{"id":21223,"date":"2025-01-09T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=21223"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:12:32","slug":"my-zestiest-epigrams-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/my-zestiest-epigrams-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"My Zestiest Epigrams of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Zestiest Epigrams of 2024<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard, January 9, 2025\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

* In Washington, anyone who doesn\u2019t worship government is considered an extremist. (N.Y. Post<\/a>, January 20)<\/p>\n

*The more power politicians capture, the more flattery they hear, and the more deluded they usually become. (FFF<\/a>, December)<\/p>\n

*Politics nowadays is a horror show that never ends. (recurrent theme on podcasts, etc.)<\/p>\n

*Zealots believe lofty SAT scores give the Washington elite a divine right to run everyone else\u2019s lives. (Mises Institute<\/a>, November 7)<\/p>\n

*Inflation epitomizes how federal statistics can be a weapon of mass deception. (N.Y. Post<\/a>, April 11)<\/p>\n

*Since the FBI didn\u2019t intend to trample Americans\u2019 rights and liberties, it was a no-fault error \u2014 actually, millions of no-fault errors. (FFF<\/a>, March)<\/p>\n

*Most Washington journalists\u2019 knowledge of history doesn\u2019t extend further back than Taylor Swift\u2019s first best-selling album. (Mises Institute<\/a>, November 7)<\/p>\n

*Nixon famously asserted, \u201cI am not a crook.\u201d Will Biden achieve equal notoriety for proclaiming, \u201cI am not mentally incompetent\u201d? (N.Y. Post<\/a>, February 8)<\/p>\n

*Cast the first stone? Who amongst us have not stored notebooks full of top secret information underneath their TV<\/a>, as President Biden did in Delaware?\u00a0(N.Y. Post<\/a>, February 8)<\/p>\n

*A pardon for Hunter is as certain as Joe Biden\u2019s next verbal hairball. (N.Y. Post\/YouTube<\/a>, September 9, 2024)<\/p>\n

*Pledging \u201cfreedom from fear\u201d entitles politicians to seize power over anything that frightens anyone. \u201cFreedom from fear\u201d offers freedom from everything except the government. (Mises Institute,<\/a> October 14)<\/p>\n

*How many more official cover-ups can self-government survive?\u00a0(Fox News<\/a>, October 24)<\/p>\n

*Being appointed Secretary of Agriculture is like giving somebody a ticket to ride a barrel over Niagara Falls. (Alan Mosley Podcast,<\/a> November 6)<\/p>\n

*In a democracy, as long as enough people can be frightened, almost everyone can be subjugated. (Libertarian Institute<\/a>, May 13)<\/p>\n

*Biden sought to convert America into a Drop Box Democracy<\/a> where minimal efforts by voters automatically conferred maximum power to politicians. (American Conservative<\/a>, October 20)<\/p>\n

*The media portrays the 2024 presidential race as a choice of Hitler or Joan of Arc. But it isn\u2019t that simple. (Salt Lake City radio, August 1)<\/p>\n

*Are Americans heading for another \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d election \u2014 votes first, evidence later? (N.Y. Post<\/a>, May 17)<\/p>\n

*The 2024 presidential race became a Keystone Kops race, as Kamala Harris\u2019s lackeys rushed to vaporize her past faster than voters recognized her deceits. (N.Y. Post<\/a>, July 30)<\/p>\n

*This is the third presidential election in a row where the Washington elite screamed RUSSIA! RUSSIA! <\/em>to shroud their own machinations. (American Conservative<\/a>, October 31)<\/p>\n

*Washingtonians presume the First Amendment is archaic because Americans have become village idiots who the feds must constantly rescue. (N.Y. Post<\/a>, March 19)<\/p>\n

*Will the Supreme Court\u2019s refusal to stop federal censorship be a wooden stake in the heart of American democracy? (N.Y. Post<\/a>, June 27)<\/p>\n

*Americans have no idea how many muzzles\u00a0and blindfolds were secretly attached by federal agencies prior to Election Day. (RealClearPolicy<\/a>, October 18)<\/p>\n

*Endless vote-buying schemes will be an economic wrecking ball, unleashing perpetual political warfare guaranteed to make America poorer. (N.Y. Post<\/a>, September 26)<\/p>\n

*\u201cNo boondoggle left behind\u201d was the Biden administration\u2019s motto. (Libertarian Institute<\/a>, December 14)<\/p>\n

* The efforts to \u201csave democracy\u201d become more perverse with every election. (American Conservative<\/a>, October 31)<\/p>\n

*Julian Assange was guilty of violating the US government\u2019s divine right to blindfold the American people. (American Conservative<\/a>, March 28)<\/p>\n

*Tartuffe is the patron saint of the National Prayer Breakfast where politicians gather to silently pray that the Lord will destroy all their enemies \u2014 or at least get them indicted. (N.Y. Post<\/a>, February 2)<\/p>\n

* President Biden derided the unvaxxed as aspiring mass murderers who only wanted \u201cthe freedom to kill you\u201d with covid. (N.Y. Post<\/a>, July 3)<\/p>\n

*Federal secrecy signed a death warrant for thousands of Americans. (Libertarian Institute<\/a>, December 2)<\/p>\n

*Uncle Sam\u2019s covid cons filled a million American caskets. (N.Y. Post,<\/a> December 27)<\/p>\n

*\u201cWill of the people\u201d is one of those intellectual circus-shell games in which freedom almost always gets screwed. (Libertarian Institute<\/a>, November 4)<\/p>\n

*The only way to assume that President Biden is not \u201cabove the law\u201d is to assume that his decrees are the law<\/em>. (N.Y. Post<\/a>, January 6)<\/p>\n

*Idealism long since surpassed patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel. (Libertarian Institute<\/a>, August 26)<\/p>\n

*When did preventing election fraud become a violation of the Voting Rights Act? (American Conservative<\/a>, October 20)<\/p>\n

*Democracy cannot survive power worship. (FFF<\/a>, December)<\/p>\n

*Psychiatry is ruining more lives than ever before. Therapists are hollowing out the American character, generation by generation. (Libertarian Institute<\/a>, May 13)<\/p>\n

*I learned how to smell a policy rat. (Libertarian Institute<\/a>, December 14)<\/p>\n

*Do I look like a Russian propagandist?!? (American Conservative<\/a>, October 31)<\/p>\n

*I have enough shams in my life without some politician pretending to be my friend. (Mises Institute<\/a>, October 14)<\/p>\n

I want to heartily thank the excellent editors who published the articles with those zesty lines, including Bill Anderson of the Mises Institute, Hunter DeRensis of the Libertarian Institute, Kelly Torrance, Stephen Lynch, Mary Kay Linge, and Mark Cunningham of the New York Post, Jude Russo of the American Conservative, and Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Zestiest Epigrams of 2024 by James Bovard, January 9, 2025 * In Washington, anyone who doesn\u2019t worship government is considered an extremist. (N.Y. Post, January 20) *The more power politicians capture, the more flattery they hear, and the more deluded they usually become. (FFF, December) *Politics nowadays is a horror show that never ends. 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21235,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223\/revisions\/21235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}