We’re watching it unfold again: crowds whipped into fury, blocking federal agents doing their lawful duty, hurling tear gas canisters back at the very people keeping order. Politicians fan the flames with wild claims—ICE “terrorizing families,” “forcing neighbors to snitch on people of color”—while sanctuary policies shield fraud and lawbreaking. Ten years in America, some communities still lean heavily on welfare while rejecting the laws that built this nation. Hypocrisy from the top, ingratitude from within, interference on the streets. Chaos.

But chaos isn’t the answer. It never has been.

The answer—the only answer that lasts—is gratitude. Real, lived-out gratitude. The kind our forefathers and grateful immigrants built this country on. The kind distilled into the 3 Pillars of Gratitude:

1. Accountability
No excuses. No “whataboutism.” You follow the law, you own your choices, you contribute instead of take. When federal agents knock with a warrant, you step aside—not because you fear them, but because you respect the system that gave you (or your neighbors) a shot at freedom. Accountability exposes theft and fraud; chaos only hides it.

2. Assimilation
You learn the language, embrace the culture, add your strength to ours. You don’t demand the nation bend to you—you bend toward it, out of respect for the sacrifices that made it possible. Assimilation builds bridges; isolation and demands build walls of resentment.

3. Allegiance
Loyalty to this nation, above any other flag or ideology. You honor the crosses at Arlington, the beaches of Normandy, the dust of Kandahar. You stand with law enforcement, not against it. Anything less is betrayal—of the gift you were given, and of the Americans who paid for it in blood.

These aren’t suggestions. They’re the legs holding up Uncle Sam’s stool. Kick one out, and the whole thing collapses.

Right now, too many are choosing the storm—fed by deceit, driven by anger, doomed by division. But we don’t have to join them.

Choose gratitude instead. Live the 3 Pillars. Teach them to your children. Demand them from your community. Wear them like armor.

Because gratitude isn’t weakness—it’s rebellion against chaos. It’s strength when everything else shakes. It’s the quiet, steady force that built the greatest nation on earth… and the one that will keep it standing.

What pillar are you strengthening today?

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— The Grateful Immigrant

ACCOUNTABILITY & ALLEGIANCE

The image is of someone picking up a canister of some type of gas that the Federal Agents tossed to disperse the crowd. Just like most of the ICE encounters, the agents have been literally attacked. Why? Because of this…

Tim Walz address to Minnesota

I’ll get straight to my point. What Tim Walz doesn’t say, not once, is that ICE Agents are enforcing Immigration laws. Period. Will mistakes be made? I’m sure there will be. This is the correction of the over 8 million illegals allowed into the United States by the previous administration.

Again, Governor Walz doesn’t point that out at all. NOT ONCE! He doesn’t tell his viewers that Immigration is the sole purview of the Federal Government and that he has publicly stated that He and Minnesota will not help the Federal Government in enforcing the law. He is acting and talking in a manner that communicates that Minnesota has seceded from the country. Dangerous and reckless.

I am a person of color. I am not terrorized nor am I worried that I will be “abducted” by ICE officers. They are simply trying to do their job – AGGRESSIVELY if needed. However, they don’t go out “hunting” people of color. A lot of their agents are people of color.

So, the person in the image picking up the canister plus all the other people clashing with ICE in a manner that reeks of INSURRECTION, are dooming their fates on words of deceit.

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ACCOUNTABILITY

Nothing says – “progressive woman of the people” – like buying a house 90% of Americans will never be able to afford.

To be clear, I don’t begrudge ANY American spending whatever money they “EARNED” from whatever it is they want to buy. My mocking of Kamala Harris and people like her is her hypocrisy. They NEVER live the life they lecture all of us on. NEVER!

At least with DJT, he’s never pretended to be anything but ostentatious! Love him or hate him, he doesn’t hide who he is.

I am also curious as to where Kamala got the money to buy such a home? Loan? She didn’t sell enough books to do this. Oh well, just like Biden owning multiple million dollar plus homes.

Oh! I better not forget to mention Bernie Sanders. Three homes! He’s a millionaire! No wonder he just vilifies Billionaires. No more Millionaires. Why? Because HE IS ONE!

Look, they get paid speaking fees etc. All legal. My point is that if they were true believers, they’d give it all up if not donate almost all of it to the poor. Nah, that’s just for patsies.

I’m rambling already…Be well.

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ACCOUNTABILITY & ALLEGIANCE

ICE Agents are told that they can’t go into Schools, Churches, Work, Neighborhoods etc..

So, when they’re looking for people, don’t go where people go. Yeah, that makes sense!

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What if…

While rounding up J6ers, President Trump successfully Impedes President Biden and President Obama in the performance of their duties. President Biden told Trump to stop and to get out of the car. Instead of complying, Trump drives off to get away hitting President Obama in the process. President Obama shoots Trump dead!

Justified?

Minnesota, specifically Minneapolis is again in the national spotlight. And again, not in a good way. A woman was tragically shot by an Ice officer when she drove her SUV into the officer hitting him.

Federal officers are in Minneapolis with a force of over 2,000 to enforce immigration laws and to investigate the quarter of a billion dollar fraud – that seems not to be the final number – done under Governor Walz, the Minneapolis Mayor Frey and Representative Ilhan Omar.

These three, even before the shooting, have publicly and loudly stated that Federal Agents are not needed nor welcome in Minnesota. Same three have even supported all the ICE protests.

It is clear to see that they are fomenting the chaos. They don’t want it to stop because as I said in the headline, chaos hides theft! ORDER, which is what the federal agents are trying to restore, exposes it. Don’t get distracted. This is deliberate.

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ACCOUNTABILITY

Reports of ICE clashing or more accurately being ATTACKED by Agitators – you can’t miss them even if you try. Almost exclusively in sanctuary cities or states. I have yet to see a LEGITIMATE VIDEO of ICE “terrorizing families.” That has been the cry of every Democrat Politician and the ones who support them. Where are they? Why no loop of those videos on the nightly news, in the halls of the UN, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNOW… NONE! Why is that?

Ah, the tragic shooting of a woman who drove into an officer – actually hitting him before he fatally shoots her. That? Wait, she was actually there protesting ICE for “terrorizing families.” Again, where are those videos? Just One?

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How the cracking legs of Accountability · Assimilation · Allegiance can make him fall.

“Uncle Sam’s on my back every day. I came here legal. I worked. I learned the words. I swore the oath.

Look at him now. He’s cracking. Not because the ground shook. Because we stopped fixing the legs.

Accountability— we forgot to demand it.

Assimilation— we quit teaching it.

Allegiance— we quit living it.

I wear this shirt not to blame. To remind.

UNCLE SAM and CRACKING STOOL

America didn’t promise me a throne. It gave me a stool.

And I damn well know— if I lean too hard, it snaps.

So help me hold it up.

Not for me. For him. Because HE IS US.

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