The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Observations: “As we go forward, being able to confront communist China and being able to prevail against communist China is going to be much more difficult than it was to prevail over the Soviet Union. Unlike the Soviet Union, there are powerful people, like Bill Gates, and powerful institutions, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many American universities, that feel an affinity for communist China and who will defend it. They need to be exposed and defeated.” —Gary Bauer

Tongue-in-cheek: “North Korea is way more progressive than the US. Think about it: About to have a female leader. Communist. Christianity outlawed. No billionaires. They’re really putting us to shame.” —Matt Walsh

Belly laugh: “I can’t believe that Stacey Abrams allowed Georgia to open its businesses. I mean she’s the governor, right?” —Ben Shapiro

For the record: “The launch of a military satellite by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, makes clear what we have said all along: Iran’s space program is neither peaceful nor entirely civilian. … This satellite launch vehicle and others launched before it incorporate technologies identical to, and interchangeable with, ballistic missiles, including longer-range systems such as intercontinental ballistic missiles ICBMs.” —Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Non compos mentis: “I don’t think [the House impeachment managers] had any idea how much damage [Trump] would go on to do in the months ahead. There are 50,000 Americans now who are dead in significant part because of his incompetence. … I don’t think we would have ever anticipated that his brand of narcissism and his brand of incompetence, sometimes his brand of malevolence, would be so fatal to the American people.” —Rep. Adam Schiff, whose impeachment charade contributed to those deaths much more than anything Trump did or didn’t do

Dezinformatsiya: “If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died over the entirety of the Vietnam war, does he deserve to be reelected?” —New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi to President Trump at Monday’s briefing

And last… “What if we suspend pay of ALL senators and governors and give them $1,200 to live on for 10 weeks. How fast would our country re-open?” —George Papadopoulos