The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Braying Jenny: “I think [Trump’s] dangerous. I don’t know why people take it. I think Americans should be out in the streets screaming to the top of their voice. Do something. Make something happen. … I think that this man does not deserve to be the president of the United States. He is one of the most deplorable people I’ve ever encountered in my life.” —Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)

Seriously? “Really, for any other president, a tape like this, on which we hear his voice, his married voice, suggesting that his lawyer pay a Playboy bunny $150,000 in cash to keep her quiet — for any other president, there would be an address to the nation tonight.” —Jimmy Kimmel (“Bill Clinton, of course, lied under oath about using a 22-year-old White House intern as his own personal humidor, has been credibly accused of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct, and, despite all that, still enjoys a career in the political mainstream.” —The Daily Wire)

Dezinformatsiya: “The president sees that his numbers are waning. He cannot be this dictator that he’s trying to be at this moment. … Putin has got Donald Trump big pimping — big pimping Donald Trump right now. Donald Trump thinks he can do whatever he wants to the world and this nation, and it’s not happening.” —CNN political analyst April Ryan

Non Compos Mentis: “Global News reports that the [Toronto] gunman committed suicide. If so, this is an important clue suggesting [the assailant] was not an ISIS-inspired attacker. As … others have explained, suicide is a big no-no for jihadists.” —The New York Times’ Rukmini Callimachi (Yes, which explains why they commit suicide all the time.)

Non Compos Mentis II: “The damage that has been done to these children [at the border] will be lifelong, to the families units as well. And in fact, I suggest they need to be compensated for what this administration did to them. To have these children ripped apart and separated is one of the most reprehensible things I’ve witnessed in my 20 years of service here in the House of Representatives.” —Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY)

And last… “How did we destroy jobs and reputations before Twitter? I mean ‘we’ in the sense of faceless, howling mobs distributed around the country. We couldn’t! Why, kids today have fast, easy access to vindictive mobs; when I was growing up, if a famous person said something bad, the most you could do was write a letter to Time magazine.” —James Lileks