The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth.” (Hang in there, Texas!)

Dezinformatsiya: “How about the risk of deportation for those undocumented immigrants that could be in the way of the storm’s path? Are they in the clear to go to some of these evacuation centers? Do they have to show ID?” —MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

Braying Jenny: “The Constitution does not say that a person can yell wolf in a crowded theater. If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a constitutional right to do that.” —Nancy Pelosi

Demo-gogues: “Make no mistake: the President said he will purposefully hurt American communities to force American taxpayers to fund an immoral, ineffective and expensive border wall. … Democrats will stand fast against the immoral, ineffective border wall and the rest of Republicans’ unacceptable poison pill riders.” —Nancy Pelosi (Would that be the border wall that Bill and Hillary Clinton supported?)

The BIG Lie: “A reminder for the next few days: Hurricane Harvey is not a natural disaster.” —In These Times magazine’s Kate Aronoff, who further contends, “Fewer people would have their lives ripped apart by storms like Harvey if austerity hadn’t hollowed out the public sphere so thoroughly.”

Alpha Jackass: “Hmm. Don’t see much denial of NOAA climate scientists who have predicted Hurricane Harvey’s devastating path into Texas.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson

And last… “Science predicted an eclipse. Technology revealed an approaching storm. But climate science didn’t predict 12 years without a major hurricane.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor