Left-Wing Lines Of The Week: Rebutted With 36 Cited Principles and Facts

The Reality

A Category Error: 65 vs 22

Consult the scoreboard that framework is built on. On Transparency International’s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index, the gap is a canyon.

65 vs 22 US score vs Russia, out of 100. The US ranks in the top 30; Russia sits 154th of 180. Equating a 65 with a 22 is hyperbole, not analysis. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

The Reality

The Essay Refutes Itself

In Russia, extraction (reiderstvo) meant men with guns and badges taking your company, and sometimes your life. Mikhail Khodorkovsky spent a decade in a Siberian prison.

America’s version is a gift, a disclosure form, and a lawsuit in open court. And this very essay, published under its author’s own name, with no one at his door. In an extractive state, that author disappears.

And note the irony: the First Amendment that lets the author call the president a crook has no Russian equal. Freedom House scores America a “Free” 84 and Russia a “Not Free” 12; on press freedom the US ranks 64th of 180, Russia 172nd. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

The property rights he enjoyed in his own “boring” sale are among the strongest on earth: the US ranks 10th of 126 nations; Russia 96th. The freedoms the essay leans on are the American exceptionalism it claims is dying. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

The Reality

A 9–0 Court, Not Putin

The divest-or-sell mandate was not the president freelancing. It was a statute passed by a bipartisan Congress in 2024 and upheld by the Supreme Court.

9–0 A unanimous Court upheld the TikTok divestiture law, Jan. 2025. Fight the deal terms if you like. A law all three branches affirmed is the rule of law, not a Kremlin grab. (SOURCE HERE)

The Reality

Privately Funded, Not Taxpayer-Billed

The White House released a public donor list for the ballroom. It is privately funded, in the president’s own words, “with zero cost to the American Taxpayer.”

You can dislike the ballroom. Billing it to taxpayers who did not pay for it is simply false. (SOURCE HERE)

• LBJ’s shower: A custom shower cost tens of thousands of dollars, reportedly paid for with classified funds meant for security. (SOURCE HERE)
• Truman’s balcony: He skipped Congress and covered the $16,050.74 cost with savings from his household account. (SOURCE HERE)
• Obama’s State Dining Room: The $590,000 update was funded entirely by the private White House Endowment Trust. (SOURCE HERE)
• Obama’s basketball court: He had the tennis court adapted for full-court basketball, and official cost figures were never released. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

The Reality

A Mandatory Audit Already Exists

The IRS runs a mandatory program to audit every sitting president. The actual scandal a few years ago was that it was not being applied rigorously enough, the opposite of immunity granted. (SOURCE HERE)

Record $5.24T And the “golden age” is not showing up in the till. Federal revenue rose to a record $5.235 trillion in FY2025, up about 6%, with individual income-tax receipts up roughly 9%, even as headcount fell. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

The public wants the trim, too: 56% of Americans say government is “almost always wasteful and inefficient,” and 46% say it does too many things better left to businesses and individuals. (SOURCE HERE)

The Reality

Correlation Asserted As A Crime

“Bought shares, then set policy” is correlation asserted as a crime, with no quid, no quo, and no evidence of intent. It is the exact method that produced years of collusion claims that collapsed on contact with a special counsel.

62% own stock Owning these names is near-universal, not a tell. Some 62% of US adults own stock, and the Magnificent Seven, Nvidia among them, are about 37% of the S&P 500, sitting in nearly every 401(k) and index fund. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

Paul Pelosi. The then-Speaker’s household disclosed buying 50 Nvidia call options in Nov. 2023, exercised for 10,000 shares in Dec. 2024, the chipmaker sitting at the center of US policy. (SOURCE HERE)

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ). Per his own congressional filings, sold Nvidia and Microsoft and bought Tesla in Jan. 2025. (SOURCE HERE)

The appearance deserves scrutiny, and should get it, for everyone. Voters are right to be fed up with a Congress where both parties trade on their own policy. But fed-up is not proven. Here the crime is asserted, not shown.

The Reality

The Swamp Is Bipartisan

The essay concedes the swamp is bipartisan, then aims it at one man.

166× Pelosi’s portfolio growth while she opposed a trading ban; in 2024 alone she beat nearly every hedge fund. The real fix, a hard congressional trading ban, is a populist-right cause her own leadership buried. (SOURCE HERE)

The Reality

Policy Disputes Aren’t Treason

Treason has a constitutional definition (Article III): levying war on the United States, or aiding its enemies. A policy you believe is foolish is not treason. And it is a standard applied to exactly one party.

Biden waived Nord Stream 2 sanctions in 2021 (SOURCE HERE). Obama was caught promising Medvedev “more flexibility” for Putin in 2012 (SOURCE HERE). Neither was called treason, it was called diplomacy.

The Reality

The Right Guards These Pillars

Those three pillars are written into America’s founding documents, defended most fiercely by the right, and targeted for alteration by exactly one faction: the far left.

Property. The Fifth Amendment bars taking it without just compensation. The Kelo dissenters were the conservatives; the left wants to tax wealth itself. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

Contracts. Article I forbids states from impairing them. The moves to override contracts by fiat (mass debt cancellation, rent control) come from the left. (SOURCE HERE)

Competition. Low taxes and light rules let everyone compete. The only faction asking to rewrite the founding guarantees with a wealth tax is the far left. (SOURCE HERE)

Originalism. Enforcing the Constitution as written, the fixed meaning set at the founding, is the conservative principle. The left calls it a “living,” evolving document for courts to update. Fidelity to the founding rules is the right’s position, not the left’s. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

~50% The payoff is measurable: the US draws over half the world’s large venture-capital rounds and is home to 49% of its billion-dollar startups. Strong property, contracts, and competition are why. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

The Reality

The Left Is Rewiring The System

Note which side keeps trying to rewire the system itself.

Pack the Supreme Court. Democrats introduced a bill to add four seats and expand it to thirteen. (SOURCE HERE)

Add states for Senate seats. The Democratic House passed D.C. statehood on a party-line vote. (SOURCE HERE)

Keep noncitizens in the count. When Trump moved to exclude illegal immigrants from apportionment, the left fought to keep them counted. (SOURCE HERE)

Weaken voter ID. The left’s signature voting bills would override strict state photo-ID laws. (SOURCE HERE)

Defund the police. Progressives pushed to dismantle departments; Minneapolis’s council pledged to. (SOURCE HERE)

The Reality

Agreed: A Matter Of Degree

Exactly. No one defends gluttony at the top, and no one claims the president hasn’t gone too far. But the honest comparison is a matter of degree, and the outrage is selective.

85 of 154 private citizens who met Hillary Clinton at State had donated to the family foundation. No charges. No one called it Russia. (SOURCE HERE)

$50k / mo. Hunter Biden drew from Ukraine’s Burisma with no energy experience while his father ran Ukraine policy. Joe Biden later pardoned him. (SOURCE HERE)

$65M+ The Obamas’ post-office book deal, plus Netflix. Legal and routine, which is the point. Cashing in on the office is bipartisan. (SOURCE HERE)

The Reality

The Lawfare Already Ran

The machinery has already been aimed at one man and his family for years. If you worry about weaponizing the law, this is the record.

2018 An AG who ran against one man. Letitia James campaigned vowing to pursue Trump, calling him an “illegitimate president.” (SOURCE HERE)

2022 A new law revives an old claim, and the FBI searches a former president’s home at Mar-a-Lago, the first such search in history. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

2022 The family deposed one by one: Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka pulled into the civil probe. (SOURCE HERE)

2023 Four indictments, 91 counts in a single year. One produced a conviction; both federal cases were later dismissed without one. (SOURCE HERE)

2024–25 A $454M judgment built to bankrupt, then voided by an appeals court as an excessive fine. The system corrected the overreach. (SOURCE HERE)

2019 Two years on a collusion theory that “did not establish” the campaign conspired with Russia (though it did not clear him on obstruction), a probe that ran ~22 months and cost nearly $32 million. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

2025 Branded “a dictatorship” for going after his foes. As the DOJ moved on Comey, Letitia James, and Lisa Cook, and Trump leaned on Fed Chair Jerome Powell, critics called it fascism and “the path to a dictatorship.” Vindictive, but a mirror of the prior eight years, and the Comey and James cases were tossed by the courts, the system again correcting. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

The Pardons “He pardons his own” cuts both ways. Biden preemptively pardoned his brothers, his sister, Fauci, Milley, and the entire Jan. 6 committee, then gave son Hunter a blanket pardon covering 2014–2024. (SOURCE HERE) (SOURCE HERE)

2013–17 When the IRS targeted conservative groups, the government apologized and settled. (A later review found some left-leaning terms flagged too.) (SOURCE HERE)

The Contrast “Lock her up,” and then he didn’t. Trump declined to pursue Clinton, calling it “very, very divisive.” The restraint ran one way. (SOURCE HERE)