“I’m always disappointed when a liar’s pants don’t actually catch on fire.” Sylvester The Cat, Pinterest
January 12, 2022, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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No one ever promised that life would be fair. But it’s so disappointing to have to wake up and smell the coffee. Especially when it’s ten bucks a pound.
Along that line, Thomas Paine could have coined the phrase, “Virtue is its own reward,” which translates to, “When you do something good, you don’t need any reward.”
And Paine didn’t get any. Reward.
The guy who wrote Common Sense, which was responsible for sparking the American Revolution, died and only six people attended his funeral.
He is the guy who didn’t care that his words could lead to a charge of treason.
Who knew Washington and Jefferson up close and personal, but sadly ended up with an obituary which a current, jealous, woke Democrat could have written, “He had lived long, did some good and much harm.”*
That was it.
Paine was sick and tired of the whole ball of wax. The tea thing, stamp taxes, long distance tyranny. All of it. And he wrote a pamphlet that said so.
“Dump the king!” That’s what he said and it stirred up a lot of feelings.
Common Sense had a large circulation and sales, but the man himself is considered the Forgotten Founding Father.
Contrast that to the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lying in State in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda today, with praise for him that knows no bounds.
No one who has manners speaks ill of the dead, but the Harry, Obama, Schumer and President Joe praised at his funeral, probably wouldn’t be the Harry we all knew.
Reid as Senate Majority Leader was mean-spirited. And, like President Joe, Harry never met a lie he didn’t like.
Ask Mitt Romney.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Reid claimed Romney had not paid taxes for ten years. It wasn’t true, but when asked about this lie in a CNN interview, Reid said unapologetically, “Romney didn’t win, did he?”
Later, in a Washington Post interview, he boasted, “It is one of the best things I’ve ever done.”
Reid could be a template of what to expect from any Democrat. And upon Reid’s passing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer didn’t disappoint his Party.
Senator Chuck said he and Reid became fast friends when Schumer entered the Senate, and their friendship was a “match made in heaven.”
Then he used the eulogy to advocate to end the filibuster.
And yesterday President Joe carried Reid’s type of torch, travelling to Georgia with Jim Crow, to push his corrupt, vote destroying Voting Bill, and to end the filibuster.
Lunchbucket Joe noted, “History has never been kind to those who have sided with voter suppression over voters’ rights.” He’s right. Democrats have always been racists, and voted to that end.
Joe asked, “Every elected official in America: How do you want to be remembered?...Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?
“…on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor?...on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”
Unfortunately, all of Joe’s “bad guys” were Democrats. Which makes you wonder who writes his speeches.
It was insulting to everyone, especially when Joe started shouting that he was tired of being quiet. I guess he meant that whispering thing he does. Or being told what not to do by his handlers.
The speech and the idea of making the trip were such bad ones, especially after Joe's government sued Georgia over its election legislation, that Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s failed gubernatorial candidate, and advocate of federal election reform, found she couldn’t clear her calendar to attend.
And Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, and many other voting rights groups urged Biden and Kamala to stay in Washington.
Which goes to show.
Thomas Paine may not have gotten a spiffy send-off like Harry Reid, but Democrats always give their people awards they don’t deserve, and trash people they don’t like.
So, nothing really changes in history.
In this way, Thomas Paine received the same treatment from the Woke Left that Donald Trump did, and that, in its own way, is its own reward.
For both men.
Hold the line, America.
Let's Go, Brandon!
Stay strong, Patriots
*Thanks to Bill O'Reilly for a moment in history