The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Non Compos Mentis

“I can find no reason how Minnesota will be safer or better if [child rapist Tou Lue] Vang is deported to a country he has not been to since he was a child.” —Minnesota Governor Tim Walz

Law and Order

“Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota. … Just days before this foreign sex offender was scheduled to be deported, Tim Walz, the governor, issued him a pardon, setting him free to once again endanger the children of America. Well, this week I revoked his legal status in the United States. … and as of today, he has been removed from the United States. … Americans must never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals.” —Secretary of State Marco Rubio

“The difference between the two parties: Governor Tim Walz used his political power to keep an illegal alien who abused a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. Secretary of State Marco Rubio used his to deport him.” —Scott Jennings

Dumb & Dumber

“Lindsey Graham has moved on to the next step in his journey, trying to convince Hades to attack Zeus and Poseidon. He says it’ll only take a couple of weeks and won’t require any ground troops. And there’s no way Poseidon can close the Strait.” —"The Young Turks" cohost Cenk Uygur

“Good riddance. … I’m elated that he’s dead. Overjoyed…. Just like he was elated at seeing countless dead children throughout Middle East.” —"The Young Turks" cohost Ana Kasparian

A Shot Across Candace Owens’s Bow

“I don’t know who needs to hear this…but if I’m ever murdered at one of these events and someone claiming to be my friend proceeds to try and destroy everything I love based on vibes, ghostly visits and innuendo…please side with my wife…not the person claiming to be my friend.” —Nick Freitas

A Trip Down Memory Lane

“You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.” —Charlie Kirk, November 2016

Political Futures

“Tucker Carlson has spent recent weeks floating the idea of launching a third political party, arguing that Republicans and Democrats are effectively indistinguishable on issues of war, spending and finance. He portrays America’s two-party system as little more than a single political establishment masquerading as democracy. That argument ignores the most significant policy differences in American politics. Republicans and Democrats remain sharply divided over taxation, judicial appointments, regulation, free markets, energy policy and the proper role of government. Pretending those distinctions no longer exist requires overlooking the very issues that define modern elections.” —Ben Shapiro

“When it comes to economic policy, today’s Democratic Party looks absolutely nothing like its more moderate 1990s-era forebear. … In previous cycles, Republicans might have credibly been accused of fearmongering in running against a ‘socialist’ bogeyman. That is simply not the case anymore — not in a world where third-worldist DSA radicals like Darializa Avila Chevalier and Melat Kiros are knocking off longstanding incumbents in Democratic congressional primaries.” —Josh Hammer

“You’re watching the collapse of the oldest political party in the world. [The] Democratic Party goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. And what you’re seeing right now is that nobody who has common sense has the courage to stand up to people who are objectively crazy.” —former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

“The Communists are inside the gates! It’s time for all freedom-loving Americans to stand and be counted, and help us defeat this MADNESS. By God’s grace, we will.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson

“I don’t understand the objection to keeping a clean voting roll if for no other reason than to give voters in each state some confidence that people are keeping up with them. It’s just common sense.” —Scott Jennings

Can’t Argue With That

“The human brain shrinks by 20% by the time you’re 80 years of age. … So I basically think people who are 80 and above really should not be running the world or running the country.” —former GOP presidential nominee and Utah Senator Mitt Romney