socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Embarrasses Us at the G7
It’s not hard to imagine Vladimir Putin and his lieutenants sharing some hearty laughs at our expense. After all, he’s just seen socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s embarrassing performance at the G7 summit in Cornwall, England.
Putin is prepping for tomorrow’s one-on-one meeting with socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, the least formidable U.S. president since Jimmy Carter. (Yeah, we know: Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was a red-line-erasing pushover. But at least he could string a coherent sentence together when the cameras were rolling.)
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is also the most cognitively challenged president since the stroke-addled Woodrow Wilson of a century ago. “The man’s mental capacity is obviously inadequate to fulfill his job responsibilities,” noted Power Line’s John Hinderaker without a hint of humor. “The press can avoid talking about socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s rapid decline, but they can’t prevent either our allies or our adversaries from noticing it.”
Ah, yes, our allies. There was British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the G7 host, introducing the world leaders at a roundtable discussion, then correcting the American president for having reintroduced the president of South Africa.
And the press. There was socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, briefly going off-menu to take a question from a reporter who wasn’t on his handler-approved cue card. “When you’re having these conversations,” the reporter began, “with European allies who are very concerned about these [Trump-era] sanctions, how do you justify that? And what are your plans for…”
“A hundred and twenty days,” socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden snapped. “Give me a break. Need time.”
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has been president for 145 spirit-sapping days, but who’s counting?
And our adversaries. Fresh off that gaffe-riddled, ultra-embarrassing performance at the G7 summit, Joseph Robinette “Scranton socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe” Biden now heads to Geneva to get rolled by the Russian killer and ex-KGBer.
As the Washington Examiner reports, “The president did say he will ‘make clear to President Putin that there are areas where we can cooperate if he chooses, and if he chooses not to cooperate and acts in a way that he has in the past, relating to cybersecurity and some other activities, then we will respond in kind.’”
Uh-huh.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden also slammed his domestic political opposition while at the G7, showing that politics don’t necessarily end at the water’s edge. He took a swipe at Donald Trump’s “phony populism,” then said, “The Republican Party is vastly diminished in numbers, the leadership of the Republican Party is fractured, and the Trump wing of the party is the bulk of the party, but it makes up a significant minority of the American people.”
The Republican Party is fractured?
Seventy-four million. That’s how many votes Donald Trump tallied in the 2020 election. And that’s despite all the efforts of the deep-state bureaucrats, the media lickspittles, the social media censors, the academics, the Hollywood ignoramuses, the NBAers, and so many others who did their darnedest to make anyone and everyone hate Trump as much as they do.
We’ll leave you with this:
One wonders what would’ve come of socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden if his wife hadn’t rescued him. And what those diners must’ve been thinking to see an American president shuffling around in tennis shoes — lost, bewildered, looking for a friendly face. It’s sad. It’s beyond sad.
To the American people who voted for him and the Trump-deranged media that refused to cover him honestly during the campaign: All can say is, We hope you’re happy. ~The Patriot Post
CRT Is the Front Line of the Culture War
A recent report from the Heritage Foundation has found that a majority of teachers familiar with Critical Race Theory support it, while at the same time a majority of parents are unfamiliar with this ideology. However, of those parents who are familiar with CRT, the majority are either undecided or reject it.
The study observed that 43% of teachers are familiar with CRT and, of those, 55% believe it should be taught in schools. Meanwhile, some 65% of parents are unaware of or unfamiliar with CRT. Adam Kissel, senior fellow at the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia, observed, “A lot of parents and teachers remain unaware of the Critical Race Theory in American classrooms, but that has started to change with the great work of parent organizations such as Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education.” Lack of awareness is where much of the problem lies.
In fact, we’d question whether most of the teachers who “support” CRT actually understand it. Either way, it’s dangerous.
While ignorance may be bliss, at least for a time, the ramifications of this ignorance have started hitting Americans and parents specifically in ways they may never have imagined. In short, we’re witnessing a new generation that has been groomed to essentially hate America and what it stands for. In schools across the nation, children are being indoctrinated by a “social justice” worldview that condemns America as a “systemically racist” nation developed primarily to promote a system of perpetual white supremacy.
“Fundamentally,” argues National Review’s Michael Brendan Dougherty, “the conflict is about whether students should be educated to have an allegiance to the historic American nation and its institutions, or whether they should be educated to have an allegiance to a notion of ‘justice’ and to an egalitarian ethic that fundamentally seeks to critique those institutions, radically reform them, or replace them altogether.”
We have noted that parents are beginning to awaken to the “woke” ideology of CRT being propagated in their local schools and are starting to speak out against it. Loudoun County, Virginia, is one recent example. The difficulty is the increasingly prevalent dynamic in which teachers, specifically represented by their unions, have become increasingly antagonistic toward parents and their concerns. When parents voice their objections to CRT, the common response from the teachers unions is to assert that parents really don’t understand it and are being misled by right-wing conspiracists.
Yet as the Heritage Foundation’s Lindsey Burke notes, “One of the big take-aways from this survey is the need for transparency around what is taught in taxpayer-funded K-12 schools across the country.” She adds, “Too often, it is difficult for parents to get clear information about the curriculum and materials employed in their children’s schools.”
The Heritage study puts it this way: “Young Americans are taught not to be proud of their country, but to see it as an oppressor. In order to reverse this destructive and dangerous trend, it is essential that schools teach America’s founding principles, while at the same time build strong relationships between parents and teachers.” This requires parents to educate themselves on CRT with its Marxist ethic and intentionally destructive agenda. It also may necessitate that parents remove their children from schools that have so embraced CRT as to become little other than centers for “woke” indoctrination.
The fact of the matter is that CRT is the front line of the culture war that is raging across this nation, and the leftist proponents of CRT are targeting America’s youth to indoctrinate and to add to their ranks. ~The Patriot Post
The ChiCom ‘Wet Market’ Lie
When news of a novel coronavirus out of Wuhan, China, first began making the headlines early last year, the theory of its origin was quickly tied to a local wet market in which exotic meats were sold. The fact that some Chinese cuisine — like bat soup — seems rather strange to Western sensibilities serves to make more plausible the entirely natural origin of the virus.
That bats were quickly associated with the wet market origin theory was an easy assumption due to the fact that bats are notorious carriers of coronaviruses. Furthermore, it served Beijing to have the focus of a suddenly spreading potential pandemic — along with any culpability — directed at nature instead of the ChiCom regime. It’s almost as if it were planned that way.
Of course, once the wet market theory became orthodoxy, any questions or suggestions to the contrary were deemed as the insane conspiracy theory ramblings of the tinfoil hat club. Leftmedia outlets refused to cover the lab theory without adding supposedly discrediting qualifiers, and social media outlets suppressed and blocked all such content. It got so bad that, now, even a few members of the mainstream media are admitting that their rabid opposition to Donald Trump so clouded their judgment that they essentially stopped doing their jobs, instead reflexively rejecting any information he presented out of spite. That was deadly behavior.
The press ran from the lab leak theory in part because some people had speculated about COVID being a manufactured super-virus or bioweapon, rather than the result of the Wuhan lab studying (or conducting gain-of-function research on) a naturally occurring virus found in bats that had led to the deaths of three Chinese miners in 2013. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in 2016 released a report regarding its study of the virus that had killed and sickened the miners, noting that there were several variants of bat-caused coronaviruses:
We found a high frequency of infection by a diverse group of coronaviruses in different bat species in the mineshaft. … The surveillance identified two unclassified betacoronaviruses, one new strain of SARS-like coronavirus, and one potentially new betacoronavirus species. Furthermore, coronavirus co-infection was detected in all six bat species, a phenomenon that fosters recombination and promotes the emergence of novel virus strains.
The fact that a Biosafety Level Four lab, the highest level of safety and security, just happened to be studying bat-based coronaviruses in the very city from which the novel virus emerged — Wuhan — should have piqued everyone’s attention. Not only that, but it was discovered, albeit not widely reported at the time, that the Wuhan wet market did not sell bat meat.
In other words, the notion that the wet market where no bats were sold or eaten was the point of origin for a bat-based coronavirus seemed dubious.
There was also a 2018 memo from Jamison Fouss and Rick Switzer, members of the U.S. consul general in Wuhan, expressing concerns over the WIV: “During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.”
But for the Leftmedia’s Trump Derangement Syndrome, these factors may have garnered deserved focus and turned the public’s attention onto the Wuhan lab, where it should have been from the beginning. Of course, the lab leak theory still remains a theory — and one into which Beijing will do everything in its power to obstruct any serious examination. See the joke that was WHO’s “investigation.”
Yet some of us won’t be fooled. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is one of them. “It’s not close in terms of which is more credible,” he says. “The lab leak is significantly more credible than the zoonotic transmission theory at this point.”
Now that compelling circumstantial evidence has continued to point more strongly to a lab leak, G7 leaders are calling for another WHO-led investigation. Yet, as the Wall Street Journal editorial board observes, “Why does anyone think a ‘Phase 2’ probe would have any more access and do any better under the auspices of a WHO that remains heavily compromised on China?” Why indeed. ~The Patriot Post
Pandemic Fraud Pays Handsomely
The least we could’ve done was set up this money-grab so good ol’ American crooks could steal the taxpayers’ money. Instead, it appears we shipped these lucrative jobs overseas.
“Unemployment fraud surged during the coronavirus pandemic,” reports Fox Business, “with billions of dollars likely ending up in the hands of foreign crime syndicates based in China, Russia and other countries, experts say.”
Total damage? Around $400 billion was lost to fraud, according to estimates.
We get it. When one’s country is more than $28 t-t-t-trillion in debt (that’s $85 thousand per citizen, $226 thousand per taxpayer), one tends to become indifferent to stories about fraud, waste, and abuse. But the amount we’re talking about here is hardly chump change. Indeed, $400 billion is nearly four times the annual budget of Texas, more than 10 times the annual budget of Tennessee, and about 80 times the annual budget of South Dakota.
The U.S. treasury must look like prime rib to these fraudsters, given that one of the most noticeable characteristics of our bloated bureaucracy is its incompetence. After all, when a schlub can’t possibly be fired for poor performance, he tends to pursue the path of least resistance.
Hmm … this claim seems kinda fishy. But not fishy enough.
Still, even the most competent and conscientious of agencies would’ve been overwhelmed by the perfect storm of pandemic shutdowns, pandemic stimulus, and pandemic unemployment claims that hit the states last April. The graph below, built by Axios using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, gives us a good sense of the weekly claims onslaught.
Thus, with state agencies overwhelmed by requests for free money, is it any wonder that fraudsters foreign and domestic had a field day? Unemployment fraud was never as lucrative as, say, healthcare fraud, but all that changed last year. Now scammers steal or trick us into allowing them access to our personal info, then they use it to make fraudulent claims. Simple. And with President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden still paying people not to work, and still spending money faster than his presses can print it, is there any end in sight?
“In the most predictable story of the Covid era,” writes the Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman, “it turns out that federal relief programs have been plagued with fraud and abuse. As for waste, well, that was always sort of the point. Shutting down much of the economy and attempting to replace it with federal spending, borrowing and money creation is not a strategy for productivity.”
The socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration was, predictably, quick to point the finger. “Widespread fraud at the state level in pandemic unemployment insurance during the previous administration is one of the most serious challenges we inherited,” said White House economist Gene Sperling, who also coordinates the so-called “White House American Rescue Plan.”
Right, Gene. “This is a howler,” as Freeman notes, “as if candidate socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress spent 2020 seeking to block Covid spending bills because they lacked robust accounting systems. In 2021, Mr. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden enacted nearly $2 trillion in additional Covid-related spending even after it was clear the plan was no longer needed.”
James Madison would’ve seen this coming. “I cannot undertake,” he said, “to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
Sometimes, the most basic constitutional principles are the toughest to abide by. ~The Patriot Post
ProPublica’s Tax Heist and Social Media Double Standards
Grassroots Patriots have many reasons to doubt that the 2020 election was fair. One of the biggest reasons are the actions of Silicon Valley titans, whose campaign of censorship was a massive in-kind contribution to socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. The most notable was the way social media throttled the New York Post’s bombshells surrounding liar-Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Well, the recent leak of tax data from some of America’s richest has revealed the double standard again.
While this leak, which is politically helpful to the Left, is one more reason to question just how politicized the Internal Revenue Service has become, it should be noted that such leaks are illegal. Twitter, though, has let ProPublica keep posting the data, even though its story was based on an illegal leak of confidential and protected tax records — the very kind of thing Twitter ostensibly bans.
We’ve discussed how double standards erode confidence in the best of circumstances, and how they are metastasizing into a two-tiered system of rules. This ProPublica stunt also reveals a blatant double standard — and it is one that can and should be used to hold Silicon Valley accountable.
Let’s face it: Facebook, Twitter, and Google are, if not outright monopolies, at least ever-present. Google, Apple, and Amazon have reached a point where they were able to force Parler to choose between destruction or bending the knee. Tech companies like Facebook already have much to answer for when it comes to their part in not just the COVID cover-up but in trying to squelch debate over the lockdowns while “science” plays favorites.
Anthony Fauci might have a huge paycheck, but he is still part of the federal government, and if Facebook and other social media companies blocked certain comments on the coronavirus at his behest, then there are very grave First Amendment implications involved. If Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were coaxed, cajoled, bribed, or threatened by government officials into silencing opposing viewpoints, then there is an ample body of First Amendment case law that can be cited, and Section 230 isn’t relevant for that.
Grassroots Patriots also know that this is not a one-time occurrence. Whether it’s been civility, norms and standards, or even how members of Congress conduct themselves ( scumbag/worthless-Maxine Waters can threaten a riot while scumbag/worthless-Ilhan Omar and scumbag/worthless-Rashida Tlaib can be Hamas cheerleaders, but somehow we’re supposed to believe Marjorie Taylor Greene is the big threat to democracy), double standards are becoming the norm.
The thing is, as we have noted before, these double standards and censorship are not winning over any converts. They are not convincing a single Trump voter that Trump was wrong. Because truth will eventually come out one way or another, and sooner or later, double standards eventually crumble. The only question will be whether it will be the easy way or the hard way. ~The Patriot Post
GARY BAUER
The West Looks Weak
Watching the G-7 leaders on the world stage this weekend was a reminder that the cultural and political elites of the West are tired and out of ideas. I hope communist China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin weren’t watching.
It was sad to see British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who campaigned as a populist conservative, feebly embracing the woke ideology. Regarding his vision for the future, Johnson parroted socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and the left, saying:
“We need to make sure that as we recover, we level up across our societies and we build back better… But also that we’re building back better together. And building back greener and building back fairer and building back more equal and in a more gender-neutral and perhaps a more feminine way.”
How embarrassing.
But for me the most laughable and infuriating moment was when French President Emmanuel Macron, sitting next to socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, said that it was great to have America “back,” adding, “It’s great to have a U.S. president who’s part of the club and very willing to cooperate.”
Macron is presiding over a nation in deep crisis. His approval rating is 38%. He was recently warned by dozens of retired and active-duty French military officers that a civil war is brewing if he doesn’t deal with the growing threat of radical Islam.
But I know exactly what Macron meant. He’s happy that under socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden the America that provides for Europe’s national defense is back, while Europe makes energy deals with Russia and trade deals with communist China.
Macron is happy that Uncle Sam, known in Europe as “Uncle Sugar Daddy,” is back to paying the bills so they can go down their merry socialist road, while lecturing us about our “shortcomings.”
Europe’s elites hated our America First president, and they are giddy to have the American Last president we have now.
Donald Trump knew exactly what Macron meant. In a blistering statement, Trump fired back, saying:
“He and many other leaders before him, in France and throughout Europe, were ripping off the United States like never before. We were treated very unfairly with horrible trade deals, and paying for a large portion of their defense…
"Of course, they like socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden because now they will be allowed to return to their old ways of ripping off our Country… They will now get very rich off the United States just like they have in the past until a change is made. I am for AMERICA FIRST!”
By the way, the G-7 “leaders” couldn’t even agree to condemn communist China for its slave labor or genocide against the Uyghurs. Now that’s weakness and appeasement.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s Gaffes
Of course, it wouldn’t be a socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden event without several socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden gaffes.
During one testy exchange with reporters, socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden said, “I’m sorry, I’m going to get in trouble with my staff [if] I don’t do this the right way.” What’s he talking about?
Well, I suspect his staff has taken questions in advance and given socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden answers to those questions. To be coherent — a tough task as it is — socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has to take them in order. It would be really disturbing to most Americans if they heard a reporter ask about criminal justice reform and Biden responded with comments about climate change.
I’m not being mean, and I’m not exaggerating. Multiple times Sunday, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden confused Libya and Syria. Libya is not even in the news! But it’s Syria where Russia and Iran are propping up the Assad regime. It’s Syria that Iran has turned into a launching pad for more terrorist attacks against Israel. Yet, socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden never corrected himself.
This Is Not A Debate
The school board in Randolph, New Jersey, just voted to drop the names of all holidays from the school calendar to avoid offending anyone. Instead of Thanksgiving or Christmas, the calendar simply reads “Day off.” So, Happy Day Off, and Merry Day Off!
If certain names offended some students or parents, the school board should be holding a meeting to find out what is wrong in that district, not bending to this insanity!
I watched a video of the board meeting. When the motion was made to eliminate the names of the holidays, the audience was shocked. People were yelling objections. One school board member responded, “This is not a debate!”
Intentionally or not, that school board member perfectly summarized the attitude of the political left. Everything it does is meant to shut down debate, just like they did at this school board meeting.
These arrogant elites think they can tell the taxpayers, “You can’t keep your holidays.” The titans of social media tell us that we can’t debate the origins of COVID-19. On issue after issue, the left’s game plan is always the same. They either shut down the debate or slander conservatives with grotesque charges of bigotry in order to silence opposing voices.
I don’t believe the American people — who brought more liberty to more people than any civilization in history — will allow themselves to be muzzled.
And the good news is that they are fighting back!
Thousands have signed a petition calling on the members of the Randolph School Board to resign.
In Loudoun County, Virginia, six of nine school board members are facing recall efforts.
In Fairfax County, Virginia, parents opposed to critical race theory just took over the leadership of the Parent Teacher Student Association of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Virginia’s top-rated public high school.
We MUST keep this momentum going!
Thank you, Bibi
By the narrowest of margins — 60 to 59 — the Israeli Knesset approved the formation of a new coalition government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. As the vote indicates, it’s a very precarious arrangement that could easily fall apart.
I have had the pleasure of knowing Benjamin Netanyahu personally. I have dined with him at a private home in Israel. He is an incredible man. His family has sacrificed much for the nation of Israel.
With no fear of contradiction, I can say that more than any other Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu understood the importance of pro-Israel Christians to the survival of the Jewish state. He repeatedly reached out to pro-Israel Christians, and we worked closely with his government.
In his farewell comments, Netanyahu warned against further appeasement of Iran. He said:
“The administration in Washington asked me not to discuss our disagreement on Iran publicly, but with all due respect, I can’t do that.
"In 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt refused to bomb the railway leading to the extermination camps and refused to bomb the gas chambers, which could have saved millions of our people…
"In the face of the threat of extermination, we were helpless. Our voice was not heard among the nations. We had neither a state or an army. But today we do have a voice. We do have a state, and we do have defensive power.”
Prime Minister Bennett echoed Netanyahu’s concerns, saying, “The renewal of the nuclear agreement is a mistake. Israel will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and will maintain full freedom of action.”
~The Patriot Post
OLIVER L. NORTH & DAVID L. GOETSCH
For more than a century, the United States was home to the best college and university system in the world. High-potential students from all across the globe came here to study. Many stayed after graduating and used their education to benefit America. During this time, few institutions contributed more to America’s prosperity, quality of life and technological superiority than the academy. Unfortunately, over time, higher education in America has changed, and not for the better. The academy is in decline because it is suffering from self-inflicted wounds.
Too many of our colleges and universities have become “woke” institutions governed by political correctness rather than a commitment to free speech and genuine scholarship. By allowing themselves to fall under the control of leftist ideologies advancing an agenda at odds with the purposes of higher education, many colleges and universities have become academic gulags focused primarily on leftist indoctrination. Many now operate more like the “reeducation” camps associated with communist nations than institutions of higher learning.
Too often, college graduates have been taught what to think, not how to think; sheltered from differing points of view; encouraged to supplant logic and reason with feelings; and given dubious degrees without having to work for them. Too many have majored in meaningless academic programs meant to advance a leftist agenda, such as critical race theory, rather than develop skills necessary to become the leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
In short, too many college graduates have spent four or more years in adult day care rather than higher education. As a result, disillusioned graduates now ask themselves if pursuing a college degree was worth it. Many now believe they paid too much, got too little and wasted four or more years of their lives majoring in pseudo-degree programs of no value except in the minds of leftist indoctrination masquerading as college professors.
Can America’s colleges and universities be saved from the left? Perhaps, but major changes will be necessary. First and foremost, the academy must return to the values that made it great, including the pursuit of truth, free inquiry, free speech, free thought and respect for a wide range of opinions and worldviews. Next, professors must be hired, promoted and granted tenure on the basis of competence and merit. Holding political or religious views at odds with leftist orthodoxy must no longer bar qualified professors from holding faculty positions. Restoring intellectual pluralism to the academy is essential.
Students must be exposed to a wide range of opinions and worldviews, be encouraged to think critically about them and be allowed to draw their own conclusions concerning them. Dissenting opinions should be welcomed, respected and encouraged. Institutions must remove toeing the line of leftist orthodoxy as a requirement for advancement for students and professors. Student grades and admission to graduate school must be based on merit, not fealty to “wokeness.”
The teaching and learning environment must be conducive to the civil exchange of ideas. Differing points of view must be welcomed and the right of people to hold them must be protected. Academic freedom must be revived and practiced in ways that bolster and ensure the integrity of the teaching and learning process.
Furthermore, our institutions must stop treating students like helpless children whose delicate feelings must be protected and start requiring maturation. Colleges and universities are supposed to prepare students to excel in a world that does not revolve around them, not protect them from such a world. Institutions of higher education should be intellectual boot camps developing our future leaders, not daycare centers coddling adults who refuse to grow up.
This reorientation to academic excellence must begin in our local government school systems, starting with kindergarten, but that’s a topic for another column. ~The Patriot Post
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