Two Days Before America's 250th, Clarence Thomas Schools the Chief Justice

Tomorrow, America turns 250. And two days before the anniversary, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that defines who counts as an American — by reaching back to the common law of the King of England.

That's the ruling everyone is angry about. But the same Court also handed Trump the biggest structural win of his second term: the President can now fire the “fourth branch” — the unelected administrative state — at will. One decision looks backward to empire; the other puts the executive branch back under the Constitution.

Barbara and Susan's read: stop waiting for nine justices to finish the American Revolution. The Court is the slowest institution by design — and with 125 days to the midterms, the fight is yours, not theirs.

Do not expect the Supreme Court to lead a revolution. By the way our separation of powers is set up, the Supreme Court is the institution that moves the slowest.
— Susan Kokinda

Barbara went further on the birthright ruling itself: Chief Justice Roberts didn't define citizenship at all — he defined subjecthood, the King's law, where your status comes from the dirt you're born on. Clarence Thomas's 91-page dissent rebuilt the real answer on the 14th Amendment and Frederick Douglass: we are citizens because we choose this culture and this mission.

He's not defining citizenship — he's talking about being a subject. Clarence Thomas takes him to the outhouse on that, literally.
— Barbara Boyd

Don't take our word for it — Barbara's homework assignment is to read the dissent yourself. The case is Trump v. Barbara, No. 25-365 (yes, really — Barbara takes the case name personally). The full opinion is posted on the Supreme Court's website; Justice Thomas's dissent, joined by Justice Gorsuch, is an education in what the 14th Amendment actually means.

Subjects or citizens. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, that's the whole question. Here's how the show laid it out.

REPLAY — Thursday, July 2nd

Here's what we covered (links jump to that moment in the broadcast):

• Dr. Trump's Cure for TDS Adam opens with the AI ad Trump posted to Truth Social the night before: turn off the fake news, say your prayers — and if you feel anxious, have a Diet Coke.
• Don't Expect the Court to Lead a Revolution Susan locates the birthright ruling two days before the 250th: we've been occupied by British legal, cultural, and economic ideas for 125 years — and the midterm isn't a midterm, it's a “final exam.”
• Subjects vs. Citizens: Thomas Schools Roberts Barbara: Roberts reached back to the King's common law; Thomas answered with Frederick Douglass and the real history of the 14th Amendment. Plus the week's underrated win — the President can fire the administrative state.
• Why Democrats Are Switching Sides David's question. Susan: the DSA wing came out of the closet and the middle won't follow it into nihilism — while Trump's factory jobs recruit blue-collar Democrats. Barbara: make every one of them answer — are you for the destruction of the United States?
• Your Questions: Can Congress Fix Birthright Citizenship? Victoria, Larry, and Christie write in. Barbara: Harry Reid's own bill would end birth tourism — no constitutional amendment required. The deeper crisis is that we've stopped teaching what it means to be an American.
• What You Can Actually Do About a Court You Can't Fire Susan: republic vs. empire — a nation built on nature's laws versus one where the blue-bloods cull the herd. Concern yourself with what you can do, and do it for the next 125 days.
• Reaching the Wrongly-Educated Youth Barbara on the young Michiganders who discovered Henry Carey on their own — and Susan pulls up the free pamphlet, Bye-Bye Globalism: The American System Is Back.
• The SAVE Act, Election Integrity — and Plan B Juan, Zach, Renee, and Linda's questions. Barbara: we made 2024 too big to rig, and Plan B is already running — the Postmaster General's mail-in ultimatum, Dominion's new ownership, DOJ civil-rights suits demanding voter rolls.
• The Biggest Get-Out-The-Vote Operation Ever Susan: the socialists won on 10% turnout. The answer: “Donald Trump is the ticket,” a Dallas midterm convention after Labor Day, and turnout that overwhelms the machine.
• How to Talk to Doomers The question every viewer has. Barbara: ask them why they checked out — the psywar wants to freeze you in place. Susan reads Bessent: “I don't think the bottom 50% of Americans are losers... it's a bad system. We're going to have to fix the system.”
• The Truth About Martin Luther King Mykah asks about the MLK revisionism flooding social media. Barbara: read King before you judge him — Plato, Augustine, and a movement subverted by COINTELPRO and the Black Power operation. Susan on why the empire assassinates the leaders who make people big.
• The Muslim Brotherhood: Made in Britain The poll winner. Barbara traces the Brotherhood to British intelligence's Arab Bureau — a weapon against every nationalist state in the Middle East. Susan on Dearborn: the Muslim vote helped call Michigan for Trump on election night. Reading list: Curtis's Secret Affairs, Dreyfuss's Devil's Game.
• H-1B: The Squeeze on American Professionals Kristen, Rob, and Capco share what the abused visa program did to their families. Barbara on Trump's $100K surcharge and thinking like the executive of a whole labor force — then the Vance clip: American economic policy is now “much more Alexander Hamilton than Milton Friedman.”
• Closing: Iran Holds Barbara: the most complex peace effort any president has ever attempted in the Middle East — and it's holding, because Trump keeps choosing diplomacy over the permanent-war script.

The 250th Belongs to You

The thread through the whole show: the Court moves slowest, the Congress is absent, and the empire's whole psywar is designed to make you feel little. The founders' answer — and Trump's — is a population that acts.

This great experiment created 250 years ago, surviving for a quarter of a millennium — and seeing the potential, with the revival of the American System, of continuing for another quarter millennium and beyond.
— Susan Kokinda

Tomorrow is the day. Print the Promethean PAC flyers, bring them to your Independence Day cookout, and do what Micah's doing in DC — get them into people's hands. 500 flyers is easier than you think.

🗽 America 250 Founding Fathers Collection

It's the 250th itself. Hamilton built the American System — the one the Vice President just claimed by name. Wear it to the cookout tomorrow and start the conversation.

Next Midterm Bootcamp — Monday, July 6th

125 days to the final exam. If this show landed, the next step is to show up — it's the population, not the courts, that wins a midterm.

See you next Thursday.

Adam Sturman
Producer, Promethean Action
https://x.com/AdamSturman23

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