The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom. What brought America back? The American people brought us back — with quiet courage and common sense; with undying faith that in this nation under God the future will be ours, for the future belongs to the free.”

Well played: “Washington Post employees want to go on strike because [Jeff] Bezos isn’t paying them enough. I think a really long strike would be a great idea. Employees would get more money and we would get rid of Fake News for an extended period of time! Is @WaPo a registered lobbyist?” —Donald Trump

Love and tolerance: “F—k you, Melanie [sic]. You know damn well your husband can end this immediately…you feckless complicit piece of s—t.” —"comedian" Kathy Griffin, who posed with a severed head of Donald Trump, imitating Samantha Bee to respond to Melania Trump’s thoughts on separating parents from kids at the border

Braying Jenny: “The very hypocrisy of the attorney general to quote the Bible, the hypocrisy of all people of faith in our country not to clamor for what the administration is doing to end — whether it’s to deprive the dreamers of the respect they deserve or whether its taking babies away from their mothers and fathers.” —Nancy Pelosi

Non Compos Mentis: “In our hearts and minds today: all of the fathers and parents who have been separated from their children at borders. Keep families together. #FathersDay” —Planned Parenthood

Non Compos Mentis, part II: “He gave birth. He breastfed. Now, he wants his son to see him as a man.” —CNN headline

Non Compos Mentis, part III: “This Father’s Day, men are experiencing a crisis of masculinity. The solution? More feminism.” —Noah Berlatsky op-ed for NBC News

And last… “[Paul] Manafort should’ve just met with witnesses in secret on a tarmac.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor