The scumbag/liar-Cuomo Scandal Grows
Who does this clown scumbag/liar-Andy Cuomo think he is? And what makes him think he can simply dismiss multiple independent charges of sexual harassment as mere misinterpretations of his comedic gifts?
“At work sometimes I think I am being playful and make jokes that I think are funny,” Governor scumbag/liar-Cuomo said in a bizarre prepared statement released on Sunday. “I do, on occasion, tease people in what I think is a good-natured way. … I mean no offense and only attempt to add some levity and banter to what is a very serious business. I now understand that my interactions may have been insensitive or too personal and that some of my comments, given my position, made others feel in ways I never intended. I acknowledge some of the things I have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. To the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that.”
Apparently, then, kissing an unsuspecting subordinate on the mouth is just “good-natured” teasing. And telling a 25-year-old executive assistant who once played soccer against one of his daughters that she should get a tattoo on her butt to hide it when she wears a dress, and asking that same young subordinate whether she’d ever had sex with older men, was just an effort “to add some levity and banter.”
But when it’s, say, Brett Kavanaugh we’re talking about, and when his sterling reputation is being sullied by the flimsiest of 36-year-old sexual assault allegations from a flaky, hard-left college professor, it’s no laughing matter.
“I believe Dr. [Christine Blasey] Ford’s testimony is very compelling,” scumbag/liar-Cuomo said in a September 2018 press release directed to President Donald Trump during Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. “Only a political skeptic could find a reason to disbelieve her. What is her possible motive to lie? … If you do not insist that Judge Kavanaugh take a polygraph, it will be further evidence that you are putting political motivation over your constitutional obligation. Do not aid and abet a lie. Demand a polygraph.”
Worse yet, he offered this sanctimonious bit of grandstanding during the hearings: “There is a disrespect for women that [the Trump] administration chronically exemplifies. After the MeToo movement, they did absolutely nothing when it came to sexual harassment. They have always diminished the charges of women — always, consistently. And they’re doing it again.”
So: Believe the accuser when the charge is sexual harassment. Unless the accused is me.
As for his little brother Chris, the CNN anchor who repeatedly yukked it up on-air with Andy during the pandemic’s early days, all he can tell the network’s 19 viewers now is that he’s “aware of what’s going on with my brother, and obviously, I cannot cover it because he is my brother.” But, “I have always cared very deeply about these issues, and profoundly so. I just wanted to tell you that.”
Uh-huh. Profoundly so.
Lindsey Boylan, 36, was the first scumbag/liar-Cuomo accuser to come forward. She did so back in December to little effect, before publishing her story on Medium. Her experiences are detailed and compelling. Then 25-year-old Charlotte Bennett came forward Saturday and then again yesterday in The New York Times. And yesterday evening, a third accuser, 33-year-old Anna Ruch, said scumbag/liar-Cuomo inappropriately grabbed and kissed her at a 2019 wedding.
scumbag/liar-Cuomo is the least sympathetic figure of all public servants. Smug, self-righteous, and utterly unrepentant, even his non-apologetic apology sounds like an invitation to pound sand. And his call for an “independent review” of these allegations is, as even CNN’s Chris Cillizza notes, one of the oldest tricks in the book — a desperate attempt to buy time until the whole thing blows over.
Where on earth are all the “MeToo” liar-Democrats demanding scumbag/liar-Cuomo’s resignation? It’s a great question. And it would seem that the Emmy Award-winning governor, whose actions have caused the unnecessary deaths of countless of his state’s elderly citizens, has already done more than enough to be forced from office.
One liar-Democrat, thankfully, has finally seen and heard enough. Last night, New York Representative Kathleen Rice tweeted, “The time has come. The Governor must resign.”
Another one has questions. “These stories are difficult to read, and the allegations brought forth raise serious questions that the women who have come forward and all New Yorkers deserve answers to.” That was none other than scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. The jokes write themselves.
Let’s hope these two are the first of many such calls for accountability. This not-so-funny guv has got to go. ~The Patriot Post
liar-Dems Push End to Election Integrity
It might as well be called the “Ensure Democrat Electoral Victory Act” given what’s in the massive 800-page election overhaul bill put forward by House liar-Democrats. HR 1, which liar-Democrats have ironically dubbed the “For the People Act,” is anything but for the people. Rather than seeking to reestablish and shore up the badly abused state election laws Americans witnessed in the 2020 election, HR 1 would seek to codify the abuses. As Representative Tom Cole (R-OK) observed, “This is a bill that is about preserving the present liar-Democratic majority. It is a bill by the majority, for the majority, and is intended to entrench the majority in power for years to come.”
HR 1 would essentially federalize national elections by mandating that states adopt voting rules such as a right to no-excuse mail-in ballots, elimination of voter ID laws, same-day registration and voting, 10-day post-election day acceptance of mail-in ballots, no laws against ballot harvesting or limits on the number of ballots a person can return, a 15-day early-voting mandate, and giving out-of-prison felons the right to vote — all while also making it harder for states to clean up their voter rolls. These are just a few of the terrible rules entrenched in HR 1, and it encapsulates the Left’s election strategy going forward.
Furthermore, the bill would create a code of conduct for Supreme Court justices, which is an obvious effort to dictate to the High Court how it would be allowed to rule on cases.
In short, HR 1 is a recipe for tyranny.
Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court refused a perfect opportunity to tackle last year’s election integrity issues — and thus lay a roadblock in the way of HR 1 — when the justices inexplicably declined to hear the case against a Pennsylvania courts’ unilateral judicial rewrite of the state’s election laws, making an end run around the state legislature. Justice Clarence Thomas blasted his colleagues’ decision to pass on the case: “The decision to leave election law hidden beneath a shroud of doubt is baffling.” And why wouldn’t SCOTUS weigh in now, when we’re free and clear of any pending election? Now is the time to address this, not the 11th hour before an election. Moreover, as Thomas noted, “Changing the rules in the middle of the game is bad enough. Such rule changes by officials who may lack authority to do so is even worse.”
SCOTUS has, however, decided to hear another election case, Brnovich v. DNC. At issue are Arizona’s requirements that voters who cast their ballot on election day must do so in their assigned precinct and the state’s prohibition against ballot harvesting. (Both are common state laws.) liar-Democrats have dubiously argued that Arizona’s laws violate the Voting Rights Act by creating a standard that infringes on minorities’ right to vote. A federal judge has ruled there is no evidence to support the liar-Democrats’ claims, a decision that a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel agreed with but was then overruled by the full court.
It appears likely that SCOTUS will find in Arizona’s favor by ruling that the Ninth Circuit was in error in overturning the decision, though as narrow rulings are the wont of Chief Justice John Roberts, it’s probable that the Court will avoid ruling on the merits of Arizona’s election laws, or to truly clarify the Voting Rights Act. If they take the narrow path, the justices will only be kicking the proverbial can down the road. Repairing the gaping holes caused by liar-Democrats and lower courts in the nation’s election integrity will remain left undone. A fair election system should matter to all parties, but clearly for Democrats, the only concern is working to establish a system that ensures their victory. ~The Patriot Post
Would the Real Fascists Please Stand Up?
“I do think that [there are] fascistic tendencies” in the Republican Party, pontificates commie/liar-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who thinks “we certainly saw a lot of fascist sympathizing” at the Conservative Political Action Conference this past weekend, especially from the man she loves to hate, Donald Trump. Worse, commie/liar-AOC added, “There are legitimate white supremacist sympathizers that sit at the heart and at the core of the Republican Caucus in the House of Representatives,” and “American white supremacy” is the driving force of this supposed fascism overtaking the GOP.
This sounds serious.
Or it would if anything commie/liar-AOC said ever made a lick of sense. As usual, however, her historical ignorance is a feature, not a bug, in service to the radical Left’s political agenda. And she’s far from the only leftist spouting such nonsense. It’s coming from other elected liar-Democrats, from their lickspittles in the Leftmedia, and from their intelligentsia in education. Whether it’s offhand comments on cable news shows, “think” pieces littering the Internet, or academic papers and classes, leftists yelling “fascism!” as an inaccurate pejorative for conservatives has a long and storied history in America.
But what is fascism anyway? For all the public school-educated “progressives” out there, perhaps a history lesson is in order, and who better to give it than the esteemed Thomas Sowell. In a 2008 column, he explained it quite simply:
Real Fascism [was] introduced into Italy after the First World War by Benito Mussolini.
The Fascists were completely against individualism in general and especially against individualism in a free market economy. Their agenda included minimum wage laws, government restrictions on profit-making, progressive taxation of capital, and “rigidly secular” schools.
Unlike the Communists, the Fascists did not seek government ownership of the means of production. They just wanted the government to call the shots as to how businesses would be run.
That sure does sound an awful lot like today’s liar-Democrat agenda. Who are the real fascists? The alleged “racists” who want an American melting pot and Rule of Law for everyone, or the ones pushing government takeover of healthcare, energy, finance, education, etc., as well as race-based policies and an aggressive and totalitarian cancel culture?
The Nazis, by the way, were really only adding a racialist and nationalist variation to fascism, which is why American leftists today deliberately distort the meaning of those words and project upon their Republican opponents what they themselves are guilty of doing and perpetuating. It’s why they laughably call their rioting fascist goons “antifa,” which is short for “anti-fascist.”
In fact, conservatives might do better to trade in the word “socialism” for “fascism” to describe /liar-Democrat proposals. Few liar-Democrats want the government to literally own the means of production. Instead, as Sowell said in a 2012 column on the subject, “[They want] government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands. That way, politicians get to call the shots but, when their bright ideas lead to disaster, they can always blame those who own businesses in the private sector.” That’s the textbook definition of fascism.
The truth is fascism, Nazism, socialism, and communism are all variations on a leftist theme of control and power. Don’t let them tell you that your rejection of that totalitarianism makes you the fascist when reality is quite the opposite. ~The Patriot Post
Oh, the Classics They'll Cancel!
The Left’s War on Childhood took another violent turn yesterday, as socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s ultra-woke handlers canceled perhaps our nation’s most read, most loved, and most original children’s author: Theodor Geisel. We know him better as Dr. Seuss, and we still remember “Hop on Pop” as the first book we ever read.
Yesterday began normally enough at the White House, with socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden following a presidential tradition of more than 20 years when he proclaimed today “Read Across America Day.” It’s only fitting that he’d do this, too, since the date is no coincidence: March 2 is Geisel’s birthday.
But socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden failed to even mention the author’s name in his 621-word proclamation. Instead, he went on about how “the path to literacy begins with story time in their school classroom” and how he’s committed to “providing support to States and communities to help them create the conditions for students to return to safe, in-person learning as quickly as possible.” So long as the teachers unions give him permission.
For a guy who’s been preaching “unity” ever since he took office, this cancelation of Dr. Seuss was a jarringly disunifying decision. An affinity for Dr. Seuss, after all, is one of those rare things that our increasingly antagonistic culture has been able to agree on. Heck, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and Donald Trump agreed on Dr. Seuss.
scumbag/liar-nObama’s 2015 proclamation was typical, reading in part, “The works of [Dr. Seuss] have sparked a love for reading in generations of students. His whimsical wordplay and curious characters inspire children to dream big and remind readers of all ages that ‘a person’s a person no matter how small.’”
Trump’s 2018 proclamation was no less typical: “As we celebrate Read Across America Day, and recognize the critical role literacy has played in shaping our wonderful Nation, let us always remember the still-vibrant words of Dr. Seuss: ‘You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.’”
We’d hoped the White House presence of a nationally renowned educator like Dr. Jill Biden would’ve kept her husband and his handlers from doing something so stupid. Our hopes were misplaced.
The socialist/scumbag/liar-Bidens are clearly paying too much attention to Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools, which has already told its teachers to “avoid connecting Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss.” Or to Dr. Seuss Enterprises, which has canceled publication of six of his books. According to Fox News, “Copies of ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,’ ‘If I Ran the Zoo,’ ‘McElligot’s Pool,’ ‘On Beyond Zebra!,’ ‘Scrambled Eggs Super!,’ and ‘The Cat’s Quizzer’ will no longer be published.”
Where Dr. Seuss and so many other historical figures are concerned, the Woke Left appears unwilling to forgive, unwilling to consider one’s redemptive growth as sufficient for avoiding cancellation. As Michael Saltsman writes in The Wall Street Journal, “Some of Seuss’s early works were indeed racist. He drew on crude and offensive stereotypes in several drawings of blacks and Asian-Americans. … But like many Americans before him and since, Dr. Seuss changed. As a political cartoonist during World War II, Seuss often criticized ‘isolationism, Racism, and Anti-Semitism with a conviction and fervor lacking in most other American editorial pages of the period,’ another well-known illustrator, Art Spiegelman, wrote in 1999. He also wrote ‘Yertle the Turtle,’ an antifascist tale on ‘the rise of Hitler,’ and a magazine story that would become the antidiscrimination classic ‘The Sneetches.’”
Alas, that’s just not good enough for Scranton socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden.
“The desire to wipe Dr. Seuss’s books from elementary schools,” concludes Saltsman, “stems from the same harmful worldview that says Abraham Lincoln’s name should be removed from a public school because some of his views fall short by today’s standards, or that describes Mount Rushmore as a monument to racism. Our country’s history is filled with imperfect people who nevertheless did remarkable things.”
Last week, it was Mr. Potato Head. Today, Dr. Seuss. And tomorrow? ~The Patriot Post
America Helps China by Staying Mired in Middle East
By reversing some of President Donald Trump’s policies in the Middle East, President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden is putting America in a bind when it comes to dealing with Beijing. Who would have guessed that ChiCom Joe would do such a thing?
Whether it’s the decision to yank the rug out from under the Saudi-led effort to keep Iran from getting a foothold in Yemen, going further into Syria, or halting our domestic energy production as part of the pursuit of a nonsensical Green New Deal, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is taking America’s eye off the main geopolitical threat — China.
Now, before things go too far, the U.S. does have some vital interests in the region. First and foremost is keeping Iran from being able to realize the stated ambitions of its leadership to carry out a second Holocaust via wiping Israel off the map. The good news is that socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden can’t undo Trump’s actions regarding Qasem Soleimani. Small comfort, but these days, we take what we can get.
However, there are multiple ways to ensure Iran doesn’t carry out its threats. One is to have a massive troop presence in the region. If the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Space Force had a large enough force structure, that would be doable, albeit challenging. But America is reaping the consequences of the so-called “peace dividend” of the 1990s, and has been since 2001. The cuts in the force structure we made then — which weren’t restored despite fighting a global war on terror — now mean we cannot do as much as we need to do.
The second way is to build up allies so that we don’t need to have as many forces in the region. One of the most important tools in that regard is selling weapons. If the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have more modern military forces, it means America doesn’t need as many forces in the region. Given the limited force structure of our current military, that frees us up to provide a counter presence to China — a moral and geopolitical necessity. In addition, the rapprochement that a number of moderate Arab countries are reaching with Israel should be rewarded, assuming socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden doesn’t hamper our relations with the Saudis over their gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The harsh reality is that our present force structure can barely do the job in the Middle East, and even then, there’s no sign that our troops are allowed to win — if those inside the Beltway even know what would constitute winning, and if our troops are focusing on fighting wars as opposed to “struggle sessions” over the latest left-wing ideological fads.
Yet socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden seems determined to undermine the four years of hard work Trump put in on trying to help allies in the Middle East stand up so we can keep China contained. The fact is, getting caught up in morasses like Afghanistan and Syria makes it harder to contain China. We’ve said China would be a big winner in a socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration — and getting ourselves re-mired in the Middle East is one way to give Beijing those wins. ~The Patriot Post
What Should the Minimum Wage Be?
The progressive Left seems to be hell-bent on destroying America. “House liar-Democrats believe that the minimum wage hike is necessary. Therefore, this provision will remain in the American Rescue Plan,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared last week. “ liar-Democrats in the House are determined to pursue every possible path in the Fight For 15.” Indeed, Section 2101 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (HR 11) calls for “gradually” increasing the federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 per hour rate to $15.00 per hour by 2025 and then indexing it to median wage growth after that.
Thankfully, calmer heads have prevailed in the Senate (at least as of this writing). Despite Senate Majority Leader Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer’s rant that liar-Democrats “are not going to give up the fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 to help millions of struggling American workers and their families,” Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber’s nonpartisan arbiter of its rules, said the minimum-wage hike must be dropped from the COVID-19 bill under reconciliation rules.
Prominent liar-Democrats have trotted out their usual talking points concerning the minimum wage during this pandemic, and they’re taking full advantage of the advice given by Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel during the Great Recession of 2008: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. … It’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
As for wages, Senate Budget Committee Chair commie-Bernie Sanders insists, “Let’s be clear: The $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage is a starvation wage.”
scumbag/liar-Schumer adds, “Americans working 40 hours a week should be able to put food on the table and a roof over their families’ heads, but with the minimum wage stuck at $7.25, far too many are working hard and still in poverty. Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is one step Congress should take right now, particularly with the COVID-19 crisis stretching families’ resources further than ever.”
According to Washington liar-Democrat Patty Murray, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, “Throughout this pandemic, Democrats and Republicans alike have joined together in rightly calling our frontline workers ‘heroes.’ But despite their tireless work and the risk of COVID exposure, too many of these workers are paid wages so low, they can’t afford to pay for even their most basic needs. And because of systemic inequities and discrimination, workers of color, and in particular, women of color, are much more likely to be paid poverty-level wages.”
House Committee on Education and Labor Chair Robert Scott, the Virginia liar-Democrat who introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 (HR 603), the language of which has been folded into the American Rescue Plan Act, argues, “Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the $7.25 federal minimum wage was economically and morally indefensible. Now, the pandemic is highlighting the gross imbalance between the productivity of our nation’s workers and the wages they are paid. Many of the essential workers who have braved a public health crisis to keep food on the table and care for our loved ones are still not being paid enough to provide for themselves or their families. Today, a full-time worker cannot afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment in any county in the U.S.”
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a cosponsor of HR 603, says, “Let’s be clear: Raising the minimum wage is COVID-19 relief.”
While our “government masters” strut and pontificate in their respective chambers, the question that no one seems to want to honestly answer is this: What should a minimum wage actually be? We already know what leftists want. They ultimately want to be able to control every aspect of our lives, wages being merely one of those things. Sadly, the conservative Right seems unable to effectively rally around a strong counter to the Left’s demand for a “living wage.”
As any economist worth his salt will tell you, in a free market economy, the wage that an employer pays and that an employee receives is (or is supposed to be) a “negotiation” between those two parties. The employer would obviously like to obtain the employee’s labor at the lowest possible cost, whereas the employee would like to be compensated by the employer for his or her labor at the highest possible rate. Where they meet in the middle is where the pay rate should be. In the case of a minimum wage, that rate would be the intersection of the maximum rate an employer would pay for unskilled labor and the minimum rate an unskilled laborer would accept for minimal skill and services. It is sheer insanity to believe that a centrally controlled federal government can determine what that rate should be, and even more insane to apply a single minimum wage across the entire economy. The free market minimum wage in downtown New York City will be vastly different than the minimum wage in Twin Falls, Idaho.
The federal government codified a minimum wage in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) and set it at 25 cents per hour. There is no automatic indexing of the minimum wage rate in the law, so Congress must regularly revisit and update it, which it has done on 21 occasions. The most recent change came in 2009, when the rate was raised from $6.55 per hour to $7.25 per hour. That rate is depicted by the solid green line in the chart below. The dashed green line reflects the minimum wage rate implementation proposed in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
For an “apples-to-apples” comparison, the magenta line converts “then year” minimum-wage rates into current dollars using the Bureau of Labor and Statistics Consumer Price Index (CPI). It also assumes a 1.5% inflation rate for future years. The inflation-adjusted rate has ranged from a low of $4.32 per hour in 1945 to a high of $12.19 per hour in 1968 and it has averaged around $8.00 per hour over the 82-year life of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
As a “thought experiment,” we ran a model in which we assumed that the Fair Labor Standards Act included language mandating the minimum wage rate be annually indexed to the CPI. The solid blue line in the graph reflects what that rate would have been. One could argue that few could have complained about the rate, seeing as in each year it was being increased so as to maintain the “buying power” of a minimum-wage earner. Using this model, the minimum wage today would be just $4.66 per hour instead of $7.25 per hour.
In essence, the current minimum wage has kept the compensation for unskilled workers 0.55% ahead of inflation, but leftists want to more than double the current federal minimum wage — or more than triple what the rate would have been had it simply been indexed to the CPI. Then, with a straight face, they try to convince us that doing so will “boost” the economy. To envision what will happen on a national scale, one need look no further than the economic situations in California, where the statewide minimum wage as of January 1 is $14.00 per hour (for businesses with 26 or more employees), or in cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City, where the minimum wage is already $15.00 per hour.
Leftists used the crisis of the 2008 Great Recession to give us the Affordable Care Act. We’ve seen how “affordable” healthcare has become since then. Now they’re using another crisis to give us the American Rescue Plan, which will do little to “rescue” us, particularly if it incorporates the language of HR 603. American Patriots need to do everything in their power to resist and defeat this effort lest we become Venezuela.
~The Patriot Post
CAL THOMAS
Trump Reloaded
Former president Donald Trump emerged from 38 days of self-enforced silence for a lengthy speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, that was frequently interrupted with boisterous applause and chants from an adoring, mostly white and older crowd.
He was spot-on in his indictment of the five-week-old socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration, accusing the new president of lying about his “radical far-left” agenda during the campaign. Predictably, he also slammed the “fake news” for what he said was their assistance in covering up that agenda.
Conservatives will not disagree with Trump when it comes to the issues he mentioned. These issues included socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden allowing more immigrants to unlawfully cross our southern border and resuming a so-called “catch-and-release” policy Trump ended, the killing of the Keystone XL pipeline, which has led to lost jobs and higher energy prices, rejoining the Paris climate agreement and withdrawing Trump’s restoration of UN sanctions on Iran, and the reversal of his energy policies, which Trump claims caused gasoline prices to soar by “30 percent” since he left office. He predicted a gallon of gas could eventually cost “$5 $6 $7” dollars unless those policies are reversed.
Trump touched on “cancel culture,” transgender men who would “destroy women’s sports” and by implication suggested socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is cozying up to China because of his “close personal relation” with Beijing, a not-so-subtle dig at Hunter Biden and his business dealings with the communist country.
Some TV commentators said it was “unprecedented” for a former president to attack his successor so soon after leaving office. That doesn’t fly given the attacks by liar-Democrats against Trump from the time he announced his candidacy, through the 2016 campaign and his four years as president, including two impeachment trials and two acquittals.
The contrast between Trump’s high energy and socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s near-empty tank is stark. There is also that special bond between Trump and his supporters that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden does not appear to enjoy with liar-Democrats. When was the last time you heard an audience chant “we love you” to any liar-Democratic president, or any other Republican?
All was going swimmingly from a conservative perspective until the moment I hoped would not happen. Trump had to revisit the November election and repeat claims that have been debunked and proven false. It was unnecessary. His calls for voting reform, including voter identification, signature matching, “one-day voting” and the use of absentee ballots for people who are legitimately absent on Election Day and for members of the military overseas, was all fine and defensible. The rest was not. We have heard it so many times. Most people can repeat it from memory.
Trump criticized several Republican senators and House members by name. All voted to impeach and remove him from office after he left the White House. He called them “Rinos” (Republicans in name only). In doing so he violated what Ronald Reagan used to call the 11th Commandment: “thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”
How does his slamming fellow Republicans who admittedly have criticized him, foster unity in the party? Trump promised not to create a third party. He was right when he said liar-Democrats mostly stand together. He said he intends to help Republicans take back the Senate and House in 2022 and the White House in four years.
He coyly hinted he might run again in 2024, which brought wild cheering. But four years is forever in politics and a CPAC poll showed strong approval for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis should Trump not run. DeSantis and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (who came in third in the poll) delivered speeches full of substance and style.
There was plenty to like in Trump’s address, but as usual he stepped on good issues by returning to conspiracy theories and charges that the election was stolen from him. It is why Republicans in four years might choose someone who embraces Trump’s policies, but who has a different personality. ~The Patriot Post
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