The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts
Race Bait
“A lot of haters got a lot of things to say about me and my [Senate] race and how I ran it. But the reality is that … it was racist. It was a racist race. … The reality is that people hold me to a completely different standard.” —Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who has chronic victimitis
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
“You saw it in the anti-LGBTQ legislation, including the bill that would have denied gender-affirming healthcare to trans children. And then, of course, famously — infamously — we saw it last session with the most extreme abortion ban in the country. All of these ideologies stem from this Christofascism movement.” —Texas Senate candidate James Talarico
Snake Oil Salesman
“Democratic Socialism … is really just a buzzword for democracy and affordability. … They have bastardized the word. … It is the sign of a sinking ship. The Republicans are going down the toilet, and they know it, so they’re pulling out these stupid cards — like they’re calling Democrats communists. Give me a break.” —"The View" cohost Joy Behar
False Equivalence
“At least the Democrats are dumping [Graham Platner], whereas Susan Collins was one of the major votes to put [Brett] Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, and he had also [sic] allegations exactly like this.” —Joy Behar
The BIG Lie
“Pete Hegseth also has a Nazi tattoo on his motherf***ing chest.” —political pundit Hasan Piker
Political Futures
“Democrats like Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren … kept saying that, ‘Oh, he’s gotten over the rough patch in his life. He’s apologized.’ … The only thing that changed is that he’s no longer politically viable.” —Scott Jennings on Graham Platner
“Platner drops out. Now Maine is going to let 600 Democrat party insiders pick the new candidate, replacing the guy that 156,000 people voted for. Just like the party kicked Biden to the curb and replaced him with Kamala. Tell me again which party is a threat to democracy.” —Clay Travis
Belly Laugh of the Day
“Graham Platner just released a video dropping out of the Maine Senate race. Solid speech but it definitely sounded better in the original German.” —Jimmy Failla
Friendly Fire
“The trash took itself out. … [Graham Platner] will be remembered as an accused rapist.” —Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman
Re: The Left
“Far from demanding that the Mamdanis express gratitude for exchanging Uganda for America or begrudging their rapid rise to multimillionaire status, America might reasonably ask why Mamdani is so angry at the country that welcomed his family and afforded it such extraordinary opportunities. Why is he so eager to slander it as xenophobic and racist?” —Victor Davis Hanson
“Few contemporary politicians in America have done more in so short a time to exploit race and antisemitism in pursuit of political power. … [Zohran] Mamdani has already described himself: ‘Those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another.’ That fits Mamdani to a T.” —Victor Davis Hanson
Upright
“The greatest challenge facing the country may not come from a single ideological movement but from competing factions that, despite their differences, are increasingly willing to abandon those foundational principles. If the United States is to thrive to its 300th anniversary, its 500th and beyond, it will depend not on charismatic personalities or political factions but on whether Americans remain committed to the ideals that made the republic possible.” —Ben Shapiro
And Last…
“The president has now reached his moment of truth on Iran, which is simply this: this is not a regime with whom you can make a deal and expect them to adhere to it, even if there are elements of that regime that would like to make a deal.” —Brit Hume