The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“My situation … happened after years of the Republicans demonizing me. … And so it created an atmosphere where that would be acceptable. … [Trump’s near-assassination] was strange. We don’t know the motivation. We don’t know the person. What happened in our house was directly related to the politics of the day.” —Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) regarding the attack on her husband

Unhinged

“Pulling me away from my position as congresswoman — all you did was take some of the strings off. … All they did was radicalize me and so now they need to be afraid. … AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee], I’m coming to tear your kingdom down.” —Cori Bush (MO)

Baghdad Bob

“Right now, [the] majority of House Republicans want to defund the police.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

“What we’re seeing is … the steady and stable growth we’ve called for. That’s what we’re seeing — talking about the jobs numbers.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“The president inherited when he walked in … an … economy that was on the downturn. He had to turn that around. And that’s what the president was able to do.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

“We have seen under this president what happens when you have diplomacy, when you talk to your partners and allies. This is a president that has been able to get things done, whether it’s lowering tensions or whether it’s actually getting things done on behalf of our national security.” —Karine Jean-Pierre

Demagogue

“It’s not freedom to tell our children what books they are allowed to read.” —Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro

Dumb & Dumber

“I can’t wait to debate the guy [JD Vance]. That is if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up, so… You see what I did there?” —Democrat veep pick Tim Walz

“You know it, you feel it: These guys [Trump and Vance] are creepy and, yes, just weird as hell.” —Tim Walz

Stolen Valor

“We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is [sic] the only place where those weapons are at.” —Tim Walz’s bogus claim that he served in war

Upright

“You know what really bothers me about Tim Walz? When the US Marine Corps asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it. When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, he dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him. I think that’s shameful.” —GOP veep nominee JD Vance

Belly Laugh of the Day

“On the [Tim Walz] choice, I think people who don’t like it are missing the lesson of the switch to Harris. She went from worst to first as people got to know her. It’s not a reach to think the same thing will happen with Walz.” —Mark Cuban

Village Idiot

“It’s going to be the first woman president and that’s incredibly exciting. And, you know, she’s Indian, she’s black, she’s everything. You can be more than one thing. It’s incredible. You know, I’m Jewish and Irish. I wish I was black. Every white Jewish guy wishes he was black.” —actor Ben Stiller

Political Futures

“By selecting Walz over Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, the Harris campaign has signaled that the lady is not for triangulating. Rather than appealing to the middle of the electorate, this will be an election in which both parties try to maximize turnout among their respective partisans.” —Noah Rothman

For the Record

“The people most aware that Kamala isn’t truly a new version of Obama are the people around her, who clearly fear putting her in any setting where she isn’t reading from a script. … It’s extraordinary that the Democrats had one presidential candidate whom they didn’t trust with interviews and have replaced him with another, fresh and younger candidate whom they also don’t trust with interviews.” —Rich Lowry

And Last…

“The difference between the Trump and Biden administrations is $8,000 per household in Trump’s favor.” —Stephen Moore