The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough.”

Demo-gogues: “We believe that taxes should be everybody pays a fair share and that the richest and the most powerful should not be able to shove off to everybody else the cost of running the Army and paving the roads and keeping our schools open.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren (What about wealthy Democrats shoving off to everybody else the cost of SALT deductions?)

Race bait: “Racialized oppression and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our nation — the effects of which can be seen in the lawful lynching of black and brown people by the police and the mass incarceration of black and brown lives in the prison industrial complex.” —ex-NFL quarterback-turned-unemployed-social justice warrior Colin Kaepernick

The BIG Lie, part I: “I’m an Italian-American. I came from poor Italian-Americans who came here. You know what they called Italian-Americans back in the day? They called them wops. You know what wops stood for? Without papers. I’m undocumented. You want to deport an undocumented person, start with me, because I’m an undocumented person.” —New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

The BIG Lie, part II: “The FBI defines a mass shooting as 4 people killed (not including the shooter). Mass shootings occur in churches, in schools, at concerts, in waffle houses — just about anywhere. Except in other countries.” —Parkland gun control activist Emma González (Not a single U.S. mass shooting makes the list of the six most lethal shootings around the globe.)

Young and naïve: “Removing the assault and semi-automatic weapons from our Civilian society, instituting thorough background checks and mandatory waiting periods (and raising the buying age and banning the production of high-capacity magazines) are the ways to stop shootings in America.” —Emma González

And last… “Has the Broward County Sheriff considered hiring Waffle House patrons?” —Sean Davis