The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “Virtue runs no risk of becoming contemptible by being exposed to view, and it is better to be despised for simplicity than to be tormented by continual hypocrisy.” —Roman statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65)

Ban all the things: “I’m going to do everything in my power in office or out of office to get those assault weapons off the street, which I have done once already. And to get those clips that have multiple bullets in them not for sale, not be able to sell silencers, all those things.” —Joe Biden

Stop digging, dude: “I’m in pretty good health, but, look, I guarantee you this: If anything changed in my health, making it incapable for me to fully exert all the energy and mental acuity that was needed to be done, then I give you my word: I would not run again.” —Joe Biden

Non compos mentis: “I not only support a Green New Deal, I don’t think it goes far enough. I also have a Blue New Deal ‘cause we have got to be thinking about our oceans as well that we need to protect.” —Elizabeth Warren

Victimitis: “[My resignation is] also partly because I’m a woman. We haven’t seen as many of the sex scandals with women, but the bisexuality is a huge part of it, right? There is a fantasy element of it — there’s biphobia that is rampant still — and certainly misunderstanding of what bisexuality is.” —former Rep. Katie Hill, who was compelled to resign for taking advantage of a same-sex subordinate in a “throuple”

Alpha jackass: “I have never seen @BernieSanders supporters being unusually mean or rude. Can someone send me an example of a 'Bernie Bro’ being bad. Also, are we holding all candidates responsible for the behavior of some of their supporters? Waiting to hear.” —Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (“I can think of an example.” —Rep. Steve Scalise, who, along with other Republicans, was nearly murdered by a deranged “Bernie Bro”)

And last… “You know what’s scarier and deadlier than Coronavirus? Communism.” —Allie Beth Stuckey