The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The BIG Lies

“We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“There has been no reporting at all to suggest that [Tyler Robinson] was in any way left-wing.” —The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill

Shot/Chaser

“ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities.” —NBC News

“Video shows ICE with 5-year-old girl while agents attempt to arrest her father. Correction: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents in the video.” —NBC News

Re: The Left

“If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi.” —JD Vance

“An entire media and progressive infrastructure exists to assure the left violence is never their fault.” —Erick Erickson

“The half of America that takes its educational credentials as an imprimatur of moral superiority sees no need to understand the other half and resists acknowledging the violence wreaked by those on its side.” —Michael Barone

“The only mystery about the new obsessive-compulsive left is whether their vulgarity, violence, and crudity trickle top-down from the uncouth Democratic elite — or rise bottom-up from thuggish Antifa, BLM, and the rioters who attack ICE and Tesla dealerships, and disrupt Charlie Kirk’s funeral services.” —Victor Davis Hanson

“We live in stupid times. McDonald’s has to warn you that coffee is hot, Subway has to inform its customers that eating the wrapper is a bad idea, and pregnant women apparently need a Democrat to tell them not to kill themselves with Tylenol.” —David Strom

For the Record

“The wildly false accusations attacking this FBI for the politicization of law enforcement comes from the same bankrupt media that sold the world on Russia Gate — it’s hypocrisy on steroids. Their baseless objections tell us now, more than ever, that we are precisely over the target and will remain on mission until completion.” —FBI Director Kash Patel

“The only reason why France, the UK, Canada, and Australia are surrendering to Islamic terrorism is that they have allowed Islamo-fascism and terrorism into their countries.” —Allen West

Belly Laughs of the Day

“I met the head of Somalia. Did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he’d like to take [Ilhan Omar] back, and he said, ‘I don’t want her.’” —Donald Trump

“James Comey indicted on two counts of perjury. And the worst part is he heard about it from reading sea shells.” —Jimmy Failla

Upright

“I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: ‘I forgive the man who killed my father.’ Peace be with you all.” —actor Tim Allen

“You are going to hear a rumor one day that Voddie Baucham is no more. Don’t you believe it … because though I die, I will rise with Christ.” —pastor Voddie Baucham