defined as the trading of goods\, or it has no difference to m ercantilism. The key that separates fiscal capitalism from other fiscal id eas\, like mercantilims or fiscal socialism is the idea of a free market w here all that is traded on value. Enslavement by default cuts out the valu e from the laborer\, land based on genocide\, takes out the marker of the land. The USA is the country of hopeful futures. It isn't that James Forte n believed the USA at 1778 was the country he wanted\, but he believed it would change. The problem is\, who believes the usa will change for the be tter? who doesn't? who is losing belief? who is gaining? I argue based on the voting output\, the USA is a majority non of the above vote for the US A\, and it is a vote that has been growing\, gardless of the saxophone pla ying white southerner\, the Bush clan\, the potential for the first female president\, the first black president\, the Maga movement\, the mamdani m ovement. The number of people voting keeps getting small\, that isn't an a ccident\, that isn't laziness\, that is based on a set of government offic ials in all parties that fail to get results and to be blunt\, a failure o f the fiscal sector to take advantage of its influence and make profit gro w throughout the usa. I quote myself[Did you know in 2024\, the populace o f the 13th congressional district was deemed 747\,542 while the complete v ote for the election\, donkeys plus elephants was 217\,622. That means 29. 11 % of the people voted.In the donkey primary election that just passed\, Chevalier had 32\,790 votes while Adriano Espaillat had 30\,464 which mea ns as central harlem\, a third of the 13th congressional district has 300\ ,000 people\, twenty percent of a third of the 13th congressional district voted. Does that mean\, Chevalier represents the people of the 13th congr essional district? Or does that mean the Democratic Socialist movement is all media hype and no true reaction from the masses?\" ]citation sourcehtt ps://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/762-democratic-socialist-mamdani-part-2/I p ondered if Schrumpf was the first of a new presidential era\, but I still see SChrumpft as a continuation of the Reagan era of presidents. In the en d of the day\, the Reagan era of presidents are all the same. Terrible leg islators\, making laws that never actually improve a wide swath but always aid a section of the populace who defends the law as a stepping stone but in truth grows the non of the above party. Lovely campaigners\, they are excellent at getting elected\, selling themselves as electable. making hug e profits after their government service. My reply in the original postHow many people would need to come to the july 4th celebration for it to be a success in your view? Is the image you shared indicative of the \"great a merican state fair\" from 25 June to now.\, or has it gotten better?What w ould be a successful time from the fifth of july to july tenth based on po pulation at the events in the district of columbia\, in your view?citation https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12809-usa-250th-birthday-celebration-great-ame rican-state-fair/#findComment-82221 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260629 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR