The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

World’s Smallest Violin

“This is a very cruel, inhumane immigration policy that he is putting in place.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on President Trump extending his travel ban

For the Record

“Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult. Islamists aren’t here to assimilate. They’re here to conquer.” —Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)

Pearl-Clutching

“You want something to investigate as a legislature? Investigate how many times they called me the N-word.” —Fulton County DA Fani Willis trying to distract from the investigation of her corruption

Credit Where It’s Due

“This idea … that the military’s just picking off any boat that comes across — that’s just not true. I mean, there’s extensive intelligence, and they know exactly who’s on that boat and they know what’s actually on that boat right now. … They are not just going around randomly just shooting boats and those things. That’s just not the fact at all.” —Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)

Why Is That?

“In major cities across the country police chiefs use the phrase ‘our community’ to refer to illegals and foreign trespassers.” —White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller

Re: The Left

“You can’t win by granting access, and you can’t win by denying it. The authors and activists of the Democrat press approach Trump with the mentality of ‘heads we win, tails you lose.’” —Tim Graham

“What is most confounding, again, is the fact that the American Marxist left created these situations and conditions, yet wants no solutions. … In other words, the left in America wants to perpetuate a 21st-century American insecurity.” —Allen West

“Their coalition actually does make sense because all political coalitions … are defined by their enemy, by who they’re trying to beat.” —political pundit Michael Knowles explaining the Left’s alliance with Islam

Plain and Simple

“The reason politicians have a hard time solving the healthcare crisis is that they’re not supposed to be involved in it in the first place.” —Sophie Starkova

Upright

“We are allowed to disagree with the president and even say outrageous things that he said [about Rob Reiner]. … I think he must rise above it, and he seems incapable of rising above the situation.” —actor Rob Schneider with a rebuke of Donald Trump

And Last…

“I believe in empathy — like, I think you should care about other people — but you need to have empathy for civilization as a whole and not commit to a civilizational suicide.” —Elon Musk