The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

The BIG Lies

“There isn’t evidence that these kids are a threat to safety or fairness.” —MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on boys playing girls sports

“There is no evidence [gender-confused athletes] pose any threat to safety or fairness.” —"comedian" John Oliver

Non Compos Mentis

“Illinois has enshrined protections for gender-affirming care to meet this moment — and because of that, you will have a home here always.” —Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Friendly Fire

“I think there’s a lot of Democrats going around, especially in the House, justifying how we did by saying, ‘Oh we did a little bit better than Harris.’ … We should have cleaned up, from president of the United States to local school board. Democrats should have swept this, and yet we got defeated across the board. So, seriously, we lost big.” —Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA)

A Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut

“Our military and the role of the military is in the Constitution for a reason and I think we’re really at risk of politicizing the military in a way that we can’t put the genie back in the bottle.” —U.S. Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on getting politics (DEI) out of the military

Non Compos Mentis, Continued

“There’s no question I consider [Tulsi Gabbard] someone who is likely a Russian asset, who would be … a direct line to our enemies.” —Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

“We take pride in the fact we are not rushed.” —California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (Some two weeks after the election, California still has roughly 10% of the vote to count. Florida was basically done after a few hours.)

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day

“Elected Democratic officials in Philadelphia and three other counties — Bucks, Centre and Montgomery — voted … to defy … court decisions at the request of lawyers for Democratic Sen. Bob Casey… These Democrats’ decisions will almost certainly be overturned on appeal, but the mere attempt to defy judicial rulings is corrosive to democracy and invites similar behavior in future elections.” —Washington Post editorial board

“Trans people deserve to be treated with dignity, and the law should protect them from discrimination in areas such as employment and housing. But the realities of human biology raise legitimate questions about any notion that trans women should always and everywhere be treated exactly like cisgender women.” —Washington Post editorial board

Re: The Left

“Progressives are correct about the power of [Joe] Rogan and his cohort of bro podcasters, but they don’t understand how thoroughly anathema their ideology and cultural sensibility are to this kind of programming. … How is the party of policing what people say to ensure that the discussion always stays within a narrow set of guardrails going to create — or even tolerate — freewheeling heterodox media voices?” —Rich Lowry

Belly Laugh of the Day

“I went out last night to get a Subway sandwich and a group of muscular 60 year old men dumped raw milk on my head and yelled THIS IS MAHA COUNTRY.” —Cabot Phillips

And Last…

“We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated.” —Vivek Ramaswamy