The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

The BIG Lie

“Trump owns the Afghanistan withdrawal. He cut a bad deal with the Taliban to withdraw (he takes credit for it!), forcing Biden to clean it up and making a chaotic exit practically inevitable.” —Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)

Re: The Left

“We heard Harris and other [DNC] speakers mention ‘freedom’ numerous times. What they really promote is license, defined by dictionary.com as: ‘excessive or undue freedom or liberty.’ In other words, life with few restraints — abortion, same-sex marriage, the ruination of our public education system.” —Cal Thomas

“An old saying referred to buying ‘a pig in a poke.’ A ‘poke’ is a sack, so the image is of a concealed item being sold. Starting in the 19th century, this idiom was explained as a confidence trick where a farmer would substitute a cat for a suckling pig when bringing it to market. That describes the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris.” —Cal Thomas

Political Futures

“November’s election will not be decided by either side’s guaranteed voters, but by those in the middle whose decision hangs on a knife-edge. These voters care about several factors, but one of the most important is each candidate’s ability to speak with clarity, discipline and accuracy about their opponent’s weaknesses.” —Ian Haworth

“I want to address the [Zuckerbucks] contributions I made during the last presidential election cycle to support electoral infrastructure. … I know some people believe this work benefited one party over the other. My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another — or to even appear to be playing a role. So I don’t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.” —Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Observations

“I don’t have a lot of faith in [the FBI coming clean on the Facebook scandal], because I think that since around 2015, 2016, the FBI has turned Russian disinformation into kind of a career path, and they have a lot of people working on it.” —legal analyst Andrew McCarthy

“The country is spending more on health care and getting sicker. That’s a problem. But it isn’t a unique one. A similar thing has happened in education. In response to low achievement, Nevada has spent decades increasing education spending. It doesn’t work in education, because the system is broken. The obvious parallel is that something is broken in health care, too.” —Victor Joecks