The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Race Bait

“Right now, African-Americans are only gonna have one-fifth of the voting power they should have in the state of Texas. And we know that our Latino brothers and sisters will only have one-third of the voting power. And, frankly, Asians — which is one of the fastest-growing demographics in the state of Texas — have literally no power.” —Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Pot Calling the Kettle Black

“The reality is that the violation of people’s voting rights is what Texas is attempting to do.” —Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker

Leftist Lunacy

“One of the reasons, in my view, that Kamala Harris lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working class of this country.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders

Grand Delusions

“I actually don’t think he’s going to run. … He’s going to do what Putin did with Medvedev … they switched jobs and he was really the president while Putin pretended he wasn’t, and that’s what Trump is going to do.” —Bill Maher

Make America Safe Again

“This is Liberation Day in DC. … Under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States, I’m officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act … and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.” —Donald Trump

“Let me be crystal clear: Crime in DC is ending and ending today.” —Attorney General Pam Bondi

Reality Check

“We’re spending a ton of money that we don’t need to, many people feel, because we’ve overstimulated right through the pandemic five years ago. It’s time to sober up and start paying down the debt. So this idea of money for nothing and [tariff rebate] checks for free, start sending checks out to everybody — I hate that idea.” —Kevin O'Leary

Political Futures

“The more democratic a movement actually is — the Tea Party, moms and dads questioning sex changes secretly promoted to their children — the more today’s Democratic Party wants to smash it.” —Gary Bauer

“There are no saints or villains in this [gerrymandering] saga. Republicans and Democrats are engaging in a bare-knuckled fight for power, and what each side condemns is presumably what it would be doing if the roles were reversed.” —Jeff Jacoby

Upright

“What do you want our intelligence community to be doing? I want them to be catching bad guys. I want them to be making sure that terrorists aren’t going to kill innocent American civilians. I don’t want them laundering Hillary Clinton’s campaign talking points into the American media and giving them this air of legitimacy. It is sick and it’s disgusting. It hurt the intelligence community, it hurt the American people, and it hurt the first Trump administration. We’ve got to have consequences for it.” —JD Vance

“Supporting Israel’s right to exist doesn’t require blind agreement with every decision made by its government. … It means recognizing that Israel is not just a strategic ally, but a nation that shares the Judeo-Christian DNA, the principles that shaped America.” —Tony Perkins

And Last…

“Gavin Newscum is incompetent. He’s got a good line of bull[crap], but that’s about it.” —Donald Trump