The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Demagogue

“Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.” —Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) (“There is no one in the government, and especially in the US Senate, smart enough to know how much money someone else should earn.” —former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer)

Moving the Goalposts

“To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis: Show us your laptop. Show us your iCloud. Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation. You won’t.” —Hunter Biden (“He’s right. Who among us hasn’t, in a weak moment, gotten a tattoo of the same symbol Heinrich Himmler wore on his Nazi uniform?” —Marc Thiessen)

Bribing Voters

“We’re gonna make sure you can get your first job… We’re gonna make sure you can get your first home… And we’re gonna make sure you can get through your first year of parenting.” —New York congressional candidate Micah Lasher (D)

Race Bait

“If you believe that you’re never gonna get reparations from the system, then you tap out. And you don’t just tap out of the conversation, you tap out of the system. You don’t wanna vote anymore.” —Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA)

Delusions of Grandeur

“All you do when you bring the Obamas up is remind people of what is currently missing from the White House. Okay? See, the Obamas set a standard for decency and class and poise and intelligence in the White House. Okay? That no longer exists now.” —radio host Lenard “Charlamagne” McKelvey

Village Idiot

“Our country isn’t so lovable right now. I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. … I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant. And let me just say it: I can’t love the country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.” —actor Robert De Niro

Trump Derangement Syndrome

“‘ALF’ Star Anne Schedeen Dies at 77; Family Remembers Her ‘Burning Hatred for Trump.’” —Variety headline

Re: the Leftmedia

“They could wave the white flag of surrender. They could say: ‘We surrender, we surrender! We’re finished! We’ve had it. The United States is the greatest power, praise be to Allah.’ They could say it loud and clear. And the fake news would say, ‘It was a great victory for Iran.’” —President Donald Trump

“If Trump has restored any respect for America or at least a fear of not getting on our bad side, the American media has consistently undermined it. … Knowing how much corporate America and many U.S. elites are invested in China, Xi is probably thinking to himself that Communist China could win a war against the United States before the first U.S. ships left port.” —Gary Bauer

For the Record

“The cultural Marxists of our day understand what revolutionaries throughout history have understood: if you can redefine words, you can reshape thought; if you can reshape thought, you can reshape culture. That is why language is always one of the first battlefields in a cultural revolution. And that is why motherhood and fatherhood must be replaced with sterile, mechanistic terms that strip away both meaning and design. Ultimately, this is not an attack on words. It is an attack on one of the last great bulwarks standing in the way of their vision for society: the family as God created it.” —Tony Perkins

And Last…

“Karmelo Anthony committed a shocking crime, and his race can’t mitigate it or free him of responsibility.” —Rich Lowry