The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “To me, there is no greater tragedy than a breadwinner willing to work, with a job skill but unable to find a market for that job skill.”

For the record: “Our political leaders are basically telling us that this kind of terrorism, random and deadly, is the price we have to pay for their policies of multiculturalism and political correctness. They know that their weak platitudes can’t stop terrorism, and so do the people. They might as well come out and say what they mean: get used to the new normal.” —Megan Oprea

Alpha Jackass I: “This piece of s—t is not just an embarrassment to America and a stain on the presidency. He’s an embarrassment to humankind.” —CNN’s “modern secular Muslim” commentator Reza Aslan on Donald Trump

Alpha Jackass II: “Is the president trying to provoke a domestic terrorist attack with this Twitter rant, only to prove himself right?” —MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts

Village idiots: “More sorrow and grief at the hands of madmen in London. Men and religion are worthless.” —Bette Midler

That’s racist! “Work in the fields? Senator, I’m a house n—r.” —HBO’s Bill Maher to Sen. Ben Sasse before apologizing for his “offensive” joke

Braying Jenny: “[Donald Trump] broke me. … I’ve had everybody turn on me. … What’s happening to me has never happened, ever, in the history of this great country, which is that a sitting president of the United States, his grown children, and the first lady are personally, I feel, personally trying to ruin my life forever. Forever.” —Kathy Griffin after she posed with a severed Trump head last week

Non Compos Mentis: “If I and my advisors had never learned what Science is or how & why it works, then I’d consider pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord too.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dezinformatsiya: “[It] reminds me of anti-Semitism and blaming the Jews. This is disinformation.” —Vladimir Putin on Democrats blaming Russia for Hillary Clinton’s election defeat

And last… “Everywhere you look, people are mistaking inconvenient facts for insults. Every single day, people are taking offense at disagreement and confusing rights (and presidential prerogatives) and science for moral authority. It’s a hothouse where the air is thick with hypocrisy because arguments are downstream of feelings — and where facts are so much flair to don or discard depending on what lifestyle you want to adopt and what virtues you want to signal. In short, it’s a very stupid time.” —Jonah Goldberg