The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire — learned from the teachings of antiquity — that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.” —Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

World’s smallest violin: “I’m leaving because of a misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality, and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse, this time with the entire country watching.” —Katie Hill (Nobody forced her to make abysmal life choices.)

Grand delusions: “Dear Speaker Pelosi: Do not accept the resignation from Rep. Katie Hill. She is a crime victim. She has been viciously abused by her soon-to-be ex-husband. If you allow a man who uses revenge porn to succeed here, you and the rest of Congress are his collaborators. This is 2019.” —Michael Moore

Braying jackass: “Thank God for the deep state.” —former CIA Director John McLaughlin

Non compos mentis: “The foundation of this country is an extraordinarily brutal one. … [We ought to] mark the foundation of America not on the 4th of July, 1776, but the 20th of August, 1619, the first time someone was kidnapped from west Africa, brought here against their will, made to build the wealth, the success, the greatness of America, which neither they nor their descendants alive today are able to fully participate in.” —R. Francis O'Rourke, who’s taking cues from The New York Times’s revisionist 1619 Project

The BIG Lie: “This is not something that I was eager to undertake. For months and months I resisted the call for impeachment and spoke out about it and, you know, frankly, took a lot of flak from some of my supporters for not supporting impeachment because I thought this should be an extraordinary remedy. It’s not something we should rush to embrace.” —Rep. Adam Schiff

“[Yesterday was] a solemn day. It’s one that none of us really looked forward to.” —Rep. Eric Swalwell

And last… “I guess it’s only fitting you take this [impeachment] vote on Halloween.” —House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy