The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The BIG Lie

“[Republicans] want to make it harder to register to vote than it is to register to buy an AR-15.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Fact-Check: False

“Texas and Florida are the REAL high-tax states.” —California Gov. Gavin Newsom (The Lone Star State and the Sunshine State have no income tax. California’s top income tax rate of 14.4% is the highest in the nation. When combined with property and sales taxes, the Golden State’s tax burden is #4; Texas is #40 and Florida is #45.)

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“Someone is going to try to influence a news network politically with ideology and that should never happen to CNN.” —former CNN host Don Lemon

Dezinformatsiya

“More than two weeks into the war with Iran, Muslim Americans are confronting a new surge of hateful rhetoric here at home, amplified online and echoed by Republican lawmakers.” —PBS News’s Geoff Bennett

The Left Loves Criminal Illegals

“Today, an administrative immigration judge ordered the deportation of Rafael Rubio, a City Council employee. … Rafael showed up for a routine immigration appointment and, despite following the rules, he was detained and has now been held for months.” —New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani describing an illegal alien who has previously been arrested for assault

“We are outraged and will continue to pursue every legal avenue to secure his release and ensure his case is properly heard on appeal.” —New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin

Non Compos Mentis

“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” —President Donald Trump

Re: The Left

“Anything that pushes back on leftist media is tyrannical. Trump suing media outlets for bad reporting is ‘authoritarian.’ Media owners like Jeff Bezos deciding The Washington Post won’t endorse Kamala Harris for president is malignant ‘self-censorship.’ It doesn’t matter at all that the leftist media never stop crusading against Trump in the most ‘prestigious’ media outlets.” —Tim Graham

“At some point, President Trump will decide that we have accomplished most of our objectives in the conflict with Iran, and it’s time to wind down military operations. When that time comes, Democrats and their leftist allies will declare anything less than Iran’s total capitulation as a defeat.” —Gary Bauer

“Iran has been a scourge against humanity and a clear and present danger to the United States for nearly 50 years. It is absurd, insidious, and inane for us to be asking ‘are we there yet?’ after just two weeks, heck, after just days.” —Allen West

“The Democrats want America to choose: unsecure airports or an unsecured border. Republicans say no to both.” —Erick Erickson

Insight

“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.” —Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) on entering WWII

Political Futures

“In any healthy political coalition or movement, debate is inevitable and often desirable. But what we have seen from certain high-profile podcasters, such as Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, is nothing less than a full-scale assault on Trump and his agenda.” —Josh Hammer

And Last…

“The serious response is, ‘rest in peace.’ The response he would probably appreciate is, ‘just give him a minute, he’ll shake it off.’” —Jim Geraghty reacting to the unfortunate news of Chuck Norris’s death