The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Braying Jenny

“This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better.” —Kamala Harris

Pearl-Clutching

“I think Elon Musk needs to look at what he did in this past election. … We have a broken system because there is a president who doesn’t believe in the Constitution and who defies judicial orders. And Elon Musk and his 300-plus-million dollars — and God knows what else he may have done that we don’t know of — own the problem that he created.” —"The View" co-host Ana Navarro

“You send the U.S. Marines into spaces they should not be; you send the National Guard in; you kidnap people off of the streets and pretend that’s normal because that’s how you quiet dissent — is you make everyone afraid that if they don’t do what you want, they might be next. … That’s when you decide there won’t be new elections because everyone’s either afraid, poor, broken, or complicit.” —failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams

Village Idiot

“I mean, ‘Superman’ is the story of America. An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.” —DC Studios CEO James Gunn

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day

“I hope many would agree the Chinese government and other U.S. adversaries should own ZERO agricultural land in our great country. This is really a national security issue + also a food security issue.” —Democrat Sen. John Fetterman

For the Record

“We get a lot of [crap] thrown at us by [Vladimir] Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.” —Donald Trump

“For those that say 3,000 a day is too much, I want to remind them: Do the math. We have to arrest 7,000 [illegal aliens] every single day for the remainder of this administration just to catch the ones Biden released into the nation.” —border czar Tom Homan

“There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way.” —Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins

Get Used to It

“The federal government is not leaving LA. I don’t work for [Mayor] Karen Bass. … We’re going to be here until [the] mission’s accomplished.” —Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent for the El Centro Sector Greg Bovino

Re: The Left

“The Democrat Party’s objective is to flood the West with millions upon millions of illegals … believing that in so doing they will collapse the West. They will collapse the middle class. They will collapse the population that has lived here before the migrants came. And in so doing, they think in the rubble of that, they can rule.” —White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller

“Socialists Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani say America should not have billionaires. … There are countries with no billionaires. They include Cuba, Eritrea, Laos, North Korea, and Venezuela. All of these countries are socialist or Marxist. That’s not a coincidence.” —Gary Bauer

“What unites Islamists, gender studies majors, socially liberal white urbanites, and big pharma lobbyists: it isn’t the ideas of Thomas Jefferson or even of Karl Marx. It’s hatred.” —JD Vance

And Last…

“America is not just an idea. We’re a particular place, with a particular people, and a particular set of beliefs and way of life. Our ancestors realized that to carve a successful nation from new land meant creating new tangible things.” —JD Vance