The Patriot Post Digest 11-25-2019

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The Patriot Post Digest 11-25-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest

Nov. 25, 2019

https://patriotpost.us/digests/66988-mid-day-digest-2019-11-25

THE FOUNDATION

“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” —Joseph Story (1833)

https://patriotpost.us/fqd/66987-founders-quote-daily-2019-11-25

IN TODAY’S EDITION

Are Democrats getting cold feet on an impeachment vote?1
Kaepernick doesn’t have a job because he won’t earn one.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.

IN BRIEF

‘Schiff Show’ Roundup: Dems Get Cold Feet?10

President Donald Trump blasted Democrats and Rep. Adam Schiff in particular for their partisan impeachment charade in an interview Friday. “I want a trial,” Trump insisted. “There should never be an impeachment. But assuming these people [Democrats] are as sleazy as they are … I want to see Adam Schiff testify about the whistleblower — who’s a fake whistleblower. The one who I want to testify most is ‘Shifty Schiff.’” The president added, “It’s very hard for them to impeach me when they have absolutely nothing.”

On Sunday, Schiff responded to Trump’s call, asking, “What would I offer in terms of testimony?” Hilariously, he then claimed that if the Republicans were to “go down this road” it would demonstrate their “fundamental lack of seriousness,” making impeachment a “circus like the president would like.” Of course, there’s good reason for Schiff to testify — namely that his office coordinated with the “whistleblower”11 prior to the complaint being filed. Schiff needs to be questioned regarding his role in this whole sordid affair. When asked if he would be willing to testify if he were called, Schiff predictably demurred, “I don’t want to comment on it.”

So, where does the impeachment play go from here? Recent polling shows that Democrats aren’t winning over Americans, as a clear majority of voters are now opposed to impeaching Trump. It has become clear to most Americans that the Democrats are engaged in a purely partisan effort, no matter how loudly they claim otherwise. Democrats’ repeated calls for Trump’s impeachment began before he was even sworn into office, totally undercutting their insistence that their intention is anything but a calculated hit job aimed at damaging Trump’s reelection bid.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now must scramble to keep Democrats from abandoning the impeachment ship. There are rumors that Pelosi maybe considering backing off holding an impeachment vote, as a trial in the Senate would serve to further expose Democrat shenanigans that are responsible for orchestrating this whole ridiculous affair. The trouble for Pelosi is that if she doesn’t hold a vote, she risks angering her party’s leftist base. It would look exactly like what it would be — a win for Trump.

Next up, the impeachment ball moves to the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), where there will likely be more witnesses called to testify. Pelosi and company will have to move fast if she still intends to hold an impeachment vote before Christmas.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66984-schiff-show-roundup-dems-get-cold-feet

Kaepernick ‘Canceled’? Please.12

The incredibly tiresome Colin Kaepernick kneeling saga13 has been going on since 201614. (Does it sometimes seem to anyone else that we’re caught in a time loop and 2016 never really ended?) This week’s update is that the mediocre quarterback who kneeled himself out of a job by 201715 remains jobless because no NFL team has made an offer after last week’s pathetic sham of a workout16.

We call it a sham because the NFL set up a tryout of sorts for him, which he canceled at the last minute and replaced with his own workout and camera crew. Who cancels a job interview, holds an “alternate” one because of the employer’s bias or other supposed wrongdoing, and then complains when he isn’t hired? A social-justice warrior, that’s who.

So that’s the background. Now for the “news.”

New York Times columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates says Kaepernick is a victim of — get this — “cancel culture.” Coates argues that Kaepernick isn’t getting job offers because he’s been “canceled” by an NFL with “suddenly delicate sensibilities” over the national anthem. Coates makes a fair point about the NFL’s double standard of employing “domestic abusers, child abusers and open racists” but not Kaepernick. But other kneelers still have jobs. It’s obvious that Coates is deliberately fumbling the ball on Kaepernick to tell an overarching leftist narrative — one that places blame for the Left’s cancel culture everywhere but on the Left.

Kaepernick doesn’t have a job in the NFL for a simple reason: He’s not good enough to justify the inevitable media circus. The same could be said of Tim Tebow, who often kneeled to pray on the field and who leftists couldn’t wait to “cancel.”

Well, actually, there’s another reason: Kaepernick doesn’t want a job. We’ve argued before that the whole kneeling thing began virtually by accident. Kaepernick was benched for poor play, pouted about it by sitting on the bench during the national anthem, and, when asked about it, decided to make a cause out of his “victim” status by making it some kind of statement against police “racism” or something. If Kaepernick wanted a job, he’d work to earn one. Instead, he’s living high on the hog after his lucrative — and disgraceful — deal with Nike17. Why get banged up playing football when he can make a fortune off of martyrdom?

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66982-kaepernick-canceled-please

ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY

Featured Analysis: NavSec Firing Should End Gallagher Saga18 — What Gallagher was accused of was troubling. So are questions about integrity of the process.
Public Schools Must Be De-unionized19 — It’s time to sink the union monopolies in school districts across the nation.
How Prescient Were the Anti-Federalists?20 — Early warnings about the size and scope of the federal government were spot on.
Mexico: A Mass Migration Ticking Time Bomb21 — Increasing violence fomented by drug cartels will lead to more illegal immigration.
Grassroots Perspective: The Cult of Color22 — Is it okay for people of certain persuasions to discriminate? Not exactly.
Video: How the Left Weaponized Language23 — Andrew Klavan explains that the Left understands that language is a weapon.
Video: Charlie’s Angels Remake Flops Because…24 — Have men actually decided they no longer enjoy watching “hot chicks who kick $$$”?