The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Non Compos Mentis

“I’m not saying [Saturday’s attack] was STAGED… YOU’RE saying it was staged! You have DOUBTS? Just because Trump has lied to you every day about every thing for a decade?” —former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann

“[Trump’s] very low approval ratings … unfortunately fuel a lot of disaffection.” —Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL)

Praetorian Guard

“After WHCD shooting, Republicans blame Dems for political rhetoric.” —Politico headline

“Tone Down the Rhetoric”

“Universal healthcare, affordable housing, better jobs, lower prices… These are never going to happen until and unless we rid ourselves of the cancer that is Donald Trump and the Trump administration.” —Georgia congressional candidate Randy Zurcher (D)

Plain and Simple

“Conservatives are, I think, rightfully on edge because this keeps happening over and over and over again, and people keep calling Donald Trump a Nazi, and they keep calling him a fascist, and they keep repeating lies about him that are not true.” —political pundit Scott Jennings

Upright

“The ballroom will be a solution for this. … It’ll have seven-inch-thick glass, for example, on the windows, so it’ll be a very safe environment to do events like this. We need a place, we have needed a place like that, and the president keeps pointing it out.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)

“After witnessing [Saturday] night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.” —Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)

Re: The Left

“When you read the manifesto of this shooter, ask yourselves, ‘How different is the rhetoric from this almost assassin from what you read on social media and here in various forums every single day?’ … Much of the manifesto of the would-be assassin is indistinguishable from the words that we hear daily from so many.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

For the Record

“Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable [Jimmy] Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.” —First Lady Melania Trump in response to Kimmel’s “joke” before Saturday’s attack that “you have a glow like an expectant widow”

“I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said, but this is something far beyond the pale. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.” —President Donald Trump

And Last…

“The SPLC couldn’t find enough racism in America, so it appears to have decided to subsidize it.” —Victor Joecks