The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

The BIG Lies

“I caution against conflating immigration and crime. The data demonstrates that the two are not connected.” —Athens, Georgia Mayor Kelly Girtz

“We believe in order to deal with what’s happening at the border, you need a legislative solution.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“In order to make the changes, the fixes to border security, you got to have new legislation.” —National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

“Republicans, in order to win an election, say we need to hermetically seal the border when they know … that is economic self-sabotage to the U.S. economy, and they are saying let’s do it anyway. And to compensate for the negative effects, we’re gonna allow and throw people’s kids into factories. That is what they are doing in rolling back child-labor laws while being as xenophobic and anti-immigrant as they are, and while ginning up … this false narrative about this being a crisis.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

For the Record

“[Laken Riley] would be alive today if we had a secure border. Period.” —Clay Travis

“When someone dies in a school shooting, the Left works to take away guns from everyone, including law-abiding citizens. But when a young, 22-year-old is murdered by an illegal immigrant that their policies let into the country, their first inclination isn’t to deport all of the migrants who pose a danger to Americans — it’s to dismiss it as random. Their outrage is obviously selective, based on their preferred political narrative of that moment.” —Suzanne Bowdey

More BIG Lies

“I did not involve my father in my business. … Never.” —Hunter Biden

“For more than a year, your committees have hunted me in your partisan political pursuit of my dad. You have trafficked in innuendo, distortion, and sensationalism — all the while ignoring the clear and convincing evidence staring you in the face. You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn’t any.” —Hunter Biden

“What [Joe] got in return for being a loving and supporting parent is a barrage of hate-filled conspiracy theories that hatched this sham impeachment inquiry and continue to fuel unrelenting personal attacks against him and me.” —Hunter Biden

“What we are seeing is just a complete and inappropriate expedition into the president’s son and for matters and subjects that are completely unrelated to an impeachment investigation. And I think it is extremely disturbing to see the lack of professionalism, the lack of grounding, and the abuse of public resources, an abuse of public power.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“There is a very understandable, coherent business explanation for every single thing that they ask for. And now that all of this China stuff or Romania or Kazakstan is clearly, clearly baseless and bogus, the only thing that the Republicans have left are these Burisma allegations.” —Congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY)

Can’t Fix Stupid

“The Republicans have become synonymous for Russians at this point.” —Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)

Well, She’s Not a Biologist

“The function of this [bump stock] trigger is to cause this kind of damage — 800 rounds a second or whatever.” —Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Dezinformatsiya

“We gotta jump on this abortion issue. We gotta jump on this book-burning issue. Run ads on these Nazi hags at school board meetings trying to ban Rosa Parks.” —Democrat strategist James Carville

“Self-immolation was … seen as a sacrificial act committed by Christian devotees who chose to be burned alive when they were being persecuted for their religion by Roman emperor Diocletian around 300 A.D.” —Time magazine (“They did not ‘choose to be burned alive.’ These Christians held so steadfastly to their faith that even an excruciating death did not dissuade them.” —Nate Jackson)

Village Idiot

“Black people can’t be racist.” —former WNBA player Sheryl Swoopes

The Bottom Line

“Shrinkflation is a symptom of inflation, not a cause. And to the extent it is fooling anyone about higher prices, it is helping Biden, whose economic record has been blighted by persistently high prices, especially for food. A company that is raising its prices can either charge more or reduce the size of its product. What Biden is suggesting is that the former is the best option and companies should always increase their sticker prices.” —Rich Lowry

And Last…

“Joe Biden is very old. He was born closer to the Battle of Gettysburg than the 2024 election.” —Eric Levitz