The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The BIG Lie

“Just a few days before we started bombing Iran, the Iranians put a proposal on the table in Geneva that went a long way towards resolving the nuclear issue.” —former Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan

“Hey, Baghdad Bob: Hold My Beer!”

“All American bases in the region have been destroyed, American commanders and soldiers have fled … and we are searching for them.” — Iranian military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari

Re: Operation Epic Fury

“Democrats and the isolationist Right naysayers have been wrong about everything having to do with Iran thus far. So, they’ve moved on from predicting World War III and endless quagmires to lamenting the lack of a clear-cut ‘strategy’ to ending the conflict. But Trump’s reported prewar demands of Iran remain the right ones. And they are nothing like Obama’s Iran deal.” —David Harsanyi

“I do not … detect in this a sign that [President Trump] wants to cut this conflict off anytime immediately, short of his getting the terms that he has dictated or he has offered to the Iranians, which are basically everything we could ever want.” —journalist Brit Hume

“Having troops there and not needing them is a whole lot better than needing them and not having them there. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if those troops never set foot in Iran. … This is not a new conflict with Iran; we’ve been in a conflict with them since 1979. The difference is we’re shooting back now.” —former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day

“Common sense is not transphobic.” —lefty sportscaster Bob Costas on the Olympics banning men from competing in women’s events

Re: The Left

“The Radical Left Democrats … have made it very clear where they stand, and that is, ON THE SIDE OF CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. They are refusing to fund Immigration Enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their Open Border Policies, which will never, ever happen again.” —President Donald Trump announcing an executive order to fund TSA

Upright

“Let me just be completely unequivocal… The Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the DHS shutdown negotiations

For the Record

“In a hyper-online age, people have lost the ability to discern what is true. They too often rely on influencers on the internet who often have an incentive to keep people whipped into existential terror and lie. They claim some special gnostic insight that you can only determine by following those people. From QAnon to Charlie Kirk conspiracies, they promise you access to special knowledge.” —Erick Erickson

An Issue of Compatibility

“Islam, which means submission, is inconsistent with our Constitutional principles and values, which we previously presented. First and foremost, it does not believe in Freedom of Religion for others, and certainly not for Muslims; apostasy is a punishable offense, in some Islamic countries by death.” —Allen West

Time to Get Off the Bench

“I’ll repeat yet again — we are in a war for Judeo-Christian civilization, and only one side can ultimately prevail. Christians and conservatives cannot sit on the sidelines while this great battle for America is waged coast to coast.” —Gary Bauer

And Last…

“We actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America.” —Vice President JD Vance