The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “Excellence demands competition. Without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence — in education or in any other walk of life.”

Amazing what happens when you step outside your bubble: “When you’re one-on-one with someone who doesn’t agree with you, or whose ideology is different than yours, when you’re face to face, your porcupine needles go down. The surprise was… I fell in love with [Trump voters]. I had a great time with them and I felt comfortable.” —Sarah Silverman

Non Compos Mentis: “Every white woman raises a detriment to society when they raise a son. Someone with the HIGHEST propensity to be a terrorist, rapist, racist, killer, and domestic violence all star. Historically every son you had should be sacrificed to the wolves b—.” —Indiana University Health (ex)nurse Taiyesha Baker

Alpha Jackass: “I would, for the safety of humanity. It has nothing to do with my personal opinion of his face or his family, but in the interest of humanity I would push.” —singer Morrissey when asked about a hypothetical “assassinate Trump” button

Braying Jackass: “How Murderer Charles Manson and Donald Trump Used Language to Gain Followers.” —Newsweek headline

Revisionist history: “The truth is, European invaders came to this land, took it from the indigenous people, raped, pillaged, gave them all sorts of diseases, called it their own, and desecrated a culture. It is one of the grossest examples of genocide in recent history and much as I don’t want to think about that, it’s really hard for me not to think about that when I think about Thanksgiving.” —actress Mayim Bialik

And last… “In America, three things confer aristocratic status: fame, money and power. Hollywood, politics and journalism are built on all three. … So long as fame and money and power exist, there will be those who seek to exploit them and those who look the other way. False idols always have their adherents. It’s our job to ensure that the idols remain smashed. And that means recanting our own idolatry for a cultural sultanate that deserves to be torn down.” —Ben Shapiro