The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Behind the Curtain

“I worked until January and then I took time away from my job, and one of the major reasons I could do so was because I knew that if I ran out of my savings my family would be able to support me.” —Marxist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

The BIG Lie

“[The Trump administration wants] more people behind bars. They want to incarcerate more people, and they want to ethnically cleanse this country.” —Rep. Maxwell Frost

Dumb & Dumber

“Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of intel services, probably not American. … Now, no one’s allowed to say that the foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that’s naughty.” —Tucker Carlson

“There are a lot of Americans who’ve served in the IDF. They should lose their citizenship.” —Tucker Carlson

“We better pray long and hard that the country is going to be in a f***ing depression, because I don’t know how else we find ourselves out of this mess.” —anonymous Democrat strategist

“People who feel bad for JD Vance’s kids as family gets booed at Disneyland. I get it, but better those kids know now what their father is about. Other kids are watching their parents get shipped off to gulags.” —Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery

Re: The Left

“God bless the men and women of ICE. They are heroes … who put on that uniform every day and deserve to go home safely to their families at night — and the Democrats who are allowing this violence to take place against them should be ashamed of themselves.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

“People aren’t merely units of economic activity who exist to produce higher aggregate numbers on a spreadsheet. They’re human beings who find meaning in their family, local community and country. And an invasion of foreigners — even if it’s encouraged by political leaders — can be extremely disruptive to a culture.” —Victor Joecks

“Just to be clear, Demos are screaming about eight million people expelled from Medicaid and three million people expelled from SNAP who never qualified for those taxpayer-funded handouts.” —Mark Alexander

Double Standards

“So, Demos want ICE agents to present ID to ensure they can be doxed and their families attacked, but don’t want voters to present IDs to make sure they are Americans…” —Mark Alexander

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“Instead of introducing legislation for ICE/CBP officers to unmask, why haven’t these mindless leftist lemmings masquerading as elected officials condemned the violence that their rhetoric is causing?” —Allen West

Political Futures

“I don’t think this administration will be defined by [Jeffrey Epstein]. It will be defined by whether or not it can re-industrialize America, change our trade regime, and deport the foreign invasion.” —Christopher Bedford

“Let me tell you right now, I am sold on Trump. … I think he’s got a good shot at going down in history as one of our best presidents ever.” —Home Depot cofounder Ken Langone to a CNBC host who pointed out, “That is a real turnaround because you didn’t want to vote for him.”

Victory Lap

“President Trump … has delivered now the most successful first six months of any president in the modern era, and many argue probably in the history of this great nation. And he’s shown no signs of stopping.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson