The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Insight: “Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.” —Felix Adler (1851-1933)

Upright: “The notion that Nature is ‘having her revenge’ or anything of the kind is absolutely pagan. Nature has always been both sustaining and incredibly dangerous. The norm for nearly all of human history was privation and vulnerability. Only technology allowed us to minimize this.” —Ben Shapiro

Observations: “It’s evident that some of people chiming in on the lockdown debate don’t have families to support and have never worked hard for anything. They honestly don’t understand why losing a job is so devastating. The ‘you’re putting money over people’ [crap] is their privilege talking.” —Matt Walsh

For the record: “No amount of bailout dollars will stimulate an economy that is being strangled by quarantine. It is not a lack of money that plagues us but a lack of commerce.” —Sen. Rand Paul

The BIG Lie: “Voter fraud is, by and large, a myth. The president of the United States, number one, voted by mail just recently, and so it worked for him. The concern he has is that it will actually work for every American.” —Stacey Abrams

Armchair quarterbacking: “Rather than execute a swift and aggressive effort to ramp up testing, Donald Trump is tweeting incendiary rhetoric about immigrants in the hopes that he can distract everyone from the core truth: he’s moved too slowly to contain this virus, and we are all paying the price for it.” —Joe Biden

Braying jackass: “Packed beaches should work nicely to thin the ranks of Trump/DeSantis/Gimenez supporters in #Florida who value money over health.” —Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago

Alpha jackass, part I: “I get that people need to go back to work, I do. But the point of ‘stay-at-home’ is to get a lid on this, so we can get back to work. And then stay at work. I’m starting to think that these characters who support Trump might be suicidal. They seem to fight hardest for the things that will kill them.” —Jimmy Kimmel

Alpha jackass, part II: “They want guns. They want pollution. I figured it out: They want to die and they’re taking us down with them.” —Jimmy Kimmel

And last… “I keep hearing in the media about ‘non-essential businesses.’ Is the media ‘essential’? Why haven’t we had a media shutdown during this crisis?” —Dinesh D'Souza