Myriad Problems With Post-Presidency Impeachment Trial
House Democrats certified their second impeachment farce a week before Donald Trump left the White House. Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi is sending the article to the Senate today, and the upper chamber has now scheduled the trial to begin the week of February 8, nearly three weeks after Trump left office.
“We all want to put this awful chapter in our nation’s history behind us,” Senate Majority Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer opined. “But healing and unity will only come if there is truth and accountability. And that is what this trial will provide.”
We’d laugh if this wasn’t so serious. The Democrats’ idea of “unity” is actually acquiescence, and we’ll have none of it.
“The problem with impeachment,” muses Rich Lowry, “was that it seemed inevitable that it would either be so rushed that it would dispense with every traditional process and therefore lack legitimacy or that it would stretch beyond Trump’s time in office with no chance to convict and therefore lack legitimacy. And Congress being what it is, it’s actually turning out to be both!”
That’s true, but the problem is even more fundamental. First of all, in order to impeach and convict Trump, you’d have to strain credulity by taking his words — the only relevant words Democrats actually cite — exactly literally. And we don’t mean literally the way socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden always uses the word, which is to say figuratively. “If you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore,” Trump said. Except politicians use “fight” all the time in a figurative sense. Moreover, some rioters reportedly planned their actions well in advance and were not spontaneously spurred to action by Trump’s “incitement.”
That doesn’t excuse his rhetoric, which we and numerous conservatives have condemned, but neither does it escalate to the level that hypocritical Democrats insist.
Second are the constitutional issues. House Democrats took the most mendacious and politicized route to impeachment they possibly could have. They rushed it through the House just to give Trump a swift kick on his way out the door, and now their Senate counterparts are doing violence to the Constitution in order to keep beating him up after he’s gone. Just not before getting to what they know is the more legitimate business of confirming socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominees.
Word is that Supreme Court Justice John Roberts won’t even preside over this sham trial, which only adds to the constitutional questions.
“First, we must ask whether the Senate even has the power to try this impeachment once the president is out of office. As a textual matter, the answer is no,” explains Richard Epstein. “Article I, Section 3, gives the sole power of impeachment to the Senate. First, a simple declarative sentence provides that ‘When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.’ The key word is ‘the’ as in ‘the President.’ The word ‘the’ is used instead of the word ‘a.’ ‘The’ has a definite reference to the president now sitting in office, which will be socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden on January 20. Once Donald Trump is out of office, he cannot be tried under this provision.”
The same, Epstein notes, is true of Article II, Section 4, which reads: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” You cannot “remove” a president who is no longer president. And if they try, where does that precedent end?
As Senator John Cornyn put it, “This is about setting a new precedent and, as you know, once we do things around here and there is a precedent for it, then that’s the rule for the next time this happens.”
Then again, violating their oath “to support and defend” the Constitution is an old precedent for Democrats. ~ The Patriot Post
Leftmedia Gives socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Halo of '
socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden claims to be a Roman Catholic, and if all it took to be a good Roman Catholic was attending weekly Mass, then the new president could certainly check that box. In any case, that appears to be the only measure the Leftmedia uses for a Democrat’s religiosity. In a recent New York Times article entitled “In Biden’s Catholic Faith, an Ascendant Liberal Christianity,” Elizabeth Dias writes that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is “perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century,” as he “regularly attends Mass and speaks of how his Catholic faith grounds his life and his polices.”
By this logic, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is more religiously observant than the Sunday School-teaching Southern Baptist Jimmy Carter and born-again evangelical George W. Bush. In making her case, Dias asserts that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is “a president who has spend a lifetime steeped in Christian rituals and practices.” However, for the Left, what really appears to make socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden such a profoundly religious individual is his willingness to reject particular “controversial” or fundamental tenants of his own faith and instead embrace the progressive “gospel” of leftist politics.
Dias writes, “Mr. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s priorities reflect values that progressive faith leaders have pushed for, and that motivated many to speak out for him during the campaign, said Derrick Harkins, who led interfaith outreach for the Democratic National Committee this past cycle. There is a sense of moral synergy on the left, among not only progressive Christians but also humanists, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and the spectrum of faith traditions, he said.”
Back to the original dubious assertion. Can an individual really be classified as religiously observant while not only rejecting but actively opposing his own religion’s teachings and beliefs? According to Archbishop of Los Angeles Jose Gomez, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the answer is a clear “no.” Prior to the inauguration, Gomez warned that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden advocated polices “that would advance moral evils,” especially “in the area of abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender.” From a biblical and Catholic standpoint, we consider this to be inarguable. Moreover, those policies threaten religious liberty. And yet many evangelicals supported socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden.
As James the brother of Jesus observed, “But someone will say, ‘You have faith and I have works.’ Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” (James 2:18) Or as Jesus said, “By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?” (Matthew 7:16)
The fact is, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden not only believes in abortion on demand but is actively seeking to expand the culture of death. Last Friday, socialist/scumbag/liar- Biden and Vice President lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris released a statement announcing, “The socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden- lowlife/liar- Harris Administration is committed to codifying Roe v. Wade and appointing judges that respect foundational precedents like Roe,” adding that “now is the time to rededicate ourselves to ensuring that all individuals have access to the health care they need.”
On top of this, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden plans to revoke the Mexico City policy, Ronald Reagan’s 1984 rule that bars the U.S. government (i.e., taxpayers) from funding foreign organizations that “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning.”
It has been reported that in socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s own home parish in Delaware, whenever he attends Mass, the priest denies him Holy Communion. This comports with a USA Today story from two years ago explaining that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden had been denied communion by a bishop in South Carolina due to his stance on abortion.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is no saint — not in the pantheon of Roman Catholicism or of Christianity at large. By his practice and expressed beliefs, he stands in opposition to some of the most fundamental tenants of his church. However, in the Church of “Wokeness,” socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s halo just got a lot brighter. ~ The Patriot Post
The Democrats' War on 'Domestic Terrorism'
If you’re one of the 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump on November 3, they’ll be watching you. And who can blame them? You might be a domestic terrorist.
Even if you didn’t participate in the January 6 riot in the Capitol, you might harbor impure and unhealthy thoughts about the Democrats having stolen the election, or about the usurpation of our liberties by an unholy alliance between Big Tech and the Left.
Glenn Greenwald knows the Left well — and he especially understands the authoritarian tendencies of the new Left. Among these tendencies, of course, is an irresistible impulse to silence those with whom it disagrees. He’s sounding the alarm that a new War on Domestic Terror is coming — one that’ll bear some striking similarities to the War on Terror our nation launched nearly 20 years ago.
“We have witnessed an orgy of censorship,” he writes, “from Silicon Valley monopolies with calls for far more aggressive speech policing, a visibly militarized Washington, D.C., featuring a non-ironically named ‘Green Zone,’ vows from the incoming president and his key allies for a new anti-domestic terrorism bill, and frequent accusations of ‘sedition,’ ‘treason,’ and ‘terrorism’ against members of Congress and citizens. This is all driven by a radical expansion of the meaning of ‘incitement to violence.’ It is accompanied by viral-on-social-media pleas that one work with the FBI to turn in one’s fellow citizens (See Something, Say Something!) and demands for a new system of domestic surveillance.”
General Stanley McChrystal, who knows a thing or two about terrorism, is also sounding the alarm. But he’s sounding it on behalf of the censors and the Chicken Littles on the Left — the ones who think the least effective “armed insurrection” in history is just the opening salvo in a domestic insurgency. “I did see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaida in Iraq,” he says, “where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence. This is now happening in America.”
McChrystal, the former head of Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq and the commander of all U.S. and allied troops fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan, makes a great point. There are some eerie similarities between Donald Trump and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — except for the car bombings, and the kidnappings, and the decapitations, and the wanton slaughter of scores of innocent civilians. But other than that…
McChrystal thinks the MAGA extremist movement may have already become self-sustaining. “Even if Trump exits the scene,” he says, “the radical movement he helped create has its own momentum and cohesion now, and they may find they don’t need Trump anymore. They can just wait for another charismatic leader to appear. So the fabric of something very dangerous has been woven, and it’s further along than most Americans care to admit.”
Is it just us, or is anyone else a bit put off by this sort of alarmism and false comparison?
As Greenwald writes, “Anyone who, despite all this, still harbors lingering doubts that the Capitol riot is and will be the neoliberal 9/11, and that a new War on Terror is being implemented in its name,” need only watch this video and this video.
Former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is also worried about where this is going and what it’ll mean to our civil liberties. “You have people like former CIA Director John scumbag/commie-Brennan,” she says, “openly talking about how he’s spoken with or heard from appointees and nominees in the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration who are already starting to look across our country for these types of movements similar to the insurgencies they’ve seen overseas, that in his words, he says make up this unholy alliance of religious extremists, racists, bigots, he lists a few others and at the end, even libertarians.”
More ominous yet, she says, is the profile that’s being built of potential domestic terrorists. “What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about?” she asks. “Religious extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical Christians, what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who is pro-life? Where do you take this?”
Great question. ~ The Patriot Post
Parents Must Fight Educational Indoctrination
For two decades, this writer has sounded the alarm about the progressive dogma being disseminated in America’s classrooms. Dogma presented as irrefutable fact and defended with a single strategy: If you dare to challenge any aspect of that dogma, you’re racist, transphobic, or — as President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s inauguration speech and its laughably hollow call for “unity” made clear — a potential “domestic terrorist.”
Thus in Cupertino, California, a class of third graders was forced to “deconstruct” their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” “Based on whistleblower documents and parents familiar with the session, a third-grade teacher at R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School began the lesson on ‘social identities’ during a math class,” columnist Christopher Rufo reveals. “The teacher asked all students to create an ‘identity map,’ listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics. The teacher explained that the students live in a ‘dominant culture’ of ‘white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian, English speaker[s],’ who, according to the lesson, ‘created and maintained’ this culture in order ‘to hold power and stay in power.’”
It gets worse. A book titled This Book Is Antiracist teaches students that “a white, cisgender man, who is able-bodied, heterosexual, considered handsome and speaks English has more privilege than a Black transgender woman.” Moreover, based on the principle of intersectionality, “there are parts of us that hold some power and other parts that are oppressed,” even within a single person.
In Illinois, “Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards” is a blatant attempt to turn students into de facto community organizers for leftist causes. It has already been approved by the Illinois State Board of Education and awaits final approval by The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules of the Illinois General Assembly. As columnist Stanley Kurtz warns, if it gets the green light, teachers will be mandated to make self-assessments regarding their racism, sexism, homophobia, unearned privilege, Eurocentrism, etc., with the possibility of being required to attend white fragility training sessions the committee characterizes as an effort to get teachers to “move past their whiteness.”
To where? To an educational system poisoned by blatant racism sold as anti-racism. To a system, like so many others across the nation, wholly debauched and distorted by Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project with one overarching agenda in mind: To teach American children that their own nation is a fatally flawed construct unworthy of preservation. To teach American children that the content of their character is completely subservient to their color, their gender, and their ethnicity. To teach half of American children they are permanent victims with no ability to make a life for themselves, or permanent oppressors who should be forever ashamed of their “privilege.”
The transgender dogma — just re-approved by our “unity” president — is equally contemptible. “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports,” socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden asserts. Translation: Boys who self-identify as girls will be given access to women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams. Any school that refuses to kowtow will be denied federal funding. Biological women who object? “TERF is an acronym for ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminist’ and is considered a slur against people who espouse feminist beliefs and distinguish biological women from trans women,” columnist Ebony Bowden explains.
In other words, you’re the radical if you believe in biological and chromosomal reality, dislike the idea of boys having unfettered access to girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms, or believe that the evisceration of women’s sports in service to a bankrupt political ideology is a bad thing.
And just in case one might be wondering whether there might be any pushback, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden also signed an executive order rescinding the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission that focused on the “ideals of the American Founding as well as the centuries-long quest to live up to them,” as commission member and esteemed historian Victor Davis Hanson explained.
What undoubtedly pushed progressives to dismiss it? “The commission was no more sympathetic to the current popularity of identity politics or reparatory racial discrimination,” Hanson adds. “It argues that using race, ethnicity, sexual preference, and gender to define who we are — rather than seeing these traits as incidental when compared with our natural and shared humanity — will lead to a dangerous fragmentation of American society.”
For leftists and the corporate oligarchy that supports them at every turn, that’s a feature, not a bug. Millions of automatons taught what to think, not how to think, are more easily ruled by those who brook no dissent whatsoever to their despicable agenda.
Yet there is hope. “As American primary and secondary education’s dysfunction became painfully apparent, parents of all races have fled the public schools as fast as they could,” explains columnist Angelo Codevilla. At R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School, parents fought back and forced the school to suspend the program. The effort was led in part by Asian parents, one of whom likened it to the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The first lawsuit of what is hopefully the beginning of an avalanche of them has been filed by a black American mother who does not want her biracial son to be forced to attend mandated classes teaching “anti-white” race theories.
In other words, parents are the key here. They must understand they can no longer simply send their children to school and assume what they’re learning is OK. There must be pushback not just against school officials but against the feckless politicians who enact state laws prohibiting parents from opting out of these progressive indoctrination sessions.
Moreover, they need to become familiar with cases such as West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette and Tinker v. Des Moines School District. In the former, the Supreme Court ruled that “no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” In the latter case, the Court made it clear that students do not surrender their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse door, unless such speech “significantly disrupts school discipline or invades the rights of others.”
Thus, no school in the nation should be able to force a student to “confess” their support for progressive dogma that is presented as unassailable. And while there are limits to how students can respond, it is clear that polite, respectful rebuttal of such dogma is permitted.
Yet again, nothing meaningful will be accomplished without parental involvement. They must view the cancerous ideology being disseminated to their children with the same alarm as they would a drug dealer standing at the schoolyard gate. What’s going on inside those gates is far more alarming and damaging.
The ball is in your corner, parents. Don’t let your children be taught to hate America. Or themselves. ~ The Patriot Post
The Media's COVID Failures
The COVID response is now in its new and improved iteration post-President Donald Trump. Americans have proven resilient but have grown tired of the flips and flops of the information packaged with purpose by the national media to fuel the 24-hour news cycle. Seeing articles and their reversals and hearing experts contradict themselves is understandably confusing and leaves the public completely without trust in critical information, all while businesses remain shuttered or restricted and livelihoods hampered or destroyed. To say that’s a problem is an understatement.
In the early days of the pandemic, Market Watch gave three reasons not to wear face coverings, citing “the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. surgeon general.” Specifically, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a January 30 briefing, “We don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks by the public to prevent respiratory illness.” The all-knowing Dr. Anthony Fauci likewise downplayed the use of masks. Now, of course, all we’re hearing is a loud and clear, “Wear the mask!”
In the summer when thousands of protesters and rioters took to the streets, medical professionals who had issued caution and concern about much smaller organized gatherings pivoted 180 degrees. Protests (and, implicitly, riots) were supported by some healthcare partisans as “vital to the national public health” because “social justice” trumped social distancing.
One of the most serious of the selective narratives broadcast was to “flatten the curve.” For a window of 30-45 days, many Americans were willing to shelter in place at home to do their part to contain this novel virus and give health professionals time to learn how to mitigate the spread and treat patients. Yet the call to flatten the curve ultimately turned into “wait on a vaccine” or “wait for a cure and no increase in cases.” For those unwilling to accept the moving goal posts, silence on social media platforms and canceling in the court of public opinion were the punishments.
Worse, Americans have seen their small businesses devastated by local government mandates even as aggressive modifications to dining areas, workspaces, and workflows have been applied. As we warned at the very beginning of the lockdowns, the cure has become as harmful as the virus.
There’s also the “follow the science” admonition. When selective application of standards are applied to those who riot versus those who peacefully gather, it is not science. When the certainties of lockdowns, masks, and social distancing are declared, yet those areas with the strictest measures are still dealing with viral spread, Americans rightfully scratch their heads in confusion.
Some public schools have been closed for almost one full year, forcing teachers to deal with a virtual construct that leaves many students behind. But what does the science say about COVID and children? Whether it’s the CDC or Forbes, replicable data demonstrates the highest death rate for COVID is among older men. A nonpartisan think tank, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, published “Estimating the Risk of Death from COVID-19 vs Influenza or Pneumonia by Age.” The detailed research stated, “School-aged children between 5 and 14 have a 1 in 200,000 chance of dying of influenza, but a 1 in 1.1 million chance of dying of COVID-19.” Toddlers aged 12 months to four years are six times more likely to die of influenza than the novel coronavirus.
Moreover, a McKinsey and Company study projected students will lose an overall average of 10 months of instructional learning, with minority students suffering the greatest loss. Homicide, childhood cancer, heart disease, and congenital anomalies far outpace COVID deaths, yet the science has kept America’s school children in a state of confusion and ever-changing instructional environments.
Americans need information that’s factual and not sensationalized. In 2020, the public has struggled to balance the pandemic and the infodemic — fighting a virus as well as a contagion of slanted messaging that has served to divide Americans like never before. ~ The Patriot Post
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Order: 'Play Like You Identify as a Girl'
To our friends on the Left: Are you happy now? Happy that one of socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s first acts as the uniter-in-chief was to sign an executive order that allows biological males to compete against and dominate our daughters in sports?
You might not want to acknowledge it — and we can understand why — but when you voted for this guy because you didn’t like the abrasiveness of some of Donald Trump’s tweets, you voted against our daughters competing in sports solely against other women, and you voted against them having a fair shot at obtaining athletic scholarships. In addition, you voted against our daughters’ right to privacy in bathrooms, dorm rooms, locker rooms, and just about everywhere else.
Thanks a lot.
As Fox News reports, “President socialist/scumbag/liar- Biden, in an executive order aimed at ‘preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation,’ is calling on schools across the country to allow transgender athletes to participate in the sport of their gender identity. … The order is a strong signal that the Justice Department is going to enforce it via Title IX — and schools that don’t comply risk losing funding.”
Ah, their gender identity. Never mind the biological fact that men are, on average, bigger, stronger, and faster than women. No one disputes this. In addition, as Madeleine Kearns detailed in National Review, “Other well-documented physical advantages men have over women include height, weight, broader shoulders, greater circulating blood volume, greater resistance to dehydration, larger lung capacity, thicker skin, faster sensory frame shifting, more hemoglobin in the blood, greater upper-body strength, faster reaction times, greater bone density in the arms, larger sweat capacity, higher systolic blood pressure, higher muscle-to-fat ratio, and larger hearts.”
As Abigail Schrier put it in The Wall Street Journal, “Once male puberty is complete, testosterone suppression doesn’t undo the biological advantages men possess: larger hearts, lungs and bones, greater bone density, more-oxygenated blood, more fast-twitch muscle fiber and vastly greater muscle mass.”
But, no, there’s no difference between the sexes. And the fact that Rhys McKinnon, er, Rachel McKinnon, er, Veronica Ivy is a two-time masters world champion in cycling has nothing to do with the fact that, unlike all of “her” competitors, every cell in “her” body has an XY chromosome pair.
Think about it: Why do we have men’s and women’s sports in the first place? Answer: Because women can’t compete with men. Period. If you can’t admit this, then you’re anti-science. Were Veronica Ivy competing against age-group men instead of women, “she” wouldn’t sniff a local club championship, much less a world championship. Or maybe someone can explain how, in 2017, a U-15 boys soccer team from Dallas whipped the world champion USA women’s team 5-2 in a “practice” game?
As for socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s executive order, he sets up a straw man in the very first sentence: “Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love.”
He then builds off that straw man with another one: “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.”
Ah, the children. With the Left, it’s always about “the children,” even when it’s really about “transgender” males.
The order does a clever job of hiding the truth. As Ryan Anderson points out, what it really means is, “Boys who identify as girls must be allowed to compete in the girls’ athletic competitions, men who identify as women must be allowed in women-only spaces, health care plans must pay for gender transition procedures, and doctors and hospitals must perform them.”
And if you don’t like it, you’re a bigot and a hater.
About halfway through his inaugural address last Wednesday, socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden told a whopper of a lie. “I pledge this to you,” he said. “I will be a president for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you, I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did.”
We’re still waiting, socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe, for you to start fighting for our daughters instead of the Rainbow Mafia. ~ The Patriot Post
'Missing Context' Is a 'Fact-Checking' Catch-All
2020 was the year for Big Tech censorship. 2021 should be better, right? Cue the “fact-checkers” in 3, 2…
You may recall our ongoing struggle with the social media monolith Facebook and its merry band of independent “fact-checkers”. This is not the first time they have called us out for violating their version of the truth. It probably won’t be the last either, especially due to a rating category they like to call “missing context.”
We recently received yet another notification that we had broken the “rules.” What this time, you ask? We posted a meme containing verbatim, verifiable quotes from the likes of lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris, scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi, and scumbag/worthless-Maxine Waters. The result? “Missing context” based on a fact-check article aimed at content that was merely similar to ours.
Feel free to see our meme and decide for yourself.
The USA Today “fact-checker” claims that our content could “mislead” people because it does not (presumably) tell the whole story. We understand taking things out of context — so does the media, which did it to Donald Trump all the time. But how is providing full word-for-word quotes in any way misleading? Shouldn’t people have the right to interpret the words of politicians themselves? And why was our meme, which didn’t even reference all the quotes mentioned in the original USA Today takedown piece, so generally grouped in merely because it’s similar?
All of this is beside the point, of course. In reality, “missing context” isn’t about truth or clarity at all. It’s a catch-all tactic that “fact-checkers” can use whenever it suits them, particularly when content they disagree with doesn’t tell their story. It’s an intellectually dishonest practice conducted in bad faith. It’s also a way for Facebook to take down sweeping examples of “similar” content using artificially intelligent bots, offering no recourse for those affected.
What’s to keep “fact-checkers” from applying this rating to anything and everything? Can a George Washington quote be flagged because it doesn’t tell America’s story through the eyes of the King of England? Should we only quote politicians when we can cite “context” in the footnotes (imagine a meme with footnotes)? Who gave the “fact-checkers” the right to be the universal interpreters of context in the first place?
The advent of “fact-checkers” has opened a dangerous precedent for free speech and free thought. These gatekeepers dominate significant portions of the public square, enforcing penalties on “wrongthink” among their opponents. “Fact-checking” is not honest journalism, and it interferes with the open conversation freethinkers should be able to have with one another.
We continue to fight the good fight against Big Tech and the social media giants, but we can’t do it without you. The best action you can take is to make sure you and your loved ones are subscribed to our email newsletter. It’s the only place where the “fact-checkers” can’t impose their opinions on us. Make sure everyone you know is subscribed to ensure our message is never silenced. ~The Patriot Post
MICHAEL REAGAN
With President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe, It's Divided We Stand
Everyone agreed the inauguration ceremony was nice.
Lady Gaga was Lady Gaga. Garth Brooks was Garth Brooks.
Everyone also agreed President socialist/scumbag/liar- Joe Biden’s speech was nice.
Nothing plagiarized. Nothing too fancy. Nothing that presidential historians will be quoting a month from now.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s call for national unity and political healing was widely praised by Democrats, the mainstream Democrat media and even some easily impressed Republicans.
But what did our new unifier-in-chief do as soon as he got control of the presidential pen?
Keeping his campaign promises, the born-again progressive kicked off his plan to reverse President Trump’s “America First” direction and turn back the country to scumbag/liar- nObama-style open-borders and an economic policy that benefits Communist China and globalists.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden signed 17 executive orders on Wednesday and another 10 on Thursday. If they’re not reversed by Congress or the courts, they are sure to hurt America and its people.
They will kill thousands of energy jobs in the Heartland, reopen our borders to waves of illegal immigrants and again subject us to the rules of the incompetent and corrupt World Health Organization and harmful international agreements like the Paris Climate Accord.
By his edicts on Wednesday, socialist/scumbag/liar- Biden immediately showed that when it comes to fostering national unity and building America back better, he’s all talk and no walk.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Logic is, to put it mildly, more like socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Madness.
In a country with millions of people out of work, he stopped construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada — and put 11,000 high-paid construction workers out of work.
With a caravan of 10,000 Nicaraguan and Guatemalan migrants already on its way to the Texas border, he halted the building of the wall.
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging in the United States, he’s ready to greet thousands of illegal — and un-vaccinated — immigrants at our border with open arms and hugs.
And out here in California, where 3 million of the country’s 12-plus million illegal immigrants already live, our streets are certain to be made more dangerous because of his decision not to deport illegal aliens — including criminal ones — for 100 days.
So thanks, President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe. Way to put the good of the country above partisan politics.
In just two days you pleased both your leftist supporters who hate ICE and your party’s environmental wacko wing.
It doesn’t matter, I guess, that in the long run your new rules will shred our improved immigration system and endanger America’s energy independence.
Or that they will hurt Canada’s energy-based economy and help our competitors in the global oil and gas industry.
Good thinking, President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe. You made 75 million Americans mad at you, but the liberal media are united.
They’re loving every one of your executive decisions. CNN is so happy they can’t stop slobbering over you and First Lady Jill.
In fact, they praised “Doctor” Jill for bringing class back to the White House after an absence of four years.
It’s fine to praise Jill Biden. But what did Melania Trump do to deserve that last-minute cheap shot?
She only speaks five languages, came to America with nothing and ended up living in the White House.
In a fair and decent world, that’s the definition of the American Dream.
But for the last four years the biased and nasty liberal media — from CNN to the editors of the New York Times and Vogue — were incapable of praising her even for her looks.
They hated on her or ignored her every day for one obvious reason: she married the wrong man.
For the next four years, with socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden or lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris in charge and the country divided 50-50, the media and their journalists are going to have a really tough time hiding their partisan biases and dishonesty.
When a Covid-20 virus comes over from China, or when the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration throws the economy into a ditch, gets caught in bed with China or drags us into a war in Syria, who is the media going to blame?
With Donald Trump out of power and living in Florida, it’s going to have to be the Russians. ~ The Patriot Post
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