The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Dezinformatsiya: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday again seized on what he called a ‘terrorist attack’ in London to call for tougher anti-terror measures, even though the incident was still in the early stages of investigation.” —CNN (“Never mind that the Associated Press called the attack a ‘terrorist incident’ two hours before Trump’s tweet, while the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, called it a ‘terrorist act’ on Twitter, an hour and a half before Trump’s tweet. So now Trump is criticized for stating reported facts?” —Newsbusters)

Friendly fire: “I would have fired [Peter Strzok], too. He has rights as an employee, and those should be exhausted, but I also believe as the brother of police officers and a former prosecutor, with the stakes this high, a presidential candidate being investigated, you can’t talk that way, even if it didn’t affect the investigation.” —Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)

“Let me remind you that when the Republicans took power when President Obama was president of the United States, what Mitch McConnell said is, ‘The most important thing we can do is to make sure he does not succeed.’ If that wasn’t a racist statement… That is unthinkable.” —House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Non Compos Mentis: “You know, I look at the platform of a living wage and health care for all. That’s called civilized society. I don’t even know how that became socialism or Republican or Democrat. Let’s be a civilized society. … I’m not sure I even know what socialism is.” —"Christine" Hallquist, a transgender nominee vying to become governor of Vermont

And last… “Over the past 50 years, more than $16 trillion has been spent on poverty programs. The majority of those programs have simply made poverty more comfortable by giving poor people more food, health care, housing, etc. What’s needed most is to get poor people to change their behavior.” —Walter Williams