The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight: “No one who lived through the Great Depression can ever look upon an unemployed person with anything but compassion. To me, there is no greater tragedy than a breadwinner willing to work, with a job skill but unable to find a market for that job skill.” —Ronald Reagan

Belly laugh of the week: “Don’t forget, I was there for the State of the Union Address and did greet the president at that time.” —Nancy Pelosi, who literally shredded the SOTU, on working with Donald Trump

Hyper hypocrisy: “His denial at the beginning was deadly. … His delay in getting equipment to where it’s needed is deadly. … As the president fiddles, people are dying.” —Nancy Pelosi, who delayed Congress’s aid package by several days while she injected it with a political wish list

Braying jenny: “He did promise ‘America First.’” —Hillary Clinton on U.S. cases of coronavirus

Braying jackass: “Who’s the s—thole country now?” —GQ correspondent Julia Ioffe

Alpha jackass: “If you quote the Trump admin you are an enemy of the people.” —Jennifer Rubin

Dezinformatsiya: “Do you think there is blood on the president’s hands considering the slow response?” —NBC’s Chuck Todd to Joe Biden, who decided, “I think that’s a little too harsh.”

And last… “The media has scared everyone by rerunning the worst case scenarios for the virus over and over and over again. I wonder what would happen if they started telling us about the worst case scenario for a full scale economic collapse.” —Matt Walsh