The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Belly Laugh of the Day

“I’m a taxpayer. I don’t like to see my money wasted.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Victimitis

“For those of us [in Butler], it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. … I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If [Trump] didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!” —CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane

Demagogue

“The Republicans are fomenting anti-immigrant hate as a policy and a strategy.” —Sen. Elissa Slotkin

Can’t Fix Stupid

“No one knows precisely why migrant traffic along the U.S.-Mexico border has fallen so much.” —Axios’s Russell Contreras

Non Compos Mentis

“One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was I had a gay professor in college … who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant. You need that to show empathy and kindness.” —Barack Obama

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“[CEO Katherine Maher] claims that NPR is ‘a nonpartisan organization.’ So why did a former NPR editor find that their $201M D.C. newsroom had 87 Democrats in editorial positions and ZERO Republicans?” —Sen. John Kennedy

For the Record

“Somebody needs to tell my Democratic colleagues that the voices in their heads are not real. The American people DO NOT support open borders.” —Sen. John Kennedy

Sad, but True

“The primary obstacle to cutting federal spending is the American people. We’ve become drunk on federal dollars.” —Rick Moran

Re: The Left

“Democrats voted to raise your taxes by $4.5 trillion. They voted against cutting the federal budget by $9 billion. No wonder they’re polling at 19%. Heck, only 39% of Democrats approve of Democrats.” —Nate Jackson

“The federal government never had any business subsidizing media outlets, and even less so for two rabidly leftist outlets in today’s ubiquitous media environment. Maybe it’s callous to say it, but there is no national interest in spending taxpayer money mitigating AIDS among foreign gay men.” —Nate Jackson

And Last…

“The anger on the Right about Epstein was always rooted in his relationship with the Clintons and, by extension, the Democrat Party’s relationship with him.” —Gary Bauer