The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Upright: “I would say that the president’s comments in the Rose Garden were important. They were significant. They were heartfelt. I think they lead us in the right direction. We need to hear more like that from the president because, frankly, the country rallies around our chief executive when he speaks about bringing the American family together.” —Senator Tim Scott

For the record: “For institutions to be trusted, they must be trustworthy, and for that they have to be run by people with the self-discipline and commitment to place the mission above personal or party or class interests. We don’t have people like that running our institutions anymore, and the price for that is steep.” —Glenn Reynolds

Friendly fire: “This is a bad, bad situation. But … protest in the right way. You don’t have to go and burn down things, steal things, burn things. … We’re not f–ing animals. We’re human beings.” —Dennis Rodman

Demo-gogues: “At a time when our country cries out for unification, this President is ripping it apart. Tear-gassing peaceful protestors without provocation just so that the President could pose for photos outside a church dishonors every value that faith teaches us. … The President’s continued fanning of the flames of discord, bigotry and violence is cowardly, weak and dangerous.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Dumb… “This COVID epidemic has basically shut down the country these last three months. And, by the way, if we had shut it down a month earlier, we’d have probably another 45,000 to 60,000 people — would be alive instead of dead.” —Joe Biden, who held campaign rallies all the way up until March 10

…and dumber: “Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person coming at ‘em with a knife or something to shoot 'em in the leg instead of the heart is a very different thing.” —Joe Biden, not only contradicting good self-defense practice but mind-numbingly suggesting that a person with a knife is “unarmed” (“Anyone who has been trained in police work or the military could tell you: Firing a gun is always potentially deadly force. You shoot for center mass, to kill, or you don’t shoot at all. If you’re not prepared to kill someone, you should not even point a loaded gun at them, much less fire it. If you don’t have grounds to shoot to kill, you don’t have grounds to shoot.” —Dan McLaughlin)

Dezinformatsiya: “Open your eyes, America. Open your eyes. We are teetering on a dictatorship. This is chaos.” —CNN’s Don Lemon

The BIG Lie: “It’s impossible not to notice that at least the protests we see always seem peaceful until the police show up.” —Ben Rhodes

And last… “I see there are many people, most in media, more upset about President Trump walking to St. John’s Church and holding up a bible than they were about the church being lit on fire by rioters.” —Katie Pavlich