The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

The BIG Lie

“All good. Take a look. Start reporting it the right way.” —President Joe Biden regarding the economic outlook

Theater of the Absurd

“There is no evidence that six million Jews were killed [in the Holocaust]. … There was no method of torture or killing specific to the Jews. … This issue was politicized in order to falsify the truth and later to prepare for the transfer of the Jews from Europe to other areas.” —Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad

“They used to speak ill of Hitler. What difference do you have from Hitler? They are going to make us miss Hitler. Is what this Netanyahu is doing any less than what Hitler did? It is not. He is richer than Hitler. He gets the support from the West. All sorts of support comes from the United States. And what did they do with all this support? They killed more than 20,000 Gazans.” —Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

For the Record

“Erdogan, who is committing genocide against the Kurds and who holds the world record for imprisoning journalists who oppose his regime, is the last person who can preach morality to us. The IDF, which is the most moral army in the world, is fighting to eliminate the most abhorrent and brutal terrorist organization in the world, Hamas-ISIS, which has committed crimes against humanity, and which Erdogan has praised and whose leaders he hosts.” —Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

“A group cannot be the target of genocide when its population is growing. From 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza, to [2023], the population of Gaza has increased by 800,000 people. Well, how is their population growth so robust if there is a genocide taking place? Of course, there is no ‘genocide.’ It’s a total lie.” —Gary Bauer

Yellow Journalism

“Remember when the [New York Times] journalists lost their minds and a chief editor had to resign because they ran an op-ed by a sitting US Senator? Well now the New York Times is running opinion pieces written by Hamas.” —Chaya Raichik

Non Compos Mentis

“Five [sic] ways that Hitler was preferable to Trump: 1. He fought for his country. 2. He never used a teleprompter. 3. He was nice to dogs. 4. He wrote his own books. 5. He never played golf. 6. He wasn’t a big fat slob.” —actor John Cleese

“We cannot have a governor [Texas’s Greg Abbott] who decides that he’s going to cling to the vestiges of [Confederate President] Jefferson Davis.” —Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day

“I have very, very strong reservations about all of this. I do think it would rip the country apart if [Trump] were actually prevented from running because tens of millions of people want to vote for him.” —former Obama adviser David Axelrod

Political Futures

“If Donald Trump or President Biden were asked today what had caused the Civil War, they could say absolutely anything, and it wouldn’t matter. If Trump answered, ‘Chinese donuts,’ it wouldn’t hurt him; if Biden had answered, ‘The British tax on tea,’ it wouldn’t hurt him. For different reasons, we have such low expectations of each of these candidates that they’re bulletproof. And they are our two front-runners.” —Roger Clegg

Insight

“A great many of those who ‘debunk’ traditional or (as they would say) ‘sentimental’ values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.” —C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

And Last…

“The word ‘democracy’ as used by the MSM and Democrats simply means government run by Democrats, nothing more.” —Newt Gingrich