The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Upright: “The most powerful weapon against fear during a crisis is gratitude. When we intentionally look for reasons to be thankful, we do not deny the reality of the situation.” —Paul Tripp

Observations: “I don’t think we need to jump into the middle of another stimulus package right now. … There are some in Washington, DC, that just spent $2 trillion and it’s like a teenager getting off a roller coaster saying, ‘That was fun. Let’s do that again.’” —Sen. James Lankford

Nailed it: “We have to focus on keeping people employed. … I don’t believe we can wait until the end of April. I just don’t know of any economy that’s ever survived where you unplug the entire economy and expect things to go back and be normal.” —Rep. Devin Nunes

For the record I: “This could be a hell of a bad two weeks.” —Donald Trump

For the record II: “In a perfect world, it would have been nice to know what was going on [in China]. We didn’t, but I believe … that we acted very, very early.” —Dr. Anthony Fauci

The BIG Lie: “Everybody saw this coming in early January.” —MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough (“Number of [Scarborough] tweets in January by topic: Impeachment - 29. Election - 11. Sports - 7. Coronavirus - 0.” —Glenn Greenwald)

Non compos mentis: “We’ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic. We can’t afford any more consequences of climate denial. All of us, especially young people, have to demand better of our government at every level and vote this fall.” —Barack Obama on Donald Trump undoing his mileage standards (“This is why Trump wins, even when all odds are seemingly stacked against him. Dems, for the life of them, cannot figure out what normal people care about and why.” —Allie Beth Stuckey)

Braying jackass: “Basically what’s happening in America is whatever happens when a family has, like, an alcoholic dad and the kids just have to raise themselves. That’s what’s going on in the U.S. right now.” —Trevor Noah

And last… “I’m baffled by the people acting like what’s happening exposes some sort of fatal flaw in capitalism. That’s like thinking it’s a fatal flaw that a car won’t run without gas.” —Frank J. Fleming