The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

Editor’s Note: Each week we receive hundreds of comments and correspondences — and we read every one of them. What follows are a few thought-provoking comments about specific articles. The views expressed herein don’t necessarily reflect those of The Patriot Post.

Re: “John Kerry’s Idiotic Priorities”

“Kerry is worried that Putin won’t ‘stay on track.’ Over the past weekend it was reported that Russia has a deal to sell China (Putin’s banker) 100 million tons of coal (on top of 40 million tons to India). Putin is staying on track. Xi too. What track is Kerry talking about? There should never be a story about Kerry that does not state unambiguously that he has proven to be a liar, a traitor, a fake, and a flake. And that barely scratches the surface. He has always been ‘stuck on stupid.’” —Virginia

“I was in the Army stationed in the Delta Area of South Vietnam. After what Kerry said and did upon his return to the U.S., I have only disrespect for him. Then add who his daughter married, how he cowed up to Iran, and now this? I guess there always will be people like J. Fonda, B. Arnold, and J. Kerry. I hope he sleeps well at night knowing all the bad things he has done and most likely will do until he stops being such a nut.” —Colorado

“John Kerry is as obtuse as Senator Gaylord Nelson was when he came up with the ‘earth is warming’ scam. Senator Nelson had his first presentation of his grand idea in a park in Washington, DC. It was filled with young people ready to remake the world. It took the National Park people two to three days to clean up the mess these yahoos left behind. Anyone with two functioning brain cells should have been able to see where this was all going. Now we have John Kerry whining about how much the air quality will be damaged with the war in Europe. It will not happen. Our good Lord has told us that He will continue to give us winter and summer and spring and fall. Plants will grow and harvesting will continue. We are safe.” —Illinois

Re: “Putin’s ‘Minor Incursion’ Into Ukraine — Week One”

“The march by Putin into Ukraine did not begin with our feckless withdrawal from Afghanistan; it began on Day One of the Biden presidency when he canceled the Keystone pipeline. Biden followed up with the moratorium on oil and gas leases on federal land and other anti-fossil fuel actions. Putin was paying close attention. He realized he could invade Ukraine without jeopardizing his natural gas business with Europe because the U.S. is in no position to step in. This all occurred on Biden’s watch. He is truly incompetent, as Secretary Gates stated years ago.” —California

Re: “Who Is Ketanji Brown Jackson?”

“The lamestream media makes much of Brown’s easy confirmation to the federal bench back in 2013, but that was when most Republican senators naively believed a president was entitled to his picks, no matter how questionable their ideology might be. Republicans should absolutely question Judge Brown about her judicial philosophy and view of the Constitution, and they should all be prepared to vote against her confirmation if she will not hold to a strict construction of the Constitution. We don’t have to make personal attacks and should not, but we can and should make much of any tendency toward two-tiered justice — we now have a record of her judicial behavior to examine.” —Minnesota

Re: “Rick Scott Repeats Romney’s 2012 Mistake”

“I agree that Scott’s words will come back to haunt the party. However, by noting ‘everyone should have some skin in the game,’ perhaps we can make more people aware of the spending side of the equation. I cannot, for the life of me, remember either party really and truly addressing the other side of the equation. Lots of lip service, perhaps, but no major action outside of what was forged in the ‘90s between Congress and the Clinton administration, resulting in some economic growth that, at least on paper, balanced the federal budget for a year or two. I can remember the outcry from the Democrats when the debt breached $1 trillion in the early '80s. Look at where we are a mere 40 years later!” —Washington

Re: “CPAC 2022: It’s Still Trump”

“If Trump wants to run in 2024, he better start learning a modicum of self-discipline as well as learning to face facts. He is his own worst enemy. When even his own AG calls him out on his conspiracy theories about 2020 election fraud, you know how detached he is from reality.” —California

“Trump deserves accolades the Left denied him. But in November 2024, he will be 78 years old, and 82 years old after a four-year term. I am not being age-biased. But, seriously folks, get real. POTUS is no job for an octogenarian. Yes, I know Biden was 78 when he took office. IMHO, his public appearances displayed behavior demonstrating age-related dementia. His lack of public appearances implied worse.
 At this time, DeSantis seems the most viable candidate. I want Trump to stump for DeSantis.” —Missouri

Re: “Coming Soon: Facebook’s Metaverse”

“According to Zuckerberg: 'What the metaverse broadly is going to help people experience is a sense of presence that I think is just much more natural in the way that we’re made to interact. And I think it will be more comfortable.’ It seems to me that much of the degradation of our society has become the lack of personal interaction. We lose face-to-face communications more and more every day. People are losing out on human interaction by relying on cell phones and social media as their primary means of ‘seeing’ people. If I want to ‘experience a sense of presence,’ I would want it to be face to face!” —Maryland

Re: “Unmasking the CDC’s Political Science”


“Neither the CDC nor any other governmental office concerned with health, safety, or military matters should be political in any way, shape, or form. Furthermore, pundits who have zero (or nearly zero) medical training should not be criticizing medically trained people when they make an honest assessment of a medical situation. And those pundits should try to recall that there are very, very few people alive today who have experienced a worldwide pandemic. And even fewer of those are up to date on medical technology. The fact that we had not just one, but several effective and widely available vaccines against COVID in just a year or so is little short of a bona fide miracle. I’m confident the folks from 1918 would think so.” —Florida

Re: “SCOTUS Takes Another Crack at Religious Liberty”

“I hope they tackle a lot of other issues as well, such as hospitals denying patients medical care because they aren’t vaccinated and financial institutions denying services to certain businesses because they don’t like their industry, such as gun manufacturers, sporting good stores that sell firearms and ammunition, etc. There are a lot more of these that need to be addressed too.” —Nebraska

Re: “Farewell, Lt. Col. Bill Gauntt (USAF, Ret.), POW”

“My grandfather was a POW during WWII in Germany. Up until his death he would not speak much about the things he experienced and saw during that time. He was my hero and a great man in my eyes. So many heroes of the past are passing away, and many without proper recognition for the life they lived and the deeds they performed in the name of freedom. God speed, Mr. Gauntt. Thank you for your service, sacrifice, and life.” —Texas