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Libertarian Institute, January 5, 2023<\/h3>\n

Jim Bovard\u2019s Best Digs of 2022<\/a><\/h1>\n

by Jim Bovard<\/a><\/span> |
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This past year served up endless opportunities for hounding and pounding politicians and federal agencies. Here\u2019s a round-up of the most liked or most hated lines from my 2022 articles. Hearty thanks to Hunter DeRensis and editors at other outlets who ran these pieces.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Uncle Joe Salvation Show<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201cBiden\u2019s pro-inflation policies are dividing Americans between those who work for a living and those who vote for a living.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, January 24)<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the White House\u2019s 58-page Economic Blueprint, Biden has performed more miracles than accompanied the Sermon on the Mount.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, September 10)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only limits on his power that Biden recognizes come from his pollsters, not from the Constitution.\u201d (Lib. Inst.,<\/span><\/a> September 7)<\/p>\n

\u201cWashington is full of career-climbing wackos who would sell their soul to add the Biden administration to their r\u00e9sum\u00e9. If their pratfalls make them a laughingstock, they can count on a Washington Post<\/em> puff piece to vindicate their lives and careers.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, May 18)<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden is a listless president surrounded by aides with broken moral compasses.\u201d (Mises<\/span><\/a>, June 8)<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden offers a \u2018paying-and-obeying\u2019 version of democracy in which citizens have no right to complain about the feds wrecking prosperity.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, November 3)<\/p>\n

\u201cCynics are quipping that inflation is higher than Biden\u2019s approval rating, but that is a cheap shot\u2014or at least premature<\/span>.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span>, January 24)<\/p>\n

COVID Crackdown Calamities<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201cAt this point, \u2018COVID fraud\u2019 is a redundant phrase.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, October 3)<\/p>\n

\u201cWill citizens tolerate living in Cage Keeper Democracies where their votes merely designate who will place them under house arrest?\u201d (USA Today<\/span><\/a>, February 6)<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing in Biden\u2019s oath of office entitled him to turn the Constitution into COVID road kill.\u201d (Lib. Inst.,<\/span><\/a> October 18)<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden issued the equivalent of a declaration of war on 80 million unvaccinated Americans, portraying them as Public Enemy Number One.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, October)<\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID vaccination status has gone from being a proxy for health to being a substitute for sane health care policy.\u201d (USA Today<\/span><\/a>, January 7)<\/p>\n

\u201cShutting down entire states with COVID lockdowns was the equivalent of burning witches or sacrificing virgins to appease angry viral gods.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, February)<\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID Chief Fearmonger Tony Fauci is \u2018omniscient except during depositions.\u2019 Fauci has had more flip-flops than a Ringling Bros. trapeze artist.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, November 26).<\/p>\n

\u201cFederal health agencies blundered worse than practically anyone expected during the Covid pandemic. Unfortunately, there is no approved cure for blind faith in government.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, May)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government has no liability for the injections it mandates or the freedoms it destroys. How much longer will politicians pretend their iron fists are a magic bullet?\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, October)<\/p>\n

Contempt of Congress<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201cCongressional \u2018intelligence committee\u2019 is Washington\u2019s biggest oxymoron.\u201d (Libertarian Inst.,<\/span><\/a> October 24)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest threat to our democracy is not the \u2018combative rhetoric\u2019 of political candidates but the dictatorial actions of elected politicians.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, October 23)<\/p>\n

\u201cToo many Republicans would pawn their own grandmothers in exchange for one gushing reference in The Washington Post<\/em>.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, December 20).<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no \u2018holy ghost of democracy\u2019 benevolently hovering over Capitol Hill.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, December 20).<\/p>\n

\u201cSquandering a hundred billion tax dollars is simply another congressional office perk. Politicians don\u2019t give a damn about any government waste that buys them applause, votes or campaign contributions.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, December 2)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are only 15 Legislative Looting Days left until a new Congress takes office.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, December 20).<\/p>\n

Secrecy and Censorship<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201cAmerica is an Impunity Democracy in which government officials pay no price for their abuses.\u201d (Mises Inst.,<\/span><\/a> October 7)<\/p>\n

\u201cPervasive secrecy helps explain the collapse of trust in Washington. Americans today are more likely to believe in witches, ghosts, and astrology than to trust the federal government.\u201d (Mises Inst.,<\/span><\/a> October 7)<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Disinformation\u2019 is often simply the lag time between the pronouncement and the debunking of government falsehoods.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, April 28)<\/p>\n

\u201cFederal agencies are censoring what you see online to protect America\u2019s \u2018cognitive infrastructure.’\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, November 2)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real goal of federal Truth Cops is to control America\u2019s minds. And the most important cognitive \u2018fix\u2019 is to train Americans to never doubt Uncle Sam.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, November 2)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal government has long been the most dangerous source of disinformation threatening Americans.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, August)<\/p>\n

\u201cAdmittedly, calling it the Disinformation Governance Board was more palatable than naming it the Keep Damn Federal Lies Sacrosanct Panel.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, August)<\/p>\n

\u201cSecrecy and lying are two sides of the same political coin. <\/i><\/span>Under Biden, federal agencies continue creating trillions of pages<\/span><\/a> of new secrets each year.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, February 9)\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFederal agencies don\u2019t count what politicians don\u2019t want to know. Washington is full of Towers of Paternalist Babel built on statistical quicksand.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, March)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Presidential Records Act has become a bipartisan scam to prevent Americans from recognizing how badly they have been misgoverned.\u201d (USA Today,<\/span><\/a> February 20)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Presidential Records Act is the Presidential Damn-Near-Perpetual-Secrecy Act.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, August 9)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe State Secrets doctrine is akin to a fraudulent religious miracle that was not exposed until after it became canonized.\u201d (Mises<\/span><\/a>, March 12)<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Supremacy of the law\u2019 now means little more than the Supreme Court recycling legal mummeries to hide federal atrocities. How many official crimes can democracy survive? Unfortunately, the answer is a secret.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, June)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Supreme Court should replace the \u2018Equal Justice under the Law\u2019 slogan atop its entrance with a new motto: \u2018Better for People Not to Know.’\u201d (Mises<\/span><\/a>, March 12)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf democracy depends on transparency, and government transparency is an illusion, then what is U.S. democracy?\u201d (Lib. Inst<\/span><\/a>. August 30)<\/p>\n

Extremists, Terrorists, Entrapment<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201c\u2019Trespassing plus thought crimes equals terrorism\u2019 is the Biden standard for prosecuting January 6 defendants.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, January 6)<\/p>\n

\u201cNowadays, any threat of \u2018domestic extremism\u2019 can justify the preemptive destruction of freedom of speech.\u201d (N.Y. Post,<\/span><\/a> February 26)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Biden administration revealed that guys who can\u2019t get laid may be terrorist threats due to \u2018involuntary celibate\u2013violent extremism.\u2019\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, April 13)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe jury for the FBI\u2019s Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot smelled a federal rat. How many additional crimes or conspiracies is the FBI fomenting at this moment?\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, April 13)<\/p>\n

\u201cHate crimes are profitable for politicians, so they continually expand the definition. When will Team Biden formally designate distrusting the government as a \u2018pre-hate crime\u2019?\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, September 14)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Biden administration could be expanding the federal \u2018Enemies List\u2019 faster than any time since the Nixon era. Permitting politicians to blacklist any ideas they disapprove won\u2019t \u2018restore faith in democracy.\u2019 What if government is the most dangerous extremist of them all?\u201d\u00a0(Lib. Inst.,<\/span><\/a> September 7)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI has always used its \u2018good guys\u2019 image to shroud its crimes.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, August 24)<\/p>\n

Press Pratfalls<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201cNothing is more perilous to the truth than encouraging journalists to pirouette as saviors when they grovel to The Powers That Be.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, January 14)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe media often chooses to trumpet official lies instead of exposing them. Inside the Beltway, being a lap dog is easier and more profitable than being an attack dog.\u201d (AIER<\/span><\/a>, February 19)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Washington press corps was aptly described long ago as \u2018stenographers with amnesia.\u2019 The political philosophy of most reporters doesn\u2019t go beyond \u2018Orange Man Bad.’\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, January 14)<\/p>\n

\u201cJournalists are not fit to serve as Grand Inquisitors who spoon-feed their beliefs to docile readers and viewers.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, January 14)<\/p>\n

\u201cTotal illiteracy on history is a job requirement for pundits nowadays.\u201d<\/span> (<\/span>Twitter, March 7)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as the media continues ignoring how federal agencies trample our constitutional rights, Americans will live happily ever after.\u201d <\/span>(N.Y. Post<\/b><\/span><\/a>, December 30)<\/p>\n

Foreign Fiascos<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201cIn recent decades, foreign-policy experts have become Washington\u2019s leading con men. Regardless of their Ivy League pedigrees, U.S. foreign and defense policymakers routinely operate on a village-idiot level of information.\u201d (Lib. Inst<\/span><\/a>., March 10)<\/p>\n

\u201cCluelessness is perhaps the greatest constant in American foreign policy.\u201d (Lib. Inst<\/span><\/a>., March 10)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe political system buries information that undermines power-grabs\u2014and war is the biggest power-grab of them all.\u201d (Lib. Inst<\/span><\/a>., March 10)<\/p>\n

\u201cWashington is full of intellectuals more devoted to power than to truth.\u201d (Lib. Inst<\/span><\/a>., March 10)\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFew Americans and even fewer editorial writers are aware of the Iron Curtain that shrouds U.S. foreign policy.\u201d (Lib. Inst.,<\/span><\/a> October 10)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most celebrated pragmatists in Washington history have all been \u2018useful idiots for Leviathan.’\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, June)<\/p>\n

\u201cA sixteenth century French writer derided \u2018the minions of the court.\u2019 We have made great progress\u2014now we have think tank minions.\u201d (Mises<\/span><\/a>, August 25)<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous Misgovernment Etc.<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201cThe easiest way to prove your moral superiority in Washington is to champion destroying everyone else\u2019s freedom.\u201d (Lib. Inst.,<\/span><\/a> September 27)<\/p>\n

\u201cTwitter is a fount of wisdom because so many of its users are omniscient. Twitter \u2018likes\u2019 are the highest form of logic, and re-tweets are irrefutable truth.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, February)<\/p>\n

\u201cBanning AR-15 rifles is simply the opening political bid for a disarmament game propelled by a media chorus always demanding \u201cMore! More! More!\u201d (<\/b>Lib. Inst<\/span><\/a><\/span>., June 6)<\/p>\n

\u201cSince President Trump condemned the Deep State, that proves that it doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d <\/span>(FFF<\/span><\/a>, February)<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce a president escapes the confines of the Constitution, the American people will eventually find themselves shackled.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, November)<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans cannot rely on politically approved lawyers wearing bat suits to save their freedoms.\u201d (FFF<\/span><\/a>, June)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Internal Revenue Service is Washington\u2019s ultimate sacred cow. It is the \u2018goose that lays the golden eggs,\u2019 delivering trillions of dollars to allow politicians to work miracles (or at least get re-elected).\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, August 29)<\/p>\n

\u201cCorporate subsidies are basically bribes to businesses that routinely spur corruption scandals.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, October 28)<\/p>\n

\u201cPoliticians don\u2019t learn from mistakes committed with other people\u2019s money. Letting politicians pick winners is the surest recipe for shafting consumers and every unsubsidized business. Unfortunately, there will always be enough pundits who failed Econ 101 to whoop up every boneheaded intervention.\u201d (AIER,<\/span><\/a> November 22)<\/p>\n

\u201cProtecting former students from the federal debts they voluntarily sought has become one of the great human rights issues of our times.\u201d (Lib. Inst.,<\/span><\/a> November 28)<\/p>\n

\u201cStudent loan bailouts have extended Biden\u2019s power over a huge swath of American voters. Each new federal benefit program extends political control over both the recipients and anyone forced to finance the handouts.\u201d (Lib. Inst.,<\/span><\/a> November 28)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen did verifying ballots become a crime against democracy?\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, January 6)<\/p>\n

\u201cToleration requires fewer body bags than rage. There are few things that people need to agree on to live peacefully (if not happily) side by side.\u201d (Mises<\/span><\/a>, August 25)<\/p>\n

Exit, Stage Left\u2026<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201c2022 was a feast for cynics.\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, December 30)<\/p>\n

Probably the best line in my 2022 articles was not one I wrote. Instead, it was a quote from a late, great peace activist: \u201cSome art critics have praised Hunter Biden\u2019s paintings\u2014confirming John Lennon\u2019s adage that \u2018Avant Garde is French for bullshit.\u2019\u201d (N.Y. Post<\/span><\/a>, December 10).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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