The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Food for thought: “Any fair observer of his personality knows that Trump is arrogant, condescending, petulant, and harbors an intense hostility towards anyone who dislikes or disagrees with him. Any fair observer of our mainstream press knows that those attributes are also perfect descriptions of their institution as well. … Trump and the media that hates him are two peas in a pod.” —Peter Heck

Re: The Left: “It is worth remembering that almost 3,000 people were shot in the City of Chicago last year — women, small children — sometimes alone and sometimes in groups. Many hundreds of them died, and not a single one received anything like the attention the media has lavished on a relatively minor assault alleged by [Jussie] Smollett. On the other hand, none of Chicago’s 3,000 shootings were even half as useful as Smollett’s story.” —Tucker Carlson

Friendly fire: “I think the Green New Deal would be a loser. … There’s not a lot in there I disagree with… But there’s an argument that you don’t destabilize a society by doing too much change at once.” —former Rep. Barney Frank

The BIG Lie: “This lie that’s being put out, that somehow being green and responsible with the environment means you have to hurt the economy, [is] a lie.” —Cory Booker

The BIG Lie II: “I am not a Democratic socialist.” —Kamala Harris

Class warfare: “There is plenty of money in this world, plenty of money in this country. But it’s in the wrong hands.” —New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

And last… “It makes little sense to argue that two presidents were justified in using emergency authority to reprogram funds to build and maintain U.S. facilities in foreign nations in order to protect their security, as they did 18 separate times between 2001 and 2014, but that the current president has no authority to use the same funds to secure actual American soil from foreign invasion.” —Sean Davis