The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it.” —Will Rogers (1879-1935)

For the record: “[Bernie Sanders] promises 20 million ‘good-paying, unionized jobs.’ Only about 6.1 million people are unemployed in the United States.” —The Washington Post editorial board

Quasi-broken clock: “Trump voters are not deplorable. They are not racist and they are not bad people, but they were misled.” —ex-Obama aide Johanna Maska

The BIG Lie: “With the people of Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador, reduce violence in their home communities, violence which we are somewhat to blame for. … Guatemala [is] suffering one of the greatest droughts in their recorded history, caused not by God nor by Mother Nature but by you and me and all of us in our emissions and our excess and our inaction in the face of the facts and the science and the truth.” —Beto O'Rourke

Digging your own grave: “I want to be clear, I’m not going nuts.” —Joe Biden

Braying Jackass: “Maybe [Trump] wants to curry [Vladimir Putin’s] favor to ensure he gets help again in 2020 as he did in 2016 from the Russians.” —James Clapper

Belly laugh of the week: “If Putin outsmarted anybody, it’s not President Obama.” —CNN’s Don Lemon

Village idiots: “We’re a democracy — at least, we’re supposed to be — where you’re allowed to disagree, dissent, debate. I really think that [Trump] thinks this is an autocracy.” —Taylor Swift

And last… “Planned Parenthood is planning on spending $20 million on the 2020 elections to elect Democrats. If they have that kind of spare cash, why … are we subsidizing them?” —Charlie Kirk