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Liars Govern America. Why Won’t Democrats Tell the Truth?

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UPDATE February 19, 2023:

Democrats Jeffries and Cuellar want credit for the border and they deserve it.

Someone on Hakeem Jeffries’ staff should have reminded him that if you have nothing to say it’s better to keep your mouth shut. Instead, the House Democratic leader made a trip to Laredo, Texas for a press event where he ran his mouth in the company of
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and credited his president and party for what they have accomplished at the border.

They deserve credit, but it’s not the credit they are looking for.

Cuellar: we just need to be sensible

Cuellar was the perfect choice to share the praise for Democrats’ border success story. A few months before Joe Biden took over and opened our sovereign boundary with Mexico to the world the Texas congressman declared:

A Border Wall Has No Home in South Texas.599

He claimed that visa overstays were the root cause of illegals living in the U.S.:

The border wall has not solved the root cause of our unauthorized aliens living in the U.S.: visa overstays. According to DHS, since 2007, visa overstays have accounted for a larger share of the growth in the illegal immigrant population than illegal border crossings.600

Cuellar warned that a wall would not stop human or illegal drug trafficking:

A physical barrier does not address the illicit trafficking of people and narcotics or the issues surrounding illegal immigration.601

What we really need is to just be sensible:

If the Trump Administration wants to talk about sensible border security, then let’s talk.602

When Joe Biden stepped into the Oval Office Cuellar got the sensible border security Democrats wanted. Their illegal immigrant invasion was underway.

Jeffries: liar Trump’s un-American border policies stain our democracy

In 2018 Jeffries’ attacked President “Trump’s Immoral Immigration Penitentiary”602 as part of his party’s strategy for coping with an onslaught of unaccompanied minors. The congressman was incensed over the administration’s efforts to deal with illegal immigration:

This immoral policy is unacceptable, un-American and unconscionable. Republicans control the House, the Senate and the Presidency. They are solely responsible for staining our democracy and scarring children for life. The so-called President must end this policy now and stop lying to the American people.603

Beginning in January 2021 Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency. They had two years to fix the problem. It got much worse. Lies substitute for Biden administration transparency. Vocal party apparatchiks substitute misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda for the truth. That includes Jeffries, who praised Biden and his party for their efforts to secure the border:

One of the things that we’ve been able to do with the leadership of President Biden, as well as Democrats in the House and the Senate is to invest in technology. And it was very enlightening to see the importance of how that technology is being deployed to try and secure the border, to try to make sure that contraband is interdicted in an appropriate way and to supplement the limitations of manpower, resources and almost all of the stakeholders within the law enforcement community at the federal level, also at the city and the county level, have made clear that it’s that technology that’s been helpful, but that technology is also needed to continue to supplement their efforts. 604

He demanded a solution that involves two American values Democrats discarded when Biden took over:

We do need a comprehensive immigration reform that is both humane but also respects the rule of law and the tradition of public safety and the importance of that for border communities.605

Then he credited Cuellar for their fentanyl strategy:

Everyone has been pretty clear with us today that it will be that investment in technology and innovation that will dramatically increase our ability to stop the flow of fentanyl and other drugs into the United States of America. That’s something that House Democrats have led on, Congressman Cuellar has been involved in this effort, in investing in technology and innovation for a long time and it’s something that we look forward to continuing with.606

Neither lawmaker presented any data or statistics or tried to explain why after we halted the border wall construction Cuellar advocated or made the technology investments Jeffries highlighted we still hear reports like this from Chief Patrol Agent for the Tucson Sector John Modlin:

I can tell you that in fiscal year ‘18, ‘19, and ‘20, Tucson sector had about 60,000 apprehensions. In 2021, 190,000 apprehensions, so we tripled the previous year… Last year it quadrupled, last year it was 250,000. We’re 20,000 ahead right now so we went from what I would describe as unprecedented to a point where I don’t have the correct adjective to describe what’s going on.”607

According to the House Committee on Homeland Security this is what Democrats and Biden have done for us:

Since President Biden has been in office, there have been over 4.5 million migrant encounters at the Southwest border, in addition to over 1.2 million known gotaways who evaded U.S. Border Patrol agents in the last two years. This is larger than the population of Los Angeles, California, the second largest city in the United States.608

They also deserve kudos for this:

Fact: Over 100,000 deaths associated with fentanyl just last year. Fact: Border crossings are at an all-time high. Fact: Millions of gotaways are in this country and those have been increasing more in the last two years than ever before. Fact: Only 14 percent of those seeking asylum are legitimate asylum seekers.609

There is a reason everything Cuellar and Jeffries said is in future tense: Democrats will try. We need legislation. Our ability to interdict China and Mexico’s fentanyl shipments will increase. None of this is happening in the present while their illegal immigrant invasion surges as the administration circumvents our sovereignty and strives to bring as many foreign nationals into America as possible. When Trump enforced a secure border Jeffries accused him of “lying to the American people.” Who are the liars now?

Americans read the numbers. We see the footage on television. It takes a phenomenal disdain for our intelligence to seek credit for what hasn’t happened while doing nothing to prevent the catastrophe that began to unfold over two years ago while politicians like Jeffries, Cueller, and Biden tap dance around the truth.

UPDATE February 27, 2023:

Jeffries spreads the Democrat lie that won’t die.

With so many Biden-precipitated crises like our undeclared war to remove Vladimir Putin, America’s growing subservience to the CCP, and an economy faltering from inflation thanks to Democrat agenda spending, it would be reasonable to assume that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has something more worthwhile to do than disinform the public. That assumption would be wrong.

Last Thursday, he accused Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) of “slanderous accusations” against Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) but neglected to say what those accusations were so we could decide for ourselves whether Gooden is a xenophobe or Jeffries is the one doing the slandering. The next day, he posted a media interview to his congressional website during which he dished up the quintessential Democrat Party lie about January 6 that’s been repeated so many times it should be denounced as “tell enough lies” propaganda:

Approximately 140 Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Department officers were seriously injured as a result of the events of the January 6 insurrection, a handful of officers actually lost their lives. And so this was one of the most serious instances of violence toward our government in the history of this country and it cannot simply be dismissed.610

As Glenn Greenwald points out in a Substack article reprinted on the House website, 611 no police officers died at the hands of the rioters that day and yet this falsehood is a mainstay of the growing Democrat Party mythology about January 6th and a Biden personal favorite.

As Democrats celebrated the first anniversary of the Capitol riot, the president assured us that he spoke “God’s truth about January 6th, 2021.” He cautioned “don’t kid yourself” as he talked of the “deadly assault,” and an officer “who lost his life defending this Capitol” and “the others who lost their lives.”611

The president and his party are the ones doing the kidding. The only fatality on January 6 was protester Ashli Babbit, who was shot by Capitol Police.

Vice President Kamala Harris also endorsed the tale of a “deadly assault” on the U.S. Capitol. She spoke of officers who “later succumbed to wounds, both visible and invisible.”612 Presumably, innuendo gives her a convenient exit from the truth.

What is so unbelievably offensive about Democrats spreading this lie they desperately wish were true is their comparisons to seminal events in our history where scores of Americans actually were killed like the Civil War and the attack on Pearl Harbor. They rarely mention the loss of thousands on September 11 in this context, even though the death toll included 184 people killed in the Pentagon. Do they fear the conflict between identity politics and Islamic terror, do they worry we might compare terrorism to what happened during the summer of 2020 and in subsequent attacks against conservative symbols like pro-life health centers, or is this simply a matter of not wanting us to question their reconstruction of the events of January 6?

We don’t know what caused the stroke that took the life of Officer Brian Sicknick the day after the riot. It’s true that other officers involved in defending the Capitol later died by suicide. We will never know precisely why. The president champions his efforts to address suicide among high-risk populations like police officers and acknowledges that this is a pervasive problem:

At the same time, we have to do more to protect our officers’ mental health and emotional well-being. Suicide was the second-highest cause of death for law enforcement officers in 2021, surpassed only by COVID-19.613

The Capitol Police who faced the January 6 mob acted bravely and faced an incredibly difficult scenario. Perhaps we will find out more about what happened that day if the video footage is eventually released, a nod to transparency Democrats angrily oppose despite their delight in the release of Donald Trump’s tax returns and what look like staged photos of the documents seized during the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Lies and innuendo about officers being killed on or because of January 6, 2021 construct a deliberately misleading partisan narrative. The simple fact is that the only violent January 6 death was the killing of a protester by police. The lie about police officers killed that day is kept alive by partisans like Biden, Harris, and Jeffries who bank on Americans not being sufficiently informed to know the difference between truth and fabrication, innuendo and facts.

Sadly, the Biden presidency seems determined to emphasize the irrelevance of the truth, a lack of honesty preferred by many Democrat officials in their communications with the public. As Democrats like to say to Senate Republicans, the House leader has an opportunity to work with the majority party for the benefit of the American people. Instead, we get this weaponized false narrative from Jeffries that reinforces the perception that nothing we hear from our government is true.

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Comments

  1. Michael Woods says

    December 5, 2022 at 9:31 pm

    What good does it do to point out democrat lies. The GOP won’t do anything about it.

    Reply
    • Bob Prokop says

      December 5, 2022 at 9:37 pm

      I don’t disagree, Michael. They will hold hearings. They will issue a report. Nothing will come of it because they don’t have the political might and too many in the party don’t want to rock the boat that keeps lawmakers fat and happy.

      Reply
  2. Faye Witt says

    September 27, 2022 at 2:57 pm

    Democrats are the biggest damn liars that ever lived or at least one of the biggest liars but anyway they are big time liars who don’t the meaning of the word truth and honesty, they think we’re fools who believe their lies but not all of us are foolishly enough to believe their lies and they like to feed us a heaping load of their bullshit lies and put blame on anyone and anything that they can put blame on cause that trash isn’t going to take blame for nothing cause it’s easier to put blame on someone else or something else but their favorite person to put blame on is Trump and he’s always been their favorite person to pick on, it isn’t bad enough that they used Covid-19 to do that stupid mail in ballot thing all so they can steal the election away from Trump but then they keep right on with their bullshit cause I think they feel threatened by Trump and I think they always have felt threatened by him especially now, I think they’re scared that Trump might run again in the 2024 election and win and get back in office and they sure don’t want that and I hope Trump does run again and wins because this country needs him back as President and I don’t give a damn what the birdbrains out there think cause they’re no damn better than the trash out there, doing the damage to America cause they support them and vote for them and when they do that, that makes them no better than they are cause they support the garbage doing the damage and to me that’s like a slap in the face cause to me when you support them, it’s like you support anything and everything they do, good or bad so I say” WAKE UP, AMERICA!

    Reply
    • Bob Prokop says

      September 27, 2022 at 3:05 pm

      Wow! Faye, I think you covered it. I haven’t decided whether they lie because they think we’re too dumb to see through what they say, or because they don’t care what we think. Probably both. As far as Trump is concerned, I wholeheartedly agree. Democrats and sadly, many Republicans are terrified of a leader who won’t play their game of stringing us along, hurting Americans in the process, and doing absolutely nothing to make our country better. Trump got things done and Washington still hates him for showing how worthless and self-interested our elected officials are. The best way for him to end their hate is to be reelected. Afterwards he can’t run again and this will go away.

      Reply
    • Jen says

      January 25, 2023 at 9:38 am

      Exactly.

      Reply
  3. Mea says

    August 28, 2022 at 9:16 am

    When Dems say the violence is part of their agenda. They are telling the truth. They plan on using as much violence to make legal Americans afraid to stand up to them

    Reply
    • Bob Prokop says

      August 28, 2022 at 9:24 am

      Exactly right, Mea. All it takes is a liberal dog whistle to get the violent, peaceful protests started. As long as Democrats control Homeland Security, the Justice Department, and the FBI, left-wing domestic terrorists have nothing to worry about.

      Reply
  4. Anonymous says

    April 23, 2022 at 10:27 am

    THE LOYAL DROOLING ASS-KISSERS WILL BELIEVE ANY LIE UTTERED BY A REPUBLICAN.

    Reply
    • Bob Prokop says

      April 24, 2022 at 7:32 am

      Such as?

      Reply
      • antiobama says

        August 17, 2022 at 7:56 pm

        A Republican does anything wrong its all over ythe news even if it is all lies like with Trump this election era. A democratic lies daily and its published as gosphel!! There is no news without truth and the democratic party would self destruct if they had to tell one iota of truth as they are 100% liars, cowards, cheats and thieves!!!

        Reply
        • Bob Prokop says

          August 18, 2022 at 1:44 pm

          Spot on, antiobama. There is no better proof than their new Inflation Reduction Act. Democrats are so arrogant that they don’t even try to hide the fact that they lied to Americans about the purpose of this bill or what it will accomplish. As you rightly point out, when they lie it’s gospel and anyone who reveals the truth will be denounced and cancelled by Big Tech and their complicit media.

          Reply
    • antiobama says

      August 17, 2022 at 7:54 pm

      There is no news without truth and the democratic party would self destruct if they had to tell one iota of truth as they are 100% liars, cowards, cheats and thieves!!!

      Reply
  5. Your mama says

    September 9, 2021 at 10:03 am

    You’ve got it exactly backwards. Republicans are the lying bullies. Period. The end. Idiot.

    Reply
    • Bob Prokop says

      September 9, 2021 at 12:26 pm

      Difficult to do without a congressional majority, but with any luck after midterms next year there will be plenty of Republican bullying to make up for the lunacy we’ve suffered from the left.

      Thanks for reading, even if I am an idiot.

      Reply
    • jeremey says

      June 6, 2022 at 12:23 pm

      your one of the un-educated people, could be receiving monies from the SATAN children in washington dc, in other words THE STEALING & LAUNDERING LAIRS CALLED democrats! The above voting for lairs – when TRUTH Meets them in Face- they only know to say bad things bout the REPUBLICANS, more than likely you don’t have a profession other than waiting for the free deposit.
      IN REALITY GET YOURSELF SAVED THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, NOT ala he’s SATAN in TRUTH!

      Reply
    • FJB says

      June 9, 2022 at 12:05 pm

      Nope! Nice try though. The “h” in democrat stands for honesty. Democrats are allergic to facts and think with their asses! No brains at all! Go f*** yourself democrats!

      Reply

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