The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Shot/Chaser

“[Trump] falsely accused the Biden administration of … neglecting [hurricane] areas that had voted for Republicans.” —The New York Times last month

“FEMA Fires Employee for Telling Milton Relief Workers to Skip Houses With Trump Signs.” —The New York Times this month

Non Compos Mentis

“So, in other words, reparations for white people.” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid regarding this declaration from Trump: “I will direct the Department of Justice to pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination, and schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity will not only have their endowments taxed, but through budget reconciliation, I will advance a measure to have them fined up to the entire amount of their endowment. A portion of the seized funds will then be used as restitution for victims of these illegal and unjust policies — policies that hurt our country so badly.”

Delusions of Grandeur

“Any objective assessment of Biden’s tenure would show him to have been a highly successful president, especially on economics.” —MSNBC commentator Paul Waldman

Friendly Fire

“People like Pelosi, she really tried to — what’s the word I’m looking for? — she embraced this ‘she’s the godmother, she’s the enforcer.’ And now she’s blaming Biden. Well, you can’t have it both ways. You got what you wanted, and now you’re still blaming Biden. I think it’s really ironic that you have a woman at age 84 and she is still hanging on. Why not give a younger generation an opportunity to occupy that seat?” —Senator John Fetterman (D-PA)

Re: The Left

“Democrats should quit blaming blacks and Latinos and everybody else for their many screwups. They have to look in the mirror and admit to themselves they were the ones who lost the election, not the rainbow of American voters who had the good sense to wake up and abandon them and their terrible policies.” —Michael Reagan

“When your political party or your ideology calls for you to shave your head, block your friends on social media, and cut off family members, you are no longer dealing with a political party. You are in a cult.” —Riley Gaines

“Democrats … have become the street preacher with the megaphone yelling at people that the end is near and they must repent or burn in hell. Nobody likes that guy.” —Erick Erickson

“It is unsurprising that a Donald Trump campaign ad featuring the tagline ‘Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you’ was effective in the 2024 presidential campaign. … For most … ‘they/them’ is probably just a microcosm of all the weird cultural fads the Left has been trying to normalize and force-feed society.” —David Harsanyi

Carpet-Bomb

“Institutional Washington … was tempted to forget during the Biden years that Trump and MAGA always have intended to overturn the established order, to give the middle finger to the permanent structures of government and the credentialed elites who live in and around the nation’s capital, and to enact their agenda despite howls of outrage. The past week, then, has been both a reminder of the past and a preview of the future. When Donald Trump is president, the unconventional happens.” —Matthew Continetti

And Last…

“Given the Bidens’ well-publicized hatred of Kamala and that cheerful White House photograph, it wouldn’t be a stretch to suspect that Joe and Jill secretly voted for Trump.” —Michael Reagan

“Joe Biden has just 66 days left in his term, less than 10 weeks to fulfill his campaign pledge of curing cancer. Can he even survive that long?” —Andrew Stiles