The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Fact-Check: False

“Karmelo was not an aggressor. He was minding his d*mn business when them boys came up to him.” —a Karmelo Anthony supporter

Rainbow Mafia

“We just raised the Pride flag in Olympia. I want Washingtonians to know that there is zero chance we would ever bend the knee to the hate and attacks we see from Washington DC. You have my word on that.” —Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D)

Shot/Chaser I

“My wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to Trisomy 21. … I signed on to be a parent, come what may…but I just didn’t fully understand what Down Syndrome entailed. … We made a difficult decision that we believe in the long-run will be beneficial for our family. Thankfully, we had a choice.” —YouTuber Jesse Ridgway

“When a culture devolves to the point of depravity where ‘influencers’ can go online and so casually dismiss the deliberate murder of their own precious child, the survival of that culture itself is at risk.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)

“It is evil to rob a precious, innocent baby of their unalienable right to life due to your own fear of what challenges may lay ahead. God Himself breathes life into each of us in the womb. All life has meaning to Him — including children with Down syndrome and disability. … You have no place in the Pro-Life movement if you justify the murder of a special needs child.” —Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN)

Shot/Chaser II

“Very clear double standard at play with Platner reporting because he is anti-zionist and anti-oligarch. For example, Newsom dated a 19-year-old when he was 39 and slept with his best friend’s wife, but for some reason, this isn’t the subject of breathless exposés. Reporters aren’t banging down the door of all Newsom’s ex’s to dig for more dirt. It’s not considered potentially disqualifying or really considered at all.” —leftist political pundit Krystal Ball

“‘Actually, all the men in my political party are degenerate sex pests.’” —Greg Price

Friendly Fire

“I don’t know if Graham Platner’s candidacy survives these latest allegations in the New York Times. It may well do so. But I do find it the height of hypocrisy that the same Democrats who said that we need to believe all women are rushing to discredit the story because it quotes a GOP operative who dated Platner in the 2010s. I mean, how do they square that?” —former CNN reporter Chris Cillizza

Re: The Left

“Democrats used to erroneously claim that Susan Collins was the type of Republican that they wanted holding public office, and their ends-justify-the-means support of Platner exposes their true motives.” —Brady Leonard

“America can ship the President of Venezuelan to New York in 8 hours but we need a month to count votes in California.” —Jimmy Failla

“The face of American socialism is increasingly young, college-credentialed, and conspicuously well-bred. This is not coincidence. It is structure. … What socialism reliably produces is not equality but a closed caste.” —Erick Erickson

For the Record

“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.” —Vice President JD Vance

And Last…

“It’s really hard to say you don’t hate Jews when you hate the only Jewish nation in the world.” —Gary Bauer