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6. gentle correction: "America 250"

Reply to mcar (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2026, 09:00 PM

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was the bipartisan public event, planned for years, that got pushed out of the way by Trump's "Freedom 250" privatized fiasco.
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I don't know how true this particular post is, but it rings true. I've read elsewhere that the public festival would have been like a month-long Folk Life Festival.

from the wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Semiquincentennial
Celebrations are organized by two main organizations at the federal level: the non-partisan congressional America250 Commission created in 2016 and backed by a nonprofit; and the White House Task Force on Celebrating America's 250th Birthday, chaired by Donald Trump and established via an executive order in 2025.[1]

I remember the Bicentennial well (or at least parts of it : > ), and this party ain't nuthin.

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"Freedom" 250 debacle on the Mall - my thoughts FWIW [View all] mcar Tuesday OP

I lived/worked in DC area in the 90s TBF Tuesday #1

which does not bode well for the pedo party Shellback Squid Tuesday #2

Indeed mcar Tuesday #4

Thats one of the things that really irks me. Any school trips to DC are being ruined by him if not cancelled Cheezoholic Tuesday #3

They spend the school year raising funds mcar Tuesday #5

gentle correction: "America 250" orthoclad Tuesday #6

Love this part from wiki: progressoid Tuesday #7

Yeah, wiki gets "managed" by the right in anything political orthoclad Wednesday #11

Corrected. Thanks. mcar Wednesday #10

I would have loved to have America 250 as envisioned orthoclad Wednesday #12

Yes! mcar Wednesday #13

To Clarify (I Think) DET Wednesday #18

I read somewhere that Smithsonian orthoclad Wednesday #19

I've been to many Folklife Festivals over the years. oberle Tuesday #8

I don't think anyone could have ever predicted this level of crassness, stupidity and destruction Native Wednesday #9

They're just stealing the money Congress appropriated for a celebration struggle4progress Wednesday #14

Was at one of the local hotels in the area for work Cosmocat Wednesday #15

It could have been something really amazing under any other president. Initech Wednesday #16

But hey, we don't have "killer Kamala," am I right? mcar Wednesday #17