Quips & Quotes

An archive of Quips & Quotes cited in GrumpsReport, listed chronologically by date of publication.

January 2, 2024
“As we enter 2024, there is widespread public agreement about two things: (1) something big is about to happen, and (2) whatever that something is, it sure as hell won’t be pretty! While it may get pretty ugly pretty fast, though, there is an upside to what’s coming: as a country, we can finally pull this disgusting Band-Aid off, face reality for what it is, and stop pretending. However bad this year might prove to be, it might also be tremendously liberating.

Why? Because, one way or another, things will soon change. For too long, those who “run” America have had two things in common: (1) a hatred for individual freedoms, and (2) an even deeper hatred for the one country on the planet explicitly founded on their protection. As a national security surveillance State superseded the U.S. Constitution, leftists have controlled academia, journalism, the legal system, and entertainment. They have shoved anyone with a working brain out the door while assuring themselves that they deserve their privileged social positions and unearned accolades. They tell themselves that they are smart and enlightened, but anybody capable of self-examination knows this not to be true. Leftists are not happy people. They have not figured out any special meaning to life because, to them, life is meaningless. In other words, for too many years, a collection of the most depressed, least curious, morally relativistic, and intellectually homogenous people on the planet have been given pampered positions in exchange for acting as nihilistic and narcotic-dependent sea vessel captains willing to steer America into an iceberg of decline and failure.” J.B. Shurk, American Thinker, January 2, 2024 “Do We Hit the Iceberg or Finally Change Course?“

November 3, 2023
“There’s a subtext to nearly all American political trends today. It’s hardly ever spoken about overtly and explicitly. But the topic is nonetheless always there. All insiders know about it. It’s also the central and critical debate concerning America’s future.

The question is as follows. Will the United States continue the present system whereby representative democracy persists as a mere veneer to keep the public distracted and defocused on the real rulers in the nation? Or will something dramatic be achieved whereby the swamp is truly drained, the administrative state gutted, the agencies disempowered, and we return to an actual constitutional system in which the people truly rule themselves through their elected representatives?

These are the two paths. It’s one or the other. They’re mutually incompatible.”
Jeffrey A. Tucker, November 3, 2023, Epoch Times, p A22, “Are You an Institutionalist or Anti-Institutionalist?”

August 22, 2023
“When arguing in federal court in HI in 2020, I had to get permission from the governor to enter his precious state to argue that his silly COVID lockdowns violated the Constitution. I lost. This same state, in real life, has shown how little respect for life its leaders really have. My perfectly healthy clients were not allowed to travel from one island to another to visit their own property. American citizens were turned away at the airport because they got the wrong COVID test on the mainland. The hotel gave me “parole” from the one way card key rule only to do my legal business and leave. I could not call an Uber or take a taxi at the airport. The National Guard met me at the gate to escort me to Hawaii COVID immigration to provide my information, which they verified with the hotel. I was to keep my phone on at all times so that they could track my location. This same police state didn’t turn the water on in Lahaina, didn’t have sirens, can’t begin to tell you how many children died from their incompetence. Or begin to explain it. Remember all this the next time you are asked to comply with farcical, unjust “laws” made by dictators. They are lying when their lips are moving about how much they care about you and your little life and your paper constitutional rights. Americans are beginning to realize how much we are on our own. Such a betrayal.” Harmeet K. Dhillon, on “X”, 8/22/23 12:44 AM

August 17, 2023 – A MUST READ!!!!
The following is a transcription of Newt Gingrich’s comments on Hannity last night.
““I think what you’re seeing tonight is one tree in a forest, and I think we are drifting towards the greatest Constitutional crisis since the 1850s, uh, and the rise of secession and the Civil War. I don’t mean that as hyperbole. Uh, if you read Andy McCarthy’s remarkable book, Ball of Collusion, which came out in 2019, he makes very clear that it is Barack Obama who corrupts the Justice Department, it is Hillary Clinton who routinely breaks the law and gets away with it. And now we have Joe Biden who’s learned, he’s learned from Obama that is doesn’t matter what you do, if you’re a liberal Democrat, you will not be prosecuted. He learned from Hillary that a person in high public office can get millions and millions of dollars. And they learned from watching Donald Trump that a true outsider, willing to take on the entire system, could destroy their entire machine. So what you’re seeing across the country, is a desperate, last-ditch effort by a corrupt machine to destroy their most dangerous opponent in a way which not only breaks the Constitution, destroys the rule of law, and establishes a moment of bitterness, uh, which I think will last for a generation or more. I think this is gonna be a horrendous period and we just need to understand: The people who want to control America and dictate to the rest of us will break any law, lie about any topic, and manipulate the system any way they can, and that includes a lot of the elite news media.”

August 10, 2023
“The fact that young men are getting more conservative is a cause for optimism. Remember, if you grew up male in the last ten years or so, every institution has been deployed against you. You’ve been told you are bad and horrible and evil and worthless. In contrast, every girl is an empowered girlboss ready to take her rightful place at the pinnacle of society. And to facilitate that, they must displace the dudes. And it’s no secret – that displacement, that consignment of men to second-class status, is not merely admitted but celebrated by our trash ruling class.” Kurt Schlichter, August 10, 2023, Town Hall, “Angry Young Men Are Going To Disrupt The Garbage Paradigm“

July 16, 2023
“It’s how the left governs – they declare their positions to be the will of the people without regard for all the evidence to the contrary and scream, “This is what democracy looks like,” while suing every time they lose a referendum or vote of elected representatives, decidedly the exact opposite of what democracy is.”
Derek Hunter, Town Hall, July 15, 2023, “My God, Is There Nothing the Left Won’t Try to Ruin?” 

May 8, 2023
“Self-defense is often treated as something society tolerates. It should be celebrated, and the court should read the jury an instruction such as the following:

It is the right of every citizen to act in the defense of himself, his family, his pets, his property, and his community. It is reasonable to use physical force in order to protect these things. Physical force sometimes leads to injury or death, but our state recognizes this is the risk that a criminal takes in committing crimes. Sometimes, in retrospect, we might see alternative courses of action, but that is not sufficient to convict the accused. You will presume that the accused acted lawfully unless you are convinced by the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused knew he was not acting in self-defense and intended to cause unlawful injury to the innocent victim. Otherwise, you must acquit.” Kurt Schlichter, May 08, 2023, American Thinker, “We Must Defend Self-Defense”

April 11, 2023
“As the country collapses under leftist nihilism, the revolution’s last gasp is to destroy Trump – by empowering him. That is, the leftist legal vendetta is designed to win him just enough empathy to be nominated the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, but then to keep on indicting, gagging, and hemorrhaging him legally until Election Day 2024.
America now has three potential futures and two are bad.
First, the Jacobins have two more years to finish what they started as the founders’ dream descends into our worst nightmare.
Second, the revolution has so warped our legal system, our voting on Election Day, and the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, and the IRS, that even a despised, unpopular Left will “win” elections.
The third is that New York Prosecutor Alvin Bragg has jumped the shark. His pathetic prosecution is so patently incoherent, illiberal, and in spirit anti-American, that two-thirds of the country will soon conclude the center is not holding. The Jacobins’ reign of terror is unsustainable. And so in 2024 the Left will not be defeated, but so defeated so that it is utterly discredited.

The choice is ours.” Victor Davis Hanson, April 6, 2023, The Daily Caller, “Our French Revolution“

March 12, 2023
“It’s a strange time in the United States, where one political party is actively engaged in a series of actions to keep as many people as possible ignorant. Ignorant not of one particular event, study, or story, but of so many topics that reality itself” is what they’re ultimately attempting to obscure. It’s evil, honestly, and it begs the question “What are Democrats so afraid of?” The only answer is simple: an informed public.”
“To call the press the flying monkey army of the DNC is to insult fictional flying monkeys.”
(Derek Hunter, March 12, 2023, Town Hall, “Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public“)

March 9, 2023
“Some are now trying to crucify @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson over January 6th footage because America has decided to live a lie, blame only @realDonaldTrump and turn a blind eye to the massive security failure on January 6, 2021. But many people around the world continue to wonder, how on earth was it possible that in the greatest country in the world, in the most armed nation on the planet with the best and most expensive security agencies in the universe, one of the most important buildings was left unprotected and was easily taken over by protesters while the presidential election was being certified and the Vice President was in the building? Why is no serious investigation done to understand that security failure and hold accountable every person who was in charge that day? Isn’t that the most important investigation to be carried out? Also, why is it hard to understand that when an election takes place during a pandemic, with millions of people shipping ballots rather than showing up at voting centers on election day, many people would be skeptical about the results of that election, especially when the candidate who lost won the election day vote? Instead of labeling people election deniers, is it not better to ensure that even the appearance of fraud is eliminated by having most people vote in-person on election day and with proper identification? When a country decides to live a lie and chases shadows, it condults false investigations with predetermined outcomes and ends up blaming people like Tucker Carlson for showing the other side of the story. And that is a shame!” (Simon Ateba Chief White House Correspondent @TodayNewsAfrica  in Washington via Twitter March 8, 2023)

March 8, 2023
“So, Columbia University – which people associated with Columbia University will tell you is a very, very impressive place – has decided to stop pretending it is in the education business. Columbia is in the ruling class hiring business. You know because it just got totally rid of standardized tests for admission. Without the burden of objective proof of merit, their admissions flunkies will be free to employ a “holistic” and “nuanced” approach to admitting students. That means they will choose people they consider worthy of entering our ruling elite, and those are not your kids. And the rest of the allegedly prestigious colleges are going to do this too.

The purpose of merit, and therefore standardized tests, was to allow that smart, hardworking kid with no connection and who checks no particular box to get access to the conveyor belt into the ruling caste. And it worked, which is why standardized tests must be abandoned. Too many uppity outsiders were getting in, and this meant too many unwanted types were being allowed to rise. This move is all about curating the ruling class.

Legacies? Oh, they will get it, and so will the odd athlete. So will the donors’ brats and the celebrity nepotism babies. But if you look for some smart middle-class kids on one of these Ivy campuses, good luck. Not happening. You have the rich and connected scions, and the diversity gang. Why do you think the LGBTQ#%X*() contingent makes up a double-digit portion of the student bodies? Because an essay with “I was a straight-A Eagle Scout active in my church” gets trumped by “As a trans non-binary neuro-atypical furry of color, I got straight-Cs because of patriarchy.”

And we suckers pay to support this. We hand these places tons of money, we fail to tax their endowments, and we treat them as if they were turning out geniuses instead of barely literate weirdos, losers, and mutations. This must stop. But there remain far too many unbased Republicans who are afraid to slap the schools around. But the Ivies have a glass jaw. They folded to a bunch of freaks who shouted at them, so think how fast they will come around to our way of thinking if we pass laws requiring blind merit admissions if a school takes a cent of federal dough.

Time to break them before they break our society.s (Kurt Schlichter, March 8, 2023, Townhall, “Leftist Goofs Don’t Get to Control What We Say“)

March 3, 2023
“Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result – history’s prescription for civilizational decline.” (Victor Davis Hanson, March 3, 2023, Town Hall, “The Woke Wrecking Machine“)

March 2, 2023
“Mike Pence… is a nice guy but is still stuck in this whole mindset of principle confusion. He’s unhappy with DeSantis too because DeSantis will not take what the woke corporations are dishing out. It’s kind of sad that Pence was right there and saw firsthand exactly what the left and its minions will do to destroy conservative leaders and disenfranchise conservative Americans and yet learned nothing. He has no clue how to fight back. It is as if he has mentally blocked out the truth because he just can’t handle it, and he probably can’t. To accurately appreciate the reality of the situation will require what he and these other (RINO) political puffballs cannot summon up – the courage to fight. It’s outside their comfort zone. It will require that they draw the ire of the establishment, and they cannot abide that. It’s easier to be popular with the regime media by modeling fecklessness and harmlessness than to be called worse than Hitler for not letting groomer teachers put perverted books in their classrooms. But here’s the punchline – if one of these no-chancers were to defeat Trump or DeSantis (or even Haley, Scott, or Pompeo) and win the nomination, they would instantly become Hitler too. And they are so dense that they would be shocked.” (Kurt Schlichter, Mar 02, 2023, Town Hall, “The 2024 GOP Primary’s Fredocon Lane“)

February 20, 2023
“No longer are there mistakes and accidents, only unattributed blame.” (JR, An Insightful Reader, February 19, 2023)

February 14, 2023
“Omission is the basis of propaganda.” (DC, An Insightful Reader, February 14, 2023)

February 9, 2023
“The dividing line in America is no longer between Right or Left, the choice is between normal or crazy.”

”I’ll be the first to admit, President Biden and I don’t have a lot in common. I’m for freedom. He’s for government control. At 40, I’m the youngest governor in the country. At 80, he’s the oldest president in American history. I’m the first woman to lead my state. He’s the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is.

“In the radical left’s America, Washington taxes you and lights your hard-earned money on fire, but you get crushed with high gas prices, empty grocery shelves, and our children are taught to hate one another on account of their race, but not to love one another or our great country. Whether Joe Biden believes this madness or is simply too weak to resist it, his administration has been completely hijacked by the radical left.” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Response to SOTU address, February 7, 2023

January 12, 2023
“Typical of corporate and big conservative media, we had the pleasure of hearing ad nauseum how the process whereby a speaker of the U.S. House is elected was somehow disruptive and bad optics and whatever other parroted drivel. These dimwits might as well have said it was downright unpatriotic.

Of course, the jabbering propagandists at CNN and MSNBC painted the speaker contest as the start of the Apocalypse, which is exactly what their dwindling audiences of Karens, woke hucksters, race peddlers, and climate catastrophe inbreds want painted. Their talking points came from the DNC, without which they’d, deer-in-headlights, stare vacantly into the cameras.

Over at Fox News, we had Sean Hannity browbeating Lauren Boebert for the sin of offering no viable alternative to Kevin McCarthy. Sean missed the point of the rebellion. Newt Gingrich characterized the 20 dissident Republicans as “blackmailers.” Newt who came to fame in the 80s challenging the GOP establishment and throwing bombs. Rightly so.

What happened on the House floor in less than a week is what’s supposed to happen in a nation brimming with freedom. A speaker was elected in an open forum through a civil process and citizens were free to watch. It was contentious and messy at times. But, heck, there were no melees, though one almost occurred.” J. Robert Smith, American Thinker, January 10, 2023, “With McCarthy’s Election, the Struggle Continues”

December 15, 2022
“The Left has successfully warped the country, but its overall institutional capture successes were focused on using education and culture to capture the elites. And the elites are, for the most part, captured, especially on a generational level.

The elites are ruthlessly and unthinkingly enforcing their value system, even as it changes from year to year, and its absurd paradigms on the country.

They live in enough of a bubble that they don’t think that they are out of step with anyone except maybe a few ‘rednecks’ somewhere in ‘flyover country’ whom they’ve learned to despite as part of their tribal cultural indoctrination.

This sort of thing is oppressive when it’s done by a majority to a minority, but it’s being done by a minority to a majority. And yet the minority has been convinced that it’s a majority because it wields so much power within its echo chambers. That power, produced by massive centralization, is at the heart of the problem.

And many conservatives are coming to realize that.

A country controlled by a minority elite that is out of step with the people and yet insists on regulating them is a tyranny, no matter whether the nature of that tyranny is political, cultural or economic.

Freedom comes from independence. As long as America is dominated by a leftist oligarchy, it can never be free.” Daniel Greenfied, Front Page Mag, December 14, 2022

November 10, 2022
“Two and a half years ago, the last administration, its Republican allies in Congress, watched passively, seemingly in glassy eyed sedation as the Democratic Party used the pretext of COVID to rewrite election laws around the country in order to get its own candidates into office. They didn’t do it by accident. They knew what they were doing. Last night those laws, many of which are still on the books, paid off generously. John Fetterman bombed in his one public debate. You saw it. He humiliated himself. He made a mockery of the election, but it didn’t matter by that point.

Thanks to early voting, Fetterman’s margin was already in the bank. Nearly 70% of Democrats had voted early in the Pennsylvania races. Only 20% of Republicans did. It’s over, but it doesn’t need to be repeated. These are fixable problems. You can get your message out. You can force the other side if you try hard enough to agree on fair election rules, but you can’t do any of that unless you acknowledge these problems exist.” Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson Tonight, November 9, 2022

November 3, 2022
“They’re vicious, they’re intolerant, and they are utterly corrupt.  And above all they are incompetent.  In less than two years it is not an overstatement to say they have run this country into the ground. Wrecking our economy, desecrating our military, and opening the borders of the United States to 5 million lawbreakers.  The destruction they brought is so profound it’s hard to describe.” Tucker Carlson via Gateway Pundit, November 2, 2022

September 19, 2022
“Every great life has to be earned. It is not possible to live a great life on the backs of others. Moaning, wailing, begging, and borrowing amount to a mediocre life at best. Because loyalty, honor, and gratitude are the handmaidens of greatness in famous and common people alike, a brilliant person can live a cramped life, and a unsophisticated person can live a life of greatness. The creeds of victimhood, sniffing like hounds for slights and slurs, are replacing the effort, sacrifice, and compassion that make a great life possible. Victimhood culture is why we are watching greatness disappear from the American landscape.”

“The left wing uses instrumental victimologies, especially nonexistent racial persecution, to control political conversation. When Biden shuffles to the podium and offers spectral handshakes to the ghosts he feels around him, he is not merely dividing our house against itself; he expresses the perversion that those who remain loyal to American greatness, those who honor America and are thankful to be Americans, are victimizers, and the disloyal, dishonorable, and ungrateful are victims.”

“Bureaucrats running the great American institutions such as the military and the FBI are deserting loyalty and honor and committing institutional suicide by exploiting delusional instrumental victimologies for their own power. Psychotherapists are increasingly working with parents who never abused or neglected their children, but who are being scapegoated by their adult children who won’t face life’s challenges.”

Deborah C. Tyler, American Thinker, September 18, 2022, “What on Earth Is Wrong with Harry and Meghan?“

August 9, 2022
The American people are watching and doing nothing as the liberties that brave soldiers fought to win, preserve and protect are being obliterated in a systematic, calculated communist assault.

A great people would LIFT A FINGER to stop it. Or they would take a break from their precious daily routines to lend a hand to the handful who are trying to stop what’s happening.

We need to Make the American People Great again. And that’s something Donald Trump, amazing as he is, can’t do alone.

It’s got to come from within.

If you’re still sitting on your butt and waiting for someone else to save our great nation after reading this, there’s an excellent chance you are a big part of the problem.

Apathy will not save our Republic.

Only YOU can save our Republic.

Call your local GOP office and sign up to be a poll worker, challenger, or judge. Volunteer to help national, state, or local election integrity groups or organize your own group of friends to watch drop boxes or watch absentee ballots being counted at your local clerks’ office. There are several ways we can stop the theft of our elections and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with President Trump, and the thousands of good Americans who are still fighting to uncover voter fraud in the 2020 election and to safeguard the integrity of the upcoming election, but sitting on your butt and complaining to your friends on social media is not a solution. If you’re disabled or unable to physically join in the fight to save our nation, donate to candidates who are risking it all and taking all of the arrows from our dishonest media, elected Democrat officials, and never-Trump Republicans.

The time is NOW…step up or shut up!

Patty McMurry August 9, 2022 Gateway Pundit  One of America’s Greatest Patriots Disagrees With The Last Line In Trump’s Statement About The FBI Raid of Mar-a-Lago

August 3, 2022
This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return — a point where we risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us.

If there is one moment that symbolized our degeneration, it was when an enraged mob gathered in front of the Supreme Court and a leader of the United States Senate shouted threats against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying “You won’t know what hit you!”

There have always been irresponsible demagogues. But there was once a time when anyone who shouted threats to a Supreme Court Justice would see the end of his own political career, and could not show his face in decent society again.

You either believe in laws or you believe in mob rule. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with the law or agree with the mob on some particular issue. If threats of violence against judges — and publishing where a judge’s children go to school — is the way to settle issues, then there is not much point in having elections or laws.

There is also not much point in expecting to have freedom. Threats and violence were the way the Nazis came to power in Germany. Freedom is not free. If you can’t be bothered to vote against storm-trooper tactics — regardless of who engages in them, or over what issue — then you can forfeit your freedom.

Worse yet, you can forfeit the freedom of generations not yet born.

Thomas Sowell, Townhall, August 3, 2022, “The Point of No Return”

July 21, 2022
“Unless Republicans manage to wrest defeat from the jaws of victory, a day of reckoning is coming for Democrats in November. The radical left troika now running the swamp on the Potomac: Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are liars. They use distortion, obfuscation, deception and misdirection to advance a Marxist agenda at odds with the values of most Americans and destructive to our American way of life.

Words can be used to convey truth, or they can be used to deceive. Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was credited with saying that if you tell a lie often enough it will become the truth. Radical left Democrats — especially in the Biden administration — have adopted Goebbels’ tactic as their own and, with the help of the mainstream media, used it so effectively they make the Nazi propaganda minister look like an amateur.” Oliver L. North and David L. Goetsch, July 19, 2022, Democrat Lies and GOP Responses

June 30, 2022
“The nine-person Supreme Court was once beloved. On issues like abortion, school prayer, same-sex marriage, pornography and Miranda rights, the Left cheered the Court as it made the law and ignored legislatures and presidents.

Republican Court picks – Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor, Lewis Powell, John Roberts, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart and Earl Warren – would often flip leftward. How could they not be swayed by the greater brilliance of their liberal colleagues?

From affirmative action to Roe v. Wade to Obamacare, apostate Republican justices for a half-century greenlighted legislating from the bench. In response, was there any serious right-wing talk of packing the court with six additional justices to slow down its overreaching left-wing majority – or of a mob massing at the home of a left-wing justice? Certainly not.

But now?

Suddenly a narrow constructionist majority has returned matters of abortion to the states. And the once-beloved Court is being slandered by leftist insurrectionists as illegitimate. Every sort of once unthinkable attack on the courts is now permissible.

Confidential draft opinions are leaked illegally. A senior senator threatens justices by name at the doors of the Court. The homes of justices are surrounded by heckling protestors. And the very life of a justice is threatened by a would-be assassin close to his home.

Consider also the Senate filibuster. Former President Barack Obama not long ago ranted that it was racist and a 180-year-old relic.

Obama’s logic was infantile. When Democrats were in the Senate minority, he was giddy that the filibuster could slow down the Republican majority. Indeed, while a senator, Obama himself filibustered the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

When Democrats were in the majority, however, a pouting Obama blasted the filibuster as a racist, Jim-Crow roadblock.

Can the Jan. 6 committee issue some universal declaration that defeated candidates should not question the integrity of an election, much less call for it to be ignored?

Apparently not. In 2016, a defeated Hillary Clinton claimed the winner, Trump, was illegitimate – this from the architect of the entire Russian collusion hoax.

Clinton then trumped her own inflammatory rhetoric by urging Joe Biden not to accept the 2020 tally of the balloting if he lost. Victor Davis Hanson, June 30, 2022, The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind

June 17, 2022
“Half the country, including myself, still believes that the 2020 election was stolen. The purpose of January 6 was to object to certifying the election until a ten-day pause was taken to open the books and do a full audit in the swing states with questions that needed to be answered. Nothing more and nothing less. We are now two years away from that election and still we are waiting for answers. “a Backwoods Conservative”, July 16, 2022, “GERALDO RIVERA, SLEAZY GAMESHOW HOST, OR CREEPY SIDESHOW ACT, YOU DECIDE…”

May 2, 2022
“When propaganda, domestic espionage, malicious prosecution, blackmail, and an organized terror campaign of burn-loot-murder mayhem directed against ordinary Americans fail to subdue the citizen population, what do aspiring totalitarians do next? That’s right, friends, come on down: it’s Ministry of Truth time! The same Department of Homeland Security that has never had any interest in securing the homeland (come right over, international terrorists and drug-runners, the border’s wide open!) will now dedicate its malignant resources to censoring so much truth that only the government’s lies can be heard! If you can’t beat ’em in the arena of ideas, then beat them into submission with clubs, cut out their vocal chords, declare them “enemies of the State,” and round up anyone still standing. It’s the Deep State way!” J.B. Shurk, American Thinker, May 2, 2022: “Do We Draw the Line at a US Ministry of Truth?“

March 10, 2022
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” Carl Sagan, 1995, The Demon-Haunted World

March 2, 2022
“Joe, allow me to explain basic economics to you. Inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods. You have increased the money supply by 40% while decreasing the oil and goods supply – hence – inflation. You do not solve this problem by simply asking companies to “lower their costs.” I knew you meant “prices” but you said “costs,” and the reason they can’t lower their prices is because their costs are so high because your policies have limited supply. What an idiot.” Bill Mitchell via GETTR March 2, 2022, 05:25

February 20, 2022
“Folks, the biggest crisis facing us right now in America is the truth crisis — a truth crisis. Yes, we’re in a pandemic. Yes, there’s a crisis in Ukraine, no doubt. Yes, inflation’s terrible. But I’d argue to you the biggest crisis we face right now in this country is getting the truth. We can’t trust the government anymore. Did you ever ask yourself, what is it we’re not being told? Folks, we’ve seen freedom take a massive hit in the recent days and weeks. You watched it.” Dan Bongino, Fox News Live Transcript February 19, 2022 “Bongino tells Americans what the ‘biggest crisis’ facing them is“

January 20, 2022
“Save the 25^th Amendment or an unlikely resignation, Joe Biden will fumble his way through to 2024, his domestic and international policies steered by radicals and interventionists, and his cognitive decline further exacerbated by age and pharmaceutical side effects.  Unless the Democrats intervene by hook or by crook, a growing electorate of Republicans, independents, blue dogs, and accelerating numbers of black and Hispanic voters will oust majorities from the upper and lower chambers of Congress.

Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of COVID tests are about to flood American households, keeping Americans off balance, focused on the virus, and fearful of every sniffle or dry cough.  Absent a federal takeover of state elections, it is likely that the Biden administration will keep public COVID fears at peak levels in an effort to manufacture a crisis over in-person voting and force a return to widespread mailed ballots.

Democrats in earnest will continue to wag the dog in an effort to upend the predicted outcome of the 2022 midterms.  Voting hijinks, saber-rattling with Russia and China, COVID variants du jour, and January 6 conspiracies and criminal charges to unseat congressional Republicans are all dog-eared in the playbook.  Now convinced of the means to ill-gotten power, they are determined not to lower the curtain until there’s an encore.” Rick Fuentes, American Thinker, January 20, 2022, “Biden Crosses the Rubicon“.

November 17, 2021
“It is a pitiful sight to behold another family member, friend, or neighbor who has lost all ability to reason but instead chooses to remain wedded to the long and ever-increasing list of lies the Democrats tell them. And of course, some will do so just because they are dishonest and will never admit to being wrong. As to those, wipe the dust from your shoes and keep moving. Hopefully, for the naïve and credulous ones, some of our fellow citizens will grasp the truth before it is too late for them and for all of us.” Jeff M. Lewis, American Thinker, November 17, 2021 Divorced From the Truth; Wedded to the Lies They Have Been Told

November 2, 2021
“Let’s Go Brandon!” is now a universally understood taunt against the lying, corrupt, state-controlled, establishment media, their lack of reporting the truth and what matters to most Americans, their misreporting and blatant bias, or the flat-out, bold-face falsehoods they report as truth. Most Americans have had enough of the media’s malpractice and that is why we don’t listen to them anymore…about anything.

“Let’s Go Brandon!” is a proud, out-stretched “digital” hand gesture to the over-reach of an inept, unintelligent, inexperienced, but inexplicably cocky and arrogant, mentally-diminished senior citizen who is playing house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and is playing disastrous games with America’s most trusted institutions and her citizens. Most Americans cannot believe the rapid, nine-month decline in their country, their quality of life, their country’s international reputation and standing and, consequently, their diminished security in a frightfully dangerous world.

“Let’s Go Brandon!” is a hearty, throaty roar of defiance to the cabal that holds the levers of power that installed the current occupant of the Oval Office. Remember, they have an irresistible and nearly-silent influence in every arena: the government and its alphabet soup of omnipotent bureaucracies, those who are the political activists and lobbyists who hold an inescapable grip on the dismal Potomac Swamp, the big corporations who long ago decided to go-along and get-along to get ahead of the competition (having friends in high places), and the media/social media complex that not only controls the information we receive but will also fact-check into oblivion all who dare counter their carefully crafted and war-gamed narrative. Jeff M. Lewis, American Thinker, November 2, 2021 “They Can’t Stand It When We Ridicule Them“

October 27, 2021
Senate Questioning of Judge Merrick Garland
“That letter and those reports were the basis for your directive. This is shameful. Judge, this is shameful. This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge.” Senator Tom Cotton

October 15, 2021
On the Supply LINE (.sic) Debacle
“Last night (October 13, 2021), a Harvard professor called Jason Furman, who is closely aligned with the Biden White House, sent this tweet: “Most of the economic problems we’re facing inflation, supply chains, et cetera, are high class problems. We wouldn’t have had them if the unemployment rate was still 10 percent.” 

In other words, you ought to be thrilled to have less money. It means we’re winning. Ron Klain, who is Joe Biden’s chief of staff at the White House, promptly endorsed that tweet. And that’s delusional, or maybe it’s intentional, you pretend your failures are victories, and some people will doubtless believe you. That seemed to work in Afghanistan. Maybe it’ll work here. That could be their thinking. 

But it won’t work here, because domestic economics is not like foreign policy. People notice when their own lives change, when you can’t buy Christmas presents for your children or manage to keep your house warm in January. These are not symbolic problems. These are measurable declines in your family’s standard of living, and they have consequences. 

If economic decline continues, and it seems likely to continue. You will see a profound political reset in this country. And here’s why: The only reason Americans have put up with the endless woke garbage that the left turns out by the gallon is because they can afford to put up with it. For generations, this has been a very rich country, and affluence covers a multitude of sins. People will tolerate a lot of things they disagree with, as long as gas is cheap and the Amazon deliveries keep coming. 

But when a society becomes poorer, people’s attitudes change and they change fast. For one thing, they become much less patient when they’re mistreated. You’re firing me right before Christmas because I won’t take your shot? No, I’m resisting that. You’re telling me my son can’t get a job because he’s the wrong skin color? No, that’s wrong, and I’m going to fight it, etc. etc.” Tucker Carlson, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, October 14, 2021

October 6, 2021
On the $1.5 and $3.5 TRILLION Spending Bills
“Surely Biden knows he will never get his entire program through the Senate. But he’ll pass as much of it as he can. Doing so combines three central elements of the Democratic long-term agenda, pursued steadily since the mid-1930s: (1) overturn federalism and replace it with a centralized state; (2) use this administrative state to impose detailed regulations on the economy and society; and (3) redistribute federal funds to favored groups (and tax disfavored ones) to retain political control.

Implementing those goals has slowly transformed America, at least since the mid-1960s. Biden wants to take the next, large leap before his party loses power. Whether he, Nancy Pelosi, and the progressive caucus can actually make that leap — and land safely — is the real prize in this back-room bargaining. The fight is ultimately over how much they can centralize, regulate, and redistribute.” Charles Lipson, Real Clear Politics, October 5, 2021, “It’s Not the Top-Line Number — It’s the Bottom-Line Goal“

October 3, 2021
PF Whalen from The Blue State Conservative October 3, 2021
“Unfortunately, the religion of leftism, with its sects focusing on race, gender, climate change, and in this case, Covid, sees everything not as an opportunity to overcome adversity and forgiveness but as a chance for heinous retribution. 

This comment is also representative of the endless supply of love, tolerance, and compassion that the left so proudly champions. Entire organizations like the ACLU, instituted precisely to defend basic rights and liberty, is a mouthpiece for the left and cares not a whit for the freedoms being trampled upon at the altar of leftism. (Leftists) likewise do not care that rights, privileges, and freedoms are disappearing since the reason(s) for it do not conflict with their own worldview. People like this are sad, pathetic, misguided, and the reason our country will fail.”

August 13, 2021
“Too many potential Republicans have never made the jump because too many people are rightly confused about whom Republicans actually represent. (Hint: There is nothing wrong with “populism” if that means doing what actual voters prefer rather than what corporate lobbyists demand.) Most of the corporate boards, Wall Street banks, and Silicon Valley tech behemoths stand solidly with Democrats, yet Republicans are still routinely demonized as the “party of the rich.” Is that because Republican officeholders are so pathetically bad at politics, or because they too frequently vote for corporate welfare and investment firm bailouts, enact policies that encourage the outsourcing of working-class jobs overseas, and protect multinational conglomerates at the expense of American industries? Well, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and sixteen other Senate Republicans answered this question once again by joining Democrats in a one-and-a-half-trillion-dollar drunken spending binge filled with pork, crony insider enrichment, and a massive expansion of government power under the guise of “infrastructure” improvement. And while it sets the stage for the additional three-and-a-half-trillion-dollar Green New Deal takeover of the economy barreling our way, it does nothing to give Republicans even a patina of restraint or sensibility. It is difficult to explain to fence-sitters how the Democrat-corporate alliance is threatening Americans’ freedoms when half the Republicans in office use their powers to strengthen Wall Street and weaken Main Street at every turn.” J.B. Shurk, American Thinker, August 13, 2021, “Have You or a Loved One Been Hurt or Injured by the Democrat Party?“

July 17, 2021
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.” Ronald Reagan, address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, March 30, 1961

July 14, 2021
Biden Understands That He Is Illigitimate
“Biden had to go to Philadelphia today to defend the legitimacy of his presidency. Biden understands that he is illegitimate, that in fact there were shenanigans there were irregularities, there was fraud that took place. Today was indicative of his realization that he is on shaky ground. Look, Edward R Murrow said it best — ‘a nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.’ We are not sheep.” Ken Blackwell, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights July 13, 2021 

June 30, 2021
On Jill Biden and the Vogue Cover Story
“So much of what people call “news” isn’t hard facts. There’s a less favorable word for it: publicity. When Democrats rule, news meets a dam, and publicity overflows. 

Democrats pretend everyone’s a Democrat. Vogue pushed Jill Biden on the cover as a “First Lady for All of Us.” That’s transparently false, but the liberal media lamely attempt the Jedi mind trick: “You will all adore, admire and envy Jill Biden in her stilettos, every inch the goddess at 69 … “
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham, June 30, 2021, Town Hall “Jill Biden, ‘Every Inch a Goddess’“

June 24, 2021
The Media Are Lying About the 1776 Report
By Kaylee McGhee White, The Washington Examiner, January 19, 2021

The 1776 Report’s “central thesis is exactly right: A good education will teach students to understand one’s country and aspire to its ideals in spite of its flaws. “Thoughtful citizens embrace their national community not only because it is their own,” the report says, “but also because they see what it can be at its best.”

Unfortunately, many in the media aren’t interested in the honest introspection this kind of education requires. They would rather promote a curriculum that fosters a hatred of one’s own country because at least then they could finally do away with the pesky American ideals that stand between this nation and a social justice-driven, identity politics-obsessed agenda.”

June 10, 2021
The Stage is Set
Doug Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

“Society is wide open here currently and masks, for the most part, have been relegated to the lowly relevance of a bad memory.

It’s a trap, of course, that will likely spring shut this fall and winter. But, in the meantime, the people are celebrating their freedom-via-Big Pharma, and perfectly timed with good weather. It could not have been planned any better. This is because the Covid vaccinations have, apparently, “culturally misappropriated” the power of Vitamin D in the summer sun. Or stated another way: Big Pharma is stealing the immune system’s valor.

And SHAME on the Anti-Vaxxers® who now refuse to abide by the “honor system” of wearing their masks. Through their selfish disdain for others, and outright dishonesty, The Unclean are jeopardizing the lives of the elderly, the morbidly obese, and those with comorbidities, as well putting the societal liberties of the Fully Vaccinated® at risk everywhere.

Can you see what is about to happen?

In the above photo, the “you” on the beach could be compared to General Custer standing before a wave of angry Native Americans. Or, perhaps the person on the beach might represent the Native Americans… with the wave signifying Manifest Destiny.  Or, some might say the lone figure is a metaphor of mid-twentieth-century European Jewry facing the wave of Hitler’s SS. And others might say the picture portrays the last American patriot staring down the rising tide of globalism global Marxism The Great Reset®.

In my view, however, the lone figure exemplifies those who stand for truth before a wave of global deception that is about to deliver an ocean of consequences. The point, of course, is this: the honest remnant cannot stop what is coming. It is because time and tide wait for no one. Moreover, history has proven how collective madness has always run its due course.

The balkanization of the U.S. is underway and the fault lines are fracturing according to Covid delusions and Cultural Marxism.

In response, it has been interesting to see how red states with conservative governors and Republican legislatures, have taken action to forestall the Marxist wave. Some of the measures have included outlawing proof of vaccination requirements, rolling back mask mandates, giving back federal money in order to stimulate people back to work, enacting voting reform, and, even, passing open-carry legislation.

Certainly, the new political lines of demarcation are now at the state and local levels. Queue the politics of personal destruction paired to the just-in-time delivery of Dominion voting machines to a polling location near you.

Certainly, it is a war of information and a race against time.”

June 8, 2021
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” – Edward Bernays – Propaganda – 1928

April 27, 2021
“The signs of an epic bubble of historic proportions are everywhere. The stock market is a bubble, with valuations exceeding 2001. Margin debt is at all-time highs. The bond market is a bubble, with the Fed artificially suppressing rates and pumping trillions of QE into Wall Street. Housing is experiencing another bubble, with prices now far exceeding the 2005 peak. Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto-currencies are a bubble, being driven by the excess liquidity sloshing around the system. A joke crypto currency like Dogecoin soars into the stratosphere because money has no meaning anymore…

In my view, the signs are everywhere. Getting rich quick has engulfed the entire nation in a madness never seen before in human history. Effortless enrichment is a delusion. And all delusions end in tears. An entire nation was convinced, by those controlling the narrative, the annual flu was a pandemic by giving it a new name, marketing the hell out of it, using a faulty test to artificially inflate cases, and understanding they were dealing with compliant obedient sheep. If they can make you believe that, they can make you believe anything.

“The recurrent and sadly erroneous belief that effortless enrichment is an entitlement associated with what is thought to be exceptional financial perspicacity and wisdom is not something that yields to legislative remedy.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria

The signs are everywhere, but few will heed them.” April 27, 2021, The Burning Platform, “Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs“

April 22, 2021
“Evidence of a “cold” American civil war has been playing out in the streets of America for the last year and the reality is it’s been percolating for decades. From the 1999 WTO protests to the hordes calling George Bush a Nazi to Occupy Wall Street, the hyperbole and violence have been ratcheting up for years.

The catalyst that put us on the path to today was Barack Obama’s nomination. Not because of Obama himself, but rather because of the cudgel Democrats crafted from his race. Anyone who opposed Obama’s policies was racist. Suddenly, conservatives who reiterated policies they’d supported for decades were racists as was anyone who opposed Democrat policies.

But race was only the beginning. If you opposed gay marriage: Homophobic. Opposed women in combat: Sexist. Supported the police: Fascist.

Such was the beginning of the journey that brings us to America circa 2021.” Vince Coyner, American Thinker, April 22, 2021, “The Democrats’ Divide and Conquer Policy is on Steroids“

April 8, 2021
“The attack in progress from the left is far more than personal. It’s a Marxist assault on our values — an unrelenting campaign to delegitimize and stigmatize any departure from the party view. The tactic is recognizable in China and other communist nations. If it proceeds according to their example, “social credit” and prison sentences will follow. To date, it’s been limited to economic extortion, ostracism, and job loss, but make no mistake: there’s a war on. Wars often begin with a blockade. A blockade cuts both ways.

Victory may depend on what we can live without. I can live without the abuse and whoever delivers it.” Charles Turot, April 7, 2021, American Thinker “Things We Can Live Without“

April 2, 2021
“Joe Biden aspired to mediocrity in his prime and it’s been downhill ever since. As for Kamala Harris: some are born hacks, some achieve hackness, and some have hackness thrust upon them. She’s all three. They and their string-pullers have taken things from fun to serious—deadly serious—in a little over two months.” Robert Gore, April 1, 2021 Straight Line Logic, “It Got Serious in a Hurry“

March 25, 2021
“America effectively has no president. It has a cabal running things from the White House. It has a very vindictive, narrowly ideological president-in-training, Kamala Harris, who, when she assumes the presidency well before January 2025 offers no remedies but more trouble.

Backlashes are building to the folly unfolding at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This misbegotten administration needs to be hamstrung. The nation’s safety, prosperity, and liberty are on the line.” J. Robert Smith, American Thinker, March 25, 2021, “The Unfit President“

March 18, 2021
“Dr. Seuss books, Mrs. Butterworth’s Syrup, Uncle Ben’s Rice, beloved-by-generations Aunt Jemima. Gone in a flash. A collective stain on America and a danger to American society. And even more ominously: a danger to America’s children in their formative years.

God knows what might happen to the children of America if they continue to eat “racist” syrup, “racist” butter, “racist” pancake mix, “racist” rice, or play with “misogynist” (and no doubt “racist”) toy potatoes, and watch a perverted cartoon French skunk do his deviant damnedest to turn the little boys of America into future, misogynistic, raving-mad rapists.

Yet we’re good to go with those very same kids watching barely-dressed women, barely-not having sex while disgustingly writhing on a stage on national television, in all of their “artistic” glory. Even worse, viewed by many as “ground-breaking entertainment.”

What the hell happened to our country?”
Mike Miller, RedState, March 18, 2021, “What Happened to Our Country?“

February 25, 2021
On Good vs. Evil…

“Compromise between good and evil spells death for the good. If I ask you to drink a cup of cyanide and you refuse, but we compromise on half a cup, who wins?

It’s these sort of compromises, exacted bit by bit over decades, that have destroyed a once great nation.” Robert Gore, December 23, 2020, Straight Line Logic, “The Grey Curtain Descends, Part 1“

February 25, 2021
Regarding the COVID lockdowns…

“The reckoning will be taking place for months if not years. In the end people will be left wondering why we took such extreme measures that wrecked so many lives when the endemic equilibrium comes in time regardless of all these measures. We tried a crazy experiment in social and economic control and we are left with scant evidence that it made much difference on the virus but vast evidence that they demoralized and ruined life for billions of people. 

What about the opening? There will continue to be those who will cower in fear, still dealing with the deep psychological trauma that comes from watching TV journalists scream panic for the better part of a year. But there will be an emerging majority that will be more than willing to go back to real life.” Jeffrey Tucker, February 23, 2021, American Institute for Economic Research, “How Does All of This End? 

February 20, 2021
“Proving once again that even after more than two years in control of the House, Democrats still have no idea how to lead, a group of them are wasting time on a bill of attainder targeted at preventing President Trump from having any legacy at all, including banning him from being buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This is allegedly because he’s guilty of inciting an insurrection which the evidence shows he didn’t incite, for which he has not been found guilty in any court, and for which he was “impeached” and found not guilty.

Hilariously, they’re calling this the “No Glory for Hate Act,” even though, as Matt Pollard notes at the link, it’s born entirely out of their own four-year mindless hatred of Donald Trump.” Mike Huckabee, February 20, 2021 Mike Huchabee.com “Democrats Wasting Time“

February 3, 2021
“Trump’s election was glaring evidence of a deep dissatisfaction with both conventional politicians and the establishment—for their lack of mettle against the left and their refusal to address the many cultural issues that fell outside of their conventional views of conservatism. In addition, President Trump’s dogged commitment to keeping his promises led to adoration within his conservative base of supporters.

But his presidency was about far more. It was the first real counter assault to the left in decades, by a champion who had the stomach and the strength to sustain the withering fire of his adversaries. This explains the lengths to which the left went to destroy his presidency and his movement.” Russ Vought, January 26, 2021, President, Center for American Restoration, “How To Lead The United States Into An American Spring“

January 26, 2021
“Today, many of us that came here as refugees are watching with bemusement and a mild sense of trepidation as the oblivious, self-absorbed, puerile wannabe autocrats in the Ruling Class are hell-bent on imposing their dysfunctional version of one-party dictatorial rule on a nation they apparently neither know nor understand. They are not only beset with a severe case of narcissism but are among the most gullible and easily manipulated due to their overweening need to feel superior to those they perceive to be lesser fellow citizens.  This sense of superiority eventually manifests itself in an immutable belief that they are preordained to rule the unwashed masses. The current iteration of the American Ruling Class has not only embraced dictatorial methods as a means to their ends but are astonishingly ill-educated thanks to decades of indoctrination rather than education at America’s universities.  This ill-education encompasses not only an inability by the vast majority to reason and generate an original thought but also a breathtaking ignorance of the history of mankind, and a profound inability to comprehend the American experience and citizenry.” Steve McCann, 1/26/21, American Thinker, “The Attempt to Install a One-Party Oligarchy is Predestined to Fail“

January 8, 2021
“Why do $20,000 refrigerators, trying to torch a federal courthouse, and spitting in a policeman’s face all seem to have something vaguely in common? Revolutions with ensuing chaos usually follow from the professional and upper-classes joining the mob, either in expectation their solidarity will earn exemption, or as a lark out of boredom, or in ignorance about the venom of those who destroy monuments and burn, or in furor their own upward mobility did not quite land them among the most chosen of the elite.

For now we wait for one local PTA member to refuse to change the name of his Lincoln school, or a crusading prosecutor who issues 40 federal racketeering indictments the next time Antifa drives in to town to take over a house, torch a courthouse, or reclaim a street, or a judge who sentences a violent arsonist to a 20-year sentence pour encourager les autres, or an exasperated college dean who will say no to segregating dorms or no-go zones by race, or one honest journalist who finally presses Joe Biden to answer what have Hunter and his family done.” Victor Davis Hanson, 1/3/21, American Greatness, “Defenders of Civilization?“

January 2, 2021
“Well-meaning people say Republicans and Democrats have the same fundamental goals but different ideas and strategies for achieving them. I’ve always regarded this as wishful thinking, but if it were ever true, it no longer is today. The two parties, as presently constituted, have distinctly different visions for America based on conflicting worldviews. Some will object that all Americans want everyone to be prosperous, safe, free, and to live in harmony, but I’m not sure that’s even true anymore, given the left’s anti-Americanism, its intolerance and authoritarianism, its romance with socialism, its hysterical environmentalism, its preoccupation with identity politics, its radicalism on race and gender, its attempts to erase our borders, its culture of death, its devaluation of the Constitution, its hostility to Second Amendment rights, and much more.” David Limbaugh, 1/1/21, Creators.com, “Never Give up“

December 31, 2020
“The hubris that made them (the Left) believe they could succeed will be their undoing.  That same hubris tried to convince us that Trump was a Russian asset.  That same hubris gave Trump all negative media, and a tongue-bathing of Joe.  The same hubris thinks they succeeded in censoring the Biden family’s corruption.  The same hubris that thinks we will all go quietly while they destroy our lives and this country.  The same hubris that thinks we should change our country’s “awful founding” for their noble, utopian vision of a socialist nation run by them.

Their center cannot hold, their destruction is coming.  As is the renewal of the American people.  Because no matter which way the wind blows now, the left is going to lose.  What remained of their reputation is gone forever. 

We will not submit.” David Prentice, American Thinker, December 31, 2020, “The Left Takes on God’s Country“

December 21, 2020
“For quite some time the American Left has been busy turning American law into a partisan political weapon. Various progressive factions have undertaken a disparate and uncoordinated but still ideologically homogeneous effort to criminalize dissent using the courts and statutory law.

By most traditional metrics, these efforts have been failures: the liberals have often lost, and the conservative targets have avoided jail time or crippling criminal or civil convictions or penalties. But the weaponization of our legal system should not be judged by traditional metrics. The point is not for liberals to “win” any particular lawsuit or legal enforcement so much as it is to use lawsuits and the law as the weapons in and of themselves. The process is the punishment. And in most of these cases the punishment is very severe. That’s the idea.” Daniel Payne, August 8, 2016 The Federalist, “How The Left Is Weaponizing The American Legal System“. 

December 17, 2020
“The Democrats never accounted for Joe being a most dangerous of morons: the moron who does not know he is a moron. Their intention was to let him be president for a while, not thinking he would actually believe he was in control.

The left is now faced with Joe Biden, President Select, an addlepated buffoon standing on home plate in an adult diaper absolutely convinced Americans believe he hit a home run.” William L. Gensert, American Thinker, December 17, 2020, “Both the Left and Right Have a Biden Problem“.

December 10, 2020
“Half of our country now feel exactly the opposite of the other half. We have the half that believes in law and order and justice, and then we have the half that wants to use those terms to perpetuate their positions, acting as if there is no justice and promoting that to an uneducated segment of our society to make them think that rioting and a violent pursuit of what they have termed social justice is the way to some kind of utopian future.” Steve Smith, YouTube,  6/15/20

November 26, 2020
“As more evidence floods in that the 2020 elections were rife with an obvious mountain of voter fraud, it’s becoming increasingly clear that President Trump is going to be reelected. The last two weeks we’ve seen patriots losing hope and progressives celebrating, but we’ve witnessed many turns of events as momentum now appears to be siding with the President, his legal team, independent attorneys, and the mounting evidence.

There are three things we need to prepare for when President Trump is announced the winner. That’s not to say we need to take it for granted or get complacent, but if we believe truth will prevail, then we know President Trump will prevail.

First and foremost, we must prepare to address the unhinged reactions from peers and those we know on social media. They’re going to take mainstream media’s word for it that when it happens, it will be President Trump “stealing” the election. We need to be prepared to convince them otherwise by sharing the truth and calling them out for preferring to win by cheating than lose with integrity.

Second, there will be violence. Lots of it. Unlike conservatives who have not burned down any building just because Joe Biden has been announced the winner, we need to prepare to defend ourselves, our families, and our communities from the violent responses from the radical left.

Lastly, we need to hold the weak or fake conservatives accountable. They are either giving up too easily or never supported President Trump at all. Either way, their treachery must not be forgotten. That doesn’t mean we don’t forgive them, but forgiveness and forgetfulness are not the same thing.

It’s going to get crazier from here. We need to focus on praying for our nation and helping the proper, lawful results of the election come to light. But we must also prepare for the aftermath of the election being righteously flipped. J. D. Rucker November 26, 2020, NOQ Report, “3 Things to Prepare for When President Trump is Declared the Winner“

November 24, 2020
“We are at war with enemies of liberty, domestic and foreign.  Domestic enemies are now pressing relentlessly…  This war is much more than disputes over fraudulent elections, though that would be cause enough.  The new war has been imagined, developed, and phased in over decades by the Left.  It’s unconventional, asymmetric, and cunning.  It’s insidious, and has been about stealth and infiltration more so than outright confrontation — until this year, when state shutdowns have been imposed to test the limits of tyranny… to gauge the level of tolerance of unconstitutional centralized rule over a free people.  Targeted violence has been employed in cities to engender angst, a sense of helplessness, and, consequently, to demoralize us.   

The Left’s warfare — underwritten by coastal plutocrats, chiefly — is comprehensive.  The target now is our politics.  The aim is to capture our national and state governments.  Dominating the means of government nearly ensures its ends, which have nothing to do with our freedoms. What would follow leftist consolidation of power in the United States is the hoped-for realization of the leftist-globalist dream of a “Great Reset,” whereby the United States is subsumed in some oligarchic-Marxist transnational utopia.  As the history of the last 100 years teaches us abundantly, the left’s quests for utopia resolve in hells.   

The new war has and is being waged principally against our culture — against our values, beliefs, and mores.  It has been and is against the fundamentals of a healthy, free, and civil society.  The assaults are against what’s organic to a vital society: marriage, family, and children, neighborhood and community.  The tissue, bone, and sinew of American society must be separated and destroyed for the enemy to reconstruct society according to its perverse vision. J. Robert Smith, American Thinker, November 24, 2020, “This is War”

November 23, 2020
“Seriously folks,

If the Trump campaign up and “fired” @sidneypowell (which they couldn’t do anyway because they WEREN’T paying her), you think they’d help Sidney put out this statement?

Deep breaths everyone.

We’re all good.”

Michael Flynn Jr. via Parler, 11/22/20

November 20, 2020
“Here’s a serious question.  Have we passed that Rubicon in America beyond which it is no longer possible to pretend the American government is legitimately representing the people?  I know that question is on a lot of Americans’ minds these days, and I think it speaks volumes about our brewing crisis that none of our elected leaders has even attempted to acknowledge, let alone address, the growing unease outside the capital.  People are arming up right now in record numbers not because of hunting season; they’re buying weapons because their instincts tell them America is on the brink.  But if America is on the brink, the D.C. Leviathan seems unsympathetic or unaware.  That makes for an awfully dangerous situation.” J.B. Shurk, November 20, 2020, American Thinker, “Time for a New Declaration?“

November 13, 2020
“Biden, the (New York) Times keeps reassuring its readers, is our unequivocal president-elect; there’s no evidence whatsoever of any kind of electoral hanky-panky; Trump, by claiming otherwise, is being the thug, the sore loser, whom we always knew him to be; by leveling these utterly unfounded charges, he is spitting in the face of American democracy and rejecting an honorable two-and-a-half-century-long history of presidents peacefully transferring power to their successors.  

All nonsense, of course. It’s already plain that there has been significant Democratic duplicity at the polls in several states. Every day the mountain of evidence grows higher.” Bruce Bower, American Greatness, November 12, 2020, “If All the Fraud Is Uncovered, Trump Will Win“

November 5, 2020
“I cannot say whether there is any sort of voter fraud going on. But I can say two things:

1. Democrats, along with subscribing to an ends-justify-the-means, morally relativistic worldview, also believe that Trump is evil incarnate, literally worse than Hitler. This outlook creates, at least, an enormous incentive to cheat, and removes any moral compunction a person might feel about it. That alone doesn’t prove that fraud is happening, but it heightens the need for transparency, efficiency, and oversight. The Left will tell you that they fear for their very lives if Trump is re-elected. What if people who have this (insane, irrational) fear are in charge of counting the votes in key battleground states? Is there not now, at minimum, a severe temptation toward potentially dishonest behavior?

2. Mail-in voting and early voting create more opportunities for things to go wrong, either through intentional subterfuge, human error, or other circumstances. This is largely why I hold the scandalous view that all voting should take place in person, on election day. Voting should end when that day ends, and begin when it begins. Of course any ballots cast during that period should be counted, no matter how long it takes. But accepting ballots that could potentially have been cast after the conclusion of voting, as Pennsylvania is currently doing, is madness. And it is almost as mad to allow voting for many weeks before the presidential election really begins. ” Matt Walsh, The Daily Caller, November 4, 2020 “After This Debacle, We Should Abolish Early Voting And Mail-In Voting“

October 29, 2020
“Don’t buy the lie. We win this if we just take that last step, filling out our ballots straight GOP (even if that means marking it for intermittently annoying people like Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, and the insufferable Ben Sasse). That’s all you’ve got to do. Think about the liberal tears that will flow when the networks are forced to croak out the magical words “We project that *sniff* President Donald J. Trump has been reelected” followed by, “It appears that the Republican Party has kept the Senate and has won a majority in the House.” ” Kurt Schlichter, Town Hall,  October 29, 2020, ‘Don’t Get Suckered by the Establishment Psy-Op‘

October 27, 2020
“The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and his successful prosecution of the Civil War, as well as laying the groundwork for national reconciliation, initiated 72 years of Republican Party dominance in national politics, which included 12 of the 15 Presidents elected during that period.   Due to the Great Depression and his creation of a populist coalition among the working classes, Franklin D. Roosevelt ushered in 84 years of national dominance by the Democrat party.  Donald Trump, by reconstituting this coalition and unabashedly opposing the entrenched Ruling Class and the radical American left, is on the cusp of joining Lincoln and Roosevelt as the most politically transformative Presidents in American history.” Steve McCann, American Thinker,  October 27, 2020, ‘Donald Trump is Poised to Become Among the Most Transformative Presidents in American History‘

October 22, 2020
“Propagandists and cynical ad men know that the bovine mass will follow the cow with the bell. Herd sentiments are not decisive in an election, but they are relevant.

Most live polls with limited numbers and large margins of error are pushing an agenda. Nationwide popularity polls are an example, irrelevant because a president is elected state-by-state through the Electoral College.

Real democracy plays by the rules.

Most major pollsters are associated with one or more media outlets. Partisan news organizations are selling prophesy, not forecasts. Propaganda is probably the polite description of much that passes for political news in the last decade.

Can enough ordinary voters see through the hype, smog, and distortions to make a pragmatic choice that preserves what’s left of the best of America?”

” G. Murphy Donovan, American Thinker,  October 22, 2020, ‘Why the Polls May Be Wrong Again“

October 17, 2020
“Mr. Siegel, a professor emeritus at New York’s Cooper Union and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says he overcame his distaste for Mr. Trump for three reasons. First, foreign policy: “Crushing ISIS, pulling us out of the Iran nuclear deal, moving our embassy to Jerusalem, and making fools of those people who insist that the Palestinian issue is at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict.” Second, by his “ability to withstand a prolonged coup attempt by the Democrats and the media,” which started with the Steele dossier: “If I’m saying what I find impressive about Trump, it’s that he’s survived. He has an extraordinary amount of arrogance, egotism, and self-confidence.

Mr. Siegel’s third reason goes to the heart of his own political philosophy. He sees the president as a champion of “bourgeois values,” under threat from the “clerisy,” Mr. Siegel’s word for the dominant elites who “despise” those values. He regards Mr. Biden as a “captive” of this clerisy, and running mate Kamala Harris as the “embodiment of it.”

“I don’t want to see her as president,” Mr. Siegel says of Sen. Harris. “I don’t want a San Francisco Democrat who’s likely to impose elements of the Green New Deal, which she sponsored but lied about sponsoring on television. If Biden wins, she will be president in short order. I don’t know how long Biden will last.”

In Mr. Siegel’s view, “hard work, faith, family and autonomy” have enabled America to thrive, and Mr. Trump stands for these values, even if he doesn’t always exemplify them. “The elite is largely detached from the middle class,” Mr. Siegel says. “The two major sources of wealth in the last 20 years have been finance and Silicon Valley. Neither of them has much connection to middle-class America, or Middle America.” Mr. Trump is “in favor of manufacturing jobs, which are often middle-class.” The president also “recognizes the ways in which China is a threat to the survival of middle-class life in America, directly and indirectly.” Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal October 16, 2020, ‘An Ex-Liberal Reluctantly Supports Trump‘

October 8, 2020
“The only thing that outraged the leftist elite more than Donald Trump’s stubborn refusal to die was his stubborn refusal to cower in fear. Think of the collective climax they would have had if he had been wheeled out to the chopper or looked anything but mega-butch in the face of the virus? Once again, his courage has defied them, and that they cannot forgive. Now they are gripped with fear, the fear that the rest of us will stop being afraid too, because if we are not afraid then there’s no reason to let them run our lives. And without fear, there is nothing to protect them.” Kurt Schlichter, October 8, 2020,Town Hall, “They Want You To Be Afraid“

September 15, 2020
“Biden’s agenda is a fantasy creation. His role was to save the party from Sanders, win suburbanites, and pander to the party’s socialist sympathizers of Antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement. That is an impossible task because today’s Democratic Party is a conglomeration of squabbling tribes and looney agendas.” Victor Davis Hanson, September 13, 2020, “Biden, the Great and Powerful“

September 11, 2020
“His Administration’s Covid-19 record has also been better than he makes it sound—in mobilizing private-public efforts for testing, PPE and vaccines, and preventing a financial meltdown in March. His main failing has been inconstant rhetorical leadership. He has undersold the virus risks and oversold his own achievements when what the public has wanted all along is the candid reality.

Democrats are now citing the Woodward non-reveal as proof that Mr. Trump is responsible for 190,000 deaths, which is contemptible even by today’s political standards. Covid-19 would have challenged any Presidency, as it has Democratic governors. Mr. Trump has made mistakes, as we have often pointed out. But he also saved lives and livelihoods by urging an earlier end to the lockdowns that have done horrific economic and public-health harm.

The media campaign to hold Mr. Trump solely responsible for the harm from Covid-19 is rank political opportunism. Voters should ignore the campaign and judge the whole record. “ The Wall Street Journal Editorial, September 11, 2020, “Woodwards’s Non-Revelation“

September 6, 2020
“If most ballots this fall are cast by mail, the results may not be known for days. That could plunge America into prolonged controversy and undermine confidence in the outcome and the democratic system, both something adversaries in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran would cheer.

This election will feature days—possibly weeks—of indecision, which invites chaos, and chaos invites greater division. This will be the byproduct of moving the 2020 election from the booth to the mailbox. Our democracy doesn’t need yet another stress test, but we’re setting it up for one.” Karl Rove, September 2, 2020, The Wall Street Journal, “What Could Go Wrong on Election Day?”

September 3, 2020
“Wolf, this is a sort of cheap talk to get around the fundamental problem, which is the Bipartisan Commission chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker said back in 2009 that mail-in voting is fraught with the risk of fraud and coercion. We’re a very closely divided country here. And if people have to have confidence in the results of the election and the legitimacy of the government, and people trying to change the rules to this methodology, which, as a matter of logic, is very open to fraud and coercion, is reckless and dangerous. And people are playing with fire. we haven’t had the kind of widespread use of mail-in ballots that’s being proposed. We’ve got absentee ballots from people who request them from a specific address.

Now what we’re talking about is mailing them to everyone on the voter list, when everyone knows those voter lists are inaccurate. People who should get them don’t get them, which has been one of the major complaints in states that have tried this, in municipal elections.

And people who get them are not the right people. They’re people who have replaced the occupant — the previous occupant, and they can make them out. And sometimes multiple ballots come to the same address with a whole generation — several generations of occupants.

Do you think that’s a way to run a vote?” Attorney General Bill Barr in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, September 2, 2020

August 27, 2020
“As a physician, I can say without hesitation, ‘Life begins at conception.’ While what I have to say may be difficult for some to hear, I am saying it because I am not just pro-life; I’m pro-eternal life. I want all of us to end up in heaven together someday.”Sister Dierdre Byrne, MD (Colonel, USA, retired) at the Republican National Convention, August 26, 2020

July 31, 2020
“WE are NOT “all in this together”!! Politicians and state and local officials have not given up one paycheck. They have NOT plowed under their fields or slaughtered their livestock or dumped their milk. They have not lost their homes or businesses. They have not laid awake all night wondering how they will feed their families or pay their bills. As they continue to enforce some of their draconian restrictions, not one of them is suffering from their own decisions. They are not now…AND NEVER WILL BE…any part of the “WE” in this!!!!” “Supreme Patriot” – July 31, 2020 via Parler

July 17, 2020
“As difficult as it often is to be surrounded by an army of corporate news malefactors distorting the truth, social media censors depriving Americans of their speech, and Democratic Party prosecutors using their offices to support Antifa violence against innocent Americans, it is helpful to remember that there is nothing more American than being greatly outnumbered and left for certain defeat.”

J.B. Shurk, July 16, 2020 in American Thinker, “Take Heart Blue State Republicans; Being Outnumbered is an American Tradition.“

July 13, 2020
“Observe how many posts criticizing this pardon (editor’s note: the Roger Stone commutation) are almost thoroughly “feelings-based.” I’m genuinely curious if they are actually aware of the intellectual vacuum of such positions, or is it a conscious strategy.

If the great awakening is coming as regular folks start standing up to radical ridiculousness, holding snowflakes accountable for equating facts and feelings will be the most enjoyable part to watch.”

A Wall Street Journal subscriber posting following the July 13, 2020 Op-Ed, “Of Pardons and Presidents”

July 5, 2020
“Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity.  No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America.  And no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our great nation.

Centuries from now, our legacy will be the cities we built, the champions we forged, the good we did, and the monuments we created to inspire us all.

America’s destiny is in our sights.  America’s heroes are embedded in our hearts.  America’s future is in our hands.” President Donald J. Trump, July 3, 2020 Extracted from Speech Delivered at Mt. Rushmore 

June 25, 2020
“Amid the passions of this present moment, Democrats have traded in the tedious pursuit of marginal reforms to the tax code and accelerating the growth of America’s unfunded liabilities for the fervent zeal of cultural combat. Its most active partisans are dedicated less to redistribution than retribution. Those who resist are, at best, unenlightened; deviationists, at worst. And there is no room for compromise with such a distasteful lot. Noah Rothman, Commentary, June 24, 2020, “The Culture War and the Progressive Delusion“

May 19, 2020
“…in war, winning comes not to the timid but to those willing to assess and weigh the cost of defeat against the value of victory and act boldly. Today, 75 years later, it seems as if few in our government would be willing to engage in that calculus and act accordingly.” Former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr, The Daily Caller, May 18, 2020, “Since When Did Risk Become a Four Letter Word?“

May 12, 2020
“There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense.

For them, it is a war – and for them, nothing is out of bounds. This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.

Their financial resources are unlimited. Their political resources are unlimited. Their media resources are unlimited. And, most importantly, the depths of their immorality [are] unlimited.

But I take all of these slings and arrows for you. I take them for our movement, so that we can have our country back.

This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization.

This election is about every man, woman and child in our country who deserves to live in safety, prosperity and peace.

We will rise above the lies, the smears, and the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous reporters.” Donald J. Trump, October 13, 2016 Speech in Miami, FL 

May 1, 2020
“It was obvious from the beginning that Mike Flynn’s ouster was a total set-up, because the circumstances of it were so implausibly stupid. They tried to criminalize completely routine phone conversations with the Russian ambassador” Michael Tracy (Left-wing reporter) via Twitter, April 29, 2020

April 18, 2020
“I’ve looked at all the models. I’ve spent a lot of time on the models. They don’t tell you anything. You can’t really rely upon models.” Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Task Force Meeting, week of April 3rd, 2020 as quoted in The Daily Wire.

April 6, 2020
“The problem with people referring to this bizarre pandemic life limbo as “the new normal” is that there are people out there, both in and out of positions of responsibility, who are digging this opportunity to boss us around…The mainstream media, when it’s not otherwise engaged in covering for the bat-eating ChiComs…is cheerleading to shut down the entire country. Of course, just because New Yorkers live on top of each other in a festering urban petri dish does not mean everyone else does. (If those urban swells have to sit tight in their crappy walk-ups watching Netflix, so do those folks out in Jesusland, damnit – parentheses added). Also, they feel the need to close the gun stores since the manly act of purchasing equipment to defend one’s self, family, community, and Constitution shames the liberal sissies whose low-T lifestyle keeps them from doing their duty…What is particularly troubling are the medical experts who gleefully demand months of our continued imprisonment. They can’t seem to understand that the medical angle is only one component of this situation. Yes, it’s an important one. So is not creating a depression… We normal citizens get the final say in our country’s priorities, and we may not decide that our priorities are exactly the same as Dr. Fauci’s. I, for one, am willing to accept some risk regarding the infection in order to avoid America degenerating into a Road Warrior scenario… Adults accept risk when balancing various interests. The idea that “It’s not worth one life” is childish and stupid. We have cars. Cars kill 30K people a year. We accept that risk. What’s the proper risk balancing for the Chinese coronavirus?… Trump is chomping (.sic) at the bit to throw off the shackles of the pandemic response. Pretty soon, most everyone will be. We are all in when we see the response makes sense, but as this goes on with no light at the end of the tunnel and more power-hungry jerks getting off on getting on our backs, that will change. The fact that the grimmest Bat Soup Disease predictions have not come true will only accelerate this natural backlash. There’s a fuse on America’s patience, especially with the aspiring nanny-staters, and when it burns to the end look out.”Extracted from an article by former Boston Red Sox Pitcher Kurt Schlichter, Town Hall, April 6, 2020 “Beware the Creeps Who Enjoy Their New Pandemic Power” 

March 24, 2020
“Take every four-letter word you can imagine, square it, and create a few new ones and you’ll be close to describing people who see one Republican Senator diagnosed with coronavirus and 4 others in self-quarantine because of possible exposure as “leverage.” Derek Hunter, Town Hall, March 24, 2020 “Democrats are Really Bad People”

March 21, 2020
“This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.” Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) during a Democrat leadership conference call on Thursday, March 19, 2020 as quoted in The Hill.

March 8, 2020
“The conservative believes man is born free and will be who he is, no matter what arbitrary limitations or rules are put on him. The liberal believes man is perfectible, and by extension, believes a society at large is perfectible, and
command and control is justified in the quest to a “perfect” utopian society.”  from the About Us page of The Conservative Treehouse

February 27, 2020
“The average household in the top 1% retains almost 18 times as much income after taxes and transfer payments as the average bottom-quintile household. But it pays more than 219 times as much in taxes. Even at the very top of the income distribution, the average household in the top 0.1% has more than 31 times as much income as the average bottom-quintile household, but pays almost 482 times as much in total taxes.” The Wall Street Journal Editorial February 27, 2020 Wealthy Americans Already Pay Their Share

February 24, 2020
“Democrats are waking to the prospect of a nominee who wants to eliminate private health insurance, raise taxes on the middle class, ban fracking and put government in charge of energy production, make college a taxpayer entitlement, offer free health care to illegal immigrants, raise spending by $50 trillion, and tag every down-ballot Democrat with the socialist label.” The Wall Street Journal Editorial February 24, 2020   The Sanders Democrats

February 19, 2020
“When We The People argue the facts and we stand united for a noble cause, we can overcome the corrupting influence of money and Leftist ideology.” – Laura Ingraham, “The Ingraham Angle”, February 18, 2020 

February 11, 2020
“Voters chose Donald Trump as an antidote to the growing inflammation caused by the (OK, deep breath . . .) prosperity-crushing, speech-inhibiting, nanny state-building, carbon-obsessing, patriarchy-bashing, implicit bias-accusing, tokey-wokey, globalist, swamp-creature governing class—all perfectly embodied by the Democrats’ 2016 nominee.” – Andy Kessler, The Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2020, President Donald J. MacGuffin

February 7, 2020
“Humans can’t control the temperature of the sun, tilt of the sun, solar activity, distance the Earth is from the sun, daily rotation of the Earth, annual orbit of the Earth, high tides, low tides, the Jetstream, El Nino, or La Nina but we are told that if we give politicians and bureaucrats trillions of dollars they can control the sea level, temperature and sea levels forever. Does that make sense?” – Jack Hellner American Thinker, February 7, 2020, Global Warming’s 50 years of Fraud

January 29, 2020
Speaking of Leftists in general, in which I include the entire crop of 2020 Democratic candidates for President, chief among them Bernie Sanders:

“Most of the people whose views influence developments are in some measure socialists. They believe that our economic life should be “consciously directed,” that we should substitute “economic planning” for the competitive system. Yet is there are greater tragedy imaginable that that, in our endeavor consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?”  – F. Hayek from the introduction to The Road to Serfdom published in 1944.  

January 13, 2020
“One of the things you do in hearings is you have to sit there and look attentively at people you know have no idea what they’re talking about.” – Justice Clarence Thomas  – The Daily Caller, January 13, 2020 

December 3, 2019
“What makes up the American Left? It is not a homogenous entity but an amalgamation of various factions now overwhelmingly dominated by its smallest and most radical element, the avowed Marxist/socialists. However, the largest group and underpinning of the movement are the credulous, patronizing and narcissistic liberals who in their naiveté believe that the enemy of my enemy, conservatives and Judeo-Christian values, are their friends. ” – Steve McCann, American Thinker, December 2, 2019, “The Inevitable Breakup of the American Left“

November 27, 2019
“Journalism has been replaced by fiction writing, so-called reporters parroting partisan talking points, deliberately doctoring audio and video, ignoring inconvenient facts and contradictions, all to push a political narrative.” – Brian C. Joondeph, American Thinker, November 27, 2019, “The Trayvon Hoax Shines a Light on the ‘Fake News’ Industry“

November 21, 2019
“Paltering is the telling of a literal truth with the intent to deceive, a practice the U.S. Military Academy’s Honor Code defines as lying. ‘Cadets violate the Honor Code by lying if they deliberately deceive another by stating an untruth or by any direct form of communication to include the telling of a partial truth and the vague or ambiguous use of information or language with the intent to deceive or mislead.’

Cuomo and Biden are both attorneys so they cannot plead ignorance of the Constitution, which means they lied intentionally by telling a partial truth ‘with the intent to deceive or mislead.’ Any political figure such as Cuomo who calls a semiautomatic rifle like an AR-15 an ‘assault rifle’ tells an outright falsehood because assault rifles are, by definition, capable of fully automatic fire.  Somebody who does not meet the basic standards the USMA demands of 18-year-old cadets is clearly unfit to govern a state, much less our nation. Biden also lied about a man killing Biden’s wife while driving drunk (a false accusation of a crime, and therefore libelous except Biden waited until after the man was dead to vilify him), which yet again makes the Democrats’ best hope for beating Donald Trump a proven liar.” – Anonymous with pseudonym Civis Americanus, American Thinker, November 21, 2019, “ A New Paradigm to Beat the Gun-Grabbersl“

November 15, 2019
“When a party spends three years baselessly accusing a president of everything from being a Russian mole to obstructing justice, from profiting off the presidency to abusing security clearances and cheating on his taxes, that party loses the credibility to say: Really, this time, we mean it.” – Kimberley Strassel, The Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2019, “Impeachment as Usual“

October 25, 2019
“From the beginning of its “long march through the institutions,” the Left has been playing the long game. That hasn’t changed. Leftists are playing it today.

Why did they take over the media? The universities? Hollywood? To get their hands on the key levers of propaganda. Add to this the leftward tilt of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and we’re looking at a virtual lockdown on the primary sources of information and public influence.” – Cherie Zaslawsky, American Thinker, October 24, 2019 “Trump Derangement Syndrome: A Misdiagnosis“

October 15, 2019
“The secular project has itself become a religion, pursued with religious fervor. It is taking on all the trappings of religion, including inquisitions and excommunication. Those who defy the creed risk a figurative burning at the stake—social, educational and professional ostracism and exclusion waged through lawsuits and savage social media campaigns.” – Attorney General William Barr in a speech given at Notre Dame Law School, October 11, 2019

October 11, 2019
“In the two weeks since the White House released the transcript of President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the debate has descended into the weeds of process and people. This is unsurprising given House Democrats’ decision to keep hidden the central doings of their impeachment inquiry, and the media’s need to fill a void.” – Kim Strassel, The Wall Street Journal October 10, 2019, “Ukraine Smoke and Mirrors“

October 3, 2019
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced six bills last week to create a “just society” with national rent control, federal benefits for illegal aliens and more. The program’s idiocy makes her Green New Deal look like the Federalist Papers.” – Karl Rove, The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2019, “Hurry Up and Impeach“

September 26, 2019
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday endorsed an official inquiry to impeach President Trump, and there is joy across Resistance America—at least for now. The decision guarantees that this will go down as the Impeachment Congress, with little to show beyond investigations into the Trump campaign and now the Trump Presidency.” – The Wall Street Journal Editorial September 24, 2019, “The Impeachment Congress“

September 17, 2019
“Man-made global warming is a non-issue. Not only has it never been scientifically proven, but its purpose is to manipulate the masses, using alarmist rhetoric, into abandoning Western industrial society by fanning mass hysteria to a fever pitch. Once this was done, getting the electorate on board with curtailing Western scientific and technological development would be a cakewalk. As an ideology, environmentalism is just black-and-white moralizing within a simple Marxist dialectical framework.” – Ferdinand Bardamu, September 17, 2019, American Thinker, “Climate Change’: A Leftist Excuse to Redistribute Wealth and Destroy the West”

September 2, 2019
“The question is can America survive when our moral, spiritual and patriotic foundations are destroyed? If you don’t love your country, what’s the point of having one?” – Cal Thomas, August 31, 2019, Syndicated Column, Fox News, ” “Lost Generation abandoning traditional values” 

August 30, 2019
“Even without prosecution, the American public is finally getting an honest account of the real James Comey, an FBI director so in awe of his own righteousness that he believed none of the rules applied to him.” – August 30, 2019, Wall Street Journal Editorial, – “Jim Comey’s Higher Virtue“

August 29, 2019
“There are two ways to close the school achievement gap: lift up struggling students or push down those who are succeeding. Having failed at the former, Mayor Bill de Blasio seems intent on pursuing the latter.” – Max Eden, August 29, 2019, The New York Post, “Killing Gifted & Talented programs is de Blasio’s next step in war on excellence in education“

August 22, 2019
“In most ancient cultures, there was no concept of “adolescence.”  Jews, Romans, Greeks — all adhered to rites whereby “manhood” was acknowledged: one was either a child or an adult.  We moderns have indulged ourselves greatly, employing the nebulous cloak of adolescence to confer the benefits of adulthood on children (without responsibilities) and to conversely extend childhood into adulthood by excusing adults who behave like children.” – John Klar, August 22, 2019, American Thinker, “Vermont Is Going Insane. Will the Rest of America Follow?“

August 18, 2019
“There is nothing wrong with feeling compassion for people who risk everything to come to the United States, whether they get here legally or illegally. There is also nothing wrong with believing that sovereign nations need rules-based immigration policies and safe borders.

But the hollow, performative empathizing prevalent among liberals is how Democrats running for president have nearly all ended up arguing that anything less than open borders is cruel and racist. It’s why they seem incapable of distinguishing between illegal immigrants and legal immigrants.” – John Podhoretz, August 14, 2019, Commentary, “Condescension Isn’t Compassion“

August 14, 2019
“Oh, for the days of Tammany Hall, when taxpayers were fleeced by more colorful crooks and got a free turkey at Christmas.” – Michael Goodwin, August 13, 2019, The New York Post, “Rot of journalism ethics at New York Times has turned into leftist plague“

August 13, 2019
“I’m convinced that one day in the future, people will be studying how it was that the Left was so successful in manipulating language and redefining words.  How was it that they were able to lie to the American people, while at the same time appearing not to lie, leaving them with no shred of doubt that they were being told the truth?  Their ability to lie, and get away with doing so, is like a superhuman comic book power.  They use this power with the same level of ease with which most of us breathe.” – Nelson A. Siebert, August 13, 2019, American Thinker, “The Left and Its Dishonest ‘Truths’ “.

August 12, 2019
“Mass shootings are a terrible problem, but they won’t be solved with gun regulation. And no competitive politician will be rewarded for offending law-abiding gun owners—and the Constitution—with radical proposals that won’t achieve their objectives.”- Kim Strassel, August 8, 2019, The Wall Street Journal, “Going to Extremes Against Guns“

August 7, 2019
“We cannot coexist with an ideology that is currently integrating the concept that conservatives publicly expressing their views, or even of conservatives being allowed to go about their lives in peace, are of themselves acts of violence.” – Christopher Skeet, August 6, 2019, ” American Thinker, “Democrats Are the Ones Who Have Been Inciting Violence against Their Political Opponents“

August 6, 2019
“…the main underlying cause of increased mass-murder events — and so much evil in general — is a severe philosophical/spiritual malaise besetting our nation.” – Selwyn Duke, August 5, 2019, The American Thinker, “El Paso: The Real Root Causes of Mass Shootings“

August 5, 2019
“Say what you will about TV, the Internet, video games, violence, or mass murder, it can’t be right or wrong if there is no right or wrong. It’s the ultimate self-evident reality: How can you build a moral society when its shades-of-gray people don’t even believe in morality?” – Selwyn Duke, The American Thinker August 5, 2019, “El Paso: The Real Causes of Mass Shootings“

August 2, 2019
“…any voluntary submission to the totalitarian ambitions of radical leftists must be always and everywhere intolerable to any people who consider themselves and wish to remain free.” – David Gayvert, “The Real Equivalent of World War II” American Thinker, August 2, 2019 

August 1, 2019
“Clearly, the mighty American left has been reduced to a posse of neurotic twitches trembling as they wait to see what DJT tweets next. How many other 73-year-olds have mastered the internet to this extent? To deprive Trump of the tweet would be to deprive Cyrano of his sword, Bond of his Walther, or Richtofen of his Fokker Triplane.” – J.R. Dunn, July 31, 2019 American Thinker “Master of the Tweet”

July 31, 2019
“I think this is the part of the discussion that shows how often these debates are detached from people’s lives. We’ve got 100,000 people showing up at the border right now. If we decriminalize entry, if we give health care to everyone, we’ll have multiples of that. Don’t take my word, that was President Obama’s Homeland Security secretary that said that.” – Steve Bullock, Governor of Montana (D) at the Democrat Debate July 30, 2019

July 29, 2019
“The great threat to our democratic republic of shared values and beliefs is not tyranny of the majority, but a burgeoning cultural-political tyranny of the minority.  A nation that allows an ideology that seeks, through an unaccountable coterie of identity politics practitioners, to expunge our common set of beliefs and cultural uniqueness is one that will be balkanized, with all vestiges of a common cultural heritage destroyed.” – John Kinsellagh – American Thinker “Stupid Politically Correct Decisions from Our Public Schools” – July 23, 2019

July 27, 2019
“Politicians, by the time they’ve asked millions for their money, their time, their support and their votes, are obliged to do just about anything to win. Once elected, they have an even bigger responsibility to defend their power and ability to govern. Ask any president: This, and not governing, is what they spend much of their time doing.” – Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. – The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2019 Opinion Page

July 24, 2019
“The outcome of this morning’s Mueller hearing is clear: President Trump sought to obstruct injustice. But he failed.” – John O’ Sullivan  (@JohnOSullivanNR), July 24, 2019, via Twitter (referring to the testimony given by Special Counsel Robert Mueller before the House Judiciary Committee July 24, 2019)

July 23, 2019
“For years, the Left has claimed to be the party of science, while casting religious conservatives as ignorant, superstitious louts. But evidence is mounting that it’s the other way around, and has been for some time. After all, who are the ones claiming that we should ignore biology and redefine a man as a woman if he feels like it?  Who still claims, despite graphic ultrasound evidence, that a growing human being in a womb is a baby, that because we don’t really know, we can dispose of it?” – Robert Knight, Townhall “Our Brave New World’s Defiance of Science“, July 23, 2019

July 20, 2019
“The circumstances that gave rise to today’s nationalist awakening, at least in the West, have nothing to do with suppressing minorities or invading foreign lands. Instead, the new nationalism is a revolt against the failures and weaknesses of modern nation-states. It is neither intolerant nor triumphalist but rather is defensive, grounded in well-justified apprehensions of political and institutional decline.
Christopher DeMuth, July 19, 2019 “America’s Nationalist Awakening“, The Wall Street Journal

July 19, 2019
“Even as we are a nation of immigrants, we’re also a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our immigration laws, and I believe that they must be held accountable – especially those who may be dangerous. That’s why, over the past six years, deportations of criminals are up 80 percent”.
President Barack Obama, November 20, 2014 Citation

July 18, 2019
Referring to the four Democrat Progressive/Socialist congresswomen known as The Squad :
“They’re the reason there are directions on shampoo bottles.” –

Referring to the verbal battle between The Squad and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:
“Never get between a dog and a fire hydrant.”
Senator John Kennedy, (R-Louisiana) 

July 18, 2019
” The same interconnectivity that has wrought fabulous wealth also allows political crises to migrate from one corner of the globe to another. As technology defeats distance, the new digital world is smaller, more anxious and more claustrophobic than ever.”
Robert Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2019