The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Passing the Buck

“There were [wildfire] warnings that I, frankly, wasn’t aware of. … It didn’t reach that level to me to say, ‘Something terrible could happen, and maybe you shouldn’t have gone on the trip.’” —Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

Non Compos Mentis

“RFK’s plan to make America healthy again? Round up people with mental health conditions in camps.” —Salon headline

World’s Smallest Violin

“After the speech of Vice President Vance [to the Munich Security Conference] we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore.” —Christoph Heusgen, German ambassador to the United Nations, who left the podium in tears after lamenting America is not embracing the totalitarian “values” of leftist Europe

Food for Thought

“OK, imagine we had laws like Germany’s in the United States. … What of all the Democratic politicians and mainstream media figures who claimed Joe Biden was mentally fit to run for re-election. Should we round them all up? Fine them? Put them in prison for disinformation?” —Phil Boas

Upright

“I don’t think it’s happening fast enough — they’re not cutting enough. Keep slashing. Keep hacking while you have a 24-month mandate. We must keep going. Cut. Cut, cut, cut, cut. More. More cutting. Believe me, it’s going to work out just great.” —Kevin O'Leary

Re: The Left

“Maybe Elon Musk should hire the mainstream media to figure out physics because, apparently, they know something that nobody in the rest of the world does, which is how to divide your credibility, which is zero, in half. Because somehow they just keep managing to do that.” —YouTuber Asmongold

“The truth is that the Democrats have become increasingly unpopular because they have become the party of radicals and extremists. Furthermore, their dishonesty and corrupt incestuous relationship with the Washington bureaucratic state has been exposed thanks to DOGE in ways they likely never believed possible.” —Thomas Gallatin¹

“It’s funny how often when these attacks occur, the thing that they’re accusing the administration of is what they are guilty of. … They are guilty of the crime of which they accuse us.” —Elon Musk referring to the caterwauling about DOGE cuts

“The left is screaming that President Donald Trump is on some kind of ideological crusade. … It’s sort of like labeling a company CEO ideological because he is driven to keep his company profitable and competitive.” —Star Parker²

“Those on the left who are verbally assaulting the new Trump administration are the ideologues. They are in love with empty words and bankrupt ideas.” —Star Parker²

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“If you agree there is waste, if you agree there is abuse, if you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts and the reforms that are being instituted?” —White House senior adviser Stephen Miller to CNN anchor Brianna Keilar

For the Record

“‘We’re living under a flawed Constitution. Let’s start fresh and rewrite it,’ [Dean of Berkeley Law Erwin] Chemerinsky wrote last August. Yes, that’s the same guy The New York Times cited as an expert to explain how Trump is creating a constitutional crisis.” —Victor Joecks³

“Whenever you see the phrase ‘scholars say’ in a news report, tread carefully. It’s very likely to be a poorly disguised opinion piece.” —Victor Joecks³

And Last…

“I feel like there is too much focus on Israel’s and Ukraine’s response and not enough on how the Palestinians and Russians just could have not invaded in the first place.” —Frank J. Fleming