The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight: “Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don’t know where to look.” —Ronald Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981

Non compos mentis: “You’re paying a price, you committed a crime, you’re in jail. That’s bad. But you’re still living in American society and you have a right to vote.” —Bernie Sanders (Some prisoners are murderers who took away another person’s right to vote.)

Selective outrage: “We cannot have perfection as a litmus test. The responsibility of leaders is to not be perfect but to be accountable; to say, ‘I’ve made a mistake, I understand it, and here’s what I’m going to do to reform as I move forward.’ And I think we see Joe Biden doing that.” —Stacey Abrams

Nothing to see here… “I’m not sorry for anything that I have ever done. I have never been disrespectful intentionally to a man or a woman. So that’s not the reputation I’ve had since I was in high school, for God’s sake.” —Joe Biden

A blind squirrel finds a nut: “President Trump is correct and the Republican leadership is correct that we need fierce, strict levels of control on [the southern] border to keep bad people from coming in. Illegal immigrants should not come in. I don’t want to get into a wall or anything, but I agree we should fund whatever we need to do to secure the border. The Democrats are not correct. We should be funding ICE and giving them all the tools and resources they need to secure the borders and arrest the bad people.” —Howard Schultz

Delusions: “At least I’m not trying to cage children at the border and inject them with drugs. That’s not a mistake. That is a deliberate policy to attack people based on their national origin. That’s not a mistake. That’s just hatred. That’s just cruelty. That’s just wrong!” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The BIG Lie: “Washington’s famed cherry blossoms threatened by rising sea levels.” —CBS News

And last… “For people who don’t believe in Global Warming and rising sea levels — I was at the beach last week and the ocean was 3 feet higher in the afternoon than it was in the morning.” —Twitter parody account @AOCpress