The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

The BIG Lies

“In recent years, extreme opinions that the Supreme Court has handed down have undermined long-established civil rights principles and protections.” —Joe Biden

“I have great respect for our institutions and the separation of powers laid out in our Constitution. But what’s happening now is not consistent with that doctrine.” —Joe Biden

Fearmongering

“Now there’s an extreme movement and agenda called Project 2025. … They’re planning another onslaught, attacking civil rights in America.” —Joe Biden

“Each day we are seeing our rights and freedoms under attack, including the right of everyone to be who they are, love who they love, openly and with pride.” —Kamala Harris

Delusions of Grandeur

“That I cured the economy. And the environment. And a few other small things.” —Joe Biden when asked, “What do you want your legacy for Gen Z to be?”

Shot/Chaser

“This natalism … comes from an authoritarian playbook, right? That there need to be more white children, right? … This is about great replacement theory racism, right? This is what this is, so don’t misunderstand it for him wanting more children. He wants a certain kind of, you know, racist thing.” —MSNBC contributor Molly Jong-Fast after MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire remarked, “More and more Americans [are] choosing not to have kids, which again emphasizes why J.D. Vance’s comments about childless Americans, ‘childless cat ladies,’ could be so politically damaging.”

“What neither Jong-Fast nor Lemire acknowledged was the fact that JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance — the American-born daughter of Indian immigrants — are parents to three biracial children.” —The Daily Wire

Theater of the Absurd

“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” —Minnesota Governor Tim Walz

Praetorian Guard

“When she ran for president the first time, Kamala Harris darted to the left as she fought for attention from the Democratic Party’s liberal wing. … One presidential cycle later, with Vice President Harris less than a week into another race for the White House, video clips of her old statements and interviews are being weaponized as Republicans aim to define her as a left-wing radical who is out of step with swing voters.” —The New York Times’s Reid J. Epstein

Political Futures

“If Kamala Harris wants to be president, she’s going to have to talk about immigration, tariffs, the sky-high costs of groceries, housing, and raising a family — things that [J.D.] Vance has been talking about since he wrote ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ and that Trump understood instinctively when he ran against the Republican establishment and beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. The trouble for Harris is that her most enthusiastic supporters are the media’s mean girls, not parents or working-class stiffs, who probably seem ‘weird’ to the kids at places like New York magazine.” —Daniel McCarthy

Upright

“You may not agree with all of Vance’s proposals, like his affection for economic tariffs. But even when he’s wrong on specific policies, he’s thoughtfully trying to fix the right problems.” —Victor Joecks

For the Record

“Democratic Party voters might have voted for Joe Biden, but they got Kamala Harris. That’s like ordering a hamburger from your favorite spot and being handed a voucher for a I Can’t Believe It’s Not Meat wrap from the nearby deli with a 0-star rating on Yelp.” —Ian Haworth

“The regime masquerading as the Democratic Party cares about democracy as much as Biden cares about his illegitimate grandchild. Which is to say: not at all.” —Ian Haworth

“This fact is undeniable, no matter how much dishonest media try to obfuscate it: President Joe Biden appointed the vice president to stem the tide of migrants to the U.S. southern border. Period. No wiggle room. And the almost inarguable judgment is that she failed at the job. Miserably. The tide didn’t recede; it rose and crashed in huge waves upon our (figurative) shores.” —Salena Zito

And Last…

“The Left does not hate religion. It hates Christianity, Judeo-Christian values and the Bible. That is all you need to know to understand the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics.” —Dennis Prager