The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Delusions of Grandeur

“I think I could be president of the United States. I could definitely run this country better than Donald Trump.” —Don Lemon, who was fired from CNN

With Friends Like These…

“When the conflict with Iran broke out, some of our NATO allies not only refused to step up but they also actively hindered our efforts. … I don’t know why any American politician would feel obligated to drop everything and come to the rescue of ‘allies’ like that.” —Gary Bauer

“I’ve been one of the strongest defenders of NATO during my time as a United States senator because I found great value in it. And it wasn’t just about defending Europe. I said it also allowed us to have military bases in Europe that allowed us project power into different parts of the world when our national security was threatened. If now we have reached a point where the NATO alliance means that we can’t use those bases … to defend America’s interests, then NATO is a one-way street. … When we need them to allow us to use their military bases, their answer is no? Then why are we in NATO? … We are going to have to reexamine that relationship.” —Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Congressional Wrestling Match

“The outrage and the reason we were so upset … is because [the Senate] sent us a bill that literally put the number ‘0’ in the bill for the funding of border security and customs and immigration enforcement. We can’t do that. That was the biggest issue in the 2024 election, and it’s outrageous to us. Just in those two agencies, CBP and ICE, you’re talking about 98,000 hardworking Americans — self-sacrificing people who have to pay their mortgages and put food on the table. They wanted to zero them out? We cannot be a part of that.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)

Re: Birthright Citizenship

“If 20 million pregnant Chinese women are dropped off on our shores by the Chinese military, are those babies citizens? Any Justice who says yes is retarded.” —Wade Miller

“Birthright citizenship means the children of illegal aliens can vote to tax your children and seize their inheritance.” —White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller

Observations

“People who’ve tried to redefine ‘genocide’ to falsely smear the Jewish state are now trying to redefine defensive weapons (saved countless lives against the decades-long barrage of missile/rocket attacks aimed at civilians) into ‘offensive’ weapons because they’re too effective.” —Guy Benson

“An ‘independent press’ isn’t defined by taking government money. That makes you a dependent press.” —Tim Graham

“Can we dispel the absurd notion that transgender people are somehow invisible? At the very least, in the cases of men who believe they are women, I don’t think ‘visibility’ is a problem.” —Ian Haworth on “Trans Day of Visibility”

“The First Amendment rests … on a simple truth: The people lose whenever the government transforms prevailing opinion into enforced conformity.” —Justice Neil Gorsuch

And Last…

“You can mock the people who say we didn’t land on the moon, but it’s not even CLOSE to the craziest conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard: A few years ago, there was a group of people who claimed that if you get vaccinated, you CAN’T catch Covid. That’s insane.” —Jimmy Failla