The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Spin Doctor

“In 2018, when I lost my election, I was never confused about it. I had conversations with communities and I would say, ‘We won.’ … Not getting the title did not mean that we didn’t make progress. When you were trying to defend democracy, when you were trying to serve the people, progress counts as victory.” —failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams

Race Bait

“It really amounts to hunting people that look like they’re Latino. It’s hard to get your car washed in LA now.” —Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

Non Compos Mentis I

“We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration. … [Charlie Kirk’s] been one of the most divisive … younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech. … You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place.” —MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd, who was subsequently fired (“Dowd was fired for saying out loud what the rest of the Leftmedia talkingheads and scribes were thinking.” —Mark Alexander)

“Charlie Kirk is a divisive figure. Polarizing, lightning rod — whatever term you want to use.” —MSNBC’s Katy Tur

“You can imagine the administration using this as a justification for something.” —Katy Tur

“Political violence, unfortunately, has been ratcheting up in this country. … I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it. We’ve seen the January 6th rioters who clearly, you know, have tripped a new era of political violence.” —Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker

“The scourge of gun violence and political violence must end. The shooting of Charlie Kirk is the latest incident of this chaos and it must stop.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy.” —Barack Obama

“The motivation of the man who shot Charlie Kirk isn’t clear (although he’s probably mentally unstable — duh). What is clear is it was another example of American gun violence.” —Stephen King

For the Record I

“I want to make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this — we will find you. We will try you, and we will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law. And I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty here in the state of Utah.” —Utah Gov. Spencer Cox

“Charlie Kirk’s blood is on the hate rhetoric heads of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries. This is the terminus of years of leftist hate rhetoric. Now that the speech suppressors have backed off, Kirk’s murder is the new cancel culture. He was the most effective conservative influencer on college and university campuses, so of course he had to be murdered.” —Mark Alexander

“You cannot call your political adversaries Nazi fascists and modern-day Hitlers and then say political violence is wrong when your deranged lunatic supporters act on your statements and kill or attempt to kill the people you’ve attacked.” —Clay Travis

“For years, those on the radical Left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.” —Donald Trump

“Charlie’s children will be raised with stories instead of memories, photographs instead of laughter, and silence where their father’s voice should have echoed.” —Melania Trump

“This gets even worse when you consider that Charlie Kirk — more than anyone else in America on the right or the left — built his platform making a good faith effort to model civil poltical discourse and debate in the public square. His entire project was built on reaching across the divide and using speech, not violence, to address and resolve the issues!” —William Wolfe

Non Compos Mentis II

“We don’t know why [Decarlos Brown Jr.] did what he did. And for Charlie Kirk to say ‘We know he did it because she’s white’ when there’s no evidence of that is just pure race-mongering, hate-mongering.” —CNN’s Van Jones (“I got that white girl.” —Decarlos Brown Jr.)

“This man was hurting.” —CNN’s Van Jones regarding Decarlos Brown Jr.

For the Record II

“Iryna Zarutska was a young woman living the American dream — her horrific murder is a direct result of failed soft-on-crime policies that put criminals before innocent people. I have directed my attorneys to federally prosecute DeCarlos Brown Jr., a repeat violent offender with a history of violent crime, for murder. We will seek the maximum penalty for this unforgivable crime, and he will never again see the light of day as a free man.” —Attorney General Pam Bondi

“We cannot allow a depraved criminal element of violent repeat offenders to continue spreading destruction and death throughout our country. We have to respond with force and strength. We have to be vicious, just like they are. It’s the only thing they understand.” —Donald Trump

“The ‘[screw] your thoughts and prayers; we need action!’ crowd sure seems upset that people are asking why a diagnosed schizo with a violent rap sheet a mile long was allowed to wander loose in Charlotte.” —T. Becket Adams

“More cops on the beat is never a bad thing. But Brown had been arrested 14 times before he slaughtered this defenseless young woman. More police won’t matter if left-wing judges keep releasing criminals.” —Gary Bauer

“America failed this girl. We protect criminals. We glorify degenerates. We have no will to restrain evil, no courage to punish wickedness. We sacrifice the weak on the altar of social justice and pat our backs in the process. The cowards on this train who did nothing to help her are representative of what our society has become. I’m so sad for her and sad for all of us.” —Allie Beth Stuckey

“‘Republicans pounce!’ That’s the go-to declaration of the entire legacy media in response to quite literally any news story that doesn’t directly involve the wrongdoing of a Republican.” —Ian Haworth

Sad, but True

“I’m not sure it’s safe to be an outspoken conservative walking around in America right now.” —Scott Jennings

“The Left is the party of murder.” —Elon Musk