The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Dumb & Dumber

“We should all be encouraged by any action that makes it less likely that [Trump] will return to the presidency.” —Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)

“[Trump] certainly supported an insurrection. There’s no question about it. None. Zero.” —President Joe Biden (“J6 was not an insurrection. It was a riot. None of the more than 1100 Trump supporters arrested over J6 have been charged with insurrection. In any case, insurrection is overthrowing a government and Trump was still the president so did he insurrect himself?” —Miranda Devine)

“The constitution is clear: you must be 40 years old and not be an insurrectionist.” —California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis (“It actually says in the Constitution you have to be 35 to be president.” —Greg Price)

For the Record

“In the name of ‘saving democracy,’ leftist judges just denied the people of Colorado their right to vote. That doesn’t sound very ‘democratic’ to me.” —Gary Bauer

“The Colorado Supreme Court just disqualified Trump from the 2024 election. You can have your own opinions, but here’s the thing: American citizens have the right to vote for whoever they want. That’s democracy. The Supreme Court needs to set this right.” —Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)

“There was no trial on any of this. They basically just said, what, you can’t be on the ballot? I mean, how does that work? … Could we just say that Biden can’t be on the ballot because he let in eight million illegals into the country and violated the constitution, which he has? Can we just say, oh, well, they have money coming to Hunter [Biden]?” —Ron DeSantis on the Colorado ruling barring Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot

“Next year, you’re going to have a choice. You can spend tens of millions of dollars destroying the dementia patient in the White House and the Democrats, or you could spend tens of millions of dollars next year trying to make sure our nominee is even on the ballot.” —radio talk-show host Steve Deace

The BIG Lies

“We wanna ban assault weapons, they wanna ban books.” —Vice President Kamala Harris

“[Biden will] never make a decision that’s gonna be damaging to our national security interests.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

“President Biden has been committed to improving the security of our border. … He’s the only leader in our country who’s put forward the kind of robust investments to secure our border.” —Chris Coons

“Let’s have a robust debate on immigration. But don’t hold the issue hostage. … It will have real consequence for these folks to play these kinds of games with who we are as America in terms of our role of global leadership.” —Kamala Harris

Useful Idiot

“It is important … that there be a lessening of the intensity and more precision around how Israel goes after Hamas.” —Kamala Harris

Projection

“Every election cycle we talk about, ‘This is the most [important] election of our lifetime.’ … This one is. We are literally talking about people who are attempting to divide our country in the most crude, frankly, and profound way.” —Kamala Harris

Veep Thoughts

“I have been fortunate and blessed to, during the course of being vice president, have many situations where it becomes clear to me that there are — you know, people of every age and gender, by the way, who see something about being the first that lets them know they don’t need to be limited by other people’s limited understanding of who can do what.” —Kamala Harris

Belly Laugh of the Day

“Everything I read is they’re trying to get him to cut back his hours because he’s got too much energy. ” —Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) on Joe Biden

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day

“A lot of people are getting their perspective from TikTok. And I think if you’re kind of getting your perspective on the world on TikTok, it’s going to tend to be kind of warped or not reflective of the history and actually the way things absolutely are.” —Senator John Fetterman (D-PA)

“I hope Democrats can understand that it isn’t xenophobic to be concerned about the border. It’s a reasonable conversation, and Democrats should engage.” —John Fetterman

And Last…

“Karine Jean Pierre is attacking Governor Greg Abbott for sending a few thousand illegal immigrants to Chicago, saying it’s a dehumanizing stunt, while the Biden administration sends millions of illegal immigrants to the same cities. This is total gaslighting.” —Katie Pavlich