The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts
The BIG Lies
“I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college.” —Joe Biden (“One of the reasons we know it’s a lie is because Biden has bragged several times in the past about how his grandfather played college football.” —Greg Price)
“People say to me … ‘How about all those hardworking people who grew up and had no opportunity to go to college?’ I get it. That’s the neighborhood I come from.” —Joe Biden
Demagoguery
“My predecessor and his MAGA friends … want to ‘terminate’ the Affordable Care Act. … Well, guess what? Killing millions of Americans — taking them off of healthcare insurance and stripping others of services like homecare.” —Joe Biden
Can’t Fix Stupid
“What you will see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been in the last 20 years, which means that’s why they will shut the light down, because they will be close to the Earth.” —Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
“[The moon] is made up mostly of gases. … Why or how could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such that we could do that?” —Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
“I want to be first in line to know how to live and to be able to survive on the moon. That’s another planet which we’re going to see shortly.” —Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
“Who benefits from Donald Trump? Putin. There is, in my view, a connection there.” —Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
“The issue about a woman’s right to choose, it’s a democracy issue. This is about freedom — freedom of women to make their decision, families to make their decisions. So, when — what’s his name — said what he said [about abortion], he either is stupid or he thinks the rest of us are stupid.” —Rep. Nancy Pelosi
“[Mike] Pence, Lindsay Graham, and [Donald] Trump are fighting to see who could make women’s lives more miserable. That’s like what they’re really fighting for. ‘How can we really destroy women in this country?’ That’s it.” —"The View" co-host Joy Behar
Re: The Left
“Millions of women believe that the only path to equality and freedom is to cast off the supposed shackles of having to carry a pregnancy to full term. They will fight — often quite angrily — for this supposed ‘right.’ Ironically, abortion frees men from the responsibility that comes with sex, and ‘free love’ has made for more single, struggling, and government-dependent moms than ever. Empowerment?” —Nate Jackson
“The fundamental problem with many of today’s Democrats is their embrace of radical leftist ideology. … Just because one person has more than another doesn’t mean that the first one is somehow guilty of oppression or of succeeding through ill-gotten means.” —Thomas Gallatin
Shot/Chaser
“I anticipate inflation will continue the remarkable progress that it’s made.” —National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard
“If food and common household items are costing 36 to 50 percent more than they did five years ago, people are going to be angry about the state of the economy. Everybody’s got to eat.” —Jim Geraghty
Green Is the New Red
“Over the past two decades, the renewable energy lobby has collected more than one-quarter trillion dollars in subsidies — payments that we’ve been assured over and over would be temporary. The argument for these grants, loans, tax abatements and other sweetheart kisses is that these were ‘infant industries’ in need of a Head Start program for CEOs. Except these companies have never even reached puberty after all these years. … It’s just a reminder that a lot of people are getting really, really rich off climate change hysteria. The ‘green’ in green energy doesn’t stand for a cleaner environment. It stands for the color of money. Yours and mine.” —Stephen Moore
Insight
“What is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.” —Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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