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The Patriot Post Digest 6-13-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Jun. 13, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/63634-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.” —Alexander Hamilton (1774)
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IN TODAY’S EDITION
Sanders paints a false picture of the virtues of socialism.1
Leftmedia freaks out that Trump is doing exactly what Obama did.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
Sanders’s Socialist Snake Oil10
Bernie Sanders gave what he billed as a big speech11 Wednesday extolling the “virtues” of democratic socialism. As Mark Alexander wrote on the centennial12 of the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 2017, “Between 1917 and 1991, there were almost 150 million civilian casualties of communist dictatorships.” But not to worry; Bernie says they’ve all just been doing it wrong and we should trust him to get socialism right.
Given the rising popularity of whatever Americans think socialism means, particularly among young people, Patriots should absolutely take Sanders seriously13. Either he will prevail as the Democrat nominee or he will continue to drive the entire Democrat Party further toward socialism. His “Medicare for All” proposal, for example, set the bar for the Democrat platform.
On that theme, Sanders lauded the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights — with the notable exception of the right to keep and bear arms — but utterly corrupted the word “rights” to include a laundry list of “free” stuff he wants to buy with your money. He calls it “a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights,” and he argues “you are not free” without free stuff.
Invoking Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson to argue that Americans have long supported socialism, Sanders asserted, “We must take on the unfinished business of the New Deal and carry it to completion.” But Democrats’ “Better Deal” is just Marxist socialism repackaged14.
Sanders, the man who spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union, called for “political revolution” — which just happens to be the same thing the murderous Bolsheviks foisted on Russia in 1917. At the same time, he decried “massive attacks from those who attempt to use the word ‘socialism’ as a slur.” Heaven forbid we call it what it is.
It was particularly ironic that in the same week Sanders gave his speech, two stories came out of socialist Venezuela that should serve as a warning: Gas shortages and sky-high food prices15 go along with the Reuters report16 that “Venezuela’s annual inflation dropped below 1 million percent in May for the first time since 2018.”
Remember the heady days of 2013 when Bernie’s speechwriter, David Sirota, wrote an op-ed titled, “Hugo Chávez’s Economic Miracle”? Sanders would prefer you didn’t recall that, much less his own history of embracing socialist thugs. Maybe it’s just a “slur” to point it out.
What is actually a slur? Sanders arguing that the rise of the National Socialists in 1930s Germany was somehow “right wing” and akin to President Donald Trump’s brand of “America First” populism, which he labels “the forces of oligarchy and authoritarianism.”
Sanders, the man who parlayed capitalism into a multimillion-dollar fortune17 and multiple homes all while selling socialism, attempted to distinguish himself from Trump. The president, he says, “believes in corporate socialism for the rich and powerful,” while Sanders fights for “a democratic socialism that works for the working families of this country.” Does he put his own money where his mouth is? No, he hypocritically pays lower tax rates18 because he only wants to be “generous” with your money.
On a final note, it is a particular affront to Liberty that Sanders gave his socialist sermon at George Washington University, named for our Patriot Founding Father who led the battle against tyranny19 that American might be free.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/63629-sanderss-socialist-snake-oil
MSM Parrots Dems’ Anti-Trump Immigration Narrative20
President Donald Trump is a “racist” and the proof is in the fact that he is doing … exactly what Barack Obama did. The mainstream media trumpeted the first part while failing to mention that significant fact about Obama making the same decision. Is it any wonder the vast majority of the American public has lost trust in the fake news media? Could it be any more obvious that the Leftmedia is the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party21?
Case in point, with the ongoing border crisis threatening to stretch the Department of Homeland Security to the bursting point, DHS, in an effort to find more facilities to house the ballooning number of detained illegal aliens, has decided to use underutilized space on several military bases. One of these locations, Fort Sill in Oklahoma, was used as a Japanese internment camp during WWII. The situational correlation between the detaining of immigrants caught illegally crossing into the U.S. versus the interment of American citizens simply because of their Japanese ethnicity is not even remotely similar other than the location being the same. But that didn’t stop the MSM from conflating the two. Take a look at these headlines:
The Trump administration will detain hundreds of migrant children at a military base that was once used as a Japanese internment camp —Business Insider
Trump Admin to Use Army Base That Once Served as Japanese Internment Camp to House 1,400 Migrant Kids —The Daily Beast
Trump Administration to Use Former Japanese Internment Camp to House Migrant Children —Fortune
Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp —Time
Trump administration to house migrant children at Fort Sill, which once served as a Japanese internment camp —USA Today
Geronimo and the Japanese were imprisoned there. Now Fort Sill will hold migrant children — again. —The Washington Post
The truth is that Obama did the exact same thing. As the Obama administration was struggling with a surge in illegal immigration in 2014, DHS elected to house more than 7,700 migrant children on military bases, including Fort Sill. It was a temporary measure that ended a few months later.
This latest bit of propaganda harkens back to last year when the Leftmedia played the same blame game with Trump for detaining illegal-alien children “in cages,” while the MSM intentionally ignored the glaring fact that the same policy had been implemented and applied under Obama. On top of that, many of the photos22 circulated by the MSM at the time were actually taken during Obama’s presidency.
Once again, rather than hold Democrats to account for their lawless open-border policies that have caused and fueled the border crisis23 — a crisis that has increased human trafficking, especially of children — the Leftmedia instead pushes the fallacious Democrat narrative of Trump’s supposedly racist motivation behind his efforts to stop illegal immigration. If the MSM and Democrats truly cared24 for the plight of these migrant children, then they would be giving Trump all the funding needed to build a wall to better secure the border and enforce the nation’s immigration laws.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/63628-msm-parrots-dems-anti-trump-immigration-narrative
The Email You Didn’t Get
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It’s a gamble, but we are trying to make budget with fewer appeals.
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Please consider making a donation to support our vital mission today.
From each of us here, our deepest thanks for your support. —Christy Chesterton, Director of Advancement
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: ‘Golden State’ Offers Free Health Care for Illegals25 — To help pay for it, California will begin fining citizens who don’t have health insurance.
California: Rolling Blackouts and Garbage Piles26 — The Golden State is reeling under decades of incompetent Democrat policy.
American Spirit: Profiles of Valor: Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia27 — He’s set to become the first living Medal of Honor recipient for actions during the war in Iraq.
Humor Video: Mini AOC Discovers Socialism28 — “So, it turns out socialism is not short for social media,” little AOC quips.
Video: Who Is Pushing the Green New Deal?29 — The Green New Deal remains one of the most influential proposals in modern politics.
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