The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

Editor’s Note: Thank you for sending comments on our news, policy, and opinion — we review every one of them. Here are a few reader perspectives, which don’t necessarily reflect those of The Patriot Post.

Re: “Demo DoJ Document Double Standards: Clinton v. Trump”

“The Leftmedia is breathlessly reporting about ‘threats to national security’ and ‘secret documents at Mar-a-Lago’ — documents in hard copy, inside a secure room, inside a building protected by Secret Service 24/7/365. No comparison to Clinton’s large trove of digitized top secret documents known to be hacked from a private server — documents not packed into boxes by GSA, but rather purloined by Clinton lackeys. Every Leftmedia lie is a gross insult to the intelligence of normal Americans and is fit only for the useful idiots who are already Democrat Party drones.” —Illinois

Re: “One Year After Biden Lost Afghanistan”

“We spent $80 billion over 20 years trying to change a Stone Age culture into our idea of democracy. A tribal culture with a religion that is the antithesis of all of our beliefs and has no desire to copy any of our values. The war killed 2,500 of our most patriotic young Americans and wounded or permanently maimed another 20,000. Never again should we allow our corrupt government to send our young men to fight in a never-ending war with no clear objective and specified endpoint. Osama bin Laden needed to be taken out. However, that was done with old-fashioned intelligence work and a surgical strike, and we have and have had the capability to do that kind of action anywhere in the world without a needless, endless war.” —Georgia

Re: “Dems Just Armed the IRS”

“The thought of an armed horde of government agents descending upon American citizens should jolt every American into the reality that we are now living under a Marxist government. The Dems’ intent is to totally destroy the middle class, which is the backbone of the capitalistic system. Any questions now about why we were given the Second Amendment?” —Pennsylvania

“I do not see why any IRS agent needs a weapon to collect taxes. For criminals, use U.S. marshals or low-level FBI. Also, why do we have armed Forest Service personnel (do trees have weapons)? I understand the Border Patrol and partially Fish and Wildlife. I also go back to Walter E. Williams who said of taxes, ‘If 10% is good enough for the Baptist church then it is good enough for the U.S. government,’ and it is true.” —Arkansas

Re: “‘Nothing to See Here’ in Muslim Serial Murders”

“Never in the history of any other ‘religion’ except Islam has any official position and teaching of its original founder been to ‘kill all of those who do not believe as we do.’ The so-called ‘religion of peace’ is not even peaceful among itself! One Islamic sect can’t even coexist with any other Islamic sect, so how can they get along with anyone else? According to the way Islam is practiced, anyone who is of a different sect is not a ‘real’ Muslim and must either be killed or converted. There are around 72 different Muslim sects still in existence, and they all hate and kill and make war on one another.” —California

Re: “Why Salman Rushdie Matters”

“The Left feels that any harm done to Trump is okay because he is another Hitler. Although he never even tried to destroy the American Constitution and our way of life, as the Biden administration has done, he is the evil one. The Left also believes we should not have a fear of anyone Muslim, as it is the religion of peace. The atrocities against humans in the name of radical Islam are not to be considered. These crimes do not affect the Left, only believers in God. We are in a crazy world where the WEF is destroying whole nations, proving again that centralized ‘mono-think’ is worse than the bomb. And yet we go, day to day, with people who demonstrate against what they don’t even understand.” —Nevada

Re: “The Crisis of Generation Z”

“I agree with everything the author said. I am 77 and continue to teach high school specifically because I share the author’s concerns. I am fortunate to teach in a charter school and we were online for a month and then in masks for a semester. Nonetheless, I see the same symptoms described in the article. ‘Distance learning’ was a sick joke. There was a lot of distance and very little learning that took place, but the most important impact was social. I see it every day, and it is exacerbated by social media. I teach my students values for life and they seem to appreciate it.” —Arizona

Re: “How the States Fare on Free Speech”

“It’s important to note that the index looks only at each state’s laws regarding campaign speech and spending; it does not consider, for example, speech codes on college campuses, social media censorship, or leftist blacklists of anyone they deem insufficiently ‘woke.’ While free political speech is important, politics lags behind the culture. It is on these other battlefields that the future of our American tradition of free speech is most threatened and where it will be saved or lost.” —Georgia

Re: “Atheism Leads to Authoritarianism”

“Many people claim that atheism is a religion. While I respect that approach, it is insufficient. Most atheists do not consider ‘the void’ as their god; what they usually worship is the power of the state to enforce their views. Ergo, atheists are almost all statists — the government is their god!” —Texas

Re: “Alexander’s Week in Review”

“Maybe the ‘Best Bras for Small Boobs’ ad was for men who think they’re women but don’t have gynecomastia (‘man boobs’) to fill a larger cup!” —Pennsylvania