The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Upright: “Iran’s actions should … prompt Europe to join the U.S. in sanctions. Some in Europe are hoping Mr. Trump will lose his re-election bid and a Democrat will rejoin the nuclear accord. But we’ve learned enough about Iran’s behavior to know that the regime always intended to use the deal to finance its adventures abroad, while biding its time and getting stronger as it waits for the date it could escape the deal’s strictures and become a nuclear power.” —The Wall Street Journal

For the record: “People don’t flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to. Why? Because they don’t have a job, because they are being threatened by gangs, because they don’t have basic things like water, education, health. We can blame any other country but what about our blame? What country did [the two Salvadorans who drowned] flee? Did they flee the United States? They fled El Salvador. They fled our country. It is our fault.” —El Salvador President Nayib Bukele

The BIG Lie: “This inhumane [‘Remain in Mexico’] policy is causing suffering and death.” —Beto O'Rourke

Dezinformatsiya: “Do you agree that it is despicable for a government to kill a journalist?” —Jim Acosta on foreign soil trying to “get” Donald Trump on the Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Non Compos Mentis: “If someone needs a surgery to be full and to live their life fully — the idea is a health-care system that actually serves everyone to the fullest, not a health-care system that rations and causes people to struggle to get just a little health care.” —Mayor Bill de Blasio, who maintains that taxpayers “absolutely” should foot the bill for gender-reassignment surgery

And last… “In our society, for some people on the other side, the only thing worse than Satan is a black conservative. Blacks are supposed to think a certain way. If you do not think that way, you are an Uncle Tom. To me, know what that sounds like? Racism.” —HUD Secretary Ben Carson