The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Race Bait

“Because of my lived experience as an Afro-Latina, I’m able to look at this world with a different prism, and I’m able to tell this country and tell this audience and tell my fellow co-hosts some uncomfortable truths. This is a country based on racism and slavery and founded in it. There is systemic racism and misogyny.” —"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin

“I think it’s ridiculous that people don’t see what this country was founded on and what this country still is sickened with.” —Sunny Hostin

Spin Doctor

“We have never before seen in this country a blatant use of criminal justice to achieve political ends.” —defense attorney Michael Dreeben referring not to the spurious court cases brought against Donald Trump but the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for lying under oath

Re: The Left

“If this were Republican members of Congress who were encouraging members of the military and members of our U.S. government to defy orders from the president … this entire room would be up in arms.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

“When we say that Democrats are communists, we don’t just mean that, ‘Well, they believe in the state control of property.’ We mean they’ve adopted a method of thinking in which any use of force is justified for their end state of power and control.” —White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller

Straight Shooter

“Everybody talks about this place being a dadgum swamp. It’s not a swamp. A swamp is something cool God created. It filters water; animal life lives and flourishes around it. This is a sewer. This is created by man, and it needs to stop.” —Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) fed up with insider trading in Congress

For the Record

“In my 37 years on the federal bench, this is the most outrageous conduct by a judge that I have ever encountered in a case in which I have been involved.” —Judge Jerry Smith’s dissent in the ruling blocking Texas’s redistricting map

Political Futures

“It’s clear that the hubbub surrounding Epstein is far less about Epstein than about targeting Trump. And Trump ought to take note.” —Ben Shapiro

“Disagreement, when handled well, strengthens a movement. It forces reflection. It sharpens arguments. It prevents blind spots. In a party that is trying to build a durable ‘America First’ agenda with real policy depth, suppressing dissent is a recipe for stagnation.” —Armstrong Williams

The Bottom Line

“Any ‘peace’ agreement between Ukraine and Russia which weakens Ukraine’s ability to defend itself is in fact a surrender agreement.” —former House Speaker Newt Gingrich