The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

With Friends Like These…

“A lot of the anti-Muslim rhetoric that’s put out there originates with people who are very, very pro-Israel. Who kinda need us to demonize them.” —podcaster Megyn Kelly (No, Megyn, the anti-Muslim rhetoric originates with the 1,400 years of Islamic warfare against every other people on earth.)

Socialist Hogwash

“There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules … you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

Projection

“There are no longer blue states and red states. There are authoritarian states and democracy states.” —failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D)

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“I think [Donald Trump] has dementia. … Someone who’s suffering from dementia, I mean, they genuinely need help. And there’s no one around him who wants to help him.” —Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who pretended Joe Biden wasn’t non compos mentis

Village Idiot

“If Only- He should live long enough to witness his inevitable devastating loss in the midterms, be held accountable for his unprecedented corruption, impeached, convicted & humiliated for his countless crimes. Long enough to realize he’ll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore.” —actor Mark Hamill fantasizing about the death of Trump, whom leftists have tried to assassinate three times

Re: The Left

“There is a dark undercurrent of rage and violence emerging within the far-left ‘tax the rich’ movement. Luigi Mangione isn’t the only example of this. The Democrats are playing with fire, and unfortunately, a lot of people have already been burned.” —Scott Jennings

Political Futures

“Critics argue the [Louisiana v. Callais] ruling is not colorblind in effect because race-neutral districting can dilute minority voting power. But this assumes a) non-black and non-Hispanic voters would not vote for black or Hispanic candidates; and b) the interests of black and Hispanic voters can only be pursued by black and Hispanic members of Congress. … Many Democrat politicians do not want a colorblind society. They want a color-coordinated one — as long as they oversee the coordination.” —Larry Elder

“In the debate over redistricting, one truth is too often buried beneath legal jargon and partisan maneuvering: Gerrymandering is, at its core, about voter dilution. It is the quiet engineering of political outcomes, line by line, until communities that should speak with strength are instead reduced to whispers. … We have allowed a system to emerge that assumes voters within a racial group will think alike, vote alike and prioritize the same issues. That is not protection, it is a form of stereotyping, even when it is well-intentioned.” —Armstrong Williams

The Bottom Line

“If government programs are going to exist, the bare minimum requirement is that they serve the people they claim to serve. Right now, Medicaid is serving scammers — and taxpayers are footing the bill.” —Ben Shapiro

You Can Say That Again

“Watching Stephen Colbert and President Obama fawn all over each other isn’t my idea of must-see TV. I think most of America agrees — which is why Colbert’s show is losing CBS $40 MILLION a year.” —Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)

“I will not be the Republican that Barack Obama wants me to be.” —Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX)

For the Record

“I was experimented on. I was not told they were experimental. I was told it was medicine and that it would help. And it did none of that. It gave me complications that the doctors ignored. … This is what the medical system has left me with. I have a body that does not work, that is deteriorating, that was given drugs I was never supposed to have been given.” —Canadian detransitioner Faith Groleau

And Last…

“We boldly proclaimed the self-evident truth that our rights do not come from government. They come from God Himself. That He is the one that has endowed us with our inalienable rights. That among those [are] the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Right there in the second paragraph in the nation’s birth certificate, it summarizes our national statement of faith.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the National Day of Prayer