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The Patriot Post Digest 7-31-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Jul. 31, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/64650-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” —Thomas Jefferson (1823)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/64645-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
The third Democrat debate featured the Left versus the far Left.1
Meanwhile, workers are seeing higher wages thanks to Trump’s policies.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
Demo Debate 3: Left vs. Far Left10
Ten Democrat presidential candidates gathered on stage last night in Detroit — a Democrat-run city right up there with Baltimore11 — for the first of two debates12 in Round Two of the Left’s 2020 “Free” Stuff Sweepstakes. As both John Stossel (here13 and here14) and The Washington Free Beacon15 report, the candidates seem only to be competing with each other for who can give away the most “free” stuff. Multitrillion-dollar proposals are all the rage as they cynically appeal for votes.
On that note, a significant argument last night was just how much “free” health care Democrats can promise without, as John Delaney warned, committing “political suicide” by being “the party of subtraction, and telling half the country … that their [private] health insurance is illegal.” While “moderates” like Delaney are making their last stand against “impossible promises” about “free everything,” socialists Bernie Sanders and his left-hand woman Elizabeth Warren argue that their $40 trillion16 government plan to take away your private health plan is the best way to go.
Warren flat-out lied: “We are the Democrats. We are not about trying to take away health care from anyone. That’s what the Republicans are trying to do.” That’s a BIG Lie — a false assertion so brazen they’re hoping voters won’t question it. They hope to dishonestly frame the debate as one between benevolent and caring Democrats and “bigoted” Republicans who “take stuff from you.”
John Hickenlooper says Sanders’s policies are too extreme and that “you might as well FedEx the election to Donald Trump.” But leftists like Hickenlooper are losing to the radical Left.
On a more humorous note, it’s ironic to hear Democrats like Sanders declare, “Nobody can defend the dysfunctionality of the current [health] system!” That would be the health system now defined by ObamaCare, rammed through by Democrats without a single Republican vote.
Immigration provided an interesting contrast. Whereas Warren called for citizenship for “students who have overstayed their visas” among others, Sanders insisted that “strong border protections” are necessary to prevent illegals from abusing all the “free” stuff. Now, we don’t believe for a minute that Sanders would actually secure the borders as president. But maybe he’s reading the tea leaves. Polling shows17 that many Americans view immigration as a top issue, and they specifically worry about illegals overwhelming and abusing income-redistribution programs.
Naturally, the subject of race came up. CNN’s Don Lemon, who has defended antifa thugs and compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, asked utterly preposterous questions: “What do you say to those Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the president’s bigotry?” And “President Trump is pursuing a reelection strategy based, in part, on racial division. How do you convince primary voters that you’d be the best nominee to take on President Trump and heal the racial divide in America?”
The entire history of the Democrat Party is one of racial division, which some now propose to “heal” by confiscating money from whites for reparations. The Democrats’ 2020 strategy comes from the same old playbook: Paint Trump as a racist18 (with the help of Leftmedia race-baiters like Lemon), and demand that all “people of color” (which simply means everyone but white people) fall in line with leftist groupthink.
We’ve only just touched on some of the biggest issues debated last night. But here’s some final food for thought: It is the leftist Sanders-Warren-Harris cabal, pitted against the more moderate choice of Joe Biden, that will be the Achilles heel for Democrats. Biden is a terrible candidate, but where else do moderate Demos go?
Footnote: Also on stage last night were Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Tim Ryan, Steve Bullock, and New Age guru Marianne Williamson.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64643-demo-debate-3-left-vs-far-left
Trump’s Economic Policies Raise Wages for 99%19
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released annual revisions to its personal-income report on Tuesday, and the data should encourage everyone: Americans’ wages have been increasing at a healthy rate since President Donald Trump took office. The Wall Street Journal reports20, “The revisions show that employee compensation rose 4.5% in 2017 and 5% in 2018 — some $4.4 billion and $87.1 billion more than previously reported. The trend has continued into 2019, with compensation increasing $378 billion or 3.4% in the first six months alone. Wages and salaries were revised upward to 5.3% from 3.6% in May year over year. And in June wages and salaries grew at an annual rate of 5.5%, which is a rocking 4.1% after adjusting for inflation.”
Counter to the Leftmedia’s erroneous narrative that credits Barack Obama and not Trump for America’s current economic growth, the Journal notes, “Employee compensation has increased by $150 billion more in the first six months of 2019 than all of 2016. Compensation increased 42% more during the first two years of the Trump Presidency than in 2015 and 2016. This refutes the claim by liberals that the economy has merely continued on the same trajectory since 2017 as it was before.”
The fact of the matter is that today “Americans are earning more and relying less on government.” So, how does this reality comport with the leading Democrat presidential candidates’ socialist message of ever more government-provided “free” stuff — stuff that can only be “given” by taking more of the wages of hard-working Americans? For all the overwhelmingly negative press Trump receives, at the very least his policies are proving effective in putting/leaving more money in the pockets of hard-working Americans, giving them more freedom to spend and invest as they see fit. Once again, it’s capitalism, not socialism, that is lifting everyone’s boats.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64641-trumps-economic-policies-raise-wages-for-99-percent
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: Leftist Snopes ‘Fact-Checkers’ Hit Conservative Satire Site21 — The Babylon Bee is satire. Someone should tell the humorless leftists who can’t take a joke.
China Aims to Block Trump Reelection22 — Beijing is working to prevent the president from winning as a means by which to win the trade war.
Corps Values23 — Recent misdeeds by military personnel prompt question about rot in the ranks.
Grassroots Perspective: Mr. President, Is Baltimore That Bad?24 — Actually, it’s probably worse than Trump declared in his widely panned tweets.
Video: Free Stuff 202014 — Presidential candidates promise expensive new programs. John Stossel adds up the cost.
Video: Trump Campaign Video Slamming ‘The Squad’25 — The president takes on the Gang of Four by artfully using their own words against them. |
