The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Tongue-in-cheek: “Looking back, it’s a good thing we closed everything but Planned Parenthood to save lives.” —Seth Dillon

Perspective: “We have 36.5 million unemployment claims since March. To understand the monstrosity of that number, consider: the worst week of all times before this was 695k. If you had that worst week of all times every week for an entire year — 52 in a row — that would be 36.1m.” —Austan Goolsbee

Wandering minds want to know: “What does marijuana have to do with the coronavirus? Cannabis is mentioned 68 times in Pelosi’s [stimulus] bill! She must have been high on something when she wrote it.” —Gary Bauer

For the record: “We are bailing out out liberal politicians who cannot live within their means and now we are asking Floridians to pay for the incompetence of governors like Andrew Cuomo.” —Sen. Rick Scott

The bottom line: “Vice President Biden is guilty of using government to go after a political opponent.” —Sen. Rand Paul

Observations: “I see the drip-drip crowd stressing that Flynn was supposedly involved in other crimes. It’s a bad defense. If true, the Obama admin [should] have prosecuted him on FARA charges. They didn’t. Instead they railroaded him to keep a rickety Russia investigation going.” —David Harsanyi

Demo-gogues: “These ridiculous conspiracy theories, on Obama — [Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron] Johnson wants to go after Biden and this Hunter Biden conspiracy theory, which came from the Russians, of all people. This is amazing to me. What alternative universe do they live in? Spending their time on discredited conspiracy theories, against Obama, against Biden.” —Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Non compos mentis: “The unconfirmed, acting DNI using his position to criminalize routine intelligence work to help re-elect the president and obscure Russian intervention in our democracy would normally be the scandal here…” —Ben Rhodes

Braying jenny: “I can’t believe I have to write this sentence, but the president’s son-in-law doesn’t get to decide when the election is.” —Hillary Clinton spreading a ridiculous conspiracy theory

Frogs in boiling water: “Every time you go to school, you don’t go to class once and then graduate with a degree. You go for many days at a time, slowly adding layers and layers upon layers. And we use public events … to help contribute evidence to the analysis of power, which will help people realize how power is concentrated in the United States — which gives us a better foundation to challenge it and then paint and begin to establish alternative structures for a better world.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Village idiot: “[Trump] wants to be reelected. He doesn’t even care how many people die. … The people he pretends to care about are the people he has the most disdain for. He could [sic] care less about them. They might like to tell themselves that or delude themselves, but he doesn’t care about them.” —Robert De Niro

And last… “The curve has LONG since been ‘flattened.’ It’s time to let people live a life of purpose.” —Steven Crowder