The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Food for thought: “The movie Unplanned gets an R rating for depicting an abortion. Would a movie get an R rating for showing a gallbladder surgery? No? But I thought abortion is just a normal medical procedure?” —Matt Walsh

An inconvenient truth: “The seeds of the disappointment that many adversaries of Donald Trump felt … were sown in January 2017, with the publication of what would become known as the Steele dossier.” —The Atlantic’s David A. Graham

The BIG Lie: “Other than the people in the media on the left, not on this network, I don’t know anybody who got anything wrong.” —CNN’s Jake Tapper on the Russian-collusion narrative

Non Compos Mentis: “[Republicans] had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure [Franklin] Roosevelt did not get reelected.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Non sequitur: “We’re not calling anyone names. People say ‘Tea Party of the left,’ and I find this phrase very interesting … because the grounding of the Tea Party was xenophobia, the underpinnings of white supremacy.” —Ocasio-Cortez

Belly laugh of the week: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s national poll numbers are pretty bad — and conservative media attacks appear to be a key reason why.” —Vox

With friends like these… “Yes. You sacrifice a generation. … Look at the long term, at what you’re doing for the party, because people don’t want to be associated with it.” —Jeff Flake when asked, “Are you willing to lose a cycle for the Republican Party because of the principles that you’re arguing?”

Now do Brett Kavanaugh: “Joe Biden is a friend and a seasoned veteran when it comes to political campaigns. … Certainly one allegation is not disqualifying, but it should be taken seriously.” —Sen. Dick Durbin

And last… “There are so many women suddenly coming out against Joe Biden that you’d think Trump had just nominated him to the Supreme Court.” —Tim Young