Imagine if every act of government required a vote by any interested citizen and any bill had to be clear enough for a high-school graduate to understand. It would eliminate 600-page bills of ear marks and special favors.
And because any vote would basically be free, it would be possible to oversee directly our huge bureaucracy spending so the defense department can’t spend billions on back-channel purchases. — Joe Archer, author, Imagine a Smart, Ethical Government
PRO-TIP: Democrats never cared about kids in cages. Not for one second. — The Bradford File
Journalists make their living trying to destroy your life but if you say a single word about it, you're a criminal, a moral monster. You must be stopped. — Tucker Carlson, host, Tucker Carlson Tonight
Wait, Brooklyn Dad Defiant is a paid shill for centrist Dems who gets tens of thousands to tweet out DNC talking points. Didn't see that coming! — Jeer Heet, correspondent, National Affairs
The Democrats' COVID bill is full of their priorities, NOT priorities of the American people.
$350 BILLION for a blue state bailout.
$400 million for arts/humanities.
$100 million for the EPA.
Less than 10% of the bill actually goes to COVID relief! — Tommy Hicks, GOP chair
Democrat hypocrisy has been on display for years, with recent offenses involving Democrat leaders breaching pandemic rules that apparently apply to the masses but not to the Marie Antoinettes imposing the rules on the rest of us. — Lauri B. Regan, columnist, American Thinker
The Los Angeles City Council learned nothing from the city of Long Beach. Instead, they poured milk on stupid, and decided to pass their own version of Hero Pay, requiring Supermarket chains to pay their workers an extra $5.00 an hour in hazard pay. … There’s something called the law of unintended consequences, and it has slapped the Los Angeles City Council in the face. — Jennifer Roo, columnist, RedState
The NYT hires a writer who spends her time attempting to harass, cancel, stigmatize and destroy her ideological foes, including fabrications.
And then they demand she never be criticized … or it's harassment! So on-brand. — Andrew Sullivan, former editor of New Republic
Racism is trying its very best to die of natural causes, but a vocal minority are hell-bent on keeping it alive. Especially those whose livelihoods depend on it. — Zuby, rapper
Scott Hounsell: It seems everything with liberalism is about two things: force and, as a direct result, hypocrisy. Whether it is taxes, speech, or any of the other 100 different ways it seeks to control your life, the inherent requirement for the left’s enforcement mechanism of their grandiose ideological quest is always force. Don’t pay your taxes? Force. Don’t want to buy an electric car? Force. Don’t want to believe that a man can become a woman? Force. And as we have been seeing more recently, decide you don’t want to get vaccinated? Force. ...
If you think that climate change is as big of a threat as you constantly lecture us that it is, why don’t you just volunteer to make the changes in your life to combat it? ...
If, again, climate change was such a grave threat to our existence, and immediate action is necessary, why would you only give up some? Why would you not give it all up? Why wouldn’t you take the totality of the action available to you, with as much ...
Anony Mee: Joe is building a more impoverished populace, a diminished and less robust commercial sector, and a disheartened electorate. Republicans must pound this message home and give this administration a daily beat-down from now until November 2022. It’s the very least Joe’s minions deserve.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/joes_tricky_tax_trick.html
Spruce Fontaine: How does one debate with a side that claims with a straight face that the supply chain problems are an indicator that President Brandon has fixed the recession (according to Sec. Buttigieg) or that the $3.5-trillion infrastructure package is already paid for?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/slumming_in_america_off_borrowed_moral_capital.html
