The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Braying Jenny

“Authoritarian regimes, fascist regimes such as this, they try to intimidate the free press, and they do this both through governmental means but also through some of these hostile financial takeovers by completely unqualified people. … What they’re doing to CBS is engaging in political intimidation and basically saying, ‘If you don’t become a propaganda outlet, then we will shut you down.’” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

That’s an Understatement

“These people are a little self-important, to say the least.” —Brit Hume on “60 Minutes” and Scott Pelley

Shot/Chaser

“God it’s a lot of white people here.” —Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) at WelcomeFest

“Contempt for white people is the glue that holds the Democrat Party together.” —Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX)

Circling the Wagons

“I am convinced that [Graham Platner] is running on all of the right issues.” —Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)

Political Futures

“Even if you’re brain-broken enough to excuse Nazism, downplaying rape, having no morals… Do you want to do it for Platner who has no policy chops, no experience, and just copy/pastes Bernie’s champagne socialism? When the alternative is effective and inoffensive Susan Collins?” —Matt Whitlock

“The Maine race has … become more than a contest between two candidates. It has become a test of whether parties are willing to apply the same standards to their own nominees that they demand of their opponents.” —Ben Shapiro

“Pay attention to how fast Democratic Socialists of America candidates spouting collectivism are making headway. Last week’s primaries produced outright wins or runoff advancements for more than a dozen candidates in five states backed by the DSA. Who likes these ideas? Gen Z voters who have a rose-colored view of socialism, communism and collectivism.” —Betsy McCaughey

Slower Than Molasses

“Hello! It’s now 11am in California, two days after Election Day. Around this time yesterday, NBC estimated 57.5% of statewide votes had been counted. A day later, very few additional ballots have been tallied & NBC now estimates that just 56% of the count is complete.” —Guy Benson

For the Record

“Iran is unlikely ever to abandon its pursuit of the bomb voluntarily. With nuclear weapons, Tehran hopes to become the de facto hegemon of the Middle East. Only then could it effectively coerce or deter both Israel and the wealthy Arab Gulf states. And that is the charitable view, one that excludes the possibility of a messianic Shiite theocracy believing that eliminating the ‘one-bomb’ state of Israel would forever ensure the Shiite minority permanent preeminence in the pantheon of Islamic jihadists.” —Victor Davis Hanson

And Last…

“The Trump Administration is going to take seriously the obligation that you have an effective Medicaid fraud control unit in your state. Everyone is on notice, and today, Hawaii is being decertified for its abject failure to enforce state and federal law to prohibit fraud in Hawaii.” —FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson